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first, the mar-a-lago classified document investigation. our reporting is that special counsel, jack smith, is going to be home stretch on that. then there s the hush money payments to stormy daniels. that case is set to begin in march of next year, right in the middle of primary season. then there s the georgia investigation into efforts by then president trump to overturn the 2020 election. but even with all of this, the deck is stacked in donald trump s favor for the gop primary. john avlon is here to explain. governor ron desantis plans to seize the gop spotlight tomorrow with a big announcement, it involves elon musk. kara swisher is gonna join our panel to share her thoughts. when is enough fame and money and success enough. lebron james playing the will he or won t he retire game. we ll see what happens going forward. i don t know. i don t know. i ve a lot to think about, to be honest. a lot to be thinking about, to be honest. just for me, personally, going forward w
bring russia to its senses . that s the message the french president emmanuel macron has delivered on thursday to the man who can, maybe, influence vladimir putin, the chinese leader xi jinping. applying pressure on ukraine isn t an an easy sell after years of worsening relations between the west and china, and president xi s recent visit to moscow. here s some of what president macron had to say. decades of peace in europe. i know i can count on you to bring russia to its senses and everyone to the negotiating table. but we need to find a lasting peace. that is to say, a peace that respects internationally recognised borders and avoids any form of escalation. what i meant to say was applying russia, not on ukraine. the president of the european commission is also in bejing with emmanuel macron in what s being framed by some as a good cop bad cop scenario. with ursula von der leyen taking the tough stance. we also count on china not to provide any military equipment dir
significant step that he has decided not to appeal. they are now willing to put mike pence before a federal grand jury. trump is nervous. he thinks that the special counsel here may know quite a lot. take our support for the people of taiwan. seriously, we are not isolated and we are not alone. it s gonna be weeks upon months to be able to recover. you can see all the way back in the woods. that s the roof of the building. live from london. this is cnn newsroom. max foster and bianca nobilo. this thursday, april 6th nine am here in london , four am on the u. s east coast. we begin with another blow to form president trump. mike pence says he ll testify to the grand jury of the special counsel investigating the january 6th capital riots. the former vice president has signaled that he won t appeal a federal court ruling ordering him to testify under oath about trump s actions leading up to january 6th. but there are some limits to what pence may be willing to discuss. cnn s kat
that and more, we will be following all day on cnn, cnn s new central, thank you for joining us in its new central covering all of these stories, and it starts right now. we re keeping a close eye on breaking news is israel says dozens of rockets have been fired into the region fired into israel from lebanon. we re live there in moments will they be expelled one hour from now? republicans in tennessee will begin a vote to kick out three democratic state lawmakers. this all has to do with the debate over gun reforms and protests after nashville school shooting. and a training exercise gone wrong. in boston, the fbi breaks down the door of a hotel room throws. the occupant in handcuffs, pushes him into a shower and interrogates him for an hour. there s one problem, though. the fbi made a mistake those stories and many more right here on cnn news, central . alright the breaking news, everyone a major escalation in the middle east right now is really defense forces say dozens of