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post, the fbi and other federal authorities have seen an uptick in violent rhetoric, calling for civil war but nothing near the levels, they say, before the january 6th capitol riot. the manhattan da is not commenting about any arrests but it does appear his investigation into what trump may have done to keep an alleged affair quiet during his 2016 campaign is winding down. >> a new york grand jury heard from what may have been a final witness in the case yesterday. this man, bob costello. today trump repeated his rebuke of the investigations against him, including new york's probe into that $130,000 hush money payment to adult film actress stormy daniels. let's go to manhattan now and cnn live outside the criminal courthouse in manhattan. tell us about yesterday's grand jury witness, bob costello. he said he was there to discredit the key witness in

this case, trumper former fixer, michael cohen. >> reporter: that's right, boris. not only the key witness to this case but also costello's former client, michael cohen. so, he said he was going in to meet with the grand jury to provide testimony that would undercut cohen's testimony, or at least call into question some of his contradict. costello arrived, he testified for three hours. he provided prosecutors more than 300 emails and documents. he said he thought the prosecutors had cherry-picked their questions to him. he said that he would have liked them to ask him other things. costello afterwards had said that, you know, his main purpose there, his goal was to undercut cohen. cohen later on msnbc defended himself. take a listen. >> listen, if they want to go after donald trump and they have solid evidence, so be it. but michael cohen is far from solid evidence. i wouldn't have touched a guy like michael cohen, especially if he's a convicted perjurier.

>> i have the proof, the documentation, the da has documentation to validate every single statement i've made. >> reporter: now, cohen was on standby yesterday to potentially go as a rebuttal witness and testify before the grand jury. he never was called to go in. and he said yesterday he did not think he would be called back. as we're waiting for a decision on whether to charge the former president by the manhattan district attorney, alvin bragg. there certainly is some crowds forming around here as people wait in anticipation to see what is going to happen. boris, jessica? >> on that note, let's talk for a second about security. we've seen various precautions they're taking, but walk us through those and explain what's being done in case donald trump is, in fact, indicted. >> reporter: right now the nypd has a lot more uniform officers on the street. we've seen a big uptick in

presence here outside of the courthouse where we are. they say there are no credible threats. this is something they're doing to increase their presence here. this is a very busy area. it is really filled out over the past couple of days, but it is mostly media that's here, waiting to see what is going to happen in this historic case, in this historic moment. there have been a handful of people here with signs up. it's really very calm. it's just a big media presence. that's where we're seeing this increased level of security because you never know what can happen. >> thanks so much for that reporting and that update. with us now to further expand this conversation, contributor john dean who was white house counsel for president nixon and cooperated with investigators during watergate and a key witness. thanks for joining us today. we've certainly never seen a president under indictment. this would be a first for an american president.

obviously, you played that key role during watergate but that didn't go up to this level, escalate this far. can you put into perspective for us what it will mean if there's, in fact, an indictment against a former president, or perhaps multiple indictments with these other cases as well. >> i think what it's going to show, jessica, is presidents are just like everybody else, particularly when they're out of office. there's a very convoluted memo that protects them while they're in office as head of the executive branch, and who can you replace that with. a lot of complex legal issues, protect a president while he's in office. those don't apply after he's out. that's where we are now. while it's unprecedented, it's not unusual. there have been presidents charged, spiro agnew during my time. many members of the senate have been charged.

i think this is regular business. it's unfortunate but not highly unusual given mr. trump's behavior. >> i want to ask you to step into the district attorney's shoes for a moment. alvin bragg is relying on michael cohen to be his star witness. as we saw with bob costello yesterday, the defense is probably -- if trump is dieted, probably going to attack cohen's credibility. >> well, i've been in that role of star witness. i was on the stand in ten days in the case against nixon's top former aides. and it's a heavy load to carry. and the cross-examination will be livelily. but when you're telling the truth and you have corroboration, as here with michael, i had nixon tapes that corroborated a lot of my testimony. it was my word against one of them. and then the tapes came out and corroborated what i had earlier testified to. so, you know, it's not an

undoable job. you just look at the jury, tell them what you know, and the jury will make its decision. >> and we've heard from house republicans who have jumped to defend the former president. they're even asking the manhattan da, they're requesting that he come testify to see if federal funds were used in this. do you think that's the appropriate response from them? it's probably not surprising but it is a pretty aggressive response to this. >> it's pretty disappointing, actually. i was the once counsel of that committee. this is such unprecedented action by the congress to try to meddle with a local prosecutor's case just because a former high-level government official is involved. it's a very bad precedent. i think they're going to have some feedback on this that is not going to be good politically for them. i think it's a stupid move, actually. and hopefully they'll pull back and not proceed.

