their own extremists into saying they wouldn t do that. now, this is a big story tonight with a real twist. the president is drawing an treatment on that very important from an unlikely source. donald trump himself who is, of course, running against biden right now, running to be president again. but trump is, as politico reports, tying the entire gop in knots by pushing back on something pretty straightforward, the obviously unpopular plan to cut medicare and social security that some conservatives want. now, that s the view from a candidate, while new reporting shows that veterans in the trump administration are part of the possible push to get medicaid or health care funding slashed. now, in the house republicans have some leverage. they narrowly took the majority there. but democrats see this debate going their way. they re relying on a new magic budget word, that word is woke. call everything woke, and then try to cut its funding seems to be the strategy. housing, wo
by the chair, which will be its centrepiece. nicholas witchell, bbc news, westminster abbey. time for a look at the weather. here s darren bett. chilly today but there is colder weather on the way as we head into next week. today is the first day of meteorological spring, it s also st david s day and it s been pretty cloudy. the cloud is thick enough to give us more showers around today. still got high pressure close by so the really wet weather is being deflected into southern parts of europe. that s the storm that brought all of the rain we saw in majorca, that s moving away. just to the north of that there is clear skies. it looks like we will tap into some of that tonight and tomorrow, so may be some changes on the way. today the winds are coming in from off the north sea, picking up in from off the north sea, picking up a lot of cloud. that s pushing our way. the best sunshine in western scotland. the cloud still ringing quite a peppering of showers in those temperatures
morning as katie silver and she has been looking into this story for us and joins us on the programme live. it was great to get you on the show. what is your sense of the key things they re hoping to discuss and achieve at this meeting? figs discuss and achieve at this meeting? discuss and achieve at this meetinu? a ., meeting? as you said, at the to of meeting? as you said, at the tap of the meeting? as you said, at the top of the agenda meeting? as you said, at the top of the agenda is - meeting? as you said, at the top of the agenda is china. . meeting? as you said, at the | top of the agenda is china. we have seen it already. we heard, for example, last night there was a working dinner to kick off this three day event and by video link we heard from the top foreign policy chief of the eu, the high representative josep borrell. he is basically called on leaders of the g7 to put china and particularly its behaviour when it comes to taiwan as the major focus that they
top of the hour here in the cnn newsroom. thanks for joining us. i m erica hill. i m jim sciutto. happening now, attorney general merrick garland on capitol hill to testify before the jen at judiciary committee for the first time here. you see senators cruz and holly. he is expected to be hit with a wide range of questions including allegations from republicans as they said that the justice department is being weaponized against conservatives as well as updates into investigations into trump and biden and we ll take you there live as it happens. the annual cpac conference happens today as we get new cnn reporting about what trump s allies are doing to get house republicans in his corner. for 2024, not all of them are there. sdwloo also ahead, closing arguments are expected to begin today in the double murder trial of disgraced former lawyer alex murdaugh. jurors in that case at the crime scene at this hour. we will take you live to south carolina. let s begin this hour with
busy news day. hi everyone. i m jessica dean and this morning new details surrounding the indictment of former president donald trump, the first former u. s president to face an indictment on criminal charges cnn has learned. trump is expected to appear in a manhattan court tuesday. sources say. that s when he said to be arraigned. this is quite a day. quite a moment in u. s political history. donald trump, former president and current candidate for president in 2024. is facing. we re told more than 30 counts related specifically to business fraud. if convicted, trump could be sentenced to a maximum of four years in prison, though no legal experts believe that s likely all of this connected to his alleged role in a hush money payments scheme and cover up involving the adult film star stormy daniels overnight, his attorney, joe tacopina, says the former president is quote ready to fight. we re on this notable day our reporters, correspondents and guests all standing by to b