an indictment in the hush money case? plus, china s xi jinping cozies up to vladimir putin. ukrainian ambassador to the united states raising questions about whether it was staged. and tiktok, its parent company spying on american journalists. what could this mean for the 100 million americans on tiktok? let s go outfront. good evening. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, a game changer, it is the 11th hour. and at this moment, former president trump s team chose to call up a witness to testify before the manhattan grand jury investigating the hush money payment to adult film star stormy daniels. now, the hope is that this witness could save trump from being the first former president in united states history to be indicted. so who is this person this witness? well, his name is robert costello. he was a one-time legal adviser to trump s former fixer michael cohen, who is the key witness. then emerged to tell reporters why he testified. the only thing i m doing is
this is, remember the big scandal under george w. bush about the program monitoring people s e-mails, elon said the federal government is doing that actively in private communication. todd: an eye-opening interview. you are watching fox and friends first, i m todd piro. ashley: i m ashley strohmier in for carley shimkus. another major focus of the sitdown is musk warning about artificial intelligence and he gives us information on the software he is working on now. jackie ibanez is here. good morning, jackie. jackie: elon musk s candid interview with tucker carlson aired last night. musk called for stronger government regulation of artificial intelligence. listen. it s a danger to the public. when you have things that are danger to the public, like let s say, food and drug, that is why we have the food and drug administration and federal aviation administration, the fcc, agencies to oversee what affects the public when there could be public harm and you don t want c
former director of intelligence says the only explanation for the pandemic is a leak from the chinese laboratory. the damage caused is very real. pizza delivery man was in the right place at the right time as a suspect happened to run right by him. police thanked the policeman for the assist and said if he is ever interested in a job, they are hiring. steve: live from the avenue of the americas as you look up that green stuff up there, that s central park. it is the 18th day of april. it is tax day. attention all people if you have not put your taxes in the mail, you have got until midnight tonight. it s going to be a beautiful day here in new york city. we have got 48 degrees. ainsley: taxes finished for you? steve: yes. a couple of weeks ago. pete: do people still put them in the mail. ainsley: my dad always did at midnight. pete s pete i know you can. ainsley: downtown main library midnight i always rode with him. pete: out of protest? ainsley: no, st
favoring any political ideology. oversight committee sounding the alarm over the biden family business dealings. six additional family members got rich. that brings the total to nine. this is a family affair. this is something that should be troubling to every american. pizza delivery man in the right place at the right time as the suspect happened to run right by him. police thanked the pizza man for an assist and said if he is ever interested in a job, they are hiring. ainsley: this is a fox news alert. brand new video this morning of the detained wall street journal reporter evan gershkovich in a russian courtroom. steve: the journalist is appealing espionage charges leveled by the kremlin against him. pete: alexandria hoff joins us from washington with more. today s hearing has to deal with a an appeal gershkovich keep him detained until trial. the 31-year-old reporter appearing resilient in moscow courtroom today. he was contained within a pen, a glas
weapons of death also tonight, michael cohen joins me to talk about what weaponization of government really looks like. as jim jordan plays make believe on the issue in an embarrassing field hearing of the once respected house judiciary committee. plus, justice clarence thomas is promising to fix his financial irregularities as a whole new set of questions come to light and we begin tonight with more young americans fighting for their lives at this country s massacre epidemic rages on following a spate otmass shootings less than three weeks since the children of nashville were buried, this is a feeling of an accelerating gun culture and the carnage and death that comes with it. the fear, the violence, they can feel unstoppable, even all consuming at times and it isn t just because of america s indifference to gun violence it feels like parts of this country are engaged in a celebration of gun violence. a veneration and devotion that has turned america into the most heav