scientists have been warning us about. >> these volunteers, they say, i couldn't just have sat at home. hello and welcome to our viewers joining us here in the united states and all around the world. i'm rosemary church. just ahead on "cnn newsroom," the investigation into donald

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. on both sides of the atlantic, major moves are being made to try to restore faith in the global banking system. china's president is making his first trip to moscow since the war in ukraine began. we will look at what both sides are hoping to get out of the visit. good to have you with us. donald trump is bracing for what could be an eventful week in one of his legal battles. the former u.s. president has called on supporters to protest his potential arrest on tuesday over a hush money investigation in new york. in the coming hours, we could

learn new details about that probe when his former attorney, michael cohen, appears before a grand jury. cohen's former legal adviser, robert costello, is also expected to offer evidence, which a source says would challenge cohen's claims about the alleged hush money. if the investigation results in an indictment against trump, his lawyer says there could be unrest in new york. >> 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 that is what they choose to do. i would never want to see anybody get hurt, i know the president wouldn't either. if this is what we're doing in this country, secure the premises because it's dangerous. people are going to get upset. >> areva martin is an attorney

and legal affairs commentator and joins us now from los angeles. good to have you with us. >> hi, rosemary. >> so areva, donald trump says he will be arrested tuesday and has called on his supporters to protest, and in his words, take our nation back. in response to this manhattan's district attorney says trump's attempts to intimidate won't be tolerated and law enforcement will counter any such threats. so where is all this going? >> yes, so interesting to hear trump's lawyer say that trump nor his team wants to see anyone get hurt. but the language that he's used on his social media platform sounds very similar to the language used to incite the riot that we saw and the insurrection that we saw on january 6th. so i don't know if that's a credible statement or not, but we do know that trump has the ability to cause thousands of people to be galvanized and to engage in conduct that's

counterproductive and violent. so hopefully, unlike january 6th, there is adequate measures being taken by all law enforcement agencies, and they will be prepared if protesters take to the streets or do anything to protest what would be a lawful issuance of an indictment. i don't understand their logic. somehow he's supposed to be above the law? other people have been indicted and there's no call for protests. >> as we mentioned, attorney robert costello, former legal adviser for michael cohen, is expected to testify monday before the new york grand jury investigating trump's role in the stormy daniels hush money payments. at the request of trump's defense team, they of course are hoping costello will attack cohen's credibility. if he does that what impact will it likely have? >> we know one thing, rosemary, that is michael cohen is on standby. so if robert costello goes into that grand jury room and gives

testimony that contradicts that which michael cohen gives, he's going to be called in immediately to rebut whatever that testimony is. i don't think anything costello says, if the district attorney in manhattan has already heard enough has and presented enough evidence to this grand jury, i doubt one witness' testimony will cause there to be any different outcome. so if there is enough evidence already to indict, and they're just wrapping this up, i suspect that they'll move forward with the plans that they already have in place. >> and trump's attorneys say there will be mayhem if he's arrested. how likely is it that trump will be arrested on tuesday as he himself is predicting. what will the likely ramifications be if that happens? >> we don't know if this is going to happen tuesday. even his legal team said they're

doubtful.ful, that there's not been credible information come interesting this this done's office announcing tuesday is the date he will be arrested, so at this point that's speculation. in terms of what this could mean, this country has never faced this, what some are calling a constitutional crisis, where a former president who is running for president again has been arrested, has been indicted on criminal charges. so it remains to be seen what this looks like. we know there are huge security risks. this is not like going to knock on the door of michael cohen or one of the very many people in trump's orbit that have been arrested, because trump does have secret service protection, any kind of arrest would have to be worked out with the secret service. so there are lots of details yet to be worked out or disclosed as it relates to any potential arrest. >> and areva, how strong is this investigation into hush money payments compared to the other trump investigations?

