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good morning. we're all here. all three of us. you see, caitlin is downtown at 100 center street where it's all happening. everyone will be. this is gonna be a significant day in american history a

significant day for the first time ever. we're going to see a former president surrendered to authorities on criminal charges again. you can see katelyn polantz. the courthouse should be reporting. there it is. tuesday it's april 4th 2023. we're gonna get started with five things to know. for today. first of course, donald trump expected to be arraigned in the afternoon before returning to mar-a-lago for a news conference . he added a new attorney to his team just yesterday we'll discuss. and overnight the judge has decided not to allow tv cameras in court today, but still photographers will be allowed to take pictures before those proceedings begin. also today, 70 million americans are facing the threat of severe weather this morning, including tornadoes that threat spins areas that were already recently hard hit. also voters in chicago heading to the polls to elect the city's next mayor, election officials report turnout today, far ahead of previous run offs, and the yukon huskies have done it again, winning their fifth title and a strong win over san

diego state. cnn this morning starts right now. so you know if you open the paper this morning, if you turn on the news if you listen to the radio, whatever it's do you know what the big story is going to be? it really is unprecedented. and you saw yesterday. i mean, just coverage, the former president's plane and his trip from mar-a-lago down in florida on all the screens. there is what folks used to call it. trump force one in the beginning. um have them taking off from the west palm beach airport and then landing here at laguardia. it was a scene and the center of it all will be where caitlin caitlin, where you are right now. i mean, appropriate to call it 100 center street, right? yeah i mean, it's what i have to name but also just to see trump this native new yorker who obviously now is a florida resident, but to return to where he was born

and raised this time in a way that he never has before we keep using the word unprecedented, but this truly is a moment where he is coming to new york facing criminal charges, and it's never happened before. later today, he'll go into this building right here behind me, don as you noted 100 center street. that's where it's all going to happen today. okay okay. and then we go ahead. just thinking about you, as like you were the truth. white house correspondent while trump was president. someone who well he was running said i could stand in the middle of fifth avenue and shoot someone, and nothing would happen. essentially paraphrasing just the remarkable uh, evolution of what has happened, going from covering him in the white house to now, sitting in front of where he will face a judge with criminal charges. yeah jeff zeleny. and when i was doing the math yesterday, the idea that it's been eight years since he announced that he was running for president the first time that he actually did indeed run for office. it's just notable to see how this story specifically has followed him when he was at

the end of his campaign during his time in the white house and now is an ex president launching a third presidential run. well yesterday he arrived on fifth avenue, and now he will be leaving departing this avenue to go down to 100 center street, sending in the middle of fifth avenue or at least sleeping there overnight. he's going to face accountability now. just hours from now. donald trump set to turn himself in and become the first ex president in american history to face criminal charges. right now, he is at trump tower, as i said on fifth avenue as he prepares for his arraignment in manhattan this afternoon. just a breakdown right now what to expect today, the court hearing is set to happen in two o'clock hour after that. trump is planning to fly back to florida. give a speech at mar-a-lago tonight, caitlin. and of course, this all kicked off yesterday, don. as you noted when trump arrived here in new york city, his private plane there, which trump aides referred to his trump force one landed at laguardia airport. then a motorcade brought the ex president trump tower, where he

met with his legal team. on the eve of his surrender, had dinner last night. the judge has decided overnight he will not allow news cameras into the courtroom today to broadcast that brief. but historic court hearing the judge will allow some photos to be taken before the proceedings began. so we will see parts of this. in the ruling, the judge acknowledged. quote this indictment involves a matter of monumental significance and it cannot possibly be disputed. never in the history of the united states has a sitting or past president been indicted on criminal charges. mr trump's arrangement has generated unparalleled public interest and media attention. the populist rightly hungers for the most accurate and current information available to suggest otherwise would be disingenuous. obviously trump's team said they did not want cameras to be in the courtroom. we should note cnn's chief national affairs correspondent jeff zeleny, is live this morning for cnn's morning outside of trump tower. obviously jeff the big question is what the former president

