Eastern only on cnn. Good morning, and welcome to cnn this morning. Im Rahel Salmon In for victor blackwell. And im am sara walker and thank you for spending a part of your morning with us. The Fulton County jaerm District Attorney investigating Donald Trumps attempts to interfere in the election is expect tods present her case to the grand jury. What were learning about the key witnesses ordered to testify. This is the largest Natural Disaster weve ever experienced. Its also a Natural Disaster that is going to take an incredible amount of time to recover from. The death toll from the maui wildfires jumped to 93 making it the deadliest wildfire in the past century. Were live in maui as help pours in and residents are frustrated with the response. Doctors are warning of a Triple Threat heading into cold and flu season and what we should be doing to prepare. Im back in the element. Im back in that mode. Just back, a part of many my team. And back in action. Buffalo bills safy damar hamli
Of this week where things are finally going to happen. What is the significance of what we just heard from the former Lieutenant Governor there . Yeah, i mean, this is the culmination of a two and a half year Criminal Investigation that Fulton County District Attorney fani willis has been overseeing. So the fact that witnesses have finally been put on notice with a day to appear before the grand jury that can actually issue indictments is an indication she is going to go before the grand jury, present her case potentially against donald trump and, you know, a dozen or so others and she going to ask this grand jury to hand up indictments. We have been told this presentation could take as long as two days. Its possible that she actually begins with this on monday and then we see some of these witnesses, including former Lieutenant Governor geoff duncan and george chidi showing up on tuesday. Now, you have interviewed k george chidi and talked to him. Thats going to be the second witness,
math? plus, a palestinian american student says she s lost more than 100 members of her family to israeli air strikes. other relatives, american citizens, she says, are still trying to leave gaza. she s here to share her story before speaking today at what organizers say will be the largest march for gaza in the u.s. since the start of the war. and some migrant families in new york will have to move out of their temporary housing this week. i ll speak to the city council s immigration committee chair about why she says the mayor is causing harm to vulnerable people. i m victor blackwell. let s start the show. the first voting of 2024 happens on monday, so we will finally start to learn where republican voters stand in this consequential election year. but not at a place that s representative of america. iowa is around 90% white, according to census data, so it s no surprise that they re the majority of voters participating in the caucuses. but there are also black peopl
to meet with the mexican president. will a new plan emerge to stop the unprecedented number of illegal border crossings. plus a new survey shows voters associate donald trump with words like revenge and dictatorship. and the gop front runner seems to be bragging about it. it s time to say good-bye to 2023. we have a countdown of tbiggest political stories of the year. i m phil mattingly. let s go behind the headlines and inside politics. at this hour, secretary of state antony blinken and the secretary of homeland security are meeting with the mexican president about the crisis along the southern border. the goal, convince him to action to stop migrants before they reach u.s. territory. cnn s priscilla alvarez leads us off from the white house today. what does the administration hope to get out of this trip from a policy perspective? reporter: simply put, they want help to drive down the number of border crossings. that officials have been seeing creep up over the l
evidence emerging today in the guardian that in the crucial time between doj s subpoena and may of last year and the meeting between investigators and trump s legal team the following month, trump or his aides might have hidden classified documents from donald trump s own defense attorney from that stunning new reporting. quote, donald trump s lawyer told associates he was waved off from searching the former president s office where the fbi later found the most sensitive materials anywhere on the property. that lawyer, evan corcoran, recounted that several trump aides told him to search the storage room because that was where all the materials that had been brought from the white house at the end of trump s presidency ended up being deposited. corcoran found 38 classified documents in the storage room. he then asked whether he should search anywhere else but was steered away, he told associates. according to an inventory unsealed by a federal judge last year, the fbi found 27