i m john king in washington. thank you. for sharing your day with us. new developments in the cases against donald trump. top trump aides tell a federal grand jury about the former president s plan to seize voting machines and there s new fallout from the 34 felony count new york indictment. trump attacks the prosecutor and the judge in that case now on a parallel path with the 2024 nominating calendar, plus two big middle election, middle america elections in chicago. a progressive wins at chicago mayor s race dominated by crime and by schools and this wisconsin blockbuster democrats seizing control of the state supreme court that giant proof of the power of the abortion issue, and today the speaker of the house plays host to taiwan s president. beijing reacts angrily even though this meeting is a compromise of sorts of first for us next steps in the 34 felony count new york case against donald trump and some important exclusive new cnn reporting about one of two federal inv
against him that he will face a trial and the charges that he s going to be confronted with and if there s ambiguity as to what criminal charge would cause this bump up that might cause a bit of a problem, and they even trump s attorney said this at the hearing yesterday. they said, look, you know, we don t even know what the charges are. so we need. we need more clarity. so a lot of smart lawyers were left to make analysis because you don t have alvin bragg says. i have it, but i m just not going to show you right now and again that he says that s his legal right, and we ll watch as it plays out. one veteran new york state prosecutor rebecca rafi, says this, it turns out the indictment also includes a claim that trump falsified records to commit a state tax crime that s so much simpler charge that avoids the potential pitfalls, but we don t know that right, alvin bragg, at one point said these payments exceeded the federal election contribution cap. he can t charge an fcc violation in