legal adviser to trump attorney michael cohen is expected to testify before a new york grand jury and michael cohen has said he s been called as a potential rebuttal witness to costello. that grand jury could issue an indictment or indictments against former president donald trump any day now and trump has called for protests if that happens. we are outside the new york city courthouse watching for the arrival of witnesses this morning. plus, we re also keeping a very close eye on u.s. markets this hour, futures in the green, that s a good thing, but this is after switzerland s largest bank scooped up its rival credit suisse in an emergency rescue deal. plus chinese president xi jinping in moscow at this hour, set to meet with russian president vladimir putin. a closer look at what that means as putin is facing an international arrest warrant for alleged war crimes. we will get to all of that but we begin this hour with kara scannell who is outside the courthouse here i
jordan and saudi arabia have denounced israel for what happened, the jordanian foreign minister, saying the world must clearly condemned the attack. shortly after the raid rockets were fired from gaza into israel , the militant group hamas, saying israel s actions in jerusalem wouldn t go unanswered. the israeli military said it had struck hamas weapons sites in gaza in response. and the u. s officer. palestinian affairs says that violence has no place in a holy site and during the holy season calling for restraint and de escalation , guys, there s a lot of concern. this will spiral even further in just the last few minutes. the idea of says two more rockets were actually attempted fire from gaza into israel. they didn t cross the border. but as we speak, we can say that it is calm at the al aqsa mosque compound where islamic authorities say 20,000 worshippers. are praying at this very moment, guys. i had asked gold. appreciate it. thank you. this is cnn breaking news. it is
dramatically reduces redness in one minute. look at the difference, eyes brighter and whiter eight hours. it was love at first sight with efi. see for yourself. good afternoon. i m erica hill. thanks for joining us in the cnn newsroom and i m bianna golodryga, a major display today of democratic solidarity in china is watching it all right now in the outskirts of los angeles, taiwan s president, sighing wind is meeting with house speaker kevin mccarthy and other bipartisan leaders. it comes as taipei s relations with china steadily crumble and us chinese tensions continually rise over aggressive spying in beijing support for russia. but the u. s. does remain steadfast in its support for the tiny island nation next hour. we do expect, speaker mccarthy and president said to deliver joint statements from the reagan presidential library, and we will bring those to you live, joining us now. cnn s senior international correspondent, will ripley, who was in taipei and cnn chief whit
what could amount to decades in prison. it includes election law forgery, these are prominent republicans, current and former officials. school board member, a mayor, and now they re all facing these charges. might be others in arizona in georgia. might be more to come. jessica, thank. you speaking of charges, more broadly, i want to know what some of the possible ones that trump might actually face if, and of course if, he is indicted. norm eisen is back with us right now. norm, we ve talked about is a great deal. what other potential charges that he might be facing? and others could actually face. i want to walk through them a little bit. you broke it down into four categories. and one of them is the obstruction of an official proceeding. talking about certification. this is the culmination of the events that started after the 2020 election, and ended on january 6th. different ways that prosecutors, in that target letter that
right, to your point, we have seen trump being treated differently than other criminal defendants in the separate mar-a-lago investigation, we saw prosecutors they don t even request detention for him. they didn t seek to take his passport. they didn t put any restriction on his release. that s different. that s because jack smith and attorney general garland are very cognizant that no matter what they do it s going to be subject to attack by the right. that s exactly what we re seeing. we saw the fbi director on the hill last week, it s all all one long. that s right. it was about six or seven hours of just attacks from republicans about politically -charged investigations, and specifically, how they re treating president trump. on that point, is there something that s a winning campaign message or platform? the weaponization of the government has become as