>> that's a great question. we don't know what this indictment says because it hasn't been issued yet. federal prosecutors in new york looked at these potential charges, or potential charges related to this hurricane money, and decided not to indict. we know federal election committee has also looked at these charges. so there's some concern that state charges may not be that strong. but look, donald trump is no longer the president of the united states. and to the extent that this grand jury believes that it has evidence to indict, he's not above the law, and this notion that somehow the case involving the classified documents that were taken from the white house or the case involving the attempt to get the election results overturned in georgia, that those cases are somehow better cases because they're being investigated involving things that involve federal law, particularly the classified documents case -- i don't buy that.

if donald trump has committed a crime, wherever that crime has been committed, whatever that crime is, he needs to be held accountable, just like any other citizen would be held accountable. >> some critics have suggested that the hush money payments, that these represent the weakest of the investigations into trump and it plays into his sense of persecution, and then of course, will then plug into his support base and that will cause some trouble indeed. do you agree with that? >> i don't agree with that, rosemary, and here's why. if donald trump was indicted for the case involving the attempts to overturn the election in georgia, his base would have the same response. if he was indicted for taking classified documents out of the white house, not returning them, then making false statements or his team making false statements about all the documents being returned, his base would object to that. there is not a case that can be brought against donald trump, no matter how legitimate that case is, that his base wouldn't

respond to. so this notion that somehow if there were this hypothetical stronger case, that his base would accept it -- i think it's hypocrisy and it's fantasy. his base is going to support him no matter what. they believe that he is above the law and that they believe he should be given special treatment. so i think the department of justice, the district attorney in georgia, the district attorney in manhattan, have to follow wherever the evidence leads them. the complication is donald trump is running for president in 2024. and could very well become the nominee for the republican party, and even perhaps even become the next president of this country. how does that all play into these investigations? >> again, we are in uncharted waters, rosemary. we know with respect to richard nixon, the republican party was able to convince him to resign. so we never had to face this question as a country. we've never had someone running for president while being

investigated by investigatory bodies. we'd never have anybody that's been indicted while running for the president. the constitution doesn't preclude him from running while being investigated. it doesn't preclude him from running even after a potential indictment. so it's unclear what this will do to the country. we know we're incredibly polarized already. clearly an indictment and arrests, having donald trump fingerprinted, a mugshot taken of him, will only galvanize a certain portion of this country that has stood by him. but again, we have to remain true to the principles of the law. the same issues -- the same fundamental bedrock principles of our legal system that apply to everyone else in this country must apply to even a former president. >> areva martin, thank you for your legal analysis as always, appreciate it. >> thank you. let's turn now to the

turmoil in the banking sector with the collapse of two u.s. banks and a crisis of confidence spreading across global markets. ubs is planning to buy credit suisse at a fire sale price in an emergency rescue pact. the nearly $3.75 billion deal is being brokered by the swiss government in an attempt to stem market panic. meantime, the u.s. federal reserve and several other leading central banks have announced dollar liquidity measures to ease the banking crisis. cnn's clare sebastian joins me live from london. good morning, clare. how are global markets reacting right now to this move by ubs to buy credit suisse, and how will this takeover work, exactly? >> reporter: this is a fast-moving situation in terms of global markets. it's only the asian markets that are open at the moment. but certainly we're seeing some jitters there in the banking sector in particular. this was, as i say, a very

fast-moving situation. you'll remember last week off the back of what happened in the united states with those three bank failures, starting with silicon valley bank, credit suisse had its own separate issues. they sort of came to the fore, earlier last week, issues around financial reporting, then its top shareholder said it wouldn't put any more money in. then we saw a real crisis of confidence in the bank. it's had years of problems but it crystallized this week. the swiss national bank, central bank, stepped in with a more than $50 billion lifeline, but that did not stem the losses both in the stock price and in terms of depositors. "the financial times" says at one point last week they were losing around $10 billion a day in deposits. so we got to the point this weekend when it was clear that credit suisse could no longer carry on as it was. what we have in terms of this deal is really sort of part acquisition, part government. i don't want to use the word bailout. that is a bit controversial in this deal. but ubs has come in and they're

