protests. we ll look at the security preparations that might go into such an unprecedented moment. plus vladimir putin makes a surprise visit to ukraine, his first since the war began just a day after the international criminal court issued an arrest warrant for his war crimes. and another upset in march madness, officially sets countless hopes and dreams of a perfect bracket on fire. cnn sports coy wire joins me live to break down the ncaa tournament. announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. we begin this hour in the u.s. where former president donald trump is trying to rile up his base as he faces a possible indictment in new york. the drama began saturday when trump declared on saturday that he would be arrested on tuesday and just as he did before the 2021 insurrection, the former president urged supporters to protest and quote, take our nation back. hours later, trump also used the potential indictment to motivate donors to d
the judge considers bail for the suspect leaks case. why prosecutors say he is a flight risk. and reports of fighting in khartoum, despite new cease-fires. foreign citizens rushed to evacuate. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. a former vice president compelled to testify about his direct conversations with the president he served. that s a situation mike pence found himself in on thursday before a grand jury in washington former vice president testified before a federal grand jury for more than five hours. that testimony would have been about what happened after the trump the president at the time, at a time when donald trump was pressuring him to overturn the vote. hints pence refused to do so. pence has also spoke about this conversation publicly. he s right about them in his book. the on a tour of really regularly. whenever before as an investigation, as a grand jury and have prosecutors gotten pence under oath to reveal
running. former president trump vows to continue his campaign even if indictments are handed down. a reality check from a former doj prosecutor. a live report from ohio as federal investigators head to a town only 200 miles from east palestine where another norfolk southern train derailed over the weekend. and good day. i m andrea mitchell in washington. the republican presidential race heating up 11 months ahead of the first primary contest. former maryland moderate republican governor larry hogan deciding not to run for fear of dividing the anti-trump vote he said, as other potential candidates avoid challenging mr. trump and his maga loyalists, who turned out for the cpac forum to hear the former president this weekend. i am your warrior. i am your justice, and for those who i ve been wronged and betrayed, i am your retribution. i am your retribution. i m not going to let this happen. and joining me now, vaughn hillyard who was at the cpac forum, national polit
american mainstream. i m talking about main street americans in their millions. they come in all sizes, shapes and colors. blue collar workers, blacks, hispanics, shoe keepers, scholars, service people, housewives and professional men and women, they re the backbone of america. we can t move america without moving their hearts and minds, as well. they want all electric stoves all over the country. but we don t have the electric power for that. we want electric stoves, but we also want gas stoves. it s april fools . why do they want that? cpac then and now. the conservative conference has shifted in recent years to grievance politics. those two speeches 41 years apart. now, led by former president donald trump who delivered a dark speech, telling a sparse crowd at cpac, quote, i am your retribution. we ll have more of his remarks and what they mean for the 2024 presidential race just ahead. plus, we ll get a live report from springfield, ohio, where another norfolk south
good to be with you, i m katy tur. anything you can do, i can do better. that is the message ron desantis, not so subtly sent to donald trump at the reagan library this weekend. it s been four years, you didn t see our administration leaking like a sieve. you didn t see a lot of drama or palace intrigue. what you saw was surgical precision, execution. day after day after day. and because we did that, we beat the left day after day after day. it is also the message he will be sending to republican voters in iowa and nevada this week, and new hampshire in the coming weeks. if you like the trump policies but got tired of the trump drama, i am your man. that is, of course, if he decides to run, which, by the way by the look of that calendar, iowa, new hampshire, seems like a sure thing. the message is also intended to antagonize liberals. when the world went mad, when common sense suddenly became an uncommon virtue. florida stood as a refuge of sanity, a citadel of freedo