new developments at the federal courthouse in d.c. today. a battle between donald trump s legal team and his special counsel investigating the former president s efforts to overturn the 2020 election. our teams are onsite for the very latest. and he s back apparently. the man who led an armed mutiny through the streets of russia is spotted inside russia for the first time since that brief uprising. vladimir putin not known for his forgiving side. so why is yevgeny prigozhin going so public? plus, the nation s largest power grid declaring an emergency alert as the nation swelters under a heat wave. what that means for more than 65 million people relying on the company to keep them cool. we re following these major developing stories and more coming in right here to cnn news central. just a short time ago, donald trump s attorneys wrapped up a meeting face to face with special counsel jack smith. sources tell cnn donald trump s lawyers hoped the sitdown could delay a po
president biden wrapping up his trip to asia this morning, with concerns that china might be turning closer to russia. and why the biden administration is considering sending special forces to kyiv. good morning to viewers here in the u.s. and around the world. it is tuesday, may 24th. and a proxy war is playing out here on primary day and the future of the republican party is at stake. voters head to the polls in five states today, but georgia is really in the spotlight. the gop race for governor pitting former president trump against his vice president mike pence, who stumped for incumbent governor brian kemp at an election eve rally. trump is supporting his primary opponent, david perdue. kemp has been a top trump target. trump issued a statement that may be unprecedented when it comes to former running mates. mike pence was set to lose the governor s race in 2016 before he was plucked up and his political career was salvage. pence is parachuting into races hoping some
To have someone there taking very careful notes. and i learned what their spin would be, what evidence they thought was important. and usually, i would try to deal with some of their concerns at the very least. but it s also, in most cases, i think here there s been so much consideration, i doubt there would be a change of heart. often these can generate some sort of plea negotiations or some sort of an agreement of sorts. i don t think that will happen here given who trump is and how all of this has played out. but there are fairness reasons why prosecutors also engage in this sort of exercise. as you are speaking, we re getting word that donald trump has posted on social media saying that his attorneys had a productive meeting with the special counsel. obviously, no announcement at this point that he s officially been indicted. part of the conversation in that meeting was about logistics,
According to our reporting. if there is an indictment, when it comes down, what does it look like? we saw how it went down in manhattan, in miami. how do you envision something like that going down here in the nation s capital? that s a great question, boris. especially since the conduct at issue involved a riot, an insurrection, an attack on the capitol that was incited by donald trump. he certainly played a role in inciting it. so of course, there will be concerns about security, logistics, booking, for example. there were questions about whether there would be a booking photo and how that would be handled. so there are no questions that there are issues in this case, that there aren t in the typical case. so if that s the case. this was primarily a convsation about logistics, about the details, we could see an indictment sooner rather than ter, maybe even today.
Heat is having on americans. americans like an elderly woman in phoenix who fell out of her wheelchair. after five minutes on the ground, had third degree burns. third degree burns. i want the american people to know, help is here and we ll make it available to anyone who needs it. reporter: and of course, jim, that bigger picture of the climate crisis is why president biden signed into law and pushed for the inflation reduction act which has the largest ever in climate change initiatives. and certainly the heat and this extreme weather will be top of mind for the president. it feels like 107 degrees out here. i might ask for a dispensation on the suit jacket. it is something we have to get used to. it is in the numbers and in the data thank you so much. new polling shows a dead heat in what could be a rematch between donald trump and joe biden. ahead, we ll speak we former