but the district attorney there is still talking to witnesses and trump s lawyers are calling their own. and the blossoming friendship that has the world on edge. russian president vladimir putin and chinese leader xi jinping leading in moscow. what this might mean for ukraine. then, could parents be forced to buy separate plane tickets for their infant children? the new push that could ban babies from laps. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. and we start with our politics lead and the flurry of new developments in the various and sundry trump investigations. police in new york are setting up security cameras and barricades as they prepare for possible unrest after a possible indictment of the former president. trump said he expects to be arrested as soon as tomorrow over that hush money payment to porn actress and director stormy daniels. trump s former lawyer michael cohen was back answering questions at the prosecutor s office today over that $130,000 payment to k
it just came up. 20 seconds later, it was gone. tornadoes and golf-ball sized hail pummelled the southern u.s. there s another rournd of severe weather on the way. plus to conviction, the prison sentence for alex murdaugh and what he had to say during his sentencing. and a man accused of plotting to murder, we ll look at the rise in semitism across the u.s. we start this hour with the extreme weather hitting huge parts of the country. at least ten people have died as the powerful storm system marches across the south and into the northeast. the next western storm will be you shalling inland saturday bringing another round of snow to the pacific northwest, northern and central california. in some places, new snow will be measured in feet. the system that brought tornadoes, damaging winds and flooding to the season central and eastern u.s. will be offshore by later this morning, but the cold part of the storm is going strong. winter weather alerts are in places across p
this press conference under way right now with kentucky governor andy beshear talking about the devastating floods. 25 fatalities across five counties. that number will continue to grow. and to be refined. remember, we don t have cell service in some areas to please be patient as we get new information or if it changes. we continue to pray for the families that have suffered ununfathomable loss. some have lost almost everyone in their household. rescuers at the kentucky department of fish and wildlife has been the forefront of these recovery efforts. they ve had to ultimately gather the bodies more than just about anybody else. so, please also pray for those first responders. the mission has been specially challenging and what they re experiencing firsthand is tremendously stressful and difficult. we thank them for what they re doing. deaths include four in breather county, two in clay, 14 in knot, two in lecher, and three in perry. again, those will continue to rise. if th
what do you think are the chances you can get an acquittal? i would not comment. reporter: she was detained on february 17th. prosecutors claiming she was carrying two vaping cartridges with about .07 oil a crime in russia that can carry a sentence of up to ten years in praise colony. the u.s. considers her being rong wrongfully detained. wrongful detention is unacceptable where ever it occurs. the united states government, at the very high e est levels is working hard to bring mi miss griner as well as all wrongfully detained u.s. citizens safely home. reporter: her trial starts as tensions between the u.s. and russia have reached a boiling point. not just over rusrussia s invas of ukraine. the u.s. is calling for immediate release of former marine paul whelan who was sentenced to sf years. they also said the trial was not political. the facts say a prominent athlete was detained in possession of prohibits substances that contained drugs. reporter: after about
well, it s 10:00 a.m. here in jeddah, and u.s. president joe biden will soon begin the second and final day of what is his controversial trip to saudi arabia. on friday the two nations entered into a number of far-reaching agreements on a wide range of issues including on energy and on food security. but it s the image of the president fist-bumping saudi crown prince mohammed bin salman, or mbs as he s known, that has been grabbing the attention. the saudi government also released this video of the u.s. delegation greeting saudi officials with fist bumps. u.s. journalists weren t present at the time, and we only have the saudi version of this exchange. president biden says the first thing he did on friday was confront the crown prince over the 2018 murder of journalist jamal khashoggi. here s what the president said afterwards. with respect to the murder of khashoggi, i raised it at the top of the meeting, making it clear what i thought of it at the time and what i think of