. former president donald j. trump has beenrand jury investig hush money payments to adult film star stormy daniels. it is the first time in american history that a current or former president is facing criminal charges, and cnn is now learning that trump is expected to be arraigned. early next week. now the grand jury has been hearing evidence and witness testimony related to $130,000 that trump s former fixer, michael cohen, paid stormy daniels before the 2016 election. that money was paid in exchange for her silence about an alleged affair she had with trump now source telling cnn and this is really important information. we re just getting that trump was completely caught off guard that right now he s in florida at a mar-a-lago that he had been caught off guard and that he thought that this was sort of. maybe maybe over. maybe bragg had gotten cold feet, so he suddenly released a statement after this news broke, saying, quote. this is this is in part. it s a longer statem
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
new york grand jury has voted to indict the former president of the united states. donald trump. this is the first time in us history the first time in us history that criminal charges have been filed against anyone who has served as president of the united states. the charges coming after the investigation of hush money paid to former adult film star stormy daniels to cover up her alleged affair with trump. this has huge implications not only for trump but also for the nation as the former president makes another run for the white house right now, our correspondents, analysts and contributors are all standing by as we cover this breaking story and what comes next paris canal is on the scene for us. let s go to your first year there in new york. you re watching all of this unfold. tell our viewers what else you re learning. well, that s right. we learned that in manhattan grand jury has returned an indictment against former president donald trump. as you said, the first time
january 6th, and attempting to overturn the last presidential election. in a sealed legal filing, donald trump is appealing a federal judges order in washington d.c. for donald trump s white house staff to testify. to jack smith s grand jury. the order, the judges order, requires donald trump s last white house chief of staff, mark meadows, to testify to the grand jury. along with donald trump s last director of national intelligence, john ratcliffe, and donald trump s last national security adviser, robert o brien. along with other trump white house officials, the trump appeal is trying to claim executive privilege. to block that testimony, we are always lucky when we have neal katyal appearing on this program, we are especially lucky on appeal news nights. because former acting solicitor general the united states, neal katyal, is one of the top federal appeals court practitioners in the united states. in a moment, neal katyal will give us his assessment of the prospects for
states supreme court. we begin tonight with investigation news. the latest legal development of the day is the news that donald trump has launched another delay tactic. in special prosecutor, jack smith, federal grand jury investigation of donald trump s activities leading up to an on january 6th, and attempting to overturn the last presidential election. in a sealed legal filing, donald trump is appealing a federal judges order in washington d. c. for donald trump s white house staff to testify. to jack smith s grand jury. the order, the judges order, requires donald trump s last white house chief of staff, mark meadows, to testify to the grand jury. along with donald trump s last director of national intelligence, john ratcliffe, and donald trump s last national security adviser, robert o brien. along with other trump white house officials, the trump appeal is trying to claim executive privilege. to block that testimony, we are always lucky when we have neal katyal appearin