calling on people to protest. he expects to be indicted on tuesday on his truth social page today the former president urged supporters to, quote, take back our nation, ahead of what he says is his expected arrest days from now. he went on to say, they re killing our nation as we sit back and watch. we must save america and protest. but he appears to be speculating. the prosecutors are wrapping up the investigation into hush money payments made to porn star stormy daniels. we have learned there is at least one witness still expected to testify on monday. sources tell my colleague kristin holmes and i that trump s legal team has gotten no word from the manhattan da s office of any timing of a poe tpgsal indictment. if he is indicted the trumped team would be notified and likely negotiate any surrender and court appearance. the former president has been pushing his team to get the base riled up over the idea of a possible indictment because he believes it would help him politic
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arrested, crimea. he s in the annexed region for the nine-year anniversary of russia s takeover. cnn analyst steve hall and the former cia chief of russian operations. steve, what do you make of this? could he ever actually be arrested? it seems at this point improbable. reporter: you know, it is improbable right now. so this action has a lot of different ramifications, i think. first, it does send a strong message to putin and to, you know, the russians in general, russians on the streets, senior russian leadership and putin himself that they re increasingly isolated from basically the entire international community. although, you know, i will say it s unlikely that he ll be arrested, but, remember, we said it was unlikely that we would get guys like milosevich and he ended up in the hague. it took time but it did happen.
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of course, there is another grand jury witness. your reporting is that person is coming in tomorrow, but it does look like we are headed to the point in time where the grand jury would be asked to approve the indictment. now at this time, we don t know when that indictment will be approved and we also don t know what exactly would be in the charges. trump doesn t either and his spokespeople are admitting that, but this is the type of case that actually is going to sound familiar to a lot of people because we ve been talking about it now for several years. michael cohen previously admitted in federal court to campaign finance violations that are very much in line with what s being investigated here, these payments to stormy daniels back in the 2016 campaign. now this is a state case so it s about state law, not federal, but at the time it was shocking that donald trump was named as individual one in that case. this would be an unprecedented scenario just like that if the grand jury do
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election. then in 2018 when donald trump was president, that s when the feds picked it up, the southern district of new york. they could not indict donald trump at the time because he was the sitting president. the next important moment in the time line is january of 2021. that s when donald trump left office and as i ve reported, the southern district of new york had a series of meetings at that point deciding, should we charge him with this criminally or not? we know the decision there was no. then as kately just said, there was about a year or so when cy vance was the manhattan d.a. and he did not charge it. now 6 1/2 to 7 years later, it s being charged. it undermines the seriousness of the case and i think it will be an issue at trial. you make a great point because there are a lot of questions from the trump legal team, for example, about whether locally elected prosecutors should be able to investigate the former president. as you and i have talked about,
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