the end of wednesday. and snow in the rockies, going to see wind gusts over 70 miles per hour. and i could easily see a gust to hurricane force no question. if you have packages coming through the west, expect some of those interstates will be slow to possibly even closed. there's your winter weather advisories for today and the wind for tonight. i know it's going to rain a lot, but i'm worried about this wind a lot. >> yeah. >> christine? >> i am, too. chad myers, thanks so much for that. all right. thanks for joining me. i'm christine romans. "cnn this morning" starts right now. ♪ oh my gosh, everyday there is something that unfolds when it comes to this donald trump indictment thing. >> yeah. a lot today, too. >> yeah. one of us is missing, though. >> poppy. >> poppy is off. good morning, everyone. poppy is off. welcome back, this is "cnn this

morning." we have a lot to get to, but we'll start you off with the five things you need to know for this tuesday, march 21st. the nypd on alert today in response of donald trump's call for protests ahead of a possible indictment. a source telling cnn that all officers are expected to be in uniform, ready to deploy. we're told no specific threat has been identified and there's still no word on a charging decision from the manhattan d.a. also today, a massive strike has shut down los angeles public schools. thousands of teachers and other workers are set to walk off the job for at least three days with negotiations in the district stalled, nearly half a million students will be out of school. also, we're tracking a high-stakes summit just two hours away in moscow. russia's president putin and chinese president xi jinping are set to hold more formal talks today. secretary of state antony blinken called xi's visit diplomatic cover for russian war crimes. new development on this one,

fox news and dominion voting systems back in court this morning. a judge in delaware will hear arguments in dominion's $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit. both sides asking the judge to rule in their favor before a potential trial. the boss is headed to the white house. president biden is set to award bruce springsteen and many others with the national medal of arts. other recipients in attendants will include gladys knight mindy cayling. "cnn this morning" starts right now. >> do you know this dance? >> of course. that's courtney cox. she jumps up on stage with the box. >> i love bruce springsteen. "the office" was such a big launching pad for her career. it made her famous and was taped in biden's hometown, scranton, pennsylvania. >> i'll have this song stuck in my head, by the way.

thank you, producers very much. welcome. >> we'll get to what's happening with the white house and bruce springsteen. police are in high alert after former president trump called on his supporters to protest and take our nation back, that's a quote from him. he said today was the day he might be arrested. we should note so far we have no indication it's actually happening today. the timeline on potential indictment is unclear, but security fences still going up around the manhattan district attorney's office and the u.s. capitol this morning. the new york police department has told all officers to be in uniform and ready to deploy today, as a possible indictment is still looming over the city. that's according to an internal memo that was obtained by cnn. but manhattan's district attorney has not actually said if or when criminal charges are coming against trump in the investigation of hush money payments to the porn actress stormy daniels. cnn senior legal affairs correspondent paula reid is here with us. paula, there have been so many developments in this.

we have tracking so many. right now we don't have an indication that trump will be indicted today. does still seem imminent. we saw robert costello going before the jury yesterday. what do we know about what was said there? >> it was a wild day in court yesterday. this was a last-ditch effort by the trump team to try to avoid an indictment. they asked prosecutors to bring robert costello before the grand jury to attack michael cohen's credibility. cohen is, of course, a central witness here. back in 2018, federal investigators were looking into these hush money payments costello had several conversations with cohen where he says cohen insisted it was his idea to make these hush-money payments. that contradicts other statements he has made. costello gave a little press conference of sorts. let's take a listen to what he said. >> the only thing i'm doing is trying to tell the truth to the grand jurors. listen, if they wrant to go after donald trump and have

solid evidence, so be it. michael cohen is far from solid evidence. this guy, by any prosecutor standard, i used to be deputy chief of the criminal division in the southern district of new york, i wouldn't have touched a guy like michael cohen, especially if he's a convicted purger. >> i have the truth, i have documentation. let me rephrase, the district attorney has documentation in order to validate every single statement that i've made. >> clearly both men making their arguments in the court of public opinion. but yesterday cohen was at court but he did not go before the grand jury. it was thought he might be called in to rebut costello's testimony. >> it's fascinating if you have been following these people so long. robert costello used to be a legal adviser to michael cohen. i think the question now is when this indictment is going to happen. i think this is still a question even trump's legal team has. >> exactly. we don't know if and when he will be indicted. now for any other defendant, the

