announcer: this is cnn breaking news. let s get straight to the breaking news. the fulton county district attorney is georgia, fani willis who is investigating donald trump s efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election in georgia is planning to announce her decision on whether to bring criminal charges against the former president this summer. cnn senior justice correspondent evan perez is following this for us. tell us more, evan? what are you learning? reporter: for months we ve heard fani willis say that sher decision on whether to bring charges in this important case was imminent. now we know what she means. in this letter that she wrote to the fulton county sheriff, and to local law enforcement there in atlanta, she s warning essentially that her timeline is looking somewhere between july 11th and september 1st. that is when this grand jury will be seated and will be hearing perhaps evidence to again, with a decision on whether to bring charges against the f
hello and welcome to our viewers joining us here in the united states and all around the world. you re watching cnn newsroom. and i m rosemary church. just ahead, the u.s. house passes a debt ceiling bill. but there s zero chance it will get through the senate. we ll look at what, if anything, is up for negotiation when it comes to budget cuts. plus, thousands of civilians are caught in the middle of a deadly conflict in sudan. many desperate to leave the country for their safety. we ll look at that. and later, the lawmakers, business leaders and celebrities who gathered at the white house for a state dinner honoring the south korean president. good to have you with us. republicans in the u.s. house have passed a bill to raise the national debt limit and cut spending. they say it will put the country on the path of fiscal responsibility and avoid an economic catastrophe. but democrats are not onboard. they want a stand-alone bill that lets the u.s. pay its debt out spen
shop for people who wanted access to things that they shouldn t have. no one should be in those conditions, wnba star brittney griner speaking out about those ten months she spent in a russian prison. it s her first press conference since returning to professional basketball. hear what she says about the other americans still wrongfully detained. plus, after four hours on the stand, the woman accusing donald trump of rape now in cross examination. what we expect to hear from the former president s attorneys. we re following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news central. just moments ago we heard from the judge in the hearing from the air national guardsman accused of leaking highly classified intelligence documents. he said he will not yet rule if jack teixeira will remain in custody ahead of his trial. prosecutors claim that if the 21-year-old is let out before then, he will either try to flee or further obstruct the inve
extraordinary effort to reassure americans that the u.s. banking system is safe plus, poland is set to become the first country to send fighter jets to ukraine. it comes amid new reporting that china s leader will visit russia next week. those new developments are also straight ahead. and donald trump goes off on a frenzied defense amid a series of investigations. we will have the latest on the probes involving the former president. good morning and welcome to way too early on this friday, march 17th happy st. patrick s day. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. in the words of cnbc, wall street rides to the rescue 11 of the country s largest banks are depositing a total of $30 billion to first republic bank to avoid a third collapse of the u.s. bank in less than a week first republic serves a similar clientele as silicon valley bank and signature bank, both of which failed in recent days. those banks had a high number of uninsured deposits as d
control of products. they are making more money than they ve ever made. bill: opening arguments in the cop s trial are set to begin there. hello, bryan. bill, good morning. luna is mexico s highest ranking government official to be criminally charged and tried in the u.s. in the early 2000s he let mexico s federal agency akin to the f.b.i. before becoming the top law enforcement official in mexico controlling the federal police force as the secretary of public security until 2012. prosecutors say the man who led mexico s war against the drug cartels was instead accepting briefcases stuffed with tens of millions of bribes from the sinaloa cartel. in exchange luna provided second ratty intel protection and helped with smuggling at least 50,000 kilos of cocaine into the u.s. over the course of the eight-week trial there is intrigue about embarrassing and damning revelations with high ranking u.s. and mexico officials who trusted him. he served as the right-hand of the mexica