donald trump is claiming authorities will arrest him tomorrow relating to alleged hush money payments made to an adult film start stormy daniels. while a decision from a grand jury not far from right here where i m sitting could still be days away it. would make him the first former president indicted in our nation s history. what we know, what we don t, and the potential political impact here is our lead story. correspondent david spunt joins us now from the justice department. good evening, david. bret, good evening to you. late this afternoon, perhaps the final grand jury witness in a year s long investigation involving alleged hush money payments between the former president and an adult film address. two heavy hitters in manhattan court this afternoon, former trump fixer michael cohen and robert costello, cohen s one time confidante who rebuffed cohen. now is he on the revenge tour. i tonight condone it. i went in there to tell these people the truth about hot real
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
town hall where they were supposed to get the chance to confront the people responsible company let a train full of chemicals fly off the rails and lit it on fire ceo of norfolk southern alec shaw shown right there just decided to back out of the meeting. allen shaw and rail company won t even show their faces. primetime has a producer out there, so we will be giving you updates throughout the hour. can you imagine how angry these people are? the company responsible for potentially cancer clustering the town is hiding from them. after they were riding the rails with bad parts. surveillance cameras caught the train sparking unjust 20 minutes before derailing. but now alan shaw and his rail company seem pretty comfortable turning their backs on ohio. is it because they line the pocket of every politician in ohio? probably. maybe norfolk southern didn t have the spine to face their victims. i wake up every day. i have been sick with my upper congestion. this morning i wok
on privacy and content concerns, as well as the company s connection to the chinese government. we ll have the highlights for you just ahead. plus, what we re learning about a drone strike overnight in syria that killed at least one american and injured a handful of u.s. service members. a lot going on. good morning. welcome to morning joe. can you believe it s friday? it s friday, march 24th. you know, it is friday. you know, willie, it is interesting. you have trump raising $1.5 million off of this. puck noted last night that people around donald trump see this as a bad sign. his fundraising prowess is dried up. he s worn out all of these lists. he sent spam out for six years, seven years. the small money donations just aren t coming in. you know, right after access hollywood, he raised $11.5 million off of small donors. after the fbi raid last summer at mar-a-lago, as he called it, he raised $2 million in two days. he s raised $1.5 million over the week. what we
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