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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americans 70 percent do notin think biden should run again, with nearl y half of those citing his age as a major reason why. reme biden will turn 82 shortly after the election, and even biden s own aides are g raising the alarm about his diminished energy level,o schedu telling axios it s difficultn th to schedule events ineekend the morning, in the evening ors. on the weekends. and there s renewed concern yet about his age after biden suffered through yet another bizarre, gaffe filled week. takkne a lookow at this. we know that there s no there s no such there s so much more to finish the job. s the speaker, the former president and the magnetic, forr streamers were cut from a different cloth. they treat these folks. they treat these folks and they think they re a threat. lks,they think that somehow we e going to go back with regard to age. i can t even say, i guess, old how old i am. i can t even say no, it doesn t it doesn t register with me. so doe i m trying to think
some simple questions. biden racking up the lowestt poll numbers of his presidency. only thirty seven percent ofing. americans approve of the job that he s doing. and that assumes biden biden is actually doing his job. turns out he only works part time as president. most of bif biden s public evenn happen between 10:00 a.m. and 4:00 pm, which amounts to ah 30 hour work week. meanwhile, his screw up son , hunter, can t seem to get out of the headlines. this week, the first son sto attorneys met with doj prosecutors to discuss resolving their criminal investigation. hunters also got some child support problems. cl s being forced to appear in person in court next week after claiming poverty relating to his four year old daughter. itse is the case involving the grandchild that president biden refused dise to acknowledge. x gran i have six grandchildredcn and i m crazy about them.y si and i speanglek to them every h single day. nots ou a joke, but hunters i of wedlock daughter
plus, two jewish men shot outside of synagogues in los angeles on different days. tonight authorities say they re connected. the victims targeted for their religion. the federal hate crime charges just filed. the outrage in ohio. families waiting in long lines for help in east palestine two weeks after that toxic train derailment and new details on what may have caused this crash. the tragedy on the field. a 12-year-old dying after collapsing at football practice. the family says the ambulance took 30 minutes to arrive. what his mother says could have saved his life. and the book of 125,000 names, the story it tells and the deep connection for our correspondent. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. and good evening. i m tom llamas in for lester tonight. they were sworn to protect, but today five fired memphis police officers were in a courtroom facing charges of murder that they beat tyre nichols so badly during his arrest last month that he died