is now $1.05 billion. that would be the fourth largest prize in mega millions history, and if you land the lotto numbers next drawing on tuesday you can choose a lump sum payment, sure, i ll do that, you get $527 million, a reminder, always, before taxes, and, again, still, a tidy sum no matter how you slice it. i m paula newton. i want to thank you for your company. we ll be back in just a moment with more cnn newsroom. comfort has free hot breakfast for the whole fam. they have waffles! and splendid poooo. cacannonball! book direct at c choicehotels.c.
tuesday night is $1.05 billion, the fourth largest prize in mega millions history. good luck. hello again, everyone. i m fredericka witfield. we begin this hour with the growing legal problems for former president trump. the special counsel is charging trump with three new counts in the classified documents investigation. those charges include one additional count of willful retention of national defense information and two additional counts of obstruction. trump now faces 40 felony charges in the case after originally being indicted on 37 counts last month. cnn s paula reed has more. reporter: former president trump facing new legal peril. a florida grand jury returned a
carried out the attempted coup. so as of now, streets are relatively calm. life is going on. we re all waiting to see what happens in the next day or so to see if the protests fin. courtney, thank you and please stay safe. if you are feeling lucky today, it could be your day. the mega millions jackpot is now an estimated $940 million, if you can believe it. it is the fifth largest jackpot in mega millions history. imagine what you could do that kind of money. lump sum payout would be more than $472 million. nice bit of change heading in for the weekend. and we can just made a to do list of all the things that we could get with that jackpot. wish you the best of luck to
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strictly as leverage points against the united states. i don t think this matters in the long run when russia does this, they have objectives that they want. they have spies in the west that they want returned, and they want to apply pressure to the united states. countries like that who carry out hostile government detention are going to do it anyway. malcolm nance, good to have your perspective. appreciate it. poppy? fascinating conversation. florida governor ron desantis shaking up and trimming down his campaign team in his race for the white house. that new reporting ahead and, again, no one won the jackpot in the mega millions drawing. no one matched all six winning numbers. so now the jackpot for next friday s drawing is $910 million. it is the fifth largest jackpot in mega millions history. go buy your ticket. except the hours that you re sleeping.