you are in the cnn newsroom. i m paula reed in washington. jim acosta is off tonight. former president donald trump is stirring the political pot with claims he expects to be arrested on tuesday. his campaign is already fundraising off that allegation and new tonight, trump lawyer blames the media and the district attorney for trump s comments. in a statement to cnn he says no one tells us anything which is very frustrating. president trump is basing his response on press reports and the fact this is a political prosecution and the da leaks things to the press instead of communicating to the lawyers as they should. now the former president has not stated why he expects to be arrested as the investigation continues into hush money payments made to porn star stormy daniels but trump s legal team has got no word from the manhattan da s office about the timing of any possible indictment. we also know that at least one witness is still expected to testify before the grand jury on
now falling. i m fredricka whitfield. cnn newsroom continues with jim acosta right now. you re live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. we begin tonight with the sad reality that it has happened again. another mass shooting in america, this one in a tiny alabama town, with teenagers making up most of the victims. here s what we know. at this hour. four people are confirmed dead and dead. ville alabama spokesman for a local hospital, says 15 teenagers suffered gunshot wounds and were treated another hospital says it received multiple patients he attack was tied to a sweet 16 birthday party in this community of 3000 people. let s go live now to date ville and cnn s isabelle rose salas. isabel. what s the latest that we re learning there? hey gemma. good evening to you. we are learning that one of the four victims who was killed right behind me at this dance studio that was a venue. we re told by witnesses. first sweet 16 birthday party. that victim has been ident
mexican cartels are responsible for the surge of deadly fentanyl. the opioid is killing americans by the tens of thousands and it is getting worse by the year. bill: as you can see on the map the gangs have a tight grip on the entire country and the mexican government is unable or unwilling to fight back. dana: a growing number of lawmakers wanting the cartels marked as terrorists opening to military strikes in mexico. here is one of them. senator joe manchin. this is a war. it has become a war. look at the people we lost. we haven t lost this many people in our wars. bill: we action from the former a.g. first news and reporting from the hill with aishah hosni there today. good morning. good morning to you both in new york. look, in just about an hour, members of the house intelligence committee will get to sit down and grill the nation s top intelligence chiefs and they will get to ask them directly about what they are doing with the cartels at the u.s./mexico bord
it is the top of a very busy friday afternoon on cnn newsroom. hello, everyone. the enter national criminal court issued an arrest warrant for vladamir putin today. the charge, related to deporting thousands of ukrainian children from occupied territories of ukraine into russia. a warrant is also out for the official under putin who is believed to have led to the forced adoptions, you see her in this photo with putin. ukraine reports at least 16,000 children have been forced to live in russia since putin s war in ukraine began. the kremlin calls the warrant outrageous and unacceptable, volodymyr zelenskyy says this will lead to historic responsibility. joining us now is the president of the international criminal court, judge piotr hofmanski. judge, thank you for joining us today. so i want to read from the icc statement here in your ruling. it states that there are reasonable grounds to believe that mr. putin bears individual criminal responsibility for the aforementione
the edge of collapse giving a mass cash infusion by other banks, in a moment, i ll speak to a nobel prize winner who saw the banking crisis coming and called for clearly five months ago, and an out front investigation tonight, cnn finding the u.s. coast guard failed to act after two women came forward to say they were sexually assaulted on u.s. ships. the damming report from pamela brown ahead let s go out front. . good evening i m erin burnett. we re seeing for the first time how ukrainians are storming homes in bakhmut homes russians have been hiding soldiers come in and start firing according to the ukrainian unit which recorded this footage, they fire, because they say quote i they they ever know for sure if there s a wounded russian in the house who wants to take you with them. and you can see in this video how they may carefully approach another home. go inside, you see immediately open fire as they go in. according to the battalion by time they reached the neighborh