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
were trying to improve cashmere. well, i don t know how you do that without sending certified math teachers over there, and the responsibility for sending certified math teachers over there rests with the school board. so this is what this is what triggered all of this. but, again, i never thought it would happen because i thought they would fix the schools. i thought that if a school needed a math certified teacher, we would have loads of them over there but that didn t happen. representative dutton, we appreciate your time and we hope you will come back once we see what the outcome of this state takeover is. well, thank you. i hope i can come back on and s say, guess what, wheatley is back on top. thank you, sir. appreciate the time. stay with newsroom. we are back inin moments. care and get help protececting yourself from the out-o-of-pocket costs medicare doesn t pay.
the united states isn t even happening in the worst performing school districts in the state as of last year. as far as i m concerned this is a hostile takeover. it was done to houston families, not with them. members of that community feel that they are being targeted. so let s find out more with democratic state representative harold duty on-jr. in 2015 he proposed the amendment added to a law that allowed the state to take over schools in houston. representative dutton, we are grateful you are sharing part of your saturday morning with us. we have a lot to get to. first, critics are pointing to this as an effort by white republican officials at the state level to take over the schools in a majority black and brown democratic-led area. how big of a factor do you think race plays in all of this? well, obviously i m not part of whatever the race thing they re talking about is, and
i m the person that was responsible for the amendment. i had nothing i had no thoughts about race at the time. i had thoughts about improving student outcomes because that s what was that s what was driving this. i will be honest with you, i never thought school districts would let a campus fail for five consecutive school years. that s what has driven this. i think the better question ought to be why does the school district let campuses fail for five consecutive school years. so, representative dutton, what do you say to those who argue there is nefarious intent here, that this is part of a plot by governor greg abbott to push school vouchers and charter schools? well, greg abbott didn t have anything to do with the amendment. i didn t talk to greg abbott. greg abbott didn t talk to me about it. this came up in 2015. the reason we re here is because in 2019 the t.e.a. decided they