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17th. president xi is headed to russia. they tried to portray themselves as a neutral party. the west is skeptical and concerned that china is considering providing russia with weapons. and a cnn exclusive. two dozen mar-a-lago staffers have been subpoenaed to testify before a federal grand jury. this is connection to the special counsel investigation into the handling of classified documents. also banks rescuing another bank? first republic bank is set to receive a $30 billion life line. the money coming from a group of major banks including j.p. morgan chase and wells fargo. >> a dramatic last second shot, a tiger's tail turning into a cinderella story in a day of madness ahead. we'll break down the ncaa

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>> this is a full blown tour. it's all across the country. >> you are excited? >> i'll guet you a t-shirt. we're going to begin with that high stakes meeting we just learned about. president xi is set to meet president putin next month. this is the first trupip to russia. they have been providing diplomatic support. the u.s. does have intelligence suggesting china is considering providing russia with weapons for use in ukraine. we're also getting new details this morning on that dramatic video you saw yesterday, the u.s. drone that was forced down by a russian fighter jet over the black sea. they're in the hunt for the wreckage. the u.s. does believe russia recovered some debris. we have team coverage here.

cnn's ivan watson is live in ukraine. first, natasha bertrand is at the beng. what are you hearing from u.s. officials? >> u.s. officials are watching this very, very closely. they have been extremely concerned about the growing partnership between russia and china over the last year. this growing military partnership where we have seen china provide technology as well as equipment to the russians. they have not yet provided that lethal aid. that is the big piece of this that u.s. officials are watching for. russia and chinese did declare a no limits partnership at the beginning of the war. the partnership has grown ever since. xi and putin, the president of russia, they have spoken many times since the war gab. ping has not yet spoken to

ukrainian president zelenskyy which is something that the u.s. has been urging him to do. the chinese also introduced a 12 point peace plan for the war in ukraine that u.s. officials are extremely skeptical of. they believe that the chinese have already picked their side in this conflict. kaitlan? >> natasha, i'm going ask you a question. yesterday the big breaking news is drone interception and the drone going down into the black sea. what are the concerns of russia getting their hands on these drone fragments? i know it's 4,000 to 5,000 feet below surface. what is the concern here? >> so far what we're hearing is that they're not overly concerned about what russia has been able to pick up so far. they have been small things like plexiglas. the u.s. also took steps to wipe the software on that drone making it very difficult if not impossible for the russians to glean anything of intelligence

value. look, we are learning that u.s. amid all of this drama is assessing the drone operations over the black sea. they don't want this to happen again. so they're looking at ways to maybe deconflict with the russians further. they're weighing the costs and benefits of conducting the drone missions over the black sea and intelligence value of doing it versus the risks of potential escalation with russia. don? caught atlanta? >> big questions still remain. natasha, thank you. >> i want to get now to ivan watson. he is on the ground live for us in ukraine. what is the reaction to the upcoming meeting between chun and russia's presidents? >>. >> i think they're watching nervously. ping is closer to putin. never condemned russia's unsahratian of ukraine. hasn't said the word about russia occupied ukrainian

territory and then annexed it to russia. but the ukrainian was much rather have china kind of friending to be neutral than openly arming its much bigger and arguably more powerful neighbor. yesterday the ukrainian foreign munster had a rare phone conversation with his chinese counterpart. he says that he used that opportunity to repeat the principle of territorial integrity. that is something that china talks about a lot. sovereignty and territorial integrity. they have not said a word of that publicly when it comes to ukraine's battered territorial integrity, don. >> the impact of the fighter jets coming from poland, how much of an impact will that have on the ground in ukraine, ivan? >> look, most of this war right now is being fought by infantry and artillery. but it's symbolic in every piece of equipment that ukraine can

