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it s historic. we ve never seen anything like this before. let s get the latest now from laura ingle live in new york. good evening, laura. good evening, bret. as you can see, cameras are downtown at the courthouse. fox news can confirm that a manhattan grand jury has voted to indict former president donald trump. the first former u.s. president to be charged criminally. the 23 grand jurors have been listening to ed since january on trump s role in hush money payments to former porn star stormy daniels. trump has denied having an affair with daniels and any wrong doing. but his former lawyer and fixer, michael cohen has testified that he paid stormy daniels $130,000 to not speak about her relationship with the former president. and that trump reimbursed him for that payment. earlier this week, former national inquirer publisher day vick pecker testified for a second time. pecker has played a key role in linking trump to daniels. during a rally waco saturday, trump who ....
you re live in the cnn newsroom. thanks for staying with me. i m ana cabrera in new york. the vaccines are giving americans hope. and we need it. the optimistic news. round three of covid-19 relief is rolling out to millions of americans. it s $1400 per person. many of the cash payments are expected to hit bank accounts this weekend. covid vaccinations more than 101 million doses given to people around the country, according to the cdc, and about a third of the people are now fully vaccinated. public health officials are concerned when they see scenes like this. people packed together. almost almost nobody with a mask. and it is spring break for people and many are traveling, despite advice against it. this is the packed beach, this is miami beach right now. they are begging people to keep wearing masks and keep following safety guidelines. we have a team of recorders spread out. let s begin with cnn s natasha chen. she is in miami beach and people are starting 20 to fl ....
Nominee. we ll see iowa. it s less than a year actually away. see what that looks like. bret: it will heat up soon. congress woman claudia tenney. thanks for your time on a breaking news night. let s head to chad pergram, congressional correspondent for that. chad? i just talked to a couple of sources here on capitol hill about what this does to the house investigation of alvin bragg here. i m told that they expect the three committee chairs to take a little step back over the next couple days until former president trump is arraigned. now i m told that they will continue with their investigation because they want to know all the circumstances about this. but they re doing to take a little pause, tape the brakes here. there s still a deadline for tomorrow for alvin bragg to come up with some of the materials about his investigation and the scope of his inquirely. i m told they don t expect him to supply. one source said the deadline is the deadline. ....
Convoluded system that oversees the capital police. it s unlikely there will be an assault on the capital like this again. if from there is one think they know how to do, it is to protect buildings. they are failing to collect intelligence, and we re all seeing social media posts with people talking about bringing guns, sharing maps, and talking about arresting democratic members of congress. there is a disconnect here. the fbi did not comply with all of the document requests by the senate committees. they re saying there needs to be a commission or more congressional inquirely because there will be more plots, hallie and we rely on the fbi to protect the united states from terrorism. one of the things that ken is ....
Defense in the house impeachment inquiry. eli, you ve got the letter? this surprises absolutely nobody. [ laughter ] and it s a very tart two-paragraph. tart, really? it s basically that your inquirely has violated basic principles of due process and fundamental fairness. house democrats have wasted enough america s time with this charade. you should end this inquiry now. no response to any of the evidence that was put forth in the house. basically this is the same political argument and drum beat we have been hearing from the white house. they say that adopting articles of impeachment, that would be a reckless abuse of power by house democrats and would constitute the most unjust highly partisan and untunl attempted impeachment in our nation s history. so, that s cipollone s way of saying we ll wait and play ball when it gets to the senate when we can, you know, show the rudy documentary that s being filmed in ukraine right now. [ laughter ] and just conduct a completely differe ....