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
victor blackwell back with us. um i m so happy to be back for real. this is real. like for good for good. yes i am so happy to be back. we ll talk more about that in just a moment, because there s a lot going on today. there sure is. well, here s what we re watching this morning. when it came through. it sounds like helicopter real real fast, and it came so fast and quick. we can do nothing but get up on the cover. severe storms ripping through parts of the south more than 20 people are dead and more than 100,000 customers without power. one mississippi town described as quote gone are isabelle rose. salas is there another legal blow for former president trump ? some of his closest advisors are forced to testify in two justice department investigations. judge says trump cannot claim executive privilege to keep them from testifying the united states does not does not emphasis seek conflict with iran. but be prepared, frustrate , act forcefully protect our people. president bid
retaliation that it is designed not to escalate the situation. we do not trust tiktok will ever embrace american values. your platform should be banned. i have seen no evidence that the chinese government has access to their data. they have never asked us. we have not provided i find that actually preposterous . is it a threat to the united states? security i believe that it is. yes it should be ended one way or another. the bottom line. is this american data stored on american soil by an american company overseen by american personnel. the entire country is waiting to see whether trump is about to be charged and arrested or not, sources tell us the manhattan grand jury panel met but did not take up the case. district attorney alvin bragg is unleashing on house republicans . three committees have said they wanted to come in and testify is sending the message. they want congress to back off. it s easier for them to go against alvin bragg that it is for them to go against donal
president and his team today retaliatory strike by the united states in syria, the pentagon says president biden authorized the strike after an american contractor was killed and five u. s service members injured in syria. the administration says the americans were attacked by a drone officials say came from iran. let s begin at the pentagon with cnn s oren liebermann or what are you learning about the u. s personnel involved here and how frequently attacks like this happen? the latest update we have on the u. s personnel involved here is that there were five service members injured. they are in stable condition. two of them were treated at the scene. three of them had to be taken to coalition medical facilities in iraq. there was also one other u. s contractor injured that, in addition, according to the pentagon to the one u. s contractor who was killed in this one way, you wavy attackers. suicide drone attack . the pentagon says the drone was of iranian origin, likely indic
campaign to capture or bank in the words of one expert. i spoke with bank more americans who they can then use as hostages to trade for people who russia wants wolf clearly an escalation in the u. s russian relationship right now. not a good one. alex marquardt. thank you very much. let s get some more on the u. s response to this new arrest by russia joining us now our chief white house correspondent phil mattingly, fill as we just heard. the biden administration is clearly warning americans to leave russia after the arrest of this journalist. how is the white house handling this? behind the scenes? publicly the condemnation has been unequivocal. the rejection of the charges themselves have been swift and similarly strong. but what white house officials make clear is that this point in time there is simply not a lot that they know they don t understand motivations. they don t understand whether this is connected to anything. they don t have any sense. whether or not this signals some