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After a week-long selection process, the jurors in Donald Trump’s New York hush money case will hear opening statements Monday in the first criminal trial of a former United States president.
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Trump on trial what to expect as opening
statements get underway today the key
Witnesses expected to take the stand and
the two other big legal battles on Trump
scheduled this
week security boosted at Columbia
University as Pro Palestinian protests
escalate a rabbi now urging Jewish
students to leave campus due to security
concerns and overseas as the war in Gaza
rages a first ofit kind move expected by
the US to punish an Israeli army
unit can cities punish homeless people
for sleeping Outdoors the case in front
of the Supreme Court today and how it
could influence how the government
addresses homelessness and the
affordable housing
crisis caught on camera it felt like a
movie it was so chaotic meet the heroes
who risk their lives to save this man
from a burning SUV a potential ban on
Tik Tok moves one step closer to reality
what happens next and what the social
media platform’s owner is now promising
plus singer Luke Bryan taking a nasty
fall because of something a fan had
thrown on stage and face to face with an
alligator a diver describes being pulled
pulled underwater and how he was able to
fight back and
survive from ABC news in New York this
is America this morning good Monday
morning everyone I’m ran and Ali and I’m
Andrew diber we begin with history being
made in New York today as former
president Trump goes on trial we are
expecting opening statements today at
Trump’s hush money trial but this is not
the only legal battle on the president’s
schedule today ABC’s Morgan Norwood has
more from the courthouse in l Manhattan
good morning
Morgan hey good morning to you Andrew
that’s right it’s the start of a busy
week for Trump beginning with that
criminal hush money trial here in New
York
City this morning opening statements in
former president Donald Trump’s historic
criminal trial set to get underway this
is a giant Witch Hunt to try and hurt a
campaign that’s beating the worst
president in history the New York
district attorney accusing Trump of
illegally falsifying business records to
cover up payments to porn star stormy
Daniels to keep allegations of an affair
out of the tabloids before the 2016
election Trump is pleaded not guilty in
a statement yesterday Trump saying in
just 24 hours I’ll be back in Biden’s
corrupt Court the jury of seven men and
five women includes a woman in product
development two lawyers a retired wealth
manager a speech therapist and a teacher
at a charter school prosecutors haven’t
said publicly who their first witnesses
will be among the possibilities former
National Inquirer publisher David pecker
prosecutors say pecker agreed to be the
eyes and ears of Trump’s campaign by
identifying damaging stories about Trump
and keeping them out of print Trump’s
former lawyer Michael Cohen also
expected to be a key witness along with
Stormy Daniels and former White House
communications director hope Hicks it’s
going to be up to the defense to try and
discredit the Witnesses on
cross-examination point out
inconsistencies in their accounts in the
case of one of the key Witnesses Michael
Cohen they’ll hammer on his credibility
because he is a convicted felon in a
separate casee today a judge will hear
arguments over the $175 million bond in
Trump’s civil fraud case where he was
found liable of falsely inflating his
real estate assets the New York attorney
general is asking the judge to void that
Bond payment saying the bond company has
failed to show it has the money to cover
the amount and another big legal battle
for the former president is this
Thursday when the Supreme Court hears
arguments on Trump’s presidential
immunity claim and the January 6
election interference case former
Republican congresswoman Liz Cheney in a
New York Times oped today urges the
Supreme Court to issue its ruling on
immunity quickly and decisively adding
if delay prevents this Trump case from
being tried this year the public may
never hear critical and historic
evidence developed before the grand
jury and back here at the courthouse in
lower Manhattan Trump’s hush money
criminal trial is expected to take at
least six weeks weeks with court and
session 4 days per week Rihanna all
right Morgan Norwood live in Manhattan
thank you for that the other big story
this morning is the growing concern
about security at Colombia University as
protest stemming from the Israel Hamas
War intensify and one Rabbi is now
urging Jewish students to leave
campus this morning Columbia University
is boosting security ahead of the
Passover holiday with more protests
expected around campus the school now
adding 35 guards and more than 100
additional safety
personnel Pro Palestinian demonstrators
have gathered at the school since last
week rallying against the Israel Hamas
war and at times using violent
rhetoric videos online show protesters
promising to carry out massacres similar
to the Hamas attack of October 7th
chanting phrases like we are Hamas a
rabbi associated with the university is
now urging Jew students to go home
saying Columbia University’s Public
Safety and the NYPD cannot guarantee
Jewish students safety New York’s mayor
says he’s horrified by the hate speech
but says because Colombia is private
property the NYPD can’t stay on campus
unless the school requests it police
made multiple arrests at a protest near
campus Saturday days after arresting
more than a hundred people on campus
when the University’s president asked
law enforcement to clear out out an
encampment the mass arrests and the
suppression of students I would say
that’s galvanized test this is nothing
compared to what people in Palestine are
dealing with people in Gaza they are
starving they have lost
everything overseas the Israeli military
is vowing to carry out a ground
offensive targeting militants in the
southern Gaza City of Rafa where air
strikes yesterday killed 22 people
including 18 children according to the
Hamas run Health Ministry meanwhile
Israeli leaders are criticizing an
expected decision by the US to withhold
military aid from a unit of the Israeli
military accused of human rights
violations in the West Bank an
unprecedented move that could widen the
rift between President Biden and prime
minister Benjamin Netanyahu and we have
breaking news now from Tel Aviv the head
of Israel’s Military Intelligence has
resigned over the failures stemming from
that October 7th attack this is the
first senior figure to step down after
the Hamas attack here in the US a
29-year-old man is in custody in Los
Angeles after allegedly breaking into
the mayor’s official residence police
say mayor Karen bass and her family were
at home at getty house when the suspect
broke in through a glass door early
yesterday the mayor and her family are
okay no word yet on the suspect’s motive
security at the mayor’s home is now
being
examined the Supreme Court takes up a
case today that could influence how
cities all across the country confr
front the issue of homelessness the case
involves whether homeless people can be
fined ABC’s Allison kic
explains this morning the Supreme Court
takes up the issue of homelessness and
what cities and towns can do about it
the question can cities ticket fine or
possibly jail homeless people who sleep
outside in public areas or does that
violate the eth amendment which
prohibits cruel and unusual punishment
there’s no place to go I was holding
down two jobs when I was out here and uh
still not enough ABC’s Devon DWI
traveled to gr Pass Oregan that City’s
Crackdown began this legal battle so the
city came in and said you can’t Camp
right there on those wood chips they
yeah yeah the uh the officer said I was
too close to the playground and I was
too close to the to the fence the case
shines a spotlight on an issue cities
are grappling with Nationwide how to
balance public health and safety we’ve
had shootings in our Parks we’ve had
fights in our Parks chronic drug abuse
in our parks in 2013 the city passed an
ordinance Banning anyone from sleeping
in public but with no public shelters
inside City Limits a homeless group sued
And1 the reality is um the only thing
that works is more permanent affordable
housing Brian Beller runs the only
private homeless shelter in town but
it’s only half full the shelter has
religious requirements and bans smoking
drinking and pets that’s the big
question is there nowhere else to go is
there just nowhere else that they want
to go elected officials from both
parties are urging the Supreme Court to
make it easier for cities to clear tent
encampments there’s those of us that are
struggling and fighting and taking one
step out as we’re digging out of the
hole after today’s arguments the Court’s
ruling is expected before the end of
June Ranon Andrew Allison thank you
Terry Anderson one of the longest held
hostages in US history has died the
longtime Associated Press correspondent
was abducted by Hezbollah in Lebanon in
1985 it was nearly 7 years until he was
freed Anderson died at his home north of
New York City from complications
following heart surgery he was 76 happy
earthday everyone President Biden will
Mark the day by visiting a national park
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weather so Denver saw more than 6 Ines
of snow snow over the weekend the
biggest snowstorm this late in the
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quickly with temperatures rising to
nearly 80 this week but it still feels
like winter in much of the country with
frost advisories and freeze warnings
from Arkansas all the way to New England
temperatures across that region are
mostly in the 30s this morning checking
today’s high temperatures mid 60s around
the Great Lakes 70s on the west coast
nearly 100 in Phoenix
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potential ban on Tik Tok moves one step
closer to reality after a weekend vote
in Congress so what happens next and
later The Rock and Hall of Fame
announcing its newest induct
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for a highspeed rail line that will
connect Los Angeles and Las Vegas the 12
billion bright Line West project
includes $3 billion from the Biden
administration’s infrastructure Bill the
line could be up and running by 2028
that’s when the Olympics will be held in
La the train would make the trip in just
over 2 hours that is about half the time
it takes to drive it there’s new
uncertainty this morning about the
future of Tik Tok proposal to
potentially ban the social media app in
the US is gaining support ahead of a
crucial
week this morning the US government is
one step closer to potentially Banning
Tik Tock the house Saturday passed a
foreign aid bill which includes a
proposal to force Tik tok’s Chinese
parent company to sell the social media
platform in the US within one year or be
banned the bill is passed next The
Proposal heads to the Senate where
support for the potential ban is growing
this is a very important national
security issue because we know that
those who control B dance the owner of
Tik Tock are connected with the Chinese
Communist party they use this tool to
push disinformation to Americans that
they won’t allow to be pushed to their
own citizens the FBI director has also
warned China’s government could use Tik
Tok to collect users data for Espionage
Tik Tok responded yesterday vowing to
fight in court saying the bill quote
would trample the Free Speech rights of
170 million Americans I don’t think it’s
going to pass First Amendment scrutiny
because I think they’re less restrictive
Alternatives we could have uh made it a
crime to transfer Americans data to an
adversarial foreign Nation or foreign
State interference but to just ban 170
million Americans or aaging speech and
livelihood I doubt it survives scrutiny
in the Supreme Court the proposed ban is
also expected to face legal challenges
from Tik Tock users I’m like literally
shaking thinking about the possibility
of this many have protested on Capitol
Hill insisting a ban would take away
their livelihoods my whole business
would be devastated Tik Tock creators
are planning another protest at the
capital tomorrow when the Senate takes
up the bill which President Biden has
promised to sign more to come coming up
next country music star Morgan Wallen is
opening up about his recent bad behavior
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that you guys don’t know what happened
that day the day that my son died
911 the C now on my
stepson right from the start you’ve got
some clear indicators of
deception that told us to complete yes I
did 100% no you didn’t I how I look at
it you’re not a good life do you think
just ends in a good way the
interrogation tapes the new 2020 True
Crime limited series tonight on
ABC back now with country singer Luke
bran o taking a tumble there it is he
was performing at a festival in
Vancouver when he slipped and fell on a
Fan’s phone that had been thrown on
stage it looked like a hard fall but
Brian laughed it off joking that his
lawyer will be calling he asked another
fan to share the video saying he wanted
to go viral and country singer Morgan
Wallen who faces three felony charges
after his arrest at a bar spoke to fans
this weekend about his past during a
Mississippi concert Wallen said back in
high school he nearly got kicked off his
baseball team for bad behavior he
described himself as a little Rowdy the
adult Wallen is accused of throwing a
chair off the six floor of a Nashville
bar this month nearly hitting some
police officers on the ground below he
issued a statement saying I’m not proud
of my behavior and I accept
responsibility he’s due in court next
week now it’s in Minnesota and a man
trapped in a burning SUV who may have
died if not for The Bravery of some Good
Samaritans in St Paul Minnesota complete
strangers making a split-second decision
to help save a man’s life all I see is
there’s a man in the car that can’t get
out that needs I help the Good
Samaritans running out of their vehicles
to try and pry open the door of this
Burning SUV that had struck a light pole
eventually pulling 71-year-old Sam
orbovich from the vehicle it felt like a
movie it was so chaotic emotions were so
high Tessa San was driving by when she
saw orbovich trapped several people at
the same time I did were out trying to
get the door open find me to break the
glass trying to find even somewhere
around this other side of the car the
group tried to get that door open but it
was pinned by the guard rail and the
fire was intensifying so you know when
you’re at a bonfire and you can hear the
flames and you can hear the crackles it
was like that but like 10 times 100
times worse I mean you could feel the
flame even from how far back I was
standing you could feel how hot it was
eventually a Transportation worker
arrived and smashed the driver side
window allowing them to pull orbovich
out and to safety and then just moments
later the car just totally went up in
Flames orbovich suffered only minor
injuries it’s 100% a miracle I if those
if strangers had not come together to
form this community to get this man out
of the car I don’t think he would still
be here today you can see what a miracle
it was by that video orbovich told good
morning America he is incredibly
grateful to those people who pulled over
to help him coming up how long a man
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lived to tell the
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right from the start you’ve got some
clear indicators of
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not a good Li do you think this SS in a
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time to check the PSE we begin with
Peter Frampton one of the newest members
of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame yeah
the new inductees were just announced
last night the list also includes this
iconic
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band that is of course cool in the gang
they are among this here’s inductees oie
Osborne also on the list it’ll be his
second time he was already inducted as a
member of Black Sabbath though also
being inducted this year Mary J bli Sher
the Dave Matthews band Foreigner and A
Tribe Called Quest congratulations to
all and next a life and death struggle
against an alligator in South Carolina
oh hunt for fossils ended in one man’s
fight to survival William georgitis is
recovering after a gator dragged him to
the bottom of a river he was diving last
month when the gator grabbed him and yet
s took him under he was going so fast
that he was almost hydroplaning on top
of the water he rose up out of the water
I mean and it he came at me like a
lightning bolt basically when he was
about a foot away he turned his head and
opened his mouth to Chomp down basically
on my head and shoulders and I uh
defensively put my arm up wow he managed
to get away by stabbing the gator with
the screwdriver Good Morning America
we’ll have more of his story of survival
including how other divers helped rescue
him amazing next another wild scene a
dramatic rescue operation in Connecticut
a mama bear and her baby were crossing
this bridge when the Cub fell off and
plunged into the river below the Frantic
mom responded quickly running off the
bridge and making her way down the hill
she then dove into the water scooped up
her cub and carried it to dry land and
finally imagine playing chess for 60
hours non-stop happened in New York’s
Time Square two Chess Masters one from
Nigeria and one from Brooklyn faced off
trying to set a world record for the
longest chess Marathon the old record
was 56 hours and 9 minutes but they made
it more than 60
hours time to play Checkers after that
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that day the day that my son
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some clear indicators of deception
told us to complete you yes I did 100%
no you didn’t I can I looking it you’re
not a good Li do you think this ends in
a good way the interrogation tapes the
new 2020 True Crime limited series
tonight on
ABC first thing in the morning there’s a
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that checking more top stories now the
head of Israel’s Military Intelligence
has resigned becoming the first senior
Israeli official to step down for the
intelligence failures that led up to the
October 7th attack by MOS which ignited
the war in Gaza Columbia University is
stepping up patrols and allowing remote
learning as Pro Palestinian
demonstrators rally against the war in
Gaza there’s growing concern for the
safety of Jewish students as Passover
begins tonight in police near Detroit
say an intoxicated 66y old woman drove
her car into a building where a child’s
birthday party was being held two
siblings aged five and eight were killed
several other people were injured and
the driver is now in custody today’s
weather sunny and warming up in the West
showers from the Northern Plains to the
Great Lakes rain in south Florida but
clear in the Northeast finally kids give
us their take for Earth Day Danny new
spoke to
them what do you like about the earth I
like how it’s blue and green I love how
the Earth Keeps Us healthy I mean no
Earth we don’t we wouldn’t be existing
wow where would we we
be
nowhere I really like that the Earth
gives us nature we can’t live on Mars
too hot we can’t live on Neptune the
whole place gives us food we can’t live
on on Venus cuz then we’d be literally
pop Adele what is your favorite thing on
earth I don’t know my family my friends
think it might be the Grand
Canyon I like
myself maybe McDonald’s is McDonald’s
paying you a big sum of money no like
but they should yeah I’m their loyal
customer how can we make the Earth
better I would um clean up all of the
dirty stuff I would like stop pollution
I would recycle pick up the litter off
the of the streets it’s everywhere by
cleaning up the ocean pick up all the
trash I would recycle do you think New
York City is clean
not as much sometimes people don’t pick
up dog poop there’s so much dog poop why
is Earth Day important Earth Day is
important because it’s the it’s the day
where we give back to the Earth let’s
talk about the Earth Day CU Earth Day is
coming up Earth Day oh my gosh why do
you like Earth Day I like Earth Day
because like the Earth is really dirty
and we get to clean it
up they give me hope thank you as always
to Success Academy Manhattan for having
us guys are you going to pick up some
litter
today every day is every day is Earth
Day those kids are so smart and they
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hi I’m Diane Meo let’s get straight to
our top story for the first time in
American history a former president will
be tried in Criminal Court after a week
of jury selection opening statements are
set to begin today in the hush money
trial against Donald Trump and they’re
expected to reveal the clearest view yet
of the allegations against the former
president and Trump’s expected defense
Trump pleaded not guilty to falsifying
business records to to conceal a hush
money payment to Stormy Daniels before
the 2016 election we have Team coverage
starting with senior investigative
correspondent Aon kki outside the
courthouse in downtown
Manhattan opening statements in the
historic criminal trial of former
president Trump and it’s a shame it’s a
shame and I’m sitting here for days now
from morning till night seated in court
Trump has relegated to silence
prosecutors will introduce the case
which they’ve said is about whether the
defendant Donald Trump broke the the law
in falsifying business records to cover
up an agreement with others to
unlawfully influence the 2016
presidential election in their opening
statement defense attorneys are expected
to say Trump relied on lawyers to
arrange the $130,000 payment to Stormy
Daniels to keep her from revealing her
claim of a sexual encounter with Trump
which he has long denied I was paying a
lawyer and marked it down as a legal
expense some accountant that I didn’t
know marked it down as a legal expense
that’s exactly what it was prosecutors
say Trump worried about his electoral
prospects and turned to National inquir
publisher David pecker who they say was
part of an alleged scheme to buy and
bury unflattering stories about Trump
peckers among the early Witnesses Stormy
Daniels will testify along with Michael
Cohen Trump’s former fixer who wired her
the hush money prosecutors said some of
the witnesses have what you might
consider some baggage Trump says he
could testify too during a trial
expected to last 6 weeks I’m testifying
I tell the truth I mean all I can do is
tell the truth the testimony is going to
be heard by a jury of seven men and five
women that includes two native New
Yorkers and two immigrants seven jurors
have advanced degrees one juror praised
Trump’s outspokenness another called the
former president selfish each promised
to be fair and
impartial and ABC News executive
editorial producer John santui and ABC
News contributor Kim wayy joins me now
for more John what are you watching for
as these opening statements get started
you know it’s funny I’m going to be
watching for a couple of things first I
think that to see an image and it’s such
a shame there’s no cameras in New York
state court but to see Donald Trump
sitting there as prosecutors describe
him as a criminal right to think Donald
Trump cannot say anything cannot do
anything you know there’s a great piece
in the New York Times over the weekend
Diane and it said it was one of the rare
moments that Donald Trump was ordered to
sit down in his life in court on Friday
as they were wrapping proceedings that
is going to be Donald Trump’s life for
the next several weeks his schedule his
agenda his ability to speak it is all
out of his hands for the first time ever
so I think just that body language to
see Donald Trump sitting there is going
to be striking the other thing that I
think we’re going to see from the
defense side of the Trump arguments here
is really a breakdown of the witnesses
because this is a case that really
became to life after Michael Cohen first
spoke to special counsel Robert Muller
and detailed some ofdonald Trump’s
Financial practices so Cohen is a main
target for team Trump to tear him down
so I think seeing how much they get into
that in opening statements right to of
course defend president Trump as it’s
their job to do but start attacking the
other Witnesses are going to be called
and it’s just a reminder right they’re
attacking people or probably will attack
people that Donald Trump himself hired
and I think that’s going to be a really
hard argument to make for a guy that has
said repeatedly I only hire the best
people oh and and John you talk about
body language Trump has chosen today he
has to be in court but he has chosen on
many other occasions to be in court by
choice so what are you hearing from his
inner circle is there a part of him that
likes the fact that he gets to be there
that he gets to look these jurors in the
eyes that he gets to look these
Witnesses in the eyes complete opposite
he hates every single moment of this
because again it is not within his
control the other thing you have to
remember too is that this case is going
to get into a lot of Donald Trump’s
personal and private life you know one
of the things that is going to come up
at some point during this trial because