himself is going to do today. what are you learning about his plans today? katelyn polantz will leave trump tower early afternoon likely to head downtown where you are for a two stops will be stopping at the district attorney's office, and then he will be going into criminal court. it sounds like a receipt a routine procedure, but it's anything but that, of course, for the first time, former american president will indeed be indicted, but what he will do is learn what criminal charges he is facing. and i am told that he was huddled here in trump tower overnight, and he'll be meeting with his lawyers and political advisors again today. okay and that is the central question. what exactly are the charges? he's facing some 30 criminal charges or so, but this will be a fairly brief hearing he will be inside the accord meant for likely 5 to 10 minutes or so and then leave new york and fly back to florida. but this is the very beginning of a legal road for the former president. of course, important to remember this is one of at

least three potential cases he's facing. there's a georgia case, a federal case investing investigating his potential involvement in the january 6th insurrection. so this case begins here in new york. but one thing has advisors are stressing they said that they hope at least he lets his lawyers do the talking here in new york. and that he will handle the politics of this in his speech tonight from mar-a-lago, but that is the central test facing this former president. can he keep these two separate? will the judge issue a gag order? of course, his attorneys are arguing against that, saying it would simply be a violation of his first amendment rights and his ability as a candidate to speak. but one thing that's clear caitlin. mr trump arriving here is a former president and current frontrunner in the 2024 presidential race as well. but this is the beginning of a road. now we're both of those are linked. the presidential campaign is inextricably linked with this criminal cases as well. yeah and if you want a window into his mindset last

night on truth social he was writing that alvin bragg, the district attorney should indict himself. jeff zeleny. we will stay with you. thank you so much. as we know, trump has told his supporters to gather here in new york. he wants to see protests, he warned recently of quote, death and destruction. if this indictment did happen, of course it has happened, york city's mayor says right now, though, there are no credible threats to the city at this time. while there may be some rabble rouse is thinking about coming to our city tomorrow, a message is clear and simple. control yourselves. not a playground for your misplaced anger. that's mayor adams there, cnn's senior crime and justice correspondent shimon program. pairs is here outside the courthouse mode. obviously, we got here this morning we saw the nypd still putting up barricades . they are preparing for what this day is going to look like. how are you seeing them? preparing so, kaylin. i just

want to show you already. we've already seen one big difference here on hogan place. this is where the district attorney's offices see a lot of the court officers right now it's all court officers that are running the security outside the building. they're not used to something like this. they're usually inside the building, so it's a little different for them . but we're already seeing one big difference. and that's out here on hogan place. we were able to walk up and down this street yesterday. that is now entirely shut down. this is where the former president is expected to surrender where that motorcade will eventually pull up and where he will go inside. and as you can see, they are called officers telling us we have to keep moving. so we're going to keep moving here, caitlin. this is where he's going to surrender. the motorcade will pull up. he'll go into those doors and then all across the courthouse here across the street from where you are. you see all of these. barricades and then across from where you are on the other side . that is where some of the

protesters and supporters of the president are gonna gather there . so we're going to go across the street, so things are a little different here. kaylin move around as much as they were yesterday. as you can imagine, security here is a little more. strict it's a little tight and so called cross the street so everyone right now is just sort of waiting. we do expect to see more law enforcement here. more police officers in the coming hours as we get closer to the arraignment. once the former president gets here, everything inside the courthouse is going to stop. that means the only case that they're going to be hearing when the former president is here will be his case. every other case will stop. and then once his cases over the arraignment is done, then some of the other cases will continue. but for as long as he's here, this entire place is essentially going to be on lockdown, caitlin. so should i know other judicial proceedings will be happening while trump is in the building. is that right?

yeah that's right. so what they're doing is they're going to stop at some point once he's here, and then they're gonna break for lunch or whatever it is. look, there are several trials going on. there are arrangements going on. there are other things going on. so this is a huge disruption for the courthouse. and that's why they're trying to time everything so perfectly. get him here. get him in. get him through the system, get him arraigned and get him out quickly so that they can open things up and continue the daily business that they normally would here at the courthouse, caitlin. yes facilities. yeah certainly not business as usual today. shimon peres. thank you. don poppy. obviously you can see just the heightened security already as they embracing trump's arrival today and it will be needed. it's good. it's good that they're doing it. that's exactly right. and on top of this, trump added a new lead counsel, and you had lawyer if you will do his legal team on the eve of his arraignment, let's talk about that and what

