offers almost always indicate an indictment is close. the investigation you may recall centers on $130,000 that one time fixer michael cohen paid to buy the silence of stormy daniels near the end of the 2016 campaign. cohen was later reimbursed by the former president. according to the times he s yet to testify but is expected to. joining us now with more cnn s kara skinell. what are the details you ve learned? the new york times is reporting donald trump was offered to appear before the new york grand jury investigating on this hush money payment scheme. that is required under the law when there s a criminal investigation. that step certainly indicates and tells us this investigation is wrapping up. and that s also evident by the parade of witnesses met with prosecutors and appeared before the grand jury. we reported yesterday kelly anne conway met with manhattan prosecutors, hope hicks had also been in as well as executives at the trump organization. michael cohen had
forces working against him and his allies. concerns are mounting that we could see more than mere spikes of violence as we near the midterm elections. a motley crop of trump acolytes are running on the ticket in states across the country. it includes, and this is by no means a comprehensive list, election deniers, covid vaccine skeptics, a celebrity doctor pedaling quack medical cures and a former football star under fire for allegedly paying for a girlfriend s abortion while advocating for a near total ban on abortion. this is one of the great tricks that i think the sexual revolution pulled on the american populous, this idea, okay, these marriages were fundamental, you know, they were maybe even violent but certainly they were unhappy. and so getting rid of them and making it easier for people to shift spouses like they change their underwear, that s going to make people happy in the long term. 250,000 illegals cross this boarder every month. this is an invasion. i p
month. yes, according to our information, we are recording war crimes in almost every village, he says. this, the body of one of two civilians killed in late february. an early victim of the invasion and evidence now of what six continuing here in eastern kharkiv, even as you saw there the fight continues and bitterly for the ukrainian forces trying to regain ground, john. melissa bell for us in kharkiv. a remarkable turn around, we ll be following that all morning. new day special coverage continues right now. good morning, everyone, to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m don lemon in edinburgh, scotland. a so let solemn day ahead in th united kingdom as they embrace their new king. king charles iii addressing parliament a few moments ago saying he feels the weight of history. listen. as i stand before you today, i cannot help but feel the weight of history which surrounds us and which reminds us of the vital parliamentary traditions to which
leave the white house. this is a fraud on the american public. this is an embarrassment to our country. we were getting ready to win this election. frankly, we did win this election. haberman s book, confidence man the making of donald trump and the breaking of america reports trump told one aide, quote, i m just not going to leave. and saying to another, quote, we re never leaving how can you leave when you won an election. trump s insistence he would not leave the white house has never been reported and shines a light on the final days of his administration. haberman writes of a shift in his comments. in the immediate aftermath of the 2020 election trump seemed to recognize the loss. he comforted one adviser saying we did our best and telling junior press aides i thought we had it. seemingly almost embarrassed by the outcome. if they do elect president
january 6th committee subpoenas one time trump adviser peter navarro. a flurry of activity. the question is, where does it lead us? this is going to be a fascinating report when the january 6th committee eventually releases its report. they may do an interim one before the elections happen, but of course have to try to finish it up by the end of the year. they have uncovered a lot of information. they ve talked to hundreds of witnesses. they ve gotten documents from mark meadows to other people in the white house. now we know that there were 15 boxes or so that were in mar-a-lago that donald trump took from the white house, potentially in violation of the presidential records act, reporting suggests some of this was top secret information. does that shed any light into what happened on january 6th? so what new information, of course, do they reveal and what gaps are there? even if they do try to subpoena donald trump s cell phone records, possibly donald trump is going to fight this