one of the witnesses is Stormy Daniels
they’re going to talk about it some way
shape or form Donald Trump’s I hate to
say it but sex life and that’s something
that Donald Trump is as I’ve been told
by sources embarrassed about he doesn’t
want to talk about it anybody want to
talk about that in open public and
that’s just a reminder right that so
much of this is going to get personal
you know think about the other witnesses
that have been mentioned in court by
judge Maran and included as part of our
reporting as a potential list by
prosecutors they’re going to bring in
many former assistants to Donald Trump
Donald Trump didn’t have many assistants
during his professional life he only had
two believe it or not one was with him
up until she died the other up until he
went to the White House they knew
everything about Donald Trump and in
part because Donald Trump in the ERA
with which he rose to fame and success
didn’t use technology didn’t use
computers it was known that if you had
an email or reach out to Donald Trump
once we got into the 21st century you
went to Rona graph his longtime
assistant she is the gatekeeper she
knows everything about Donald Trump’s
life so depending how wide of a scope
prose uors do could be a lot of things
revealed about Donald Trump that frankly
none of us knew before now Kim it took a
week to select this jury seven men five
women what stands out to you about those
picked I think it’s interesting there
are three I think attorneys on the jury
uh that is unusual uh when I was a first
year law student my law professor told
the class look around none of you will
ever be on a jury so someone will be the
four person and that person I think will
help potentially the other jurors
understand the legal concept this idea
that it’s not just the falsifying
records it’s not the hush money it’s the
connection between uh stopping this bad
information from getting out in the 2016
election and then allegedly falsifying
the business records it’s a novel Theory
uh this is unusual to have the
falsification of business records the
Standalone uh alleged crime here usually
it’s it’s an add-on to other serious
crimes so I think the the jurors are are
probably going to look to some of these
lawyers the other piece of course has to
come down to credibility as John said it
will be in a way the dueling credibility
of Donald Trump who’s a who’s claiming
publicly anyway that he had no knowledge
of this that he was just passing it
along to his lawyers and then people
like um David pecker and and Michael
Cohen who might testify listen I had a
conversation or I knew he knew exactly
why this $130,000 was going to Stormy
Daniels and it did have to do with the
election it wasn’t about
embarrassing information getting to his
wife Bania for example and we’re
watching the motorcade now we just saw
former president Trump leave Trump Tower
get into the SUV and now we’re watching
the motorcade make its way down to court
John what are you hearing from Trump’s
Inner Circle as they prepare for opening
statements in this historic trial now
this is the first time we’re going to
see this happening in criminal court
with the former president well I think
that one of the things that they’ve been
talking about Diane is that they want to
be able to bring other people into court
to be around Donald Trump now that’s
going to be a little challenging because
of just the setup of the courthouse but
one of the things that they are
preparing for in part is twofold right
number one it’s the audience of one in
the sense that you know though Donald
Trump’s lawyers have a job to do if they
don’t hit certain points if they don’t
you know get certain you know items
across the board that Donald Trump wants
to make sure are said or heard that’s
going to be a struggle for them because
we know and we saw it in court during
jury selection Donald Trump will not
hold back when he has an opinion he’ll
pull his lawyers down he’ll write them
notes I mean he’s a very active client
he doesn’t sit there passively at all I
don’t think there’s anybody who would
ever say Donald Trump is passive in any
aspect of his life um the other thing
that you know you have to just brace for
here in part as this gets underway you
know when we saw some of the reporting
from the jury selection that Donald
Trump was you know closing his eyes
moving around there’s going to be parts
of this forgive me that are going to be
a little boring when you go through
Witnesses and whatnot you know not every
witness is going to be explosive some of
it is going to be very paper if you will
because it’s a financial case at the end
of the day so we’ll hear from sign what
document what date what does that line
mean exactly so I mean some of that’s
just going to you know frankly put
anybody to sleep so I think Donald Trump
actually keeping his attention when he
can’t be on his cell phone can’t be
talking to anybody can’t again we said
earlier get up and move around I think
just that’s going to be interesting to
see how you control Donald Trump as a
client and again don’t take my word for
it right we’ve now seen Donald Trump in
a courtroom think about at egene Caroll
the case that happened earlier this year
he got so annoyed at one point during
Roberta kaplan’s closing statements
remember he got up and bolted right
that’s that iconic image of the sketch
artist drew of him just saying I’m out
of here can’t do that in criminal court
and again I do think you made a great
Point earlier where Donald Trump you
know said he you know went to court cuz
he had to go and he liked being there
that was civil when he could pick this
is Criminal he cannot different world
and again for anyone just joining us
we’re watching the motorcade there with
former president Trump headed to court
in downtown Manhattan for the hush money
trial against him this will be the first
time prosecutors will be presenting a
criminal case against a former president
before a newly seated jury uh Kim
Trump’s lawyers are expected to focus on
The credibility of the prosecution’s
witnesses here suggesting the case is
politically motivated how big of a
hurdle is the political timing here for
the prosecution former president Trump
is running for president currently the
Republican presumptive nominee and that
uh election it’s just a few few months
away
now well anytime there’s a a a public
figure that’s in politics that is
indicted and prosecuted arguably it’s
it’s political because it’s they’re a
politician so I think that that the idea
that somehow this is politically
motivated was probably sorted out during
jury selection that’s part of the point
of the Vader is to to make sure the
jurors not so much know nothing about
Donald Trump that’s probably not someone
you’d want on a jury that is just asleep
and has no idea what’s going on but
someone who can say listen I can set my
th those biases potentially those
viewpoints aside and just decide the the
case based on the evidence I think the
defense is going to argue like most Pro
defense attorneys that the burden of
proof is on the government they they
have to put all the beans on the scale
in theory Donald Trump doesn’t have to
prove or disprove anything his lawyers
could just sit there and say listen
you’ve heard all the evidence they just
haven’t demonstrated that Donald Trump
had the intent to defraud it’s that
state of mind it’s climbing in his brain
and his thinking that that really is the
line between a civil type of case where
you could have money damages or an
injunction and a criminal case the big
line being a criminal case can deprive
someone of their Liberty that can
actually end up putting the person in
prison and that’s why it’s so important
that the government uh be be held to its
burden ofof uh the government’s also
though going to have to make sure
however it does things it it preserves
the appeal that he it doesn’t allow
things to get in or mistakes to be made
that Donald Trump later if there is a a
verdict um against him can can use to
overturn it so all of these moving Parts
have to be taken into account and I do
think that the prosecution is motivated
to make sure it’s this is not about
politics it’s about the evidence it’s
making sure the evidence is in there
pursuant to the Rules of Evidence
legally uh and that they persuade the
jury that the elements of this crime
have been proven Beyond A Reasonable
Doubt all right former president Trump
now headed to that Court as we speak
John santui Kim wayy thank you both and
we will be following this trial all day
long we will bring you updates right
here on ABC News live as soon as we have
them meanwhile house Speaker Mike
Johnson appears to be gaining new
support from across the aisle after
putting his job on the line to push
through a $95 billion foreign aid
package some hard-right Republicans
opposed to that package are threatening
to force a vote to remove Johnson as
Speaker of the House now a top
Republican and Progressive Democrat are
praising the speaker suggesting he’ll be
able to on to his job if it does come to
a vote meanwhile the Senate is expected
to vote early this week on that package
of four bills senior White House
correspondent Selena Wang has the
latest the bill is passed Congress is
one step closer to passing billions in
foreign aid that’s desperately needed by
America’s
allies with the Senate set to vote on
critical funding for Ukraine Israel and
Taiwan after a dramatic weekend in the
house the house will be in order speaker
Mike Johnson putting his job on the line
to push through the massive Aid package
$60 billion for Ukraine 26 billion for
Israel 8 billion for Taiwan and
indopacific allies and legislation to
force a sale of Tik Tok from its Chinese
parent company or face a ban in the US
we did our work here and I think uh
history will judge it well for months
Johnson stalled on President Biden’s
request for more funding but after
classified briefings including with the
CIA director and lots of praying The
Devout Christian made a dramatic
turnaround arguing to his fellow
Republicans that helping Ukraine is
critical to US National Security and
that they need to be on the right side
of History to put it bluntly I would
rather send bullets uh to Ukraine than
American boys my son is going to begin
in the Naval Academy this fall this is a
live fire exercise for me as it is so
many American families but a majority of
his members revolted more than half of
Republicans voting against a to Ukraine
with Johnson forced to rely on Democrats
to even bring it up for a vote now at
least three hardliners are threatening
to Johnson over it he betrayed us three
times the vote was held today Mike
Johnson is a lame duck he’s done he’s
done with the gop’s razor thin majority
in the house that’s enough Republicans
to push Johnson out as Democrats and
moderate Republicans praise Johnson for
bringing these bills to the floor I
commended by name traditional
conservatives
led by Speaker Mike Johnson for doing
the right
thing but speaker Johnson’s job is still
under threat those Hardline Republicans
can still try to oust him when the house
is back in session next week in the
meantime the Senate will vote on this
tomorrow President Biden says he’s ready
to sign this legislation right away even
though it includes that possible ban on
Tik Tok which the Biden campaign uses to
reach those young voters Diane senior
White House correspondent Selena Wang
thank you and that massive foreign aid
bill uh also includes a potential ban on
Tik Tok in the US the bill gives a
Chinese owned bite dance one year to
divest Tik Tok or face a nationwide ban
ABC’s Jana Norman has more on what it
could mean for Content creators in the
more than 170 million Tik Tok
users today I’m saying my final goodbye
to Tik Tok the clock could be ticking
for popular app Tik Tock breaking news
right now the House of Representatives
has officially passed another Tik Tock
band over the weekend the House of
Representatives passing legislation that
could see the app banned in the US if
Chinese owner bite dance doesn’t sell
within a year the two options are sell
to a US owner or cease operating in the
US an unprecedented move that sparked
serious concerns for some content
creators I’m happier than I have ever
been and it is because this app has
opened the door for me to figure out how
I can make a difference in the world
there are over 170 million users on Tik
Tok in the US many like content creator
Jennifer gay have found Financial
Security from the platform suddenly my
voice mattered and I had a purpose and I
started Living boldly 100% of my
livelihood is connected to Tik Tok the
Tik Tok ban is a response to top
intelligence and lawmakers concerns that
user data could become compromised a Tik
Tok spokesperson calling the move
unfortunate telling ABC News the bill
would trample the Free Speech rights of
170 million Americans devastate 7
million businesses and shutter a
platform that contributes $24 billion to
the US economy annually I don’t think
it’s going to pass First Amendment
scrutiny because I think they’re less
restrictive Alternatives we could have
uh made it a crime to transfer Americans
data to an adversarial foreign Nation or
foreign State interference bill has now
passed the and it is on the fast track
to becoming actual law the Senate is
expected to take up the legislation
tomorrow and if passed President Biden
has already indicated he will quickly
sign it into law but not so fast experts
say don’t expect the app to go away
anytime soon it’s not like the app is
going to delete off your phone right
away it could be months it could be
years of of waiting through Regulatory
and legal hurdles to actually get this
done
so for now Tik Tok is not for sale but
if and when that bill passes it would
likely kick off a very lengthy legal
battle Diane J Norman thank you and two
gunmen are under arrest in Jerusalem
after a car plowed into a group of
pedestrians earlier this morning
surveillance video shows the car ramming
into a crowd and Men then jumping out of
the car firing rifles three people are
slightly injured in the IDF is calling
it terrorism meanwhile 22 people
including 18 children are dead after two
Israeli strikes
in Rafa in southern Gaza at least one of
the blasts happened at a refugee camp
according to a spokesperson for the
Kuwait hospital and the first Israeli
military official has resigned in the
wake of hamas’s initial attack on
October 7th citing intelligence failures
foreign correspondent Tom Sufi burd is
in Tel Aviv with the latest good morning
Diane yet shocking video a car ramming
pedestrians in Jerusalem three people
just lightly injured then escaping the
two gunmen who were later arrested and
after that major intelligence failure
prior to the October 7th terror attack
the head of Israeli military
intelligence stepping down in Gaza
Israel ramping up attacks on the
southern city of Rafa ahead of an
expected Invasion 22 people including 18
children killed this weekend say local
doctors as us lawmakers approve $17
billion of additional military aid for
Israel thanks from Israel’s prime
minister for that but Netanyahu reacting
angrily to unconfirmed reports that the
US could take measur against an ultra
Orthodox unit of the IDF which has been
accused of Human Rights abuses in the
West Bank the Israeli leader saying he
will fight such a move with all his
strength Secretary of State blinken
expected to address the issue later
today Diane Tom suy Burge in Tel Aviv
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story former president Trump has arrived
at the courthouse in downtown Manhattan
for his historic criminal trial after a
week of jury selection opening
statements are set to begin today in
that hush money trial against former
president Trump they’re expected to
reveal the clearest view yet of the
allegations against the former president
and Trump’s expected defense Trump
pleaded not guilty to falsifying
business records to conceal a hush money
payment to stormmy Daniels before the
2016 election ABC News senior
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joins me now from outside the courthouse
along with ABC News Chief Washington
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White House correspondent Mari Ellis
parks and ABC News legal contributor Kim
wayy Ain what are you watching for as
these opening statements get started
today each side is expected to go about
an hour Diane and we expect prosecutors
to lay out what they consider to be the
original election interference case
against former president Trump they’ll
take the jury back to the eve of the
2016 election the Access Hollywood tape
had just come out a number of women had
just come public with allegations of
sexual misconduct against former
president Trump and Stormy Daniels was
out there with this claim of having a
sexual encounter with Trump years
earlier which he has always denied and
prosecutors are going to say he decided
to pay her
$130,000 to make sure she stayed quiet
paying hush money is not a crime but the
way the payment was loged prosecutors
say was falsified business records to
conceal this payment from the voters so
they wouldn’t find out about it and
damage his electoral prospects and the
defense Diane is expected to say there
was no crime here the expense was paid
by Michael Cohen who was then the former
president’s attorney Trump reimbursed
him it was logged as a legal expense
which is what it was they say because
Cohen was after all his
attorney John Carl big picture what’s at
stake here for the former president well
you’re seeing him now as a criminal
defendant you know he’s been through the
indictments those each were big moments
and all this but this is the first time
he actually has to sit through an entire
uh criminal trial this one is by far the
one where his defense is the strongest
uh I mean there is a clear defense here
uh the argument as you heard eron say
they will make is that Michael Cohen was
Donald Trump’s lawyer that those
payments were simply a retainer that
even if it was a payment for hush money
there’s absolutely nothing wrong in fact
it’s quite routine for wealthy uh famous
people to try to protect their
reputations uh by using uh ndas which is
what Stormy Daniels was paid for uh but
look the country is going to see him
stuck in a courtroom for a matter of
weeks it’s a trial that could go 68
weeks it might not go that long but it
but it’s going to be a matter of weeks
and uh he doesn’t look like a
presidential candidate he looks like a
defendant John what are you hearing
santui what are you hearing from Trump’s
inner circle in terms of how he’s been
preparing for this moment I mean not
well is the reality right I think Donald
Trump you know just look at his body
language on Friday but frankly as you
went through the week of seeing Donald
Trump leave court right I mean you went
from somebody that you know looked a
little bigger and then suddenly every
day just a little more sunken down right
because the reality is that Donald Trump
can’t control anything in this courtroom
he can’t control the temperature in the
courtroom I mean the fact that he said
repeatedly it’s a little cold and here
can we do something about that and
nothing happened it’s the first time
Donald Trump in his entire life has not
been able to control any form of the
situation and I do think you know just
looking at his week right like John
talked about this doesn’t look like a
presidential candidate there was a great
line I forgot who wrote it it was over
the weekend but even Donald Trump
campaigning last week in New York he
went to a bodega and the line I think it
was habberman in the times she said that
it was more like a mayoral candidate not
a presidential candidate it just talks
about how this ability for Donald Trump
to be on the road as a presidential
candidate is completely on hold because
of what we’re doing right now and we
just saw that video of the former
president walking into court uh Mary
Alis the former president’s campaign
sent out an email over the weekend
saying he would be trapped in court how
is this impacting his ability to
campaign for to John tu’s point you know
the the election is just a few months
away what does this all do for that side
of things yeah I mean just like you guys
were talking about the biggest impact is
on his schedule he can’t control the
temperature in the room he can’t control
his own schedule I’m thinking about this
past weekend he finally had some days
where he could go out before having to
sit for the next few weeks in this
courtroom and he wanted to hold a
campaign rally he also couldn’t control
the weather you know he said that to
that crowd in North Carolina that he was
going to reschedule uh but his options
are going to be limited he doesn’t have
much control of the days and the weeks
ahead and that’s going to make a big
difference of course that has been an
argument from the Trump campaign that
they view this case as a different kind
of election interference that it is
impacting his ability to campaign you
know on the flip side of course here
President Biden is taking advantage of
these weeks he is hitting the campaign
Trail himself he has a big campaign
event scheduled tomorrow in Florida a
big speech on abortion uh it’s a one
week before a new rri abortion laws set
to go into effect there so we are going
to see some of that split screen too
President Biden able to be out and
campaigning while as we’ve all been
talking about the former president is
there in court Kim Trump’s lawyers are
expected to focus on The credibility of
the prosecution’s witnesses suggesting
that this case is politically motivated
how strong is that argument given the
timing
here well it’s indic the timing is a big
piece the the the fact that this was
after the Access Hollywood tape and very
shortly before the 2016 election the
inference drawn there that it was the
intent of this was to cover up
information relating to the election and
there are federal election laws that
require that certain information be
disclosed to the voters and and to the
public um uh Michael Cohen has uh has is
has a track record of lying to Congress
although he said after the fact that it
was to cover up for uh the Loyalty I
mean it was it was a loyalty uh move at
the time when he was still a Donald
Trump’s fixer so uh this will I think
come down to for the jury whether
Michael Cohen is to believed or
potentially Donald Trump is to believe
because the the defense even if he
doesn’t actually testify is that he knew
nothing uh and that we that the jury’s
expected to believe that someone who has
this kind of tight control over his
business over his campaign would allow
something like this to happen under his
nose with people close to him and have
no idea about it that’s really at the
end of the day the the jurries are
jury’s going to have to decide um who’s
more credible and whether the government
proven that Donald Trump uh had this
knowledge Beyond A Reasonable Doubt and
John what about the Optics of the timing
of the case itself the fact that it’s
being brought now so close to the 2024
election when they’re talking about
something that happened before the 2016
election you know in in a way the timing
actually works for Trump in that it is
this case that is going first and
perhaps the only case that will go
before the election because again it is
the weakest of the cases one of the I
The credibility of Michael Cohen the
central witness this is somebody uh who
is a convicted perjurer he has lied to
court before he has lied to Congress
before uh and and they will clearly make
that case uh but you know I mean having
being stuck in a courtroom for whatever
case however strong or weak uh in the
midst of a presidential campaign is not
what you want to be if you’re a
presidential candidate and John santui
what are you looking for in terms of
some of the key Witnesses we’re
expecting the national inquirers David
pecker to testify Stormy Daniels to
testify Michael Cohen to testify what
are you watching for well actually right
now I was texting our colleagues Aaron
gurki and kathern folders they’ve just
learned that indeed the first witness in
this case will be David pecker now David
pecker a longtime friend of Donald
Trump’s he is the one that prosecutors
going to argue along with Cohen and
Trump devis this catch and kill scheme
and the big thing here is that you and I
were talking offir that though this case
is about Stormy Daniels and this payment
there’s more than just that right it’s
car McDougall who he also had an affair
with there’s another incident in which a
doorman was paid for something about a
child out of wedlock that never came to
fruition but the idea that pcker Cohen
and Trump did this repeatedly this was
not a one-time thing that when the
campaign started there was almost like
basically an understanding that if we
hear anything pcker you’re going to be
the one to go catch the story pay the
person off we’ll reimburse it and make
it all go away and that’s exactly what
they’re going to try to do with setting
him up as the and again they’ll say this
is simply a wealthy famous person trying
to protect his reput John I was going to
ask you is this the kind of thing that
has happened in politics for a long time
not that it’s okay but is this something
not the head of the national enire
having a catch and kill sche for a
presidential candidate to cover up uh
Affairs but you certainly I mean you had
the case with John Edwards uh and and
his child out of wedlock and a supporter
who you know allegedly paid to cover
cover that up but but but look uh you
know there is going to be a lot that
