strike. coming up, what it means for more than 500,000 students there. we start where moments from now two of america's most powerful rivals, russia's president putin and china's xi jinping are set to meet inside the kremlin behind closed doors. it's a high stakes summit that the entire world is watching. it could have implications for what's happening in ukraine. this into cnn. a senior ukrainian official says discussions are underway to organize a call between xi and cnn president zelenskyy. that would be the first conversation between those two leaders. in a competing display of support, we are seeing the japanese prime minister on the ground in kyiv right now as this meeting in russia is going on. live team coverage with correspondents in russia, ukraine and taiwan. we start with cnn's senior international correspondent matthew chance in moscow. you have this nor reew reportin about the call between the leader of china and president zelenskyy. this is something the white house had wanted to make happen.

what else are you learning about when this call could happen? >> reporter: well, it's going to be pretty soon according to the sources i have spoken to inside ukraine. but nothing concrete, i have been told, by senior officials have been scheduled. so it's still very much in the -- it could possibly happen stage. if it does happen, it would be the first time that president zelenskyy of ukraine has spoken with xi jinping and that contrasts starkly with the amount of contact there has been between the chinese and russian presidents. it's been more than 40 occasions that they have had face-to-face meetings. the latest occasion is scheduled to take place anytime now within the next few minutes they are expected to meet inside the kremlin for formal negotiations how to bring these two increasingly autocratic countries even closer together. remember, russia is an important resource for china's economy. it's got massive reserves of oil and gas and a forestry of

minerals that is supplying intriguingly to china. for russia, china is an economic lifeline at a time when international sanctions have cut off supply routes to the westerly directions. so they are in this sort of increasingly close alliance between these two countries. military aid is something the russians desperately need from chincoteague. ammunition for the battlefield to push the front lines forward. behind closed doors, there is suspicion that that could still be discussed. but, you know, front and center of the diplomatic meeting on this occasion is this chinese proposal for a peace plan to end what they call the crisis in ukraine. it calls for talks between ukraine and russia, but it does stop short of demanding that russia pull out of the territories that it's conquered. that's why there is so much skepticism in ukraine and the west. >> this breaking news is remarkable, that they are working to get xi and zelenskyy on the phone.

what will zelenskyy -- you have been reporting and talking to ukrainian officials since this invasion began. where would zelenskyy even start, do you think, with the chinese president? >> reporter: well, i mean, first of all, china is an important country for ukraine as well. it would much remember be engaged under chinese mediation with some sort of peace process than see the chinese go full on over to russia's side and start providing russia with battlefield technology and ammunition and munitions and things like that because that could really turn the tide of the war against ukraine in russia's favor and the ukrainians desperately want to avoid that. of course, the negotiating position as far as i understand it from ukraine has not changed. they are saying that they will not settle for any territorial losses when it comes to a final settlement of this conflict. >> yeah. remarkable reporting. matthew chance.

thank you. >> we want to bring in senior international correspondent will ripley in taiwan, ivan watson from kharkiv. good morning to both of you. so, ivan, as a relationship between russia and china grows, it's a need for stronger weapons in ukrainer now? >> reporter: we are hearing a constant drum beat from ukraine's western allies of new support coming to this government and to its military. the european commission just announced 1.5 billion euros in aid today coming to ukraine. yesterday the biden administration announce $350 million worth of ammunition as the european union, some 17 countries plus norway, announced a million rounds of artillery ammunition that it was going to rush to ukraine. meanwhile, the ukrainians are saying, yes, we need every bit of equipment and ammunition that we can get. and if you travel around front

line areas, even with all the assistance coming in, don, you will be struck to see how many ukrainian troops are moving around in ordinary civilian vehicles or talking about the difficulty they have to get something as simple as a rifle or that there is still fundraisers and kind of gofundme attempts to try to pay for the commercial drones that the ukrainian different battalions and companies are using on the front lines that is essential to protect them from russian troops, conduct surveillance and so on. so there is this race to try to keep the ukrainian military equipped even as it continues to suffer enormous losses on the battlefield in this conventional war of attrition against a much larger enemy. >> but they know that time -- i mean, time is not on the side of ukraine here and they are worried about just how long this extends, ivan? >> reporter: they are.