to expect today. inside the courthouse, former manhattan assistant district attorney jeremy saland is here and cnn senior legal affairs correspondent paula rego. morning. good morning. good morning again. good morning. let's start with you. can you can you walk us through? we saw from everyone. what's going on outside? what happens inside today will be a pretty brief proceeding. we know we'll get a glimpse of the former president in the hallway as he enters the courtroom. our request to have cameras inside for the proceeding has been denied. there will be a few still pictures, though, that we will get likely the former president sitting at the table with his attorney. is his team of as president count at three different attorneys and the judge will go over the case. they'll get the charges for the first time, which will be hugely significant, right. they say they're going to fight, but none of us know exactly what he's been charged with. it will be pretty brief. and then he'll come back out. we're not going to see too much. this is just an initial appearance. nothing to nothing to substantive. jeremy the hiring of a new attorney. is this normal? should we read anything into this? i think he shouldn't and what i mean by that is that trump is unpredictable himself and

whatever he thinks is going to work to his benefit he's going to pursue and he has a good attorney, joe tacopina is certainly someone who established and knows the ropes . and so does his new counsel. if you have the means to hire multiple attorneys who really know the ropes and really know what they're doing. i not do so. the question, then becomes who's leading this? who's who's the boss? if you will, other than donald, can? i just can i just ask you that, and that is when i said don't read anything into this because joe, a good attorney, but he has spent a lot of his time on television. and you know, um, fighting this case representing donald trump on television, perhaps maybe not able to get into the minutia of what should happen in court because that's his role, and that's what he's been doing. could that be part of the strategy to have someone who's solely focused on the courtroom? and you know what's next? as far as legal strategy? it certainly could be. but again, you're not talking to someone who is new and naive. this is someone who's been around the block. so it could also be that donald trump doesn't sometimes know whether he's coming or going and whatever the feeling of the moment is, that's where he's

going to go, so i wouldn't read into it too much. so let's talk about this indictment when it's unsealed. our reporting cnn's reporting is, you know, 30 some counts here. you're an attorney . talk about what you'd be looking for. is you quickly read through that which likely won't be that long. even though there's a lot of counts. usually they don't have a lot of detail. we fully expect that there will be at least one felony here, right? that would certainly be news. if this was just the 30 some odd misdemeanors. he fully expected at least one felony here and then we're looking. how extensive is this case? are we just talking about the hush money? payment made a stormy daniels or are they pursuing something more extensive, for example, we know they've asked questions about the hush money payment to karen macdougal. is that part of a charge that they're making, or is that just to establish a pattern? are they charging conspiracy? what exactly are the charges and how are they supported? because we're told by our sources that this does not just rely on the testimony of a few witnesses, but this is a case that is heavily supported by documents. my question is what documents and what are they supporting? if they do charge conspiracy, then

it would be a much more detailed and died. moment they have to tell a story. yes hopefully we all hope i think that it would be a speaking indictment so that they will tell the story of what is going on in this case because one of the biggest outstanding questions is why now? this conduct occurred seven years ago. this has been investigated for about five years. why is this all suddenly coming to a head now, and the indictment is the first opportunity to tell that story diamonds for also for those of us who are laypeople and not recovering. attorneys speak on it. alvin bragg. we'd like to know the story. what's going on here and he will speak later today. his press conference. thank you, paula. thank you, jeremy. good to see both of you. our special coverage of donald trump's arrangement continues. also this communities in the midwest and south reeling from devastating storms now bracing for more the threat that they're facing next, plus. 76 59. every dog has his day belongs to the huskies. march madness brackets had yukon

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that is more of a late evening to overnight period. so the potential there exists for what we call nocturnal tornadoes. that means tornadoes that occur under the shroud of darkness. those often take people off. guard because they're sleeping. they don't have their warnings available to them. and of course that catches them off guard greatest probability of tornadoes. today we've hashed out those areas you need to be weather aware, and you need to prepare yourself to take cover at a moment's notice. you can see these storms and how they will fire off in two different rounds today again across the north, that's the midwest and then the overnight tornadoes tonight where i'm located in little rock. you know, i spoke to somebody last night as we arrived late this evening too late last night. it's just kind of do a site survey understand what we're getting ourselves into. and they said to me, derek , you know, we are so happy that you're on the ground doing that. but as a native oklahoman, i was hoping that we wouldn't have to deal with this again. i am indeed scared, so i wish that i could change the weather, but that's just not the fact there.

