If it's Monday, former President Trump and the nation bracing for a potential historic indictment,

Republicans in Congress rally around Mr. Trump as another witness testifies before a New York grand jury.

Plus, Russia's Vladimir Putin and China Xi Jinping hold a wartime meeting in Moscow,

flaunting the alliance of America's two biggest adversaries as Beijing

weighs deepening its involvement in the war in Ukraine.

And global banks, the U.S. economy and the Fed all under pressure as UBS agrees to buy Swiss

banking giant credit Suisse in the latest move by banks and regulators to avert a full-blown financial crisis.

Welcome to meet the press now. I'm Kristen Welker at the start of what could be a historic week in American politics.

As the country braces for former President Trump's potential indictment, which would mark the first time in American history, a former U.S. president has ever faced criminal charges.

Mr. Trump set off a firestorm over the weekend when he claimed, without evidence, that he was going to be arrested tomorrow in the Manhattan DA's investigation into hush money payments he made to adult film star Stormy Daniels.

That, of course, happened before the 2016 election. The former president also called on his supporters to protest. A Trump's spokesperson clarified, he hasn't been notified

of an arrest. Still indications are that an indictment could be imminent as the grand jury

meets right now, hearing from a witness at the request of Mr. Trump's legal team suggesting

Trump's lawyers are expecting charges. That witness is Robert Costello, a former legal advisor to Michael Cohen, who has been a

key witness in the DA's case. He's expected to testify that Cohen is a liar. The political

fallout has been in a word intense as Republicans in Congress largely rally around Mr. Trump

and his potential 2024 rivals react. Today, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis took a swipe at the Manhattan

DA maligning him as a Soros-funded prosecutor. Over the weekend, former vice president,

Mike Pence criticized the investigation as an act of the, quote, radical left. Also today,

the Republican chairs of the House Judiciary and Oversight Committees also assailed the

Manhattan DA's probe as a politically

motivated prosecution demanding that DA Alvin Bragg testified before Congress about the case.

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