hello again, everyone. thank you so much for joining me. i m fredricka whitfield in atlanta and we re watching several breaking news stories this hour in russia, fast developments on the shooting at a moscow area concert venue that. has left more than 130 people dead. and in the uk and around the world, shock and sadness over news that catherine the princess of wales, has cancer. cnn anchor and royal correspondent max foster, a standing by outside buckingham palace will take hi there in a moment, but first, let s focus on what s happening in russia where moments ago russian state media published a reported concession from one of the suspected attackers on that concert hall. cnn cannot independently verify the veracity of the report or the statements made by the alleged attacker which may have been made under duress president vladimir putin is vowing all of those responsible will suffer on inevitable punishment after armed gunman opened fire on the crowd the death toll has n
can be banned from state ballots for being an insurrectionist tightening the belt and the trump campaign, his team looking to pull back on spending as his legal expenses mount and they look toward what could be a long and costly general election and the air national guardsman accused of posting a trove of classified documents online is expected to plead guilty today in federal court, we are live inside core. i m sara sidner with john berman and kate baldwin this cnn news central happening now, a highly unusual morning, we are standing by the supreme court. why? because in a rare move, the supreme court told us they will releasing a decision this morning. why? well, there is a belief that it is likely the decision on whether donald trump can be banned from state ballots for being an instance direction is there was a belief it is imminent. why are why now? well, super tuesday is tomorrow. and a lot of people are voting so you didn t chief legal affairs correspondent
of breaking news on the trump legal front, the judge overseeing his first criminal trial has just expanded his gag order. and it now includes a ban on attacking the judges family after trump went after the judge s daughter. also the former president, just posted that $175 million bond, managing to avoid the seizure of his assets and a losing his quote, babies. the big question tonight is how did he do it? and i also knew reporting for you this hour. she was once considered to be one of donald trump s most trusted aides. and now hope hicks is expected to be called as a witness for the prosecution at his first criminal trial. i m kaitlan collins, and this is the source the hamer really just dropped after 8:00 here tonight in new york. and you can almost feel the reaction coming out of mar-a-lago donald trump, who has never at a loss for words and salts may affect his match tonight. and judge juan mug shot. that s the judge who is overseeing his criminal hush money case. a
smerconish is up next is it, 1968? the sequel michael smerconish in philadelphia this week in a deja vu of the vietnam era, police officers in riot gear across the country were called in to disperse anti-war protesters from college campuses when they cleared out columbia university s hamilton hall, it was on the 56th anniversary of police arrests, ending a student takeover about the vietnam conflict in the exact same building and this august even more deja vu, the democratic national convention will take place in chicago the same city which hosted the 1968 dnc, which was famously disrupted by both chaotic radical anti-war protests and the violent response of the police a bit of history, 1968 included lbj deciding not to seek reelection because of vietnam. four days later, the assassination of martin luther king junior race riots, then the assassination of democratic front-runner robert f. kennedy, the republican challenger, richard nixon, who had lost to jfk in 1960, was pr
says plans are on to use the military to carry out a mass deportation of millions of undocumented immigrants. he s indicating he s willing to decide step a law that prohibits using american troops against civilians. he says, quote, while these aren t civilians these are people that aren t legally in our country. this is an invasion of our country on quo asked about the possibility of political violence. if he were to lose the election to joe biden as he did in 2020, mr. trump said he was going to win and then quote, and if we don t win, you know, it depends. it always depends on the fairness of an election on quote asked if he would fire a us attorney who refuses to follow his orders to prosecute someone he wants to prosecute. he said, quote, it depends on the situation, honestly asked if he would consider pardoning every single one of the nearly 800 rioters convicted of attacking the capitol on january 6, trump s said, i would consider that, yes. yes. absolutely. joining