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alex marquardt in washington. thank you so much for joining us today. we begin this hour with new details surrounding the indictment or former president donald trump. he is now the first ex president in us history to face criminal charges. trump is expected to travel to new york on monday, then surrender and appear in a manhattan court on tuesday. that's when charges against him of which sources tell us there are more than 30. that's when they will be. formally unveiled. attorneys for trump say he has quote ready to fight and will not accept a plea deal ahead of his appearance in court next week. the nypd is preparing for potential unrest. all officers are being told to report to work in uniform and to prepare for deployment today. cnn's kara scannell is outside the manhattan courthouse and cnn's leyla santiago is near trump's mar-a-lago home in west palm beach, florida. karen i want to start with you in new york. what more are you learning about what may be in this

historic indictment? what alex sources tell us that in the indictment, there are more than 30. charges in this indictment is still sealed. it won't be unsealed until tuesday. so we don't know the specific charges, but prosecutors have been investigating the falsification of business records and potentially the falsification of business records to commit or conceal another crime. a felony in new york state. at least 30 charges could be for everything ranging from every invoice that the trump organization received , as well as any checks that were made to reimburse michael cohen for facilitating those hush money payments. all those details will become public on tuesday, and that is when the former president is expected to come in to be arraigned. we're expecting that around 2 15 in the afternoon. that is the normal time that they do. these arrangements. now this grand jury handed up this vote at the very end of the day yesterday after they had heard from a number of witnesses, including former current trump organization executives. members of trump's campaign, including

his former fixer michael cohen, of certainly a central player in this as well as david pecker, the former publisher of the national enquirer. who was at the very beginning of the many deals he was involved for decades with the former president, a longtime friend and was orchestrator of the so called catch and kill deals. sources tell us that witnesses in in the grand jury were asked questions about other hush money deals beyond the stormy daniels payment, including a payment made to stop former playboy model karen mcdougal from going forward with her alleged affair with trump before the 2016 presidential election, so a lot of material that the grand jury heard. we're waiting to see what the specific details will be in the indictment when it is unsealed on tuesday, alex a lot more still to find out care scandal in new york. thank you very much, and i want to go to leyla santiago, who is in west palm beach, leila we have heard from president former president trump since this indictment came down, lashing out on his social year platform. truth social we

have heard from his lawyers. they're vowing that he will not go quietly. so what his team trump saying. well, listen. there are two words that have been sort of key in the messaging here, and this is political persecution. we heard that from the statement from the former president last night. we have heard that echoed in interviews today by his attorneys here in mar-a-lago. we really haven't seen much out of the norm from the outside that that's mar-a-lago right behind me. we have seen some protesters that have been out in the nearby bridge, but really what? we're learning from sources as to what is happening inside is that much of trump's team was caught off guard by this indictment. when it was announced last night. they absolutely were preparing for the potential of that, but they were caught off guard by the timing. so what will happen now? as you said, we expect him. to spend the weekend here than on monday head to new york. we also heard from one of his attorneys who said you should expect his legal team to file

motions to dismiss. listen. i would think. in very short order , you'll see a motion to dismiss or several motions to dismiss talking about this kind of impossible theory of stacking a federal crime into a state misdemeanor statute of limitations issues and very importantly, the intent to defraud. that's an element of these false recordkeeping charges. that's just not present here. and he also mentions that much of this remains to be seen in terms of the timing of when these motions could be filing, but of course, alex, so much still remains unknown here. by all accounts of former president his team were blindsided when this came down last night, cara and leila thank you both very much for your reporting for more. let's bring in cnn's senior legal analyst, a former federal and state prosecutor, elie honig, kelly, thank you so much for being on today. we do know, of course, that this case in manhattan is centered on these hush money payments to stormy daniels. but we have now