>> john, speaking specifically about bob costello and his testimony yesterday, given what he told the press right after his appearance before the grand jury, did you hear anything that would make you, perhaps, think twice about presenting an indictment against the former president? do you think what he laid out was strong enough to contradict michael cohen? >> to the contrary. when i heard that he brought documents with him, that he had emails, some 300 emails, but only got questioned on a few of them, i thought, what a gift he's given the prosecutors. he knows -- they know everything he knows or has documentary evidence to try to support, and they've already looked at a lot of that. so, they're not going to -- they didn't call michael in. they didn't think they needed any rebuttal. i think they've only strengthened the -- i think costello has strengthened the prosecution's case because they

know he's now a particularly dangerous witness. >> john dean, appreciate your perspective. hope you'll come back in the next few days if there's an indictment and this waiting game finally ends. thanks so much. >> thank you both. >> of course. we want to get political perspective from margaret toliv, senior contributor from axios and editor of democraticcy and citizen institute at syracuse institute. margaret, love having you on, not only for your perspective but also because i get to shout out syracuse university. go orange. what is your read on why donald trump made this odd prediction that he was going to get arrested today? >> well, i think he heard the news reporting and thought there was something to it and wanted to get out ahead of it. two-fold, number one, to try to rally the house gop troops around him and see how his perspective rivals would handle it. number two, to begin a systematic campaign of trying to

discredit the manhattan prosecutor. watched all of that play out in a pretty short amount of time, at least the efforts for that to happen. you may notice a trend in the last few days because there has been a systematic effort to discredit everyone around this by the former president and his people. everyone from his former lawyer, michael cohen, to da bragg to governor desantis, just in case things go in that direction. i think the former president is showing that he's concerned and he wants at looers in the court of public opinion and his own gop base for the legitimacy, the merits of this possible action to be undercut before it even happens. >> discrediting everyone around him, a page out of his own playbook there. you mentioned the florida governor, ron desantis, a potential 2024 candidate that would run against former president trump, who we must remind everyone who is currently a 2024 candidate. we heard from desantis

yesterday, margaret. it was very telling how he tried to thread that needle. he talked about how he really pushed back against the investigation itself, but then he also kind of took a chance to take some digs at donald trump and kind of essentially the baggage he's carrying with him. how do you think this is going to affect the 2024 race? >> yeah, i think it's a real departure from what we saw in the 2016 race where there was a an accredited gop field but everyone is still playing with guardrails on civility and how you treat fellow candidates. as trump turned up the heat, really none of his rivals from bush to marco rubio to chris christie, nobody could figure out how to punch back. and ron desantis, before he's actually even announced, is saying, i'm not afraid of you and trying to get out in front

and trying to remind the republican base that he would be competing against donald trump saying to them, is the former president with all of this baggage who we really want to be a front-runner? it has a different flavor and feel. it's making some republicans quite nervous, including lindsey graham, who's been a long-time backer of former president trump, but saying both to trump and desantis, guys, is this really the way you want to start? it could be very damaging internally, but i think if donald trump hangs in there in a primary and ron desantis gets in as expected, that is going to be the tenor and the volume. that is the starting point for this campaign. >> margaret, i want to get your thoughts on something just into cnn from our colleague, paula reed. a source familiar with the matter telling cnn that michael cohen has been advised by his legal team to stop publicly discussing the manhattan district attorney's investigation related to donald trump and this hush money payment. of course, we've seen michael cohen all over the place

recently. what are your thoughts on this new development? >> sounds like something a lawyer would advise their client, number one, to avoid jeopardy of their own, but i think, you know, this is really a pivotal moment, whether it's a matter of a moment or days or several days. and we don't know until it happens. michael cohen has already learned the hard way about, you know, what it means to be involved with donald trump and what it means to go through the justice system. and there -- i just -- i'm not surprised his lawyer is telling him that. >> margaret, once again, you have the gop -- you have a house gop right now down in florida. they were available for policy retreat, they want to talk about agenda items and once again they're talking about former president donald trump. this is the trend in the republican party. they say they want to talk about their agenda and yet they end up

talking about trump. is that more of what we can expect to see in the months ahead, do you think? >> well, i think the gop's been in a bit of a holding pattern. this is another example of it. the reason you've had three house republican committee chairman come out and pre-emptively call for testimony from the manhattan district attorney before this has even gone forward is because they were instructed to do so publicly by the house speaker, kevin mccarthy, who's under pressure from donald trump to do so. and then you see james comber, the head of gop-led oversight basically saying, i can't kroelt right flank of my party, plus they're winning, so why should i? i think the gop is locked in this kind of moment where they kind of -- the polling among republican voters in the u.s. is saying, they think they would

