here. in norfolk southern ceo apologizes after that toxic train derailment in ohio. he is grilling from lawmakers, today, as the 11th hour gets underway on this thursday night. good evening once again. i m stephanie ruhle. buckle up, boys, and girls, the new york times is reporting tonight the manhattan prosecutors are inching closer and closer to criminal charges against the former president, donald j trump, and the stormy daniels case. that, as you recall, is the one involving hush money payments made before the 2016 election to keep the former porn star, daniels, from talking about her apparent affair with trump, who still denies it. the times says that according to four sources, quote, the manhattan district attorney s office recently signaled to trump s lawyers that he could face criminal charges for his role in the payment of hush money. prosecutors offered trump the chance to testify next week before the grand jury. alvin bragg in his office declined to comment on th
criminal charges. the new reporting about the hush money investigation into former president donald trump and his apparent invitation to testify. then, airline safety in the spotlight as years of close calls and midair emergencies have travelers on edge. captain sully sullenberger is here. and norfolk southern ceo apologizes after that toxic train derailment in ohio. plus grilling from lawmakers , today, as the 11th hour gets underway on this thursday night. good evening once again. i m stephanie ruhle. buckle up, boys, and girls, the new york times is reporting tonight the manhattan prosecutors are inching closer and closer to criminal charges against the former president, donald j trump, and the stormy daniels case. that, as you recall, is the one involving hush money payments made before the 2016 election to keep the former porn star, daniels, from talking about her apparent affair with trump, who still denies it. the times says that according to four sources, quote, the
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president biden is set to lay out his plan to once again bring down sky high cost of gasoline at the pump. once again, by tapping into the nation s emergency oil reserves, even as it brings the needle even closer to e. i m john roberts in washington, happy wednesday, sandra. sandra: and that s a visual for you, starting to look like that, right? the president will announce that release of 15 million more barrels of oil, rounds out the 180 million draw down the president committed to earlier this year. john: the releases have brought the supply to the lowest level since ronald reagan was president. likely bring down gas prices for a brief period of time, but critics say biden is using the emergency stockpile to play politics. midterm elections now just 20 days away. former vice president mike pence will join us to discuss what all of this means for the elections. sandra: looking forward to that. begin with fox team coverage. marc thiessen ready to sounds out, and one way
the washington post could explain the fbi s sense of urgency to do this search. the post reports that federal agents were looking for classified documents related to nuclear weapons. cnn hasn t independently confirmed that. this is a fast-moving story. we re covering it all. let s go first to cnn s katelyn polantz with more on this deadline. trump said release the documents, and i m quoting there. this was after the attorney general said, and i m paraphrasing now, tell the judge you want them released and they can be. so what is trump s team waiting for? that is a great question. we too are waiting to see what is going on, clearly everybody is in a wait-and-see position right now. we re keeping an eye on the court record to see exactly what formal position donald trump and his team will take in court. it very well could be different from what he s saying on social media. but we re also watching the time here. there is a deadline set by the judge of 3:00. that is the tim