learned that this indictment has more than 30 counts. so does that indicate there is just a lot more that we don't know. it certainly suggests that alex when it comes to the number of counts in an indictment, though, it's really more about quality than quantity. generally speaking, federal prosecutors tend to take more conduct and try to charge it more broadly. in fewer accounts, state prosecutors and again i'm generalizing tend to break the conduct into smaller bits and bring higher numbers of charges , and it sounds like that's what we're seeing here. but what this also suggests to me, alex if this is, in fact, a financial and bookkeeping case is that prosecutors may have taken each individual entry each individual transaction and charged each of one of those individually. and so we do know that the d a s office is going to close for a couple of weeks. that's why there had been some expectation that maybe this might happen towards the end of april, and but we now know that the da's office initially wanted the former president to surrender today. the logistics, however, were too complicated. so now

this arraignment is set for tuesday afternoon with trump arriving in new york on monday. what can you tell us about how this is going to unfold and what we can expect to see? well alex as complicated as the logistics will be with getting the former president into the building with protecting the people who work in that building with protecting the crowds at its core, the actual incorporate seeding will be very routine. this is what we call an arraignment. so before he appears in court, donald trump will be fingerprinted. there will be a mug shot taken of him now that's not supposed to become public under new york state law very important to know that inside the courtroom, the judge first will unseal the indictment, meaning that's the moment when the indictment will become available to the public borrowing something out of the ordinary. the judge will then read the charges to donald trump , who will be standing at the defendant's table. donald trump will be asked to enter his initial plea, which certainly will be not guilty. the judge will then set bail. in a case like this, it's it seems very likely the judge will give donald trump it's called release

on his own recognizance, meaning there are no bail conditions. you can go home. just come back when we need you. back in court, and the judge may also set a schedule for the filing of initial pretrial motions. and then in terms of what the trump team can do next. his attorney is saying that they're going to be filing what they call substantial legal challenges to this historic indictment. what is the strongest move that they can make now? so this is routine . defense lawyers will commonly file motions to dismiss and indictment or certain counts of an indictment. and these are motions that go only to the judge. what you're trying to do is get certain charges knocked out or reduced before you even go to a jury on a trial. i think we see a couple of potential base he's here. first of all, as we just heard in the clip from james trustee, one of trump's lawyers, they're going to argue that you cannot charge a violation of federal campaign law because this related to a race for president in state court, i think they're also going to make an argument, and mr trustee alluded to this also that in these business records

cases in new york state if you look at them, virtually all of them involve somebody taking a business record, falsifying it, then using it outside of their business somewhere to defraud someone of money, using it to get a bank loan, using it to rip off investors or customers, and i think they're going to argue that a campaign finance violation doesn't apply here. i think we also should expect to see a motion for what we call selective prosecution, meaning this defendant has been picked out, singled out for political reasons very difficult to succeed on that type of motion, but but i fully expect to see those claims made. we only have a couple of seconds left. but does this now have any bearing on the two investigations in the in in federal and the two federal investigations here in washington and the investigation in georgia short answer is no alex. each of these prosecutors , the united states department of justice being one, the fulton county d, a being the other the manhattan d, a being the third independent sovereign entities. they do what they wish they don't have to report to each other. they don't need approval from each other, and one

prosecution does not bar any of the others. alright, elie honig. we always appreciate you explaining all this to us. take care. alright cnn has learned that members of the secret service or meeting with nypd and court officials today to go over the logistics of trump's historic arraignment next week with me now is cnn's brynn gingras in manhattan. so brian, what more can you tell us about what's being planned? alex. so this is the building where the arraignment's going to happen. 100 center as we call it, and you can see here, there are barricades all around this building. it has been this way for the last week and a half or so, but there is certainly an increased presence in police. you can see those officers standing guard right there. as you just said there was a memo that went out yesterday to the entire nypd for some 35,000 police officers that everyone needed to be in uniform today didn't matter rank or position. and of course, that is just a posturing for anything that could possibly break out. as we get into tuesday over the weekend, no credible threat threats at the moment, but certainly a lot of what you're seeing as far as pastors

happening behind the scenes, intelligence officials looking at online chat rooms looking at social media, making sure there's no coordination or mobilization of people to come to new york and start any sort of, you know, unruly demonstration or unrest. also as we look towards tuesday, sources are telling us as you said, alex. secret services minute meeting with all the players here on the ground about what this arraignment will look like . sources are telling cnn it's possible one thing that's being considered is that the entire cases that are happening in 100 center, which is quite a bit, those might all come to a halt while the former president's arraignment is happening again, it's not definite. these are all things that are being considered everything on the table. i can tell all you that floor where the arraignment is happening, we know that there is restricted access even today to get to that floor, so there's just so many security measures that are in play right now. discussions still have me again through all the players as to how exactly this is all going to go down

