right now we re watching the manhattan d.a. s office where we believe a grand jury will hear today from robert costello, a former legal adviser to michael cohen, and heightening the interest today, he s potentially the final act before a decision is made about whether to issue an indictment against donald trump. costello was called in at the request of trump s attorneys, leading many to believe his testimony will be aimed at undermining cohen s credibility. cohen himself is also there, he says, as a rebuttal witness. i want to bring in nbc s garrett haake outside the d.a. s office. legal analyst glenn kirschner joins us as well. garrett, what have you seen or heard today, if anything, of the comings and goings? what s the very latest? reporter: chris, we re all operating on the same scraps of information. no signs of costello or cohen yet. that shouldn t be a surprise. the grand jury typically meets in the afternoon. we would expect to potentially see them sometime here in
and former legal adviser to michael cohen is expected to testify that cohen is not the guy you want to rely on. a source familiar with jonathan dienst says costello is prepared to say that cohen is a liar, a convicted perjure, an embellisher who s out for revenge, that he s furious with donald trump and blames him for all of his troubles, that the hush money payments were made because cohen felt it was important to keep the stormy daniels matter a secret from melania trump in order to protect their marriage. we are keeping an eye on that courtroom in case costello comes out to speak with reporters, he could. we re also watching for michael cohen who says he s been asked to rebut costello to the grand jury if need be. here s some of what cohen would likely say from his own attorney who just spoke with wnbc. donald trump must be treated like any other citizen, and there aren t two systems of justice. no person is above the law. that s what we re facing now. we have indisputab
country back. i mean, this is a mirror image of the kinds of words he used in the lead up to january 6th after he lost the 2020 election. mccarthy, though, tried to interpret trump in a different way saying that trump didn t mean anything harmful by that, and that he was urging calm. mccarthy himself is urging calm in the after math of that saying he doesn t condone these calls to protest. so that is the way that he s trying to interpret that. but look, looming over all of this is the way that we know, wait that trump s rhetoric has previously inspired violent action, and that s why you re seeing the kind of preparation that we re seeing out of new york in anticipation of this potential indictment. all of that is central. cannot be unlinked. there is some consternation as i talked to other republican lawmakers here. this is not a conference about trump. this house republican retreat has other things they want to talk about. they want to talk about banking regulation, the looming debt c
again, it s unsettling. remember that insurance is there even in the worst-case scenario. brian cheung, we ve been seeing a lot of you. thank you for coming in again. another win in the battle to lower the cost of insulin for the millions of americans who need it every day. california governor gavin newsom announced a contract with sive ka rx to start making its own insulin as early as next year. it will cover three different forms of insulin and is to be interchangeable. once approved by the fda, the cost will be no more than $30 per ten milliliter vile, no more than $55 for pre filled pen cartridges. a house republican retreat is under way in orlando, but with a major twist. and ron desantis commenting for the first time on a possible
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. House Republicans wrapped up their annual retreat in this coastal Florida resort town on Friday, capping off a three-day event in which they sought to project unity ahead of the 2022 midterm elections.