secretary blinken and foreign minister sergey lavrov spoke by phone and that is significant given talks have been sparse during war. the 31-year-old reporter was arrested wednesday in central russia about a thousand miles away from moscow, russia is accusing him of spying. gershkovich has been reported in russia for the six years mostly the wall street journal which denied allegations. the timing of the arrest looks like calculated calculation to embarrass the u.s. the board called for the russian ambassador to the u.s. be expelled along with journalists. president biden said that wasn t part of the immediate plan and offered this. detaining the wall street journal reporter. let him go. you heard the president say there. secretary blinken also called on russia to release paul wylan he s been retained in russia since 2018 as you mentioned mike and back in december the biden administration facilitated release of brittney griner in exchange that freed merchant of death. th
unrest if former president donald trump is indicted. according to an internal memo shared with cnn, all nypd officers are expected to be in uniform and ready to deploy. these are images you re seeing now out of new york today. so far small gatherings of pro-trump and anti-trump demonstrators. and then in florida protesters are outside of trump s home in mar-a-lago. the district attorney in manhattan has given no timeline on when trump could be charged for his alleged role in hush money payments to adult film star stormy daniels. the former president has claimed that he could be arrested today and has called on his supporters to protest. cnn s kara scannell is following all of this. kara, what more do we know about these preparations for what s really an unprecedented moment in u.s. history? a former president criminally charged. reporter: yeah, brianna, it is an unprecedented time. right now we ve just we re seeing a small build-up of police presence but it s really very
election. we also that the grand jury waaa empaneled by a soros funded d.a. called alvin bragg, who looks and acts like ta tawanna brawley era, alvidenc sharpton. so we would assumee on the bass of that evidence that it s pretty likely trump does get charged with something at some point. but charged with what? in a fre that s the question. that should matter in a free country, laws or universal laws apply to all citizens equally precisely because all citizens i are considered equal forou generations. this was very obviouss to ami to american liberals. in fact, iact was the basis ofel their worldview that was back when liberals opposedas jim crow.om and we re notet tryinhing cg to reinstate it as something called equitequiy. we are not liberals, but we retain the traditional american view, which is that laws must be applied equally or else they are not laws at all. justice must be blind or elsejut it is tyranny. so we spent the day with helpp f staff toyer on our staff t
Prosecutors werent asking him questions and that he would say things that the grand jury would basically hurt the prosecutions case so they didnt ask him questions. I will say them anyway. The indictment came down. But dana, important point on that. Something he said along those lines hits me like a thud. I have always been puzzled why it is the way they structured this indictment was the grand jury narrowly indicts on the business records. No recitation in the jury indictment. At the same time bragg puts out a statement that is a statement of fact. Not a grand jury document, just braggs document and his big recitation about the theft of the election and all that stuff. I wonder if they didnt put usually the prosecutor puts the statement of fact in the grand jury, in the indictment as context for the charges. I wonder if bragg did that document separately because after costellos testimony he didnt think he would make his story fly with the grand jury. I think thats very possible. Bill
Straight from the source tonight, a Surprise Agreement to everybody between trump and biden agreeing to debate twice before election day. First, right here on cnn, next month donald trump personally confirming to me that hes in meanwhile, another epic showdown. Just hours away from happening, not weeks away, because Michael Cohen, well be back on the Witness Stand. Trumps trial tomorrow. Were getting new reporting tonight on the plan of attack by the trump team. We have two inside sources, Michael Cohens former attorney, lanny davis. And what have Donald Trumps attorneys, both here tonight and a big question where is Rudy Giuliani . Because thats what Law Enforcement in arizona is asking is theyve been trying to find the onetime Trump Attorney for weeks. Why they need to see him . In person, as cnn has learning where he might be. Im kaitlan collins, and this is the source mark your, calendars because six weeks from tomorrow, thursday, june 27, its biden trump in a debate, rematch right