hi, boris. i m amara walker. you are in the cnn newsroom. we begin with the investigation into the hush money scheme involving former president trump and adult porn star stormy daniels. trump taking to truth social saying he expected to be arrested on tuesday and is calling on his supporters to protest. an indictment has been happening soon and he has been preparing for the next steps. kaitlan, we will begin with you. what are you learning from trump s team in regards to the potential indictment? donald trump is out there doing what he does. he is making public statements saying he expects to be indicted on tuesday by the new york d.a., but that as far as we can tell, as far as the reporting coming in from our large team of reporters working on this, that s political posturing. it is not based on anything that the trump team has learned at this point that there has been an indictment returned or even that there would be an indictment returned on tuesday. boris and amara
happening now, new fears that russia s war against ukraine is about to get a very serious boost from china. i ll acquit white house national security official john kirby whether beijing is actively considering sending lethal aid to putin s forces. also tonight, a new assessment on the origins of the covid pandemic is stirring up major controversy. we ll tell you why the u.s. energy department now believes the virus likely emerged from a chinese lab. and breaking news, new legal filings in the dominion voting systems lawsuit against fox news. the fox chairman rupert murdoch admitting underoath that popular tv hosts endorsed false claims about the 2020 presidential election. 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 our coverage tonight with the war in ukraine. the deepening alliance between russia and china sending chills throughout the u.s. intelligence community. our senior national secur
and the u.s. justice department issues a scathing report of the louisville police, finding a pattern of excessive force and racist conduct within the department. we ll bring you the disturbing results of the federal investigation launched after the killing of breonna taylor. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. tonight, russian mercenaries claim they have gained new ground in bakhmut, now a flashpoint in vladamir putin s war against ukraine. president volodymyr zelenskyy tells me his forces are vowing, vowing to stand strong, even as they acknowledge theeadvancing city. but first, to the war zone. melissa bell has the latest on the battle for bakhmut. reporter: bakhmut, now a place of horror and death. before the war, bakhmut was about life. its sculpted hedges and rose gardens regularly instagramed. a picture of peace. and one of the oldest cities in the donbas. its genteel facades buil
is the dramatic ousting of two state lawmakers in tennessee? just the beginning? and what does this really mean for the fight over gun reform? these stories and more right here on cnn news, central. a major retaliatory strike in the middle east israeli forces launching airstrikes overnight, which they say hit palestinian militant targets in lebanon and gaza. these strikes are in response to the dozens of rockets launched from southern lebanon into israel yesterday. it is the most intense violence at the israeli lebanese border since 2006 and we re learning more about the two israeli women who were killed in a shooting on the west bank road this morning. the two young women were sisters. they were just 16 years old and 20 years old. their mother was also in the car with them. she is in critical condition. at this hour , cnn s had asked. gold is near the israel lebanon border, and cnn s fred pleitgen is near. the israel border with gaza had as i want to start with you has there
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