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
a special edition of out front next president biden albert ready to announce he s running again, as we are getting new details into out front about his visit to florida, tomorrow. why it has everything to do with ron desantis. plus, why a special election of the control the pennsylvania house of representatives is giving reason democrats across the country reason to celebrate. something you should be watching. and biden going after chinese president, xi jinping, by name. china responding, tonight. we go live, to beijing. let s go out front. good evening and welcome to a special edition of out front, i m erin burnett. the president is heading to florida tomorrow. and he has his sights set in large part on the state s governor. this is reporting from phil mattingly at the white house this hour, and it comes as biden is expected to announce his own run for reelection in the day. in fact, in a new interview with judy woodruff, he took the question about his age head on. lis
top of the hour this thursday. i m jim sciutto. i m erica hill. we begin this hour with the new reporting of the chinese surveillance balloon, and the state department is confirming that this device was capable of monitoring u.s. communications. that is likely one of the new details that lawmakers are learning this morning. the biden administration is giving classified briefings on the issue on capitol hill a short time ago, and we will give you more of what we are learning in a moment, and with reclosely following what is happening in europe. the ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy is calling on the european allies to step up the assistance and talking about specifically what they could do in his mind game-changers. fresh off of the sales pitch in wisconsin, president biden is headed to florida to expect to drive home his pledge in particular to protect social security and medicare, and we will have more on that message from the white house ahead. first of all to nat
of mar-a-lago for classified documents. but also since he launched not one, but two special counsel investigations into both former president trump and president biden. we just saw garland walk into the hearing room moments ago. he didn t answer any questions on the way in. we are live on the hill. also, congress intensifies its scrutiny of china. one lawmakers even warning of a, quote existential struggle with the nation during the very first meeting of a house select committee dedicated to china. what we learned. plus, the warning from the head of the fbi about china s efforts to hinder investigations into the origin of covid. we are also following breaking news in greece, a devastating head-on collision between a freight train and a passenger train carrying 350 passengers. officials saying dozens were killed with reports of people being thrown out of windows from the impact. the desperate search this morning for survivors in the wreckage. and an extraordinary moment
hi, everyone it s 4:00 in the east. we can forget about being on the verge of a generational moment in our country s history because, as we meet this afternoon, we re living it donald trump is now a once indicted, twice impeached, forever disgraced ex president and he s expected to surrender to law enforcement in new york next week. we understand it will happen tuesday. there was some misinformation, confusion this morning trump s attorney told nbc news earlier the office of the manhattan district attorney alvin bragg, who is overseeing this case, wanted trump to turn himself in today that lawyer, joe tacopina insisted that the secret service needed more time to prepare. our reporting does not support that assertion that he made. sources within the secret service told us that trump s detail could transport trump at a moment s notice. there s a lot of news developing this hour. we re taking you through all of it donald trump is expected to fly into new york monday night he