money fraud. and the house republicans now war-gaming to attack the prosecutor. plus china s xi jinping touches down in moscow for his face-to-face meeting with vladimir putin. xi says china and russia share key goals. unclear, though, is whether putin gets the help he wants from china for his war in ukraine. and $3 billion. a swiss bank spends big to take over its struggling rival. financial markets are reacting positively, but what does this mean for your money? a first for us, though, a week that could bring history, criminal charges against donald trump. the former president predicts as much saying he expects to be arrested tomorrow. new developments underscore the tension an high stakes. the issue, the 2016 hush money paid to adult film star actress stormy daniels. longtime fixer michel cohen made that payment. trump says cohen falsified business records in the process. robert costello is a trump-connected attorney who once represented michael cohen. costello asked
of bills, one of which provides an extra $28 million in funding for the fda that s mainly for staffing issues, oversight into preventing future formula shortages. elizabeth cohen joins us with much more on what is now more or less military operation to get more baby formula to the united states. it really is, john, that s a good way to describe it. who would have thought that it would come to this in the united states. let s take a look at some more details for what you and erica just described. so the defense production act, the government directs formula ingredients, inn gred yents that go into formula, to go to formula manufacturers first. in other words, not to other things first. also the fda making it easier to import formula to the u.s., something that has really not been done very much at all. also, operation fly formula, the department of defense helps expedite formula imports by using commercial planes that have contracts with the dod. also, the fda and abbott a
Goals. they are meeting face-to-face. translator: it is true that both of our countries share the same or similar goals. this is xi s first visit to russia since putin s invasion to ukraine began a little over a year ago. the war top of mind as putin tries to secure lethal aid for the fight. china maintains its neutral, and that is the position publicly and xi jinping said this is a trip for peace. let s bring in cnn s will ripley joining from us. taiwan. will, the chinese president saying this is about peace. but around the world, people are quite excepts cal? reporter: well, absolutely when you have chinese warplanes flying near this self-governed democracy that beijing has been coveting for seven years, never controlling it. there s a tweet out saying it reads, china keeps sending warplanes and ships to harass
Are in korea or in japan. we are coordinating closely with our allies in both korea and japan on this. cnn s will ripley joining us from taiwan. so, will, what more do we know about this? reporter: well, this wouldn t be the first time that north korea would conduct a highly provocative test either before, during or after the visit of a u.s. president, it happened back in 2016 right after president obama left the region, there was a nuclear test. this is the kind of thing that north korea does to insert themselves into the conversation. it s a bit surprising considering the fact that they are dealing with a catastrophic potentially outbreak of the omicron variant of covid-19, hundreds of thousands of people now infected, a dilapidated health care system and frankly a lot of experts believe the start of that outbreak was a military parade that kim threw for himself to showcase all of his new weapons, a superspreader event with people who were mask
Tactical guided weapon. we were just hearing from our senior international correspondent, will ripley. thank you so much for laying that all out for us, will. we ll continue to be in touch with you and come back to you in a little bit. thanks so much. retire astronaut and iss commander scott kelly is selling mementos from his time in space to help ukrainians who are fleeing the war. kelly is auctioning off both real and digital content to help raise money for refugees and he s going to join me live to talk about that next. ith merril. eyes on the ball baby. digital tools so impreressive, you justst can t stop. what would youou like the power to do? (cto) i want the world