buying, as you say, the bank at a fire sale price, less than half of what it was worth. the government is backstopping the deal with more than $100 billion in credit. and they're also backstopping some potential losses at credit suisse. this is what the swiss finance minister had to say about it, take a listen. >> the bankruptcy of a global systematically important bank would have cost irreparable economic tour moyle in switzerland and throughout the world. for this reason, switzerland had to take the responsibilities beyond its own borders. >> reporter: so this was about preventing contagion, preventing a similar fate falling on other banks. this is why we see the bank of england, the fed, the u.s. treasury coming out and welcoming the deal. the losers here are credit suisse shareholders. they are getting a tiny bit back. they're getting one ubs share under the deal for every 22 1/2

credit suisse shares that they own. and perhaps most controversial is that a class of bondholders in credit suisse, $17 trillion worth of bonds, are being wiped out completely. $17 billion, rather, i should say. that is going to cause some controversy that is going to potentially ripple through the bond markets as well. the key thing, a 167-year-old bank, systemically important, top 30 in the world, under this deal will cease to exist. >> unbelievable. clare sebastian joining us live from london, many thanks. still to come, meeting in moscow. the leaders of russia and china are just hours away from a one on one with the war in ukraine set to dominate talks. set to dominate talks. we'll have a live report. ♪ you said close your eyes ♪ ♪ don't look down ♪ ♪ fall into me and i'll catatch you, darlin ♪ ♪ we'll dance in the street like nobody's watching ♪

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the war in ukraine with a one-on-one meeting kicking off the visit. the u.s. plans to keep a close eye on developments and watch for any signs that china's moving forward with providing military aid to russia. cnn's anna coren is following developments for us. she joins us live from hong kong. so 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 may offer lethal support to putin? >> reporter: well, rosemary, china is definitely framing xi's trip to moscow as an opportunity to promote peace. the u.s. and europe are highly skeptical of that, of course, but xi jinping has made it perfectly clear that china is committed to finding a resolution to this year-long war in ukraine. he wrote an article which was published this morning in a russian newspaper celebrating the close ties between the two countries.

now, last month, china proposed a 12-point peace plan, calling for a piece fire, an end to western sanctions. but it did not address russia's occupation of ukrainian territory. china's peacemaking credentials were recently bolstered when it facilitated the reestablishment of diplomatic ties between saudi arabia and iran. so it's certainly positioning itself as this peacemaker. the kremlin says it's considering the proposal, it's giving it great attention. the ukrainian president, volodymyr zelenskyy, said he's willing to work and speak to xi. virtual talks are expected, although that is yet to be confirmed. but the u.s. obviously is not buying it. it believes that xi's considering russia's request to supply it with lethal weapons, as you mentioned, including artillery shells and attack drones. and also, as you made perfectly clear, this is a blatant show of solidarity and a further

strengthening of ties between russia and china. these two leaders have met 39 times since xi came to power. xi has just cemented his third term in power. both these men have positioned themselves as leaders for life. i mean, this is a partnership about creating a new global order with china firmly at the helm. the timing of this is critical for putin. his invasion of ukraine has stalled, military casualties are mounting. just last week, the international criminal court issued an arrest warrant for war crimes against vladimir putin in ukraine. he needs this distraction. xi is expected to land in just over four hours. 6:30 a.m. eastern, 1:30 local time. a luncheon will take place ahead of the talks. >> thanks to anna coren live from hong kong. joining me now is matthew

schmidt, a professor of national security and political science at the university of new haven. and howard sterfer, a professor of national security also at the university of new have. appreciate you being with us. so of course, the biggest question ahead of president xi jinping's visit monday for talks with president putin is whether beijing will offer weapons to washington for its war on ukraine. how likely is it that xi will decide to do this, and how should the west and its allies respond to such a move? professor schmidt, i'll start with you. >> i think that xi's power is in not answering that question. he published today an article which was all about him offering a peace plan. and it's very hard to be a credible peacemaker while you're offering weapons. so i think he's very much going to avoid playing his hand right

now, because his real power is in not letting anybody know what he's going to do yet. that's where he has leverage. >> professor stouffer, do you agree with that? >> i have no problem with that. i have a different take on it. i think xi is much too sophisticated to go all-out and start offering military equipment, lethal equipment, to russia. hong kong and uae, they're providing high-profile electronics, drones, chips, electronic chips that will be assisting the russians to develop their missiles even better, so i think they're working a back way to provide the help to -- from china to russia. and of course, they're buying a lot of oil from the russians at market rate, which is also helping sustain putin. >> yeah, very good point. and professor schmidt, let's pick up on your point. president putin is welcoming

