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an indictment soon against former president donald trump. cnn has now learned the manhattan district attorney's office has invited trump to testify before a grand jury, all of this connected to the alleged hush money payment to adult film actress stormy daniels in 2016 right before the election. ahead, what it means as prosecutors weigh potential criminal charges. plus, good economic news, the u.s. economy added some 311,000 new jobs last month, that beat analysts' expectations by a long shot. wages, unemployment up slightly. what does this all mean for the fed as it continues its fight to cool down inflation. we will break down the numbers. evacuation orders are in effect for parts of california. people along the central coast could see dangerous amounts of rain. we will take you there as residents prepare for yet another massive storm. but we do begin this hour with news in the manhattan district attorney's office signaling it

could file criminal charges against former president trump. paula reid joining us now. paula, what more do we know? what does this signal really tell us? >> the fact that this invitation has been extended to the former president to come before the grand jury in new york it signals that this investigation is likely wrapping up and an indictment is possible but it's no guarantee. this investigation has been going on for around five years as an investigation not into an extramarital affair, not even specifically into a hush payment but whether business records were falsified when the former president reimbursed michael cohen for this hush money payment that was made to stormy daniels. so, again, this has been going on for five years but in the fast five weeks we have an uptake in activity. we have seen kellyanne conway and hope hicks going before the grand jury. i do not expect the former president will join that parade of witnesses and take them up on this invitation, but if an indictment is brought here this

would be historic. this is incredibly significant. but prosecutors face a lot of challenges. we are talking about events that occurred about seven years ago. at the core this is a paperwork crime that would rely on a novel legal theory to be prosecuted and at the center of all of this is your star witness, michael cohen, a convicted liar who has publicly been arguably fixated on the former president and wanting to see him charged. it's unclear if there will be an indictment but a lot of legal experts agree that this could go a difficult case to prove. when talking to the former president's attorneys they are not as worried about this case as they are about the one in georgia and the ones with the special counsel. o discuss form federal prosecute renato mariotti host of the "it's complicated" podcast. good to have you on. >> pleasure to be here. >> questions of course about cohen's role in this, his own background, but he did by the

way go to jail, he was convicted here. tell us what you think about, one, the seriously of these potential charges, misdemeanor or felony, and how far you think this goes. >> well, first of all, i really doubt that the manhattan da's office has gotten this far and is inviting the former president to the grand jury if they are not planning on charging him. i do think it's likely the charges are going to issue. i do agree with paula's analysis that these are going to be difficult charges to make. of the array of potential charges that trump is facing i agree that these are probably the most difficult to prove, however, nonetheless, it adds a degree of difficulty for trump's defense team because of course they're facing kind of a tight front war. in other words, just because these are easier charges to beat than, let's say, what's going -- you know, the charges he might face in fulton county or from

the special counsel from the justice department, doesn't mean that he can ignore those. you're playing three-dimensional chess. any move, any statement, any defense that he makes in this case will have repercussiones in those other cases potentially, his words can be used against him in those other cases. it just, i think, makes things more difficult for him. >> so that's from one side, whatever trump does could impact those other cases potentially, but what about the charges themselves, bringing these charges and them what could ultimately unfold, could that in any way impact what happens in some of those other cases? >> well, sure. so, first of all, there is a number of different potential charges here and paula kind of highlighted those. the most basic charge is the misdemeanor which would be falsifying business records, that actually i think is the easiest charge to prove here. there will still be issues proving that, i'm not saying it's a slam dunk, but it's definitely the easiest charge to

prove. the novel theory is that in order to make that into a felony prosecutors have to prove that that falsified business record was in connection with another separate crime. that would have to be an election law violation in new york most likely. and that essentially would be suggesting that the $130,000 payment, hush money payment to stormy daniels was an unlawful campaign expenditure rather than just like a personal payment. very similar to the charges that were brought against former presidential candidate john edwards which resulted in an acquittal. >> yeah, that's the point there. misuse of federal -- or rather election money. help our viewers understand given there are so many investigations currently under way, where does this fall in terms of seriousness in those cases? you have the georgia state case on attempting to overturn election, you have a federal case on the same thing, election interference, attempt to go overturn election, et cetera, as well as potential federal race