get will help. take a listen to the polish president making this announcement yesterday. >> translator: literally within the next few days we will hand over as far as i can remember four aircraft to ukraine in full working order. the rest are being prepared, serviced and will be successfully handed over. >> now the prime minister of slovakia announce the that his small eastern european country will be supplying, in his words, about 13 of these mig 29s to ukraine as well. keep in mind, these planes are probably all more than 20 years old. they're designed from the soviet union from the 1970s and 80s. some of them are not in working order. they're also symbolic. this is a war of attrition. whoever can last the longest will arguably win this terrible

war. back to you. >> all right. ivan watson, thank you very much. appreciate that. later on the show, i need to tell you we're going to discuss this and more with the pentagon press secretary patrick rider. that is coming up. >> now we want to move to a major development and cnn exclusive in the special counsel's investigation of former president trump. sources tell cnn two dozen people that work at mar-a-lago are subpoenaed to testify about trump's handling of top secret and classified documents found stashed away the ahis florida resort. >> that includes everybody from restaurant servers and house keepers to members of trump's inner circle. just yesterday, our cameras captured one of the top communication staffers it he white house in december where she appeared before the grand jury. >> our cnn seanor legal affairs correspondent paula reid is here to join us. sorry. i was coughing a bit. >> i've been there. >> thank you, don, for rescuing me there. okay. so this reporting is really fascinating on all the people who were subpoenaed.

i want to get to marco in a minute. but this subpoena went to house keepers, restaurant servers, why are they of interest to investigators? >> of course this is the first time it ever had a former president who lufz effectively at a resort. so if they fired off over two dozen subpoenas to everyone that may have seen something or heard something about classified documents or boxes moving around the resort. he is casting a really wide net. little fish, big fish, anyone he can get. they just want to talk to anyone who may have seen something. they want to get all the evidence possible. people close to the former president's legal team say this is a little excessive. they're trying to make it look like they talked to hundreds of people. one of my questions is, was, look, if you're a server in florida, how do you afford legal counsel in a federal investigation? and we learned that trump entities are helping the people with the legal bills. >> wow. >> it's interesting. i think the common wisdom is that they're doing it because the defense or at least the

prosecution, they don't want any surprises when it comes to this. they want to interview everyone. so that someone doesn't step in at the last munn and say wait, i was just a moving guy or you happen to be a server that day. and i just moved the documents. therefore, there is nothing to do with the -- >> exactly, leave no stone unturned. that is critical. one guy had security footage helping another aide, they want to talk to him too. he was caught on camera helping him move boxes. they want to know why. who told you to do that and where were they going? >> one of the communications aides that worked in the white house and still works for him now was seen going before the grand jury. they're still bringing people in on a daily basis. >> exactly. one of our questions after learning that servers and grounds keepers and house keepers were being subpoenaed, all right, who is left? remember, we were at the white house, she was in the press office and the final months. we dealt with her every day. she is a small group of people who followed him down to florida, still works for him n terms of proximity to the former

president or really key witness, but at this point unclear what information they're able to get from her. >> yeah. >> good to see you yet another investigation. >> over day. all right. thank you. >> a life line from some of america's largest banks. first republic bank set to receive a $30 billion infusion of cash as it faces a crisis of confidence from both investors and customers. these 11 banks pitching in to stabilize california bank that is teetering on the edge, the same day that secretary -- treasury secretary janet yellen told the senate finance committee this. listen. >> i can reassure the members of the committee that our banking system is sound and that americans can feel confident that their deposits will be there when they need them. this week's actions demonstrate our kmutmcommitment to ensure t our financial system remains strong and depositor's savings

remain safe. >> more now on, i want to bring in someone extremely busy this week, this is her beat, of course. >> she was too busy to fill out a bracket. >> i know. i wish i could think about basketball. i'm only thinking about banks. >> there should be a bank bracket. >> you're right. >> i have j.p. morgan for its final four. >> is this enough to stabilize? >> all of the banks bailing out another bank. you know, financial stability is a public good. first vuk a bafrpgs that had 68% of the deposits were not insured. right? you had all the people saying, wait a minute, if i'm not protected by the fdic, i'm going to start moving my money out. that made first republic very weak. not a buyer for this bank. all of these other banks coming together to put non there to say

