From china . Its a bit like cotton. Producing 90 of cotton. In so its a very High Percentage its a very high risk that anything related from china is implicated. One strategy or the strategy to go for draw out its staff were citizens before the violence began. The United States cannot be blindsided like this. I want to understand what is being done to prevent this in the future. Now, i realize that if the views of some ends up being the reality, our ability to predict and prepare for situations like we are seeing in sudan will be dramatically affected of the potential cuts that are being talked about in discretionary domestic spending. Everything we do at the state departments domestic discretionary spending. So i dont know how we are going to get better with less. Undersecretary newland, i want to hear a clear articulation of our short, medium and long term goals in sudan and the horn of africa. As well as the administrations strategy for achieving them now that we dont have any diplo
we are following breaking news this hour. a verdict has been reached in the seditious conspiracy trial against five members of the proud boys. this trial really considered the center piece, the marquee of the prosecutions brought by the justice department surrounding the actions leading up to and on january 6th. cnn s katelyn polantz is outside the courthouse. she s joining me once again. katelyn, what s the latest you re hearing from inside the room? reporter: kate, we really are moments away from knowing what the result of this long, long trial, this long prosecution by the justice department is at this moment in time the jury is reading the verdicts that they have reached in the courtroom. we have a team watching this right now. and what is happening here, what is at stake here is that this is the case against the five leaders of the proud boys, people that the justice department have accused of not just wanting to have a war against the u.s. government after the 2020 el
donald trump in jail since 2015. today, democrats have gotten them closer to that goal. let s be very clear, the white house is the key player in the game of political vengeance. joe biden bears the ultimate responsibility for what this will do to america. our nation s chief executive has the inherent duty to do everything he or she can to preserve america s standing in the world as the world s leading democracy. that means whether through back channels or public speeches, biden should have made it clear that his party would oppose any local prosecutor who uses trumped up criminal charges to punish and humiliate a former president. of course, biden didn t do this. instead, he bowed to far left which has been salivating over the prosecute of trump in a mugshot for years. a lot of democrats spouting off saying they think trump should go to jail. president trump could end up being prosecuted. once he become a civilian, donald trump may have to go to court and could go to j
. 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
new york grand jury has voted to indict the former president of the united states. donald trump. this is the first time in us history the first time in us history that criminal charges have been filed against anyone who has served as president of the united states. the charges coming after the investigation of hush money paid to former adult film star stormy daniels to cover up her alleged affair with trump. this has huge implications not only for trump but also for the nation as the former president makes another run for the white house right now, our correspondents, analysts and contributors are all standing by as we cover this breaking story and what comes next paris canal is on the scene for us. let s go to your first year there in new york. you re watching all of this unfold. tell our viewers what else you re learning. well, that s right. we learned that in manhattan grand jury has returned an indictment against former president donald trump. as you said, the first time