on classified documents. where does this stand in that hierarchy in your view in terms of seriousness? >> i think the least serious in terms of potential penalties and also the most difficult to prove. unusual that the manhattan da is pursuing charges on this matter when he had taken a pass on what appeared to be stronger charges that ultimately were brought in a civil case by letitia james, the attorney general. the fulton county case we don't know exactly what the charges are going to be, but a lot of problematic conversations that trump had with former georgia secretary -- or the current georgia secretary of state, others in the state of georgia tried to overturn that. there's also, as you pointed out, i think the most easily and readily provable charges are the mar-a-lago documents charges, in other words, you know, he willfully retained classified documents in his residence, even after a grand jury subpoena. and then, of course, there is a

panoply of potential charges around january 6. the problem, though, is that trump is going to have to have legal teams with all of these cases. so definitely not a good development. >> thanks so much. all right. economic news now, employers added 311,000 jobs last month, that's more than expected. a pull back from the 504,000 jobs added in january, but, boy, that's a big number and any other time, it does continue a streak of hotter than expected jobs reports. of course, the other factor is how the fed reads all of this because they're trying to put the brakes on the economy. >> katherine rampell joining us this morning. here is what i think -- and i don't think i'm the only one, right, i think a number of viewers and americans in general struggle with as well. so we have this strong jobs report, right, so the jobs market is still hot. looking at some of those sectors you had pretty significant gains in leisure and hospitality and in retail, so people are needed

in those sectors which means people are spending money and we know the u.s. economy depends on consumer spending. inflation still too high, though. so what are we supposed to make of all of this, sort of a similar formula that we've been seeing. how do i put it all in perspective this morning, katherine? >> it is legitimately confusing. this is the 11th consecutive month when forecasters have expected much lower job growth than we got and it's weird. i mean, we've had eight rate hikes, eight interest rate hikes, a lot of people were expecting if not a slowdown maybe even a recession, but this recession is like waiting for -- people keep thinking it's around the corner and it never arrives, which is generally good news. nobody is really rooting for a recession, but it is puzzling how the economy has been able to maintain its strength, how the job market has been able to maintain its strength given these predictions and given the great stress on the economy to

date. you are not alone, it's hard to make sense of. >> first of all, very good literally reference there, second of all, the fed is trying to balance. listen, we should be celebrating a strong job market, that means americans can find jobs and get paid, by the way, the pay is going up as well, but trouble is prices are staying high, the fed understandably you and me and folks watching want to get the prices down. why aren't the interest rate hikes working so far? it's pretty aggressive ramp up and how much do you see them needing to go before they begin to have an effect? >> again, it's a little bit unclear. is this about there's just a longer lag between the time when the fed raises interest rates and it's really felt in the economy or maybe we don't know what the alternative universe would have been. maybe the economy would have been even stronger, booming even more absent these rate hikes. i also wonder to what extent fiscal policy is still playing a

role in helping the economy expand, especially at the state level. most states have cut taxes in the past year, almost every state has cut taxes in the past two years, so that's still giving people money to spend, that might be part of the explanation here. we also don't know if our headline numbers are capturing all of the stress that's out there, you know, there might be something we're missing in part because of this weird covid economy. >> you tweeted yesterday, i'm paraphrasing here, but something to the effect of no matter what the jobs report shows, the fed is going to be mad. how does the fed deal with this latest bit of data? >> well, what i said was people will be mad at the fed. >> there you go. sorry about that. >> that's okay. they are not that different. but i think the fed is in a really challenging position because we have these contradictory signals. strong jobs market, you know, some stress in the financial sector, inflation too high,

maybe some signals that some of those pressures might be coming down but then they reverse themselves so who nknows? >> i think the fed is saying the job market looks stronger than we anticipated, there's some signs that monetary policy is doing what we want it to do but it's not sufficient. next week we will get new inflation data, i think that there's going to be a lot of attention paid to those data and that will affect what the fed does, but i think we should anticipate rate hikes continuing for a while. >> you said something interesting there, you said that part of the inflationary push here are tax cuts at the state level because in the political environment all the criticism has been leveled at covid relief money going back a couple of years now. are you saying that there's inflationary tax policy at the state level? >> yes, i mean, i don't know how big the magnitude is, but states have had huge budget surpluses in the last few years that's partly because the economy has been quite strong and they have

strong tax revenues, it's also partly because they got a lot of money from congress so they have a lot of money to play with and that money was supposed to be used, of course, for making investments in schools and various other things and to some extent it's been used to just, you know, hand it back over to taxpayers in the form of property rate cuts, income tax cuts, et cetera. so we don't have a great sense -- because there isn't like a central database, a central repository that tells us how that money is flowing through to taxpayers, but i think it's quite possible that's part of the story here, people have more money to play with. >> katherine rampell, always good to talk to you. appreciate it. thanks. >> thank you. just ahead, ukraine's military says it was able to intercept about a third of the 95 missiles russia has launched at them over the past day. we are live on the ground as ukrainians plan to memorialize a hero soldier killed near bakhmut. plus, republicans on the road in iowa. florida governor ron desantis

