learned. law enforcement is about to arrest a suspect tied to the leak of a trove of highly secret government intelligence, which is embarrassed the us and strained multiple alliances. today. several blockbuster reports expose who the suspected leader is. the new york times has named him as a 21 year old member of the massachusetts air national guard. cnn has not independently verified his identity, and it s not currently naming him both the times and the washington post said the man is the leader of a chat group on the online platform discord and his older than most members of the group of gamers who call him o. g. one of his friends who spoke anonymously on camera to the post obtained parental permission to do so. because that friend is underage. take a listen. he was. he was a young, charismatic man who loved nature . god who loved shooting guns and in racing cars. he did see himself as the leader of this group, and ultimately he was the leader of this group, and he wanted
miller showed a graphic of all the attorneys and former president trump s orbit and how they work. in some cases, their work. some cases overlapped one of the people in that graphic lanny davis called in a few minutes ago to say, well, he and joe tecca pena have been friends for years, he never formally represented him. he also said that robert costello never represented mr davis s current client, michael cohen. the news continues. erin burnett outfront starts now. outfront next. we are awaiting two key rulings from the judge and trump s hush money case, and we are now just hours away from trump s historic arrest. as our jeff zeleny has new reporting from inside trump s camp this late hour this evening, plus, i ll be joined by a reporter who s talking to trump insiders and why they are worried tonight about the protest tomorrow. a new word about the american journalists jailed in russia as one of evan gorski, which is closest friends is here. whatever is said to him the night
, the venue for an american 1st 100 Center Street in Downtown Manhattan, playing host to a new chapter in u. S history. Today the arrest and arraignment of donald trump. Former President Trump is back in the city that made him famous. But this time to face a new reality, the first ever former president to Face Criminal Charges. Good afternoon to our viewers around the world. Im Anderson Cooper, new york and im jake tapper in washington, d c. Were just hours away from the opening gavel. Of the people of the state of new york versus donald j. Trump this is the scene, the Manhattan Criminal Courts complex for mr trump. Will surrender. Were told and then where prosecutors will drop and indictment spelling out multiple charges against him at this very moment, we still do not know exactly what those charges are and how many there are connected to mr trumps alleged scheme to buy the silence of adult film actress and director stormy, daniels said a pivotal 2016 campaign moment. As we come on a
face backlash will survive it. and who are we facing backlash from honestly, it s people who i assume a year or two down the road if they re stopping at a gas station in the thirsty for beer, they re going to still buy the beer. okay but to be fair here, like there are some real serious issues here. you had a florida legislator this week, calling transgender people, mutants and demons and you have kid rock shooting beer cans because he s upset that they have someone who s transgender as a part of their you know, marketing campaign. what s happening is transgender people already filled targeted. they already face an outsized amount of violence. and here we are again. jennings something up for what for what? what is the endgame here, people exist. they should be able to exist in their bodies the way they are, and instead you re hearing these these horrible things about transgender people, and they are going to be targets of violence . the more this sort of thing happens. that i
emergency after a devastating outbreak of tornadoes ripping through the south. at least 23 people are confirmed dead in mississippi and another person was killed in alabama. dozens more are injured and at least four others are still missing. at this hour. many of the deaths happening in the town of rolling fork, mississippi. neighborhoods there were leveled the mayor sharing this bleak assessment of the damage on cnn this morning. when daylight comes, you can get a more visual of what happened last night. it was dark. we re using flashlights. so now i can see what i didn t see earlier this morning and is worse than i saw. this morning at three o clock throughout the throughout the morning. it s worse. communities. let s go. cnn s isabelle rose hollis is there in rolling fork, isabel? um i mean the mayor, saying that town is gone. and fred, the constable of a nearby county who came here and saw this with his own eyes described this as a landfill. and if you take a look right b