at this time, wolf will be back. in florida preparing to address the nation, right. jeff zeleny reporting for us, jeff thank you very much right now. i want to bring in our legal, political and security experts for more analysis than katelyn polantz. you ve covered former president trump for a long time. he and his team view this truly historic moment, returning to his native new york city to turn himself in tomorrow. yeah i think publicly. you re obviously seeing a lot of bravado coming from trump shortly before he took off from palm beach to fly here to new york. he was tweeting that this or he was posting on truth social, that this was a witch hunt. proof that the country was quote going to hell, the once great country that s what he wrote on truth social. he s using this also to energize his base wolf because his political advisors as they were flying up here, we re tweeting that they have raised some $7 million, according to their claims. i should note not some ftc report that we
ally. this week. we re covering it all with our correspondents here in washington and in new york first, let s go to cnn s senior crime and justice reporter caitlin poland s caitlin, a federal appeals court just ruled in the investigation of trump s handling of classified documents and moral lago. give us the latest. that s right. wolf and donald trump s defense lawyer, evan corcoran, has been handling the response on behalf of the former president to this probe. he is now set to testify to a federal grant. on jury on friday in washington, d. c in the courthouse he had testified before declined to answer some questions. and now the prosecutors in this case, the special counsel office of jack smith, they have gotten the circuit court of appeals sign off that evan corker in this attorney needs to come back and answer additional questions about his conversations directly with donald trump the sort of thing that prosecutors believe will show that trump was trying to break the law. in those
accusing russia of deliberately targeting civilians in a deadly missile strike that hit residential apartment buildings . cnn is in the war zone as the search for survivors is underway . welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer, you re in the situation room. this is cnn breaking news, and we begin with the breaking news in two investigations of donald trump, the former president s lawyer ordered to testify before a federal grand jury investigating his handling of classified documents, and we also have new reporting on the manhattan district attorney weighing a possible indictment of trump in the stormy daniels hush money case, a source says the prosecutor is trying to decide whether to call back former trump lawyer michael cohen or another edition. final witness to refute testimony. by a trump
back. we don t know what crime he could be charged with. we don t know if he is going to be charged with a crime, but he is currently sitting in front runner status for the republican nominee. he s somebody who is seeking the white house again. so this i think is a case that is very easy for americans to understand. he s obviously facing scrutiny around january 6th scrutiny around the election in georgia, for instance. but this is a case involving the nation s top secret is very easy, i think for average americans understand, and it s sort of hard to kind of message is way out of, i think so. we ll see how this unfolds as ilott was talking about. i think it s unfolding much more quickly than most of us thought it would. and i think you know donald trump. as in previous iterations of cases been sort of able to slow things down. but here we see things playing out very quickly with this case and then other cases, also moving along fairly rapidly as again he s trying to establish himself a
that are all over this country and drank coffee with ukrainian troops who took selfies with him . courageous leader indeed. all right, ivan watson. thank you very much. stay safe over there, joining us now to discuss what s going on cnn contributor on russian affairs jill dougherty and cnn military analyst retired colonel cedric leighton. jill. how revealing are these deadly russian strikes on civilian targets so soon after putin and the visiting chinese president? xi jinping tried to portray themselves as working for peace in ukraine. yeah i mean, that s the irony of it. and obviously, president putin is saying full steam ahead. this is not going to stop. i mean, if you look at the negotiating the discussions that she and putin had they didn t really get into any specifics. there were generalities about peace and certainly president she wants to look like a peacekeeper. but in actual fact, i don t think it it