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ivan watson is there. what more do we know about this commander? >> reporter: right. well, this young man went by the code name da vinci and part of his funeral is taking place here, we've been watching funeral and memorial events in kyiv for hours now. the church service was actually attended by the ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy and the top military command were in kyiv's central square where thousands gathered to pay their respects to this man who was killed this week in the grinding battle of bakhmut, that small southeastern ukrainian city where the russian and ukrainian militaries are pounding each other day after day for months now for control of that city. now, this man, da vinci as he's known, last year zelenskyy, the

ukrainian president, gave him the honor of calling him a hero of ukraine. he is viewed by many of the people, the thousands who have gathered, as a national hero. someone who participated in the 2014 protests -- the 2014 protests against a pro-russian president in this square that ultimately resulted in the overthrow of that president, he fled to neighboring russia. so da vinci had been a young activist there and then joined a militia that fought against pro-russian separatists in the donbas region for years after that and then has been part of the armed forces fighting against the russian invasion over the course of the last year. he is the youngest battalion commander in the ukrainian armed forces. the crowds have been chanting things like "heroes never die." i think this underscores the immense sacrifice that ukrainian

military commanders are paying in this battle, this contest, this deadly contest against the russian military in bakhmut. back to you. >> ivan watson live for us. appreciate it. thank you. let's dive deeper into this. let's talk first about this missile barrage overnight, one it's the scope across the nation, killing people all the way in the western part of the country. seems to be a mix of a couple things, hypersonic missiles, difficult to impossible to shoot down with ukrainian air defenses but also these iranian drones it seems fired at the same time. is that to overwhelm ukraine's air defenses. >> absolutely. it's shock and you a, too, it's to make a huge impact on on the population and infrastructure. >> are ukrainian air defenses even with the addition of more advanced western nato systems still overwhelmed by the russian

missiles. >> they are. i think until we see the patriot get on to the ground they are going to be on their back foot, especially when you send so many at once, it's hard to target all of them, hard to shoot them all down. >> another thing, this is cnn's reporting, is that russia is capturing some western made u.s. supplied in particular weapons in this fight so far, including the javelin anti-tank missile and the stinger shoulder fired anti-aircraft missile, sending them to iran in effect as a gift to reverse engineer. how significant that? >> some gift. it's a boone to iran. iran is providing drones to russia, in return they're getting systems that they're reverse engineering and propagating throughout the region. they've done this before. iran got ahold of the old tow missile, got ahold of old drones as well. middle east regional impact if you now see advanced weapons being developed by iran.

>> have they shown themself, for instance, with the tow, the ability to take one, figure it out and make their own? >> absolutely. >> that's alarming. there's been a lot of talk about a russian spring offensive, officials have been telling me they don't have the forces and manpower to do anything definitive but we also know ukrainians want to carry out a counteroffensive in the opposite direction. what is the actual state over here? does either side have the potential to make ground? >> it depends on what the ukrainians have been doing over the wintertime. yes, we've been focusing on bakhmut but hopefully they're been reflying, rearming, retraining -- they almost have almost an imperative to have a spring offensive. they have to demonstrate to the west they're making progress, this he have to demonstrate to their own people they're making progress. >> all the fighting and attention around bakhmut in these last several weeks, extremely deadly for both sides, we are talking about some days where thousands are killed in a single 24-hour period. has it been worth it for the

russians but also crucially for the ukrainians to fight so hard so long and to give up so much there? >> i don't think so. retrospectively this reminds me of world war i, these great battles where inches were gained and thousands were lost. >> yeah, this is the area we're talking about here. >> yeah. >> so what happens now in the coming weeks? you say that ukraine has to make -- they have to make a push this way just to not be on their back foot in effect. do they make progress when they make that push? >> first of all, i don't think that's where they're going to do it. if i was advising them i would be looking at a different area. there is a -- down here by kherson going all the way up i think what they want to try to do is unhinge the russian offensive. imagine if they were able to get all the way to -- they would put crimea at risk, then the russians will have to think about this land bridge that has been so important to them, how