comes out during this a lot of facts
that that have been known but we’ve
never heard David pecker speak publicly
about this even though we’ve known about
the catch and skill thing it’s going be
fascinating to see that and the key
thing here that is although the lawyers
Trump’s lawyers will argue look this was
uh simply him protecting his reputation
what’s the timeline it happened As Trump
was running for president and there’s a
key meeting we’re going to hear about uh
between pecker Cohen and Donald Trump
after Trump announces is running for
president uh basically outlining all
this there was clearly stepped up
activity to protect that storied
reputation after he became a
presidential candidate all right and
we’re going to hear it all laid out
today as those opening statements get
started Aaron kki John Carl John santui
Mary Alis parks and Kim Wy thank you all
and we will be following this trial all
day long we of course will bring you
updates right here on ABC News live as
we get them meanwhile house Speaker Mike
Johnson appears to be gaining some new
support from across the aisle after
putting his job on the line to push
through a $95 billion foreign aid
package some hard-right Republicans
opposed to that package are threatening
to force a vote to remove Johnson as
Speaker of the House now a top
Republican and Progressive Democrat are
praising the speaker suggesting he’ll be
able to hold on to his job even if it
does come to a vote meanwhile the Senate
is expected to vote early this week on
that package of four bills senior White
House correspondent Selena Wang has the
latest the bill is passed Congress is
one step closer closer to passing
billions in foreign aid that’s
desperately needed by America’s
allies with the Senate set to vote on
critical funding for Ukraine Israel and
Taiwan after a dramatic weekend in the
house the house will be in order speaker
Mike Johnson putting his job on the line
to push through the massive Aid package
$60 billion for Ukraine 26 billion for
Israel 8 billion for Taiwan and
indopacific allies and legislation to
force a sale of Tik Tok from its Chinese
parent company or face a ban in the US
we did our work here and I think history
will judge it well for months Johnson
stalled on President Biden’s request for
more funding but after classified
briefings including with the CIA
director and lots of praying The Devout
Christian made a dramatic
turnaround arguing to his fellow
Republicans that helping Ukraine is
critical to US National Security and
that they need to be on the right side
of History to put it bluntly I would
rather send bullets uh to Ukraine than
American boys my son is going to begin
in the Naval Academy this fall this is a
live fire exercise for me as it is so
many American families but a majority of
his members revolted more than half of
Republicans voting against Aid to
Ukraine with Johnson forced to rely on
Democrats to even bring it up for a vote
now at least three hardliners are
threatening to OU Johnson over it he
betrayed us three times the vote was
held today Mike Johnson is a lame duck
are you he’s done he’s done with the
gop’s razor thin majority in the house
that’s enough Republicans to push
Johnson out as Democrats and moderate
Republicans praise Johnson for bringing
these bills to the floor I commended by
name traditional conservatives led by
Speaker Mike Johnson for doing the right
thing but speaker Johnson’s job is still
under threat those Hardline Republicans
can still try to OU him when the house
is back in session next week in the
meantime the Senate will vote on this
tomorrow President Biden says he’s ready
to sign this legislation right away even
though it includes that possible ban on
Tik Tok which the Biden campaign uses to
reach those young voters Diane senior
White House correspondent Selena Wang
thank you and the Supreme Court is
hearing one of the most significant
cases on homelessness ever to reach the
Justices today the high court will
consider a California ruling that found
fining people for sleeping on the
streets amounts to cruel and unusual
punishment ABC News live anchor K Moran
has more the Supreme Court is tackling
its biggest case on homelessness in more
than 40 years as cities and towns across
the country struggle to deal with more
and more people living on the streets
for all intents and purposes a lot of
the behavior you see here today uh is
illegal at the center of the case is
Grant’s Pass a small city of 40,000 in
Southwest Oregon in the parks around
town hundreds of homeless people have
set up encampments in 2013 the city City
cracked down local officials citing
unsanitary conditions and crime Banning
anyone sleeping in public from using a
blanket pillow or cardboard box
penalties included civil fines and a
potential 30-day jail term for repeat
offenders but with no public shelters in
Grants Pass a group of homeless
residents sued the city in federal court
arguing that the law is unconstitutional
because it violates the eth amendment’s
ban on cruel and unusual punishment
criminalizing people for being homeless
is not the solution the case has huge
implications for the rest of the country
so many communities are swamped by
homeless encampments which are often
Rife with unsanitary conditions drug use
untreated mental illness and crime these
encampments in California are
unacceptable these homeless camps
overwhelm just the quality of life but
Advocates say the homeless have nowhere
else to go criminalizing the victims of
our failed housing policy is morally
wrong and it’s
unconstitutional and that’s essentially
what the city’s the city of Grants Pass
has done by making it illegal for
someone to exist while being homeless
after over 5 years living in Parks
before a nearby Church took her in Helen
Cruz telling our Devon DWI she received
more than $5,000 in camping related
fines I was holding down two jobs when I
was out here and uh still not enough to
be able to rent a place their uh terms
of low-income housing here is $1,000 a
month and that’s not workable either you
know it is a national crisis but the big
legal question that the justices must
consider in this case is whether what
Grants Pass has done really qualifies as
cruel and unusual punishment under the
Constitution a decision in this case is
expected by late June Diane ABC News
live anchor Terry Moran thank you coming
up climate change on the ballot how
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more Emily church is a biologist turn
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knocking on doors in Pittsburgh she
tells me she used to spend time pushing
lawmakers on climate change but
lawmakers told her voters didn’t care
the people who prioritize climate and uh
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voters environmentally conscious
citizens often young people and people
of color who rarely head to the polls of
all the ways to work on climate change
why this because people who vote are who
politicians pay attention to and so they
make the decisions and that’s our
biggest problem in the climate movement
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a lot ask Donald Trump how big a deal
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done enough well the fact is president
bid has done more to address climate
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scientists have said that we still can
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climate crisis but what we do in these
next few years is essential Nathaniel
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their own small habits hey don’t pay
attention to that Coal Fired power plant
back there instead it’s all your fault
for having a plastic water bottle in
your hand and we bought it when in truth
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systemic problem that needs political
and systemic Solutions it’s an uphill
battle but for Emily finding and
activating these new voters is worth the
fight the science is very clear so um we
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president Trump is speaking outside a
Manhattan courtroom as he heads into
court for his criminal trial let’s
listen all right thank you very much I
just want to say before we begin these
are all Bon trials this this is done as
election interference everybody knows it
I’m here instead of being able to be in
Pennsylvania and Georgia and lots of
other places campaigning and it’s very
unfair fortunately the poll numbers are
very good they’ve been going up because
people understand what’s going on this
is a Witch Hunt and it’s a shame and it
comes out of Washington it’s in
coordination with Washington everything
including the DA’s office it’s in
coordination with Washington I just want
people to understand that this is done
for purposes of hurting the opponent of
the worst president in the history of
our country second of all we have
another trial going on right now that’s
Leticia James she campaigned on the fact
that I will get Trump I’m going to get
Trump and it has to do with a bond of
$175 million first of all she doesn’t
want me to participate with financial
companies in New York so we have a
company I guess based in California it’s
a bonding company and I put up 175
million in cash but she says the bonding
company is not good she doesn’t like the
bonding company because she doesn’t know
if the collateral is good and I put up
175 billion in cash and she’s
questioning the bonding company well
when you put up cash and the number is
175 which is what was supposed to be
putting up but I give it in cash she
shouldn’t be complaining about the
bonding company the bonding company
would be good for it because I put up
the money and I have plenty of money to
put up but nobody is going to be putting
up with this nobody’s going to be
listening or coming to New York any more
businesses are going to be fleeing
because people are treated so badly it’s
got to be the most unfriendly place to
do business and that’s why businesses
are leaving and people are leaving as
migrants come in and take over our parks
and our schools and everything else so
on the Leticia James case she’s the
worst attorney general in the country by
the way on Leticia and she keeps a lot
of business out of New York and business
business that are here are leaving and
that means jobs and a lot of Revenue
somebody’s going to step in the governor
somebody has to step in and do something
because your business is are fing but on
Laticia James the money was put up it’s
175 million and I don’t think she’s
complaining about me for the first time
ever she’s complaining about the company
but why would she be doing that when I
put up the money so I just want you to
know that that’s taking place in front
of an extremely crazed judge who’s the
most overturned judge in New York state
he was overturned four or five times on
that case alone that’s uh you know who
it is I don’t have to mention names I
want to be nice I want to be very nice
but uh a thing like that and a thing
like what’s going on right here should
never be happening it’s a very very sad
day in America I can tell you that thank
you very
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much that was former president Trump as
he gets ready to head into the courtroom
for opening statements in the criminal
hush money trial against him I want to
bring in ABC News Chief Washington
correspondent Jonathan Carl along with
ABC News executive editorial producer
John santui uh John I want to go to you
for context first because we’re hearing
former president Trump call this one of
the Biden trials talking about this
being a coordinated effort with
Washington put this all into context
where are these accusations coming from
and is there evidence for it well
there’s absolutely no evidence this has
nothing to do with Joe Biden this is uh
this is the Manhattan district attorney
the other case he was complaining about
is from the New York attorney General
that the Civil fraud case against uh his
company the Biden uh White House the
Biden justice department uh have nothing
to do with with any of this but he is
trying to tie this all together and make
the point that he is being politically
persecuted this is not just his message
Visa his trials this is in a way his
Central campaign message uh this and and
this is a his campaign appearance every
day you’re going to see he comes before
the cameras everybody Tunes in at the
beginning and at the end of the day he
may add on some events in New York as
this goes forward but this is his uh
this is his campaign now what I thought
was interesting here is he got into the
weeds of the money that he had to put up
in the Civil fraud case and and and this
challenge that the New York attorney
general has made to the company that
helped him put up the bond it’s pretty
weedy but it clearly has bothered him
greatly I’m not sure any of that
actually resonates with voters or if
they can even follow what he’s talking
about John santui what is the latest on
that the fact that he put up the the
bond for this civil fraud case and now
Lissa James is saying she’s not so sure
about the company underwriting so
exactly that she’s challenging the
company that underr this is a California
bonding company that stepped in remember
originally Donald Trump was on the hook
for the whole thing nearly $500 million
the appell court stepped in lowered it
to 175 million because in part Donald
Trump went around with his legal counsel
approaching nearly 30 bonding companies
and couldn’t get anybody to underwrite
him for half a billion bucks so that is
where that has ended up now that
argument has not begun yet it’ll begin
later this morning at just a courthouse
a few feet away and I think it’s
actually remarkable I mean you’re
laughing but it’s true right I mean the
fact that you have two cour houses on
the same street hearing Trump cases
today it just goes to speak about how
this election for Donald Trump is less
about the politics and more about the
courtroom and the week he’s going to
have I mean it’s it’s a courthouse
election and then of course on Thursday
to see the Supreme Court is going to
hear his lawyers argue that a president
should have essentially absolute
immunity for any actions they take as
president that can be remotely tied to
their official duties uh so you have
three cour houses two in New York uh a
really big one in Washington uh all
consumed with Donald Trump but it’s also
interesting the fact that you know given
that you can’t be in three places at
once he is told he can’t be in any of
the other places at the same time but
judge michan cuz you’ll recall last week
as they were going through the
scheduling process of this hearing judge
Maran was said anything you want to
bring up Trump’s team said Well we’d
like to go to the Supreme Court on
Thursday the judge turned around and
said sorry you are a criminal defendant
we’re now in trial you have to be here
it just speaks to how the whole tone
tenor control everything Donald Trump’s
been used to in his life I mean the guy
ran his business was a television star
was the leader of the Free World but now
stood when he walks in the room now he
has to stand when the judge walks in the
room Kim Trump’s critics are going to
look at that and say this is a man who
has no regard for the law and so that’s
why he’s facing all these cases and so
on his supporters are going to look at
this and say this shows that this is all
politically motivated that he’s being
prosecuted for things that other being
people wouldn’t be prosecuted for how
much of that do you expect to come into
the courtroom it’s one thing to say
these things outside of court but how
much do you expect to hear that from his
attorneys once they actually start
opening statements today and they start
presenting this case formally
sorry about that it’s okay we got you
now okay so of course the jury is is
required to make uh a decision based on
the evidence in the trial but of course
the the prosecution the defense lawyers
in their opening and closing statements
can can try to to to reframe The
Narrative to demonstrate or argue
essentially that this is a for lack of a
better word a trumped up crime that that
this is a crime within a crime these are
B falsification of business records
which do don’t tend to be a standalone
indictment usually it’s tacked on to
more serious crimes in New York and that
there really isn’t a strong uh precedent
set for saying that a hush money payment
is a federal election crime the the
Department of Justice declined to
actually prosecute Donald Trump for that
that thing under federal law so they can
say listen if you put all these pieces
together uh this is not someone if it
weren’t for Donald Trump who would be in
the hot seat um I think the prosecution
could say listen well uh someone who is
president is going to put themselves in
the hot seat or someone who’s running
for president uh should have more
accountability not less accountability
and it’ll be up to these New Yorkers a
jury of his peers um to decide at the
end of the day not only whether he
should potentially get a prison sentence
because remember uh these these uh these
crimes do carry four years in prison uh
there’s no no knowing whether he’d
actually get that but everyone knows
this does impact um the future of the
country and then in the election in
November and I I do think it’s unlikely
that that there’ll be any other criminal
trial that will go uh to verdict before
November so there’s so much writing on
this the very first case that many legal
analysts thought was a weak one that
shouldn’t have been brought and it’s now
uh one of the most important uh cases in
the history of the United States
probably so John Carl those are the
legal Stakes here what are the political
Stakes here well you know the the
political Stakes the one thing that we
just don’t know is how does it affect
his standing with voters if he is
actually convicted of a felony we’ve
seen polling and including exit polling
in in in in the early primary States uh
that suggests that people that have
supported him even though he is indicted
would rethink that if he was actually
convicted of a crime now whether or not
that actually happens once and if he is
convicted uh you know who knows because
he will make the case political
prosecution this is ridiculous
Democratic City Democratic prosecutor
but the other thing that we don’t talk
about as much what what if he’s
acquitted which is really possible um uh
that could be a boost a real boost I
mean look at what I I was on hand twice
when he was acquitted in Senate
impeachment trials and he you know took
that as a uh to to took a real Victory
laugh on that on that uh saying this was
uh you know he he was declared innocent
of all charges which is not exactly what
happens it means that the charges were
not proven doesn’t mean you’re Innocent
but he he will uh take that to the
people as well so I I I don’t think we
know uh you know the the the political
impact of this sanui how much does it
matter that this is the first criminal
trial going forward of the indictments
that Trump is facing well as John Carl
made the point earlier which I
completely agree with shocking that
don’t let go to your head John but the
reality is that this is the best one for
him politically right I mean all the
other cases besides the fact that a they
all pretty much have indicated they
would go on for months if and when they
go to trial this will be the shortest
but this is the one that is so far away
from the 24 election just the idea
having to re-educate the voter alone
we’re talking in 2016 involved in Affair
of Michael Cohen all of it and the fact
that again fair from 2006 right we’re
going back another decade but I think
all of that again to just reinforce that
you know this is so far in the past
they’re going to make the argument why
you’re bringing it now and again as John
said which I agree with that this was
standard procedure right an NDA that
frankly as Donald Trump has gained more
and more National popularity has been
around I think more Americans know the
phrase NDA because of Donald Trump than
anything else I would though want to
make a quick pivot because as court is
getting underway you know we talked last
week about just so much of the process
of things going on our team just talk
about how the jurors really impact the
day one of the alternate jurors
apparently has a toothache this morning
so Court was going to go until 2:00
today ending early to observe Passover
now we’re going to end even earlier at
12:30 because the juror with the
toothache has an appointment with
dentist has to go to the dentist is not
at 2:30 no it’s sorry I know you’d think
the dentists would make a little room in
their schedule and squeeze them in but I
think it just as they go through so much
of this right I mean you’re you’re
seeing already comments about you know
concern about the media attention
whatnot this is just really going to be
a lot of process before we get to
opening statements which should begin
shortly just a reminder this is real
life real people with real toothaches
apparently John Carl John santui Kim
wayy thank you all and we will be
following this trial all day long we’ll
bring you up upates as we get them right
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meanwhile Columbia University is holding
all classes remotely today as the
University’s president calls for reset
on campus the move is part of increased
safety measures as protests related to
the Israel Hamas War intensify around
campus one Rabbi is now urging Jewish
students to leave campus ABC’s Rihanna
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more Columbia University is boosting
security ahead of the Passover holiday
with More protest expected around campus
the school now adding 35 guards and more
than 100 additional safety
personnel Pro Palestinian demonstrators
have gathered at the school since last
week rallying against the Israel Hamas
war and at times using violent
rhetoric videos online show protesters
promising to carry out massacres similar
to the Hamas attack of October 7th
chanting phrases like we are Moss a
rabbi associated with the university is
now urging Jewish students to go home
saying Columbia University’s Public
Safety and the NYPD cannot guarantee
Jewish students safety New York’s mayor
says he’s horrified by the hate speech
but says because Colombia is private
property the NYPD can’t stay on campus
unless the school requests it police
made multiple arrests at a protest near
campus Saturday days after arresting
more than a hundred people on campus
when the University’s president asked
law enforcement to clear out an
encampment the mass arrests and the
suppression of students I would say
that’s galvanized us this is nothing
compared to what people in Palestine are
dealing with people in Gaza they are
starving they have lost
everything overseas the Israeli military
is vowing to carry out a ground
offensive targeting militants in the
southern Gaza City of Rafa where air
strikes yesterday killed 2 2 people
including 18 children according to the
Hamas run Health Ministry meanwhile
Israeli leaders are criticizing an
expected decision by the US to withhold
military aid from a unit of the Israeli
military accused of human rights
violations in the West Bank an
unprecedented move that could widen the
rift between President Biden and prime
minister Benjamin
Netanyahu Rihanna NY thank you and
Reagan Mei from our New York station
WABC is near Columbia’s campus joining
me now for more Reagan what’s the latest
there on
campus well you know the latest is that
the president of the University Dr Manu
shafik had sent an email in the
overnight hours telling the students
that the classes today will be remote
because of all of the protesting and as
I speak about that protesting behind me
I know if you can get a look at it we it
appears that we have a group of
pro-israel protesters
uh there’s an American flag that’s
divided into the Israel flag and the
American flag and there seems to be a
peaceful Congregation of people at this
hour uh this is important because we’re
expected to have some congressmen here
later on this afternoon talking about
the anti-Semitism violence and the
harassment among the Jewish students uh
allegedly on campus so um in addition to
the virtual classes uh that’s a way for
the president to save the UN univers
just to have a reset day as we know
sundown tonight begins the holiday
Passover Lan so what are protesters
demanding from the
University yeah so what basically
they’re demanding is for the uh Columbia
University to divest in any Israel
backed business so um things like they
say divest its stocks it’s funds and an
endowment from companies that they say
profit from from Israel’s violations of
international law and Palestinian human
rights and they said that they are
vowing this they’re going to stay
protesting on campus in fact they’re
allowed to go back onto the South lawn
and protest peacefully and they say they
are sticking around until their demands
are
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be tried in Criminal Court opening
statements are now underway as
prosecutors lay out in detail their hush
money case against former president
Trump and Trump’s team gives a preview
of their defense
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suspected of breaking into the home of
Los Angeles mayor Karen bass police say
the 29-year-old smashed a window to get
into the mayor’s official residence
early Sunday morning the mayor was home
at the time but she and her family were
not injured and nothing was
