testify in an investigation into a hush money scheme involving stormy daniels. that s believed to be a precursor to an indictment. potential defendants are required to be notified and invited to appear before a grand jury weigh anything charges. it charged, trump would become the first former president to be indicted. but would it slow his current presidential quest? i say not a chance, at least not based opt this case alone. any charges here would stem from the $130,000 in payments made to daniels during the 2016 campaign. apparently she had been ready to share her story with the national inquirer. but the tabloid s publisher was a trump friend who instead h helped broker a deal with the lawyer. i long thought it was the weakness of the trump investigations. first the events of january 6th. the mishandling of documents, the election interference including the so-called perfect phone call to secretary of state and fourth, this, the stormy daniels hush money. merrick garland a
stormy daniels that s believed to be a precursor to an indictment. they re required by law to be notified and invited to appear before a grand jury. if charged, trump would be the first former president to be indicted, but would it slow his current presidential quest? i say not a chance, at least not based on this case alone. any charges here would stem from the $130,000 in payments made to daniels during the 2016 campaign. apparently she had been ready to share her story of an affair with trump, but the publisher was a trump friend, who instead helped broker a deal with michael cohen, in which she was paid for silence. i ve thought it was the weakest of the trump investigations which generally fall into four buckets. first, the events of january 6th. second, the mishandling of government documents. third, the fulton county da investigation, including the phone call to brad raffensperger. fourth, this, the stormy daniels hush money. merrick garland appointed jack smith to loo
in about a year and a half, still high. bill: that would normally mean another rate hike on the horizon, but the fed could be forced to rethink that. dana: the moves are designed to protect the u.s. financial system and make sure customers do not lose their deposit. bill: the president insisting this is not a bailout, some folks beg to differ. well, it is a bailout, we give a lot of support to banks. banks pay a premium for insurance, capped at 250,000. if we change the rules and give them more coverage than anybody else gets, i think that s a bailout. the think you have to understand is that what they re doing now with the bailout, printing money to solve the problem. and there is this inflation problem that started the whole thing and they re trying to fix a banking problem by printing money. that will make the inflation problem worse. dana: we have analysis, let s begin with grady. last week a rate hike was almost a given, now things are more complicated, the
translator: it s fear of where do we go with the kids, because we don t have anywhere to go. we came to check our home but they won t let us in. millions in california, more rain expected throughout the weekend, and as more details come to life from that deadly kidnapping in mexico, we ll look at the growing business of medical tourism in the country. plus the bbc s soccer coverage plunged into chaos from the gary lineker partiality in the uk. this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. we begin this hour in california where a series of deadly storms unleashed historic snow falls and massive flooding across much of the state. the white house telling us the president spoke with california s govern gary newsome again on saturday telling the governor that california has full support of the federal government. it is likely to be a long, sleepless night and soggy weekend for many across the state especially in monterey county. the latest epicenter of extreme weather. a