donald trump is claiming authorities will arrest him tomorrow relating to alleged hush money payments made to an adult film start stormy daniels. while a decision from a grand jury not far from right here where i m sitting could still be days away it. would make him the first former president indicted in our nation s history. what we know, what we don t, and the potential political impact here is our lead story. correspondent david spunt joins us now from the justice department. good evening, david. bret, good evening to you. late this afternoon, perhaps the final grand jury witness in a year s long investigation involving alleged hush money payments between the former president and an adult film address. two heavy hitters in manhattan court this afternoon, former trump fixer michael cohen and robert costello, cohen s one time confidante who rebuffed cohen. now is he on the revenge tour. i tonight condone it. i went in there to tell these people the truth about hot real
states, canada and around the world, i m kim brunhuber. ahead on cnn newsroom. president biden is at home in delaware after a campaign swing to three western states. ahead, why he says this year s mid-term elections are the most important in decades. plus, chinese leader xi says they will take taiwan by force. a live report from beijing plus reaction from taipei. elon musk changes his mind when it comes to offering peace for ukraine. we ll look at the decision and huge implications in the war against russia. announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with ken brunhuber. > . president biden has just wrapped up a rare four-day campaign tour across the west costa head of the critical mid-term elections. much is at stake as it tries to hold on in congress and win key local and state elections. biden s approval is low across polls fueling worries that it could weigh down the party at the ballot box. stumping alongside the most vulnerable candidates. the pre
desantis being a teacher at a college. what is your sense be about this? obviously running against both of these men? look, they can go back and forth on all of that stuff. i think what we need to focus is first of all, you never want to condone any sort of prosecution that s being politicized because we know that that s just political reventricle and i think we have seen a enough of that over the past few years. the second thing is the american people want us talking about things that really matter which is the economy. they want to talk about, you know, what is happening with russia and china right now. they want to talk about the fact that we have got to get our kids back in schools and back on track. there s a lot of issues we have in this country and, you know, they can duke it out on that stuff but that s not just anything that americans are talking about today. you mentioned china and russia, the chinese leader in moss cow talking about a possible cease-fire deal. the white
only aleksander luca shenk ka of belarus has supported putin. russia conducts military exercises with its other allies. when it comes to the ukraine war, they have all stayed publicly neutral, including kazakhstan. in january the authorities here used deadly force to crush a violent uprising that left dozens dead. moss cow moscow got some support. reporter: you can see the burn marks here. the kazak s government said they will not get involved in russia s war in ukraine. reporter: as they face more and more setbacks in ukraine, tensions have exploded in other areas long seen as russia s
good evening, i m erin burnett out front tonight, locked and load, the u.s. ambassador michael carpenter says russia is locked and loaded and they are pointed at ukraine. russia has locked and loaded its guns, and it s pointing them at ukraine. his exact word. this comes as putin says he did not reach a deal with the french president emanuel macron after their meeting in moss cow. he engages in the back and forth. macron saying he made progress and putin had agreed to de-eescalate, putin saying he did not agree to mill ter de-escalation. so what does the united states see? action, guns locked and loaded. in a buildup. they continue to search troops and equipment on the border of ukraine.