we're going to bail out taxpayers. other banks. much. >> i'm going on something that is a whole different thing. 68% not insured. how does that happen? >> because, you know, we're only insured up to $250,000. so a lot of people had all of their money in there. wealth wealthy individuals. some business has their entire account in the bank. you see the pressure in the regional banks is because people are saying, wait a minute. i'm going to put money in j.p. morgan chase and citigroup and only have $250,000 in this particular bank account. so for most people, i mean most people don't have more than $250,000 in one bank so you're insured. but for others, there are these uninsured limits. >> the concern here, i was talking to patrick mchenry yesterday, the concern is that this hurts mid-sized banks. people are going to bigger banks because they feel like they have more stability. so this solves the immediate

issue. what does it mean overall for the mid-sized and smaller banks? >> you want community banks. i think that's one of the important parts of this first republic event. the big banks know that too. they know that it's good to have different size banks all around. you want to have community banksst yobanks and you want them to be healthy. that's why the rollback of dodd frank, you had democrats and republicans that wanted to make sure there were not such st stringent rules. i think the jury is still out about whether rolling the regulations back allowed this to happen. it might be one of the factors. but for the most part, this is a big interest rate story. interest rates went up so far, so fast. it really caught out a lot of the smaller banks. >> janet yellen getting questions about that yesterday. >> yes. >> the interest rate hikes. >> and we'll be watching the regional banks this morning. they're a little weak this

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what tiktok has been doing is spending billions of dollars to move the data of u.s. users to servers here in the u.s. and europe. it's also working with oracle to give that company oversight of the content, moderation algorithms. the concern from washington is that any chinese company by law has to give data over to china. so even though tiktok says they're doing all these things to mitigate concern, if they still have chinese shareholders of which there are a lot, they're going to be beholden to this law and that poses a national security risk. >> sarah, what would a change in ownership -- what would that do? what would that fix here? would that make any difference? >> well, that's where it gets complicated. one, what does a change in ownership mean? does it mean every shareholder needs to sell the company fully to a u.s. firm? does it mean the folks that have chinese citizenship who are beholden to a law like that would have to sell stakes? that is most of the employees and the founders. it's about 40%. but what would it do, don? it would ensure that a u.s.

company has oversight essentially of how this app works. it would have oversight over the data privacy of u.s. users and have a content algorithms work. in the past, we've seen two examples where this could be helpful. in 2019, there was a guardian report that tiktok in the u.s. was filtering out algorithms that were spreading negative messages. and then also, more recently, there is a report that the employees were using the app to spy on u.s. journalists. those are two concrete examples. both of which, by the way, tiktok executives have admitted and occurred in, you know, are true, where if there was ownership by u.s. company that would be less likely to happen. >> so tiktok has this proposed compromise project texas. basically, it allows oracle, an american company to store the data of american users on the app. it would safeguard against influence from china arguing, you know, the data behind -- the idea behind it is it won't matter what the chun he's law

says or any law because they're taking user data and putting it out of the reach. are they really? i think people would be skeptical of that claim. >> they have a year to do the data migration and move it over. this goes back to the ownership question. if the company that actually outright owns it is american, then, of course, you can ensure the word when they say they migrated data over. if it's not an american company, there is a concern they're not telling the truth. another big issue here is the algorithm. chinese government tried so hard to protect the ip of chinese tech companies. part of the concern they have with them selling a stake or the app would be would they be able to sell the algorithm? it does not appear like china would let that happen let alone even let a whole outright sale happen. >> final question, sarah, why aren't you here in new york with us instead of in d.c.? we like having you on the set. >> next week. >> all right. >> soon. >> perfect answer. thank you, sarah. have a good weekend, appreciate it. >> thank you. >> straight ahead on "cnn this