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announced its newest inductees the
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Matthews Band four of the eight indues
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taking the major step of banning
single-use plastic items straws utensils
and plates will no longer be an option
in the city’s restaurant starting today
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source of plastic waste in Hong Kong
after single-use plastic
bags and the Supreme Court is expected
to hear oral arguments on homelessness
today this after a lower court in Los
Angeles found punishing unhoused people
to be cruel unusual and unconstitutional
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has more on what’s at stake from Grants
Pass
Oregon on the banks of the Rogue River
tucked away under trees on the side of
the road even in center field of the
local Little League ballpark the
homelessness epidemic is inescapable
even in Sleepy Grants Pass Oregon
population 40,000 roughly 600 call Parks
like this one home Brandon a 38-year-old
Grants Pass native says he has no choice
so the city came in and said you can’t
Camp right there on those wood chips
they yeah yeah the uh the the officer
said I was too close to the playground
and I was too close to the to the fence
local law requires that he move his Camp
every 72 hours the city had tried to ban
camping in Parks outright but was
blocked by a federal court for now if I
don’t feel like I just I belong I’m
going to feel like an outsider and then
I’m going to want to continue doing the
same thing because there’s no reason to
to thrive for anything different there’s
no place to go Helen Cruz knows the
indignity firsthand over 5 years living
in Parks before a nearby Church took her
in she says she received more than
$5,000 in camping related fines I was
holding down two jobs when I was out
here and uh still not enough to be able
to rent a place their their uh terms of
low-income housing here is $1,000 a
month and that’s that’s not workable
either you know so when the police come
through and they do a sweep of this area
what do they do what do they tell you if
you don’t comply you are trespassed and
you could possibly go to jail the city
of Grants Pass is among a growing number
of American communities passing laws to
crack down on homeless
encampments a perfect storm of
skyrocketing housing prices sunsetting
covid relief programs a mental health
and drug abuse crisis and an aging
population without retirement savings
has led to record numbers of unhoused
people Nationwide for all intents and
purposes a lot of the behavior you see
here today uh is illegal and then our
community will ask well what are you
doing about the chief chief Warren
hensman says his officers are caught in
the middle we have community members in
Grant’s Pass that are afraid to come to
their Parks we’ve had shootings in our
Parks we’ve had fights in our Parks
chronic drug abuse in our Parks so so
much of our citizenry are not walking
through our parks in 2013 the city
passed an ordinance Banning anyone from
using a blanket pillow or cardboard box
for protection from the El ments while
sleeping in public local representative
Dwayne yunker says it was intended to
crack down on unsanitary conditions and
crime critics of Grant’s Pass say the
the council has tried to criminalize
homelessness is that what’s going on
here we do have a responsibility to keep
people
safe and that’s the struggle is how do
we keep everybody safe is it safe to
have a kid playing in a park where
there’s a tent 20 ft away I don’t know
what the people in the tent are doing
but with no public shelters inside City
limits a group of homeless residents
alleged the new law was cruel and
unusual punishment they sued in federal
court and won we’re fighting between
what the law is telling us and what the
people want us to do and trying to make
everybody happy that’s a big huge
struggle for a a city government
criminalizing the the victims of our
failed housing policy is morally wrong
and it’s
unconstitutional and that’s essentially
what the city’s the city of Grants Pass
has done by making it illegal for
someone to exist while being homeless I
had a beautiful vegetable garden I love
to cook Laura a 55-year-old grants past
native and mother of three says
homelessness hits suddenly after her
husband died in 2021 and health problems
sent her to the hospital have you been
ticketed by the
city yeah um I have over a dozen
citations and what are the citations for
um mostly for scattering rubbish and
that means that uh anything outside of
you’re 8T by 8T diameter limits is
considered rubbish trash her home is now
a tent in this park I needed a little
bit of color out here a single daffodil
one small sign Laura is clinging to hope
there’s those of us that are struggling
and fighting and taking one step out as
we’re digging out of the hole knowwhere
else to go yeah yeah but across the
river you’ve got 78 beds in this
building it’s only half full why is
that well there’s a lot of reasons so
this is what we call our 30-day dorm
Brian Bowell says the doors are open at
the only private homeless shelter in
town the Grants Pass gospel rescue
mission for over 40 years it’s provided
warm beds and meals but with religious
requirements how many times a day do
they go to Chapel twice a day our guys
go to go to Chapel they go to Chapel
once in the morning once in the evening
the Lord said learn a lesson from this
unjust judge residents must also quit
smoking drinking and drug use and give
up their pets the ninth circuit said
that it’s cruel and unusual punishment
on the part of Grant’s Pass to sight and
find some homeless folks for living in
the park when there’s nowhere else to go
well that’s the part that’s the big
question is there nowhere else to go or
is there just nowhere else that they
want to go both teller says so long as
courts say Grants Pass cannot ban
camping in public more people will
choose to stay on the streets we’ve seen
a drop in our residency and we’ve seen
an increase in people in our parks and
freeway over underpasses and and that
kind of stuff in places where they ought
not be cities from Phoenix to Los
Angeles to Seattle have joined Grant’s
Pass in appealing to the US Supreme
Court these encampments in California
are unacceptable elected officials from
both part parties urging the justices to
make it easier for cities to clear tent
encampments like these it’s not
acceptable for anyone to call the
streets or Park their home and cities
need to have these ordinances so that
they can help to incentivize people to
accept offers of help that’s what these
laws do the reality is um the only thing
that works is more permanent affordable
housing this case is not going to solve
solve homelessness if we Prevail in this
case our homeless problem is still going
to be there it just means that we can’t
criminalize people while they’re
homeless for Helen Cruz and Brandon a
lot is on the line we’re just a small
little Community with a really big
homeless problem and no place to put
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a new initiative from the National Park
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Park prescriptions this comes as a
number of medical programs are stressing
the benefit of getting outside and
moving ABC News medical correspondent Dr
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Day Park RX is a community health
initiative that works to provide the
prescription for wellness by getting
more people Outdoors you cannot get a
better opportunity to reinvigorate
yourself to reset yourself and then
getting outside in The outoor Great
Outdoors and taking a walk and being in
the national parks getting outside and
exercising can help your health in a
number of ways just simply getting
exposure to sunlight can help you build
up by D improving your immune health and
your muscle function also just simply
being outside in green spaces can
benefit your mental health walking and
incorporating aerobic exercise can help
keep your heart healthy and reduce
stress dozens of programs across the
country are now available to help
increase Outdoor Activity one of these
programs walk with the doc encourages
patients to go outside and walk Walking
is medicine and for me it’s a form of
medicine and when I get outside and I
start walking it just feels freeing like
the weight of the world starts to fall
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how much walking do I need to do every
week is there a specific amount or is
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minutes a week so 20 25 minutes a day um
and if you miss a day it’s okay um but
key is just sticking with it and I
always think about this you know walking
versus running you know do I have to be
extra you know exert myself Beyond or
can I just simply walk yeah walking
really gets it done running gets it done
a little faster but you get all the
benefits from walking and its lower
impact when I look across our medical
system and the ability of doctors to use
all the tools that they can atend our
Parks prescription program is probably a
key to that being able to get and
prescribe to people who are having
stressful issues or who who may need to
do Rehabilitation getting them outside
into the national parks or any park for
that matter so that they can enjoy and
get through recovery so that they can
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top story former president Trump is
inside a New York courtroom for opening
statements underway now in his historic
criminal hos money trial it’s the first
time ever prosecutors will present a
criminal case against a former president
before a jury opening statements will
also reveal the clearest view yet of
Trump’s expected defense he pleaded not
guilty to falsifying business records to
conceal a hush money payment to Stormy
Daniels before the 16 election sources
tell us the District Attorney’s Office
plans to call former National inquire
publisher and longtime friend of Donald
Trump’s David pecker as its first
witness I want to bring in ABC News
political director Rick Klein along with
ABC News executive editorial producer
John santui and ABC News legal
contributor Brian buckmire for more Rick
how big are the stakes here for the
former president well this is obviously
huge I mean this is an actual criminal
trial with actual evidence being
presented against him never happened
before in in American history
for a former president or for a
presidential candidate the presumptive
Presidential nominee and look the
details matter we’ve seen public opinion
polling that suggests that a lot of
Americans don’t think anything criminal
happened here does the jury agree with
that we’ve also seen polling to suggest
that if he’s convicted of a crime that
changes public opinions that there are
people who now say they are Trump
supporters who are at least saying now
that they would not be Trump supporters
if they uh if he is found guilty of a
crime so the the fact of that criminal
conviction doesn’t disqualify him from
everything but it obviously has an
impact on the the immediate campaign and
the longer term Outlook over the next
six months so Rick how does he play this
politically are we going to see a lot
more Trump speeches outside the
courtroom for example more emails from
his campaign he has telegraphed this
strategy for mons Diane and it is one of
suggesting that he’s a victim of
political persecution often without
evidence and often very much straining
the fact suggesting that President Biden
and Democrats are behind this
prosecution that they just want to
disqualify him from office and that this
is in his words of witch hun that’s the
political message he has raised a lot of
money off of it he has got his
supporters dug in on it the question
will be now that we’re in general
election mode to voters agree with that
because if he is convicted he’s going to
count on a backlash against that very
conviction that is a wild scenario but
it’s the it’s the best scenario that he
has right now in staring down not this
not just this one but other cases where
he could end up being criminally
convicted and I want to bring in our
chief Washington correspondent Jonathan
Carl as well
given what Rick just said could this
case end up benefiting Trump politically
depending on how it goes well I I I
think as we discussed earlier that if
this ends up in an acquittal uh that it
will give him momentum and he will
certainly play that up and he will go on
but even if not um you know he he has
certainly benefited from being it’s just
the oddest thing to say but he has
benefited politically and financially
from being indicted uh he has used it
every indictment is led to a big boost
in his fundraising and actually if you
look at the polling his campaign in the
Republican primary was at its low point
before the first indictments and then he
dominated the field playing victim has
worked very well for him at least among
Republicans what we don’t know is how’s
it play in a general election and again
day after day of seeing Donald Trump as
a criminal defendant stuck in a
courtroom I’m not sure this will benefit
him uh but as we have seen this has not
played out in a predictable way now John
sanui the judge is now saying that one
of the seated jurors was concerned about
the media attention surrounding this
case what’s the latest on that so for
now juror number nine is staying they
had a sidebar with the judge discuss
that concern but again not too
surprising right because we saw how many
P potential jurors last week basically
disqualified themselves when they talked
about the case said they were afraid for
their safety their security um we also
saw that you know a lot of the personal
information of jur was reported in some
media Outlets you know pretty full-blown
right giving enough details that you
know even though it’s Anonymous their
names are announced in court but between
where they work where they live some of
their Hobbies people were pretty easily
identifiable to their friends neighbors
and colleagues so I think that the
reality of this case is that though for
the moment we’re fully intact 12 jurors
six alternates you know alternates are
there for a reason that if one of the
jurors has to bow out for any reason
cause Etc we may see as this goes on
that you know this original slate if you
will that we’re beginning with is not
the final slate that judges Donald Trump
uh Brian soures say that former National
Inquirer publisher David pecker said to
be the first witness the prosecution
calls now the da alleges that pecker met
with Trump shortly after he announced
his presidential campaign and agreed to
act as his eyes and ears in this catch
and kill scheme where he was supposed to
look out for negative stories about
Trump and kill them by paying people off
for example so what do you listening for
as he takes the stand D let’s put it
this way a prosecutor’s best friend is
chronology well for defense attorney
it’s often chaos so for the prosecution
they want to go through a chronological
setting of this is when Donald Trump met
with pecker and these were the
conversations that were had and these
were the agreements that were made and
then this system of catch and kill was
created and then from there I would
expect that more facts would be
substituted into that narrative to kind
of give the jury a glimpse as to how the
prosecutors themselves came to the
understanding that this system worked
and the way that it benefited the
president and then ultimately lead to
those bigger Witnesses and those bigger
uh stories namely Michael Cohen and
stormmy
Daniels stuchi we’re also just learning
Trump can be questioned on some previous
legal issues if he
testifies what do you make of that
because he has suggested that he might
take the stand here I got to tell you
based on reading this note from our team
in court if I’m Donald Trump I ain’t
taking the stand so let me just read you
from our Olivia ruin in court Diane
judge Maran specifically ruled the
Donald Trump can be questioned by
prosecutors on Six determinations from
four of the previous proceedings and
what we mean by that is think about all
the cases Donald Trump has gone through
up until this moment the two eege Carrol
cases Etc all of that can come up in
court and talking about where Donald
Trump of course violated the gag order
in some of those proceedings being the
Attorney General’s case and was hit with
fines Etc um of course there are other
determinations they wanted they wanted
to talk about other elements of Donald
Trump’s life but this is the scope that
he’s limited to and you know I think the
reality of this is that you know they’re
going to try to build a case here about
Donald Trump and the fact that you know
he’s done this before his behavior we’ve
talked about that in the catch and kill
of it but now they’re going to be able
to do this in Donald Trump the courtroom
the defendant in other examples and that
of course is not a good thing for Donald
Trump or his legal teams they’re trying
to say this is politically motivated
it’s a one-off case because they’re then
able to introduce all the other for lack
of a better word shenanigans that Donald
Trump has been engrossed with the last
year between all the Civil proceedings
all of which let’s be clear did not go
Donald Trump’s way between the egene
Carol verdict and the New York attorney
general’s verdict we’re talking nearly
half a billion dollars Donald Trump is
on the hook for in Damages in both those
cases alone damages does not mean you
did not commit a crime but it doesn’t
mean you’re innocent either and
obviously that’s exactly what they’re
going to try to build here as they
introd this if and only if he takes the
stand I mean the bottom line is if he
takes the stand he’s going to face a
very uncomfortable cross-examination he
may ultimately decide to still take the
stand again he’s going to be sitting in
that courtroom day after day listening
to the likes of Michael Cohen testify
against him he may want to get up there
and take that take that shot but what
this makes clear is if he does that
cross examination will not be uh
enjoyable but but I also think that
again and will be risky will be totally
risky but also it’ll touch on the issues
that Donald Trump does not want to talk
about right like he’s when absolutely
awall after the verdict in the New York
attorney general’s case to have to
relive that again to have to Rel R EEG
Carol both the damages and the original
accusation that he was ultimately found
liable for sexual assault I mean all of
that to come up in this case not a great
day Brian you’re the lawyer here if he’s
your client what’s your advice now that
we know the scope I’ve had this
conversation many times with my clients
I would say this is just the tip of the
iceberg because when a prosecutor has
given the ability to go into these
issues it doesn’t mean that if uh Donald
Trump takes the stand and says I never
said that I would never do this he
starts using superlatives as he often
uses in his speech that allows the the
prosecution to say oh you’ve never said
that okay your honor the defendant has
opened the door for me to be able to go
into more detail after this let me play
the audio your honor that you said I was
not able to play let me get another
witness to impeach Donald Trump so the
rulings that uh John Cuchi has given us
that’s just the tip of the iceberg
because if you have a defendant takes
the stand and starts answering the way
that we’ve typically seen Donald Trump
answer in some of these pressers the
prosecutor is going to have a field day
going into each and every detail within
that issue and potentially more all
right Rick Klein John Carl John santui
and Brian buckmeier thank you we will be
following this trial all day long we
will bring you updates right here on ABC
News live meanwhile house Speaker Mike
Johnson appears to be gaining new
support from a cross the aisle after
putting his job on the line to push
through a $95 billion foreign aid
package some hard-right Republicans
opposed to the package are threatening
to force a vote to remove Johnson as
Speaker of the House now a top
Republican and Progressive Democrat are
praising the speaker suggesting he will
be able to hold on to his job if it does
come to a vote meanwhile the Senate is
expected to vote early this week on the
package of four bills senior White House
correspondent Selena Wang has that story
the bill is passed Congress is one step
closer to passing billions in foreign
aid that’s desperately needed by
America’s allies with the Senate set to
vote on critical funding for Ukraine
Israel and Taiwan after a dramatic
weekend in the
house the house will be in order speaker
Mike Johnson putting his job on the line
to push through the massive Aid package
$60 billion for Ukraine 26 billion for
Israel 8 billion for Taiwan and
indopacific allies and legislation to
force a sale of Tik Tok from its Chinese
parent company or face a ban in the US
we did our work here and I think history
will judge it will for months Johnson
stalled on President Biden’s requests
for more funding but after classified
briefings including with the CIA
director and lots of praying The Devout
Christian made a dramatic
turnaround arguing to his fellow
Republicans that helping Ukraine is
critical to US National Security and
that they need to be on the right side
of history to put it bluntly I would
rather send bullets uh to Ukraine than
American boys my son is going to begin
in the Naval Academy this fall this is a
live fire exercise for me as it is so
many American families but a majority of
his members revolted more than half of
Republicans voting against Aid to
Ukraine with Johnson forced to rely on
Democrats to even bring it up for a vote
now at least three hardliners are
threatening to OU Johnson over it he
betrayed us three times the vote was
held today Mike Johnson is a
duck he’s done he’s done with the gop’s
razor thin majority in the house that’s
enough Republicans to push Johnson out
as Democrats and moderate Republicans
praise Johnson for bringing these bills
to the floor I commended by name
traditional conservatives led by Speaker
Mike Johnson for doing the right
thing and Senior White House
correspondent Selena Wang joins me now
from Capitol Hill for more on this
Selena let’s first talk about this big
moment moment for speaker Johnson why
did he change his stance on Ukraine Aid
and what’s in this
legislation yeah Diane this is a really
transformational moment for speaker Mike
Johnson I mean he went from being
staunchly opposed to any more a to
Ukraine to then putting his own job on
the line to try and get this 95 billion
Aid package passed so the big question
Diane is what caused this dramatic
turnaround well for one there was this
massive pressure campaign from the
president other Congressional leaders
and world leaders then on top of that
were these classified intelligence
briefings including with the CIA
director which played a role in shifting
his perspective and then thirdly he’s a
devout Christian and his colleague
Congressman McCall said that he prayed
he got on his knees and prayed for
guidance on what to do here so this bill
this is a big deal it’s something that’s
been stalled in Congress for months it
includes $95 billion in Aid to Ukraine
Israel Taiwan and other Indo Pacific
allies in order to get past the far
right wing of his party this Mike joh
said he had to divide this into a bunch
of separate bills so that he could find
a majority for each one of these
different Aid packages and then he
bundled it all together including a
fourth part of this which includes that
Tick Tock ban so the Senate is going to
vote on this tomorrow and given the
bipartisan support Diane there is a
possibility that this actually speeds
its way through the
Senate all right senior White House
correspondent Lena Wang on Capital Hill
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morning probably doesn’t look much
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built into the Earth made from trash
concrete and dirt it is fully self-
sustaining I imagine that everybody on
the planet can wake up in the morning
and be comfortable without fossil fuel
everybody can grow food in their house
that everybody can have electricity from
the Sun and wind these buildings do that
look closely at the Magnificent
architecture it’s mostly upcycled trash
that beer bottle there that’s not
garbage that’s a glass bottle that will
turn into a stained glass brick they
have timers to save energy on hot water
you got a washer and dryer all the
niceties of life you got to washer dryer
you got a cook stove you got a
refrigerator hot and cold running water
it’s just done smarter like the rain
water used four times so I’m using 5
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water is
recollected to flush the toilet they
have solar but not for heat or AC Earth
ships heat themselves with used
tires each tire gets about four or five
wheelbarrows of dirt pounded into them
and the Sun comes in in and it hits that
mass and then the tire retains it and as
the temperature in here were to drop
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of is dedicated to Growing space and in
this house there’s two ponds in the
greenhouse and we have tilapia out there
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your citrus wrap it in a banana leavea
and Grill it out on the Fire our Earth
ship has a wood burning fire but we did
not keep the fire
stoked so we’re going to go for the
