anderson, thank you very much. and good evening, everyone. tonight, the nation is facing a situation that has never been contemplated in its history before. a former president will sit trial as a defendant in the middle of his campaign for another term, which means that jurors and voters will be deciding his fate at exactly the same time. donald trump appearing virtually in court today as a judge sets his trial date for march 25th of next year. and in case you re wondering, that is 20 days after super tuesday, six days after florida, ohio and arizona and one month before pennsylvania voters go to the ballot boxes. the trial, of course, involving the 34 felony counts related to the stormy daniels hush money case. trump has pleaded not guilty in that case. and also tonight, florida governor ron desantis will announce his candidacy tomorrow. in a rather unconventional way, appearing in a live conversation on twitter with elon musk. we re already getting word that donald t
offers almost always indicate an indictment is close. the investigation you may recall centers on $130,000 that one time fixer michael cohen paid to buy the silence of stormy daniels near the end of the 2016 campaign. cohen was later reimbursed by the former president. according to the times he s yet to testify but is expected to. joining us now with more cnn s kara skinell. what are the details you ve learned? the new york times is reporting donald trump was offered to appear before the new york grand jury investigating on this hush money payment scheme. that is required under the law when there s a criminal investigation. that step certainly indicates and tells us this investigation is wrapping up. and that s also evident by the parade of witnesses met with prosecutors and appeared before the grand jury. we reported yesterday kelly anne conway met with manhattan prosecutors, hope hicks had also been in as well as executives at the trump organization. michael cohen had
somebody i knew would be involved? definitely not. i read the article and heard it was a dance studio, it crossed my mind. reporter: you thought about your dod potentially? yeah. the young man whose father was murdered at the dance studio now speaking out in a heart-wrenching interview. gun violence never seems to end. two students shot and killed at a des moines, iowa center for at-risk youth. cnn reporters on the scene to bring you the latest. a critical hearing in fulton, georgia. finishing a report on donald trump s effort to overturn the 2020 election in their state and now a judge decides whether the public gets to read it. we start in california reeling from three mass shootings in just three days. this time it s a small northern california city of half moon bay. investigators say the gunman killed at least seven people at a mushroom farm and trucking facility. come here! come here. hands up! there you see it right there. sheriff deputy found the susp
leaders now in his own district in his own party are trying to. they want him out. so does the new york state party chairman. we re talking about george santos from new york who lied about nearly all aspects of his life to help get himself el elected. late today brandon williams joined the call for him to quit. as for santos he says he s not going anywhere. will you resign? i will not. i need a little space here. new york republicans are calling you a disgrace. you will not resign? now, of course, who knows if that s true. almost nothing he has said about his life and career has been so far. this is the same george santos who said he worked at goldman sachs which was a lie who said he worked at citigroup which he didn t meaning that too was a lie, same george santos who lied about the high school he went to in new york and the college he said he graduated from. he said he got a degree in economics and finance, he didn t. he said he had been a star athlete. told me,
this morning about the former president s legal exposure. video we are seeing for the first time shows mike pence, the former vice president, sheltering in a secure location for nearly five hours, as rioters overwhelm the capitol, looking to hang him. we were told they came within 40 feet of the vice president s evacuation route. we re also learning new details about a heated phone call between trump and pence on the morning of january 6th. this is what witnesses, including ivanka trump, said about the president s demeanor on that call. yeah. i remember hearing the word wimp. either he called him a wimp. i don t remember if he said you are a wimp. you ll be a wimp. it was a different tone than i had heard him take with the vice president before. a major new piece of evidence revealed by the committee. that is john eastman, the conservative lawyer central to the plans to overturn the election results, asked for a pardon in the days after january 6th. and new this morning