become the first former president ever to be criminally indicted. ahead why his former lawyer, michael cohen might play a key role. in california residents are preparing for another round of severe weather including excessive rainfall, official from monterey county joins me in a few minutes and a shock and outrage in germany after a deadly attack on a jehovah s witness church. . . live from cnn center. this is cnn newsroom. with kim brunhuber. it s been more than six years since $130,000 in hush money was paid to porn star stormy daniels to keep her from going public about an alleged affair with donald trump, that payment was made days before the 2016 presidential election, now, the new york times reports the trump has been offered a chance to testify next week before the grand jury that s been hearing evidence in that case. cnn evan paris tells us what it might mean for the former president. reporter: we know that they met with trump team recently and time says that
days after the international criminal court issued an arrest warrant for him accusing him of war crimes. he made a stop in mariupol. ukrainian officials slamming the visit saying putin visits mariupol under the cover of night. cnn senior international correspondent ivan joining us live. what else did putin do while there? reporter: right. well, the kremlin says he arrived by helicopter. then he was shown in a pretty long unedited video driving a car, being briefed by a top kremlin aid. driving into the outskirts of mariupol. the aid was describing the situation and acknowledging that much of the city had been destroyed. that there were ruins of buildings being demolished and much of the city was also empty because ukrainians has fled. putin was shown meeting a couple of people who were living in what were described as newly constructed apartment buildings. those people thanked putin for their new homes saying they had had nothing before that. and we ve been hearing some pre
two americans kidnapped in mexico now back in the u.s. for treatment. other two are dead as the search for their killers ramps up. why ukrainian forces refuse to retreat from the bloody battles if bakhmut, president zelenskiy warning about consequences if russia seizes the city, new u.s. senate bill aims to give the biden administration the authority to ban tiktok. we ll discuss what data the ap collects and whether it should really be considered a threat to national security. . . live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with rosemary church. thanks for being with us, the two americans who survived a deadly kidnapping in mexico on friday are back in the united states. according to mexican officials la washington mcgee and eric williams were found in a wooden house in mattingly on thursday, williams s wife tells cnn he was shot in both legs, mcgee was not injured, her mother told our affiliate she s spoken with her daughter and doing ok but struggling with fact she had t
times of tragedy in times of crisis, they stand up and they show up. mississippi s governor visits a town flattened by a powerful tornado for the neighborhoods that were leveled . the recovery is only just beginning. political turmoil in israel, benjamin netanyahu is under pressure from his own government to halt plans on judicial reform. now we re hearing an announcement on that could be imminent. we alive in televisa and jerusalem. with the latest and the manhattan grand jury is expected to continue its investigation and donald trump later today we will ask our political analyst if an indictment is likely. live from cnn center. this is cnn newsroom. with rosemary church. good to have you with us, and we begin this hour in the southeastern us, where millions are under the threat of more severe storms, bringing large hail and damaging winds to areas already struggling to recover from an earlier rash of storms over the weekend, at least 10 confirmed. tornadoes strike mississip
cnn newsroom. it was like no notice. we didn t know what was happening. city is gone, but we will resilient. and we re gonna come back. we re going to come back strong. unfortunately coming up here in the upcoming 24 hours we are expecting to deal with the same threats over the same areas. the thugs and criminals who are corrupting our justice system will be defeated , discredited and totally disgraced. i don t believe that bragg would be doing this if donald trump were not running for president. really prime minister benjamin netanyahu, firing his own defense minister who is a member of his own political party with these people are saying is they care about democracy? i think it shows the vitality vibrancy of israel s democracy. live from london. this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. monday march 27th nine am here in london. 11 am in israel were just a short time ago, the country s largest union called for and historic general strike. universities are also