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>> sampson's mother said she promised her son she would see this ride taken down. as you see behind me, parts of that ride now rest on the street outside of that amusement park where that teenager died and as can you imagine for the family having come out here earlier this week to remember him. this was an incredibly difficult trip. >> she is making a first and possibly last visit to the amusement ride that killed her 14-year-old son tyrese sampson. workers began taking apart the drop tower ride in orlando as she watched. >> this place was my son's last breath, last place on earth. i mean, last thought, last everything. he took his last everything on that ride. >> sampson was on a spring break trip last march when he fell from the ride's operators say was the world's tallest drop tower ride at icon park.

nearly a year later, dodd said the grief is still overwhelming. >> i still talk to him every day. he's with me spiritually. >> and an investigation on florida's department of agriculture and consumer services determined sampson slipped out of the seat because he wasn't properly secured. the report found operators made manual adjustmentes to two seats to accommodate larger people. according to investigators, the photo on the left shows the gap in tyrese seat was 7.2 inches. the photo on the right shows the average gap for the unadjusted seats was 3.3 inches. the report found the, quote, misadjustment of the seat's censor allowed for safety lights to turn chon allow-- on which ad the ride to start. he weighed 383 pounds according to the family and 100 pounds above the maximum weight for the

ride according to the ride's manual. >> they had nothing for weight on a ride that was the most important thing. because the velocity of the ride. they had nothing to warn him. >> if they're on other rides, why not this one? as an adult, you should have made that call. his feelings would be hurt but he'd still be here with me today. >> the family's attorney reached a settlement in the wrongful death lawsuit with the amusement park and the operators of the ride. a lawsuit against the manufacturer of the ride and the company that designed the seat is pending. and florida's state legislature is considering a bill that would increase safety regulation for rides. the act would require any ride more than 100 feet to have seat belts in addition to other restraints. it would increase training standards for ride attendants and inspections. the attendant who strapped him in the day he was killed had only been on the job three days

and considered a trainee according to the state investigation. dodd welcomes the changes but wishes they could come sooner. >> a year later, is it easier, just as difficult? >> difficult. because a year later we're coming across birthdays and holidays and family functions and we have a spot where there is no tyree. >> and so crews hope to have the entire ride taken down in time for the 1-year mark. this time next week. the terms of the settlement were not disclosed. and sampson's mother tells me she hopes to start a foundation in her son's honor. don, as for the criminal investigation into this accident, we're told that is still on going. the manufacturer of the ride declined to comment. >> carlos suarez in orlando, thank you. president trump's team now preparing for a potential indictment. how strong is the case?

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having spoken and met with them so many times do, you believe an indictment is imminent? >> i do. >> when do you think it could happen? sooner rather than later? >> let's all hope it's sooner rather than later. everyone needs to be held accountable. everyone needs to be held to the same standard of the law and that includes former presidents. >> he is talking about former president trump. that is his ex-attorney, michael cohen. he is confident an indictment is coming soon from the manhattan district attorney's hush money case. michael cohen, of course, is a crucial piece of the puzzle in that case. he made the $130,000 payment to stormy daniels.

right before election day in 2016 to kill the allegations of an affair with president trump. david pecker helped arrange that payment. he is also testifying before the grand jury. this wasn't only the hush money payment. michael cohen also says there was a similar arrangement to pay off former "playboy" model who says she had an affair with trump. there is a tape of that conversation with trump as well. >> i need to open up a company for the transfer of all that information regarding our friend david. so that -- i'm going to do that right away. >> i spoke to allen how to set the whole thing up with -- >> so what are we going to do? >> yes. it's all the stuff. here you don't know where that company -- you never know what he's going to do.