way this would work is a grand jury would vote to indictment. if they choose to indictment an individual, attorneys are notified they have been indicted but not necessarily on what charges. then there's a negotiation for self surrender and initial appearance. now talking to sources close to the former president, i am told there won't be any problem if he is indicted with a surrender. there's not going to be a standoff anywhere. and that he does want to appear if he is indicted in person, despite all the security concerns. now, we have also learned if he is indicted this week, any initial appearance wouldn't happen until next week. we're learning that not only from sources in trump world but also law enforcement. >> clearly law enforcement is preparing for when that indictment could come down. paula reid, you'll be very busy the next several days. thank you. so much to discuss when it comes to this. we're joined by someone with an intimate knowledge how things work inside the manhattan district attorney's office. jeremy, who worked in seven

years before alvin bragg's tenure. good morning. >> good morning. how are you? >> listen, we heard yesterday from mr. costello and mr. cohen as well. michael cohen was expected to go in yesterday to rebut what costello said, but prosecutor's determined somehow it wasn't necessary. does this speak to anything that we should be looking forward to in the future that possibly what costello had to say didn't affect what alvin bragg and his investigators believe about this investigation? >> well tshs grand jury has the right to call a witness. so they very may well say today we want to hear from michael cohen or hear from another witness. they have that ability to call for whatever testimony they think is important. >> yeah. i want to play this. this is what costello had to say about michael cohen after testifying yesterday. watch this. >> the only thing i'm doing is trying to tell the truth to the grand jurors. listen, if they want to go after donald trump and have solid evidence, so be it. but michael cohen is far from solid evidence. this guy, by any prosecutor

standard, i used to be deputy chief of the criminal division in the southern district of new york, i wouldn't have touched a guy like michael cohen, especially if he's a convicted perjurier. >> listen, michael cohen did plead guilty, went to jail. but also robert costello has credibility issues as well. mentioned in the mueller report, his role in the hush money investigation and coverup as well. he has credibility issues. why on earth would they call him to testify? >> everyone will have credibility issues sort of when you're in this arena. a term swap thrown around. if you're going to get evidence, that's what you'll get. you won't find a choir boy, somebody immersed in it. those people unfortunately may have some baggage. >> we heard from at least the reporting is that stormy daniels, right, has appeared before the grand jury, at least by zoom, not sure if there's testimony but saying she would be available. she and her attorneys would be available. we heard from michael cohen. heard from robert costello and others.

this appears to be wrapping up. everyone wants to know when it's going to happen. what is the timeline. will it be today, tomorrow, next week. having worked in the d.a.'s office, is it possible to put a date or time on that? >> within reason there is. this is an on going investigation. it's not a reactive investigation. it's proactive. so the d.a.'s office should really know at this point, in fact, well before who is going to testify and what, if anything, is going to happen to throw that off course. so i expect that they should be summing up or wrapping up soon. then once that happens it becomes a procedural issue. the indictment is filed and ultimately they reach out to the team for trump to take those next steps. >> you say wrapping up soon. so what are the considerations now? if you're looking at someone who has insider knowledge, if you're looking at what is playing out, costello and cohen going in, what is happening inside of the office right now? >> i expect all the evidence that they wanted to present, they meet in the district attorney's office, have been presented. for anything in lack of rebuttal

or clarify or bolster the right term we want to use here the credibility or what may have happened that will come out now. again, it's the grand jury's determination to determine what witnesses if anything they want to hear. once that's wrapped up the d.a.'s office is ready to take the next steps. >> is it the grand jury's determ determination? they can vote to indictment donald trump, alvin bragg can say i'm not going to do it? >> once grand jury indictments, they have to take the next step. the d.a.'s office can decide what they want to do going forward, once there's indictment, it has to proceed. >> this investigation has been called zombie case. not everyone thought after cy vance, nothing would happen under the current d.a. alvin bragg. what happened? how is this resuscitated or resurrected? >> the argument from the d.a.'s office office, it's been going on all along. it's an on going investigation. these things don't happen

