Statement visit. There you see the live images from the white house where in just moments the president will greet the Prime Minister of australia. Also in washington, fourth times the charm. The house could vote as early as noon today on their latest speaker designee. Who is mike johnson and can he succeed where three others failed . Thanks so much for joining us. Its 10 00 eastern, im Ana Cabrera Reporting from new york, and we begin with the breaking news at the white house where we are about to see President Biden welcome the Prime Minister of australia, and this is an official state visit with a world leader, and hence, all of this pomp and circumstance, its happening as the tensions build in the middle east right now. You see these live pictures from gaza where we see Smoke Billowing once again from air strikes. The calls growing for a cease fire now in this war between israel and hamas. But lets start with nbc news senior White House Correspondent Gabe Gutierrez whos standing by
Holy [bleep]. Bill we begin with a fox news alert looking at one of the many tornadoes that ripped through iowa yesterday and communities across that state. Look at that aerial view. Obliterated as violent tornadoes ripped through a heartland. Three are dead. Todays Severe Weather is still out there. Well get to iowa live today. Plus there is this. The border in the dark. Iran, iran. Why did you come . No freedom. Yes, in iran. Iran is a country, no freedom for speech, writing, for singing. Bill the line is never ending. Those are migrants from near and far converging on the southwest border. They have never stopped. Most are adult men, many deemed security risks, no one is stopping them despite the attention that we gave the trump trial, we have a little bit away from the border but back on that today as we say good morning. It is wednesday midweek, bill hemmer live in new york city. Thats some video from bill melugin. Dana there is only so much real estate in an hour and a lot of new
Hush money trial is entering day 20 this morning as former Legal Advisor to Michael Cohen, Robert Costello will return to the witness stand today for cross examination. Judge merchan clashed with costello yesterday sending reporters out of the courtroom, threatening to hold him in contempt if he continues to, quote, stare him down during the testimony. Costello confirmed that cohen said trump did not know anything about a nondisclosure agreement payment to Stormy Daniels. Cohen also admitted he stole 60,000 from the trump organization. He said, yes, i stole 30,000. When you add it up with taxes it was 60,000. The defense team will likely rest their case today as trump calls for this case to be terminated because of the lies out of Michael Cohen, he said. Joining me is former Georgia State representative, former candidate vernon jones. Its great to see you this morning. I want to talk to you. You were in the courtroom yesterday with former President Trump and it really from what im hear
Finished Cross Examination from alvin braggs office. Welcome to a new hour of americas newsroom, im dana perino. Bill im bill hemmer. He is off the state is done with his questions. Who is robert costello, right . He is telling the jury the shame bombshell claims he told to Congress Last week and told us, too, on our program. I think he was with martha as well. Who is he . Former Legal Advisor to Michael Cohen, from new york. He had a falling out partly due to alleged outstanding legal bills which there were many, formal federal prosecutor and defense lawyer. Costello is on the stand yesterday saying Michael Cohen said numerous times that President Trump knew nothing about those payments, that he did this on his own and he repeated that numerous times, okay . We reported on that many times. He has said that on television the last week many times. So here we go. Go ahead. Dana what we can show you a little bit of that from costello. Watch here. I probably came back to this subject ten o
Bracing for fires work in court again. Bob costello, a former Michael Cohen Legal Advisor about to resume testimony. At the end of court yesterday he and the judge did not see eyetoeye. What will happen on day 20 . Im bill hemmer live in new york city. Dana im dana perino and this is americas newsroom. Yeah, to say the judge was irritated. Trey gowdy had thoughts about that which well share. Lets get you this. The prosecution is about to resume its Cross Examination of robert costello. A lawyer who advised Michael Cohen back in 2018 when he was under federal investigation. The two had a falling out allegedly over outstanding legal bills. Bill those bills were high, too. Costello is a former prosecutor turned defense lawyer. Cohen told him he acted alone paying off Stormy Daniels. This is what costello said publicly. First in congress, then on our program last thursday. I said michael, the way this works is if you have truthful information about donald trump, thats clearly what they are