one donald j. trump. the new york times is reporting that prosecutors in the manhattan district attorney s office are signaling that criminal charges for the former president are likely to come for his role in the hush money payments to porn star stormy daniels. the times reports the prosecutors offered mr. trump the chance to testify next week before the grand jury that has been hearing evidence in the potential case according to four people with knowledge of the matter. such offers almost always indicate an indictment is close. it would be unusual for the district attorney, alvin bragg, to notify a potential defendant without ultimately seeking charges against him. the manhattan district attorney s office has declined to comment. now, if those charges are made, it would be the first indictment of a former united states president and the first time that trump, who has faced numerous criminal investigations, would be charged with a crime. as you may remember, that $130,000
hi, boris. i m amara walker. you are in the cnn newsroom. we begin with the investigation into the hush money scheme involving former president trump and adult porn star stormy daniels. trump taking to truth social saying he expected to be arrested on tuesday and is calling on his supporters to protest. an indictment has been happening soon and he has been preparing for the next steps. kaitlan, we will begin with you. what are you learning from trump s team in regards to the potential indictment? donald trump is out there doing what he does. he is making public statements saying he expects to be indicted on tuesday by the new york d.a., but that as far as we can tell, as far as the reporting coming in from our large team of reporters working on this, that s political posturing. it is not based on anything that the trump team has learned at this point that there has been an indictment returned or even that there would be an indictment returned on tuesday. boris and amara
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jacqui heinrich. griff: it s great to be with you, i m griff jenkins. the balloon sighting dashing an attempt by the biden administration to ease u.s.-china tensions, with antony blinken calling off his trip to beijing. and we have coverage in london alexandria hoff in washington and let s start off. earlier some say the chinese balloon should have been shot down when this first crossed over alaska. we could have shot it down over open water, over dense, sparse parts of alaska and should it shot it down then. it leads me to believe that possibly a political decision was made by the white house not to do so for fear of interrupting the relationship with china. that s troubling if that it indeed the case. here at the white house, president biden only wanted to talk about the strong jobs report not that chinese sp, whe will you remove the balloon? when and how will you remove the balloon, mr. president? the chinese spy balloon had been spotted over charlotte, north carol
five now-fired memphis officers are facing charges of second-degree murder, aggravated assault, kidnapping, misconduct, and oppression. we will go to memphis in moments where steve harrigan is standing by. first we turn to fox news chief breaking news correspondent trace gallagher. trace, what more have we learned about what happened that night? shannon, the video covers two separate scenes, but the first scene, the video picks up right before tyre nichols was pulled over for reckless driving. the thing is, we don t see any evidence of reckless driving or erratic driving. if police officers somehow fear that tyre nichols is posing a threat, the officers appear to violate protocol, which is to protect themselves and ask him to exit the vehicle. instead they go right up to the car, they pull him out, and immediately try to push into the ground. in the process, nichols is apparently pepper sprayed with some of the spray getting into the eyes of the officers on the scene, and t