yet happened. the lead starts are right now. republican officials rushing to defend trump with a variety of claims and chexcuses as the forr president faces a possible indictment. i think in your heart of hearts you know too that this you can this is just political. is this all firing up the maga base? we ll talk to two former trump insiders. plus, meeting with a menacing message, leaders of russia and china coming out of their second day of talks and offering deliberate prolposals about a future collaboration. and a colorado dentist accused of killing his wife by lacing her protein shakes with arsenic, how his internet searches became evidence. welcome to the lead, i m jake tapper. we start with our politics lead and a high alert day for new york city police bracing for possible unrest if donald trump is indicted. an internal memo shared with cnn shows that all nypd officers are expected to be in uniform and ready for deployment today, although law enforcement
this country has never seen before, the possibility that a former president of the united states may soon be indicted and arrested. our senior legal affairs correspondent paula reid has details. reporter: this was the day former president trump claimed he would be arrested on charges related to a hush money probe. but there was no sign yet of an arrest or even an indictment. still, law enforcement continues to prepare for possible protests. in washington, d.c., barriers erected around the capitol. in new york, police officers told to be in uniform and ready for deployment. so far, officials say there are no credible threats despite online chatter calling for civil war if trump is indicted. today, small groups gathered outside trump tower and mar-a-lago. there has been no word from the manhattan district attorney after a last-ditch effort by trump to avoid charges. attorney robert costello appearing before the grand jury monday to attack the witness at the center of the inve
no. i was going into shock. hyperventilating. murder in her sleep. it was a crime of rage. where would investigators start? an ex-boyfriend? there were some stories about a jilted lover. her new tenants? they were a couple that had been pushed over the edge. her old friend? [inaudible] there is no way that she saw what she said she saw. the real killer would stun them all. took my world and just flip it upside down. we were all wrong! everybody was wrong in this case. [inaudible] oh my god. a cold night. february 2014. 9-1-1 colors can also be hysterical. this one was all but in comprehensible. i thought my s friend in the closet. she is dead. but then, the sort of thing does not happen to people like the one now lying dead in the closet. she is dead! [inaudible] and certainly not in this zip code. you don t see many homicides here. but there are moments where no person is safe. no person. not this victim. not her securely pampe
speak louder than words can that on tuesday at rob elementary school in uvalde texas, this first priority for every single law enforcement officer in the state did not come first. the awful truth which was confirmed today is that police officers waited to storm a classroom while children were hiding inside and calling 911 for help that would not come. for as long as an hour. now we often here police officers talk about split second decisions. this time, the decision to go into a classroom and confront the shooter took 3,600 of those seconds. a full hour. a bit of hindsight from where i m sitting now, of course it s not a right decision. it was a wrong decision. very. no excuse for that. but again, i wasn t there. i m just telling you from what we know, we believe there should have been an entry there as soon as you can. that s steven mcgraw, director of the texas department public safety with the bottom line, different from what we ve been hearing all week long, different
reporter: in that crucial time, survivors inside both classrooms made desperate calls to 9-1-1. she identified herself and whispered she is in room 112. at 12:10, she called back and room 12 guised multiple are dead. 12:13, she called again on the phone. at 12:16, she called back and said there is eight to nine students alive. minutes later, a student called. reporter: student/child called back, was told to stay on the line and be very quiet. told 911 he shot the door. approximately 12:43 and 12:47, he she asked police to come now. something s got to be done now. where do we go from here, you know? you were wrong. what dwe do now? you know, it s my question. what are we gonna do now? the countability, you are talking about. right. accountability. somebody s got to be responsible. reporter: warning signs missed. ramos asked his sister to help him buy a gun. she flatly refused. that was in september of 21. reporter: with social media group chats and posts a