our business correspondent in new york, is erin delmore. if you re in the crypto world or curious about getting into it, then a spot bitcoin etf has been on your radar. it allows people to bet on bitcoin s gains and losses, even if they do not own bitcoin themselves. us regulators are widely expected to approve the new exchange traded funds this week. so, when a tweet was posted from the sec gov account, saying essentially that, it was noteworthy. it was also wrong. the sec and its chair, gary gensler, quickly posted on x that the sec account was compromised and the regulator had not yet approved the listing in trading of spot bitcoin exchange traded products. the erroneous tweet also included graphic with a quote from chair gensler, a second tweet that also said $ btc . bitcoin s ticker symbol was also posted but was then almost immediately deleted. for bitcoin s value, a bit of a ride. the cryptocurrency climbed to nearly $48,000 on the false news and fell back down to $45
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
i m ari melber in for nicolle and i ll anchor for the next three hours right now with a lot of news breaking out of new york as the d.a. alvin bragg moves forward with two witnesses who faced this grand jury today, robert costello a legal adviser to that key witness we all know about, michael cohen. he s testified today at the request of trump s legal team. under new york law a person who is expected to be indicted which in this case may or may not be donald trump but in an abundance of fairness, that individual can request a witness appear for them before this grand jury finishes its work. so that s part of what we re following on this big breaking news day. today cohen also on hand, this weekend he said he would be back today to address what costello says making him the rebuttal witness and this, today, is his third appearance before the grand jury. so, that alone makes all of this a major day and probe that is quite near deciding whether or not to indict donald trump. so,
prime minister is tweeting about it. so address the issue rather than trying to keep it private. also been announced that prince of wales, the queen s heir, is traveling immediately to balmoral in scotland and he is dropping all his plans. we are also, of course, trying to i just checked in with kensington palace to see what prince william s movements are because obviously he s been informed. we re told all the family, key family have been informed. but prince william will also i m sure be expected to visit as well. max, remind us of the queen s activities over the last week, where she was seen and not seen and what concerns have arisen over the last few days about her health. well, she always goes to scotland to balmoral in the summer. and she always comes to buckingham palace to appoint a new prime minister. and the concern recently was that she announced she would not be returning from balmoral to appoint the prime minister, so the outgoing and incoming prime ministe