president ever be criminally charged, is expected to be arraigned on tuesday afternoon, according to sources. now his attorneys tell nbc news that there will be no plea deal. but keep in mind. trump and his team still don t know exactly what the charges are. the indictment is still sealed. sources do tell cnn that it involves more than 30 counts related to business fraud. remember the new york grand jury has been investigating trump s role in that alleged cover up that $130,000 payment to silence adult film star stormy daniels during the 2016 campaign. daniel s alleged affair with trump, which he has denied. his ex fixer and attorney, michael cohen was convicted on campaign finance violations for coordinating the payment, which he said donald trump ordered him to do, cohen says the indictment shows that no one is above the law. this is also about that. whatever laws that sent me to prison. should send him to prison. we re all supposed to be looked at in the eyes of the law. t
john: chaos on a college campus in virginia where activists ambushed a students for life meeting reportedly throwing punches. it got violent and aggressive quickly. pro life students say somehow despite the threats against them, they are the ones who got shut down. welcome back as america reports rolls into a second hour, i m john roberts in washington. sandra, it s friday. feels like a monday. sandra: so much news to get to. sandra smith in new york. the latest example of a certain type of speech getting shut down in this country and even attacked. right here on our college campuses, students at another university are mounting a revolt against their commencement speaker. they say he is harmful, that speaker, the republican governor, glenn youngkin, who earned 1.6 million votes. that s all new at 2:00. reaction from his lieutenant governor winsome sears in a bit. but first, breaking news on the former president. john: at this time on tuesday we expect to see former pr
explosion of the only bridge connecting russia with the annexed territory of crimea. now, the blast partially collapsed the kerch bridge and paralyzed a key supply route from moscow s faltering war in ukraine. but this bridge isn t just logistically important, it s also a huge symbol for the kremlin in its attempt to reunify crimea with the russian mainland. ukraine has not claimed responsibility for this, but after the blast in kyiv, people can be seen taking selfies in front of a billboard depicting the image of the bridge on fire. that s not the only thing you re seeing from ukraine mocking the explosion. fred pleitgen joins us now. fred is in kyiv. he has the latest developments. what are you hearing, fred, about who s behind this explosion. reporter: yeah, well, the russians are moving very quickly to point the finger of blame at the ukrainians. this is quite interesting because i ve been following a lot of telegram channels coming out of russia. a lot of top russian
wrongs. president biden wipes out federal marijuana possession convictions. what that means for the effort to decriminalize marijuana nationwide. we have a series of serial murders occurring. people are scared to come out. police in california on the hunt for a killer. the one characteristic they are asking the community to zero in on as the search for the suspect continues. newsroom starts right now. good morning. it is saturday, october 8th. good morning. you are live in the cnn newsroom. we start this morning in eastern europe. at least three people have been reported dead in a huge explosion that crippled europe s largest bridge and pair lased a key supply route for russia s war in ukrainian. that blast crippled the only bridge linking russia to the annexed territory of crimea. the kerch bridge is a huge symbol for the kremlin and the attempt to reunify crimea with the russian mainland. let s get to fred pleitgen. russia blamed the explosion on ukraini
and it s used to resupply russian forces. russia s government insists the damage was under control. ukraine is not claiming responsibility. but they are directly mocking russia. the ukrainian government s official twitter account, tweeting sick burn. also, a famous scene of titanic to show the bridge. ukraine sent a birthday greeting to vladimir putin, next to marilyn monroe, singing happy birthday to u.s. president john f. kennedy. happy birthday to you happy birthday to you happy birthday, mr. president happy birthday to you fred is following this from kyiv. how are russia and ukraine reacting? well, both sides are essentially blaming each other. you say that the russians are saying it s the ukraine ons behind all of this. a senior official calling it c ukrainian vandals behind this. and figures in moscow making the same allegation. the ukrainians, this is an adviser saying they believe it might have been infighting within russian security services that wa