supersonic spy drone. china is preparing cutting edge technology that could give beijing and espionage edge over the us this new discovery comes from classified documents leaked online reported in the washington post. lawmakers have plenty of questions understandably and will get a briefing from intelligence officials just hours from now. midnight deadline. the supreme court up against the clock to decide whether to take up a controversial case on medication abortion. this could set the stage for the biggest abortion rights case since the court overturned roe versus wade last year with the future of a commonly used abortion pill at stake. and an innocent mistake leading to two cheerleaders being shot after one of them confused someone else s car for her own. one of those victims is now in critical condition. we re following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news, central. today 21 year old suspected pentagon leaker jack to scherer wa
to start this hour, let s brea down all of the news and how i view the trump indictment. sources familiar with th matter tell nbc news that trum faces around 30 charges of documented fraud connected to hush mone payments that he allegedly mad to cover up fast affairs in th run up to the 2016 election. two sources tell the associate press that it includes at leas one felony offense, and th exact charges at this moment against the ex president are still unknown. because the indictment remains sealed nbc news has now joined coalition of news organization urging that the indictment t be unsealed, citin overwhelming public interest ahead of trump s scheduled arraignment next tuesday that group is also requestin that cameras be allowed inside the courtroom during tuesday s proceedings. according to the new york times, trump and his aides were caugh off guard by the timing of the grand jury indictment which wa made public thursday afternoon thinking that any action was perhaps still
tonight, we are going to giv you the context and th perspective you need t understand how these next fe weeks and months will unfold you are going to hear about th strength of alvin bragg s case against donald trump, an congressman ted lieu wil respond to republican attack on the da. and later, the other massive illegal news from the, week th fox defamation lawsuit lap and guess which programs are o the hit list i m ayman, let s get started to start this hour, let s brea down all of the news and how i view the trump indictment. sources familiar with th matter tell nbc news that trum faces around 30 charges of document fraud connected t hush money payments that h allegedly made it to cover u past affairs in the run up t the 2016 election. two sources tell the associate press that includes at least one felony offense, and th exact charges at this moment against the ex president are still unknown because th indictment remains sealed. nbc news has now joined coalition of a new or
special counsel, launched the recordings. fox spokesperson previously said that grossberg s lawsuits are riddled with false allegations against the network and our employees. we want to get perspective on this and what it means for broader media landscape without tucker carlson in it. david, good to have you on. do you have a sense of how much of a role if any abby grossberg s allegations may have played in tucker carlson s o ouster. is it clear why he was fired? it s not clear why he was fired. i think really this story has such large cultural reverberations for it that we should be careful. we shouldn t say this is why it happened. there s been so much of that, anderson, in the last couple days. and purposely in the piece i wrote for cnn i pulled back from that. but if you look at history, there is some indication here that this culture is still in
a preliminary hearing. they claim she may have exculpatory evidence, in other words, evidence that helps the suspect. it s not clear what that would be. her attorney is pushing back against the subpoena. a former fox news producer who is now suing the network says she has 90 audiotapes that she made while working there. abby grossberg who joined tucker carlson s show after the 2020 election says there was rampant sexism. she spoke out publicly for the first time on msnbc and also shared why she eventually quit. i had really begun to connect the dots that the programming that we were putting on the air every night was not just generating business, but also generating hatred in the audience and after january 6th i had this wake up moment that this is hurting people. people are getting angry and people are acting out on that anger and this is not okay and i don t want to be part of that. a fox spokesperson previously