moment indeed, coz and both teams now look to earn that one shining moment cut down those nets being crowned national champs right here in that stadium later tonight, dana, don t let phil get with you. he s just mad that his buckeyes didn t make it here. that s harsh, but cory wire the baddest answer and every dance thanks so much way. all right. good afternoon and welcome to a special edition of cnn newsroom. i am katelyn polantz outside of trump tower here in new york. and i m dana bash alongside my friend phil mattingly in washington. it is three o clock on the east coast where we are in d. c and, of course we re caitlin is in new york. and if all goes as planned, we re looking at less than 24 hours. from now donald trump will be turning himself in at the manhattan district attorney s office, the first former president ever to face a criminal indictment. about two hours ago, trump took off from west palm beach, florida, so we expect him to land in new york. really just min
be indicted. there s huge ramifications. andy mccarthy is here on the trump case and what happens next. first to bryan llenas in new york city. high, bryan. hi, martha. yeah, this is a pretty interesting information coming out. brooks singman confirming that trump has hired a new lead counsel, todd blanche. he was recently a partner at a law firm a top white collar attorney. he was a former u.s. assistant attorney in the manhattan u.s. attorney s office. he will leads the charge in defending the former president here today when the former president surrenders himself to manhattan criminal courthouse behind me. more about todd blanche. he represented paul manafort, the former trump campaign manager. not only did he represent manafort, he successfully represented him, getting state charges that were filed by then cyrus vance, the district attorney of manhattan dropped. he hat state charges including mortgage fraud and a dozen other charges dropped against paul manafort arguin
presidential trapper. available at walgreens. some republicans are jumping on the discovery of classified documents at president biden s private office, equating it to former president trump s large stash of government material stored at mar-a-lago. apples to oranges, really. we re going to go through the differences and play for you president biden s first comments on the matter. house republicans creating a special committee for gop grievances and what they call the weaponization of government. what could possibly go wrong for republicans there? yeah. meanwhile, a republican lawmakers calling out her own party for being tone death on the re-elections. plus a significant development. dozens of soldiers coming to the u.s. for weapons training. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is wednesday, january 11th. go to have you with us. we have san sfrin politico and host of way too early white house bureau chief at politico jonathan lemire. by the way, shoc
at least 60 people have been killed in the winter storms that are sweeping across north america. the city of buffalo in new york state has borne the brunt of the arctic conditions. at least 27 people have died there. president biden has approved financial support for the state. let s talk to our north america correspondent nada tawfik. terrible time for people in buffalo. i have seen it described as the blizzard of the century, a monster storm, the worst weather people have ever experienced. what does today hold for people in new york state? exactly right, lucy, a number of people have said they have never seen anything quite like this. a winter advisory is still in effect in buffalo, until the afternoon they expect another 13 centimetres of snow so while the worst is over they ll still very much in this. the priority at the moment is as the emergency responders start to take out buffalo from this immense amount of snow they are trying to get vehicles that have been trapped,
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