. former president donald j. trump has beenrand jury investig hush money payments to adult film star stormy daniels. it is the first time in american history that a current or former president is facing criminal charges, and cnn is now learning that trump is expected to be arraigned. early next week. now the grand jury has been hearing evidence and witness testimony related to $130,000 that trump s former fixer, michael cohen, paid stormy daniels before the 2016 election. that money was paid in exchange for her silence about an alleged affair she had with trump now source telling cnn and this is really important information. we re just getting that trump was completely caught off guard that right now he s in florida at a mar-a-lago that he had been caught off guard and that he thought that this was sort of. maybe maybe over. maybe bragg had gotten cold feet, so he suddenly released a statement after this news broke, saying, quote. this is this is in part. it s a longer statem
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new report found that biden shi green energy policies are secur endangering our national securityand and increasing america s reliance on china for critical raw materialsr ad and still, biden is forging ahead on a radical proposal to crack down on gasd cars powered cars with insane new environmental regulations. meanwhile, a new report froms. n nbc news found that china did, in fact, gather sensitive intelligence from the spy balloon that it piloted over nuclear sites and military installations in the continental united states. china was able to controll th the balloon so it could make sis multiple passes over some of the sites at times flying figure eight formations. an that s my favorite. the red transmit the information collected back to beijing in c real time. of course, it ourse it.d keep ir biden refused to shoot downe the balloon for more thane co a week when it was not over. in the the continental united states and in the middle east. afterof p two yearslaca of pg i
wall street journal, was detained in a small town just east of moscow. the wall street journal strongly defending their reporter. the kremlin says he was quote caught red handed, but refuses to provide any more details. its track record on this sort of thing. does not inspire confidence ahead. we will have the latest from russia plus overnight, the army says. several people have now been killed this after two blackhawk helicopters crashed near fort campbell will be on the ground there in kentucky. also right now homes are evacuated in raymond, minnesota, after a train carrying ethanol derailed early this morning. we ve got new details for you on that. we re also keeping an eye on the vatican as pope francis is in the hospital undergoing treatment for a respiratory infection ahead. we ll have an update on his condition. but we begin this morning with that alarming headline out of russia . american journalist herskovitz is right now in russian custody after the wall street jour
you understand what it s actually worth. then they auction it to their network of professional buyers. get more for your jewelry with worthy .com bill. we re in antarctica and this is cnn. it is the top of the hour and you are live in the cnn newsroom onboard. sanchez and bianna golodryga new developments in last night s deadly military helicopter crash near fort campbell, kentucky, were nine service members were killed, officials say two black hawk choppers crashed over wooded field during a routine training mission. the service members were aboard an hh 60 helicopter and belong to the 101st airborne division. the officials say they are still notifying next of kin and that an army investigation team is en route to the scene. pentagon press secretary karine jean pierre said there are no immediate plans to ground military aircraft, but added this about the dangers of military exercises. when it comes to military training. we re always going to try to take into account mitigati