With these breaking details. What do you know . Reporter federal prosecutors in new york are now seeking interviews with Top Trump Organization executives. Look, brooke, this intensifies the fears that the bigger threat to the president and his business may come from new york prosecutors and not muellers team. What we do know is that the new york prosecutors have been looking into two specific areas, one is the Campaign Finance a possible Campaign Finance violation in connection to reimbursements that the Trump Organization made to Michael Cohen for those hush money payments. The other one is financial abuses tied to donations to the inaugural committee. Those are the two specific areas but we dont know if theres another area or if there are multiple other areas and we dont know if prosecutors are asking for interviews with these executives for those two inquiries or possibly something else. We also dont know the extent of these interviews and how serious they are. We dont believe that
Country. Ill leave some things left for the president to talk about. There are a number of policies that the democrats and republicans know need to be addressed. Infrastructure is one of the easiest ones for us to look at. Will the reaction of those in the room with him . For starters as we mentioned nancy pelosi will once again be center stage sitting right behind the president on that dais and the audience looking back, lawmakers who stand in stark contrast to this white house and its policies and a Diverse Group of Democratic Candidates ready to run against him. Members of congress will be bringing guests, among them a Transgender Navy lieutenant commander, a student who survived the parkland shooting and a mother and daughter who were separated at the border last spring. Lets start with our White House Correspondent Kaitlan Collins looking ahead. We know the president wont speak for a number of hours, but the battle is already brewing between the president and senator Chuck Schumer
And unity and compromise. It will be a night of comity with a t. They are talking about how the presid will rise above partis tonight, the presid is tweeting about a human then, mocks Chuck Schumer and festiv us begins. Tonigh was delayed when the presid himself decided to engine a 35day shut down over a border wall he promised to his politi base. The address is his threat to end congre and declare a national emerge dividing republicans. We will have more on that in a moment the white house said President Trump is going to call on congre to reject the politics of resistance and retribution tonigh thats absurd because if you have b paying attention for two years or four years or six years, you get my drift. Nancy will be seated behind tonight. A constant reminder of the failed midterm message that pelosi party. The president is going to act like everything is normal, despit his ongoing feud with the Intel Community and countl investigations into the staff and campaign and busine and eve
President s state of the Union Address that he will give in just a few hours. It was postponed by the last Government Shutdown. Its being delivered with another one looming. Sources tell cnn the president hopes to hit the reset button with a bipartisan appeal for unity. His standoff with democrats over funding over his border wall certainly continues. Breaking, cnn has learned federal prosecutors are seeking interviews with Trump Organization executives and they have subpoenaed the Trump Inaugural Committee. We will talk about the breaking news and more with congressman ted lu of the foreign affair committee. Our analysts are standing by. First, lets go to jim acosta. The state of the Union Address is now less than three hours away. Reporter thats right. Its closing in fast. Aides say President Trump will deliver a state of the union speech aimed at restoring unity to a divided washington. The president will make another pitch for his border wall tonight. An issue that has divided repu