thank you for the reporting at a tragedy for all of those folks. thanks very much. and now this coach's son. is going to dribble out his dad's championship. 76 59. every dog has his day stable. the connecticut huskies back on top of college basketball world, you can dominated the game from start to finish against san diego state to win their fifth national championship. oy wire was there to watch it all. he's joining us live from houston this morning. jealous of your son, broadway. all right. good morning. what's set out to you? in the morning. well, to be honest, don the free burgers, shakes and fries that the entire yukon huskies men's teams gets from the way back. burgers franchises a college kid. could you imagine that's like hitting the jackpot, but you can't four seed in this

tournament. they turned in one of the most dominant performances of any team. in any march. madness ever coach dan hurley's huskies play with heart . i asked coach what makes your team so good, he said. we don't have an achilles heel will out rebounds. you play harder, beats you at the rim. and we can make the three and they did all of that against san diego state. the huskies, they stormed out to a 16 point lead in the first half, shutting down any efforts of an aztecs come back. final score. 76 59 it's yukons fifth national title, all of them since 1999 more than any other men's program during that span. adama sanogo junior from mali, winning the tournament, most outstanding player and as you heard coach hurley's son, andrew . he had the ball in his hands as the clock hit zero. before rushing over to give dad a big old hug, got caught up with coach charlie on his way to the locker room to celebrate the biggest moment of his career. what kind of emotions are you feeling? all types of emotions,

obviously. yo. yeah baby, let's go. you know what? you just you're so proud that you're able to deliver on the promise you made to university that we could get this program back and then the promises you made to the players that we can do something special like this together. when i talked to you yesterday when i talk to you, coach, you said you got emotional thinking about the fans and all the love they give you. what message do you have for them? now i am crazy. you know, i'm i'm a maniac just like our fan base. so i think that's why we're such a great fit for each other, and i just can't. we cannot wait to get back to connecticut and celebrate and share it with them. congrats champ. let's go appreciate you. now don another incredible storyline. yukon guard jordan hawkins scored 16 points and he joined his cousin angel reese, who stars on your l s. u. s women's team, both crown national chips on the same weekend. incredible stuff.

congrats to yukon and the l s u tigers. and you said you wish you were here with me. jealousy assignment will next month. we're going to the f one race in miami. so don i can see you in one of your miami vice suits and we'll go down there and we'll do our thing. he's leaving to go to miami. now he's gonna see you there out of here. i can't believe it. also, i do have to say though i'm digging outfit this morning. i was just thinking this thinking i was thinking that it looks good on whoever wears it. oh okay. that means you too. props for that means you too total props. you look great. i really love it. and you did a great job. congratulations seriously, obviously joking about the assignment that you perfect person going to f one. yeah, of course he is. yes well, that we're all going now. i'm just throwing it out there. you know, you see it, believe it achieve that that sort of thing last year manifesting it manifesting . all right. thank you. thank you very much. oy alright, well

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defiant and focused. our live coverage continues throughout the morning. we'll get back to you and just get back to caitlin. continue to focus on the story and the developments of the detained american journalist evan gorski, which who is appealing his arrest in russia, according to russian state media. the wall street journal reporter is being held in prison. in russia, where they hold most espionage suspects. american detainee paul whelan was also held there before he was sent to a russian penal colony. evan faces up to 20 years in prison on these espionage charges. his parents fled the soviet union. his colleagues say he fell in love with russia with its culture with its language. he made moscow his second home. he also worked to hold the kremlin accountable. no longer as russia fighting ukraine but the whole west, nothing that might even be taken as a sign of dissent is allowed in russia. right now, it's massively early to say

russia's, you know, dying power. they are worried, extremely worried about what i think everybody has seen as an increasingly erratic government in moscow, friends and colleagues are calling, of course for his release, as well as his family. sour is a is a russian affairs reporter for the guardian. and here's what he writes about evan quote. he left a comfortable job at the new york times to fulfill his longtime dream of working as a reporter in moscow. he wanted to be on the ground. he told me later where the action happens. and curator sour joins me now. thank you so much for being here. i'm so glad because, you know, evan, we just saw videos of him and we read his remarkable reporting, and we know his passion for russia. but can you just tell us about him? the man yeah. i just want the world to know what kind of guy avenues you know, and he is the nicest, smartest, most honest guy i've probably ever met, you know, and it's really shocking was going on right now with him.

