witnesses ttrial date now set and the timing in the middle of the presidential campaign. the furious talks at the white house and on the hill. president biden, house speaker kevin mccarthy over the debt ceiling. mccarthy saying publicly we will finish this by june 1st, but privately saying we re nowhere near a deal. so mary bruce tonight on what s really playing out behind the scenes we re tracking the potential for severe storms tonight and heading right into memorial day so ginger zee is here to time this out. the disturbing new report any accusing hundreds of clergy in the catholic church in illinois of sexually abusing nearly 2,000 children the war in ukraine tonight and the rare assault inside russia by anti-putin russians. and tonight, the claim that u.s. equipment is now showing up on russia s side of the border. how the pentagon is now responding here in the u.s. the alarming scene at the southern border video showing a 4-year-old being dropped over the border
first, the mar-a-lago classified document investigation. our reporting is that special counsel, jack smith, is going to be home stretch on that. then there s the hush money payments to stormy daniels. that case is set to begin in march of next year, right in the middle of primary season. then there s the georgia investigation into efforts by then president trump to overturn the 2020 election. but even with all of this, the deck is stacked in donald trump s favor for the gop primary. john avlon is here to explain. governor ron desantis plans to seize the gop spotlight tomorrow with a big announcement, it involves elon musk. kara swisher is gonna join our panel to share her thoughts. when is enough fame and money and success enough. lebron james playing the will he or won t he retire game. we ll see what happens going forward. i don t know. i don t know. i ve a lot to think about, to be honest. a lot to be thinking about, to be honest. just for me, personally, going forward w
and through the process that criminal defendants experience on arrival, there s the security preparations well underway there. there s a possible legal maneuvering and motions before and after the arraignment on both sides, and of course, there s how this shapes the future politically, not just the middle of a presidential campaign, but also three other active criminal investigations of the former president. we have new details on much of it. also conversation tonight with ronan farrow was done so much reporting on stormy daniels, karen macdougal and how those aligned with the former president bought their silence. we ve got reporters tonight on every aspect of the story. cnn s jessica schneider on the criminal justice processing and shimon prokupecz on the logistics and security and randy kaye on the machinery moving a former president want to start with jessica schneider. what do we know about about tuesday s arraignment? what s going to happen? so we ve gotten some idea of
in the east, victor in the storm zone and rob marciano standing by to take us through the timing of this tonight. also tonight, what we have just learned in the indictment against former president trump, when he ll come to new york to face charges, and what this could look like, what the american people could see. and what do we know about this indictment? how many charges? aaron katersky from the courthouse in lower manhattan tonight. rachel scott standing my life. the first funerals begin in nashville after the deadly mass shooting at that christian school, 9-year-old evelyn dieckhaus. the tribute from hundreds of mourners, many wearing pink to honor her. the young american journalist being held hostage in russia. tonight, president biden telling russia to let him go. new reporting of the harsh conditions of his confinement. also news from the vatican, the pope s condition. before he s released, the remarkable moment baptizing a baby in the hospital. tonight, here a firs
now? so let s be real clear about one thing, there is no actual crisis here. this is entirely a crisis of their making if it occurs. president joe biden continues to call out house republicans over the debt ceiling, delivering, what sure sounded like a 2024 stump speech. meanwhile on capitol hill republican senators air their grievances with the attorney general. and also ahead, a major move on the price of insulin that will bring much needed relief for millions of americans. good morning and welcome to way too early on this thursday, march 2nd. i m jonathan lemire, thanks for starting your day with us. we ll begin on capitol hill where attorney general merrick garland faced a barrage of attacks from republican lawmakers yesterday during a senate judiciary committee hearing. as is customary for an attorney general to do, garland appeared before the new congress to answer questions about a wide range of topics. but the a.g. spent a large portion of the four-hour hearing de