i'm all over that. i spoke to allen about it. when it comes time for the financing, which will be real soon. >> what financing? >> i have to pay -- >> no, no, no. i got it. >> gosh. we forgot about that one. >> that's tape from michael cohen recording his client at the time when they were still on good terms. the question is this morning, is prosecutors do decide to indict trump, how strong is the case? to give us perspective, we have the senior legal analyst who says prosecutors are facing an uphill battle and former watergate prosecutor who sees it differently. he sees straight forward wrongdoing by the former president. you think -- i want to start with you. >> sure. >> you have different opinion than what we heard overwhelmingly which is that you think that it is a strong case against trump? >> it's a strong case much if you include the theme of falsifying records. if you go with the same thing that latisha james went through,

the tire organization is a pen aplea, a pot pouri of false financial statements every year. they increase the values of property to get more money from the government on the taxes. they gave environmental gifts to the government. they committed bank fraud bin creasing values of various assets in the trump organization. donald trump took the fifth amendment over 400 times when he was questioned by the attorney general. now that can't be used in the criminal case. >> separate one. >> right. >> but in a civil case, you would do that with every single criminal act that you have. you can use an adverse inference in a civil case. if you sit back and say, well, what is the prosecutor doing with that? there have to be five or six items in there that can be charged against trump and put together in a pattern to show

the complete activity of how that organization, and how donald trump ran it by falsifying the records. and certainly the stormy daniels situation fits right into that. it's part of the pattern. >> and stormy daniels testifying yesterday, day before yesterday, i believe, via zoom. you disagree because, correct me if i'm wrong, because of the strength of this case because of michael cohen's credibility? >> this is not a criminal case about the overvaluation of assets. that is the civil case. there is no indication that's what the d.a. is looking for. all the reporting and public indications are this criminal case is focused only on payment of hush money. >> he was in office. >> before he was in office. when running for office. >> right. then he was in office. he had some protection.

>> sure. and 2 1/2 years lapsed since then. kids who are in college right now were in middle school. that's a long time ago. michael cohen is the central witness here. look, i know him personally, i like him. i respect him. let's be clear. he's going to get ripped apart on the witness stand. this is a man who is a convicted purjuror and committed tax fraud, financial fraud, rejected him. they said he's not credible enough to testify. >> i can push back on something you said? you're saying it happened such a long time ago. really? >> no. >> it's like there should be a statute of limitations on wrongdoing. >> there is a statute of limitations. it's within the statute of limitations. the wrongdoing isn't just paying off a film star. it's also setting up the phoney records and the trump organization so that they file false tax returns. it's a matter of not just a

campaign violation. but it is also a violation of new york state federal criminal tax. juries care about this stuff. it will feel less urgent and, frankly, feed the defense this is something that's what pulled up for political reasons. >> and that's what trump is saying all along. and "the new york times" is reporting to day on how they are preparing to go on attack mode. i don't think they know any other mode. preparing a data base of people who argued there is not a strong case here. and so if this does happen, it seems likely we're heading in that direction, i think it's important to be realistic about what is going to happen on the other side of an indictment. >> yes. but we don't know what that indictment is going to be. we're all just speculating. >> or if there is an indictment. >> or if there is an indictment. but clearly, there has been a joint investigation between the da's office and the ag's office. >> the press overlooked the fact

that some items could be joined like they're doing in georgia and turn it into a criminal case. >> i don't think we overlooked that. what about the other witnesses here? there is the kara mcdougal of it all. does that help with this? what helps is actually that tape. the real question with michael cohen is not whether you like the guy or whether he's a good guy. when you go to the jury, the question is was he telling you the truth? and what you're going to look at is the other evidence which are going to be the documents in this case with donald trump signing his name to check that's were provided to michael cohen. you have other witnesses or who are going to come in from the trump organization to testify about how this was set up and how it was out of the ordinary. the question only with michael cohen is can you i ccorroborate what he is saying.

