welcome back to the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. just minutes from now former president donald trump will be less than ten miles from the u.s. capitol, addressing a crowd of his adoring supporters as for all intents and purposes the front-runner for the 2024 gop nomination. despite his efforts to overturn the 2020 election, trump has been loading in several polls of republican voters as he delivers the keynote address at the annual cpac gathering later on this afternoon, even though other gop contenders are warning the party to move on from trump. his maga faithful have come to dominate the republicans long-time event. at any moment they will release the results of their straw poll. trump has won the last two with florida governor ron desantis coming in second. both times desantis has not formally announced for 2024 and is skipping this gathering. kristen holmes joins us from cpac where they re gathering in maryland just outside the nation s capital. kristen,
one year ago. the world was bracing for the fall of kyiv. well, i have just come from a visit to kyiv. and i can report that kyiv is stands strong. kyiv strands proud. it stands tall. and most important it stands free. very powerful speech from the president yesterday. very powerful and different than what we heard from vladimir putin in the morning. don and i are here in new york and caitlyn is live in warsaw poland again this morning. reporter: a couple of hours from now, the president is going to wrap up his final day here in europe on this trip. he will meet with the eastern allies, they are known as the bucharest 9. the tensions are riding high for a year now. and testing a ballistic missile from president biden was in ukraine. what our cnn investigating uncovered. live from the pentagon. then this that is starbucks ceo howard shultz talking openly about the pickett line and the push to unionize their stores. a one-on-one is ahead. but we start with preside
down with corps for her first television interview. and she draft dropped a whole lot of hints. did the grand jury recommend indictments of multiple people? yes. i will tell you, it is not a short list. we saw 75 people. and there are six pages of the report cut out. so, we are talking about more than a dozen people? i would say that, yes. are these recognizable names? names that people would know? there are certainly names that you would recognize, yes. there definitely are something that you would expect. the grand jury forewoman telling nbc today that the grand jury panel recommended that over a dozen people be indicted. doesn t is a lot. and on the one question that we are all wondering about did the special grand jury recommended an indictment against the former president? take a listen. did the grand jury recommend an indictment of former president trump? i am not going to speak on exact indictments. would we be surprised? are there bombshells of w
thanks for staying up late with me. i will say you at the end of tomorrow. check out that shot of kagan! awesome! thanks for all of you at home for being here with us tonight. we are starting in the state of georgia. fulton county district attorney fani willis has yet to say whether or not she will seek indictments in her sprawling criminal investigation into former president donald trump and his allies efforts to subvert the 2020 election. but today, one of the grand jurors in that, emily core, the juries forewoman, she is speaking out. nbc news blaine alexander sat down with corps for her first television interview. and she draft dropped a whole lot of hints. did the grand jury recommend indictments of multiple people? [silence] yes. i will tell you, it is not a short list. we saw 75 people. and there are six pages of the report cut out. so, we are talking about more than a dozen people? i would say that, yes. are these recognizable names? names that peopl
minute since we had seen that as well. a lot to entertain us in washington. gillian turner in for sandra smith. tensions on the rise now as we fast approach a year of war in ukraine. stand strong. ukraine will never be a victory for russia, never. attack against one is attack against all. john: president biden blasting russian president vladimir putin for his assault on ukraine, but issue was left out of the speech. gillian: the president did not address putin s major nuclear warning to the west out this week, russia is suspending the nuclear arms control with the united states, opening the lid for potential weapons expansion. john: all of this as russian is looking to get a boost from communist china. xi jinping plans to visit moscow in the coming months. beijing wants to play the role of peacemaker. some skeptics wonder if xi might have another agenda and if biden will do anything to stop him. tiktok is here, the ford chinese battery plant is coming, farmland is