Donald trump, now has ten days to surrender to authorities in georgia on charges tied to his efforts to overturn the 2020 election in georgia. It will be his fourth time booked on criminal charges. He wont be alone. The 98page indictment names 18 codefendants, including his former chief of staff, mark meadows. The 41 charges include racketeering and conspiracy. The atlanta area District Attorney fani willis says those 19 defendants in total plotted against the constitution which trump swore to protect and defend and abused the office, trump is of Course Running for once again. Cnns paula reed is at the courthouse in atlanta. Paula, this case is wider both in terms of number of defendants but also took a different legal path for charging this. Reporter thats right. A lot of key differences here. Not only in how its constructed. Fani willis pursuing a racketeering or rico case here. Rico laws were passed to dismantle organized crime. So shes charging former President Trump but 18 allies.
All eyes are on the courthouse. The grand jury investigating donald trump for events surrounding january 6th is meeting there at this moment. Could an indictment be minutes away . Ukrainian forces launched another drone attack on moscow one day after a Russian Missile strike killed at least six people in ukraine. The Colorado River is draining fast and losing some 10 trillion gallons of water from 2000 to 2021 and that is a lot. Kate is off today and im john berman with sara sidner, and this is cnn news central. Happening now, the grand jury is meeting, and could they hand up a new indictment for donald trump with actions around january 6th. We know he got a Target Letter, and we know that the legal team was told that an indictment is pending, but it seems that the grand jury does not have much work left to do, and the cnn did spot the grand jurors entering court this morning, so what is happening this morning. Our Crime Reporter Katelyn Polantz is outside of the court trying to discer
let s go, tim scott! let me let me close with this. as much as i m excited about this journey, i simply want to say this. it s really not about me. it s about that 7-year-old girl named jordan who brought roses to the station, it s about 12-year-old sutherland surrat who came on this stage. you see, america is a city on . we are the beacon in the midst of darkness. we have an unusual respon responsibility. we have the responsibility to prove that self-governance works. we have the responsibility to share for a thousand generations what america has done for me, she can do for you. this can t be another presidential campaign. we don t have time for that. we need a president who pe persuades not just our friends and our base. we need a president that persuades. we have to do that with common sense, conservative principles. but we have to have a compassion for people. we have to have a compassion for people who don t agree with us. we have to believe that our ideas are so s
they still appear to be far apart and there are warnings that avoiding default might not be good enough if they come too close to june 1st when the u.s. potentially runs out of money. tim scott is running. the senator from south carolina the only black republican in the senate announces a run for the white house. scott may be hoping to run on a message of positivity, but if he goes, can he win if other candidates go low? and the suspect in the idaho college murder case appearing in court for an arraignment. 20-year-old bryan kohberger facing the death penalty if found guilty. when it came time for him to enter a plea, he and his attorneys remaining completely silent. the latest from court. we re following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news central. washington is running out of time and money. president biden and speaker mccarthy will meet this afternoon to once again try to avoid a u.s. default. that nightmare scenario co
ukraine says its open attacks are taking a toll on russia s war machine and a major counteroffensive could begin at any moment. a dire warning as the ceo of an artificial intelligence company testifies on capitol hill. quote, if this technology depose wrong, it can go quite wrong. we know ai is going to change the world, but how, how quickly, how much, no one quite knows. with the u.s. on the brink of defaulting on its debt, lawmakers are digging in at the white house. those talks in just two hours. we are following those major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news central. amid a barrage of missile and drone attacks in kyiv overnight, russia is making a major claim that it targeted and destroyed one of these, an american-made patriot air missile defense system. a u.s. official tells cnn it was likely damaged but not destroyed. ukraine is not commenting, but it says that its air defenses worked against the large-scale attack, intercepting