america s rivals? fred fleitz, ready to go, geared up and we ll be joined shortly. john: begin america reports with an indictment watch for former president trump as manhattan d.a. alvin bragg s motives are questioned by critics. john roberts in washington. happy tuesday, sandra. sandra: and john, you are warmed up yet again. sandra smith in new york city. the former president predicted he would be arrested today, but he is not expected to be arraigned until next week, the grand jury has another witness to hear from. john: the manhattan district attorney for the soft on crime approach is taking heat for what critics say is politically motivated. his office is firing back. sal wisenberg in a moment. bryan joins us live in studio. what is the latest from district attorney alvin bragg s office? the office has responded to jim jordan and house speaker kevin mccarthy s calls for bragg to testify to congress over the possible indictment of former president trump. the
sandra: all new at 2:00, the pentagon set to brief the press any moment now as president xi and putin wrap up day two of their historic summit bringing america s top two adversaries even closer together. welcome back as america reports rolls into a second hour. i m sandra smith in new york. we are certainly monitoring the pentagon for any news that comes from there, john. john: it could be a big news hour. we ll keep an eye on the pentagon for any updates as president xi tries to broker a peace plan for putin s war. experts warn any china-backed peace plan would have one winner, china. that s where we start with the fox news alert. sandra: president biden just wrapped his remarks on a day he has devoted to talking about climate and environmental justice. at the same time as china and russia are plotting against the united states. the two major powers showing off their close relationship during today s second round of talks. john: president biden under fire for still
threats to kill jewish officials in michigan, including the state s attorney general. two mid flight emergencies are rattling air travelers on two separate airlines and details on the two close calls. alec murdaugh s defense team delivering closing arguments at his double murder trial. that is what we are watching at this hour. thank you for being here. i m amara walker in for kate bolduan. we begin with a disturbing story out of michigan where a man is using social media to threaten to kill jewish members of the state government. the state s attorney general dana nessel confirmed that she is one of the officials targeted. she tweeted this, quote, the fbi has confirmed that i was a target of the heavily armed defendant in this matter. it is my sincere hope that the federal authorities take this offense just as seriously as my hate crimes and terrorism unit takes plots to murder elected officials. of course, we are covering this story from every angle, and we will start
washington. glad to have you. here right now in south carolina, there are major developments in alex murdaugh s double murder trial. the prosecution now respond ing after the defense presented its closing arguments yesterday. defense attorney jim griffin made an emotional plea when wrapping up his presentation. there are two words that justice demands this thises case and those two words are not guilty. the oath you have taken in this case it requires a verdict not dwlt. on behalf of alex, of buster, on behalf of maggie and on behalf of my friend paul, i respectfully request that you do not compound a family tragedy with another thank you. just before closing arguments began, the judge remove d a jurr for discussing the case outside of the trial. diane gallagher is outside of the court in south carolina. diane, what more did the defense say today as they were presenting to the jury in these final hours of this trial? reporter: jim griffin spoke for about 2 hours and 15
politics comedian bill maher doesn t care if you re democrat or republican. his decades of cross roads of politics and comedy has given him an inside pollical consultants and bookies would die for. all those people who say donald trump could not go all the way i don t think they re right. to this just a few years later. i don t think he s leaving. even if he loses the election in 2020. tonight bill maher looks ahead to 2024 and trump s odds now. do you think he s going to get the nomination and do you think he can beat joe biden? and maher doesn t hold back against president biden or the democrats either. democrats sometimes can take it too far. reporter: he gives us his in filtered take. so you re a connoisseur i think that s fair to say. from realtime to prime time this is a cnn one-on-one special. welcome to cnn special one-on-one with bill maher. bill maher has been a figure in the world of political comedy for more than 40 years and he doesn t seem to care wh