have been in the tournament. they lost the title game to merrimac but they are tra transitioning from division two so they weren t eligible to play in the tournament so. the knights got in on a technicality. they certainly made the most of it. they certainly did. next hour, andy katz joins us to preview some of the upcoming marquis match-ups. he is reporting on the tournament. and the next hour of cnn newsroom starts right now. you are in the cnn newsroom. jim acosta is off tonight. i m paula reid in washington. donald trump is als already looking to raise campaign fans hours after called on supporters to protest what he says is his imminent arrest. trump said he expects to be arrested on tuesday. now, this comes amid the manhattan district attorney s investigation into hush money payments made to former adult film star stormy daniels shortly before the 2016 election. but a trump attorney tells me the former president based his claim on press reports stemming from wha
preferably from bakhmut, which we re seeing right now. that might be a good start. the real element here, the proof in the pudding will be will the russians allow a cease fire? that would be the key elements. i don t believe it until i see something concrete on the ground in ukraine and we haven t seen that yet. this week we learned some nato allies are sending the first fighter jets to ukraine. how does that change the calculus of the war? reporter: so this is very interesting. you ve got both poland and slovakia offering jets to the ukrainians. these are all mig-29s that have been in the inventory of both countries since their days in the war saw pact. once this comes to fruition, once they send the jets, that could make at least a bit of a tactical difference. one thing to keep in mind is that the air defense systems of both russia and ukraine have been pretty effective in knocking airplanes out of the sky. we ve looked at some of the
opposed the war in vietnam and they turned it into not that he was a saint, but they got him out of and it wasn t the girlfriend or all that, that was the toughest thing, that letter. and they turned it around. that s the thing. it is that thing that comes to the table that we haven t seen yet that they re going to need someone in the room to turn it around and you re going to have the jody earnst of the world out there with microphones and constituents asking them questions they can t answer. you know how to do this, right? the president of the united states in this case says, okay, held up a military ally, ukraine, and i wanted some dirt. i said you can get your military assistance if you can give me some of this dirt, though. how do you defend that if you re really good at this business? i don t think, you can, chris. and furthermore if you try to go out there and defend this as a republican or especially in a
unacceptable. remember ukraine is under attack, a hot war, the invasion by the russians. we share that common adversary. they re attacking the united states, and we were holding up aid that both parties in congress agreed to deliver because this president was trying to pursue his own petty personal political agenda. that is absolutely outrageous, absolutely unacceptable, violating his oath of office. and again this is just the beginning of this investigation. when do you think of the allies in this? and the more i cover it and the more you see it as a political leader, it seems like he s not in this alone. he s got people in cahoots with him. he s got rudy giuliani he was once looked up to in this country in a great way, and now he s working for him. looks like secretary of state pompeo is with him, certainly attorney general barr is with him on this. and it just seems like it s a new political party. there s not a republican party.
is he s having foreign governments do his own aupop-ed his own opposition research into his political opponents. and not only is that illegal, it is an extreme abuse of power. josh, that s the question i get to. and i think it s going to turn this thing. it s not about ethics and some sort of clash you take in government, but about protecting the country. we have a military alliance with a country vulnerable to the russian. i grew up, i guess we all grew up in the 40s, 50s and 60s worrying about russia and under the war saw pact, controlled by russia. and now we get this situation and a major breaking story just now from the new york times we re learning two top enjoys drafted a statement that would have committed ukraine pursuing investigations sought by mr. trump into his two political rivals. that s according to three people briefed on the effort. michael schmidt from the new