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are now coming out in full force in defense of donald trump. cnn's manu raju is on capitol hill. manu, what are you hearing from these republican lawmakers? yeah you're hearing a house republicans rushing to donald trump's defense that happened in the immediate aftermath of this news of the indictment, speaker mccarthy on down the line coming out, attacking the prosecutor, alvin bragg, saying that they want to hear from him pushing for his testimony, even as they have faced accusations and doing so would be interfering with the probe that into donald trump a criminal investigation but nevertheless still going after this prosecutor, but you're also hearing silence from senate republicans. so top senate republicans, namely mitch mcconnell, the senate republican leader, who has not yet waiting and john thune, the number two republican, also yet to comment on this, but trump's allies are rallying behind him, including one congressman who i just spoke to congressman barry moore of alabama. he's a conservative member, someone who's supporting downtown's reelection this morning. he was this afternoon he was handing out ham sandwiches on capitol hill to

make the argument that it's just easy to indict a ham sandwich just as it's easy to indict donald trump. but i asked him about the notion that he has not seen in any of the allegations any of the evidence or any of the charges, but yet it's still proclaiming donald trump's innocence. but you haven't seen any of the evidence or allegations yet. so are you jumping the gun on this? when you run and say you're gonna arrest the president, if you're elected, and then you arrest the president after you're elected and you fulfill a campaign promise it looks pretty political. so without seeing the indictment without knowing anything behind it. the motivation was there long before the evidence was so i mean, if you see the charges, and it looks serious would change your mind. could you? could you are you open to thinking that this could possibly be a legitimate investigation? well you know, i'm open to thinking that, but i'm in the garbage business, you know? and so a lot of times i know how to spot a pile of garbage. and this thing looks like a pile of garbage. so when it was what it was, i just called it out. i said, this looks like it's politically motivated. and when you've got a

guy right here in this part of the country trying to end out a guy who's running for president for the rest of the country, it looks politically motivated. so mind made up there and that's what we're hearing from a lot of republicans on the house side even before any of the details of the charges here have been detailed, and republicans are still pressing ahead, trying to get brag himself to testify about this investigation. they have sent a letter to him the d a s office today responding and saying that this is an effort to only defend our trump legitimate legislative purpose very more. they're a member of the judiciary committee told me that they should issue a subpoena to get dragged into testify. so house republicans still pushing forward even as senate republican leaders have yet to embrace that ever to investigate alvin bride. alex ham sandwiches . that's one way to make your argument raju on capitol hill. thanks very much. now it is not just congressional republicans who are flocking to trump's defense, even some of his biggest potential 2024 primary opponents are joining in that chorus. here's his former vice president. mike pence last night on cnn. i think the

unprecedented indictment the former president of the united states on a campaign finance issue. is an outrage when you have an attorney general in new york manhattan, d a. that targeted one particular american in their campaigns. i think that offends the notion of the overwhelming majority of the american people who believe in fairness who believe in equal treatment before the law. and florida governor ron desantis called this quote the weaponization of the legal system to advance a political agenda. he called it on american . let's discuss with republican strategist doug hi and cnn political commentator karen finney. doug karen, thank you so much for joining me lots to discuss your dog. i want to start with you one potential 2024 challenger to donald trump has taken a different approach to pence and dissenters. here's what the former arkansas governor asa hutchinson said today. take a listen. when a

