political reasons. key player in the trump hush money probe just met with the manhattan grand jury investigating the former president. appearance at court monday, shrouded in secrecy corroborate a lot of what michael cohen said, and it also could be a very strong response to castelo. people are pleading with the prosecutor. don t do it. don t do it because i didn t do anything wrong. in france demonstrators continuing to protest the government s move to raise the retirement age. many of them entered an airport in southwest france just a short while ago setting off smoke bombs. authorities say around 13,000 police officers will be deployed across the country of european countries, people are feeling the pinch economically. paltrow s accuser took the stand in that skate collision trial hit in my back so hard, never been hit that hard describing a very different version of events thanks to her, i said, you skied
reporting. we want to get some news just into the cnn newsroom and update from manhattan on that new york grand jury that s looking into former president donald trump s alleged role in that hush money scheme. cnn s kara scannell joins us now, so what more are you learning? well boris indiana s sources tell my colleague lauren duvalier that the grand jury hearing this testimony about the hush money probe will not be meeting again this week. so the next time that they will take up but not be hearing evidence on the trump related case this week. the next time they will take that up will be monday. the grand jury, which normally meets mondays, wednesdays and thursdays, we know they were in yesterday they heard from david packer, the former chairman of the national enquirer. they re not meeting on wednesday and they will be in on thursday, but they won t be hearing any trump related investigations, so the next time that there will be an opportunity for them to either here additional evidenc
expected to continue its investigation into former u. s. president donald trump. they re looking into whether trump falsified business records to cover up hush payments for an alleged affair with an adult film star trump took to social media to lay into manhattan district attorney alvin bragg, the man leading the hush money probe. and so did other republican lawmakers. we re sick and tired of meddling in federal elections, and i don t believe that bragg would be doing this. if donald trump were not running for president, and that s something that we would like to ask mr bragg as well. would you be doing this if he weren t a declared candidate for president for president, knighted states? if so, if this is the reason you re doing then this is a political investigation, and we again desperately want to keep ah, you know, the department of justice from meddling in presidential elections. trump railed against his legal battles at a rally over the weekend,
stop them, and we must not allow them. to go through another election, where they have yet another. tool in their tool kit. trump took to social media to lay into manhattan district attorney alvin bragg. the man leading the hush money probe, the former president claimed brags office was in complete disarray and that quote potential death and destruction would follow. if there s an indictment, trump s attorney quickly went into damage control. here s what he told nbc. i m not his social media consultant. um i don t. i think that was an ill advised post that one of his social media people put up and he quickly took down when he realized the rhetoric and the photo that was attached to it. michael genovese is a political analyst and president of the global policy institute at loyola marymount. and he joins me now from los angeles. always great to have you with us. thank you so much. rosemary so donald trump held his first official rally sunday
investigations he is facing, including that one in new york where there is a potential indictment. take a listen the district attorney of new york under the auspices and direction of the department of injustice in washington, d c. was investigating me for something that is not a crime, not a misdemeanor, not an affair. in recent days, those investigations have seemed to escalate in addition to the investigation in new york, that potential indictment in that hush money probe we ve also seen former president trump s personal defense attorney evan corcoran. be made to appear before a federal grand jury in that mar-a-lago documents case. we also know that a federal judge has now ordered several of trump s former aides, including mark meadows, is former chief of staff to testify in the special counsel s investigation into january six. but i will tell you we spoke to dozens of people who were there to see donald trump