and what is the rest? we don't know a lot about the conditions he's under. we do know the jail he's at which is the lefortovo prison, and that's where paul wheelan was held. an official at that prison described him as being cheerful and making a lot of jokes. even in these conditions. does that sound like your friend? i know that sounds exactly cabin, you know? yeah, this infectious smile he that's why he was such a good journalist as well. he made everyone feel at ease. both friends and colleagues and people he was interviewing. and yeah, it did. give me some sort of uh, gave a smile on my face to hear that he's cracking jokes being himself, but of course the it should not be in jail. why did he want to be a journalist so much? and why did he want to be in russia? doing that journalism in this moment. evan was an all american kid. you know, i grew up in jersey capitalist, high school soccer team. but because of his parents who were soviet immigrants, he

always had this sort of fascination for russia and for the region. um so you know, when he got the chance he took the job in the in moscow. and uh, you know, right away, used his understanding of moscow and all russia to show the world what was going on and how the country was changing. you know, uh, this morning i was reading nicholas. daniel off, of course, is the only other journalists before evan, you know it's been since his arrest on espionage charges in 1986, right, and he was held there for so long. here's what he writes in the wall street journal this morning. reporting in russia has always been risky. he goes on to say we need to protect and honor the bravery of foreign correspondents, photographers stringers all over the world, reporting in difficult and dangerous circumstances and to my fellow russia correspondent evan herskovitz. courage. courage. what do you think? powerful words. evan will need to have a lot of strength of courage. i know he's strong, but we need to

keep on supporting him. you know , he took the decision. he thought it was his duty to keep on reporting. out of russia to let the world know what was going on in the country. you know, it was very important is decision. but now i think it's our duty to really let the world know what's going on with evan conditions, his case it's of, you know, it's a very, very important case for the world. when he was arrested, he was reporting in siberia talking to average russians about the war in ukraine. did he ever talk to you about the danger? did he feel like this was a risk for him. yeah we talked every day. i mean, we talked two hours before his arrest. we just exchanged texts. and of course it's something you talk about, you know? should i still be here is this is this the right place to be, but he felt you know no one benefits from russia being a black box. you know you need you needed to explain the story. he always told me i want to get the story right? he wasn't accredited journalists from the foreign ministry. so i get all the right to be there. he was just doing his job, you know?

yeah well, such a valuable and invaluable job i should say for the world and the reporting you you do as well here to thank you very much for the work you do for sharing a bit with us about your friend evan, we're all thinking about him. and hoping that they can bring him home. thank you. caitlyn thank you. we certainly are. of course, that is something that's so important and we will definitely stay on top of that storage. we're also monitoring the other big news today because in just a couple of hours, former president trump is going to arrive here to the building right behind me. 100 center street for his arraignment before president has continued to go after the district attorney alvin bragg in this situation, questioning his intention, saying that he should indict himself. as trump wrote last night. house republicans are also criticizing, brag as well. we'll discuss that next. i struggled with cpap every night , but now that i get the inspire implant, it's making me think of

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what the results are going to be makes for a pleasant evening started today with rex md .com. arianna vogue at the supreme court, and this is cnn. closed captioning brought to you by flexible family of products will swift here this is flex superglue get flex superglue and the entire flexible family of products at flex seal products .com. all right. welcome back. we are now hours away from seeing for president trump leave. trump tower and arrived here at the lower manhattan courthouse. that is where he is going to be arraigned on charges related to business fraud. we are still waiting to see what the indictment looks like since it was announced, though we have seen republicans rallying around the former president talking about this prosecution, saying they've been sharpening their attacks towards the manhattan district attorney alvin bragg as well. house republicans are