public official is indicted, i think in the regard for the office and the office is more important than the person they should step aside, and that standard should apply here. it is a distraction. it is not good day for america. you think that trump should now step aside. why do but he's not going to. doug white is hutchinson, the only potential candidate for 2024 taking that position. when some might argue this could be a golden opportunity for gop candidates to say it's time to move on in this race. well, i think a few reasons one. the trump base is still a very strong part of the republican party. it's arguably the biggest part of the republican party. if you're running for president, and you want to be in that trump lane, this may not be where you want to cross them, at least at this juncture. so what we there's so much that we still don't know about what's what's happened and what's going to happen in the coming days. but

if you're a ron desantis or nikki haley, you certainly mike pence obviously live on cnn last night, you have an opportunity to criticize. the d a. on here. even the washington post is as criticized this indictment, saying, this is the wrong way to get donald trump while in a few months from now, ultimately saying exactly what asa hutchinson is saying today that this has been too much of a distraction, and maybe donald trump was wrongly prosecuted, but we need a we need a president who's focused full time on the mission ahead of donald trump just can't do that. i wouldn't be surprised in the debate to see one of these republicans in some months from now say something like that. and karen on the democratic side do should democrats just sit back and watch or do they need to be worried in some way about this case it being seen as too political to petty worried about people rallying around trump? no they you know they can't be worried about that democrats need to do is very much what you've seen the administration do and that is just continue to govern, because remember that

for most americans, they are still concerned about the issues in their daily lives, so continue to focus on delivering for the american people, particularly in this moment when you see republican officials directly attacking, they're not just attacking alvin bragg, which is bad for democracy, they're attacking. undermining our democratic institutions and the idea that no one is above the law. so this is the moment to continue to show that our institutions continue that this is going to happen and maybe a distraction. it's bad for democracy. donald trump will likely make this you know as much of a carnival as he can, but we've got to reassure the american people that democracy and governance continues firmly . we're just talking to manu raju up on the hill about republican support among republican lawmakers. we have now seen these tweets from senator lindsey graham. saying quote. how can president trump avoid prosecution in new york on

the way to the d a s office on tuesday, trump should smashed some windows, rob a few shops and punch a cop. he would be released immediately. now. this follows a post on truth social from the former president, showing him next to alvin bragg holding a baseball bat. doug i don't think senator graham means that literally, but can the gop continue to claim to be the law and order party when so many prominent republicans are using this kind of imagery and language attacking federal law enforcement trying to discredit local investigations, both in new york and georgia and defending the capital rioters? look i think you you raised a very valid questions on this and what we've seen is a huge shift in the republican party, not just in those years since donald trump has become president. what asa hutchinson was describing was what we used to consider the real world and we've moved so much into the bizarro world right now, where everything that is up or was up his down. good example is republicans used to

say no one is above the law. and democrats would say even presidents have private lives. we're going to see the party switch on this over the coming weeks and months as republicans defend donald trump and democrats criticize them. we're going to see them switch on this. yeah karen, we are seeing trump and his allies flooding the zone now, um, attacking the indictment attacking the district attorney. of course, there's a lot that we still don't know and won't know until next week. the district attorney he's at he's at the office today dealing with another case, according to our colleague, kara scannell. the conversation largely now being driven by one side, the pro trump side. so what impact do you think that that has when it comes to the public opinion. well clearly they're trying to influence public opinion, but i think one of the areas of peril for the republicans as remember there was an npr poll that just came out this week. concerns about protecting our democracy still a top issue for american voters for democrats and independents,

and we know that independence and a number of people who switch their voting from a republican to democrat during the 2022 election was around concerns about january 6th and concerns for democracy. so while they're catering to this 30% of their base. there is a majority of americans that are watching. and they don't like seeing public officials elected officials attacking someone like alvin bragg, who in his own right is an elected, independent , elected official. and you know, it also is just a sign, frankly of how donald trump has drug our country down with him that we that so many people literally are saying, well, he broke the law, but that's okay. that's not the thing. we should really go after import. no no one is above the law. that is a fundamental tenet of this democracy. and doug. we've already seen the former president trying to fundraise off of this indictment. i assume we will see that continuing do genuinely. do you think that the