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an indication of why. one of the things we're keeping a close watch on, dangerous storms that could dump dangerous amounts of rain on the central coast, the concern possible widespread flooding. >> that same system could bring intense snowfall, winds up to 80 miles an hour in some areas. cnn's natasha chen is live in sacramento county, california. natasha, it's remarkable because in these areas, and we've talked to you and others for months really, wildfires, right, the result of drought, and now we have this supreme reversal here. tell us how long these storm conditions are expected to last. >> reporter: well, the people in these communities that have experienced flooding in the string of storms that you've referred to since the new year really, people are really grateful that there is precipitation that we're, you know, improving on the drought situation, but they say they wish there could just be a break. they really haven't gotten much

of a break in the last few weeks. here we started seeing the rain come in pretty heavily last night, it's still obviously coming down right now, it's moving eastward toward the foothills where there has been unusually heavy snow pack. i want to point out where i'm standing, it's the state aquatic center. over on -- over this shoulder here there are some lights in the background, that's the nim bus dam that you are seeing. this is a dam where officials are releasing thousands of feet of cubic water per second, done in a managed way to prevent rivers, levees, creeks from being overwhelmed by the incoming rain. there is a lot of work to try to prevent massive flooding here. another big concern, though, is structural collapse and we're looking at that possibility more in the areas that have gathered a lot of snow on top of their buildings. here is one example posted by a private school on facebook in nevada city, they just posted

this yesterday, though this structure dr that i wish gym roof caved in last weekend. it's an example of what could happen here this weekend, though, because when the snow is that heavy and now it's mixing in with the rain, it's melting, a lot of places could be dealing with that possibility. so we're watching for that, we're watching for communities that already flooded through january, bracing themselves again and of course the governor here has requested a presidential emergency declaration to get some direct federal assistance when needed. >> it is a lot. natasha, appreciate it. thank you. turning now to politics, a health update for the leading republican in the senate, we have now learned that senator mitch mcconnell being treated for a concussion after he fell at an event at a hotel in d.c. on wednesday night. >> mcconnell's staff says he will be in the hospital for a few days. house speaker kevin mccarthy says mcconnell is, quote, a little beat up but will recover. the 81-year-old is the senate's longest serving republican leader.

today republican presidential contenders are flocking to the key primary state of iowa. nikki haley hoping to gain early support for her campaign has an event in des moines, ron desantis will be speaking in davenport in the next hour. on monday former president donald trump making his way to the hawkeye state. joining me now to discuss "washington post" congressional reporter camilla dee shall lis and sophia chi. when we look at where we stand, all eyes on iowa, just under a year now until we really kick off the presidential season. there is so much focus on ron desantis who of course has not declared a campaign, but, boy, is the push on, including former trump official ken cuccinelli who launched a super pac now urging desantis to run. listen to a little bit of that announcement. >> america's future is ron desantis. ron desantis doesn't just talk, he acts, but most of all, he

never backs down. governor desantis, today i'm asking you to run for president. >> how important is that support from somebody who was -- who is, frankly, still so tied to the trump administration, having that name recognition, that proximity, to have him throw his weight behind ron desantis, urging him to run, camilla, what does that do? >> well, it's very telling. i mean, this was a former trump administration official who, you know, worked in the trump administration, pushing some of trump's immigration policies, but also, you know, he was one of the contact persons where trump reached out to try to see if he can investigate some of the election fraud claims in which he responded saying that he just did not have authority to do so. so to see him come out and now put his support and announcing it very vocally behind desantis is very telling, but he represents just a fraction of

the republican party who want to see desantis run and really believe that he can be the president in 2024 when he runs, or if he runs. >> this is such a waiting game at this moment given that we have the former president, no surprise there when he threw his hat in the ring, nikki haley and it seems everybody else who is toying with the idea is in some ways waiting to see what ron desantis will do. are there any oerd indications this morning, sophia, as to when an announcement may be made? >> yeah, so we've heard that ron desantis has told his political staff to sort of lay low for another four to five months and, you know, it looks like he may try to run after the end of the florida legislative session, which ends at the end of may. so, you know, in terms of timing, that's sort of the ballpark that we're looking at, but of course he's doing a book tour right now and he just had his state of the union, so he's been very, very active and this

