welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world, i m christine romans. secretary of state antony blinken meeting face-to-face right now with chinese president xi jinping in beijing. the high stakes one-on-one is part of blinken s efforts to meet with china s top diplomat. an effort to lower the temperature amid rising tensions between the u.s. and china. cnn s kylie atwood in beijing this morning. just the fact that their meeting is a huge meeting, kylie, we learned 90 minutes ago their meeting was a go. what do we know about it? reporter: that s right, it s here in beijing, the secretary of state who is the first cabinet member to visit china from biden administration in 2 1/2 years. sitting down with president xi, we don t know much about the meeting because it s so ongoing. here s what we do know, there have been a number of hours that the secretary has engaged with chinese officials over the course of the last days in beijing. spending more than five ho
hour near the site of the sunken titanic. the lead starts right now. an under water expedition to see the wreckage of the titanic is now a race to find and save the tourists and crew members on board the vessel. the mission is ramping up to prevent a second tragedy at that site. plus, super powers meeting. antony blinken reports back progress after a high stakes talk with china. the areas of success and the one major point of lingering contention coming up. and the judge s order that restricts what donald trump can and cannot reveal about his federal indictment. but will the former president obey the judge? welcome to the lead, i m jake tapperment and we start with the world lead. a submersible that takes paying customers to see the wreckage of the titanic in the depth of the north atlantic ocean, it is missing at this hour. the u.s. coast guard said five people are on board. and now a frantic search and rescue operation is underway. coast guard units from ang lo
Done yet, and it will be a major battle to get all parties to agree to this deal. Not the least of which would be israeli Prime Minister benjamin yahoo, aaron korsh has been staunchly opposed. All right. Thank you very much. Kylie atwood in beijing tonight and thanks so much to all of you for being with us anderson starts now good, evening welcome to our continuing special prompt time covers the fastmoving trump Hush Money Trial date eight saw three witnesses testify. Former National Enquirer publisher david pecker, wrapping up a week on the stand, former trump personal assistant or rhona graff seemingly undermining the former president is denial about faris has Stormy Daniels and Karen Mcdougal and a former executive of the bank or Michael Cohen arrange the, uh, hundred and 30,000 daniels payout . Were on a graph under defense crossexamination in meetings, she was not testifying by choice, but nonetheless, telling prosecutors that she kept Contact Information for the two women her bos
Obsessed with this . One individual and taylor swift at the center of a wild Conspiracy Theory is spreading like wildfire among its Trump Supporters Special Report ahead. Lets go out, find and good evening. Im erin burnett and outfront tonight, the Breaking News, Stormy Daniels and trump tower, trumps longtime assistant on the stand late today. She said she saw Stormy Daniels and trump tower, and she testified that she maintained contacts for both Stormy Daniels and Karen Mcdougal for donald trump. Trumps longtime gatekeeper, rhona graff, was in many ways, trumps righthand for 34 years. And this moment on The Apprentice accurately captures her central role in organizing trumps personal and professional life he asked me to call you and tell you to meet him tomorrow morning at the New York Stock Exchange . I can tell you as a reporter, if you needed to reach trump, he called graff anytime i was at trump tower to see trump when i was a Business Reporter or on The Apprentice, she was there
Earlier. The defense tried hard to undermine former National Enquirer publisher david pecker and upcoming witness, Michael Cohen. Trumps attorney, emil bove, a asking if he believed cohen was prone to exaggeration, pecker agreeing that he was the end of it all, the former president had this to say about the trials so far this is eight days that we all sitting in this courthouse. This is all bidenrun indictment its an order to try and win election political opponent nothing like this has ever happened eight days country is going to hell and we sit here day after, day after day, which is their plan well, the foreign president offer no evidence. Of course, who any of those claims. Theres no evidence that any of what he said is true. And im joining us tonight, new york criminal defense attorney arthur aidala, also attorney and former apprentice contestant stacey schneider, cnn Political Commentator earl lewis cnn legal analyst lets karen friedman, agnifilo and elie honig and cnns Kara Scan