china as a peacemaker ahead of president xi's visit to moscow. how can beijing be a neutral and honest peace broker if it's showing such obvious and open support for russia? >> it can't. as is usual with these things, we often look at what xi is saying or what putin is saying and think that they're directing that to us. but in fact, they're directing it to their domestic audiences. this is all about xi going back to the chinese public, who doesn't know the truth about the war, and saying, hey, i'm trying to make peace, i'm playing on this world stage, buttressing his power. it's all about putin saying, i have some leverage with the leader of the largest country in the world, right in the largest trading partner for more countries in the world than any other country. and, you know, and this is a rationale now to force ukrainian

negotiations. and so that's really what's going on here. it's not that anyone believes that anyone outside their own countries is going to take this peace plan seriously. >> and professor stouffer, would the west ever accept a peace proposal from president xi, do you think? >> well, i don't think it's up to the west. i think it's up to the ukrainians to decide what kind of a process they want to engage in. but i do believe, agreeing with my colleague, that you basically have the two leading authoritarian states in the world trying to develop a multi world. that's part of the reason why xi is going to moscow, to shore up that perception, that there can be more than one superpower in the world, more than one pool of power. the two countries, russia and china, together with the shanghai corporation organization, where putin and xi met in september in uzbekistan, they're trying to just be able to put forward to kind of new process to realign the world, to

expect that china and russia will also have alternative ways for the rest of the world to go. >> and just ahead of this highly anticipated meeting between putin and xi, we've seen footage of putin's surprise visit to russian-controll led mariupol i ukraine where he's viewing the devastation kaulgsed by his own military and rebuilding that's going on there. this visit coming just days after the international criminal court issued an arrest warrant for putin in connection to war crimes. so what's this trip to mariupol really about along with all the optics, professor schmidt? >> well, again, it's directed back at the russian public, which does not have a clear and accurate understanding of what's going on in the war. so the mariupol that putin is presenting back to russia is not the mariupol that we look at and see. it's not the mariupol where, in fact, the war crimes the icc has indicted him on happened. it's not the mariupol where

children were kidnapped and taken back into occupied russia or actual russia. it's the mariupol where, in his telling of the story, he was defeating the great nazis who stood and fought at the steel plant for weeks and weeks on end. and so, again, we have to keep in mind how this is viewed domestically. >> professor stouffer, your viewpoint of the optics? >> first of all, i refer to putin as the criminal, because he was a criminal long bcht icc indicted him or claimed that he had committed war crimes. the other thing he's doing is with biden going to visit ukraine a couple of weeks ago, it showed that biden, the president of the united states, would go into a war zone where we, the united states, do not have military troops to protect him, to visit zelenskyy. and, you know, i think this is putin trying to show, after

there was criticism of putin for not coming to the front that he goes to this area far, far deep inside of crimea, showing his face but not showing any willingness to show up at donetsk and where the real front is going on. so this is an alternate visit to show his domestic audience. i agree with professor schmidt that he is brave and tough and willing to go up to the front and talk to the troops up there. >> professors, thank you so much for joining us, appreciate it. >> thank you. >> have a good night. >> you too. north korean leader kim jong-un says his country should be ready to launch nuclear attacks at any time to deter war. that's according to state media. kim was on hand for military drills over the weekend which simulated a nuclear counte counterattack. he also accused the u.s. and south korea of expanding their joint military drills by involving american nuclear assets. and he says their aggression