will be his first time in iowa and it's the unofficial start of the iowa caucus. you have three candidates coming to iowa all within the span of four days. >> it is a lot. i know folks in iowa are used to it but it feels like it starts earlier every cycle. nikki haley, she's had to clarify, she's been pressed to clarify her comments on supreme court social security earlier this week. she's saying now i'm really looking at we need to talk about reform for people who are currently in their 20s, what that would look like. when you look at social security, this is one area where actually president biden, former president trump, are sort of on the same page. how is this helping or hurting nikki haley in this moment, camilla? >> well, this is definitely putting a stark contrast between her and desantis and trump, where they've struck a tone saying that they don't want republicans to even try to touch social security or medicare, saying we have to protect the

elderly, he has attacked some of his opponents, desantis, trying to go back to some of his former stances on trying to privatize social security. this is where we're really going to see some differences. remember, you know, this is really in these next few days you are going to see them trying to effectively try to communicate to the republican party about why they are the best person for this job and why they should be president. so you're going to kind of see how this messaging whether it's her messaging on her stances even though they're very saying at this point or on his about how, you know, we should protect and how he's standing with biden on this one, whether that's going to resonate with members of the republican party. >> certainly. and, sophia, when we look at this in terms of that trump campaign message, is anything really different as we move towards 2024? has anything changed? >> yeah, i would say that there's -- the campaign is a little more formal in the way that they are approaching this, and in iowa he's going to be doing more retail politics and that's an aspect that we didn't

really see in the past two cycles, right, and he did this at east palestine at a mcdonald's where he was talking to voters and he will continue to do this on monday when he's going to be in iowa, but this is markedly different from the past two cycles where you saw him, you know, and i'm hearing the audio right now, the mega rallies, the large crowds and those crowds that he loves to talk about. so this will be a little bit different. >> sophia and camilla, great to have you with us this morning. thank you. still ahead, and this is odd, an apology from the mexican drug cartel believed to be behind the violent and deadly kidnapping of four americans. what we're hearing from the friend who traveled with the group, but could not end up crossing the border with them. all that coming up. ll-being to s knowing that i can be free to do the things that i l love to do. i hope when i retire someday, they say,

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a cartel in mexico has now apologized and handed over five of its members after that violent kidnapping that ultimately led to the deaths of two americans and of an innocent mexican bystander. >> so listen to this, this drug cartel, the gulf cartel as it's known issued an apology letter for that abduction and in the bright light of day which mistakenly targeted four americans who had gone to mexico so one could have a medical procedure. the group killed two of those people. carlos suarez is live in south carolina. they've issued an apology, given up five of their members. sounds like this cartel knows the mexican and u.s. authorities will come down hard and are basically offering up sacrificial lambs. >> reporter: yeah, that's exactly right, jim and erica, it's really not uncommon for leaders of the mexican cartel to

make contact with the mexican government after these high-profile type of incidents. now here in south carolina yesterday we were able to catch up with a fifth person that had made that trip to texas, but she did not cross into the border because according to her she did not know that the group was going to go into mexico for a medical procedure. we caught up with cheryl orange and she described how her friend latavia washington mcgee was the one that was going to get this medical procedure and that the group that they were with -- the group they were with were going to drop her off and then they were going to come right back. now, according to her she ends up staying at a hotel waiting for that group to come back, she goes to sleep and wakes up several hours later and no one from that group had contacted her, none of them had come back to the hotel. that's when she calls authorities. you can imagine the guilt that she had, right, the guilt she expressed to us at least and the fact that this ended up

happening without her being with her best friend. she said all of this guilt ultimately turned into anger and here is what she told us. >> i beat myself up in the beginning about that and i have everybody telling me that, oh, you need to be grateful. like i really wish i was next to tay's side, i know i have kids, but i wish i was by her side. she deserved that. >> reporter: cheryl was incredibly emotional throughout our interview. she has been able to talk to her friend latavia, we believe that latavia might be back in south carolina, back with her family. she was not hurt in this. jim and erica? >> i mean, such understandable reaction as well there. i know you've also heard a little bit more from the families. there's a letter from the families, carlos? >> reporter: yeah, so there are a number of folks involved in this, there were five people in that car. yesterday we also heard from

