surround this historic moment as trump and the nation soon learned the charges, he will face words that russia hoped to never see. finland joins nato. this just happened moments ago. why this move reshapes europe include influence putin s invasion of ukraine plus plotted for months chilling you detailed in that mass shooting at a christian elementary school in nashville. these major stories and more all coming in right here to cnn news, central. you are looking at live pictures outside trump tower right now, as we are hours away from the arrest and arraignment of former president donald trump a first in america s history, and we have new details on exactly how today s events will unfold. cnn has just learned that the former president may speak to cameras in the hallway outside the courtroom before or after his arraignment. that s according to his attorneys. the judge overseeing this case is not allowing cameras to broadcast the official proceedings, but still photographers wi
heard from the secretary of state, blinken. let s play this. listen here. i m tempted to say this is maybe the one thing that we can thank mr putin fork. because he once again here is precipitated. something he claims to want to prevent by russia s aggression. causing many countries to believe that they have to do more. to look out for their own defense and to make sure that they could deter possible russian aggression going forward. now nick, part of the rationale that putin offered for initiating his evasion in invasion of ukraine. was this fear of nato expansion? this seems the exact opposite of what putin was going for. 100% he sold it to the russians that he was going to go into ukraine to force essentially forced nato back. what s really fascinating here is that it s the fins, not anyone else that decided they