NYPD increases security ahead of a potential Trump indictment

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🗓️ 20 March 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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A Trump ally just wrapped up testimony before a grand jury in New York investigating the former president’s alleged role in a hush money scheme. This as New York police are increasing courthouse security just ahead of a potential Trump indictment. Also tonight, Trump’s top GOP allies are rushing to his defense and trying to discredit the New York district attorney who is investigating Trump. Plus, China’s President Xi Jinping visits Russia, praising Putin and calling him a dear friend. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Happening now a Trump ally just wrapped up testimony before a grand jury in New York
0:07.9	investigating the former president's alleged role in a hush money scheme. This as New York police are now increasing courthouse
0:15.2	security just ahead of a potential Trump indictment. Also tonight, Trump's
0:20.6	top GOP allies are rushing to his defense and trying to discredit the New York
0:25.3	DA who's investigating him.
0:27.4	Trump's legal peril on the political fallout looming over a major gathering of House Republicans.
0:34.1	And a high stakes handshake.
0:35.7	China's president is Xi Jin Ping
0:37.7	strengthens his alliance with Vladimir Putin,
0:40.4	praising him as a dear friend, even as the Russian leader stands charged with war crimes in Ukraine.
0:47.0	We'll have the latest on their talks in Moscow just hours after Putin's defiant visit to the
0:52.1	war zone.
0:53.8	Welcome to our viewers here in the United States
0:56.2	and around the world.
0:57.6	I'm Wolf Blitzer, you testimony in the New York Grand Jury investigation of Donald Trump
1:11.6	amid questions about whether the former president is on the bridge. of Reed. She's just outside the courthouse in Manhattan.
1:23.1	Paula, a former legal advisor to Trump's ex-lawyer, Michael Cohn, wrapped up his appearance
1:28.7	just a little while ago.
1:30.1	Give us the latest.
1:32.1	That's right. Well, if that advisor... Give us the latest.
1:37.0	That's right, Wolf, that advisor Rob Costello and Michael Cohen, left the courthouse a short time ago.
1:39.0	Though Cohen was available to testify today, he was not called before the grand jury he's
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