Raul castro, the president of cuba will also give a News Conference in his country that will happen at noon eastern time. Of course cnn will continue to follow this breaking news throughout the day. Thank you for joining me today, im carol kos toll low. this hour with berman and michaela starts now. Hello, everyone. Im john berman. And. And im michaela pereira. History is being made at this hour after more than a half century of tension and diplomat diplomatic silence between the u. S. Its releasing alan gross from prison after five years. A series of genuinely breathtaking developments. Cuba is also releasing a u. S. Intelligence asset, a spy, whos been locked up in cuba for more than 20 years. In Return Washington is freeing three cuban spies convicted in 2001 of espionage. That is big in and of itself. It all seems part now of something much, much bigger. President obama will announce major changes in u. S. Policy toward cuba. Officials calling them the most sweeping changes since t
wasn t actually true. he s referring to papers and documents and look here, look here. so we will see if there s an eyewitness to that meeting, it s going to be crucial. other witnesses there, people there who can testify to what happened at that meeting. what they saw. exactly. if there were reporters there they were working on a book about mark meadows, that s why it was reported. dan, elie, thank you very much. we could learn any minute whether the indictment against donald trump will be unsealed, as you heard from evan perez, and we could hear from president biden very shortly on this also. we will hear from someone who was inside the trump white house. our special coverage continues right here on cnn news central. el influencer. hey, i thought you were on vacation? it s too expensive. use priceline, they ve got deals no one else has. what about w work? i got you. looking great t you guys! go to your happy price priceceline annikaka. i found the bomb. ok johann.
that he knowingly, willing lee, intentionally kept it and appears according to this full transcript to be trying to show it to other people. we know from our reporting no one else in that room had a secret clearance. secret, secret, look at this, he says. it s right there in the transcript. and those words could have profound implications. paula reid, we will come back to you in a while. thank you so much for laying the groundwork what really moves the ball forward in all of this reporting today. now, former president trump is expected to turn himself in and appear in a miami federal court at 3:00 p.m. on tuesday according to his attorney. so far the indictment has not been released with all those charges that we are hearing about. cnn s senior justice reporter evan perez is live for us now on this part of the case. the indictment remains sealed. is there any chance we are going to see it before the tuesday court appearance? reporter: there is that chance. there is a chance that
knows. they basically break out from an espionage act charge, which is ludicrous under the facts of this case, and i can certainly explain it, and several obstruction-based-type charges and then false statement charges, which are actually, again, kind of a crazy stretch just from the facts as we know it. so there s a lot to pick at eventually from the defense side, but that appears to be the charges and it appears to be something that will get off the ground on tuesday. reporter: and what you hear there is the beginnings of how they re going to defend this. the 793 charge, the espionage act, that has to do with the willful retention of national defense information. that is the sort of central place where this investigation began, that s where we saw that s the statute, the law, that the justice department told the former president he was being investigated for when they conducted that search, extraordinary search last august in mar-a-lago, guys. all right. evan perez, thank you