. . . . you were in the cnn newsroom paula read in washington, jim acosta is off. we begin with the latest emergency act aimed at a time global banking crisis, switzerland ubs is buying the rival credit suisse after the bank lost 25% of value the past week as major depositors fled in droves. even as an emergency loan from the swiss national bank failed to shore up confidence. that bank says the take-over of ubs should, quote, secure financial stability and protect the swiss economy. joining us is cnn economics and political commentator catherine, first i want to go cnn anna stewart. put this in perspective, how big of an announcement is this. this was for the time one of the biggest banks in the world and definitely a major bank in europe. being in the midst of a huge set of restructure the last couple of years, it was already under pressure and you ve seen the pressures on the banking sector with silicon valley bank, you can say it was a weak link started to debuckl
it was just to make brag. think twice before indicting a former president. trump even posted this on a social media site, making it look like he s raising a baseball bat against bragg. he also called him an animal. that post was later deleted. on friday, a law enforcement source told cnn that bragg had been threatened with assassination in a letter containing nonhazardous white powder it s a lot to process let me try and sort it out. remember signs initially pointed to the first trump indictment, possibly coming out of georgia, where fulton county d. a. fani willis is investigating his attempts to overturn the 2020 election there. and then it seemed that was going to be lapped by bragg and the hush money case. by the end of the week brag seemed to be slow walking. special counsel jack smith began to sprint. smith was appointed by merrick garland to look both at trump s role in the january 6th case and his handling of classified documents at mara lago. he scored two major vict
That question and a moment and look at this headline from the new york times, Quote Will A Mountain of evidence be enough to convict trump . Is there a mountain of evidence in this case . One of the former president s Attorneys Is Standing by and we will talk to map out he sees Day One and where this goes from here but first a Correspondent Nate Feuer reporting from that courthouse. During opening statements lawyers for former President Donald Trump said he is innocent and that the Manhattan Da Alvin Bragg should never have brought this case whereas prosecutors argue that trump engaged in a criminal Conspiracy And Coverup leading up to the 2016 president ial election. First witness called is david packer, the former ceo of American Media which published the national enquirer. Prosecutors allege trump used his former lawyer Michael Cohen to suppress damaging stories
Speaking to that judge and Manhattan Da Alvin Bragg who attended court in person today. Trump will again be here in person as is inquired for every day of his trial. Martha thank you very much nate. A lawyer for former President Trump is also a republican candidate for Missouri Attorney general. Good to have you here today. Great to be with you. Thank you for having me. Martha lets start with this. This is the reaction over at cnn with regard to what we just heard from the former president that this is all the former president saying this all came from the White House and this is all election oriented to keep him off of the trail and heres what their analyst said. Watch this. We keep hearing this claim from Donald Trump that this and all prosecutions are product of joe bidens White House. We have said and i will say again that is false in here its demonstrably false. Martha what do you say to that sir
arraignment. he and manhattan da alvin brag gear up for the start of a trial already being played out in the court of public opinion let s go to ivan joining u from west palm beach i mar-a-lago let s talk about what donald trump has been up to today and what happens on tuesday. right, we have no officia major plans from donald trum here for this weekend. that is until he is set to fly from a palm beach internationa airport to laguardia airport just outside of new york cit on monday evening. we are about 48 hours from tha taking place what we do know is that he i presently at his golf club trump international golf club, just a few miles from where we are here in west palm beac florida. our friend, our colleague, our mr. everything gary is currently shooting some videos as you can see right there o the couple dozen supporters. he said that there are signs from folks, one sign