good morning it is 10:00 a.m. eastern, 7:00 a.m. pacific i m jose diaz-balart i ll be joined by the next two hours by yasmin vossoughian live outside the manhattan da s office in new york city where we re facing a week certain to go down in history about two hours from now former president donald trump is set to leave florida for new york city where tomorrow he will become the first former president arraigned on criminal charges. this, of course, centers on the alleged hush money payment to adult film actress stormy daniels who says she had sex with trump which he denies sources tell nbc news the former president faces about 30 related to documents fraud the major security prep is under way in follower manhattan has authorities gear up for the unprecedented arrest of a former president. trump s former fixer, michael cohen, making his own prediction over the weekend mayhem. i expect complete and total mayhem we begin in manhattan with my colleague, yasmin vossoughian ahead
learning after determining there are no visitor logs for the home in delaware. out west, the california weather may finally get a break sometime soon. but not before one last batch of storms moves out this afternoon. we ve got a live report from the state now, under a major disaster declaration. plus, an nbc news exclusive, new reporting on one of next year s cril senate races and trying to unseat sherrod brown in ohio. i m hallie jackson in aurkz. with me is monica alba, capitol hill correspondent ali vitali and former federal prosecutor and political legal affairs columnist rendo mariotti with us as well. the question is not taking questions from reporters on the documents. not all together surprising. but the white house is trying, to it feels, as you have new reporting on the president s mind set on all of this, flex the muscles and point the finger at house republicans to say why didn t you care when donald trump did this and you care what is happening in a different s
figure 8s over and over again going over sensitive military bases. look, there is concern about it, obviously. anytime that china and an adversary gathers intelligence from a sensitive site that s concerning for u.s. officials. the one thing that the u.s. points to is that effort that it could have been a lot worse, that effort to block china from doing this, and also, jose, they gained a lot, the u.s. said by just observing this balloon as it was traveling across the united states. and then not to mention that they also then were able to collect the remnants of that balloon after it was shot down over the coast of south carolina so a little bit of a two-way street here. carol lee reporting on some exclusive details. i thank you so very much i want to send it back to yasmin in new york city yasmin thank you, jose we have much more ahead, everybody, in our next hour, special coverage including two presidents in focus. president biden heading to minnesota any minute now to discuss
see carol lee reporting on joe biden and al sharpton. four years ago at martin luther king day event that biden first talked to sharpton about running for president in 2020 and then four years later, back there with al sharpton on martin luther king day. thank you very much. here is something else that our team observed on capitol hill within the last couple of minutes. house speaker kevin mccarthy, there he is, talking with reporters on a couple of things, including the investigations into classified documents found at president biden s home and one-time washington office. here is what the speaker told our team and others. watch. you have witnesses, hearings? i think we will collect more data, more of the information, and all of the documents, and more out, there and i mean i know that the white house said it was all cleared up on thursday and now there s more document, i think there s a lot of questions that are continued to can raised and we want to get
hey, can you institute a mandate? this is what we think is the best for your workers. and so that s the avenue they seem to be moving toward which is trying to apply pressure to states or local governments, but also to corporations to say that they should do them themselves because the federal government clearly can t. all right. carol lee reporting from the white house for us. carol, thank you. still with us, as i previewed, professor hoffman. and also joining me is president and ceo of one of the hard hit hospitals where federal medical teams are headed. he joins me from the university hospital in newark, new jersey. professor hoffman, let me start with the mandate rulings. we re not going to have the legal argument about the one they did. based on what they said was constitutional, are there other areas the federal government