and, you know, as we're monitoring the visit of the chinese leader to moscow right now, don, we have this kind of split screen moment happening, too, where you have another important asian leader, the japanese prime minister fumio kishida, who made his own surprise visit today arriving by train from poland in kyiv to meet with the ukrainian president volodymr zelenskyy with a message from tokyo that japan is all in to support ukraine in this war against russia. that japan is condemning russia's invasion a little bit more than a year ago and has declared annexation of territories it occupied here. i think what we're seeing here is that while the chinese leader is declaring his friendship with the russian president and also talking about peace, that ukraine's western allies, which include countries like japan, are saying we are all in with

ukraine. you want to support russia? we are going to keep running weapons and finances to ukraine in this existential war against russia. >> yeah, and, will, we've seen president xi -- obviously, he is in russia. he now invited putin to come to china. he called him his dear friend. that is the context and the background if you are going to see zelenskyy getting on the phone with the chinese president next? >> reporter: yeah, because, obviously, those are two very different conversations. putin and xi praising each other, you know, holding lavish events for each other. meanwhile, president xi on the phone with president zelenskyy will have to convince him china's 12-point peace plan is a good deal for ukraine even though it involves an end to western sanctions, negotiations that would see ukraine, you know, giving up territory that russia stole and even a nato pull back from eastern borders along with reconstruction efforts that probably would benefit the chinese themselves.

chinese contractors. and so that's going to be a hard sell. but as ivan mentioned and others mentioned, ukraine does need china on its side because there are huge trading partner. it puts ukraine in a difficult position. they get a lot of support from democracies, certainly support from here in taiwan where the foreign minister just today tweeted out this is hypocrisy that putin and xi are claiming talk about peace when putin is doing what he is doing in ukraine and xi has his ambitions for taiwan. >> remarkable scene setting there. t stay close. we are going to wait for this meeting to start. we will be tracking that live. also here, police on high alert not just in new york city, also in washington after former president trump called on his supporters to protest and, quote, take our nation back. trump claimed he would be indicted and arrested today in the investigation of the hush-money payments to the adult film actress stormy daniels. no indication that is actually happening today.

it comes as the new york police department has told all of its officers to be in uniform and ready to deploy starting today. that's according to an internal memo obtained by cnn. manhattan's district attorney hasn't said if and when criminal charges are coming. a source close to the trump legal team doesn't expect it to happen until next week. cnn legal analyst and former fist attorney in southern district of new york, alley honen, and the book untech u touchable, out now and highly relevant to everything we are talking about. >> who knew? >> and do you have any news on the timing? >> no. i can tell you how it works. when you are done putting your witnesses in front of the grand jury, you are at the phase where you present a potential indictment to the grand jurors as a prosecutor, just the prosecutors and the grand jurors in the room. you lay out the charges you want them to consider. you give them a summary of the evidence they have heard and leave the room, they vote and

you tell them if you have questions, i'll come back in, when you are done, knock on the door, you hear the knock inside the room. 99% of the time they say here is your indictment. 1% of the time they say no bill, as we call it. >> the title is pretty widely expected. >> we are waiting to get word that this is actually happening. as that is happening, this -- you have been probably one of the most vocal people --? a risk for alvin bragg to sake. tts not a slam dunk for him. but he is moving ahead because? is it the other risk that it's a testament to the idea that no one's above the law? if a crime was committed here, and they have evidence of that? >> i see three times of risk here. first of all, the conduct we are talking about i think a lot of people see as not that serious. it's not even hush-money payments to a porn star. it's the way the trump organization booked in hush-money payment under internal books. i don't know the proper way to book a payment for a porn fee,

but that's low on the caliber of -- >> it wasn't actually a legal fee. >> then the evidentiary problem. the key issue is not that donald trump know hush-money was paid. that's not a crime. did he know that the payments were booked that way? if you listen to michael cohen's recording made, he says in there -- they are talking about the other ways i case, trump, is like how do we do this. trump says allen weisselberg and i will handle that. and then you talk about the timing of it. six and a half years later. it begs the question, why now? >> so i have heard from others that this is essentially a sort of crime that involves a paper trail. >> yeah. >> and paperwork or paper trail crimes are very easy to prove. you are saying it's going to be difficult but wouldn't the barb low to prove that? >> i disagree with that. i heard that statement from a