vowing to investigate his handling of the case and are even seeking his testimony on capitol hill brag, however, so far has refused to cooperate with that, saying he does not believe there is legislative purpose. joining us now is republican congressman byron donald of florida. who should we should note serves on the house oversight and reform committees . good morning, congressman. thank you for being here. obviously, we've been talking about this indictment. for trump. today we're going to see him in the building behind me. and just a matter of hours from now, do you think the indictment helps or hurts him politically? well look, it absolutely is going to help him in the republican primary. as we speak . republican voters are rallying around president trump simply because what they view is an indictment that makes no sense at all and indictment that is pure politics of political persecution of a political enemy , something that the american people frankly despised in our country, simply not for. and

what about the general election ? or you're arguing it helps him in the republican primary. we've seen how the potential 2024 rivals for trump for the gop nomination of responded. but what about general general election? because cnn polling has shown that there are voters who improved of this indictment. well two things one. i saw the report about your polling. i would say first that people are just responding to it. based upon how you structure the poll, whatever not going to comment, but i think that as the facts of this things are to really roll out. people are going to be against this. look you can be against donald trump. you could be a before donald trump. those things don't matter. what we don't do is turn the criminal justice system against the political opponent. i think you compare this this this mockery of the criminal justice system with the fact that joe biden has been an absolute arable president won't negotiate on debt ceiling has left the southern border completely wide open economy is a mess our adversaries across the global on the move. you put all those

things together. it actually helps donald trump become the 47th, president of the united states. i understand that republicans, many of you disagree on the merits of this case, the strength of it. that's even something we've heard from some legal experts, but when it comes to the underlying conduct here, and what's at the heart of this, do you think trump is innocent? well, look, innocence is something that we're going to see. of course, i believe he's innocent because in our system of justice, unlike what nancy pelosi said, you're innocent until proven guilty. but putting that aside, you have a prosecutor who, by the way, is not paying attention to the felonies that are being committed in manhattan today, yesterday last week last month, he has decided he wants to focus on some random fcc quasi issue that even the fcc did not go after that the department of justice did not go after, and he's using some misdemeanor in new york state law. in my view, alvin bragg, it's outside of his

jurisdiction as a prosecutor number one and number two. every basic legal analyst, every person who knows the law and said he's created this theory that's never existed. so ask yourself what republican or independent or frankly, american would not think that this is bogus, and it's political. but do you think it's hard to argue that when we haven't actually seen the indictment yet? i don't think so. i think it's very easy to argue that when we see the indictment obviously will be out later today. i think it will just put, uh more hair on this situation for people to see now the details about how hard he's trying to jump through these legal hoops, but the baseline issues that have already been leaked and been reported on i probably doubt the dog. they're afraid they'll they'll go much further away. than what we already know. we'll see when the indictment comes. but these initial judgment about the indictment of a former president when it's not crystal clear in the minds of the american people

or the media, for that matter what the actual elements of the situation are. that is why you have high skepticism. and frankly, you have people who are disgusted by what they're seeing from alvin bragg and from the from his d a s office right now. oh, so just to be clear. is there anything in this indictment? congressman that could potentially change your mind of how you are viewing this? well look, i got to see what he's got. but, you know, this is gonna be the layup. but this is gonna be the action before the arraignment. i'm not impressed. not at all, especially when alvin bragg he ran on getting donald trump like he didn't run on safe streets in manhattan. he ran on getting the former president so already his mindset his political judgment is tainted. to make a move like this makes no sense. it's not very clear, except if you're trying to be a star. say you're the one that got him so on and so forth. um, it's really unfortunate. i know the reporting has been about how historic this is. this isn't

historic. this is an infamous day in america. what it is historic just by the nature of it and to be fair to alvin bragg when it comes to what he was saying when he was running both of the candidates who are running for the district attorney's spot, were asked about how they would handle potential trump investigation. he cited his experience with it . you're on the house oversight committee. you're chairman of your committee and along with other republican chairman have sent letters to alan brag, asking for his testimony, something that the council for the da's office here in manhattan has pushed back on president trump asked house republicans to investigate alvin bragg. no, i don't believe so. and i'm not going to speak for the chairman. but to my knowledge that is not occurred. you have members of congress who have actually watched the weaponization of various agencies of the federal government. whether you want to talk about the fbi, cdc, etcetera, we already know that the fbi and cdc have suppressed free speech in the united states at the social media companies. so our concern is that you have

elements of these agencies who have been sending information to alvin brags office because let's be very clear. you got elements of our agencies who want to get rid of trump to, obviously that something was going on with the mueller probe, etcetera, so that's our concern. we want to make sure that you don't have aspects of the federal government trying to aid in a bed through the back door. the political persecution of the former president. okay, i should note those are your allegations , and we should note that we have not actually seen the indictment when those requests to alvin bragg for his testimony went through congressman baron donald to florida. thank you for joining us this morning. thank you. katelyn polantz kicks in the law. as you can see, definitely meeting today in a big way up next we have some other stuff we're following. we're meeting the four astronauts who will take part and nasa's first crewed moon mission and 50 years who they are and what makes this mission so historic that straight ahead.

