good morning. buenos dias and welcome to cnn this morning. we are grateful you are starting your sunday, march 19th with us. i m boris sanchez. i m amara walker. is there a good morning? it is a very good morning for me. it is a great one. because boris is going to getting a lot more sleep on the weekends. look, there is really no bad news. there is some breaking news. i guess the bad news is that you won t be able to see boris bright and early in the morning saying buenos dias, but, for all the boris fans you will be getting a lot more of boris during the week. we don t want to disclose all the details. look, i think you and i channelled each other because we are kind of in mourning with all of our black. sadly, because we won t be together. that s the bad news. the good news, you will get so much more of boris. you are too kind. more of that in a sec. here is what we are watching today. russian president vladimir putin makes a surprise visit to the russian-o
setting up barricades, security cameras newly installed after trump called for protest on social media and rallied his base, to quote, take our nation back. he believes this is a very big political plus for him which is why he is fanning the flames. if they want to go after donald trump and have solid evidence, so be it. michael cohen is far from solid evidence. i have facts. i have the truth. i have the documentation. xi jinping and vladimir putin will meet for a second day of talks at the kremlin. this is a critical time in russia s ip investigation of ukraine. and xi is framing himself as a possible peacemaker. is there going to be a substantial chinese contribution to the russian war effort or is this just a bunch of talk. that remains to be seen. the federal reserve begins meeting today to decide whether to raise interest rates again. it s about who is going to be vulnerable as interest rates rise. that could be companies. it could be consumers and
he does. trump is clearly testing the resolve of people who normally defend him. trump jr. was not happy with what desantis said. desantis thinks that dems weaponizing the law to indictment president trump is a manufactured crisis, referencing what you said, and isn t a real issue. pure weakness and now we know why he was silent all weekend. this is the wedge that the trump universe will drive and comes out of that america first language. i was just at cpac they talk about the doj and fbi and defunding them as priorities for their political movement. so trump there is trying to stoke that lane of the base to say, although desantis has really reached out to you and kind of made overtures to the maga wing, this is not your candidate. the candidate only for these folks is donald trump. but that s not the majority of the republican base. desantis is trying to pull off some of those people. but he knows that really where he s going to make his bread and butter will have to be the repu
governor ron desantis has now broken his silence about former president trump s potential indictment. here is what he said. i don t know what goes into paying hush money to a porn star to secure silence over some type of alleged affair. i can t speak to that. but what i can speak to is that if you have a prosecutor who is ignoring crimes happening every single day in his jurisdiction and chooses to go back many, many years ago to try to use something about porn star hush money payments, you know, that s an example of pursuing a political agenda and weaponizing the office. desantis now has not announced that he is running for president yet. he is currently, though, still trump s most serious potential 2024 rival. he had been under pressure to weigh in on the looming indictment. trump responded to those comments by lashing out at
us live for what s happening in the latest. the governor in florida, ron desantis, has something to say about donald trump s legal troubles but probably not in the way the former president was hoping. i don t know what goes into paying hush money to a porn star to secure silence over some type of allege aid fair. i can t speak to that.