Speaking out for the first time. Why . This is not a normal election in any way. Certainly not one defined by policy debate. In one fell swoop, Donald Trump laid the groundwork to dispute the 2024 election just as did he in 2020. He threatened mass arrests of election officials, political opponents and critics and it landed like a Thunder Clap in the Saturday Night truth social post. It read in part, quote, when i win, those people that cheated will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Which will include longterm Prison Sentences so that this depravity of justice does not happen again. Please beware that this legal exposure extends to lawyers, political operatives, donors, illegal voters and corrupt election officials. Those involved in Inscrupulous Behavior will be sought out and caught and prosecuted at levels unfortunately never seen before in our country. And now you should know it includes a lot of nonsensical caps. A couple of long words that make me wonder who wrote i
has now issued an arrest warrant for vladimir putin. prosecutors accuse putin and another official of illegally deporting ukrainian children to russia. we expect to hear from president biden perhaps reacting to this at any moment but first cnn s ivan watson is in kharkiv, ukraine and nic robertson is in london. ivan, walk us through exactly what the icc is alleging here. reporter: they re issuing arrest warrants for none less than the russian president himself, vladimir putin, accusing him of alleged war crimes for what they say is the illegal abduction of ukrainian children, forcibly deporting them to russian territory. they ve also issued an arrest warrant for a russian government official, and she is kind of the children s right official in the russian government. she has already issued a statement. the kremlin have already issued statements basically calling this these arrest warrants null and void, saying that moscow is not a signatory to the rome statute, that they
sidner in new york. this is cnn this morning. kaitlan collins is anchoring live in warsaw, poland. she has some new reporting. let s cabibegin with you, what you hearing? obviously, we are learning details about the details, what happened behind this visit. how the white house is planning this. it was obviously kept secret until president biden was on the ground. he was actually on the ground for some time before we had the white house confirm that he was there, but we re learning that it was months of planning that actually went into this. only a handful of aides from different agencies that were involved in this. obviously, they wanted to keep it an incredibly close hold, because it is such a sensitive visit. what we re learning from the white house is that it was last friday when president biden made the final decision that yes, he was going to be going into this active war zone, right around the anniversary of russia s invasion of ukraine. that s when he decided to go.
theest eastern city of dnipro and zaporizhzhia as well. officials say at least five people have been killed, at least 12 injured. we re still waiting for more numbers on that. video here, this is a pedestrian bridge in kyiv, a nearby strike damaging it with this explosion here. a missile also hit a children s playground. you can see the crater that it left here. the mayor of kyiv is warning people to shelter in place. this morning the russian president, vladimir putin, held a national security council meeting after accusing ukraine of carrying out a terror attack that damaged that bridge that links russia and russian occupied crimea. take a listen. translator: we have no doubt that this is a terrorist attack aimed at the destruction of the critical infrastructure of the russian federation. and authors, executors and master minds are the secret service of ukraine. ukrainian officials have not claimed responsibility. meanwhile, there is growing concern that russia is gear
it s the top of the hour on cnn newsroom. i m alisyn camerota. i m victor blackwell. today the attorney general accused donald trump, his family and organization of a pattern of fraud and deception that was, her word, astounding. letitia james is suing the former president for $250 million, alleging fraud that spanned years before he entered the white house. also named in the suit, three of trump s adult children and two executives of the trump organization. they re all accused of inflating or deflating assets for their gain. over the course of our investigation we found that mr. trump, his children, the trump organization, created and used more than 200 false and misleading asset valuations on a statement of financial condition over that ten-year period. here s just one case cited in the 200 plus page lawsuit. ag james said trump claimed his florida estate was worth $739 million, when it was only worth $75 million. now she is not only demanding a quarter billion doll