probably be in a stronger general election position for 2024 with a different nominee, but then when you look at who's the favorite candidate, donald trump still tends to be the front-runner in these polls. how do you break away from that inside the primary structure, inside the leadership fights on a razor's edge with just a couple of votes to spare? it is -- it has been and all these years later remains the central strategic conflict for republican party. it's trying to put one eye on the future but can't quite move away from the past. >> can't quite get away from the past. margaret, it's always great to see you. thanks so much. >> thanks. >> look, donald trump is facing a lot of legal issues. sometimes it can be tough to keep track of all these cases so we're explaining them all to you with this quick programming note. tonight pamela brown and her guests explore how we got here with all these legal cases

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putin now says china's proposal could be the basis for ending the war. today, though, the nato secretary-general said there are signs that russia has requested lethal aid from china. cnn's international diplomatic editor nic robertson joins us now. these two men showing an uncommon amount of admiration and some would even say affection for each other. it is unusual. >> it's an advantageous situation for xi jinping. putin is in need. he needs weapons. he may not get them. nato secretary-general said though they're aware that russia's made that request to china, they haven't seen evidence that china is handing over weapons, yet as part of the many business deals struck here between the pair, that could include dual purpose equipment, such as chips that can be used in sophisticated guided missiles, the sort of thing

russia desperately needs. what putin is getting here is this big economic support of improved trade that's going forward. they're getting to be a partnership challenging the western narrative of democracy. as to that idea that xi jinping put forward his plan for a peace deal over ukraine, he says it recognizes the central tenants of the charter at the united nations. i think that's something many countries would disagree with. but this is the narrative xi and putin are pushing. not just to their country, but other nations. the global south, if you will, gulf states, arab gulf states, who look upon the conflict in ukraine not the same way that we do. so, there's a danger here, this narrative they're putting forward is a powerful one and in their constituency, it will hold. but as a realistic peace deal, it doesn't stand any chance at the moment.

>> knnic robertson, thank you f that insight. we know ukrainian officials are watching the summit closely. we are joined now from kharkiv, ukraine. a ukraine official telling cnn discussions are under way for chinese president xi to hold a phone call with president zelenskyy to discuss china's peace plan. tell us more about that. >> right. well, you know, china is presenting itself as a peacemaker, claiming it is neutral in this war, which it calls a crisis, and it has proposed some kind of a peace plan, but the chinese leader has yet to explain it directly to the ukrainian president. while xi jinping has met more than 40 times in his career face-to-face with vladimir putin, he has not had a single phone call with the ukrainian president since russia invaded this country in february of last year. the ukrainians don't want to say no outright to china because they prefer china purporting to

be neutral rather than simply arming their russian ally, so they're keeping the door open. we've also heard ukrainian officials say, if you want peace, it has to start with russia withdrawing its troops from areas that it seized since february of last year and ending its occupation of our territory. so, it's hard to see where china could kind of bridge the enormous gulf between moscow and kyiv right now at war, as their soldiers continue to kill each other day and night. in the meantime, a fascinating split screen here that tells you something about geopolitics today. the japanese prime minister showed up in kyiv unannounced to meet with the ukrainian government after japan -- after tokyo pledged some $5.5 billion in aid to the ukrainian government last month. so, you have two important leaders from asia that are visiting warring governments, in moscow and in kyiv, on opposite

sides of the front lines, showing their support for the different sides in this war. it shows you a little bit about how forces around the world have lined up in this terrible conflict. boris, jessica? >> a major split screen moment there in kyiv. ivan watson reporting from kharkiv, thank you. joining us to talk about all these developments and the bromance between xi and vladimir putin is josh rogin, a columnist for "the washington post," and he literally wrote the book on u.s./china relations in this day and age. it's "chaos under heaven: trump, xi and the battle for the 21st century." i know there was one specific statement from xi that caught your eye. when he talked about china being ready to stand guard over the world order. what was your impression of that? >> right, just the thought of it sends chills down my spine, boris. if you just imagine what the people in ukraine must be