mutual friend of ours. it's easy to prove if the person's name is on the paper. here the paper trail can show us how this payment was made, how michael cohen was reimbursed, and exactly how they booked it. i would be shocked if it showed a are direct link to donald trump. if there is an email, text, memo where he says do it this way, that's a smoking gun. short of that, the paperwork is an important part of the story. saying it's a paper trail doesn't get you to the core issue of the defendant or the potential defendants' criminal liability. >> quickly, we were watching -- she is saying in past cases she likes to use the rico statute. isn't there a second statute -- >> which is racketeering. >> yeah, in new york that could be used with donald trump with alvin bragg. >> rico and racketeering are the same thing. there is a federico law and

every state have their own versions of the rico statute. it's a powerful actual for prosecutors where you show this was an organization, a group of people working together to commit a pattern repeated criminal offenses. >> all right. we'll see. everybody standing by watching and waiting. thank you. meantime, this morning 30,000 school workers in los angeles are walking off the job. bus drivers, cafeteria workers, janitors won't be showing up and classes for 500,000 kids have been canceled. a year of failed contract negotiations between the union and the country's second largest school district. let's head to nick watt live in los angeles. wow, early for a crowd. good morning to you. what do workers want here? what's going on, nick? >> reporter: well, what they want depends on who you ask. you know, don, there were

supposed to be last-ditch talks late yesterday. those talks were abandoned before they even began. that might give you an indication as to how far apart these sides are. less than 12 hours later, as you mentioned, very earl on a filthy wet morning here in los angeles, we have a picket line outside a bus depot. these workers say they want better conditions, more money and, most of all, they say respect. more than 500,000 kids will not be going golden globe to school today. the second largest district in the nation, more than 1,000 schools in all, shut down by this strike called by the union that reps the bus drivers, cafeteria workers, special ed assistants and custodians. like jose tovar, whose current wage puts him below the poverty line.

>> to live above water. >> one in three or four members is homeless or has-houseless while working for lausd. >> reporter: the union is demanding large pay hikes, more full-time jobs, more staff and, quote, respectful treatment. some parents are sympathetic. >> bwe have some of our most underpaid workers doing some of the most challenging jobs on the campuses. >> reporter: the district made an offer, you including a pay rise, but half the 30% demanded. >> under california law we cannot drive the school system into a bankruptcy position. if we ac quequiesce to all of t demands, that's where we would be. that is not legally allowable. >> reporter: so 500,000 kids don't go to school while the adults argue. >> ultimately i feel like the kids are being left behind in a battle between adults. >> reporter: apparently it's gotten ugly. the district calls this strike illegal, claiming it's all about

the money, not the other stuff. union leaders deny that and claim during this whole process the district asubjected workers to surveillance, intimidation, and harassment. >> some have been harassed to the point they lost their job, lost income. >> we have not been presented with compelling evidence that long-range widespread abuses. are there issues? >> reporter: during the strike there will be some childcare provided at a few schools and parks and box lunches for the many who rely on free school meals. the union claims 96% of its 30,000 or so members who work in the district voted for this. a strike scheduled to last three days. so barring any breakthroughs, there is no school until friday.

and these picketers have been out since about 4:30 this morning. you mentioned, don, the teachers union asking its members to strike in sympathy. the teachers went on strike in 2019 and they won some concessions. better conditions, smaller classes, and a better pay raise. what will happen here, we don't know. the strike is on for three days. what happens if tlz no resolution after that? we don't know yet. we will be waiting and watching. >> you may be out there covering at 34:30 in the morning the crowds. thank you. all right. this is not a quote. expecting to hear from the mayor of miami beach. we don't want spring break. hoping to put an end to the weekends of chaos we have been seeing. what are they going to do about it? he is on the program next. ( ♪ ) ( ♪ ) you found the one. now find the ring at zales,

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we're monitoring here. two big stories at this hour. if you look at the screen, these are live pictures, as a matter of fact, house speaker kevin mccarthy on stage in orlando, a republican issues conference there. we are going to monitor to see what he has to say about a possible indictment of the former president trump. also, we are going to get live pictures now. you can see xi, chinese president xi jinping, about to meet with vladimir putin there. live pictures from moscow at the kremlin. that meeting should happen at any moment. we will bring that to you live to see what happens there. we are watching orlando and also watching moscow this morning, domestic and international news

here on cnn. now we want to take you to miami because the city of miami beach is sending a simple message to spring breakers. that message is don't come and it's all because of an eruption of violence over the weekend. >> a visitor recorded this video from his hotel room window of friday night's deadly shooting. firefighters had to hose blood off of the street in south beach after a second deadly shooting earlier sunday morning. now, miami beach issued a state of emergency and a midnight curfew sunday night due to the violence and rowdy crowds, but last night the city council rejected a curfew for this weekend. the mayor, dan gelber, says we don't want spring break in our city, that's a quote from him, and he joins me now. good morning, mayor. thank you so much. i appreciate it. >> nice to see you again. >> obvious question. why don't you want it?

