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,
carefully studied china s peace plan for ukraine. we ll talk with congressman henry cuellar, and we will ask him with the hours long meeting with the president of mexico. and a teacher shot by a student is speaking out in an msnbc exclusive. i will never look at the look on his face as he pointed the gun directly at me. we begin this very busy hour with new developments in the high profile manhattan grand jury investigation of a hush money payment made from trump to stormy daniels. a new witness spoke to the grand jury on monday and accused former trump lawyer and fixer, michael cohen, of acting alone and making the $130,000 payment to daniels back in 2016. former legal adviser to cohen, costello, testified for over two hours yesterday and slammed cohen. if they want to go after donald trump and have solid evidence, so be it, but michael cohen is far from solid evidence. here on msnbc, cohen responded to costello s comments and defended his testimony. the beauty t
i m craig melvin and i m natalie morales. and this is dateline. the neighborhood ha everything a burglary wanted t find, private yards, wealthy homes and she had the worst o possible luck, in that h picked her yes i d like to report an attempted break in - a mother, home alone. cops raced to her front door a she walks into an ambush in he backyard how does somebody die in matter of seconds with officer around her home? it was surreal, it wa awful. your first thought of tha time it s a burglary gone wrong. but the burglar caugh red-handed starts pointing fingers. this is a guy who aspire to be a hit man - she was a sitting target. does it now mean that you charge them all with effort now the detectives lay a trap we triedd to play cat and mouse. we re getting reall paranoid about being - one are you wired will they catch their prey? you hold your breath, the world s gonna stop this. you never think it s goin to be you. oh no
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
this is dateline it was just a shock not even for a second did it ever occur in my mind that h would be in danger it s hard to even imagine that someone could be so evil at last, his dream had come true new wife new stepdaughter a whole new start. almost an instant family fo him. this scene perfect and that s what made what happened so baffling suddenly, he was dead on the floor. otherwise healthy 41 year old man, usually do not drop that dead. something is not adding up. could this mean murder? there were suspicions from the start, and they came from hi wife you believe there is possibility that your husban was poisoned yes, sir. poisoned? who could have wanted him dead police zeroed in on someone at work he was pretty angry about that it was initially very angr about, yes and you don t have to kill? who knows what s his new wife i danger to? i m scared to death brace yourselves becaus this killer was stone cold evil wow this has got me shak