murders. those are events in which four or more people are killed. and nearly 9500 gun violence deaths already this year. the president is using this moment to announce new executive action to tamp down, to try to tamp down gun crime. he s also once again calling on congress to act on gun legislation. let s begin this hour at the white house. our jeremy diamond joins us. what is to come from biden today? reporter: listen, we re going to see the president layout a comprehensive gun prevention violence strategy to address the surge in violent crime that happened over 2020 and appears to be continuing into 2021, with experts warning of a potentially dangerous and violent summer. we re going to hear the president sign some new executive actions on gun reforms. he s also going to push congress once again to enact gun control laws. press for the confirmation of his atf director. this will all follow a meeting between the president, his attorney general, and several mayors and chi
russians bombed their own city. so what s going on? a ukrainian fighter on the front lines who calls the war hell is outfront from bakhmut. plus, banned. montana house republicans kicking out a transgender lawmaker from the house chamber after the lawmaker, zooey zephyr, accused them of having blood on their hands. zephyr is outfront. and ya ya, a giant panda back right now on a flight to china from the memphis zoo right now. why are the chinese so angry, so livid at the united states about this panda? let s go outfront. good evening. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, one of putin s prized jets gone. one of the most elite supersonic jets in putin s air force blowing up today in mid-flight. you can see the jet on fire. it takes a sudden and terrifying nose-dive on russian territory. the jet was not shot down. this is all that s left of it just a few pieces of scrap metal, as you can see on the ground. today s accident on russian territory is just six days after
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