code. don t wait code now and get the permanent solution protected by the bosley guarantee. herman in eastern ukraine. this is cnn. you live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. we begin this hour with new details in the case against 21 year old jack to share a the air national guardsman is accused of leaking top secret pentagon information is now charged under the espionage act. he worked in i t and had to have top secret clearances for access to the materials at the center of this controversy, prosecutors say. first began posting some of the classified intelligence online. back in december. since the arrest, president biden has directed national security agency officials to take more steps to secure this very sensitive information, and we start now with cnn s white house correspondent jeremy diamond joins us now over at the white house, jeremy one more we re learning tonight. well, jim, this investigation is continuing and the pentagon is working to assess now
From august 2015 to December 2017 the defendant, im quoting that, obviously, is donald trump orchestrated a scheme with others. The defense the indictment reads to influence the 2016 president ial election by identifying and purchasing negative information about him to suppress its publication and to benefit the defendants electoral prospects. Now according to the statement of facts, which accompanies this actual indictment, which they go through through here, 130,000 were paid to Adult Film Star Stormy Daniels 30,000 to a doorman and 150,000 to another woman, which it is clear from the statement of facts is Karen Macdougal. It is an unprecedented chapter in American History. And good afternoon to all. Im erin burnett here in new york, and im wolf blitzer here in washington. The lead up to trumps arrest was truly a remarkable sight to see the former president of the United States, leaving trump tower early this afternoon. His 11 car motorcade arriving at the Manhattan Criminal Court bu
outside its borders. with distance comes clarity. so with that in mind, here is salvadoran president niyi bucheli on twitter today, quote, think what you want about former president trump and the reasons he s being indicted, bucheli wrote . but just imagine if this happened in any other country where a government arrested the main opposition candidate, the united states s ability to use democracy as foreign policy is gone. thousands of miles from new york city, in the heart of central america, it is very obvious what just happened at that manhattan courthouse. it s obvious to many democrats to trump was criminally charged because he is planning to challenge joe biden in the upcoming presidential election. it s really that simple. if donald trump had retired in 2020, would he have been arraigned today? of course not. top democrats know that some effectively admitted the liberal blog politico this morning ran a piece describing what it called president joe biden s most seni
running. former president trump vows to continue his campaign even if indictments are handed down. a reality check from a former doj prosecutor. a live report from ohio as federal investigators head to a town only 200 miles from east palestine where another norfolk southern train derailed over the weekend. and good day. i m andrea mitchell in washington. the republican presidential race heating up 11 months ahead of the first primary contest. former maryland moderate republican governor larry hogan deciding not to run for fear of dividing the anti-trump vote he said, as other potential candidates avoid challenging mr. trump and his maga loyalists, who turned out for the cpac forum to hear the former president this weekend. i am your warrior. i am your justice, and for those who i ve been wronged and betrayed, i am your retribution. i am your retribution. i m not going to let this happen. and joining me now, vaughn hillyard who was at the cpac forum, national polit
today, there are no reports of any toxic chemical spills, but lots of questions about how in the world this happened again. what started out as a wild weather story has quickly turned into a life-threatening disaster. scores of california residents penned in by literal walls of snow more than six feet high. they re trapped and running out of food. we ll have a live report on rescue operations under way right now. today the battle lines for the 2024 republican nomination are being more clearly than we ve seen to date, setting up what may be a long and nasty fight for the republican nomination. we heard it in donald trump s borderline apocalyptic address to a less-than-robust corrode at cpac, while ron desantis amped up his attack on liberals to a packed house at the reagan library. in four years you didn t see our administration leaking like a sive. you didn t see a lot of drama and palace intrigue. what you saw was surgical precision, execution day after day after day a