trump team genuinely sees this as an opportunity as they get deeper into this campaign? in the short term. certainly look, everything about the trump presidency was all about merchandizing. it was almost like spaceballs, the flame thrower. there was a donald donald trump product in everything surrounding his administration in his campaign will continue doing that short term. this can be successful for them, but i don't think anybody knows long term in the republican primary. if this makes him a martyr or not, certainly if we're in a general election, as karen described independent voters don't want to don't want to deal with this, and they don't want to see this one way or another. but in the short term, trump's going to try and maximize everything that he can. it's his playbook and doug before we go. if there is a mug shot that is released publicly think they'll end up merchants merchandizing that absolutely. why not? if everything's for sale to sell everything alright , wild mugs, mugs, t shirts, stickers. doug hi, karen finney. thank you very much. thank you. russian assurances alongside

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rolling fork, mississippi, that town that was nearly a racist by a deadly tornado. just minutes ago, federal and state officials delivered an update on the ongoing emergency response and later the president will reaffirm his pledge to help rolling fork and nearby communities. rebuild cnn's priscilla alvarez joins us now from rolling fork, priscilla we know that the president takes his role of consoler in chief. very seriously. how is that community feeling about his visit today? i've been speaking to residents this morning who say they're grateful for the health that they've gotten from the federal government and are welcoming president biden here and they really have remarkable stories of survival. alex i spoke to one resident who has lived here for 11 years and he was in his home in the tornado ripped through this area and he was lifted up in his home along with his family. he's just lucky. to be alive, he says, and he's looking forward to seeing president biden today. now as

you mentioned, president biden did meet with federal and state officials earlier today, and then he acknowledged the devastation that he's seen so far. take a listen. most important thing is we got to let people know. there's a reason for them to have here because this is especially people who've lost somebody. president biden will be delivering remarksency measures that includes the. he l also say that fema will have disaster recovery centers in different lions that were affected by these tornadoes again. alex you really can't overstate the devastation that he will be seeing as he arrives here in minutes. now still so much work to be done to rebuild. priscilla alvarez, enrolling fork, mississippi. thank you very much for that report. and we have this just in the national weather service has

issued a rare level five out of five. i risk alert for the midwest and mid south, warning that a tornado outbreak is likely for this afternoon. let's get straight to the cnn, whether center five out of five risk that is, obviously that obviously does not sound good, jennifer not good at all. alex storm prediction center issues these and the last one that was issued was two years ago. so that shows you how rare this is. this is going to be possibly very significant day across portions of the midwest and the mid south. you can see the storms already starting to fire up. in fact, we already have our first tornado watch issued of the day you can see that does include st louis. also little rock. we have a couple of severe thunderstorm warnings in effect , but of course, we aren't seeing any tornado warnings quite yet. as the day goes on, we're going to have a lot of daytime heating taking place. we're going to have a lot of moisture coming in for the south. that is really going to fuel these storms as we go through the evening and even into the overnight these areas

highlighted in hot pink davenport's included in that as well as memphis. those are the areas that are the high risk. that's the level five out of five. however we could see very strong, significant violent, long track tornadoes. this is all language that the storm prediction center has used to. plane. these storms we could see those anywhere that shaded in these orange areas as well as that darker orange. we could see strong, long lived tornadoes. that's tornadoes that are on the ground for a long period of time. we're talking about ef three or greater and strength are also looking at damaging winds in excess of 75 mph. here's a closer look at that northern risk area and then the southern risk area. it does include memphis in the areas around there and then you can take a closer look at the northern area. that's the highest risk level. but the area the greatest area, producing tornadoes, anywhere with these black lines are so that's going to be your greatest probability of a strong tornado, and this is a huge area for the potential

for severe weather. so really everyone needs to be on guard. you can see the storms passing through little rock, memphis by five o'clock tonight, even chicago getting in on the storms , and then it's a track to the east will continue the threat through the overnight hours. it's very important, especially since these storms are coming just a week after for the deadly tornadoes last week to make sure you have a way to wake up throughout the overnight hours and get alerts on your phone because we could see these travel throughout the overnight hours where a lot of people will be sleeping, forecast rainfall and inter to possibly four. we could see the potential for flash flooding as well, alex, but i can't stress it enough the greatest rest this afternoon evening and the overnight will be that tornado threat. that warning a huge stretch across the united states and right at the southern tip. jennifer i want to note is rolling fork mississippi, which just saw that tornado and where president joe biden is visiting today, so i'm sure they're watching that very , very closely. jennifer gray in

