our nbc news exclusive. the former fox news producer at the center of a defamation battle, breaking her silence. she says fox bullied her into giving misleading testimony her allegations of a toxic workplace and the shocking thing she says she was told about fact-checking election falsehoods. and words of kindness the best-selling author and the outpouring from fans, inspiring america. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening, everyone, and welcome. we start tonight with the historic breaking news here in new york city a grand jury has voted to indict former president trump. investigating his role in a hush money payment to an adult film star during his 2016 campaign, a claim mr. trump denies a lawyer for mr. trump says the former president has been notified of the indictment the action is unprecedented. it is the first time a former or sitting american president has been indicted. nbc s garrett haake leads our coverage garrett, what more do
election. the bombshell coming as he once again runs for the white house. what is the unprecedented charge or charges? and would he surrender for arrest? also tonight, the video appearing to show an american journalist arrested in russia on a spying charge. if convicted, he could face 20 years in prison. how will the u.s. respond? also tonight, the chilling 911 calls from the nashville school shooter. a teacher hiding in a closet, pleading for help as shots ring out. the military tragedy. nine soldiers killed when two black hawk helicopters crash in kentucky. the investigation. our nbc news exclusive. the former fox news producer at the center of a defamation battle, breaking her silence. she says fox bullied her into giving misleading testimony. her allegations of a toxic workplace and the shocking thing she says she was told about fact-checking election falsehoods. and words of kindness. the best-selling author and the outpouring from fans, inspiring america.
president makes his way from midtown and trump towers you can see that they down to the courthouse we were told he will speak before and after that in some way, shape, or form so they ve got security obviously all around all these places and seek a surface is getting ready to drive t the presidents as i said downtown. and he will become the first former president to face criminal charges. bill: for the time and for all the how all this goes is not set in stone but this is what we think we know, he will be booked in process. he will be fingerprinted, he will not be handcuffed. anna monk shot s of this hour, this is not back from fourth being debated. at the moment is unlikely mark. martha: it seems unnecessary. he s one of the most well-known phases in the entire country, so i think they re going to pass on that it sounds like. the officers will take the former president to a holding room and he will go before a judge for the unsealing of this reported 34 count indictment.
in london with the latest on this. good morning to you greg. good morning my february is a 31-year-old wraps up his first week of captivity with the russians we are getting some possible sides of his well-being. remember aaron curtiss covid just charged with espionage which he and many other 29. and he faces almost 20 years in jail. and is now in the very tough the voyage of both persian and moscow that are now a russian prison monitoring agency overnight said that they visited having acquainted then he on his own and in a quarantines out. mostly they re safe congress out there saying they said to be conversational and joking. however martha, gets a big singles about this because i ve also heard however a member of his legal team could be seeing him as early as today. and back up to give us a better idea of how we use they re also building a spying charge and that s pretty much pro forma but important. the key thing i m also told us