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the levee breach that caused devastating flooding in parts of northern california has been patched. these images show what happened after the levee broke last weekend, sending water rushing towards a small farming community. thousands were evacuated, and at least 200 people had to be

rescued. right now, hundreds of people are still out of their homes waiting in shelters until their homes are inspected. weather across california could worsen this week with an atmospheric river set to sweep across the western u.s. it's forecast to hit the state late monday, bringing even heavier rain and snow. cnn meteorologist derek van dam has the latest forecast. >> here we go again. yet another atmospheric river event lining up for central and southern california. this will approach the state by late tonight and into the day on tuesday. but believe it or not, there's actually a separate storm system that's not considered an atmospheric river but bringing light rainfall and mountain snows to the intermountain west. it's really this secondary storm system you see entering into the equation late monday and tuesday. that will bring several feet of snow to the central sierra nevada mountain range, as well as several inches of rain to the

coastal areas. and by the way, the mountains just outside of los angeles in ventura county, they could see a few feet of snowfall from this latest event. this sweeps inland, the secondary storm, that's going to have the most moisture and really have that deep trough connection that will bring in copious amounts of rain and snow. it won't be as powerful as previous atmospheric river events we've seen this season, but nonetheless, national weather service picking up on that flood threat for central nevada, arizona, as well as central portions of california. also picking up on the winds. we often get strong wind gusts with atmospheric river events. wind advisories and watches in place. this includes los angeles. we could see gusts over 60 miles per hour. weather prediction center has a slight risk, that's a level 2 of 4, for excessive rainfall. the potential for flash flooding, landslides, mudslides. this is for the day on tuesday. that extends from monterey southward into ventura and los angeles counties.

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the 2003 invasion of iraq. this is how it began, with a barrage of strikes pummeling military targets on march 19th. in the weeks that followed, u.s.-led forces would sweep through the country with the goal of toppling its ruler. by april 9th, they took the capital where a large statue of saddam hussein came tumbling down. the u.s. declared that his regime was gone. but the war would rage on for eight years, leaving tens of thousands dead and millions in chaos. to this day, the impact of the war is still being felt in iraq and the united states. cnn's ben wedeman explains how the conflict has shaped both nations over the past 20 years. >> reporter: it began with shock and awe. 20 years ago, the united states and its allies embarked on a war

in iraq. within weeks, saddam hussein's regime fell. >> major combat operations in iraq have ended. in the battle of iraq, the united states and our allies have prevailed. >> reporter: they prevailed in the brief battle of iraq, but the war in iraq that followed was long and hard. the american road, paved with good intentions, soon led to hell. >> son of a bity ybitch, welcom frigging iraq, huh? get back in the vehicle! >> reporter: the u.s. never found iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction, the original rationale for the war. and blunder after blunder poured fuel on a fire of resentment. every u.s. operation, like this one i covered in the summer of

2003, left behind a trail of bitterness. by midweek, u.s. troops had detained nearly 400 men, none from their most wanted list. they also managed to arouse a fair amount of resentment. "the americans are occupiers," says this man, "they have no manners or ethics. one of them grabbed a koran and threw it to the ground." the u.s. cobbled together a political order based on sectarian divisions. disbanded the iraqi army and the once-ruling baath party, throwing hundreds of thousands out of a job. and was mired in the abu ghraib prison scandal where iraqis were tortured, humiliated, and photographed. 11 u.s. soldiers were convicted of crimes. less than a year after the invasion, large parts of iraq were in chaos.

saddam hussein was captured, tried, and executed, but the insurgency went on. abu mussab zarqawi, the jordanian-born leader, was killed but the againinsurgency on. sectarian tensions between the shia majority and the once-dominant sunni arab minority erupted into civil war, and the killing intensified. the violence only subsided after the u.s. surged more troops into iraq in 2007. >> we're here to support you. >> reporter: in august 2010, the last u.s. combat troops left iraq, leaving behind a brittle, corrupt, deeply flawed democratic regime riven by sectarian tensions. which provided fertile ground for the rampage of the islamic state, or isis, spilling over from the war in syria into iraq.

isis seized control of the northern city of mosul and then captured city after city, reaching the outskirts of baghdad. it took more than three years of bitter combat and foreign military assistance to defeat the group. that enemy vanquished, old discontents resurfaced. in 2019, baghdad was gripped by massive protests against corruption, sectarianism, and poor living conditions. but like protest movements across the region, it too was crushed. as the u.s. invasion and occupation fade into history, neighboring iran plays an ever-greater role in the country's affairs. old problems, corruption, dysfunctional infrastructure, and unemployment remain unresolved. yet despite it all, today baghdad is more peaceful than it has been in years.

