but the district attorney there is still talking to witnesses and trump s lawyers are calling their own. and the blossoming friendship that has the world on edge. russian president vladimir putin and chinese leader xi jinping leading in moscow. what this might mean for ukraine. then, could parents be forced to buy separate plane tickets for their infant children? the new push that could ban babies from laps. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. and we start with our politics lead and the flurry of new developments in the various and sundry trump investigations. police in new york are setting up security cameras and barricades as they prepare for possible unrest after a possible indictment of the former president. trump said he expects to be arrested as soon as tomorrow over that hush money payment to porn actress and director stormy daniels. trump s former lawyer michael cohen was back answering questions at the prosecutor s office today over that $130,000 payment to k
is seeking to compel a lawyer for the former president to testify before the grand jury. according to a source familiar with the matter. prosecutors alleged in a sealed filing that they have evidence that some of trump s conversations with the attorney were in furtherance of a crime. the special counsel is reportedly asking a judge to invoke the crime fraud exception. and force an attorney to testify under oath about conversations between him and his client which in this case, would be evan corcoran and one donald trump. the new york times which was first to report the news at the special counsel is zeroing in on this quote, whether trump or his associates obstructed justice in failing to comply with demands to return a trove of government material he took with him from the white house upon leaving office, including hundreds of documents with classified markings. one potentially very important piece of evidence determining whether the ex-president or his attorneys obstructe
it s 10:00 a.m. in new york. i m lindsey reiser. i ll be joined ace this hour by yasmin vossoughianríz mississippi. she ll have much more on the tornado devastation in a moment. we re also covering major stories around the world. ine1 israel, massive protestsç(% against prime minister benjamin netanyahu. tens of thousands filled the streetsrcnç after the country s right-wing leader abruptly fired the defense minister for challenging netanyahu s plan for overhauling theq judiciary. this morning, sites are grounded and hundreds of thousands on strike. here in new york, backñ1 on indictment match in the president trump caseñr of hundr% moeschlp involving stormy danie. a jury is expected to resume today. we have another report of another witness. we re live. but we begin with the zi. yasmin. reporter: thank you, linsey. in this smalli] town of rolling fork, at the alabama border, desperate recovery efforts are continuing days after a wave of tornadoes tour throughe1
impact on the ground. when the chinese foreign ministry indicated that they would respond in the way they were prepared to. and it turns out the other objects are chinese origin, is there a menu of options prepared for how we deal with that? terrific hypothetical. we re just not there yet. on to the relationship issue, the chinese spy balloon, you got china buying more oil from russia. you got china opening up cases in u.s. technology from u.s. universities. and president xi is going to be meeting with the president. and at what point does the president ask for a call from president xi? again, i don t have a call to talk about today. again, let me say here, i know i m running close on time, sorry no, it s not your fault. the president met with president xi at balanci. at the g20, the whole purpose was to move the relationship. the most consequential bilateral relationship in the world, the president knows that. and he wanted to move that forward. and secretary
jake. it is unfounded. for several reasons. firstly, the banking sector overall is much better capitalized than it was in 2008. there have been huge changes. a full-scale banking meltdown crisis, is it possible? maybe. is it likely? absolutely not, so the experts say. i was talking to one such expert here in israel where i am. the tech sector which has been so badly hit by all of this. i spoke to the venture capitalist of the viola group. he said it s not a system at risk, but when it comes to runs on banks, today they can be much faster than you think. run on the bank of the world of internet is very quick. but i do believe it s an isolated, specific event. i don t think it will have huge impact. this is not 2008. reporter: putting that into wider view, it s certainly going to hit the technology sector because tech borrowed from these institutions, but the speed at which the regulators moved shoring up the depositor savings making it clear investors won t be bailed out.