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criminal charges. the new reporting about the hush money investigation into former president donald trump and his apparent invitation to testify. then, airline safety in the spotlight as years of close calls and midair emergencies have travelers on edge. captain sully sullenberger is here. and norfolk southern ceo apologizes after that toxic train derailment in ohio. plus grilling from lawmakers , today, as the 11th hour gets underway on this thursday night. good evening once again. i m stephanie ruhle. buckle up, boys, and girls, the new york times is reporting tonight the manhattan prosecutors are inching closer and closer to criminal charges against the former president, donald j trump, and the stormy daniels case. that, as you recall, is the one involving hush money payments made before the 2016 election to keep the former porn star, daniels, from talking about her apparent affair with trump, who still denies it. the times says that according to four sources, quote, the
jokes with him alongside a budget proposal while he was in philadelphia yesterday. his plan has little chance of passing the republican-controlled house, making this more about campaign messaging than the actual numbers. meanwhile, there are significant developments this morning out of the manhattan d.a. s office that signal criminal charges could be coming for donald trump. we ll get into the details of why. also ahead, a lackluster debut for the subcommittee on so-called weaponization of the federal government has some republicans frustrated now with congressman jim jor t jordan an game plan. we ll be joined by the writer of the piece in a moment. good morning to morning joe. we have jonathan lemire. pulitzer prize winning columnist at the washington post, eugene washington. and special correspondent for bbc news, the great katty kay. good morning to you all. as i mentioned, we re going to begin with the new york times report that the manhattan district attorney
facing tough questions over the railway company s safety practices in the wake of the train derailment in east palestine, ohio, and now he has explaining to do before congress. shaw has apologized more than once for derailment, and he has said that the company is making changes, and they will do right by the people of east palestine. and let s get to the testimony from washington. and sunlen, what have you heard so far? some frustration from the residents of east palestine, but we did hear from the ceo of norfolk southern, and the company and the person who has specifically had so much criticism in the aftermath of this train derailment, and we have heard from mr. shaw. he said that he is deeply sorry of what happened, and he promised to see this through, to get it right for the residents there, and he said point-blank, it is clear that the safety mechanisms that we had in place were not enough. this is more of what he had to say. i am determined to make this right. norfo
what more do we know about his condition? reporter: well, at this point, jose, it appears the senate minority leader is still in the hospital, recovering from this fall. his office has not given us an update outside of what they told us shortly after the news broke of this situation that he was dealing with last night. of course, mcconnell is 81 years old, he had health scares in the past, heart surgery, he fell in 2019 and broke his shoulder. so he has dealt with health issues and gotten past them before. but in this situation, it is a new issue that has cropped up and we re still waiting to get a status check as to how long he could possibly be out, what caused him to fall during this dinner last night here in washington. and how long this could potentially impact him being away from the united states senate. all of that are the questions we re still contining to ask, jose. in other news from capitol hill, a top health official said a significant data breach exposed per