school classmate and the powerful connection these girl scouts share that s inspiring america. this nbc news nightly news with lester holt. good evening and thank you for joining us we are on somewhat of a legal watch tonight vo involving former president trump somewhat in that the growing expectation has been fueled mainly by mr. trump himself with his unverified claim over the weekend that we be that he would be arrested on tuesday. the office has not commented on the timing of a decision on whether to prosecute. in the absence of news, key republicans have been rushing to mr. trump s defense and vilifying democrat prosecutor alvin bragg. but tonight even many of his loyalists are discouraging trump supporters from taking up the former president s call to protest. it s where we start tonight, with garrett hake reporter: the manhattan d.a. s office tonight on the verge of a fateful decision, whether to indict a former president for the first time in history, a case c
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
russia. putin was not in the kremlin at the time and ukraine strongly denies any involvement. a short time ago attacks on ukrainian cities including odesa, kerrherson and a kyiv. one of the drones shot down have the words for the kremlin and for moscow written on them. nic robertson is live for us. what have we learned? reporter: president zelenskyy has set absolutely we do into the attack putin, we do not attack moscow, we defend our own villages, we re struggling with ammunition, so flat out denial coming from ukrainians. overnight of course concerns how would moscow respond to what essentially appears to be completely trumped up allegation that they tried to assassinate president putin. according to one ukrainian official, biggest flight of uav attack drones and missiles that they have seen so far this year, all of them shot down, debris falling in the city. and in the south odesa 15 attack drones fired or sent to that region. 12 of them shot down. three of them landing
welcome to inside politic ts requests. thank you for sharing your day with us. the hate-based spot, a man charged with scheming to murder jews serving in state government. the attorney general says she is among those targeted. plus president biden rallies democrats on capitol hill this hour. the president warning republicans want devastating spending cuts in exchange for letting the government borrow to pay its bills. the house speaker says that s not true. says it s the president dragging things out instead of negotiating. and surprise meeting. the top american and russian did you want did you want, but it ran barely ten minutes. today proof there s no end in sight. we begin the hour with the arrest of the michigan man and the frightening outburst of hate that led to it. a man now in custody threatened to kill any jews working in michigan state government and vowed to use deadly force against anyone who attempted to stop him. michigan s top law enforcement officer, says
washington. glad to have you. here right now in south carolina, there are major developments in alex murdaugh s double murder trial. the prosecution now respond ing after the defense presented its closing arguments yesterday. defense attorney jim griffin made an emotional plea when wrapping up his presentation. there are two words that justice demands this thises case and those two words are not guilty. the oath you have taken in this case it requires a verdict not dwlt. on behalf of alex, of buster, on behalf of maggie and on behalf of my friend paul, i respectfully request that you do not compound a family tragedy with another thank you. just before closing arguments began, the judge remove d a jurr for discussing the case outside of the trial. diane gallagher is outside of the court in south carolina. diane, what more did the defense say today as they were presenting to the jury in these final hours of this trial? reporter: jim griffin spoke for about 2 hours and 15