stormy daniels. no, no. what else makers. you have to ask michael cohen, michael s my attorney, and you ll have to ask michael come admits to writing the $130,000 check and claims he was reimbursed by the trump organization that reimbursement and the way trump accounted for. it appears to be at the heart of the case against trump for donald, since we re talking about convicted felons. see you on tuesday, pal. sources tell cnn. the grand jury also heard testimony about a catch and kill scheme to bury a story about another alleged trump affair with former playboy playmate of the year. karen macdougal, trump s longtime friend and then chairman of the national enquirer s parent company, david pecker, is believed to have orchestrated that $150,000 payment. pecker testified before the grand jury monday. trump also denies any affair with mcdougall. trump s lawyers are now vowing to fight, saying they
will move to get all charges dismissed before any trial. there s no crime. i don t know if it s going to make the trial because we have substantial legal challenges that we have to front before we get to that point. cnn has been digging into who this last witness was on thursday before the grand jury voted to indict trump. a lot more could become clear as this case progresses, and we ll see just how strong this case might be after the indictment is unsealed likely tuesday at the arraignment. in the meantime, former attorney general bill barr is the latest now speaking out, joining republicans in saying that this case is just a political hit job in a weak case, notably, though no one has seen the exact charges or the evidence here. jessica schneider, cnn washington. joining me now david sanger is a cnn political and national security analyst. he s also the white house and national security correspondent at the new york times. always good to see you, sir, i think i think we ve become per
system has spun up several tornadoes, leaving a swath of death and destruction across the mississippi valley in the mid south. donald trump, making travel plans to face more than 30 criminal charges in new york next week, the latest on his historic indictment and. the immediate go to was that my life is over. um everything that i ve worked blood, sweat and tears for has just gone down the drain just like that. transgender american runner, vowing to fight for her olympic dream after world athletics ruled trans women can no longer can be in international competition. live from cnn center. this is cnn newsroom with michael holmes. and we begin with a deadly tornado outbreak that is still underway parts of the united states from kentucky to louisiana under tornado watches
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sanders, trying to get any information on whether the president has been briefed yet. so far, no information to that effect. intere there is no marine guard. we won t see him until 11:45 this morning when he will be hosting a young black leadership summit in the east room. if he were to make any public statement, it s likely it would occur at that time. it s obvious based on his comments over the last couple of days on twitter that he believes he s being unfairly even hostilely cast as a player in this whole situation that we re witnessing nationwide. this is what the president tweeted overnight. this tweet came out at 3:14 in the morning. we will put it up for you. he wrote funny how lowly rated cnn and others can criticize me as well. and ridiculously comparing this to september 11th and the oklahoma city bombing. yet when i criticize them, they go wild and scream it s just not