night without supplemental hate good
morning first night down and I slept
pretty well so I was definitely warm and
I guess that’s what counts an obvious
part of living in an Earthship is return
things to Nature leftover coffee going
in the compost
but if there had to be one thing from
Earth ships that we could apply to homes
Across America what would be the most
important you can add a greenhouse on
the south side of your house and that
will heat those rooms that are near that
you can become aware of the fact that
heat comes from that thing and you can
catch that heat back in New York I’m
taking Mike’s advice I love to Garden
but our season in New York is really
short so it’s not an Earth Ship but
there are any of these kind of smaller
green houses that you could invest in
and extend your season be a little
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Earth there are more than a 100 Earth
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extreme there are at least one R ship in
each state and so they work in other
places you know the base model uh that
starts at 4 $400,000 for a two-bedroom
two B and it really is less sacrificed
than you can imagine we enjoyed it so
thoroughly so much so that when I got
home Diane my husband was like we’re not
going to really live in a Nur ship are
we and I was like well we might get
close I can imagine Ben’s face and your
look incredibly serious thinking about
it um but Ginger can you give us a a
tour and show us how some of these key
featur work in
practice yes so you know it’s so cold it
was freezing this morning and you’re
inside and you’re like okay so the the
tire wall is working there’s a thermal
Mass but they also utilize things like
beautiful drapes to be insulation so you
know pretty can also be functional and
then living with your food you know it’s
pesticide free you know that you can
enjoy it and live with your plants you
have washer dryer and the water from
that and the water from your showers
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is filtered and then goes into the
Planters which are in every room the
plants then filter the water again and
then the water goes into the toilet
before the toilet puts it out through a
septic here into a Blackwater area that
they utilize for other plantings it is
so different but yet so simple and I
feel like conventional building Diane
should really take note because
something like that water efficiency
could be used in many more places than
just here in New Mexico well and that’s
kind of my question ginger as I watch
this I think why don’t all homes work
that way so I know Mike referenced the
greenhouse I love the idea of glass
cabinet but are there more features of
the Earth Ship that could be either
added to traditional homes or built into
new
ones yes I mean the geothermal aspect of
it we used to do it if you think of
Laura Eng Les and Little House on the
Prairie there was a reason that we used
to do that but also just the orientation
of a building we’ve gotten so far away
from using the Sun and then blocking the
sun when it should be that depending on
where you live we got more into like
facing the street why do our front doors
all face the way same way why do we have
to do that rather than working with the
sun and using it for what it is and
that’s beyond just solar right like
that’s just thermal mass and how things
work like the physics of a house we have
gotten not so smart about and that’s
what Earth ships remind us to do so
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our top story former president Trump is
inside a New York courtroom as opening
statements are underway in his historic
criminal hush money trial this is the
first time ever prosecutors are
presenting a criminal case against a
former president before a jury opening
statements will also reveal the clearest
view yet of Trump’s expected defense
Trump pleaded not guilty to falsifying
business records to conceal a hush money
payment to Stormy Daniels before the
2016 election sources tell us the
District Attorney’s Office plans to call
former National inquir publisher and
longtime friend of Donald Trumps David
pecker as its first witness let’s bring
in ABC News executive editorial producer
John santui ABC News senior reporter
kathern falders ABC News political
director Rick Klein and ABC News legal
contributor Brian buckmire for more John
what’s the latest from inside the
courtroom well so far this has been the
show of Judge Maran he’s been going
through you know the day’s business of
course earlier we learned that Court’s
going to wrap a little earlier because
one of the alternate jurors has a
toothache and can’t be there again
everybody has life happen it’s the way
it goes but one of the things that we
have learned so far is that we got a
ruling in the sand ofal proceedings
which basically regarded Donald Trump’s
potential testimony in this case should
he take the stand and we’ve learned
about the guard rails that the judge has
put up for prosecutors and the fact that
some of the previous cases that Donald
Trump has lived through over the last
couple months between the New York
attorney general the EEG Carol cases
that EV in those cases could come up if
Donald Trump opens the door on them and
they start discussing them which is
obviously not good for Donald Trump now
that doesn’t mean that we know yet if he
will or will he not take the stand but
nevertheless just interesting process um
we have learned also that besides the
fact the Court’s going to wrap early
today got a sense of where opening
statements are going to be prosecutors
going for just under an hour the defense
team about a half hour or so and going
to start to lay out the case which is
happening right now and I think that you
know as we start to get on the road here
for the day depending on how quickly
they move we could get to the first
witness which we understand will be
David pecker the former publisher of the
national inquire Brian I want to start
with that ruling in terms of if Donald
Trump takes a stand how significant is
it that the judge is saying that he can
be asked about some of these other cases
if he does choose to testify in his own
defense yeah so let’s just be very clear
sandal hearings that’s what it’s called
um happen in every criminal case where
someone has either prior bad acts uh
open criminal cases or criminal
conviction so it’s not unique to this
this case but it does as John points out
kind of gives you those guard rails as
to what the prosecutor can and cannot go
into but you can often times go off
those guard rails so significant in the
sense of it gives Donald Trump an idea
as to what they can go into how it may
hurt his case and ultimately whether or
not his defense advises him that he
should not take the stand that they may
be able to prove this case without him
uh or sorry not prove the case but try
to disprove the case without him or that
him taking the stand could hurt more
than it can help uh Rick Trump’s
campaign is sending fundraising emails
talking about him being locked away in
Court how big of an impact could this
case have on his campaign and could it
end up helping him politically I’m
curious if these fundraising appeals
because they been so many of them have
the same kind of open rate the same kind
of response rate the same kind of uh uh
dollars brought in that some of the
earlier appeals have had because he’s
been saying this for a long time
including when it really wasn’t true
that he was forced into court sometimes
he was showing up voluntarily it is
different this time and it will dominate
the news and it will dominate The
Campaign discussion for the foreseeable
future it limits in some ways what what
Trump can do it also though gives him an
opportunity a platform to command the
media environment knowing that wall
to–all coverage is going to be around
this what is it going to look like when
Joe Biden is out on the campaign Trail
later this week talking about abortion
rights when you know that the former
president is there in the courthouse he
now has that political strategy that is
the same as his legal strategy of making
this look like this is a political and
legal persecution and he’s going to
communicate to that to his followers I
think very consistently as long as this
trial lasts and then probably Beyond uh
Katherine as John mentioned you know
sources say former National Security
excuse me former National inquir
publisher David pecker is set to be the
first witness the prosecution calls here
now the da alleges that pecker met with
Trump shortly after he announced his
presidential campaign and agreed to act
as the eyes and ears of the campaign
looking out for negative stories about
Donald Trump and killing them by for
example paying people off so what are
you listening for there assuming he does
take the stand as expected well look I
think it’s exactly that how do they
expand on that argument what type of
questions do they ask him he also pecker
allegedly directed a 2015 deal to pay
30,000 into uh the former Trump doorman
for example how do they expand on that
and then of course how does the Trump
legal team cross-examine him I’m told
that one of the other lawyers Amil B
will cross-examine pecker when that time
comes as John said if we see we could
possibly see pecker on the stand today
court is wrapping a little bit early but
again what arguments uh do prosecute
uters get in into there how much of as
you mentioned uh the eyes and ears pcker
they alleg pecker acted as the eyes and
ears in multiple meetings how much uh do
they go into on that is there any new
information all of that is something to
be looking out for obviously he’s
Central uh to the catch and kill schemes
that we’ve been talking about so again I
think that he will be on the stand uh
for potentially quite maybe a couple
days here and John the judge said one of
the seated jurors was concerned about
media attention different juror than the
one with tooth apparently um so where
are we now in terms of the jury well let
me just say one thing um literally
opening statements are beginning right
now so talking about that process moving
forward but as far as the jurors are
concerned hoping the Tooth goes well
everybody is intact meaning that that
juror you mentioned juror number nine
talked about media attention had a
conversation with the judge for now
judge michan announced the juror nine
would be staying with the case so we
still have the 12 jurors still have the
six alternates but look I do think the
media attention thing is a really
important part of this conversation
because recall so many jurors potential
jurors that were questioned throughout
last week reminder used to three weeks
it lasted a week just had a button that
while we’re here face to face with each
other Diane missed that bet I won he
lost anyway but just had to do that but
the reality is that you know for those
jurors so many of them said that they
were concerned for their safety right
how much attention Donald Trump brought
to these proceedings many of them really
having a tough reaction as they were
going through some of the question
questioning by Donald Trump’s attorneys
and prosecutors having to basically say
sometimes positive sometimes negative
things about Donald Trump would Donald
Trump physically right there staring
them down in some cases so I think for
now this is where we are I’m actually
curious if you agree with me I would be
very stunned if the 12 and six as it is
right now is the final group that ends
up judging this case once we get to the
final well Brian I’ll put that to you
and also to elaborate a little bit more
on that moment and what you made of it
where these jurors were asked what did
you I mean we all know that you know who
this man is because he was our president
so we can’t pretend like anybody doesn’t
know Donald Trump so we want to know
what you think about him and they had to
get up there and some one person called
him selfish another person said they
like that he speaks his mind and Donald
Trump is there in the room throughout
all of this yeah it’s an interesting uh
process especially like I’m imagine when
you’re Donald Trump but that’s the name
of the game I mean I mean I I’ve had it
both for for clients and myself you kind
of have to put yourself out there for
the jury to really examine your case
your attorney your defendant because you
have to make sure that you get someone
who’s impartial and not going to hold
anything against you whether you’re the
the former president whether you’re
charge with a certain crime however it
may be um but that’s got to be difficult
but I think at least at this point and
to John’s Point yeah I’ve been wrong
before I’ll probably be wrong again but
is there a possibility that we lose
potential jurors in this case that’s why
you have six alternates and so yeah it
could be a toothache it could be child
care it could be someone’s sick it could
be whatever it is but that back stop of
having six alternates hopefully we get
to 12 that can decide this case because
you must have 12 jurors to to deliberate
if it gets below that that’s a mistrial
then the bigger question becomes will
the prosecutors retry this case if we
get to that situation Rick how big are
the stakes here for the former
president it’s unprecedented in every
way and I think even former president
Trump has to know that that his entire
campaign and uh even beyond that his
freedom are at stake uh it’s hard to
think of anything bigger than that he
could be sentenced to prison time as a
result of this he could also uh see his
campaign take a turn for the for the
worst um he has pointed out that a lot
of polls have shown in beating Joe Biden
does it still look like that on the
other side not just because of the
todrey details and there will be lots of
embarrassing details coming out over the
last couple of weeks Donald Trump’s used
to that but the fact of a criminal
conviction we’ve seen it in public
opinion polling that even if people
don’t right now think that this case
necessarily meets the bar of criminality
they do think that voting for a
convicted criminal is problematic and
there are Trump supporters who told
pollsters pretty pretty uh pretty
consistently actually that if he is
convicted of a crime they are less
likely to vote for him and may not vote
for him at all so that’s real uh in in
his his his potential for return to
office and yeah his actual Freedom as a
as as an American citizen both at stake
and Rick what happens if he’s acquitted
does this become a Redemption Story how
much does that help Donald Trump
politically I think that’d be rocket
fuel for his campaign it would play into
so perfectly The Narrative that he has
crafted often based on half truths but
to have that uh to to say look well they
they tried to bring their best he did it
with impeachment the first time around
if you’ll recall made in the meller
report every time that they aim for him
and they don’t get it that they don’t
take him out he uses that as a rallying
cry and I think it would make this look
like what he has said that it has been
which is a politically motivated effort
to bring him down legally uh and I think
an AC quid would be an absolute best
case scenario for Donald Trump that
would then I think Propel him into an
even stronger position he is in now
politically all right John santui
kathern falers Rick Klein Brian buckmire
thank you all and we will be following
this trial along the the whole day again
opening statements underway in the
criminal hush money trial against former
president Trump we will continue to
bring you updates right here on ABC News
live meanwhile Columbia University is
holding all classes remotely today as
the University’s president calls for a
reset on campus the move is part of
increased safety measures as protests
related to the Israel Hamas War
intensify around campus one Rabbi is now
urging Jewish students to leave campus
ABC’s Ranna n has
more Columbia University is boosting
security ahead of the Passover holiday
with more protests expected around
campus the school now adding 35 guards
and more than 100 additional safety
personnel Pro Palestinian demonstrators
have gathered at the school since last
week rallying against the Israel Hamas
War and at times using violent
rhetoric videos online show protesters
promising to carry out massacres similar
to the Hamas attack of October 7th
chanting phrases like we are Hamas a
rabbi associated with the university is
now urging Jewish students to go home
saying Columbia University’s Public
Safety and the NYPD cannot guarantee
Jewish students safety New York’s mayor
says he’s horrified by the hate speech
but says because Colombia is private
property the NYPD can’t stay on campus
unless the school requests it police
made multiple arrests at a protest near
campus Saturday days after arresting
more than a hundred people on campus
when the University’s president asked
law enforcement to clear out an
encampment the mass arrests and the
suppression of students I would say
that’s galvanized us this is nothing
compared to what people in Palestine are
dealing with people in Gaza they are
starving have lost
everything overseas the Israeli military
is vowing to carry out a ground
offensive targeting militants in the
southern Gaza City of Rafa where air
strikes yesterday killed 22 people
including 18 children according to the
Hamas run Health Ministry meanwhile
Israeli leaders are criticizing an
expected decision by the US to withhold
military aid from a unit of the Israeli
military accused of Human Rights
violations in the West Bank an
unprecedented move that could widen the
rift between President Biden and prime
minister Benjamin
Netanyahu Rihanna NY thank you and
Reagan Mei from our New York station
WABC is near Columbia’s campus joining
me now for more Reagan what’s the latest
there on
campus well you know the latest is that
the president of the University Dr Manu
shafik had sent an email in the over
overnight hours telling the students
that the classes today will be remote
because of all of the protesting and as
I speak about that protesting behind me
I don’t know if you can get a look at it
we it appears that we have a group of
pro-israel protesters uh there’s an
American flag that’s divided into the
Israel flag and the American flag and
there seems to be a peaceful
Congregation of people at this hour uh
this is important because we’re expected
to have some congressmen here later on
this afternoon noon talking about the
anti-Semitism violence and the
harassment among the Jewish students uh
allegedly on campus so um in addition to
the virtual classes uh that’s a way for
the president to stve the university
just to have a reset day as we know
sundown tonight begins the holiday
Passover Lan so what are protesters
demanding from the
University yeah so what basically
they’re demanding is for the uh Colombia
University to divest in any Israel
backed business so um things like they
say divest its stocks its funds and an
endowment from companies that they say
profit from Israel’s violations of
international law and Palestinian human
rights and they said that they are
vowing this they’re going to stay
protesting on campus in fact they’re
allowed to go back onto the South lawn
and protest peacefully and they say they
are sticking around until their demands
are
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here’s some of the top stories we’re
watching today for the first time in
American history a former president will
be tried in Criminal Court opening
statements are now underway as
prosecutors lay out in detail their hush
money case against former president
Trump and Trump’s team gives a preview
of their defense uh former porn star
Stormy Daniels will testify along with
Michael Cohen Trump’s former fixer who
wired her the alleged hush money we’ll
be covering the very latest all day
right here on ABC News live meanwhile a
man is under arrest suspected of
breaking into the home of Los Angeles
mayor Karen bass police say the
29-year-old smashed a window to get into
the mayor’s official residence early
Sunday morning the mayor was home at the
time but she and her family were not
injured and nothing was
taken the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has
announced its newest inductees the
latest class includes aie Osborne Mary J
Blas A Tribe Called Quest and Dave
Matthews Band four of the eight undues
were on the ballot for the first time
including Sher Foreigner cool and the
Gang and Peter Frampton the ruction
ceremony will happen in October and
stream later on Disney
plus and this Earth Day Hong Kong is
taking the major step of banning single
use plastic items straws utensils and
plates will no longer be an option in
the city’s restaurant starting today
according to green pece single-use
plastic utensils are the second largest
source of plastic waste in Hong Kong
after single-use plastic
bags and the Supreme Court is expected
to hear oral arguments on homelessness
today this after a lower court in Los
Angeles found punishing unhoused people
to be cruel unusual and unconstitutional
ABC senior Washington reporter Devon DWI
has more on what’s at stake from Grant
Pass
Oregon on the banks of the Rogue River
tucked away under trees on the side of
the road even in center field of the
local Little League ballpark the
homelessness epidemic is inescapable
even in Sleepy Grants Pass Oregon
population 40,000 roughly 600 call Parks
like this one home Brandon a 38-year-old
Grants Pass native says he has no choice
so the city came in and said you can’t
Camp right there on those wood chips
they yeah yeah the uh the the officer
said I was too close to the playground
and I was too close to the to the fence
loal Law requires that he move his Camp
every 72 hours the city had tried to ban
camping in Parks outright but was
blocked by a federal court for now if I
don’t feel like I just I belong I’m
going to feel like an outside then I’m
going to want to continue doing the same
thing because there’s no reason to to
thrive for anything different there’s no
place to go Helen Cruz knows the
indignity firsthand over 5 years living
in Parks before a nearby Church took her
in she says she received more than
$5,000 in camping related fines I was
holding down two jobs when I was out
here and uh still not enough to be able
to rent a place their their uh terms of
low-income house here is $11,000 a month
and that’s that’s not workable either
you know so when the police come through
and they do a sweep of this area what do
they do what do they tell you if you
don’t comply you are trespassed and you
could possibly go to jail the city of
Grants Pass is among a growing number of
American communities passing laws to
crack down on homeless
encampments a perfect storm of
skyrocketing housing prices sunsetting
Co relief programs a mental health and
drug abuse crisis and an aging
population without retirement savings
has led to record numbers of unhoused
people Nationwide for all intents and
purposes a lot of the behavior you see
here today uh is illegal and then our
community will ask well what are you
doing about a chief chief Warren hensman
says his officers are caught in the
middle we have community members in gr’s
pass that are afraid to come to their
Parks we’ve had shootings in our Parks
we’ve had fights in our Parks chronic
drug abuse in our Parks so so much of
our citizenry are not walking through
our parks in 2013 the city passed an
ordinance Banning anyone from using a
blanket pillow or cardboard box for
protection from the elements while
sleeping in public local representative
Dwayne yunker says it was intended to
crack down on unsanitary conditions and
crime critics of Grant’s Pass say the
the council has tried to criminalize
homelessness is that what that’s going
on here we do have a responsibility to
keep people
safe and that’s the struggle is how do
we keep everybody safe is it safe to
have a kid playing in a park where
there’s a tent 20 ft away I don’t know
what the people in the tent are doing
but with no public shelters inside City
Limits a group of homeless residents
alleged the new law was cruel and
unusual punishment they sued in federal
court and won we’re fighting between
what the law is telling us and what the
people want us to do and trying to make
everybody happy that’s a big huge
struggle for a city government
criminalizing the the victims of our
failed housing policy is morally wrong
and it’s
unconstitutional and that’s essentially
what the city’s the city of Grants Pass
has done by making it illegal for
someone to exist while being homeless I
had a beautiful vegetable garden I love
to cook Laura a 55-year-old grants past
native and mother of three says
homelessness hit suddenly after her
husband died in 2021 and health problems
sent her to the hospital have you been
ticketed by the
city yeah um I have over a dozen
citations what are the citations for um
mostly for scattering rubbish and that
means that uh anything outside of your
8T by 8T diameter limits is considered
rubbish trash her home is now a tent in
this park I needed a little bit of color
out here a single daffodil one small
sign Laura is clinging to hope there’s
those of us that are struggling and
fighting and taking one step out as
we’re digging out of the hole you have
nowhere else to go yeah yeah but across
the river you’ve got 78 beds in this
building it’s only half full why is
that well there’s a lot of reasons so
this is what we call our 30-day dorm
Brian Bowell says the doors are open at
the only private homeless shelter in
town the Grants Pass gospel rescue
mission for over 40 years it’s provided
