they were supposed to be taking at least one senate vote today, but then they all got slid into tomorrow because of the storm. that said, this afternoon the capitol physician the doctor for the house in the senate sent a sobering detailed letter to the democratic and republican leaders of the senate. telling them that you know, regardless of the stall, senators ought to be staying home now anyway. apparently, the covid testing sites they have set up at the u.s. capitol, the positivity rate, the rate at which tests that are coming back positive, it had been under 1%, until recently, until the omicron wave of the virus started to hit in d.c.. the capital physician advised senators today that as of right now, the positivity rate at that testing that has gone from under 1% to over 13%. he described the number of covid cases on capitol hill right now as, quote, unprecedented. saying, quote, thousands of individual with coronavirus infections identified at the capitol daily. this i
cnn breaking news and welcome to a special edition of cnn news central. i m john berman new york, kate and sara are out this morning events in two courtrooms, in two states that could have a huge impact on the legal peril facing donald trump when and if he will go to trial at all in where he might go to trial first and i m kaitlan collins outside of the courthouse in new york or while trump is expected to arrive soon on his way from trump tower here in new york, also where he will learn whether he will face his first criminal trial while seeking the gop nomination. and ultimately a return to the white house. if the judge here rejects trump s longshot requests to dismiss this hush money case. he is expected to set a firm date eight for the trial, which could be as soon as next month, march 25th, 34 criminal charges against trump or what s at stake? and i m laura coates and atlanta live outside the fulton county courthouse where trump and he has remaining 14 co-defendan
that i would not be whether or not i was going to be subpoenaed or not, and that emphatically i would not have been sitting in this position as being called as a witness, so that s what my text chains show. so no. that we ve never talked about willis and wade having a relationship? not directly you and i, no. we talked about my health. okay. we talked about as i stated before, other things, but not this, no. okay. did you text me about wade and willis taking many trips together? i object i m sorry. there s been an objection. i m going to object as it relates to attorney/client privilege, and i m going to object because i haven t seen the text messages that she s attempting to impeach the witness with, and so he s made all of his representations that he s had zero communications as it relates to the issues that she continues to ask about and that the only information she has from him is through a third party, which would be hearsay. ms. merchan. judge,
or not i was going to be subpoenaed or not and emphatically i would not have been sitting in this position as being called as a witness. so that s what my text chains show, so no. we ve never talked about willis and wade having a relationship. not directly you and i, no. we talked about my health, we talked about as i stated before, other things but not this, no. okay. did you text me about wade and willis taking many trips together? i object, as it relates to attorney/client privilege. going to object because i haven t seen the text messages she is trying to impeach the witness with. he made all his representations and said 0 communications relating to the issues that mr. merchant continues to ask about and the only information she has about would be from a third party which is hearsay. it is not hearsay. we have had these conversations. if i need to take the stand i will and need to put my phone into evidence, i will. the first objection was to privilege on beha
welcome back. the former president arrived to the courthouse a little over an hour ago via underground garage. he has already been booked and digitally fingerprinted. he is expected to plead not guilty to a 37-count indictment. mr. trump is accused of mishandling classified documents containing sensitive defense secrets about everything from nuclear programs to potential military vulnerabilities. while he s not expected to stay much many court today, trump has been saying plenty of social media. he s posted nearly a dozen times on the case just in recent hours and that includes multiple attacks on the essential counsel, jack smith, calling him a thug and accusing him of planting evidence all while police are keeping a close eye on the crowds gathered outside the courthouse in miami for the arraignment. but so far, no problems there. seems to be relatively peaceful. let s bring in our panel for how hour. ari is back with us as is andrew weissman, former lead prosecutor in