Now on cnn this morning, donald trump just days away from potentially having his prized properties seized if you cant come up with nearly half 1 billion plus the man donald trump labeled little marco, may now be on the shortlist to be his vice president. And baseballs biggest superstar, swindled shoheiohtani, firing his interpreter for allegedly Stealing Millions all right. 05 00 a. M. Here in the east alive. Look at New York City on this thursday morning. It is thursday, which means its almost friday morning. Everyone. Im kasie hunt. Its wonderful to have you with us this morning. Donald trump running short on time and options as he scrambles to put up a halfbilliondollar bond in the new york civil fraud case that he lost if you cant pay the 464 million by monday, he could lose some of his most prized assets, like trump tower, 40 Wall Street if he does not have funds to pay off the judgment then we will seek Judgment Enforcement mechanisms in court and we will ask the judge to seize h
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Welcome back. there is yet another twist in special counsel robert mueller s russia investigation. the l.a. times reporting that former trump campaign aide, his deputy campaign manager, rick gates, will plead guilty on fraud related charges. that plea expected within the next few days. he and his co-defendant paul manafort both pleaded not guilty back in october, but now the times reporting that gates will testify against his former boss. i m joined now by cnn political correspondent sara murray. do we know why this sudden reversal? well, jim, we first reported last week that rick gates was finalizing this plea deal with robert mueller. he appeared poised to cooperate. the l.a. times is flushing that out with new details. they say gates is likely to serve 18 months in prison. this is a guy under a lot of pressure, not just financially,
Enigmatic guy. but the russian base in crimea. it s hugely strategically important. we talked about this last night. it s the only year round ice freeport russia has, which was once a great world power. if america had a base in a neighboring country that used to be part of the united states and there was a threat, the government in that country was toppled, wouldn t the united states be in there if that was our only ice-freeport? no, i don t think we invade that country like that, no. i think we use all the means of persuasion and we would be trying to charm them and offering them agreements. all that was done. this is entirely different. there was no reason for him to launch out with those forces. the idea that the russian citizens were in danger, that was a pretext. it was an excuse. right. this is in the military we call it a probing attack. but is it an invasionings? the la times reporting, john brennan said there s a treaty between ukraine and russia
About the deadly trail here. the beginning of that trail, as john miller said on anderson cooper earlier, the two people that are dead in front and in that house were related to the gunmen. there is increasing evidence that we have both here from sources and the l.a. times reporting, as well, that it was the brother and the father of the gunmen in that house. what set this person off? we have no idea. the gunmen then went through several more locations, hijacking a car before getting to santa m oh, nica college. it ended at the library in santa monica college in a shootout with police. possibly campus police at santa monica college where the gunman was killed. we have a picture that is somewhat disturbing to see of the gunman himself all in black fatigue. dead. several people that we spoke to today say that he was killed in the library and they saw him outside the library along the