Meeting with democratic senators today, promising to reveal biden s game plan for defeating donald trump. The president s meeting with president zelenskyy as nato declares an irreversible path to membership for ukraine to the alliance and slams china for propping up putin s war machine. Good day, everyone. I m andrea mitchell in washington. Tonight, with his candidacy for a second term on the line, a big test for president biden. His first solo news conference in eight months, fielding questions from the white house press corps at the conclusion of the nato summit. Fewer than any of his predecessors with the exception of ronald reagan. A rare, unscripted event. A chance to stop the bleeding from democratic house members, donors and voters all concerned that the president is not up to defeating donald trump or if he does win, serving for another four years. A new washington post abc news poll out today showing a majority of democrats across the country saying the president should end hi
he s actually before the election is called. yeah. mapping it out. he s mapping out the entire conspiracy. the enterprise. that they followed to undermine the election and to take votes away from the voters and have republican trump friendly state legislators steal states for donald trump, and they follow that road map. what s fascinating, again, he did this before before. the election was called. we ll have that videotape. a significant show of solidarity from allies in the pacific. we ll explain the major meeting happening tomorrow at camp david. with us we have the host of way too early, white house bureau chief at politico and author of the big lie, jonathan lemire, president of the national action network and host of msnbc s politics nation, reverend al sharpton, and founder of the conservative website, the bulwark, charlie sykes is with us this morning. new polling on how americans view the serious legal issues surrounding donald trump. and t
republican opponents. we are also watching for another possible indictment against the former president, this one tied to january 6th and his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. what we re learning about the meeting between the special counsel and trump s lawyers. new scrutiny on the memphis police department after the january beating death of tyre nichols. kate and sara are off today, i m john berman with rahel solomon and this is cnn news central. i will say the words again, donald trump tried to alter, destroy, mutilate and conceal evidence. those are just some of the allegations in the major new charges unveiled against the former president in the mar-a-lago documents case. charges that come as a different grand jury inches closer to possibly indicting trump for events surrounding january 6th. and just to complicate things more, in a few hours for the first time trump will appear at a campaign event with his fellow republican candidates. this is quite a day.
sunday and that he expects to face both an arrest and an indictment. john: that will be the third indictment against the former president. let s bring in bret baier. the former president really hot under the collar about this on truth social, saying, deranged it jack smith, the prosecutor with joe biden s doj, sent a letter sunday night stating that i m a target of the january 6th grand jury investigation and giving me a very short four days to report for the grand jury, which almost always means an arrest and indictment. last two times he received letters, he was arrested and indicted. i expect this will be the same. this is the m.o., and the process by which it leads to that. he s probably going to not go to the grand jury and that voluntary appearance in the next four days. if you do the math, probably by friday you could be seeing another indictment. this would be the third indictment. each indictment so far politically has not affected the former presidents, which
it s revealed that almost 400 hotels across the uk are now being used to house asylum seekers at a cost of £6 million a day. and why something fishy has been going on after the body of a rare shark was discovered on a beach in hampshire. and coming up on the bbc news channel. facing a length ban aleksandar mitrovic s moment of madness means he could be out for a significant part of fulham s season. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. for the increasingly isolated russian leader vladimir putin, it is a hugely significant moment the chinese leader xijinping has travelled to moscow to meet him. president xi says today s state visit will give new momentum for relations between the two superpowers. mr xi will be the first foreign leader to shake vladimir putin s hand since an international arrest warrant was issued for the russian president on war crimes charges. 0ur russia editor, steve rosenberg, reports from moscow. when xi jinping arrived you could tell