grand jury investigating former president trump sources now, say the district attorney there has been asking questions about a second hush money case involving trump and efforts to cover up his alleged affair with a playboy model and as nashville mourns and prepares to bury six victims. new 911. calls from the school shooting were just released. stand by for that breaking story, and i ll get reaction from the national mayor who s joining us this hour. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. tonight another u. s citizen is in custody in russia. this time a journalist for the wall street journal accused of espionage. cnn s alex marquardt has details on the arrest and why this particular reporter may have been targeted by moscow. this video from russian media appears to show american wall street journal reporter evan herskovits arriving at a moscow court today. the russian security services arrested h
this is going to help him politically, which it does appear, in some cases it might in a contested primary. there are still a lot of trump allies and advisers, people who are close to him who want him to win the nomination and the presidency in 2024. who don t think that this will help him in the long run, or at least are very concerned about what this is going to do with his political career. wolf it s clear. go ahead. let me just add that i ve just heard that not only was the president not informed us as you guys were reporting, but also, michael cohen s team was not informed of this in advance. and so i think everyone s been kind of kept in the dark on both sides of this. very dramatic moment. indeed michael cohen, the former fixer and lawyer for trump, who has not been cooperating. paula reid , i know you re getting more information as well. what else are you learning? yes. forgive me as i keep looking down at my phone connecting with sources, but to gloria s point, the former pres
can t stress that enough. now will come the you know the delicate arrangements around a surrender, which you know, trump s lawyer, joe tacopina said he is going to do willingly . we have heard that from other people around him as well with trump you obviously never. no surrender in any form is not something donald trump likes to do. i think, let alone this one, but that is where we are going to go. this next and that will i suspect happen in the coming days. and i think trump will, you know? try to use the weekend to sway public opinion as much as possible. that s the his go to move. wolf. it has always been his go to move is to try to shape public opinion and use that to force events. he was trying it with what was essentially an intimidation campaign against alvin bragg in the last two weeks, clearly did not work certainly did not work this indictment. about to be formally presented to the former president of the united states, and you re in new york. maggie. i take it. security has
, there is a delay. this could be the reason. do you expect that paula that the grand jury there may need to hear from additional witnesses? as part of this latest line of questioning ? it s certainly possible wolf and one thing about grand juries. it s a very secretive process near the grand jury was meeting today they weren t expected to hear additional evidence in the trump case, but it s also possible that they re done hearing evidence, and prosecutors could potentially want to move forward with a vote on an indictment either today. or when they re expected to be monday or wednesday, but after wednesday they have a previously scheduled break. now some outlets have really leaned in and said look, nothing is going to happen this month. but we ve been a little more cautious than our reporting, saying, look, we expect them to meet today, monday and wednesday, and it s unclear whether they ll do anything related to the trump case. all right. paula reid, jennifer! roger shin woo, guys. t
make a thing out of this because he believes that politically, this indictment could help him. it s truly a major development unfolding in new york right now, let me get gloria borger into this, gloria. what do you think ? well i think this is historic . i think we ve never seen former president be indicted before, and i think that while the circumstances of this case, as we all know, are a bit tawdry , and some, particularly in the legal profession are saying, look, it s not as important as what might as what might be coming down the pike. in terms of the atlanta grand jury and election interference and in terms of the documents at mar-a-lago this nonetheless, an indictment is something that donald trump has evaded for years and years, and it would be the first time and i think it is something that donald trump clearly intends to use to his benefit, at least with his base. early on, um in this election season, but we re going to have