>> spring break? spring break is just not something that almost any city in florida has wanted. young, really unruly, hard to control, you know, people coming into your city and in our case tens of thousands in a small area. sometimes it's just unruly. as happened over the weekend, sometimes it's much worse than that. it's violence, if not deadly, and we had two deaths in two days. we are a residential community, you know. so for us this is just not something we can endure. >> but there is no curfew this weekend. do tu think there should be? >> absolutely. you know, i think we had a boisterous meeting last night and by a vote of 4-3 i was on the losing side, our commission decided not to extend the curfew to this weekend. i think they were swayed by the bars and club representatives that pack the commission meeting

and i think they hope and believe this weekend will be better. i am not in line with that. while i hope and pray as well, i don't think that's the plan. i think curfew is a plan and i think we needed to take stronger action. >> considering what you just said here, cnn spoke to the owner of a miami beach hotel. that owner blames the city and elected officials who are beholden to the night life industry. listen. >> the blasting music, the dance performances that a handful of businesses use to exploit the public, the fact that the city sets up multiple stages and has deejays and bands, we embrace the spring break atmosphere. >> your response? >> yeah, well, we don't embrace the spring break atmosphere. we don't advertise for it. we don't seek it unlike other cities in florida, fort

lauderdale, that created the spring break and ran away for it. we didn't ask for it. we try to police it. we bring in more police in our city that is, you know, manageable on atvs, horses, ambassadors, we try everything we can to control the crowds. there are simply too many of them to control. and often when you have that many people, just a few act in a way that is not simply chaotic but sometimes criminal, and that is our challenge. i don't disagree with everything mitch said. i just think that we understand what the problem is. it's too many people, too many young people, too much disorder and really an inability to control. those two, don, those two murders happened within steps of police officers. they were there within seconds, arrests were made within minutes. but when you have that many police and you can't not deter a crime like that is correct you have a public safety issue and you cannot balance that with bar

receipts, frankly. for me it's a binary choice. if we cannot keep the streets safe in this particular area at this time, we shouldn't have people there after midnight. >> the mayor of miami beach, dan gelber, thank you very much. >> a lot of things happening there that they have to deal with. also this morning we are tracking putin and xi meeting at the kremlin. this is a big meeting that the world has been watching. our cnn senior international correspondent matthew chance is there. they are greeting each other there. they are going to st. george's hall. they will have these meetings today, matthew. what are you watching for on the second day of talks between xi and putin? >> reporter: this is the formal segment much the official state visit. you see the two leaders there, xi jinping, vladimir putin standing to attention as the national anthems of their countries are played. it's a high degree of ceremony around this.

it is a symbolic moment for russia. it's the first time xi jinping has been here since the invasion of ukraine by russia. this is a few days since vladimir putin was indicted for war crimes. this is symbolic, a show of support for china, from china for russia. russia is an an important resource for china. it gets its oil and gas from here increasingly and has a growing trade relationship with russia. it's an important lifeline from moscow's point of view because of the sanctions trying to strangle the russian economy from elsewhere in the world. these two people have been -- countries have been thrust together in this increasingly deepening alliance. behind closed doors, it's expected to be discussions about further economic development between the two countries, bringing them closer together with more economic ties and possibly the provision of chinese military aid to russia. it needs relationships. it needs ammunition on the

battlefield of ukraine where it's been running short. china stopped short of providing that so far, but that could change. something people are closely watching. but also this issue of the chinese peace plan for ukraine which has been discussed already during a four-hour meeting yesterday between the leaders here in moscow. we learned from a senior ukrainian official this morning that discussion are now underway between the chinese and ukrainian governments for a phone call between the chinese and ukrainian leaders to discuss that peace proposal. nothing is concrete yet. but if it goes ahead, it would be the first time the chinese and ukrainian presidents have had a conversation. that contrasts starkly with the relationship between the two leaders we see on the screens right now. they met each other face to face more than 40 times. it is one of the closest international relationships if not the closest that russia actually has right now. and so, again, very symbolic.

