calling for protests. he made the announcement today in a social media post, lashing out at the manhattan district attorney s office, which has invited him to testify before a grand jury. the arrest would be part of their investigation into alleged hush money payments to stormy daniels during the 2016 election. in the post, trump called for protests over his possible arrest, to quote him now, take our nation back. this development comes as sources tell cnn that law enforcement agencies in new york are also now preparing for the possible indictment of trump. cnn s polo sandoval is outside the manhattan criminal courthouse and cnn s crime and justice reporter, kaitlyn polantz is with us. what are we learning about potential arrests according to the former president? we don t know when the indictment may come out of the financial crimes investigations or what charges the grand jury may be asked to approve, and really neither does donald trump at this point. right now his spoke
present are dying suspiciously back home. cnn takes us closer than anybody else can to a secret chinese lab to a blacklisted spy balloon maker. it is an investigation that completely blows china s cover. new details about what led john fetterman to check himself into the hospital for depression. a fellow stroke survivor opens up about strokes and depression. good friday evening. i am erin burnett. we have video of the brutal life and death on the front line. in this clip which is disturbing, we will go inside one of the countless makeshift trenches in ukraine. the ukrainian who is filming this, as you can see there is shooting. then runs to one end of the trench. you will see him turn and run. as that happens there is more shooting going on. then they look up. you see the terrain and then you will see the russian soldier. advances in combat mode, look the wrong way. you saw his death. the flying caseins. you have to think about this. the ability to film a moment like th
stephanie s one-on-one with two time winner of rupaul drag race james monsoon. her message for those attackin members of her community 11th hour gets underway on thi friday night good evening. i m alicia menendez in for stephanie ruhle. we might be just days away fro finding out whether donald trump will be indicted by grand jury in manhattan. tonight, nbc news has learne exclusive state and federal la enforcement are preparing for possible indictment as early a next week. five senior officials tell nbc this involves conducting preliminary security assessments and discussing potential security plans nbc s laura jarrett has more no charges have bee announced but behind the scene officials are focused on how t secure the area around the criminal court building in lower manhattan for what could be an unprecedented moment - a former president in cour arraigned before a judge nbc news reached out to all of the agencies involved. all have declined to comment the crux of the gr
bret: but, first, breaking tonight, increasing concern over aerial objects that were spotted and then shot down over the u.s. and saturday over canada. the total right now is for china blamed for at least one of these so far says the u.s. has sent multiple balloons over its territory in the past year. the biden administration denies this. more of the chinese spy craft has been recovered and is being analyzed from off the coast of south carolina. but, as for the other objects, there is still very little information about what they are, what they were doing and who is behind them. as the search for those remnants continues tonight. we have fox team coverage, brit hume has analysis of the whole affair. jacqui heinrich is at the white house with the increasing pressure for president biden to address the issue personally. but we begin with chief national security correspondent jennifer griffin at the pentagon with what the defense department is doing and saying tonight. good eve
gathering where his base has seemingly seized control. and the man who tried but failed to overturn the 2020 election results appears to be his party s front-runner at least for now according to recent polls. late this afternoon, cpac released its very own nonscientific straw poll. trump crushed the politician seen as the biggest rival for the nomination, at least at this point, florida governor ron desantis, 62% to 20%. cnn s kristen holmes joins us from the cpac gathering. how s it been going so far? what s the former president saying? reporter: so former president trump still speaking. we re at the 90-minute mark. we expect him to go for a little bit longer now. he is really appealing to this crowd. a mix of old and new. he talked about how he wants to take on the establishment, particularly the republican establishment. he talked about how he got rid of political dynasties, he said the party would never go back to being the party of karl rove, paul ryan, and jeb bush. h