i m lindsey reiser at msnbc headquarters. right now are criminal charges on the horizon for former president donald trump, he s been invited to appear before the manhattan grand jury, investigating a hush money payment to stormy daniels, why legal experts say the move could signal the end is near in this investigation. also this morning, california just cannot catch a breather from this wild weather, right now 16 million are under flood alerts as parts of the state are still buried under mountains of snow and now brace for landslides and heavy rain from an atmospheric river. we re tracking the storm as folks there brace for the rare high risk of flash flooding. plus, in just the last hour and a half, we got our hands on a bigger than expected jobs report. president biden is set to talk about the report and the overall state of our economy this hour, especially as the federal reserve eyes more interest rate hikes to tackle inflation. we re going to get insight from labor s
the second world war or new assessment of the worst pandemic since 1918 china is front and center tonight. on ukraine members of the administration spoke today and over the weekend warning beijing that arming russia would be a mistake. we are confident that the chinese leadership is considering the provision of lethal equipment that would be a very risky and unwise bet. bill burns, the cia director. on covid we learned yesterday that the department of energy has assessed in a newly updated intelligence report that it most likely originated from a laboratory leak. cnn has just learned the reason for that updated report. three sources telling cnn that the department of energy shift was based in part on information about the research that the chinese centers for disease control, the chinese cdc in wuhan, was doing around the time of the outbreak on a coronavirus variant. cnn has previously reported that the lab was studying coronaviruses m bats but it is unclear how closely
manhattan da s investigation no one is above the law that is the defining principle of the republic and has been the case for 247 years it s another example of two tier system. it s outrageous, and ther is no too low i can t reach. every time you think he ha bottomed out, he goes even further. i think he s building a lot of sympathy for the former president. i think the fact i was wit coffee this morning with folks none of them were big trum supporters and they all said, they felt like he was being attacked also this hour, we are just hours away from a meeting that has the u.s. and the world o edge russian president vladimi putin and his chines counterpart, xi jinping, later this hour i will talk to congressman seth moulton about the threat of unified russia and china. as another state targets the abortion pill, we will look at what may be the next big hop for abortion rights advocate in ohio. more on that ahead, but we wil start with breaking news tha attorney robe
hi to everyone. it is 4:00 in new york. happy friday. what began at a celebrity golf tournament in 2006, an affair between a porn star and a business mogul, now has the potential to throw the entire country into unchartered territory with donald trump reportedly on the verge of becoming the first ex-president to be criminally indicted. as we reported on this program yesterday, blockbuster reporting in the new york times reveals that the manhattan d.a. has invited donald trump to testify before a grand jury in the probe examining hush money payments to adult actress stormy daniels. the new york times notes that such offers almost always indicate an indictment is close. it would be unusual for the district attorney alvin bragg to notify a potential department without ultimately seeking charges against him. as for whether donald trump will take bragg up on his offer, the washington post quotes a trump associate saying that everyone will advise him not to go in. here is ter
garlique healthy blood pressure formula helps maintain healthy blood pressure with a custom blend of ingredients. i m taking charge, with garlique. good evening everyone. i m alisyn camerota, welcome to cnn tonight. new revelations from that 1.6 billion dollar dominion lawsuit against fox. we ll tell you what rupert murdoch said under of about multiple fox hosts and the lies they were peddling about the 2020 election. cnn s still digging through the court documents tonight. hundreds of pages worth, so we ll have more in a moment. plus, the racist rant from the creator of the dilbert cartoon. so if nearly half of all blocks are not okay with white people according to this pool, not according to me, according to this poll, that s a hate group. the best advice i would give to white people is to get the away from black people. well, now newspapers across the country are dropping the dilbert cartoon. the creator plans to be canceled, but maybe that s just a free market or work