and 30, others wounded when a bomb exploded in a cafe and st petersburg today we are now hearing from russian state media that the explosive device may have been hidden inside a figurine presented to the blogger. the dead blogger had more than half a million followers on his pro military blog, where he aggressively supported the war in ukraine yet openly criticized the setbacks. russian troops face there. let s get right to cnn s matthew chance in moscow. matthew was this looking like a targeted attack. i mean, you ve got to be thinking that way, haven t you, given the circumstances that are being set out by the investigators and the eyewitnesses that are speaking to russian state media, saying that basically this character, this pro war military blogger who was the guest speaker at an event packed with other supporters of the war in ukraine was basically given a statue figurine, a little statuettes by somebody in the crowd. who was supporter of his supposedly and shortly aft
surrender and appear in court on tuesday afternoon. he reportedly faces more than 30 charges related to hush money payments made to adult film store. stormy daniels. it is impossible to imagine all the scenarios manhattan law enforcement officials are gaming out right now, given what happened on january 6th given that trump has again called for protests this coming tuesday and given that supporters like republican congresswoman marjorie taylor green are tweeting things like this new york put your maga hats on under our constitutional rights. we will support president trump. and protest the tyrants. i ll see you on tuesday . cnn s polo sandoval joins us now, with more on the extraordinary measures going on outside the new york city courthouse in lower manhattan. polo uh, that s a that s a cocktail of a lot of different things coming together on tuesday. you re going to be busy following all of this. what are you seeing right now? certainly all eyes will be on the building is t