that could potentially lead to criminal charges we are told of the hush money payment to adult film star stormy daniels. all of that during the 2016 presidential election. now, all eyes are on the district attorney and what he will do next. some experts are asking if he is acting outside his legal authority in the first place. nate foy is in the newsroom with some questions about the case against but the case against the former president. alvin bragg s basis entire case on an untested legal theory, more on that in a second period resident trumpets criticizing the right himself just hours after announcing he expects to be arrested this week. take a look the former president post on truth social quote with no crime being able to be proven based on old and fully debunked by numerous other prosecutors. tail, the faraway leading republican cap former president of the united states of america will be arrested on tuesday of next week. this case centers around 130,000 dollar hush
connected to a criminal organization nor would they share the number of people that they believe were involved. more now from rosa flores across the border in brownsville, texas. reporter: two of four missing americans are back in the yupd and receiving medical treatment after being kidnapped in mexico after what a u.s. official tells cnn was a case of mistaken identity. two were found dead and one of the survivors is severely injured with a bullet wound to his leg. according to u.s. and mexican officials. in the party of four, latavia mcgee and eric williams were killed. shaeed woodard and zindell brown were killed. and we extend our condolences to the families. reporter: they crossed the border into mexico for mcxwee to obtain a medical procedure. and they drove a white van and got lost while trying to locate the medical clinic where they were headed. before they were able to locate the clinic, disturbing video shows the aftermath of the kidnapping as heavily armed me
up in the courtroom around campaign time. today the house of mouse sued governor rhonda santos after a board he recently appointed to oversee disney voted to nullify 2 contracts is signed with disney in the company claims those contracts laid the foundation for billions of investment dollars and thousands of investment jobs disney is asking a judge to overturn lord s ability to oversee the company writing this company was retaliatory and antibusiness and unconstitutional. the governor and its allies have made clear they do not care and will not stop. anime desantis spokesperson writes back we are unaware of any legal writer company has to operate its own government and maintain special privileges held by other businesses in the state. for decades disney has had its own government district with many special privileges including tax benefits. until last year florida passed a bill to dissolve and desantis created a new district that governs disney in this feud began last year
it was dismissed in less than six months. practically actually laughed out of court. now the ruling by u.s. district judge donald middlebrooks ordering trump and his attorney to cover the legal costs of the defendants in that suit is one for the ages. it is a stinging rebuke of donald trump the man and of donald trump s lies and his tried and true now legal strategy of jamming and gumming up the courts with lawsuits. it starts off like this, quote, this case never should have been brought. its inadequacy there is that word again as a legal claim was evident from the start. no reasonable lawyer would have filed it. the judge then makes it crystal clear that the ex-president himself bears responsibility for the suit. he goes on, quote, trump is a prolific and sophisticated litigant who is repeatedly using the courts to seek revenge on political adversaries. he is the mastermind of strategic abuse of the judicial process, and he cannot be seen as a litigant blindly following
cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. hello and warm welcome to our viewers joining us in the united states and around the world. i m max foster. bianca off this week. just ahead on cnn newsroom. reporter: brian walshe facing murder charges in the mysterious disappearance of his wife, ana walshe. even without the body you re going to have enough evidence seemingly to focus on nobody else but him. trying to draw a contrast with the way trump has handled his own documents issues. they re trying to draw a picture of cooperation. you guys can ask me this 100 times, 200 times if you wish, i m going to keep saying the same thing. reporter: aviation experts are calling it a narrowly avoided disaster at new york s john f. kennedy airport. they were in the wrong place at the wrong time. announcer: this is cnn breaking news. it s wednesday, january 18th. 9 a.m. here in london. 11 a.m. in kyiv, ukraine. we re following this breaking news for you developin