Charging him in connecith his efforts to overturn the 2020 electi. Include the conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction of and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding and conspiracy against rights. Moments ago the special counsel, jack smith, spoke more about the indictment and the charges trump now faces. The attack on our nations capitol on january 6th, 2021, was an unprecedented assault on the seat of american democracy. Its described in the indictment, it was fueled by lies, lies by the defendant targeted at obstructing a Bedrock Function of the u. S. Government, the nations process of collecting, counting and certifying the results of the president ial election. The indictment went on to say that trump had six coconspirators, wolf, but of course it did not name them. This is truly, truly a remarkable moment in american history. The former president of the United States, who is now the current frontrunner for the republi
happening right now, sentencing is under way for oathkeeper s founder stewart rhodes for his part in the capitol riots, and we will find out the time he is going to get for seditious conspiracy. and ron desantis has a huge gap to close against donald trump and we hear about the plan he has to try to close it. and a man is able to walk for the first time in decades, and we have the latest of what is helping him to do it. this is noouz. this is cnn news central. negotiators are working 24/7 to get a deal on the debt limit as the treasury department is warning that the u.s. could default one week from today. this is what house speaker kevin mccarthy said in the last hour. every hour matters, and this is why the white house is meeting on this, and why last night, the team they have is very professional and very bright. they know where the differences are, and how to work on this. as the talks are playing out, the house will recess today and head home for the weekend,
calling on people to protest. he expects to be indicted on tuesday on his truth social page today the former president urged supporters to, quote, take back our nation, ahead of what he says is his expected arrest days from now. he went on to say, they re killing our nation as we sit back and watch. we must save america and protest. but he appears to be speculating. the prosecutors are wrapping up the investigation into hush money payments made to porn star stormy daniels. we have learned there is at least one witness still expected to testify on monday. sources tell my colleague kristin holmes and i that trump s legal team has gotten no word from the manhattan da s office of any timing of a poe tpgsal indictment. if he is indicted the trumped team would be notified and likely negotiate any surrender and court appearance. the former president has been pushing his team to get the base riled up over the idea of a possible indictment because he believes it would help him politic
major disruption in ukraine this morning after russia fires a wave of missiles on targets across that country. the at least 22 people have been killed. dozens more are injured after several apartment buildings were hit. cnn s team has made it inside of one of the bombed out buildings. we will take you there live. incredible video out of florida. a huge tornado wiped out dozens of homes overnight, and now millions of people are bracing for more severe weather as two major storms are targeting that region. a big win for abortion rights in two republican-dominated states. failing, and failing, because a handful of conservatives helped to stop them. that and more news is coming in for cnn news central. the death toll keeps rising this morning hours after a russian cruise missile hit an apartment building in southern ukraine. one woman who lives there documented the aftermath. we will share the video with you, but it is graphic, and it will be disturbing to watch. tran
he now has obliged and will make some remarks. let s go to caitlyn polanz. the former president can clear up a lot of these accusations. he has a documented inventory of what was taken from his home on monday as part of this search. and he thus far has decided not to disclose that. that s right. really we have heard mostly the trump team, his lawyers, himself trying to fill in the blanks about why they believe there was this search of mar-a-lago. we ve done our best to report out, but we are able to say there are national security concerns, there were concerns that the people at mar-a-lago weren t being entirely forthcoming about what was there, that there was a need to go back in after a subpoena with this search to get boxes. but i wanted to highlight one of the things that director wray said in this letter, he said when all the facts come out, we stuck to the process, and the process here, that is a process that s in court. so the reason that trump is able to go out ther