russia, from its point of view here with xi jinping at the side of its presidents showing the world it's not isolated. at least it has china on its side. >> interesting that they have met 40 times and they are trying to encourage this phone call between zelenskyy and xi. something john kirby at the white house encouraged as well. interests to watch. this is more than just -- it's about support optically, obviously, vladimir putin wants to see support on an international level for himself. he is not getting that, obviously, from nato and western nations. but also they need the money, they need the resources as well that china could possibly provide. matthew chance, thank you so much. also this morning, there is a new bombshell lawsuit surrounding fox news. a producer claiming she was misleadingly coached, coerced, those are quotes, by the legal team. >> we were watching the kremlin. another live picture out of orlando, florida. this issues conference for republicans. we are monitoring the house

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. fox news producer filing two new and explosive lawsuits against the network alleging she was coerced into giving misleading democrat in dominion's defamation case against the company. >> "abbott eabby grossberg is a the network's legal team of intimidation while they prepared her for a deposition. we are covering this. what is she alleging? she is saying when she was talking to these attorneys before she went in for the deposition that they -- she alleges manipulated her into giving testimony that wasn't accurate. >> essentially. this is more legal trouble for fox news. this producer is saying she was basically bullied and intimidated and coerced into giving misleading testimony when she was deposed in dominion voting system's $1.6 billion lawsuit. it says fox news attorneys acted

as agents and the behest of fox n news to coerce miss grossberg to deliver and/or incomplete answers during her sworn deposition testimony which answers were to her reputational detriment but benefitted fox news. this bombshell pair of lawsuits comes at a critical time in the case. fox news is set to duke it out in court with dominion in a key hearing later today. so news she potentially was, you know, coerced into giving misleading testimony during a sworn deposition is, obviously, a pretty explosive allegation. >> isn't she saying that they were setting her and another anchor up to be the fall guys for all of this, correct? >> in her lawsuit she is alleging rampant sexism at fox news. so she is alleging that that sexism played a role in trying to basically set maria bartiromo, who she worked with

up and for her to take the fall for some allegations in dominion voting system's lawsuit against the network. i want to note, too, there are a lot of other allegations in here that deal with sexism. what is fox saying? >> fox is saying she was a disgruntled employee and these allegations shouldn't really be taken credibly. their statement, they say fox news media engaged in an independent outside counsel to immediately investigate the concerns raised by police grossberg following a critical performance review. we will vigorously defend these claims. i talked to her last night, her attorney, they dispute there was a negative performance review. they say they want to or she wants to expose thelize and tee s lies and deceit she witnessed at fox news and now she is doing just that. >> thank you. so later today the federal reserve will meet on whether to

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. welcome back. you are looking at house speaker kevin mccarthy there. taking questions in orlando. this is at the republican retreat. he was actually asked about the hush-money payments and the investigation going on here in new york with former president trump. we'll bring you that live in a moment. also the federal reserve is facing a difficult decision as they begin a two-day meeting on whether or not to raise interest rates as we have seen the recent turmoil in the banking system. two bank failures and 11th hour rescue ever credit suisse have investors expecting a smaller point increase as the central bank is continuing the fight to bring down inflation. joining us to talk about all of this is the republican congressman byron donald of florida who service on the financial services committee. you will be holding hearings next week. what do you think the federal reserve is going to do? if they do a smaller interest rate raise, a quarter point, is

that helpful or hurtful in your view? >> i think it's going to just keep things going the way everybody assumes it's going to go. i think a quarter point is fine. me personally, i think the fed. go to 50 basis points because the underlying issue whether we want to want to talk about bank balance streets, the inflation in the economy is crippling younger families, seniors, people on the lower end of the economic spectrum in america, they are suffering the most. you have to get the inflation out of the your economy. if get that job done you can figure out how to contain and protect bank balance sheets the best you can so the banking system can continue to thrive. >> do you think there is an appropriate legislative response here, insuring deposits over $250,000? what do you want to see as a result of what we have seen play out with banks? >> actually, i don't think there is a legislative response because if you look at the facts a couple of things occurred. number one, at silicon valley bank they didn't have a chief

