ahead of today s history-making arraignment set to begin at 2:15 p.m. eastern the case, of course, stemming on alleged hush money payment to adult film actress stormy daniels. the indictment will be unsealed later today. there are about 30 of them. and just like yesterday, from west palm beach, here to new york, every moment of trump s four-mile trip from trump tower in midtown to the courthouse in lower manhattan is almost certain to be exhaustedly documented however, as soon as trump enters that courtroom, it is going to be a whole different story overnight, the judge presiding over the case ruled that no cameras will be allowed in the courtroom during the proceedings. but cameras are not trump s attorney joe tacopina made the plans abundantly clear overnight, signaling the legal fight to come. we ll be pleading very loudly not guilty before the judge and then we ll go from there there is zero, zero chance where donald trump is pleading to anything here. you are at th
take them off. everything. jesse: and if you are the biden family, you don t get to spend 50 years running the game without keeping it all in the family. but, last night, we learned the bidens may have been compromised. as investigative reporter paul sperry broke to us that the biden family has been under federal surveillance for years. another chinese partner of his a guy named patrick ho, his office for secretary of statey was rated, we learned recently from some law enforcement documents was actually raided. the feds actually put the chinese partners under a fisa have a surveillance and at the same time they were monitoring the bidens communications with those chinese partners. jesse: so the bidens are all over fbi wiretaps talking to china. the fbi was investigating patrick ho. a chinese bag man who eventually got popped for bribing african leaders and helping iran evade sanctions. real nice guy. so what does ho have to do with the biden family? ho was the v.p. f
indictment could land soon. that has law enforcement in new york and washington beefing up security ahead of potential protests. but amid putin continues talks with his dear friend, she jinping, and moscow, in the coming hours. the white house says it s watching the meeting of russian and chinese leaders closely. how this visit could impact the war in ukraine. plus, shares and u.s. bank first republic tumbled to a new low, raising the question is the banking system in the u.s. secure, or is more turmoil coming? live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with rosemary church. good to have you with us. it s two a.m. and new york, with the city that never sleeps is getting ready for an unprecedented possibility. talk the indictment of a former president. a senior law enforcement official tells cnn donald trump could be charged as soon as this week. but that s for us close to trump s legal team say they don t expect any arrest or court appearance to happen before next
chosen by team trump. and we are getting a look at the former president in a way we have never seen. the book makes a frightening connection between trump and his view of power. then, how safe are your most personal secrets on your phone and the internet? a tv weather man loses his job one very private photos are delivered to his boss and his mother. he s here to tell us how it happened. plus the devastation in puerto rico. the island is asking for help as the 11th hour gets underway on this tuesday night. good evening once again. i m stephanie ruhle. donald trump seems to be getting a lesson in be careful what you wish for. today his lawyers squared off with the justice department attorneys in a brooklyn courtroom during their first meeting with the special master, judge raymond dearie. trump s lawyers soon discovered the judge was ready to challenge them. jerry was one of the former guy s choices to review the documents seized at mar-a-lago last month, including several pap
that would be the end of it. so he said the burden was on them to decide if they would put forward any position that these documents have been classified. and the former president has said it publically, but not an argument that his attorneys have made yet. and his lawyers said that they hope to push that issue down the road because it also raises the stakes of how would they support that, it could involve affidavits, witness statements, sworn statements under oath which could become an interesting strategic decision for them to make which they even noted as part of their defense if there ever is a subsequent indictment in this case. so really getting to the heart of this issue here and what trump s team will take. and on a practical matter the judge said trump s lawyers have until friday to choose one of five vendors put toward by the department of justice, they will kick start the process of reviewing these materials, allowing both sides to categorize them as to whether thi