the cnn weather center. thank you very much today. the kremlin says that accredited foreign journalists can keep working safely in russia that assurance. coming. gersh devic, according to russian state media, the wall street journal reporter is charged with espionage 31 year old has pleaded not guilty and this morning in his first public comments on this president joe biden did urge russia to release ceviche. listen. over right now, as they're detaining the to russia as they're detaining this wall street journal reporter here we go. joining us now is jill dougherty, a former cnn moscow bureau chief who is now an adjunct professor at georgetown university. jill thank you so much for joining me on this really, really important story. this is, as you know, the first u. s journalist who has been accused of spying by russia since the collapse of the soviet

union. it comes just days after the u. s. department of justice accused of russian nationals of being a spy that that man was arrested in brazil. does the arrest of evan herskovits of the wall street journal in moscow. does that feel like a retaliatory tick for tat? or do you feel as some have suggested that this is russia really stepping up its efforts to arrest and hold americans who they can then trade. you know, alex, i've talked with several former diplomats, very senior diplomats, and each one says that there are a lot of factors could be going into this. i mean, it could be finding someone to trade for the for this guy. you know who is in brazil right now. there are also are two russians in slovenia who are being held. that might be a possibility. there's also the idea and the wall street journal is saying this that it's an attempt to intimidate journalists in general. and then

, um, you know, there could be a lot of different reasons for this, so i think it's unclear, but it's entirely possible that that is one of the scenarios. in terms of next moves. jill the wall street journal today called on the bike administration to expel not just russia's ambassador who is still in washington, but russian journalists who work here in the united states as well, do you think that that is the right move for the white house? you know that gets into a really debatable point because as another, um, diplomats said, we don't do that that is a u. s diplomat. the united states wouldn't retaliate that way. so i think it's really you know, do you violate your own laws in the united states, which robustly protect journalists. and you know, just to prove a point to the russians, or do you do something else? you know it. they definitely would have to call the ambassador in and maybe , you know, asked him to go home . that's entirely possible. but

i don't think at this point that it is a good idea. personal opinion, uh, to kick out russian journalists. we have heard a lot of rhetoric from different parts, different ministries and officials in moscow. but russia we understand hasn't officially notified the u. s that gersh covic has been detained. us. officials from the embassy certainly have not been given consular access to the young reporter. given the climate that we're in a horrible relationship between the us and russia right now, do you have any hope that this situation can be resolved quickly? oh not at all. no, i think this is going to be dragged out. and if you notice this morning, there was statements from dmitry peskov, who is the spokesperson for putin saying, you know, evan will be allowed consular access . somebody will be able to get to him. but you can. they can drag this out for a very long time. you know many of these rules when you get into

espionage cases, which are literally classified as top secret, the rules can be stretched, you know, counselor access may come, let's say after they interrogate the journalist . there are many things that can happen, but i know one that i speak to as experience in this thinks that this is going to be ended quickly, in fact, the reverse. i think this is going to be a very long and arduous period. jill we only have a couple of moments left. but if you were still a bureau chief, would you pull your journalists out right now? uh, i would be very concerned. yes definitely, especially for americans, but i don't think it's only americans . i mean, if you look at russia right now they're criticizing the uk, germany, etcetera. so i think, um, i probably would do that, sadly. yeah it is certainly having a deeply chilling effect on the western journalists who are still there. jill dougherty. thanks as

