standard, and i used to be deputy chief of the criminal division in the southern district of new york, i wouldn t have touched a guy like michael cohen, especially if he s a convicted perjurer. that s robert costello after testifying in manhattan yesterday, and he could be the last witness the grand jury hears from before voting on an indictment for the former president. we ll break down what s next in the case in just a moment. meanwhile, more members of the oath keepers are held accountable for the violence on january 6th. and also ahead, what we re learning about the first face-to-face meeting between chinese president xi jinping and russia s vladimir putin since the invasion began. began good morning, and welcome to way too early on this tuesday, march 21st. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. we ve got a lot to get to. we ll begin this morning in new york city, and the manhattan district attorney s office ahead of a possible criminal indict
their party leader. and divided by the growing feud good day, everyone. i m andrea mitch until washington. as capitol police here and law enforcement in new york are bracing for a possible indictment of former president trump, multiple agencies, including the u joining me now, garrett haake in manhattan, chuck rosenberg and barbara me1cquade and yamichee1 alcindor. garrett, take us through the updates we got from attorney costello.e1 reporter: we got a little back and forth yesterday. we expected all of ite1 would py out behind closed doors.fá prosecutors determined they did not need to hearxd from the secd witness of the day yesterday. what happened instead was testimony from robert costello, a witness put forward by mr. trump s attorneys, essentially on a mission to discredit michael cohen, who has emerged as the star witness to the prosecution. cohen was kept around in case he was needed to rebut costñ prosecutors decided that wouldn t be necessary for the grand juro
state of our economy. good evening. the day started well enough for biden with a jobs report showing the u.s. economy adding 311,000 jobs last month. we created more jobs in two years than any administration created in the first four years. it s no accident. it mean our economic plan is working. but that good news was quickly overtaken by bad news that could get a lot worse. thank you. thank you. silicon valley bank may not be a house hold name. but it is a very big deal in term of lending to and financing operations of many leading tech companies. and today, it collapsed. struggling with high interest rates, unable to find a buyer. well, the very last time we ve seen a bank of this magnitude fell was in 2008. and, that could be a true indication of where our economy is at. now, the white house insists comparisons with the financial crisis of 2008 are overblown. our banking system is fundamentally different because of the changes that we put in place in 2008.
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
a war zone as president. he and zelensky walking through the streets of kiev. you can hear the sirens ringing through the country as the two leaders were leaving a church a few hours ago. [sirens blaring] bill: quite a shot there biden and zelensky undeterred by those alarms above. unannounced visit comes after ukraine marks a year of fending off russia. the fighting only expected to intensify in the coming months with that spring thaw. according to the president s america s support will go nowhere. president biden: i m here to show our unwavering support for the nation s independence. we know there will be very difficult days, weeks and years ahead but russia s aim was to wipe ukraine off the map. putin s war of conquest is failing. russia s military has lost half its territory it once occupied. dana: president biden getting a look at the devastating toll of russia s invasion that s ravaged the country for the last year. the fighting has killed thousands of troops and