thinking. first vladimir putin goes to mariupol and celebrates, takes a victory lap at the scene of a war crime where he's just been indicted for abducting and kidnapping tens of thousands of innocent ukrainian children. then he shows up in moscow with xi jinping, and xi jinping says, oh, we're going to patrol the world order together. china and russia will be the world's policemen. how does that sound? it's a sad and dystopian view of how any invasion is just called a crisis and any mass atrocity is just called a child welfare program. if that's the world order xi jinping and putin are in for, i'm here to tell you the ukrainians aren't in for that. that means the ukrainians are very well aware of xi jinping's peace proposal is a ruse, a fig

leaf. >> josh, to that end, what do you make of the comments from the nato general that said there are signs that russia has requested this lethal aid from china, although there's no evidence yet that they're delivering any weapons? how serious is that? >> right. that's no change from what we heard last week from u.s. officials, however i think there is some evidence they've been getting some limited amounts of ammunitions and guns. meanwhile, they're getting tons of nonlethal support. body armor, drones, those microchips you talked about earlier. china's all in on the russian army. the only reason they're not giving them more weapons is because they're afraid of getting sanctioned. that's what the nato secretary-general has tried to do. he's trying to threaten sanctions. to be honest, i don't know if putin and xi care about that anymore. they busted out of the economic sanctions, they busted out of the banking sanctions, they busted out of the energy sanctions and busted out of the food sanctions.

i'm sure sooner or later the chinese will stop pretending they're not helping the russian army's invasion and just start doing it outright. >> well, the economics being such a huge part of this meeting underscores what you're saying, that they're not quite as vulnerable to sanctions. so, i wonder, what can the west then do to either incentivize or deter china from providing lethal aid to the kremlin? >> the only thing we can do is make good on our threats to sanction the companies that actually provide the weapons. and then the other thing we could do if we wanted to actually win the war is to give the ukrainians the planes and tanks and missiles and drones that they need to get this over with, to push russian forces out and be done with this once and for all. you know, china and russia are -- they're not fools. they know that time is on their side. they know that the longer this goes on, the less ukrainians there will be to fight back and

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right now in the nation's second largest school district, tens of thousands of l.a. schoolworkers are on the picket lines protesting concerns over pay, equitable treatment and what they call unfair labor practices. >> we need to make a living wage. we live this weird paradox as workers that help feed children and yet we struggle to feed our own children. so anybody that has kids in school, anybody that really cares about the quality of education, you have to care about the people that guarantee that quality education and that is us.

>> today's walkout forced the district to shut down all its schools. that's affecting more than 500,000 students. many of whom who depend on school for free lunch and child care. superintendent for the l.a. unified school district is joining us now. superintendent, thanks for making time today. why couldn't the district come to an agreement with the workers? >> good afternoon, jessica and boris. thank you so much for having me. number one, we've been at the table for quite a while now. we recognize the historic inequities that persist, particularly impact some of the lowest wage earners in our community, the voices you just heard from. that's why we led with an historic compensation package that we put on the table. we started out at 15% cash in hand as well as recurring compensation increase. we're now at a 23% recurring compensation increase, in addition to a 3% bonus. but look, this is the result of

a crescendo of frustration that goes back many, many, many years. this new team has inherited these conditions. we are negotiating. i remain hopeful we'll be able to have a legitimate kgs that may result in a prec precedent-setting contract. >> superintendent, the workers talk about feeling disrespected by the district. i'm wondering how you respond to that. what do you think they mean by that? >> i know exactly what the workers mean by that. number one, years of substandard compensation at levels that, quite frankly in a community like los angeles where the cost of living, the cost of housing, are so high, have been -- have put our workforce, particularly the lowest wage earnings, bus drivers, cafeteria workers, custodial staff, in a position where they cannot live in the communities where they work. also allegations that go back a long time regarding some workplace conditions. that is why we continue to

investigate every one of those allegations. that is why we have put on the table a very compelling compensation package, which includes not only that 23% salary increase, in addition to a 3% cash in hand bonus to recognize the effort of this very indispensable workforce group, but also extending dignity and respect, offering even for part-time employees full health care benefits for them and their dependents, their family members at no cost to the employees. this is a compelling package. what we're waiting now is for the union to come back to the table for us to maintain and continue these negotiations. >> superintendent, there's some 500,000 children in your care in that school district. they're all at home today. a lot of them not only rely on education, but they get lunch, maybe breakfast. it's a place parents know they can go when they're at work. what are you doing to service

those children, to make sure these days aren't wasted? >> obviously, side by side with our concern for the workforce, we are deeply, deeply concerned for the well-being of our kids. look, this district went through its longest strike back in 2018-2019. that was followed by a pandemic. we know the impact of that pandemic in terms of reading and math proficiency and social, emotional and mental well-being and here we are again. that's why we made decisions to activate dozens of sites across the community to, number one, distribute, grab and go meals, being able to provide children in our community with the food that they obtain in our schools. we have also opened dozens of centers for child supervised activities, for working parents to be able to drop off their children. we just wrapped up the food distribution. we were able to distribute hundreds of thousands of meals to needy kids in our community,