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artemis to this mission is a story and more ways than one for the first time, a woman a black man will participate in a lunar flight. it will also be the first time a canadian will travel to deep space and lavandera knows all about this. he sat down with the crew. he joins us now, ed. good morning to you. how are they feeling? well just to be clear. i know nothing about space travel, but these four astronauts were a where the toast of the town yesterday they got a phone call from president biden. they were featured at center court to the final four game last night. here in houston. these are the four astronauts returning to the area around the moon in more than 50 years. ladies and gentlemen. you're artemus to cruz. nasa calls this moment the launch of the generation and the space agency has unveiled its first cosmic rock stars commander wiseman. pilot victor glover,

mission specialist christina coke and canadian jeremy hansen . cnn sat down with the crew of the artemis to mission armstrong aldrin, collins, borman, lovell , anders. those are all iconic astronauts that touched the moon or grace the edges of them in your names go next to those guys. how did you find out about this? and how does it feel? quite frankly, the leader of our flight operations directorate said to us, and he said, how would you like to go flying on artemus to my answer to him was sir. it would be an honor. it's amazing to be a part of this team that's going back to the moon and on to mars, and it's exciting times that we're actually making. this step goes as planned. the artemis two crew will orbit the moon next year for about 10 days to travel farther into space than any humans have ever gone. they will fly in the orion spacecraft, paving the way for future artemis missions to land on the moon again and ultimately journey to mars. i think for

most people who watch space program is that since the end of the space shuttle program that space travel has become the game of billionaires in the wealthy who traveled to the edges of space. um why is this so important? no. one aspect of human space exploration is that it unites and it lifts i love you keep using that word, jeremy lifts, it lifts people up in it. it pushes you to do things that seem impossible when you go out and do something that pushes the boundaries. you always learn things that you didn't expect to learn, and we will have breakthroughs left and right. it's going to be phenomenal. it's been more than a half century since astronauts return to the moon. apollo eight astronauts were the first to see the surface up close. their mission and films captivated the world. the voices of astronauts beamed back to earth felt like science fiction. and god bless all of you. christina coke kept this iconic image of the earthrise taken by that first

crew in 1968 on her bedroom wall as a little girl. over the last few days, i've gone back and watched a bunch of old film of the apollo guys, and it's white guys with crew cuts. artemis two crew is making history by putting the first person of color and a woman on a lunar mission. well i don't look great in a crew cut, but more importantly, it's an honor to be a part of this program at a time when we as an organization as a country have recognized and decided that it's important to go for all and by all when you see the earth rise for the first time, have you thought about what that moment is going to be like? you think it's going to be pretty emotional. i'm going to be seeing that image with with three friends. a tiny capsule. i think there's going to be some hugging. do you think in our lifetimes, we will see somebody landing on mars. i do? i certainly hope so. i think we will get there in our lifetime to think that humans will be walking on mars in 20 years is completely reasonable. you

couldn't ask for four more charismatic astronauts making this initial launch their scheduled to take off in november of 2024. if all goes well, there would be a moon landing sometime in 2025. we'll see if all of that works out and poppy. i love that last shot in your piece where they're kind of looking into the camera. well done. poppy was commenting. i think he his beats. coy's think so. yeah he gets especially if he gets to go up and mars in 20 years, maybe. wow. alright thanks said nice work straight ahead and eight am our we need to tell you. he's right on. it is ambitious stuff the artemis to commander reid wiseman will join cnn this morning. live again. this is historic, and this is historic as well. caitlin, outside of the manhattan criminal court house right now. a lot of historic moments happening this morning. some different than others. we are live outside the manhattan criminal court dallas this morning where there is expected to be a historic moment because

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