warm beds and meals but with religious
requirements how many times a day do
they go to Chapel twice a day our guys
go to go to Chapel they go to the chapel
once in the morning once in the evening
the Lord said learn a lesson from this
unjust judge residents must also quit
smoking drinking and drug use and give
up their pets the ninth circuit said
that it’s cruel and unusual punishment
on the part of Grant’s Pass to sight and
find some homeless folks for living in
the park when there’s nowhere else to go
well that’s the part that’s the big
question is there nowhere else to go is
there just nowhere else that they want
to go Beller says so long as courts say
Grants Pass cannot ban camping in public
more people will choose to stay on the
streets we’ve seen a drop in our
residency and we’ve seen an increase in
people in our parks and freeway over
underpass and and that kind of stuff in
places where they ought not be cities
from Phoenix to Los Angeles to Seattle
have joined Grants Pass and appealing to
the US Supreme Court these encampments
in California are unacceptable elected
officials from both parties urging the
justices to make it easier for cities to
clear tent encampments like these it’s
not acceptable for anyone to call the
streets or Park their home and cities
need to have these ordinances so that
they can help to incentivize people to
accept offers of help that’s what these
laws do the reality is um the only thing
that works is more permanent affordable
housing this case is not going to solve
homelessness if we Prevail in this case
our homeless problem is still going to
be there it just means that we can’t
criminalize people while they’re
homeless for Helen Cruz and Brandon a
lot is on the line we’re just a small
little community is a really big
homeless problem and no place to put
us Devon DWI thank you coming up soaking
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first a new initiative from the National
Park Service is encouraging doctors to
write Park prescriptions uh this comes
as a number of medical programs are
stressing the benefits of getting
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Day Park RX is a community health
initiative that works to provide the
prescription for wellness by getting
more people Outdoors you cannot get a
better opportunity to reinvigorate
yourself to reset yourself and than
getting outside in The outo Great
Outdoors and taking a walk and being in
the national parks getting outside and
exercising can help your in a number of
ways just simply getting exposure to
sunlight can help you build up vitamin D
improving your immune health and your
muscle function also just simply being
outside in green spaces can benefit your
mental health walking and incorporating
aerobic exercise can help keep your
heart healthy and reduce stress dozens
of programs across the country are now
available to help increase Outdoor
Activity one of these programs walk with
the doc encourages patients to go
outside and walk Walking is medicine and
for me it’s a form of medicine and when
I get outside and I start walking it
just feels freeing like the weight of
the world starts to fall off of me when
I have a chance to walk how much walking
do I need to do every week is there a
specific amount or is there too little
too much what what do I need to do
important question it’s 150 minutes a
week so 20 25 minutes a day um and if
you miss a day it’s okay um but key is
just sticking with it and I always think
about this you know walking versus
running and you know do I have to be
extra you know exert myself Beyond or
can I just simply walk yeah walking
really gets it done running gets it done
a little faster but you get all the
benefits from walking and its lower
impact when I look across our medical
system and the ability of doctors to use
all the tools that they can attend our
Parks prescription program is probably a
key to that being able to get and
prescribe to people who are having
stressful issues or who who may need to
do Rehabilitation getting them outside
into the national parks are or any park
for that matter so that they can enjoy
and get through recovery so that they
can again reduce their stress level so
that they can Center and focus on their
own personal well-being you can’t ask
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our top story opening statements are
underway in the historic criminal hush
money trial against former president
Trump it’s the first time ever
prosecutors are presenting a criminal
case against a former president before a
jury the prosecution is outlining its
case saying quote this is about a
criminal conspiracy the judge emphasized
that the burden of proof rests on the
prosecutors telling jurors they should
presume Trump is innocent and quote if
you are convinced Beyond a reasonable
doubt you must find the defendant guilty
Trump has pleaded not guilty to
falsifying business records to conceal a
hush money payment to stormmy Daniels
before the 2016 election sources tell us
the District Attorney’s Office plans to
call former National Inquirer publisher
and longtime friend of Donald Trump’s
David pecker as its first witness I want
to bring in ABC News investigative
reporter Olivia ru from outside the
courthouse along with ABC News editorial
producer John santui ABC News political
director Rick Klein and ABC News legal
contributor Brian buckmire for excuse me
for more Olivia what’s the latest from
inside the
courtroom well prosecutors are
continuing to tick through their opening
statements right now laying out their
version of the case they started with a
meeting between Donald Trump and David
pcker and Michael Cohen one where they
said they hatched this conspiracy where
they were going to buy and bury stories
and then they are continuing to tick
through each instance they have talked
about stormmy Daniels they have talked
about another uh former Playboy model
Karen McDougall they have talked about a
doorman who also received a payment and
I will say Diane just before I came out
here prosecutors were going through the
infamous Access Hollywood tape uh in
which Donald Trump was of course heard
just days before the election talking
about women and saying that he was
bragging about sexual assault so it’s
the prosecutor telling the jury that
Donald Trump while he is sitting just
feet away has been bragging about sexual
assault and again Donald Trump is sort
of forced to just sit there and listen
to all this before it will be his team’s
chance to make their own openings Brian
the prosecution is calling this a
criminal conspiracy saying that’s what
this case is about so what do they have
to prove to reach that bar of Beyond
reasonable doubt that the judge was very
clear about with the jury today yeah so
the judge will ultimately the end of the
trial quote what we have is called the
criminal justice and or the jury
instructions sorry and if I can remember
at one point I had it memorized uh A A
Reasonable Doubt is an honest doubt that
a person would take based on the
quantity and quality of the evidence
it’s not an imagy a doubt is an actual
doubt based on the evidence or the lack
of the evidence and that’s just kind of
it paraph paraphrased he will explain
what the prosecution has to do to reach
that level and then ultimately let the
jurors be the triers of fact that he the
judges Tri of the law the the jurors
will take the evidence and see if they
have reached that level now they don’t
have to technically prove a criminal
conspiracy he is not being charged with
anything in that sense but the criminal
conspiracy lends itself towards the
falsification of documents as well as
the underlying crime so he’s going to
prove multiple elements uh of each one
of those charges Beyond A Reasonable
Doubt John we’re told that Trump hasn’t
made any eye contact and isn’t making
any eye contact with the jurors he is
going to be in this courtroom daily for
weeks what are you hearing from his
inner circle in terms of how he’s
preparing and has already prepared for
that well I I think what’s interesting
is that and Olivia touched on this in
some of her reporting uh to us as she’s
running out of the courtroom you know a
big part of what Donald Trump is having
to do is sit there and listen to it so
we just learned that as Olivia talked
about the Access Hollywood tape I guess
Liv I guess you missed this part but
they because you ran out to come talk to
us but they just literally read the
transcript of that tape so Donald Trump
having to sit there as they’re reading
that transcript we all know those
Infamous words when you’re a star you
could do anything I’m G to stop the
sentence there but that the idea that
Donald Trump can’t react to any of this
right can’t show any emotion to this you
know he’s apparently been p and Olivia
could be better this than I can he’s
apparently been you know writing notes
you know banging his lawyer’s arm I mean
all of that is things that if our people
can see it and they’re reporting it the
jurors can see it right and that’s
really going to be something that Donald
Trump has to have a lot of self-control
because this is just openings so when it
is the people that you know do get under
his skin when it is the Michael cohens
the Stormy Daniels and they have told
Trump Trump’s lawyers and his other
advisers have said don’t react you know
one of the things that I’ve heard Diane
recently is that they’re trying to find
ways to have people in the courtroom
Donald Trump knows so they’ve talked
about you know having other senior
advisers to his campaign having longtime
employees of the Trump organization
legal council there people that frankly
more than anything else their presence
could calm Donald Trump down just to see
them right to have a face that you know
because he knows Todd blanch and these
lawyers a little bit but not well enough
that you know like you and I at this
point we can make eye contact with each
other we’ve been sitting at this for so
long and basically when I get those eyes
you you’re like John shut up stop
talking right there’s something about
that right it it it’s the
non-communicative language you have with
somebody when you have been around them
for some time and I think that’s what
they’re trying to help help Donald Trump
with through this process it’s a pretty
common practice a lot of my clients
often say bring your mom cuz I know if
you act out mom go look at you like and
then your client kind of gets back in
order so it’s a common practice it makes
sense will we see the Trump family in
court so it’s been discussed um I I’ve
heard very mixed um uh reactions this so
far they haven’t been there you’ll
recall during the Civil proceedings New
York attorney general’s case um Eric and
Don J both showed up because they were
required to testify Eric Trump just
showed up on days for support with Dad
um I think it’ll be interesting you know
think about this you know while we went
through the arraignment process Eric
Trump went with his father to several of
the arraignments post those indictments
last year um but one of the things I do
hear consistently is that it’s though
this case is a business Financial case
because it’s so much about Donald
Trump’s personal life there’s a bit of
an embarrassment that he doesn’t even
want his family to hear some of these
things in open court so I think it
remains to be seen Rick what does this
all do politically on the one hand Trump
is in this courtroom which means he’s
not on the campaign Trail right now on
the other hand he’s making headlines
that he’s center of the press right
getting all this coverage what does this
all do for his campaign and particularly
this idea that he you know he can’t
react in the way he probably would like
to in the way we’re used to seeing him
yeah look when he is the dominant news
story he’s typically winning but I think
things might be a little bit different
uh in in the coming in the coming days
and weeks for a couple of reasons one is
these are just todry details to have the
Access Hollywood tape read out to the to
the jurors read out to the public
reminding everyone of of one of the
absolute low points of his time in
public life um the details are going to
come out about this alleged Affair and
the hush money payments and and all of
this it is just is just kind of gross
and not good for anyone now Trump may be
the exception to that rule as we’ve seen
in the past the other thing is he wants
this campaign to not be about him oddly
he wants it to be about Joe Biden and
when he’s in the courtroom it’s about
him and about his behavior and it’s
going to remind voters potentially of
what they didn’t like about him so I do
think that this might be a little bit of
the exception to the rule of trump
dominance that this is a case where he
doesn’t necessarily want to be the
center of the action he’s going to turn
it around he’s going to try to turn it
around and talk about how this is uh an
attempt to get him and you’ll be talking
about gag orders and about politically
motivated prosecutions all of which he
can do to some extent just to whatever
extent is isn’t reigned in by those uh
by those partial gag orders uh but he’s
not really fighting this entirely on his
own terms no matter what he says outside
the courtroom a a lot of the days and a
lot of the headlines are going to be
about some really awful details of his
of his personal life some of which are
in dispute but many of which actually
aren’t and Olivia how is Trump doing
with those instructions from his legal
team to hold back those reactions he’s
not someone you know he is someone known
for his very animated facial expressions
and his verbal reactions to things
sometimes even when he’s in theory not
supposed to have them so how’s that
going so far as as the prosecution lays
out in some case some pretty tody
details about his his life and
allegations against
him well we’re already starting to see
some of that reaction Diane remember in
the Overflow room there’s sort of a
camera directly on Donald Trump’s face
so we’re seeing his reaction to every
single word from the prosecutors and
what has been drawing some reaction from
him specifically is that Access
Hollywood tape when the prosecutor said
that Trump bragged about his uh uh
sexual assault I could see him shake his
head uh purse his lips when you know the
prosecutor brought up Karen McDougall he
could he was shuffling with some papers
and grabbing onto a pen and he’s sort of
fidgeting in his seat a little bit
because there’s not much more that he
can do tilting his head leaning back and
forth talking to his lawyers but it’s
the shaking of the head Diane that I’ve
seen so far twice this morning once
during uh the bragging about sexual
assault claim and once during oh
essentially one of the opening remarks
of the opening statement When U Matthew
Colangelo said that Donald Trump engag
in conspiracy to uh unlawfully influence
the 2016 election so that he could win
that Drew the first headshake from
Donald Trump and that’s really the most
that he can do here but I do think you
know John brought up something really
interesting which is that the jurors are
going to be watching him and that was
that issue in an earlier egene Carol
trial remember he was muttering under
his breath he stormed out of the
courtroom at one point and the jury
watched all of that and the uh attorneys
in that case encouraged the jury to
factor in his courtroom behavior in
their verdict so he is under a
microscope here not just from the Press
but from the jurors as well and it will
be interesting to see how he can react
uh throughout the next six to eight
weeks and Brian the judge has ruled that
Trump can be questioned on some of these
previous cases if he takes the stand in
his own defense how significant is that
it’s very significant because it gives
the defense kind of a road map as to all
right this is what we want on direct
examination this is how we can probably
push forward our case and push back on
on the prosecution’s case but is it
going to be a situation where we take
one step forward and five steps back
because if Donald Trump was questioned
on these issues that seems to pertain to
this catch and kill uh scheme and let’s
say he testifies beautifully and doesn’t
open the door to anything and he’s calm
cool and collected and answers with
short beautiful answers then yeah
there’s still harm there but it’s also
Donald Trump what’s the likelihood of
him answering that way so you also have
to predict the likelihood of him opening
the door to far worse so it to me it
could possibly be one step forward and
10 back I I I would say don’t do it
Donald Trump if I was attorney but as
Brian buckmire ABC legal contributor I
say please take the stand because
there’ll be a lot more to talk because
I’m hoping for a second child and him
taking the stand just way opportunity to
talk about the case but legally I say
don’t do it like like it’s not smart but
I think he’ll keep us in business for a
long time if he does all right we’ll see
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Brian buckmeier thank you and we will be
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opening statements are underway in the
historic criminal hush money trial
against former president Trump it’s the
first time ever prosecutors are
presenting a criminal case against a
former president before a jury the
prosecution is outlining its case saying
quote this is about a criminal
conspiracy the judge meanwhile
emphasized that the burden of proof
rests on the prosecutors telling jurors
they should presume Trump is innocent
and quote if you are convinced Beyond a
reasonable doubt you must find the
defendant guilty Trump has pleaded not
guilty to falsifying business records to
conceal a hush money payment to stormmy
Daniels before the 2016 election so
let’s get an update now from ABC News
executive editorial producer John santui
uh John what’s the latest here so for
the moment we’re going through basically
the process of the day right so we’ve
seen opening statements from prosecutors
where they’ve really been outlining what
their case is going to be and they’ve
talked about how this was not a one-off
thing with Donald Trump he was known to
do this they’ve also talked about
certain attitudes and behaviors of
Donald Trump and one of the things that
we knew would come up at some point but
you know it’s coming right out of the
gate early is that Infamous Access
Hollywood tape the one that came out
just weeks before the 2016 presidential
election in which Donald Trump’s heard
on audio speaking about a woman talking
about how when you’re a star they could
let you do anything I think most people
at home are familiar with that but the
reality is prosecutors are trying to
build this idea that Donald Trump and
the way he acted he behaved as if the
law did not apply to him and clearly
based on where he is today that is the
argument they need to hit home because
they’re all here because they believe
Donald Trump broke the law and thus a
34C count criminal indictment is against
him all right John santui thank you and
we will be following this trial all day
long again opening statements underway
in that criminal hush money trial
against former president Trump we’ll
keep you updated right here on ABC News
live meanwhile house Speaker Mike
Johnson appears to be gaining new
support from across the aisle after
putting his job on the line to push
through a95 billion foreign aid package
some hard-right Republicans opposed to
the package are threatened to force a
vote to remove Johnson as Speaker of the
House now a top Republican and
Progressive Democrat are praising the
speaker suggesting he’ll be able to hold
on to his job even if it does come to a
vote now that massive foreign aid
package is headed to the Senate and it
also includes a bill that could
potentially ban Tick Tock in the US
senior White House correspondent Selena
Wang joins me now from Capitol Hill for
more on that so Selena talk to me about
the Tik Tock bill that’s part of this
package it gives Chinese owned bite
dance a year to sell Tik Tok or face a
nationwide ban how significant is that
and how could that impact the many
concrete uh content creators and more
than 170 million Tik Tok
users yeah Diane so this has been
gaining a lot of momentum in Congress
over National Security concerns of Tik
Tock with fears that American data
private data could end up in the hands
of the Chinese government that is
something that Tik Tok vehemently denies
they say their data is secure and that
has never happened now as you say this
legislation would give Tick Tock about a
year to try and find a buyer for bite
dance to try and find a buyer for Tik
Tok otherwise it would face a ban in the
US but look it’s a long road to get
there this will face legal challenges
Tik Tok says they’re going to fight this
in the court saying it violates the
First Amendment and on top of that Diane
it would be very hard to find a buyer
we’re talking about tens of billions of
dollars here there are not many
companies not many buyers who can afford
that and on top of that there could be
these anti-monopoly concerns so even if
Tik Tok is banned and all of this goes
through Diane there is still a way for
people to technically try and access the
app for instance through virtual private
networks when I was living in China
where a whole slew of apps are banned
including ironically Tik Tok and
Facebook Google Instagram Etc people
could technically still access these
band apps through virtual private
Network so this will be a long road to
get there even when it does get there
there could be ways around it now the
Senate is expected to take this up
tomorrow the president has already said
he’ll sign it quickly if it reaches his
desk so what happens to Tik Tock if it
is passed yeah exactly so I was just
walking through what might happen here
so it would take aim at these app stor
so this means that the app store for
Google or Apple if they host the Tik Tok
app after it’s banned well that means
they could be penalized but again it
could take a very long time to get there
again there’s this year-long window they
have on top of that there’s the intense
lobbing effort there is the legal
challenges actually finding a buy
and Dian also interestingly there are
some fascinating political Dynamics here
President Biden has said he supports
this legislation but meanwhile his
campaign is actively using Tik Tok to
try and reach those young voters and Tik
Tok is of course reminding Congress that
millions of businesses would be
devastated if Tik Tok were
banned all right senior White House
correspondent Selena Wang thank you and
the Supreme Court is hearing one of the
most significant cases on homelessness
ever to reach the Justices today the
high court will consider a California
ruling that found finding people for
sleeping on the streets amounts to cruel
and unusual punishment ABC News senior
Washington reporter Devon DWI has more
on the case Devin Diane It’s the biggest
case on homelessness to reach the
Supreme Court in more than 40 years that
issue is whether cities can penalize
homeless people who sleep outside when
they have nowhere else to go the city of
Grants Pass Oregon passed an ordinance
prohibiting uh public camping subject to
a citation or a fine a federal appeals
court said that amounts to cruel and
unusual punishment because the city has
no public uh shelters for those people
the city is now appealing to the
justices asking them uh to be able to
enforce the law which they say would
protect Public Safety of course all of
this could have sweeping implications
for cities Nationwide they’re all
dealing now with a surge in homeless
encampments a decision in that case
expected by June but it’s not the only
big case this week Diane on Wednesday
the Supreme Court will for the first
time since overturning Row versus Wade
take up the scope of Idaho’s abortion
ban and on Thursday the court will hear
a case on presidential immunity and
whether Donald Trump can face criminal
prosecution for his efforts to overturn
the results of the 2020 election a big
week at the court Dian uh and again
those decisions coming by the end of
June Diane watching those closely senior
Washington reporter Devon DWI thank you
let’s bring ABC News legal contributor
former FBI agent Asha Rapa for more on
this and some of the other major cases
expected before The Supreme Court Asha
this homelessness case is the biggest
case in on this issue in more than 40
years as Devin said so what kind of
implications could this have depending
on the Court’s
ruling well Diane this can have
implications on a number of similar
kinds of laws that have been passed over
the throughout the country now the eth
amendment which prohibits cruel and
unusual punishment also prohibits
excessive fines and that’s what’s
Central here that the city is fining
people for quote unquote camping in
within the city and those bines can
reach thousands of dollars but really I
think the heart of this case is whether
the city is criminalizing conduct or the
status of the people as homeless and
there’s a 1962 Supreme Court case which
said that you can’t prohibit people
based on their or you can’t criminalize
People based on their status for example
for being a drug user even though you
can criminalize their conduct like
buying and selling drugs and the
challengers here say look these people
have no other alternative so they’re
effectively being criminalized for being
homeless of course the city is saying
we’re just prohibiting camping um and so
one thing that this might turn on is
whether there needs to be an
individualized inquiry into each
