good morning and welcome to cnn this morning. i m paula reid in for am ara wa walker. and i m boris sanchez. thank you to paula for filling in for amara. i know these hours are not really easy to work, but we re grateful for you being here. and paula, stop me if you ve ever heard of an atmospheric river before. are you familiar with those? i m absolutely not. i had to look it up this morning so i could understand all these incredible stories we re watching this morning. how do you live like this. california soaked by another round of storms. those atmospheric rivers are washing out roads, collapsing bridges and prompting evacuations. the latest on the damage and where the severe weather is headed next. i don t know how we ll do our payroll now. a stunning collapse, silicon valley bank folding marking the second largest bank failure in u.s. history leaving some business owners scrambling to figure out how they will pay their employees. and former president trum
cnn newsroom. we re grateful to you have this afternoon. i m boris sanchez. hi, everyone. it i m jessica dean. political lines deepening, law enforcement preparing for what would be a first in american history. the criminal indictment of a former president. the key witness in a case against donald trump is expected to be challenged today before a grand jury in new york. a former legal advisor to michael cohen telling cnn testifying at the request of donald trump s attorneys. look at video of costello arriving at the courthouse moments ago. robert costello saying he ll offer evidence that contradicts cohen. cohen, who once labeled himself trump s fixer said he paid adult film actress stormy daniels $130,000 in the weeks before the 2016 election for her silence on an alleged affair with donald trump. now, that was a campaign finance violation, as cohen lied on forms to cover up that payment. in 2018. you may recall. cohen cut a deal with federal prosecutors and adds mitte
this as new york police are now increasing courthouse security just ahead of a potential trump indictment. also tonight, trump s top gop allies are rushing to his defense and trying to discredit the new york d.a. who s investigating him. trump s legal peril and the political fallout looming over a major gathering of house republicans. and a high stakes handshake, china s president xi jinping ven v strengthens his alliance with vladimir putin, praising him as a dear friend as the russian leader stands charged with war crimes in ukraine. we ll have the latest on their talks in moscow, hours after putin s defiant visit to the war zone. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer, you re in the situation room. we begin with the latest testimony in the new york grand jury investigation of donald trump amid questions about whether the former president is on the brink of being indicted. let s go right to our senior legal affairs corres
now. in this era of tribal politics, comedian bill mahr doesn t care if you re a democrat or a republican. truth isn t always 50/50. welcome his decades at the cross odes of politics and comedy given him an insight political consultants and bookies would die for this in 2015. donald trump could not go all the way, i i don t think they re right. this a few years later. i don t think he s leaving, even if he loses the election in 2020. tonight bill looks ahead to 2024 and trump s odds now. you think he ll get the nomination and do you think he can beat joe biden? mahr doesn t hold back about president biden or the democrats either. democrats sometimes can take it too far. he gives us his unfiltered take. how do you define on cancel culture, religion and one of his favorite hobbies. so you re a connoisseur of weed, i think that s fair to say. i think that s very fair. realtime to primetime, this is a cnn one on one special. welcome to
president ever be criminally charged, is expected to be arraigned on tuesday afternoon, according to sources. now his attorneys tell nbc news that there will be no plea deal. but keep in mind. trump and his team still don t know exactly what the charges are. the indictment is still sealed. sources do tell cnn that it involves more than 30 counts related to business fraud. remember the new york grand jury has been investigating trump s role in that alleged cover up that $130,000 payment to silence adult film star stormy daniels during the 2016 campaign. daniel s alleged affair with trump, which he has denied. his ex fixer and attorney, michael cohen was convicted on campaign finance violations for coordinating the payment, which he said donald trump ordered him to do, cohen says the indictment shows that no one is above the law. this is also about that. whatever laws that sent me to prison. should send him to prison. we re all supposed to be looked at in the eyes of the law. t