ahead of his presidential run in 2016 had paid off a former porn star with our $1000 check, his former lawyer and top confidant said the opposite. now comes tuesday with questions as to what this would mean and if it would trigger a new wave of protest. no less than the former president encouraged on the same truth social site. our 2 of cavuto live. i am neil cavuto. reporter: trump spokesperson says the former president hasn t heard directly from the manhattan da s office but heard about it through illegal leaks, he is reacting and his truth on his truth social accounts, just saw it but look at part of the quote, he reads, quote, with no crime being able to be proven into based on an old and debunked by numerous other prosecutors fairytale, the far and away leading republican candidate and former president of the united states of america will be arrested tuesday of next week. protest, take our nation back. this case centers around a one hundred $30,000 hush money payment t
to russia. the kremlin says it does not consider the arrest warrant to be legal. all of this comes against the back drop of chinese president xi jinping s scheduled visit to rue tonight, gillian turner at the white house with how the administration is reacting to the putin war crime story and next steps in ukraine. we begin with senior foreign affairs correspondent greg palkot. good evening, greg. hi, bret. president biden recently called russian president putin a war criminal for his conduct of the war in ukraine. now, someone else has with a bit more international legal punch. wanted for war crimes in ukraine, russian president vladimir putin. the international criminal court issuing an arrest warrant charging him and another official in the abduction of ukrainian children since russia s invasion last year. kids allegedly taken out of ukraine and sent to russia. children special protection under the geneva. russians say humanitarian reason and don t recognize the cour
manhattan as early as next week. this is according to five senior officials familiar with the preparations and in the worlds of unprecedented, this would be the absolute definition of it. a former president has never been criminally indicted before, never. so local law enforcement agencies are running the possible scenarios, going through potential security plans, gaming out the variables, according to the same officials, who also stress that this is a just in case no charges have been filed and nbc news cannot report that any decision has yet been made that we know of more on what this means in a moment because it could get pretty complicated we also have new reporting from the washington post that could have a significant bearing on the special counsel investigation into january 6th the post has reviewed a copy of a report called project 2020. a study trump s team paid for but never released to investigate the election results in six key states that he lost according
washington. bill and dana are off. good morning to you. nice to be with you today i m gillian turner. former president trump said he would be arrested today as part of a hush money investigation. the manhattan grand jury is still as of now hearing from witnesses. law enforcement source tells fox news not to expect an indictment and arraignment until next week. preparation for the hearing underway at the courthouse in lower manhattan. nypd shutting down streets and building barriers in response to numerous safety concerns. dana: zbloo the potential arraignment of a former president is a logistical nightmare. alvin bragg has ruled out the possibility of a virtual hearing. the case centers on a 130,000 hush money payment made by trump s former attorney cohen to storm daniels in 2016. cohen pled guilty and was sentenced to three years in prison. he is a key witness in the case against trump. yesterday the jury heard from one of cohen s former legal advisors who called hi
digital cohen who pled guilty to lying to congress called costello s comments fantastic. he said the hush money payment to daniels was at the direction of and coordination and for the benefit of trump. the district attorney has the documentation in order to validate every single statement that i ve made. and to basically dispel anything that bob costello has to say, which is probably again why they didn t need me for rebuttal. last night on truth social the former president continued to deny any wrongdoing. whether the mar-a-lago raid or committee host. the perfect georgia phone call, absolutely perfect, or the stormy horse face daniels extortion plot, they were all sick and it s fake news.