a warm welcome to our viewers joining us in the understand and around the world. i m bianca nobilo. and i m max foster. just ahead justice for tyre! we re all tyre now. and we re all going to stand up with his family. it has been treacherous for people traveling. once this ends in dallas, we ll see another wave of this. anyone in my position not taking the fifth amendment would be a fool. in people who are part of his base who say that he is the victim of a witch hunt. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. it is wednesday, february 1, t 9 ong:00 omiin london. and in memphis, there are calls for police form and tyre nichols will be laid for rest. and his brother says that tyre would want this to be as peaceful as possible. my brother is the most peaceful person you ever met. he has never lifted a finger to nobody. never raised his voice to nobody. and if my brother was here today, he d tell us to do this peaceful. t
jury to hold it against him. that is big stuff. reporter: the legal vice tightening in another count as well. sources familiar with the matter tell cnn the manhattan district attorney s office has begun presenting evidence to a grand jury about trump s alleged role in paying hush money to stormy daniels to keep quiet about an alleged affair he had with her several years ago. david pecker former head of the company that publishes the national enquirer was expected to meet with prosecutors in that case this week. pecker was in the middle of what the former president s former lawyer michael cohen says was a 2016 scheme to pay daniels $130,000 to stop her from going public about the alleged affair. cohen providing an alleged reir reimbursement from trump. sgle th he thought he escaped prosecution and now they are deciding whether to charge him.
would sit down with vladimir putin. why would this attributed to hostilities between russia and ukraine, that s the white house s answer to that, but, of course, a lot of people are skeptical about the timing. that s a good point. chris cillizza, do you think the president was wary of the optics of sitting down with putin so soon after this bombshell? yes, and i think context matters. let s remember back in helsinki, donald trump and vladimir putin side by side. donald trump says, well, you know, i know our intelligence community says it was russia that interfered in the election and helped me and hurt hillary clinton but vladimir putin said it wasn t. we are both to blame. there was a huge uproar stateside. if he s not in a great place mentally dealing with cohen and what looks like bob mueller s investigation picking up momentum and the vice tightening, it might not be the