overnight. it takes time to develop. those will argue there's political pressure with the pomeranz book and what's happening socially. but the d.a.'s office will take the position we have always been doing our due diligence. this is about justice, not about politics. now we have to move it forward. >> if you're looking at this, people are expecting will donald trump be handcuffed? are we going to see him in a jump suit? it doesn't work that way if you have a high-profile candidate. there are means or efforts to mitigate that possibly going in, probably through an underground entrance and having this sort of expedited about him, my reporting is seeing a judge and doing it quickly, having the process play out quickly so he doesn't have to be photographed or seen doing any of these things? >> well, he shouldn't be photographed once he's inside the building but he'll be -- >> except for a mug shot. >> absolutely. taken in, mug shot, fingerprint and expedite him, walk him to the courtroom.

he has to walk down the hallway unless they decide to bring him up through the judicial areas. a separate set of elevators he can come up through, otherwise he will be brought in like anybody else. he may want to be seen. he may want to make this an issue there can be a public showing or display where he can make a statement. but in court, i expect he would be relatively quiet and his attorney will be doing most of the talking. >> you think they'll expedite the court process seeing the judge par of it? that can take some time. >> it can take some time, but they have to wait for the fingerprints to get back. but it should move pretty quickly and efficiently. there's no reason to keep him there especially with security risks and the concern that obviously the nypd has. >> are we talking hours? >> hours from time of print very well potentially. but once he's in front of the judge, that's pretty quick. i wouldn't say snap of the fingers but matter of minutes. >> jeremy saland, thank you. have a good day. >> my pressure. also this morning, florida governor ron desantis, who is an expected 2024 presidential hopeful, is breaking his silence

on trump's legal troubles and the looming indictment. desantis calling the manhattan district attorney's investigation politically motivated and vowing his office won't get involved if the matter reaches his state, though it's not expected to. at the same time, though, he made a point of highlighting the conduct at the heart of the investigation. >> i don't know what goes into paying hush money to a porn star to secure silence over some type of alleged affair. i can't speak to that. but what i can speak to is that if you have a prosecutor who is ignoring crimes happening every single day in his jurisdiction and he chooses to go back many, many years ago to try to use something about porn star hush money payments, you know, that's an example of pursuing a political agenda and weaponizing the office. >> so you know, he was getting asked that question by a reporter, but he had been facing

some pressure from trump's allies, why haven't you said anything about this? because we saw a lot of other republicans weighing in as soon as on saturday and desantis didn't weigh in until yesterday. notable, he got criticized by donald trump jr. who thought he was minimizing. >> his response is shady. >> he didn't have to point out the heart of this. >> the obvious, yeah. well, house republicans trying to intervene to defend ahead of this donald trump possible indictment. jim jordan and two other committee chairs are demanding testimony from manhattan's district attorney. it's an extraordinary move because alvin bragg doesn't work for the federal government, a local prosecutor. this isn't a federal case. in a letter the chairman abused bragg of unprecedented abuse of prosecutorial authority. jim jordan admits he doesn't know the full scope of potential charges. >> you don't know what charges are against donald trump? >> no, we're going against what

you're told us. >> he may have broken the law. does that concern you? >> we don't think president trump broke the law at all. what concerns me is what they're going to do base on what's been reported. >> yeah. it's interesting they're making all of these comments and don't know what's going to happen if there's going to be an indictment. so that's why we turn to cnn's melanie zanona, house republicans are having their annual retreat. i'm sure she has information on that. good morning to you, melanie. what's the latest? >> reporter: good morning to you, don, from chilly orlando. but house republicans are turning up the heat on the manhattan district attorney's office ahead of a possible trump indictment. three committee chairman yesterday fired off a letter to alvin bragg. they're seeking both documents and his testimony by march 23rd. they want to know whether federal funds were used to investigate donald trump over this hush money payment to stormy daniels. and they also want to know whether there was any communication between the manhattan d.a. office and between the department of

