right now we re watching the manhattan d.a. s office where we believe a grand jury will hear today from robert costello, a former legal adviser to michael cohen, and heightening the interest today, he s potentially the final act before a decision is made about whether to issue an indictment against donald trump. costello was called in at the request of trump s attorneys, leading many to believe his testimony will be aimed at undermining cohen s credibility. cohen himself is also there, he says, as a rebuttal witness. i want to bring in nbc s garrett haake outside the d.a. s office. legal analyst glenn kirschner joins us as well. garrett, what have you seen or heard today, if anything, of the comings and goings? what s the very latest? reporter: chris, we re all operating on the same scraps of information. no signs of costello or cohen yet. that shouldn t be a surprise. the grand jury typically meets in the afternoon. we would expect to potentially see them sometime here in
back for another hour. here are the big stories we re watching. another tidal wave of plight cancellations for southwest customers today, thousands left stranded and baggage grave yards across the airports and exhausted customers fighting for answers. i ve spent about nine and a half hours trying to get through to southwest, just on hold with them. probably about 17 calls. and every time, i get about two and a half hours in, it just drops. the line just drops. in buffalo, snow is starting to melt as the death toll mounts. with mounting snow of this volume comes rapid flooding for search and rescue teams to deal with. the latest on their efforts and the blame game over the county s response to the historic blizzard in just a minute. new developments on capitol hill. the january 6th committee just dropped another batch of deposition transcripts, and there are some familiar trump world names on the list. speaking of donald trump, after almost four years of legal battles,
fierce fighting in key areas of the donbas. another big primary day from california to new jersey. we will have steve kornacki to break it all down. we begin with the january 6th hearings. ali vitali and ryan reilly and eugene daniels. ali, first to you. the company members have been projecting confidence, new evidence, things we haven t seen or heard before. are they going to have a difficult task ahead with so much of the country distracted by inflation, gas prices, the gun issue, of course, other things than what happened last year? there s other things going on up here on capitol hill. but this is the culmination of a year of work for the january 6 select committee, finally coming to fruition in primetime thursday night. they have a challenge before them of trying to elevate this hearing into something that is historic and compelling for the attention of the american people, many of whom watched what happened in real time on their television screens that day. it s w
on capitol hill, the fda commissioner pushing back. he was taken to task about whether the fda didn t move quickly enough. the united states was facing a supply chain stress before the recall that began in february. the pandemic, war in ukraine and labor supply issues have all had an impact. the fact is, food safety is not a priority. whomever looked at that report felt there was no need to respond at all from october to february, until there was a recall. that is a dereliction of duty in my view. before heading on his trip to asia, the president hosting leaders of finland and sweden at the white house as he backs their bid to join nato in defiance of vladimir putin and opposition from nato member turkey s president erdogan. in the face of aggression, nato has not grown weaker or more divided. it has grown stronger, more united. with finland and sweden s decision to request membership in nato, it will be enhanced for all time. this as ukrainian soldiers who surren
election interference trials, one of them encompassing the insurrection on january 6 and one pending classified documents trial for retaining and hiding records, government records, some of them containing top secret nuclear intelligence haven t driven away donald trump s voters, what will last week s felony conviction for falsifying documents and to conceal them and to conceal that information from voters in 2016 really do? in other words, what more do voters really need to know about donald trump? or to put a finer point on it, how many more voters need to know more about donald trump? believe it or not, there are quite a few. the new york times went back and interviewed nearly 2,000 people, some of them who said a conviction would make them rethink voting for donald trump. we re going to tell you the results of their survey in just a moment, but first here is what some of those voters said, quote, we all know if donald trump gets reelected he s going to try to be a dicta