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grand jury investigating former president trump sources now, say the district attorney there has been asking questions about a second hush money case involving trump and efforts to cover up his alleged affair with a playboy model and as nashville mourns and prepares to bury six victims. new 911. calls from the school shooting were just released. stand by for that breaking story, and i ll get reaction from the national mayor who s joining us this hour. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. tonight another u. s citizen is in custody in russia. this time a journalist for the wall street journal accused of espionage. cnn s alex marquardt has details on the arrest and why this particular reporter may have been targeted by moscow. this video from russian media appears to show american wall street journal reporter evan herskovits arriving at a moscow court today. the russian security services arre ....
Before the grand jury in new york on monday, is second time cooperating with investigators in this investigation, but at this point, we don t know if prosecutors questioned him trying to establish a pattern or exactly whether they asked about this particular hush money scheme as well reached down. the former president trump s attorneys, and they have declined to comment. paula stand by. i want to bring in also cnn defense attorney shan wu and cnn legal legal analyst jennifer rogers. i want them to join this conversation. jennifer let me start with you. what does it reveal to you that the manhattan district attorney s office now appears to be broadening its focus to include yet another hush money scheme? well, it could mean a couple of things wolf. it could mean that they think that they can charge this scheme the way that they may be looking to charge the stormy daniels scheme. i don t know what happened with the karen macdougal payments in terms of perhaps being on the books and wheth ....
Before the grand jury something that no attorney would recommend for their client because he does have this this idea that he can shape people s opinions and change their views on things. obviously, that is not happened here. and there are big questions about what the this case actually looks like going forward. it s not a slam dunk as you ve heard from many legal experts, but the idea that this is actually happening, i think is something that they had tried to push off for as long as possible. try to try to try it. but they clearly now have failed . this criminal indictment is about to be presented to trump and the legal process will move forward. very, very serious. developments as well. shan will . you re a former prosecutor walk us through what trump should now expect. well, that s to expect that his lawyers are going to have to arrange for him to do a self surrender. and this question of whether he does a big publicity stunt with a perp walk. that s something that they ll have to ....
, there is a delay. this could be the reason. do you expect that paula that the grand jury there may need to hear from additional witnesses? as part of this latest line of questioning ? it s certainly possible wolf and one thing about grand juries. it s a very secretive process near the grand jury was meeting today they weren t expected to hear additional evidence in the trump case, but it s also possible that they re done hearing evidence, and prosecutors could potentially want to move forward with a vote on an indictment either today. or when they re expected to be monday or wednesday, but after wednesday they have a previously scheduled break. now some outlets have really leaned in and said look, nothing is going to happen this month. but we ve been a little more cautious than our reporting, saying, look, we expect them to meet today, monday and wednesday, and it s unclear whether they ll do anything related to the trump case. all right. paula reid, jennifer! roger shin woo, guys. t ....
District attorney s office that the way this would play out would be the grand jury would vote on an indictment. it would be filed under seal, and then they would notify defense attorneys. that there had been an indictment but not necessarily the charges. they told me about 10 days ago that they really wanted to treat this as they would any other case. but, of course, one of the biggest questions wolf right now is what exactly are the charges here? there s been a lot of speculation about what exactly the case would look like. would it be a misdemeanor? would it be a felony? would it be a series of charges? that s what we re trying to figure out right now. one of the interesting to know i m asking his attorneys if they were informed of the specific charges, because that was not the plan that prosecutors had at least as of several days ago, and the next step will be this process of negotiating a self surrender. but unlike ordinary citizens, this requires new york law enforcement to parti ....