With chief Master Sergeant roger h hoberman. And, special appearance and now live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, it is Stephen Colbert [cheers and applause] hello, hello. Hello. Hello. Hey, everybody. Sitdown. Welcome. Welcome, ladies in gentlemen. I am your host, Stephen Colbert. Thats the excitement. A big night because today was the Georgia Senate runoff between democratic senator and man listening to his daughter t explain the difference between love island and love is blind. Rafael warnock and and selfaware cinderblock, Herschel Walker. Voters were out at the polls all day, and at 11 35 eastern time, with zero percent of precincts reporting, because we taped the show at 5 30, the late show is ready to project that Herschel Walker does not belong in the senate. We can declare. U. S. Senate is no place for people whose brains dont work for football injuries for it its a place for people whose brains dont work because they are 1,000 years old. One thing we do
the documentation in order to validate every single statement that i have made. the disgraced former president predicts his own indictment, as a grand jury convenes, and team trump makes a final push to persuade jurors. i could see certainly a few of them were doing what you re doing right now, shaking your head up and down. tonight, as protective barricades go up in new york, what we know about what is coming and when. plus, the other major developments in georgia and d.c.. the posturing of trump allies and high office and the ones battling him for a nomination. i don t know what goes into paying hush money to a porn star to secure tsai wins over some type of alleged affair. tonight, george conway, danya perry, congressman adam schiff, michael steele, mona charen, and jon meacham on what could be history in the making. when all in starts right now. good evening. i am chris hayes. well, the country is bracing for what could be an imminent indictment of donal
authorities ramp up security. then, republicans quick to defend the twice impeached trump but some want to have their cake and eat it too. how will it all shake out in the 2024 race? and vladimir putin s visit with china s president just days after a warrant was issued for putin s arrest. what this relationship signals for the war in ukraine as the 11th hour gets underway on this monday night. good evening. i am mehdi hasan in for stephanie ruhle. we are in the midst of an extraordinary moment in our nation s history. the people of america are watching, waiting to find out whether manhattan district attorney alvin bragg will bring criminal charges against the former president, donald j trump, related to a hush money payment related to stormy daniels. it would mark the first indictment of a former president in u.s. history. the grand jury in the case heard from another witness today, attorney bob costello, robert costello, the new york times describing him as appearing, quote,
standard, and i used to be deputy chief of the criminal division in the southern district of new york, i wouldn t have touched a guy like michael cohen, especially if he s a convicted perjurer. that s robert costello after testifying in manhattan yesterday, and he could be the last witness the grand jury hears from before voting on an indictment for the former president. we ll break down what s next in the case in just a moment. meanwhile, more members of the oath keepers are held accountable for the violence on january 6th. and also ahead, what we re learning about the first face-to-face meeting between chinese president xi jinping and russia s vladimir putin since the invasion began. began good morning, and welcome to way too early on this tuesday, march 21st. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. we ve got a lot to get to. we ll begin this morning in new york city, and the manhattan district attorney s office ahead of a possible criminal indict
their party leader. and divided by the growing feud good day, everyone. i m andrea mitch until washington. as capitol police here and law enforcement in new york are bracing for a possible indictment of former president trump, multiple agencies, including the u joining me now, garrett haake in manhattan, chuck rosenberg and barbara me1cquade and yamichee1 alcindor. garrett, take us through the updates we got from attorney costello.e1 reporter: we got a little back and forth yesterday. we expected all of ite1 would py out behind closed doors.fá prosecutors determined they did not need to hearxd from the secd witness of the day yesterday. what happened instead was testimony from robert costello, a witness put forward by mr. trump s attorneys, essentially on a mission to discredit michael cohen, who has emerged as the star witness to the prosecution. cohen was kept around in case he was needed to rebut costñ prosecutors decided that wouldn t be necessary for the grand juro