i had a witness and he admitted to 12 murders. i convict people based on his testimony. >> every witness has -- >> right, everyone. >> your cross, sir. >> here is the thing. he is corroborating to an extent. there is no question the payments were made. there is no question they falsified the documents. the key question here is can you tie donald trump to the false fiction of those documents? as far as we know, the only person who is going to do that is michael cohen. let's be straight on michael cohen. he lied to congress under oath. the man lied to the media, many times under oath. he lied to the federal election commission under oath. michael cohen said to the fec, this is before he flipped, he said there was nothing illegal about these payments. he said that again in a way he could be punished under oath to the fec. he has lied to virtually everybody. >> he said yesterday to me, i'm not lying about this. there are other people going in -- i'm just -- >> there are other witnesses who were with trump and who may know about this who have all been

interviewed by brags office. excuse me. i'm saming the same issue you're having. >> contagious. >> i have to ask you. as i was speaking to sources about this in the last days and yesterday. they said this is not just about the hush money payment. this is about exposure to donald trump in other areas. what will happen with brag's office. is that people will learn about donald trump's businesses. that will lead to other things. i don't know if it will lead to other investigations. they're surprised at this point the concern about what is coming out of this. the witnesses are telling them and what these prosecutors and others are learning about donald trump. >> look at this tape we just played at the beginning of this. that puts donald trump right in the middle of this whole plot to essentially set up a situation with the "national enquirer" to catch and kill every woman who is going to come across the pike and basically talk about donald trump before the election. pt. >> yeah. and we have to go. the can i make an important

point. when trump was in office and i was covering the white house, he denied knowing about the payment. he said you have to ask michael cohen. rudy giuliani went on fox news and said trump reimbursed michael cohen for this payment. trump does not part ways with money. i think that is such an important part here. >> but didn't the attorney -- the attorney, the whoun is representing him at least speaking for him on television, people don't like to be called that on tv attorneys, i thought it was a compliment. apparently someone took issue with saying that. but didn't he admit sort of that donald trump knew about it and that in this interview on another network and in a sense lied about it because he didn't want to break the agreement? >> yeah. kaitlan is right. that's a good piece of evidence for the prosecution. the fact that on air force one he denied he knew about it. we know he knew about it. the response from the lawyer is he felt like he was bound by this nondisclosure agreement. the better answer there is he denied making this payment for the same reason he made the payment in the first place. he was trying to avoid personal embarrassment to him and his

family. >> all right. we have to leave it. there great conversation. we knew that was going to go long. thank you both. >> thank you for getting us out of that. a political flash point in france. hundreds of protesters clashing with police. this is a sign to what's happening in the u.s., right? in these elections. after the government forced through a controversial plan to raise the country's retirement age -- you are listening, republican candidates -- this is happening on the streegts of paris right now. than just an investore you're an owner. that means that your goals are ours too. and vanguard retirement tools and advice can help youou get there. that's the value of ownership.

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overhaul is unfair and unnecessary. i want to get straight now to cnn's sam kiley live in paris with more on this. sam, hello to you. these visuals are remarkable. >> pair sis waking up to the hangover to what happened last night with the very much more violent and the policy to force through this legislation. he just didn't have the majority in the national assembly. here is part of the reason why it is so visible in this country. this is not just paris but across country, public wokers have gone on strike because of this effort being made by the government to reduce the $12.5 million euro deficit they've got in pensions. now the city has been clogged now for some days, weeks rather because of the garbage that is

being left out on the streets. also, we've seen strikes with railway workers, teachers, all kinds of others. undeed, on this street here, the local restaurants are having to pay for garbage collection privately in order to keep the sanitation for their operations within the bounds of decency. but it is indecency that the french population, the vast majority of the french population are saying that macron's policy of raising the retirement age from 60 to 64 is all about. this strikes at the very heart of the french way of life. and more than two-thirds of the population of the country so far support this strike action. it is particularly the unions. they dial down the violence but bring up the public disruption that is on going here, don. >> it's interesting to see all the destruction and the protests

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