justice. i want to read you part of a letter where they explain some of their reasoning. they wrote, your decision to pursue such a politically motivated prosecution requires congressional scrutiny about how public safety funds appropriated by congress are implemented by local law enforcement agencies. now, republicans admit they don't have any knowledge of whether federal funds are actually used in these sorts of cases. and they also admit they don't know the full scope of the charges that trump might be facing. so, it really shows the extraordinary lengths that house republicans are willing to go to defend trump and to try to discredit this investigation. >> is pressing brabg something the entire gop agrees on? could they be jumping the gun? they don't know if charges will even be filed, melanie? >> reporter: right, don. we have been asking that exact question to republicans here at their policy retreat. so far i have only talked to one republican, don bacon, who represents a biden district, who

said it would be more appropriate to wait until they see the actual indictment. but most republicans are defending this effort to intervene in an on going criminal probe, very extraordinary and unprecedented move. speaker kevin mccarthy said they have a right to ask questions. scott perry, the chairman of the house freedom caucus said they don't need to wait, they see the writing on the wall. democrats see this as a waste of congressional resources, abuse of power and manhattan's district attorney's office said they will not be intimidated by any effort to interfere in the justice system. >> thank you, melanie. appreciate that. also this morning, in a few hours, chinese president xi jinping and russian president putin will meet for a second day of talks as they are meeting in moscow. xi and putin held 4.5 hours of talks yesterday, calling each other dear friend during those discussions. the white house on the other hand remains concerned that

china is still considering still has on the table this idea of providing weapons for russia to use in ukraine. as the two countries are working on strengthening their relationship. cnn's matthew chance is live in moscow. matthew, i know there haven't been any real breakthroughs in ukraine. it's clear that xi is committed to strengthening this relationship with putin. >> reporter: absolutely. this is the basis of the relationship, as far as both russia and china are concerned. russia is a vast pool of resources, raw materials, oil, forestry, things like that, for the expansion of the chinese economy. and, of course, china is an important market, the most important market for russia, especially since those tight international sanctions really tried to strangle the russian economy from elsewhere in the world. and so, in some ways these two leaders have been forced together into this relationship. and they're deepening it as much as possible. there is that issue of military

aid that china stopped short of providing russia so far. it's not been discussed openly, but i expect behind closed doors that's something that's being talked about. they're also discussing that chinese peace plan, 12.point plan to try to reresolve the ukraine crisis, in the west of course the united states lost skepticism about whether that would work. >> the white house noted that peaceful doesn't include russia withdrawing its troops from ukraine. but the u.s. is also responding saying they believe this meeting basically is diplomatic cover for putin. there's no ignoring it comes after that international criminal court arrest warrant for the russian leader. >> reporter: there's no doubt this is symbolic importance this meeting with xi jinping. you have a situation where this is the first time xi jinping visited russia since russia's invasion of ukraine more than a year ago. but also just days ago that president putin was indicted international criminal court for war crimes.

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our chief business correspondent and anchor of "early start" christine romans on top of it all. >> good morning. >> good morning. jerome powell is walking a tight rope. >> absolutely. if you look at the economic data since they met last, it's been strong. all of these interest rate hikes have not cooled down decisively the american economy. inflation is still 6% still three times what the fed would like to see, but then you have this banking crisis which shows that all of these rate hikes are revealing some cracks in the system. we had all of these things that regulators had to do to calm the banking system. so the question is, does that change the fed's calculus today when it begins a two-day meeting on interest rates? >> specially they're deciding and deciding very quickly what to do here. what are the options really that they have when it comes to this? >> a week and a half ago honestly, a week and a half ago we thought the fed would raise 50 bases points because the u.s. economy was so strong. but everything changed since the banking system started showing

that turmoil. so there's a case here for no rate hike. prudent to cause after the banking system had started to wobble here. the con, though, does that spook international markets that there's something out there that the fed sees that means they have to slow down on their rate hike campaign? so the consensus is a 25 bases point rate hike shows the fed is serious both about inflation and about financial stability. they can do both at the same time, right? and then i guess there's a small, small chance they could be like the ecp, european central bank, no, no, inflation is so important and we believe in our banking system so we're going to raise interest rates 50 bases points. goldman sachs is saying the stress on the banking system is just too much. they need to just take a pause in the inflation fight. what do we think? what does the market think? the market things they do 25 bases points today. again, ten days ago, i would have said it was a slam dunk for 50. 25 seems to be consensus, you guys.