ben wedeman, cnn. in the u.s. state of florida, the city of miami beach is taking measures to keep people safe during spring break following two fatal shootings over the weekend. authorities imposed a sunday night curfew and issued a state of emergency in response to the violence and excessively large unruly crowds. the city manager was also planning additional restrictions starting thursday and lasting through the weekend. the city imposed a similar curfew last year after two spring break shootings. in southern california, a union representing thousands of schoolworkers in los angeles plans to strike for three days this week. the move to protest what it calls unfair practices by the los angeles unified school district after months of contract negotiations. cnn's camila bernal has the details.

>> reporter: the signs will be used tuesday. when a three-day strike is expected to force school closures in the second-largest district in the nation. >> we're not asking for the world, but to keep head above aware. >> reporter: he has a full-time job at an early education center, says he makes about $25,000 a year. >> i love my job. especially the 5-year-old, 4-year-old kids, keep it clean for them. sometimes i don't feel appreciated and respect. >> reporter: respect is what his union says this strike is about. while asking for more money, some members have reported harassment for doing so. >> some have been harassed to the point where they've lost their job, they've lost income, or they generally just are intimidated. >> reporter: sciu local 99 is a union representing thousands of cafeteria workers, bus drivers, custodians, and other schoolworkers. but the teachers union is also joining the strike in

solidarity. >> let's go to the table. >> reporter: lausc superintendent alberto carvalho is hopeful that the two sides will come to a monetary agreement and says harassment claims are being reviewed. >> we have not been presented with compelling evidence that there's widespread abuses. are there issues? yes. each one of them is vigorously investigated and consequences are applied on the basis of merit of the allegation. >> reporter: the union says avoiding a strike is unlikely. instead, they want to shine a light on minorities and low-income workers who keep the schools running. >> i like what you did. >> reporter: they see this as a wakeup call for other districts in the u.s. to fund education. >> elected officials throughout the country -- federal and state -- should see what's going on here and think, this is happening in just about every district in this country. >> reporter: the superintendent also believes that when they come to an agreement, the rest of the nation will use it as an example. >> i believe that it will be

precedent-setting for the country. and i will take pride in it, as will the union, for these are some of the lowest wage earners in our community. >> reporter: both sides worry about the students who may suffer greatly from school closures. >> once you're forced to shut down a school, you eliminate some of the protections and rights that children have. the right to food, the right to health, the right to social and emotional support, the right to mental support, right to have their disabilities addressed in an adequate way. >> reporter: but the union believes people like jose need to make mor more money. >> it's a struggle, it's hard. sometimes i think to myself, lord, if i'm going to make another day? >> reporter: because in the end, they say higher salaries for school workers will lead to better schools and better education. and negotiations over wages will take place behind the scenes, but the union says that because this strike is not about the money, there could be more

strikes in the future. they say they do not want to strike, but will continue to push for what they believe is fair. in the meantime, you have many, many parents here in los angeles who are trying to figure out exactly what to do with their children this week. camila bernal, cnn, los angeles. california's governor has proposed spending at least $1 billion every year to modernize the state's mental health services. gavin newsom says the money would go toward behavioral health, housing, and care and help change the way the state addresses mental illness, substance abuse, and homelessness. here's what he had to say about the current approach. >> it's unacceptable what we're dealing with at scale now in the state of california. not only in terms of what's happening on the streets and sidewalks, but those that are suffering alone, those that are unseen in homes, in mobile home parks, on the streets,

obviously, as well, in isolation. we have to address and come to grips with the reality of mental health in this state. >> newsom envisions thousands of new community treatment centers and state-of-the-art canvases to house those who are struggling. the proposal also includes specific funding to help homeless veterans. hollywood is also spotlighting mental health on the national stage. the cast of apple tv's "ted lasso" are set to join u.s. president joe biden today for a conversation on mental health. the topic has played a large role in the show, which debuted its third season last week. president biden has also spoken at length about mental health, mentioning it in his last two state of the union addresses. in preparation, he tweeted this photo of "ted lasso's" signature "believe" poster hanging above

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