person’s situation to see whether
they’re doing this voluntarily or not
but this could have major implications
for a number of
cities now Asha on Wednesday the court
will consider an abortion ban in Idaho
and whether hospitals have to provide
access to the procedure When a Woman’s
Health is at risk what sticks out to you
in terms of how this case made it to the
Supreme Court and what are you watching
for
now well I think that we’re in a
situation where we’re going to see the
impact of Dos um in all of these
different uh abortion restrictions
throughout the country um so I think
that what I’m looking for is really the
line of questioning that the justices
are going to have uh in terms of how
they are going to you know I don’t want
to say split the baby but kind of uh
draw some lines um in uh their opening
of allowing states to create all of
these blanket
restrictions all right ABC’s legal
contributor Asha Rapa Asha thank
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the defense is now up in the opening
statements in the trial against former
president Trump the historic hush money
trial is the first time ever prosecutors
are presenting a criminal case against a
former president before a jury the
prosecution has outlined their case
calling it a criminal criminal
conspiracy and election fraud the judge
emphasized to the jury that the burden
of proof rests on the prosecutors
telling jurors they should presume Trump
is innocent end quote if you are
convinced Beyond a reasonable doubt you
must find the defendant guilty and Trump
has pleaded not guilty to falsifying
business records to conceal a hush money
payment to Stormy Daniels before the
2016 election let’s get an update now
from ABC News executive editorial
producer John santui John the defense is
up now so the prosecution has now laid
out their case what do you make of it so
far so let’s talk first about the
prosecution so prosecutors really went
through basically all the hot button
issues that can and will come up
throughout this weeks long trial they
talked about axis Hollywood they talked
about Michael Cohen which is the reason
that this case is all gone underway and
one of the things that they did quite
well is say listen we know Michael Cohen
is a criminal but Michael Cohen did
these things at behest of his boss who
at the time was Donald Trump and a
conversation and dialogue that began
leading up to the 2016 campaign which is
why prosecutors are saying this whole
case boils down to election interference
now as soon as prosecutors concluded
their nearly hourlong presentation
defense attorney Todd blanch Diane got
right up according to our team to the
podium and said president Trump is
innocent and one of the things he said
that was actually quite interesting and
I think again in part playing to the
audience of one Todd Blan said in court
I’m going to refer to him as president
Trump because he earned that title
that’s a big distinction between the
prosecutors and the defense right
because so often they’ve just referred
to him as Donald Trump Mr Trump but you
see the defense side trying to again
insert the politics into that it’s very
subtle it’s little but nevertheless
important one of the other things they
talked about as part of their opening
statements and they’re still going
through it is attacking Michael Cohen
they’re going to do that repeatedly
trying to destroy the credibility of all
the prosecutors Witnesses now the
assistant district attorney got up there
said this was election fraud pure and
simple how do you expect the defense to
counter that well one of the things
they’re going to say and we talked about
this a little earlier today is that
these were business transactions this is
something that Infamous famous people do
all the time they have stories or things
that are embarrassing they make people
sign ndas non-disclosure agreements in
their eyes it’s a routine business
practice and you cover those up so they
don’t get out as saying they’re legal
fees or legal consultations or whatever
you want to code them as the problem
though is that most people are not
running to be the leader of the Free
World which is exactly what Donald Trump
was doing when this happened and part of
what prosecutors are going to do to
counter that argument is say this
happened repeatedly during the 2016
election it happened with Stormy Daniels
who is this Cas is about it happened
with Karen McDougall another woman that
Donald Trump had a relationship with and
it happened with a former doorman that
also knew some alleged damaging
information about the former president
so that is how this is different than
other times all right John santui well I
know you’re keeping updated soures in
the courtroom constantly getting those
messages we appreciate it thank you and
we of course will continue to have
coverage of this historic case all day
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in that historic criminal hush money
trial against former president Trump
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top story the defense is now turning in
giving opening statements in the
historic criminal hush money trial
against former president Trump the
prosecution outlined its case saying
this is about a criminal conspiracy the
judge meanwhile emphasized that the
burden of proof rests on the prosecutors
telling jurors they should presume Trump
is innocent and quote if you’re
convinced Beyond a reasonable doubt you
must find the defendant guilty Trump has
pleaded not guilty to falsifying
business records to conceal a hush money
payment to Stormy Daniels before the
2016 election sources tell the District
Attorney’s Office plans to call former a
national Inquirer publisher and a
longtime friend of trump David pecker as
its first witness so let’s bring in ABC
News editorial producer John santui
Senior reporter kathern falers legal
contributor Brian Buck Meer for more
John Todd Blan Trump attorney is now
giving the defenses part of these
opening statements what sticks out to
you so far from what we’ve heard in the
courtroom to what the prosecution said
and now Todd’s response so I think this
idea that right away and not too
surprising but nevertheless still
striking to hear these words Donald
Trump is innocent president Trump is
innocent was what Todd Blen said in
court according to our team it it just
gets right to the heart of that you know
they’ve got to very quickly start
drawing lines here into this case um you
know one of the things that they’re
going to be starting to do as we learn
more and Katherine could speak better of
this through through her reporting than
I can is that you know they’re going to
move aggressively team Trump to start
attacking some of the witnesses here in
their opening statements and in part
because a that’s what you do but also
because prosecutors during their opening
statements sort of got ahead of it right
saying that you know we know Michael
Cohen’s a criminal you’re going to hear
about this but the reality is that
Michael Cohen at the time was Donald
Trump’s employee was a part of Team
Trump was a member of the legal team did
these things at Donald Trump’s behest
and carried out a crime at his Direction
uh Katherine the prosecution in its
opening statements also told the jury
you’re going to be hearing a lot about
Michael Cohen why the prep there well
look Michael Cohen as John was
mentioning is a key witness here he’s
perhaps the only witness that can
testify to Trump’s intent here but
prosecutors already know what the
defense is going to do which is really
to undermine Michael Cohen’s credibility
and they got ahead of that prosecutors a
little bit in their opening statement
and I’m quoting here uh the prosecutor
said the defense quote will go to Great
Lengths to convince the jury that
Cohen’s not credible they also said they
acknowledge that he lied for example
they say that his testimony will be
backed up by testimony from other
Witnesses uh but they do say that he has
a criminal record that he lied to
protect the boss and that is going to be
Central to the defense’s strategy here
is this the only witness that you have
who could possibly speak to this and if
it is well he lied previously so how can
you possibly find him credible he will
be a key witness he will be Central
you’ll be hearing a lot about him
throughout the opening statements
throughout the witness testimony and as
this trial goes on bran the prosecution
called this a criminal conspiracy saying
that’s with at the heart of this case
they called it election fraud pure and
simple what do they now have to do in
order to prove that Beyond A Reasonable
Doubt so 34 different accounts and it’s
a a little bit difficult to describe but
they don’t actually have to prove that
this is a criminal conspiracy or
election fraud Beyond A Reasonable Doubt
what they have to prove is that that is
why uh Donald Trump LED himself to
falsifying business records in the first
degree the elements of those crimes they
have to prove Beyond A Reasonable Doubt
and the elements of that crime is that
he committed the crime of falsifying
business record by deleting omitting
altering whatever the long list of it is
in that penal law code uh documents in
his business records and that he did so
with the intent of a fraud and that
includes an intent to commit a crime or
another crime specifically or Aid and
Abed in that crime and improving a be
reasonable doubt that being the highest
standard we have in this country in any
Court they have to basically show that
it all but sure that he committed these
crimes John what are you hearing in
terms of Trump’s demeanor in the
courtroom how is he handling all of this
particularly with the detail some of
these allegations pretty tody coming out
in court while he has to sit there well
well just just if I can make one quick
pivot just this line from Todd blanch he
just it literally just caught my
attention as we’re talking Todd blanch
as he’s going through his opening
statements says that quote there is
nothing wrong with trying to influence
an election it’s called democracy that’s
just such a very striking line given
everything that Donald Trump is accused
of not just in this courtroom but in
other proceedings right now especially
on the federal level and down in Fulton
County Georgia related to another
election but back back to your question
I apologize but it just caught my eye um
you know I think that Donald Trump right
now is having a very tough time
controlling himself Olivia Rubin had the
best description earlier about Donald
Trump shaking his head I can tell you as
somebody that has seen Donald Trump
shake his head cuz he’s gotten mad at me
once or 20 times in my life it’s not a
very subtle thing right Donald Trump is
not one to be subtle ever in his life so
Donald Trump having any type of reaction
right you know shaking his head writing
notes hitting his lawyer all of which
our team is seeing that means the jurors
are seeing it too and Donald Trump
really does need to have discipline in
these moments because if he’s just
reacting like this to prosecutors
speaking about him we know based off the
fact that we’ve already seen this other
courtrooms Diane Michael Cohen and
Donald Trump have a horrible
relationship now they were best of
friends at one point Inseparable Michael
Cohen once said that he would take a
bullet for Donald Trump described
himself as Trump’s Pitbull Donald Trump
having to sit there as the once loyal
Pitbull is going to attack and destroy
everything that Donald Trump has work to
build is going to be something that
Donald Trump is not I know not going to
be able to sit there Stone Face for but
he has to find a way to because any
reaction any vibe body language alone
could impact it Brian how careful uh do
Trump’s attorneys have to be here in
what they say in this case given he is
facing several other criminal cases as
well I mean I’m playing catchup from
what you’re just reading they have to be
very careful but it doesn’t seem like
they are being careful I I mean when you
look at a criminal defense right what
I’ve learned and what I’ve practiced
myself is you attack the elements of the
crime you say okay there was no intent
to defraud what is Donald Trump
defrauding by writing his own personal
documents that’s one way of going about
it you could say the the star witness
you have is is not credible you can’t
trust this person based on the evidence
that they’re coming forward with you can
the investigation was sloppy based on
the prosecutor or law enforcer who was
involved but this doesn’t seem like a
careful defense of an individual this
seems to just be the reiteration of what
Donald Trump has said on on the campaign
Trail outside of course it seems less of
a legal defense and more of a can you
believe they’re doing this and so I’m
trying to parse through it as I’m
reading it that to say they should be
careful but I’m not quite seeing it just
yet but can I ask you a question if if
you don’t mind as we’re just all reading
these notes might as well be John santui
show at this point so go for
it I know you don’t mean that as a joke
either so I’m GNA watch myself but I I
do think one of the things they’re
making this argument here cuz we’re both
reading the same feed from our team
they’re trying to say here that Michael
Cohen was paid $130,000 for Stormy
Daniels but in the same time frame total
he was paid out
$42,000 because he was the attorney and
the attorney was doing multiple acts of
legal work this was all part of legal
work does that you know yeah yeah but
John and they also say that bland
reportedly iterated that Cohen was truly
his attorney that even his email
signature said that he’s an attorney
when I email you to be like hey do you
want to go to the Central Park with our
kids togethers I’m not doing legal work
there and if I buy popcorn for our kids
and you pay me back that’s not legal
work your email signature and the way
that you operate no that doesn’t make
sense to me Brian there is another line
though that I wanted to ask you about
and Todd blanch said you know he’s not
just our former president he’s not just
the Donald Trump that you see on TV he’s
a man he’s a father he’s a husband how
much of that is going to come into this
case the defense trying to remind the
jury that despite the Donald Trump that
you know he has a family to go home home
to after this he’s a human being it’s a
very big part it’s a way of persuading
people in an argument you think of it uh
from the standpoint of you humanize your
client you argue the logical arguments
and you also argue the ethical arguments
and we learned it in law school it’s
Aristotle’s ways of persuasion and
that’s a thing that we all do if you can
humanize the character and even he says
would a Frugal businessman that is
Donald Trump pay back this and this way
if you can make it that the personality
of the individual doesn’t match that of
the crime it’s a very strong position to
take and a very a strong argument that I
think is more lawyering than what I’m
seeing the other aspects of this opening
statement uh Katherine we’re hearing
that David pecker will be the first
witness called by the prosecution he was
the publisher of the national inquir and
a longtime friend of Donald Trumps what
are you watching for there well I think
a lot of course how prosecutors bring
him in they say he was the eyes and ears
to you know multiple meetings uh and and
payments for example one of our
colleagues Diane actually reminded us
too about what former president Trump
has said about pecker in the past and
there’s some of these uh tweets where
Trump has called he said this guy is a
personal friend of mine uh multiple
times and has called out his magazine he
said Time Magazine should have named
David pecker of American Media to be its
top guy but they are not smart enough to
do that that’s what he said about Time
magazine in 2013 so a lot of Trump’s
previous comments here I’m curious
obviously how the defense cross examines
him Trump’s reaction of course we’re
talking about Trump’s reaction his body
language while he’s sitting inside that
that courtroom what happens there and
and if any of his previous comments
about pecker are brought up at all I
think that he’s a fascinating witness
for lots of reasons who knows um looking
at the time and I know Court isn’t in
session for much longer who knows if
they will get to him today but he’s
likely to be a topic of conversation
this whole week as he is on the stand
and and the defense will probably
cross-examine him later this week Diane
yeah Court expected to be cut short
because one of the jurors has a
toothache and has to go to the dentist
so another reminder all real people
involved here and anything can happen
John sanui kathern falders Brian
buckmire thank you all and we will be
following this trial all day long
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defense is now up and opening statements
against former president Trump the
historic kushman trial is the first time
ever prosecutors are presenting a
criminal case against a former president
before a jury the prosecution outlined
its case saying this is about a criminal
conspiracy and calling it election fraud
Trump has pleaded not guilty to
falsifying business records to conceal a
hush money payment to Stormy Daniels
before the 2016 election and his defense
started their opening statements with a
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producer John santui uh John what do you
make of what we’re seeing in opening
statement so far well so far defense
attorney Todd blanch according to our
team a little more of a relaxed approach
compared to prosecutors uh saying at one
point quote there is nothing illegal
about entering into a non-disclosure
agreement of course referring to the
agreement that Donald Trump Michael
Cohen entered with along with David
pcker into that agreement with Stormy
Daniels to catch and kill her story um
what they also have talked about a great
length is that how Donal Trump didn’t
get into the minutia of his company
though he was the head the president of
the Trump organization before President
United States that so much of the
bookkeeping and all of those you know
little details that other people got
into Donald Trump did not he was the
boss he was all the way at the top of
the food chain so any idea of how an
expense or things were labeled as far as
legal services to Michael Cohen in the
log of the business was not something
Donald Trump according to them was privy
to so John how how much of a back and
forth are we going to see here in terms
of the prosecution trying to prove what
they say is election fraud and Todd
blanch saying you know this is just
another NDA like a lot of people use
it’s going to be a lot of this right
because what Donald Trump’s team has to
prepare for is that so much of their
case is going to be tearing down the
witnesses that come in to say no this
was because of an election we had
conversations months before Stormy
Daniels that hey we know there’s issues
Donald Trump has damaging stories that
could impact the election so let’s get
David pcker involved to catch them kill
them pay these people off and make the
stories go away now on the flip side as
I just spoke about that is where the
Trump defense has to be look it’s a
normal business procedure we have done
this countless times before it was a
normal day in the office all right and I
know deid picker is expected to be the
first witness called by the prosecution
we’ll be watching that but of course
that’ll come after opening statements
John Cuchi thank you and we will be
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features work in
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feel like conventional building Diane
should really take note because
something like that water efficiency
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just here in New Mexico well and that’s
kind of my question ginger as I watch
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that way so I know Mike referenced the
greenhouse I love the idea of the glass
cabinet but are there more features of
the Earth Ship that could be either
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ones yes I mean the geothermal aspect of
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Laura Eng Les and Little House on the
Prairie there was a reason that we used
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facing the street why do our front doors
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sun and using it for what it is and
that’s beyond just solar right like
that’s just thermal mass and how things
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gotten not so smart about and that’s
what Earth ships remind us to do so
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story opening statements have just ended
in the historic criminal hush money
trial against former president Trump
Trump’s attorney Todd blanch started his
statement by bluntly telling the jury
the former president is innocent later
adding quote there’s nothing wrong with
trying to influence an election it’s
called democracy the prosecution says
the case is about a criminal conspiracy
and quote election fraud pure and simple
Trump has pleaded not guilty to
falsifying business records to conceal a
hush money payment to Stormy Daniels
before the 2016 election let’s bring in
ABC News editorial producer John santui
ABC News political director Ric Klein
and ABC News legal contributor Brian
buckmire for for more on this John
what’s the latest from the courtroom
well waiting quite actually because we
went on a quick little break after
opening statements were completed by
both prosecutors and defense Diane the
day is getting cut short because of a
personal matter involving one of the
alternate jurors so we’ve only got 30
minutes left of today’s proceeding So in
theory they could get started with their
first witness being David pecker by
prosecutors we’re waiting to see um if
that actually does happen so far I think
the biggest takeaways um from opening
statements made by both the prosecutors
and Donald Trump’s defense team um you
know boils down to two different
arguments right from the prosecutor’s
standpoint this is election interference
the behavior of Donald Trump you know is
something that was well known both ndas
the way he spoke about women they
referenced the infamous acts as
Hollywood tape that came out just weeks
before the 2016 election and on the flip
side of things um it’s it’s the pr the
Trump legal team that’s making this
argument of look this is normal business
procedure ndas everybody uses them
second Donald Trump’s and Michael Cohen
had a long-standing relationship as his
attorney he was advised by his attorney
he was paid back for that and other
services he did for Donald Trump as an
attorney so I think the other thing that
we’re going to hear a lot of throughout
all these proceedings from both sides is
two words Michael Cohen and let’s go to
that Brian because the defense didn’t
waste any time here talking about
Michael Cohen Trump’s former attorney
who made this alleged hush money payment
saying toward the end of opening
statements Michael Cohen is obsessed
with Donald Trump he cannot be trusted
the prose ution also in their opening
statements there’s former president
Trump live uh walking back into that
courtroom Brian the prosecution also
prepped the jury here saying you’re
going to hear a lot about Michael Cohen
what do you make about that and the
level of focus on Michael Cohen just in
these opening statements so this is what
I think I think both sides are zering in
on an element a very important element
of this crime when with the intent to
defraud and that’s going to be a big
aspect here because of all the witnesses
Michael Cohen is the one that I believe
can focus in on the intent aspect he can
talk about what Donald Trump allegedly
said to him as to why he was
implementing this catch and kill program
and if Michael Cohen cannot be believed
then the whole case falls apart and
we’re listening to One of former
president Trump’s attorney speaking now
outside the courtroom let’s he should
not even be here today because he did
nothing wrong it is the epitome of a
Witch Hunt I just left where a judge
asked us whether our cash cash Bond cash
sitting in Miss James wanted to argue
and say that our cash somehow isn’t
green enough we wasted time the judge
made a comment saying he thought that
money market accounts could go down
under the amount he doesn’t even
understand basic principles of Finance
but this was the man that decided that
we owed money and my client committed
fraud we are going to tack every single
one one hour the attorney general and
that judge realized quickly that they
had no idea what they were talking about
we came to an agreement that everything
would be the same we would modify terms
and that was it this is where your
taxpayer dollars are going America right
here wit hunt after Witch Hunt president
Trump’s company was worth more in that
case than it is now and now what we’re
here because of something that happened
when he was in the White House that
wasn’t even wrong it was not wrong you
hire lawyers to solve problems lawers
solve those problems you pay them that’s
it this is a joke it’s an affront to the
American Constitution it’s an affront
our judicial system and it’s to front
every lawyer that cares about their
license that cares about what is right
and wrong I am sick of coming in front
of the press and saying this but you
have to because you people need to
understand what is going on God forbid
