an indictment in the hush money case? plus, china s xi jinping cozies up to vladimir putin. ukrainian ambassador to the united states raising questions about whether it was staged. and tiktok, its parent company spying on american journalists. what could this mean for the 100 million americans on tiktok? let s go outfront. good evening. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, a game changer, it is the 11th hour. and at this moment, former president trump s team chose to call up a witness to testify before the manhattan grand jury investigating the hush money payment to adult film star stormy daniels. now, the hope is that this witness could save trump from being the first former president in united states history to be indicted. so who is this person this witness? well, his name is robert costello. he was a one-time legal adviser to trump s former fixer michael cohen, who is the key witness. then emerged to tell reporters why he testified. the only thing i m doing is
Lets go back to that defection from the Conservative Party to the labour party by a conservative mp. Dr dan poulter, who works part time in the nhs, has been welcomed by his new leader, sir keir starmer, who said the former minister would help his party get the Health Service back on its feet. Well, mr poulter has been speaking about why hes done this on the Laura Kuennsberg programme. Lets listen to the interview. Well, id been thinking about it for a little while and it was alongside my work as an mp. I work still work as an nhs doctor and have done. The Health Service that i saw under huge strain is very different to the Health Service of maybe a decade ago, and the struggles and the challenges that patients have been experiencing in accessing timely good care were something that really resonated with me and stayed with me, and ifound it increasingly difficult to look my nhs colleagues in the eye, my patients in the eye, and my constituents in the eye with good conscience. And i fee
Could be suspended if a deal emerges to free the hostages still held by hamas. Israel katz said their freedom was a top priority. Hamas has posted a new video, which shows two of the hostages captured during its october attack. Keith siegel and omri miran, both identify themselves. While the video is not dated, there is a reference to the recent passover holiday. Its the second such video that hamas considered a terror group by the uk and us governments has published in the past few days. Our correspondent, anna foster, sent this update from tel aviv. Omri miran s father was actually already on the list of confirmed speakers for this event tonight. When he got up on the stage, he talked about the moment, he said he was sitting having coffee with someone and talking about his grandchildren when the man he was talking to held his phone and said, look, they have released a video of omri. What was also interesting was as the crowd were gathered here tonight, is they showed that video in fu
Equal is gay marriage . Wanting that this programme contains flashing images. I think if i look back to when i came out, when i was 22 a couple of years before, you know, gay marriage was a thing that you could do the world that was around me or any person thinking about coming out then is so different to what a lot of people seem to experience now. Theres a couple of teachers who are, like, lgbt trained. I didnt come out till i was in my 205. Yeah, that was a difficult, difficult time for me. I mean, i always knew i was gay, so i actually saw all of my siblings get| married, one by one. And weve a decade since that law changed. Societys changed, expectations have changed. Im interested to know whether gay marriage has changed things as much as it seems like it might ve. Theres still so much work to be done to try and fight for our right to be able to get married in a church. For us, faith is really important. Its really difficult to actually have a religious ceremony. I think within f
The hostages still held by hamas. Israel katz said their freedom was a top priority. Hamas has posted a new video, which shows two of the hostages captured during its october attack. Keith siegel, and omri miran, both identify themselves. While the video is not dated, there is a reference to the recent passover holiday. Its the second such video that hamas considered a terror group by the uk and us governments has published in the past few days. Our correspondent, anna foster, sent this update from tel aviv. Omri miran s father was actually already on the list of confirmed speakers for this event tonight. When he got up on the stage, he talked about the moment, he said he was sitting having coffee with someone and talking about his grandchildren when the man he was talking to held his phone and said, look, they have released a video of omri. What was also interesting was as the crowd were gathered here tonight, is they showed that video in full, it is not something that normally happen