>> is it fair to say he's facing criticism on how he's handled inflation, chief among them senator elizabeth warren and get christine's response. >> he's failing in both jobs, both as the oversight manager of these big banks, which is his job, and also what he's doing with inflation. i don't think he should be chairman of the federal reserve. >> so what do you think? and can he restore confidence, christine? >> she has been a critic of the fed's rate hikes, so that's not new. calling for his ouster shows how concerned she is about the fact that the fed does have supervisor oversight of svb, that bank that failed. there should have been better red flags. the fed should have known this was going to be a problem. she's also criticizing the fed, look, all of these rate hikes, way back talking about transitory inflation, the fed chief, also the treasury secretary and a lot of chief economists for big banks thought that inflation would just be temporary. it wasn't. that was a fatal flaw in the calculation which means they started raising interest rates too late and then they started

going too aggressively here and that's what's caused the turmoil in the market overall. so you know, he's going to have to restore confidence i think, don, to answer your question by transparency. being very clear at his press conference about what the fed is seeing, what has changed and how you can do both. you can fight inflation and have a banking system that is strong at the same time. >> yeah. >> christine romans. >> tough call. >> watching all of this for us. >> i would not want that job. i'm glad i'm sitting there talking about that job and not doing that job. >> and i don't know why anyone wants to be president of the united states. that's on them. job i would never want. straight ahead, byron donalds from the financial services committee will join us. his thoughts on what he thinks the fed should do next. in the meantime, the aftermath of alex murdaugh's sentencing for double murder, a mysterious death near his home from years ago is drawing renewed attention. >> yeah we'll check in on that. also the anticipation of a possible trump indictment is

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the investigation into the death of 19-year-old steven smith. he was found dead the middle of a road near the murdaugh family home back in 2015. now smith was a classmate of murdaugh's older son buster and questions remain about how smith died. his family now pushing for smith's body to be exhumed and for more we turn to cnn's dianne gallagher who joins us live from charlotte, north carolina. good morning to you. the smith family attorney says this is about seeking justice and has nothing to do with the murdaugh's. what do you know? >> reporter: don, the attorneys saying, look, they want a fresh start with a fresh look at stephen smith's body from the beginning the murdaugh name has sort of swirled around the death of stephen smith from witness interviews back in 2015 to the state saying they reopened the case because of information they gathered while investigating the murders of maggie and paul murdaugh. but, those are just rumors. there's never been a direct

connection and now buster murdaugh is speaking out about those rumors for the first time. >> what is your emergency? >> i just want -- i see somebody laying out. >> reporter: it's been nearly eight years since the body of 19-year-old stephen smith was found the middle of this country road in hampton county, south carolina. the teen's death gained national attention in june, 2021, nearly six years after he was killed when the state law enforcement division announced it was opening an investigation into his death based upon information gathered during the course of the double murder investigation of paul and maggie murdaugh. >> verdict guilty. >> reporter: alex murdaugh was innocenced to life in prison for the murders of his wife and son. investigators never revealed what information they gleaned from the murdaugh murders investigation that resulted in his case being opened. today, new private efforts launched to uncover the

circumstances, spearheaded by smith's mother, sandy, and two attorneys, the first goal, exhuming smith's body. >> we think we have good cause to show why a fresh set of eyes on this would be beneficial. it kind of has to start with a fresh new look at the body. >> reporter: initial reports said the nursing student died on july 8th, 2015, from blunt force head trauma, originally said to be the result of a hit and run. but the accident investigation team cited, quote, no vehicle debris, skid marks or injuries consistent with someone being struck by a vehicle. >> i just love my son. and since i couldn't protect him, i'm going to fight for him. >> reporter: smith's mother said she worried her son may have been targeted because he was gay. according to police files during interviews with friends and family after smith's death, the murdaugh name kept coming up, but no suspect has ever been named and authorities have never connected anyone in the murdaugh family to smith's death. still, rumors and innuendo persisted as t spawned

documentaries and social media following often with buster must dau a former classmate of smith speculation. i have tried my best to ignore the vicious rumors about my involvement in stephen smith's tragic death that continue to be published in the media as i grieve over the brutal murders of my mother and brother. these baseless rumors are false. i unequivocally deny any involvement in his death and my heart goes out to the smith family. smith's attorney caution the public, this is not about the murdaugh's. >> this is not an alex murdaugh 2.0 or any murdaugh 2 .0. this is a stephen smith 2.0. it's all about stephen. >> reporter: heart of this, this is a mother who for nearly eight years wondered what happened to her son and who did it to him. sandy smith started a go fund me and raised more than $75,000 that will go to pay to exhume her son in a private autopsy,