shaeed woodard's father, shaeed was one of the two killed in this kidnapping. his father was asked whether he had seen this letter that members of the cartel had purportedly given mexican officials, essentially apologizing for the incident, there's also this photo circulating online showing a group of individuals that purportedly belonged to the cartel being turned over to mexican authorities. shaeed's father said he had not seen that letter and here was his reaction. >> did you know? >> no, i didn't know. i'm speechless, yeah. i can't say anything to that. >> reporter: the woodard family says they are now in the process of trying to get their son's body back here to south carolina. two more points, we know that the body of the other american that was killed, zindell brown, has been brought back to the u.s., and eric williams, he was

the other one that was with that group, he was shot several times and is recovering in a hospital in texas after undergoing yet another surgery. jim and erica? >> carlos, appreciate the update. thank you. those poor families. well, mexico's president has lashed out at republicans here in this country on thursday, this after senator lindsey graham proposed the u.s. fight mexican drug cartels on both sides of the border, operate in mexican territory. the spat comes amid pressure to rein in cartel violence in the wake of that kidnapping that killed two americans. >> what's offensive to me is for him to not take decisive action against a common problem. he's lost control of a large part of mexico to narco terrorists, people in mexico are living in fear, my country is being poisoned. so i don't care if he's offended or not, i want him to up his

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well, after previously refusing to do so, the interim ceo of starbucks is agreeing to testify before a senate committee about the labor practices. the health and pension panel wants to speak to howard schultz about a growing number of workers who want to unionize. >> this month, it is shown that starbucks has an egregious way to deal with employees who want to unionize, and those employees are ready to get back the work.

>> how is it for you being at work today? >> i have only been to the store about four time since i have been fired, it is very emotional. >> reporter: on ape ril 1st las year, she was fired last year for violating the store's policies, and she says it is retaliation. why do you think that you were fired? >> i think that i was illegally fired, because i was leading the store to unionize. >> reporter: last year, the judge said that starbucks had egregious and widespread misconduct against employees in the buffalo worker, and several workers including krempa must be reinstated. do you want to come back the work here? >> yes, because it is the best

job i have ever had. >> reporter: and starbucks is going to look at legal review. now there are 280 unionized stores across the u.s., and to date, starbucks workers united has charged 600 charges against the coffee giant for alleged illegal firings, and starbucks has fired 100 unfair labor practices against the union for failing to bargain in good faith, and howard schultz who is leading the company until he steps down at the end of the year spoke to poppy harlow. >> if the stores file to unionize, they have a right to do so, but we as a company have a right to say that we have a vision that is better and more dynamic and we have a history to prove it. >> reporter: but the shift supervisor gianna read and angel

krimpa disorganized and said they wanted a seat at the table for seniority pay and staffing labels. >> it is the only way to make our voice heard. >> reporter: both of the women say they were retaliated against. >> i remember days of non-stop surveillance on the floor, and retaliation where i would not be given shift supervisor positions. >> and why stay? >> i was asked by my co-workers to make it a better place, and the building of safety procedures that would protect me. >> reporter: and now starbucks must compensate both of them for their misconduct. >> it is egregious. >> for eisen she said that she almost lost her home, and the lost wages would help her to get back on her feet.

>> reporter: how would you feel if you had the opportunity to put on apron and start to be a starbucks employee? >> my apron are still on the place where they were left april 1st of last year waiting for me to put them on and i am ready to take it off of the hook and walk back in and just smile at my co-workers and say, i am back and i am here and we did it. >> and another win in the eyes of the union is that howard schultz has agreed to testify with the senate hearing committee a little later in the month about the very issues that we highlighted in the story about not bargaining and entering into any contracts with the unions and howard schultz is going to testify a few days before he steps down as ceo, and what the workers told me that they want to hear is that they want to hear some admittance of guilt from him, a rp whether or not they will get that is a big question, but there a new ceo coming in, and that could reset the stage for union workers who

also told me that if howard schultz wants to leave a great legacy of starting starbucks and a company that everyone wants to work at, one thing that he can do at the hearing is to say and commit to bargaining and entering into contracts with the unions, and they feel like it is a huge step for a right direction for corporate america in general and starbucks specifically. >> thank you. and now, the district attorney has invited donald trump to appear before a grand jury to testify about his relationship and dealings with ststormy daniels. doors were meantnt to be open. hi, i'm michael, i've lost 70 pounds on golo. i spent thousands on other diets

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