trump s alleged hush money scheme will soon have an unexpected witness as the manhattan district attorney weighs indicting the former president. and if he is arrested, trump s attorney warns of mayhem to come. china s president is making his first trip to moscow since the war in ukraine began. what xi jinping and vladimir putin hope to achieve at their meeting. the u.s. federal reserve is taking steps to keep cash flowing as major moves are being made to help restore confidence in the global banking system. good to have you with us. a day after donald trump urged supporters to protest his potential indictment in new york, his legal team has further stoked tensions by warning of unrest if the former president is arrested. let s see if they arrest him, but i ll tell you what, if they choose to do so for a misdemeanor, which frankly he didn t even do, it is going to cause mayhem, paula. it s just a very scary time in our country. i do think security should be in place if
category 4 storm leaving a huge path of destruction and millions in the dark this morning. we ll have a live report in just a moment. meanwhile, rescue crews have been busy trying to get people who decided to ride out the storm to try and save them. they re stranded now by rising flood waters and we re still tracking ian as it slowly makes its way across florida. at this hour, it still has more to go. good morning, and welcome to morning joe. it s thursday, september 29th. joe is off this morning. along with willie and me, we have the host of way too early, white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire. without power this morning, first light this morning will begin to show the damage in florida. that s right. that s when we re going to start to see the story of what happened last night, what happened overnight. tropical storm now ian downgraded from a category 1 hurricane. in just the last hour, but still wreaking havoc across florida as it made landfall as a
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watch for any signs that china s moving forward with providing military aid to russia. cnn correspondents are tracking all the developments for us. anna coren is stand big in hong kong, and salma abdelaziz is live in london. let s begin with anna in hong kong. how is china framing president xi s visit to moscow? how does he plan to be a neutral peace broker in russia s war with ukraine if there s any possibility he plans to offer lethal support to putin? yeah, it s a very interesting point, rosemary. but in just over three hours, xi jinping will land in moscow for a trip that is very much being framed at an opportunity to promote peace between russia and ukraine. the u.s. and europe are highly skeptical, as we know. xi says he s committed to finding a resolution to this war that s been dragging on over a year. he wrote an article in a russian newspaper that was published this morning, celebrating the close ties between china and