john: great to be back. i m john roberts. this is america s newsroom. the possible arrest related to a hush money payment made to stormy daniels, it happened in the run-up to the 2016 election. the manhattan district attorney s office has been investigating the case for years. a grand jury is reportedly on the verge of bringing charges. dana: jury still has to hear from one more witness. that will be a one-time legal advisor to president trump s former attorney michael cohen expected to rebut cohen who has been a key witness against trump. john: calling into question the timing of the arrest. republicans arguing the whole thing is political. it s the weakest case out there. trying to make a miss demeanor a felony. timeline doesn t work. too long past and doing it after a person for political purposes. somebody putting their thumb on the scale simply because they don t agree with somebody else s political view. that s what s wrong and that s what infuriates people. t
president trump and going after his possible pending indictment as politically motivated. un-american, and another a partisan attempt to try to bring him down. a manhattan grand jury is hearing a case related to a hush money payment made to adult film star stormy daniels in the run-up to the 2016 election. today they will hear from one final witness robert costello, a one-time legal adviser to president trump s former attorney michael cohen. he is expected to rebut cohen who has been the key witness against donald trump, isn t he a known liar? just establishing that fact. the grand jury will then need to decide whether it will indict donald trump and that could happen as soon as tomorrow. several legal experts are questioning the strength of this case however, manhattan district attorney alvin bragg is looking to elevate the misdemeanor issue to a felony and make donald trump the first former president in history to face criminal charges. and house speaker kevin mccarthy went
u.s. believes that china may give the go-ahead on lethal aid to vladimir putin. taking a question from our own peter doocy about how biden is viewed by xi and putin. specific to these two leaders, you think putin and xi fear president biden? you d have to ask them whether they fear or not. it is not about fear. it s about president biden advancing our foreign policy goals around the world. it s about president biden revi revitalizing partnerships. that s what we re focused on. martha: with that, we bring in republican senator marsha blackburn from tennessee. she s traveled to taiwan in the past. she was there in the past. always a bold move for a u.s. lawmaker to travel to taiwan. your thoughts on what we watched in this briefing and john kirby s explanation as these two meet. perception is reality. when they look at joe biden, they see someone who is weak, who i think they believe is compromised. he is not going after them. he doesn t go after them on great power com
in a letter to merrick garland, demanding the launch of a hate crime investigation. federal law is clear, acts of violence against individuals based on religious affiliation are hate crimes. the shooter was a former student of covenant and chose to terrorize this school because of their christian faith. it is appalling you have not opened a hate crime investigation. the shooting occurred at this hour on monday, it is now thursday. we have seen the department of justice take action much quicker with previous shootings. the horrific shooting at pulse nightclub was investigated as a hate crime less than 72 hours. massacre at tree of god synagogue within 24 hours. and the same day. when attorney general merrick garland was asked whether he planned to investigating the national security christian school shooting as a hate crime, here is the answer. as of now a motive has not been identified and the police chief says they have not reached conclusion with respect to motive. we a
shoulders of law enforcement on the front line. that includes texas dps and u.s. border patrol. today, the head of border patrol told lawmakers the united states have lost control of its own border. does dhs have operational control of our entire border? no, sir. that s border patrol chief raol ortiz, ortiz disputed homeland security myorkas who previously said our border is under control. do we have our border under control? yes, we do. chief ortiz testified there is been a staggering 385,000 known got aways at the border pushing the total to 1.4 million gotaways. they are the threat, they are the migrants who do not surrender. ortiz defended his horse back agent who he is accused of whipping migrants. the chief also told lawmakers that he does not agree with president biden s decision to shutdown construction on the 200 miles of border wall. the goal was to examine the link between president biden and secretary myorkas on the crisis of the borborder. i just got