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attorney has consistently bent the law to downgrade felonies and to excuse criminal conduct. yet now he is stretching the law to target a political opponent. with me now, for a fact check is cnn's daniel dale. daniel we do know that soros is a longtime supporter of democratic causes and campaigns. but do we know how directly involved he was with brags? not directly, alex. his role here was indirect. what he did was as a longtime supporter of criminal justice reform make significant donations to a like minded pac political action committee that itself spent money supporting brag. i'll lay out the specific facts in a moment, alex, but i want to start with some very important context. george soros is a frequent target of anti semitic attacks, sometimes explicit, sometimes more subtle dog whistles that portray him as like a puppet master, pulling the strings behind various events. in this case, there was no indication that soros somehow pressured d a bragging to indicting trump. in fact, a sorrow spokesman told me. the two men have never once spoken, emailed texted communicated

whatsoever. soros also did not make any direct contributions to bragg's 2021 campaign. now it is true, though, that soros indirectly help brag how well he's a vocal supporter of criminal justice reform and liberal d a candidates and he was a major contributor. in fact , the biggest donor in the 2021 2022 period to a pack that also promotes criminal justice reform. and these brooke candidates that pack called the color of change pac told me it spent just over $500,000 in support of bragg's 2021 campaign . now a soros spokesman told me this, he said between 2016 and 2022, george soros personally and democracy pack have together contributed roughly $4 million to color of change's pack, including one million in may 2021. none of these funds funds were earmarked for alvin bragg's campaign. he reiterated there had been no contact between soros and brag now. i also spoke to the president. color change rashad robinson. he called these soros centric attacks both anti semitic and anti black. he thought they implied that his experience black lead group was

being like puppet mastered around by soros, rather than making its own decisions about who to support and he noted the pack has backed similar reform minded candidates around the country. he also told me it's a major overstatement. is it suggest that the money has packed spent was like the sole reason that brag whose harvard law grad, a former federal prosecutor, former state chief deputy attorney general was victorious in this 2021 democratic primary. robinson said the pack was very important but one of many factors and he said, quote up until last week we couldn't get people to write about our pack. now, all of a sudden, we single handedly elected the manhattan d a when he was elected. i didn't get that credit, he said. this stuff is a big reach by trump and his defenders. now george soros himself issued a comment via text message to the outlet. semaphore and source noted he didn't contribute to bribe campaign itself. he reiterated, like a spokesman that he doesn't know, brag and source argued that quote some on the right would rather focus on far fetched conspiracy theories, then on the sea. serious charges against the former president, alex daniel. thank you for all those details. new insight into the heartbreak and horror of the school shooting in nashville,

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people gunned down and killed in the attack, and those horrifying moments are captured in the panicked 911 calls from the school. here's some of that newly released audio everything. you need to make sure that if he comes there, you're going to have to either find a way to get out safely or fight. do whatever safest for you to do. okay, but try to barricade yourself in the room. it's best you can. how many more shots did you hear? so many church like the young, um, fire station, ma'am. okay search for on this side of the fire station children here. find a way to get out or fight that is just bone chilling. cnn's carlos suarez is outside the church where the funeral for evelyn will be held this afternoon. carlos, how's that community doing? well alex, as you can

imagine, this community is still very much a grieving several days after the shooting, and we're now looking at six funeral services over the next seven days, the service for nine year old evelyn dick house is expected to get underway at around three o'clock local we're told that the service will last about an hour and that the church here behind me can accommodate well over 1000 people overnight and obituary of little evelyn in was released, and in part you get a sense of just how much of a world this girl played in her family's life . she is described as being the beacon of joy to her family, and that her her faith was pure. and that her prayers were sincere. now on saturday, we're also going to see a funeral service for nine year old holly scruggs . her father was the lead pastor is the lead pastor at the

schools church and in 911 calls that were released yesterday. you can hear her father, calling 911 and saying that he was going to run inside of the building after hearing that there was a shooting that was going on inside. the dispatcher tells him . look, it's not safe for you to do that. you really should wait until police get there now had no point during that 911 call. does it appear that scruggs father knew that his daughter had been shot on saturday. we're also going to see another funeral service that one is going to be for 61 year old cynthia peak. she is a substitute teacher. she is among the three staff members that were killed and then the remaining funeral services will take place throughout the weekend. and then into next week, alex. alright just the beginning of years and years of mourning and sadness for those families and for that community , carla suarez in nashville. thank you very much for all of your reporting, and we do have

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