hi, everyone, it is 4:00 in new york. i m in for nicolle wallace. the potential indictment of donald trump which would be unprecedented for this country is a story that is playing out in both new york where a grand jury could issue an indictment any day now and in washington where republicans are quickly mounting a political defense of the former president, let s begin with the developments in the case itself at this hour. on monday team trump dispatched a last-minute witness to testify before the grand jury investigating hush money payments made to porn star stormy daniels back in 2016. attorney and former confidant to michael cohen robert costello, now after his testimony he previewed a likely defense for donald trump. that this then attorney michael cohen paid the hush money payments on his own terms, take a listen to what he told reporters. michael cohen told us that he was approached by stormy daniels lawyer and stormy daniels had negative information that she wa
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Same altitude and changed course. the allegiant plane returned to fort lauderdale, where a flight attendant was treated for injuries. and we are learning more about the possible cause of that terrifying construction crane accident high above midtown manhattan on wednesday. cbs s lilia luciano raced to the scene when it happened and she is back there tonight with new details in the investigation. reporter: there are more questions to the crane company and operator behind wednesday s crane collapse that sent 16 tons of concrete on a massive piece of machinery crashing down 45,000 stories onto a busy manhattan street. a high-ranking official tells cbs new york that the preliminary cause of the fire is a hydraulic fluid leak. yesterday, the fire department praised the crane operator s effort to. we give a lot of credit to the crane operator, but the fire overwhelmed that operator and had to exit the crane. reporter: records show that operator was fined and had his
Expected it s widely underspm @% that the grand jury isn t meeting today. we re not anticipating news today,e1 no indictment likew3ly be handed out. a leak could always come, but sort of the big wheels won t be turning again until tomorrow. and donald trump s prediction from the weekend that todayq would be the big day will not be coming true.xd the scene opt the sidewalk behind me is chaotic, but not much morew3 so than you might s on any other sidewalk or busy manhattan street. the coherence of any political messaging that could bexd described as a protester has been limited at xdbest. we have seen plenty of people coming out here to mug for the cameras and to have their moment, but the idea that there was going to be major widespread organizeed protests on behalf donald trump, did not q materialize. it didn t materialize today and it seems, based on my reporting and those of my colleagues including those like ben e1 collins, unlikely to happen in the future. some of that has to do w
The subway rampage, taking him into custody in the middle of the day on a busy manhattan street. oh, my god, y all, they caught him. reporter: authorities say someone had called in a tip to the crime stoppers hotline, saying their spectas east village. and tonight, abc news has learned that remarkably, police believe that call may have come from the suspect himself. i think you re looking for me, said the man on the line. i m seeing my picture all over the news and i ll be around this mcdonalds. in the moments before his arrest, bystanders taking these pictures of frank james wandering around the area. zach dahhan, who was in a store nearby, spotted james and flagged down police. i seen the police walking from over there, i told the police, this is the guy. he did the problem in brooklyn. this guy. catch him, guys, catch him. and they catch him. thank god, we catch him. reporter: within minutes, mayor eric adams breaking the news to the city.