risk officer for about six to nine months. obviously, they weren't aupayin attention to the duration risk on their bonds. a question we have, what was mary daly, the president of the san francisco fed, what was she paying attention to and not raising the alarms on a bank she was regulating and overseeing, what was going on there? you have a failure of management at this bank, not a contagion in the banking system overall. i don't think there is a legislative fix. what should have happened is the fdic should have allowed for a sale to happen pretty quickly and then you can figure out how to manage the banks in that same kind of position with respect to their balance sheet. >> you are joining us from orlando where the republican retreat is happening now. we saw house speaker kevin mccarthy speaking. we want to play a sound bite of what he just said weighing in on the next subject, this looming potential indictment of former

president trump. >> look, the thing i think about -- it is interesting. someone briefed me on the use of money, a situation like this before. and you probably covered this. remember when the dnc and hillary clinton paid the law firm $1 million and said it was for something else and we found out later it wasn't? it was all about the russia collusion, wasn't for a legal part? and so they went through and they got investigated. $1 million they spent. you know what at the end of the day? they didn't get prosecuted. they got fined. the campaign got fined $8,000 and the dnc got fined 100,000. >> congressman, the remarks are still playing out. he was arguing what is happening with trump in this investigation is that it's political, that that was personal money talking about the timeline of when the

payments happened. we don't know if the indictment is going to happen or when it's going to happen yet, but trump has called for protests. if there are protests, do you think they should be peaceful? >> of course. and i think of course every protest should be peaceful. we have never argued for anything different than that. if americans choose to protest, they should do it peacefully. let's be clear. what alvin bragg and his office is attempting to do is use essentially an investigation that the doj looked at, they did not bring charges. they said there is nothing to do with this. they moved on. he is trying to, quote, legal experts shoehorn some legal theory to go get trump. that's the essence of political prosecution. that's what's happening right now in new york which i think is wrong. he should be focused on the people who are actually perpetrating crimes against the people of new york today as opposed to playing gotcha politics. >> three house committee chairs are publicly demanding that

alvin bragg sit for a transcribed interview, turn over material from his investigation, but we haven't even seen an indictment yet. don't you think they should wait for the dual indictment to happen before they can call for a congressional investigation? >> no, i don't think so, because even if you have a situation where you have a prosecutor who is really now living outside the bounds of even his prosecutorial authorities and acts, yeah, judiciary should look at that, oversight committee should be able to look at that. we don't want a system of justice in our country that is politically motivated. if you are going to pull out the payments to stormy daniels, to michael cohen, and now say that there is some hidden felony nobody knows about, and you are trying to raise the stakes to bring that in, yeah, congress should look at that because we don't want an unequal application of the law. we don't want a law basically to just point at one person. that's not our system of justice

in america. that is, i believe, under congressional purview and chairmans jordan and comer expressed that in latheir lette there. >> how can you investigate it when you don't know what the charges are yet? >> theis is why we are asking fr simple documentation about the communications between former members of the new york d.a.'s office and what they are doing now, federal money is used in this investigation. those are simple requests of information making at this point. we will look at that response and make a determines nation from there. >> asking for a transcribed interview. you are from florida. you are a governor. ron desantis weighed in on this yesterday. this is what he said. >> 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. >> congressman, what did you make of him making a point to note the underlying conduct here? >> i mean, look, i think that's governor desantis trying to explain fully his viewpoint on this whole thing. look, i am not going to get into the political semantics that are happening in florida right now. we got to get back to the issue at hand. alvin bragg is overstepping his bounds as a prosecutor. there have been issues with prosecutors who have been widely using their discretion in some respects overusing it while at the same time in his city he is ignoring violent crimes. the nypd is arresting people. he is letting them walk out the

back door. that needs to be the focus. the back and forth between ron desantis and donald trump will take care of itself in the future. >> i should note that alvin bragg said homicides are down, shootings are down in manhattan. on desantis and trump, if desantis runs, which candidate are you going to support? >> listen, first of all, ron desantis hasn't even gotten into this race. so the hypotheticals, i don't get into that. we are focused on what we are doing to get the american economy and american people back on track in congress. governor desantis is doing his job as governor. i was with him the other day dealing a hurricane ian aftermath reports trying to get pressure on fema do its job and get trailers to the people who are 1,300 homeless in my district. fema doesn't want to put trailers because we are in a flood zone. talk about ridiculous. and donald trump is running for president and trying to get our nomination and going on to potentially becoming the 47th

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