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possible protests after trump called on his supporters to protest and, quote, take our nation back. trump's legal issues have drawn attention from arnold the world, could be the first former president to potentially face criminal charges. for more on the international perspective, we want to bring in bi bianca nobilo and max foster. we are waiting, this is unprecedented. both sides would agree with that. what are leaders there saying? >> interesting. it's in the papers, as you saw there but not on the front pages, not headline story. i think people are really confused about which court case, what it means and then very quickly find out he could still run for president if he gets arrested today. as he's obviously claiming. people are lost in it. also don't you think he's gone off the radar a bit on the global headlines as opposed to when he was in power? >> he certainly did. that's why there's been a focus,

fixation on his return to social media and the internet. that's actually been plastered across quite a few newspapers across europe this week. the fact that he could still run for president regardless of being indicted, incredulity, many countries that's not a possibility or not acceptable. we see some similarities as well to the situation of the former pakistani prime minister khan who has been called a donald trump of pakistan. they've been questioning they're going to have their january 6th moment because he's been asking his supporters to come out in the streets and protest against charges against him, which he alleges are politically motivated to prohibit him from being successful in the next election. >> it's interesting that you say that, bianca, that people are flummoxed that someone could run for president after being

arrested. one of our competitors did a very goodation on people here, politicians in the united states who have been arrested and ran for office, some still won and, you know, it wasn't earth shattering, the sky didn't fall. so it's something that has happened here except at the level of presidency. i do want to turn now because -- well, sort of speaking about the white house, they are closely watching xi jinping, this three-day trip that he has meeting with putin. how is europe reacting to that? >> it's definitely front page stuff. it's the imagery, more than anything, rather than what they're going to discuss. this idea of seeing them together over a three-day summit effectively and this locus really that feels away from europe and america. it's slightly unsettling. a lot of the commentary is the idea that, you know, reaction really to america, europe being involved, getting involved in asia pacific and this is xi/putin creating new locus in

eurasia, if you like. this idea alternative power base forming is quite unsettling to a lot of people. >> it's become a lightning rod for this deepening anxiety we see across europe about this bipoe lairty, the west, the u.s. and nato versus china, russia, iran and you can see these political shifts occurring. and all of the events in the meetings and rhetoric only serve to underscore that happening. so with the exception of, for example, a country in europe like serbia, more closely aligned with putin there is that disquiet and unease watching what we're seeing unfold. >> we want your reaction, we are hearing from the prime minister in london right now talking about this independent review of britain's largest police force and apparently it has exposed this culture of constitutional racism, misogamy, homophobia, what is the response going to be to that? what's the repercussions? >> first of all, kaitlan, 365

pages, startling report, which does uncover rampant discrimination, a failure of women and child protection and inability of the police to police themselves. and what is tantamount to a shattering of public confidence in the police. just to give you a taste of some of the stories that we have read about and reports that contained, you hear about a sikh's man beard corn. women forced to eat large amounts of cake until they vomit hazing. >> very clear, the author, she investigated for a year. this is constitutional racism, sexism and homophobia. it's completely engrained. and i mean, we have been covering racism for decades. it hasn't changed. so she actually suggests the solution is to break it up. >> wow. talk to us more about that. how so?

>> well, just because it hasn't changed. if it's so engrained and she describes boy's club who -- members of staff and the public weren't protected about from abusive officers. if you go back to the stephen lawrence case, talking about racism in the met police for so many years, and they just don't seem to progress. >> my question is there an appetite for that, max, to break it up? is there an appetite? could that really happen? >> i think if you lose trust in the police, what's the alternative? you have to change the brand at the very least, don't you? >> this report feels like a jumping off point for wider conversations about reform. i think generally in the united kingdom there hasn't been the same kind of discussion about what to do with the police. but now this has been exposed in such a stark way, black and white, had with the female population as well as the issues with racism assaults against women, the murder of sara everrod, by a former police

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