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responding to this? >> well, what prompted this inquiry in the first place was shocking. it was the brutal kidnap and rape and murder of a young woman back in 2021 at the hands of a serving armed police officer, wayne cousins, in an elite union here in the uk. it sparked outrage in the british public and prompted the inquiry. have a listen to what they said about the incident. >> i find it extraordinary that in policing and in the met police, that wasn't their moment of like a plane falling out of the sky. i just think it is so dreadful and, you know, has to be a moment that change came. change didn't come. so now this report has to carry that and has to take responsibility for getting the change needed that we should have had at the point that that young woman lost her life. >> now, she actually said in her

report that the unit to which wayne cousins belonged should be disbanded and should be reset with a new ethos. she also spoke more broadly about the culture in london's met police. she said it was a culture of denial, a culture of we know best, so to speak, and that was part of what was making it resistant to reform over the years. now there's been strong language by leaders of the uk. london's mayor kahn said it's damning and the culture of met police needs to change. however, this is not the first inquiry into london's met police. there have been many over decades with similar critical conclusions. the question is whether this will be the turning point for the met. >> and the met police commissioner saying, sorry we let you all down and we'll fix this. we'll see how that plays out. thank you so much for your reporting. so, there's more heavy rain and snow along with high winds

that's moving into southern california. >> this is thanks to yet another atmospheric river storm. this is the state's 12th since late december. it's an unusually high number for the west and it means severe flooding remains a threat there. jennifer gray is watching it all. the storm is already here. i guess the question is, how intense is it going to be? >> it is here, it will be peaking through the afternoon and overnight hours and then start to wind down. we really are seeing some pretty significant impacts across the california coast. we're seeing very heavy rain. some rainfall rates, about an inch or two an hour. also seeing very heavy snow, very high winds and power outages. you can even see some spin right there just offshore. so, once it starts to pull inland or that low will, then we'll start to see the storm peak along the coast and then start to improve. but that flash flood probability is still there. we have a very high risk of

that, moderate across southern california from los angeles to san diego. and that's where we could see the most significant flooding. so, as we go forward in time, the rain will continue to fall, the snow, and then pulling into the rockies as well. you can see still raining across the california coast by wednesday. and then it finally starts to wind down where the showers will start to subside a little bit as well as the snow. but the forecast rain and snow accumulation, we could see anywhere from 2 to 4 inches along the coast. very high snow amounts as well. we could see several feet of snow. you can see, this also spills to the east into the rockies and in portions of the plains. zooming in on some of the harder hit areas where we could see some very high totals, guys, before this is all said and done. >> 12 atmospheric rivers, that feels like a lot. >> that's remarkable. >> jennifer gray, thank you so much, jennifer. so, after being eliminated from the world baseball classic,

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. after losing in the semifinals of the world baseball classic this weekend, team cuba landed back in havana missing one of its players. the mlb tells usa today that ivan prieto gonzalez, a 26-year-old backup catcher defected from his home country. cnn has reached out to major league baseball for comment. >> cnn's patrick oppmann joins us from havana. what more do we know about this? >> reporter: well, you know,

even before the first pitch was thrown in the game on sunday, there was an incredible amount of tension around this game. of course you had the cuba's national team playing the u.s. in miami's little havana, the heart of the exile community in miami. so a lot of activists came, anti-cuban activists came knowing the game would be broadcast live in cuba and used it to show anti-government sign, pro protest anthems. the u.s. demolished the cuba's team. this was the best showing in years. they made it to the semifinals. that's a lot better than they've done in recent years after having so many players leaving the island to play in the mlb. the team was greeted like returning heroes when they returned yesterday, but of course there was a missing player. as you said, ivan prieto did not make the flight home. we don't know why he deserted, if it's for political reasons, if it's that he's hoping to play in the mlb, make more money or like so many other thousands of

cubans, he's just trying to seek a better life outside of cuba. typically the cuban government calls these players leave desserters, and traitors and bans them for up to five years from returning to the island. this could be a decision that has a huge impact on his life. >> cuba likely will never allow him to play for the national team again. they don't really like cubans who leave in cuba. kind of like me. patrick oppmann, thank you so much for that. "the lead" with jake tapper starts after the break. jessica, it's great to be with you. >> great to be with you as always, boris. geget directv with a two year price guarantee. ♪

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