special coverage of this escalating trump probe in new york and tonight right now you re watching a special live edition of the beat. we re following the pressure donald trump which actually exploded from the arrest talk this weekend to today s blockbuster testimony before the grand jury? some out of court-statements that broke within the last hour. moments ago this trump-aligned witness speaking out. my only mission there today was to tell the truth about what michael cohen was saying at any point in time. michael cohen decided on his own, that s what he told us, on his own to see if he could take care of this. is that what he told us? was all of the remarks made factual? mr. michael cohen is here to respond in a moment. this is not just journalism. this is aspects of the probe spilling out because mr. costello did speak to the grand jury today that s why he was so newsworthy. mr. cohen remained a key grand jury witness in a case that donald trump now says will lead to
legitimate concerns about a threat and dealing with that threat. nobody hurt. general jack keane is standing by. but first to jennifer griffin live today at the pentagon. good afternoon, jen. the canadians have called off recovery efforts in lake huron and expected to do the same in the yukon mountains. we may never know what was shot down. john kirby said shooting down the three objects were likely benign was an overreaction. i d ask you to put yourself in his shoes in light of the chinese spy balloon and what was a very real, certainly sizable and tangible security surveillance threat to the united states in the wake of that. near impossible arctic search conditions continuing a the u.s. and canadian militaries acknowledge that they may never find the objects or balloons which some hobbyists said could be their research balloons. the president acknowledged this yesterday. nothing acknowledged that they were related to the china balloon program. the current assessm
will react in moments. first this. john: fox news alert to kick off america reports. federal judge has ordered the government to file a more detailed receipt for all the materials seized during the unprecedented mar-a-lago raid. i m john roberts in washington, happy tuesday, sandra. sandra: you as well, john. sandra smith in new york. the judge also ordering the release of the findings from the private filter team review. this as we await a final answer on whether that judge will green light former president trump s request to appoint a special master. john: legal parties question whether it s needed after the doj sifted through all the materials. david spunt, and we are learning a new attorney is working with the former president s team. david: a well-known, well respected entity in florida, just came on former president trump s legal team, a former solicitor general in florida. but back to what we are waiting for today, we know at any point over the next few hou
the receipts showing exactly what the agents found, catalogued and took, seized because it wasn t trump s property from the property compound you see on your screen. that includes 11 sets of classified documents, some at the highest level of classification. one set marked top secret sci, top secret compartmentalized info and they are only to be viewed at special facilities and mar-a-lago is not one of them. there are three sets of secret and three confidential. all of this comes after donald trump returned what looks like the partial amount according to the government not authorized to be there. 15 boxes that went back in january. now on this basically third go around, they re still finding top secret documents. property receipt does not explain the substance because the government doesn t want everyone to know what is in there. washington post reporting fbi agents were looking for classified documents that could relate to nuclear weapons when they carried out the search. nbc
i ll have you break it down. he s right here. it s simple. let me put the headline up, nick. yep. the headline was that mr. costello among other things contacted one of mr. trump s lawyers trying to see, allegedly, if he could arrange a pardon for mr. cohen. this came up in the mueller report, we have some of the evidence. why does that matter? well, that s all part of the story. it really starts on april 9th when the search warrant is executed and only a few days after that donald trump calls him according to the mueller report and he can confirm this and told him that, you know, he was just checking in to see if he was okay and he encouraged michael to hang in there. then he got calls from other people, friends of donald trump who called up and basically told him to keep in line, including alan weisselberg who i believe also called him during that period of time. one of the people that was involved period. so i m going to do my job