you put an accounting thing in for legal
council it’s legal counsel and now our
taxpayer dollars my time our attorney
former president Trump’s attorney there
Alina habba talking outside the
courtroom where opening statements have
just wrapped in the hush money trial
against the former president uh we heard
habba there talking about a different uh
case against the former president also
playing out in New York today talking
about that civil fraud suit and
questions now about the bond that former
president Trump posted in that case uh
John I I want to bring in in let’s go
over to our editorial producer John
sanui just to sort of catch up what’s
happening because it’s interesting to
have these two cases playing out just a
block away from each other there are
literally two things happening at the
same time Diane which is just remarkable
right now in court so first let’s start
what’s happening in that criminal
courtroom with less than a half hour to
go in today’s proceedings prosecutors
have just called their first witness
David pecker the former publisher of the
national Inquirer to the stand the one
who they say was working with Donald
Trump and Michael Cohen to build out the
catch and kill scheme so that’s really
going to start to build their case with
very little time so obviously he’s going
to come back to the stand tomorrow but
nevertheless it just shows the speed to
which judge Maran is moving these
proceedings with the fact that openings
are done we already on the first witness
for prosecutors so that’s the criminal
case on the New York attorney general’s
case which was also as you noted
happening today there was an argument by
prosecut I’m sorry attorneys for the New
York attorney general that there was
some concern and issues with the bond
company that eventually stepped up and
met Donald Trump at the $175 million
Bond he had to put up in that case now
it seems as though for now Donald
Trump’s legal team was successful in
stopping the bleeding in that case they
met several conditions the New York
attorney general’s team wanted to
basically have stipulations as this goes
forward so that’s sort of a thing that
for the moment we have to sort of see if
those conditions are met the judge gave
them several days to do so my honest
interpretation of that I feel like
that’s going to basically go their way
for now now we have to remember that
that’s bond for now Donald Trump is
still on the hook for the entire nearly
half a billion dollar ruling that came
down from that judge earlier this year
of course that ruling is being appealed
by Donald Trump so not yet clear when
he’d actually have to pay up if the
order is stayed so we’ll have to wait
and see there all right and Brian I want
to take us back now to the criminal hush
money trial that we’ve been following
all morning opening statements are now
done the prosecution just called David
pecker to the witness stand he’s the
publisher of the national choir longtime
friend of former president Trump and
accused in this catch and kill scheme
essentially of agreeing to be eyes and
ears for Donald Trump once he decided to
run for office to seek out negative
stories against the president against
the former president then candidate
Trump and essentially make them go away
often by paying people off how much does
this testimony weigh into the larger
case at hand here it’s the it’s what we
call legally the foundation and from
there you build the I am the one who
with Donald Trump if you’re believing in
testimony buil the foundation of this
catch and kill scheme and then from
there you’re just building up from the
proverbial home of okay there’s the
foundation that okay what do we do we
caught this story and then they’re going
to go into the details of this one story
and then how they are able to then kill
that story based on payments and then
ultimately they’ll come to the Stormy
Daniels story and they’ll do the same
thing and they’ll just keep showing how
this catch and kill scheme uh worked
throughout this process then they’ll get
to the actual crime that that the prosec
are trying to prove in this case that
being the cover up that Here’s the the
scheme here is the cover up this is and
hopefully we’ll see an underlying crime
as to why it’s a it’s a felony and an
explanation as to how these charges fit
and then that will be the prosecutor
trying to prove their case Beyond a
reasonable doubt you you sort of touched
on my next question but why is it so
important for them to show that David
pecker is alleged to have been involved
in in a payment to Karen McDougall a
payment to ad Dorman who had some
disparaging information against former
president Trump that ended up uh
apparently not panning out why do they
need to show that since those instances
are not at the heart of this case which
is the payment to stormmy Daniels it’s
not necessarily that they need to but it
definitely strengthens their case that
much more uh they could go straight to
it and be a very boring case of here are
star Daniels here is Michael Cohen here
are the elements of the crime and then
done but their ability to have prosecut
or discretion and to prosecute a case in
the manner in which they uh want in the
way that the law allows them to it’s
build this whole scheme show how this
whole entity this Enterprise operated
and so that it creates a less of an
ability for the defense to pull coals in
because if they just came forward with
just Stormy Daniels story a defense
attorney like myself would come like
well no this is just a run-of-the-mill
payoff there was no scheme there was no
multiple instances of this happening and
then this is just a legal expense and so
I think for the prosecutor they’re
trying to build an ironclad case with
the multiple uh catch and kill schemes
that they’re saying Donald Trump
participated in uh Rick the judge also
ruled today that if Trump does decide to
take the stand here that he can be asked
about previous cases so that leaves him
a bit more vulnerable than maybe
previously thought if he does choose to
take the stand it’s something attorneys
May adise him against because of that
but politically what does he have to
consider in this decision of whether or
not to testify in his own defense well
first I never thought he was going to
take the stand in this case he has said
um he said to reporters about a week and
a half ago that he’d be glad to do it I
remember him saying the same about the
Muller probe and like look I I think he
he answers yes to that maybe he
personally would like to but as Brian
and others have been pointing out all
morning it would be a bad uh legal move
to to take the stand I’d also argue that
it’s a bad political move because you
have a big potential to you’re not on
camera you have a big potential of
getting yourself in further legal
Jeopardy of contradicting something
that’s said outside just and his facial
expressions would be would be analyzed
without him having the benefit of uh of
having them broadcast all over the place
he can go outside and talk as much as he
wants and he will continue to do that
and has continued to do that so I think
this makes it a little less likely that
uh that something that was not likely to
happen uh would ever would ever come to
pass I don’t think he’s going to take
the stand and John what are you hearing
about uh Trump’s demeanor inside the
courtroom so far and how do you think
Trump’s team is going to feel about day
one so far well well so so far from the
demeanor um a lot of passing notes is
what our team is is reporting right now
um leaning in you know tapping his
lawyers obviously we talked earlier
about shaking his head what I do think
is interesting and talks a little bit
about what we were discussing earlier
when you were asking me about family or
others joining um it seems as though the
legal team that was arguing the New York
attorney general’s case which was just a
few blocks away from where they are
right now has joined Donald Trump in
courtroom we saw Alina Haba obviously
another member of his legal team that
was working on that that case I’m told
that Alan garton Who’s chief counsel to
the Trump organization is now in there
with them and that plays into that
conversation the three of us were having
a little earlier those are people that
are a little more familiar to Donald
Trump Alan Garden has worked for Donald
Trump for nearly two decades Alina Haba
has been with him for the last several
years there are a little more familiar
faces that I think in those moments of
trying to keep him calm because
especially right now this is really
important in the sense that David pecker
was a longtime friend of Donald Trump’s
wasn’t a business associate wasn’t
somebody you randomly saw when you went
to go play golf out in Bedminster this
is someone that they’ve had a longtime
friendship to think that someone that is
your friend that helped you out is
getting up there on a stand to divulge
all about your personal life these are
all going to be very difficult Witnesses
for Donald Trump let’s be clear but this
is one it’s not like Michael Cohen right
where somebody has been so outward
publicly facing attacking you pecker has
not said a thing about Donald Trump in
the last eight plus years today he’s
going to say a lot Brian what do you
think are the next steps here so the
next steps based on the schedule I think
they’re done like 12:30 today so pecker
is going to be on the stand I don’t
think his direct examination is going to
end and so he ultimately have to come
back uh tomorrow the direct examination
ends sometimes tomorrow morning
afternoon then cross examination and
then it’s up to the prosecution to pick
their next witness and from my
understanding they’ll probably go in
that similar direction of they go from
the foundation they build up so whoever
pecker then tapped in terms of getting
that next story and how they caught that
story a witness will be able to testify
to that and then the next witness or the
same witness able to talk about how that
story was killed and ultimately paid and
then logged and then we’ll go from one
story to the next and ultimately go to
St Daniels and Michael Cohen to try to
tie this all together the big thing for
me though is how these cross
examinations going to go because we can
kind of gauge where the direct
examinations are going to go how are the
defense going to poke the holes here and
we’ve already got a bit of a road map
from the opening statements oh I was
going to ask you that what do you think
the opening statements revealed in terms
of where that is going uh well we
understand what democracy is in the eyes
of Donald Trump and that is influencing
or at least his attorneys probably more
accurate to say and that is the ability
to influence an election but also it
comes down to credibility which I think
is a major aspect of this case will you
believe Stormy Daniels uh who got paid
for her silence who has a potential book
deal and other Financial incentives and
I’m sure the defense will weave that
into a narrative as to why not to
believe them and then Michael Cohen as
well there is a very clear guideline
here and defense we there’s um a jury
charge it’s Latin it’s it basically
translates to false in one thing false
in all things and if you can get Michael
Cohen up there and prove that he was
false in one thing and get a jury to
decide that he could throw out his
entire testimony it’s a big win for
Donald Trump and I don’t think the win
here is an quid I think the win here is
a hung jury and that would be massive
for Donald Trump if he could do that I
don’t think it’s that far off John I see
you shaking your head well I think this
one pointd nodding Donald Trump shook
his head I no but you know I think the
the the point that Brian made which is
important and it’s something that
prosecutors just said in court is that
you mentioned Stormy Daniels and her
book Michael Cohen wrote a book Michael
Cohen is a podcast and one of the things
that the defense team is going to say is
that and and they say this in court
already in their opening is that Michael
Cohen is obsessed with Donald Trump his
livelihood is built on tearing Donald
Trump down and they do have enough you
know things that Michael Cohen has said
and done published a book podcast Etc
that would support that right he’s also
been a part of multiple legal cases
involving the former president I mean he
was you know today they were going
through motions on it but he was called
to testify as part of the New York
attorney general’s case here he is again
now the flip side of that if you’re a
prosecutor it’s because he was his
lawyer he was involved in everything I
mean Donald Trump would call Michael
Cohen the fixer right some needed fixing
that was a little not within a courtroom
bounds call Michael he’ll deal with it I
mean the amount of times I heard Donald
Trump say oh just call Michael he’ll fix
it that’s the relationship they had the
problem is that where we got to today is
that part of that relationship cross the
line Rick how much do voters care about
any of this it’s unclear I mean look we
haven’t seen it play out in his public
of fashion that has so far we’ve seen
polling suggest that people don’t seem
to think that the circumstances around
the Stormy Daniels hush money case that
the the the the central tenants of this
criminal case are necessarily criminal
but we have seen people say that if
Donald Trump’s convicted they’re less
likely to vote for him so both things
can be true and we’ll have to see how it
plays out I don’t think we can
underestimate what it means to have wal
wall coverage that examines Donald
Trump’s personal life in in uh in in in
minute and often very awkward detail I
don’t think we can underestimate what it
means for Donald Trump’s own activities
his own actions outside the courtroom as
a result of this it’s given him a new
platform for instance to to repeat false
claims about the last election I also
don’t think that we can underestimate
what it means simply to have him in a
courtroom for this much time not being
in control of his surroundings this is
not what we’re used to with Donald Trump
this is a different kind of news cycle
is dominating it is not happening on his
own terms Brian David Pecker’s on the
stand now what do you think prosecutors
need to hear from him or are trying to
get out of him those initial
conversations what we need to do is get
a glimpse with the prosecutor uh the
prosec needs to get a glimpse into
Donald Trump’s mindset at that time when
that agreement was was was built what’s
the purpose of this catch and kill
scheme if I’m a defense attorney I would
say hey I I’m running for public office
I’m Donald Trump I’m a multi-millionaire
I’m trying to protect my family from
negative news are they are the defense
going to be able to kind of shift that
narrative towards that on cross-
examination or the prosecutors is going
to be able to hold firm and say like no
this was completely about bad press and
winning the election this was about
killing stories this was about trying to
defraud the public the theme that
underlines um why this is being done is
going to be massive for either side to
win all right John santui Rick Klein
Brian buckmire thank you all and we will
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that and how could that impact the many
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Diane so this has been gaining a lot of
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campaign is actively using Tik Tok to
try and reach those young voters and Tik
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millions of businesses would be
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former National inquire editor David
pecker as their first witness in the
historic criminal hush money trial
against former president Trump Trump’s
attorney Todd Blan started his opening
statement today bluntly telling the jury
the former president is innocent later
adding there’s nothing wrong with trying
to influence an election it’s called
democracy the prosecution says the case
is about a criminal conspiracy an
election fraud pure and simple Trump has
pleaded not guilty to falsifying
business records to conceal a hush money
payment to Stormy Daniels before the
2016 election let’s bring in ABC News
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director Rick Klein and former Manhattan
prosecutor Jeremy
saland Aaron I want to start with you
what was it like inside a court today
what did you make of Trump’s
demeanor former president Trump is
seated at the defense table and for most
of the day Diane he was sort of just
hunched in his chair at at varying
periods he had his eyes closed whether
he was uh paying strict attention to the
proceedings we’re not sure but he did
occasionally seem to shake his head ever
so slightly no as if to say when when
prosecutors were saying some
unflattering things about him in his
alleged participation in what they
called this criminal scheme to undermine
the 2016 election by concealing the true
nature of the hush payment to Stormy
Daniels uh when the first witness was
called David pecker this is somebody you
pecker said that that Trump used to be a
personal friend Trump once said that he
would make meaning pecker a great editor
and chief of Time Magazine these these
two men were close and as pecker took
the stand uh Trump sort of folded his
arms and leaned forward on the defense
table with a rather unhappy look on his
face John Carl prosecution uh the
prosecution called David pecker as their
first witness as expected why is he so
critical to this case well he
establishes the prosecution’s case that
this was about politics this was about
influencing uh the 2016 election
the pivotal moment as you heard in the
opening statements was a meeting at
Trump Tower that David pecker Michael
Cohen and Donald Trump had an August of
2015 this is just shortly after uh
Donald Trump has announced his
presidential campaign and they talk
about ways that David pecker can help
that campaign using his publication the
national inquir both to push negative
stories about Trump’s opponents but also
uh to do this so-called catch and kill
scheme to uh suck up stories uh that
would be negative and embarrassing to
Donald Trump and to get the people
pushing those stories uh to sign
non-disclosure agreements again to help
Donald Trump because allegedly this case
the key thing for this case is the
allegation uh that the payoff to stor
Stormy Daniels was meant specifically uh
to influence the
campaign santui pecker just Steed off
the witness down so they’re wrapped for
the day now what do you make of day one
hearing the the opening statements and
the first witness called one just the
timing how quickly this is moving but
also what you heard in court today well
I think as we talked about earlier I
think as far as prosecutors are
concerned they’re going to do everything
in their power to make this a case about
election interference that you know this
was a conversation dialogue and an act
that happened repeatedly over the course
of the 2016 election and even though you
know they’re saying it’s legal fees they
knew exactly what they were doing here
now on the flip side for the defense we
knew this was going to happen but right
out of the gate Donald Trump’s legal
team came out and took out Michael Cohen
did everything they could to try to
bring him down saying that Michael Cohen
is obsessed with Donald Trump that
everything Financial in Michael Cohen’s
life right now is related to Donald
Trump and tearing him down he wrote a
book about him he has a podcast about
him this is everything that Michael
Cohen’s living off of so thus in their
opinion he’s doing this put the ulterior
motive is to enrich Michael Cohen take
all of that aside I think seeing d Avid
pecker on the stand Aaron talked a
little bit about the body language and
the demeanor our Olivia Rubin repeatedly
was was texting me notes saying you know
just he’s shaking his head a lot he’s
writing notes a lot he’s you know you
know visibly angry a lot because again
David peer and Donald Trump are
different than Michael Cohen and Stormy
Daniels in that Stormy Daniels and
Michael Cohen have spoken out repeatedly
about Donald Trump that is very clear
how they feel about Donald Trump David
pcker is an actual longtime friend of
decades he has not said a word about any
of this for nearly a decade since it
happened so today and obviously now
continuing tomorrow because court is
wrapped David pcker for the first time
is going to disclose all about that
relationship about that friendship and
it goes beyond just this payment it goes
into so many other activities around
Donald Trump’s life well and Jeremy I
want to go to you with with that point
because the state says that pecker here
was not acting as a publisher they say
he was acting as a co-conspirator murder
what do you make of those words and
could pecker be in danger of of charges
coming his
way start backwards forward I I don’t
think that pcker has any exposure on
this because otherwise he wouldn’t be
testifying and saying the things that he
is that listen I was involved in this
scheme and the scam it’s too much for
him on the line to to to say that and
admit to it but yes he is part of this
conspiracy and that’s so critical for
the prosecution to bring out because who
is going to know directly what happened
who’s going to be involved in the the
sort of how it all played out from the
beginning to the end what was their
intent how did they actually fulfill
their goal how did Michael Cohen get
involved that person is David pecker
he’s the one who starts this whole thing
in Motion in terms of the prosecution so
he is also not a person as was just said
that really gets a galvanized Donald
Trump generally speaking because he
hasn’t spoken out against Trump to the
same capacity he doesn’t have as much to
gain
like Michael Cohen or stormmy Daniels so
he’s a great person to start I would not
expect that he would have exposure
otherwise he wouldn’t be testifying and
yes this is a criminal conspiracy let’s
dumb this down and make it as simple as
we can and pecker does apparently have a
non-prosecution agreement but he’s just
one of several key Witnesses expected in
this case John we’re also expecting to
hear from Stormy Daniels we’re expecting
to hear from Michael Cohen but the big
Focus today seemed to be on Michael
Cohen we heard his name mentioned
several times by the prosecution and he
was a big focus of the opening
statements by the defense saying Michael
Cohen is obsessed with Donald Trump he
cannot be trusted what do you make of
that because Michael Cohen is Central to
the prosecution’s case it’s Michael
Cohen’s testimony that the payments that
he received were not for legal fees they
were for this catch and kill scheme this
was the the payoff uh I’m sorry the
payoff the hush money to Stormy Daniels
uh and and really that’s the only at
least that I’ve seen direct evidence
that the payments were made not for the
reasons that they appeared in those
ledgers in those in the paperwork not
for what Donald Trump has said but they
were made specifically uh uh uh so that
he would to reimburse him for the
payments to uh to stormmy Danos by the
way can we take a step back this is the
first trial in the history of the
American Republic criminal trial of a
former president let alone one that is
currently running for president and the
three key Witnesses in this case
are an adult film
star a lawyer uh who has been uh who has
literally served jail time for lying
under oath and the top executive at the
national
Inquirer I mean this is uh hardly a
Shining Moment for American democracy
that we’ve come to a point where you
have you know the the national Inquirer
porn star uh convicted liar at the
center of an historic first trial of a
former president I don’t know how that
reflects where that will play out but
that is certainly something to take note
of if only there was a camera that we
could see it all play out now Rick I
want to take that point to you you know
what do you think this moment not not
necessarily the whole trial itself but
just the fact that we’re here at all
what is this how does this play out in
history I don’t know that there’s any
way to know it without knowing how it
ends in 6 months with the election you
know there’s a world in which uh Donald
Trump this all plays out he has
acquitted or otherwise the prosecution
is discredited and he uses it to bolster
his reelection efforts or his efforts to
to to come back to the White House
there’s a world where this uh portends
uh the beginning of a of a spiral where
support bleeds away from him for any
combination of reasons we’re not going
to know the historical question Dian
think until we know what happens with
this case and then what happens with the
election but John is right I mean this
is this is a wild set of circumstances
it’s incredibly unpredictable and it’s
also unpredictable for Trump himself a
man who is so used to being in control
of every situation here has to listen
try to have a poker face uh try to
restrain some of his own impulses inside
and outside the courthouse knowing that
those implications affect his freedom
his potential Freedom whether he’s
convicted or not whether he serves in
jail and of course his political future
his prospects around winning another
term in the white house now Katherine
tomorrow the judge says he’ll hold a
hearing about Trump’s alleged violations
of the gag order against him what are
you watching for there yeah so this
hearing will happen in the morning
before pecker takes the stand again at
11:00 now this hearing came about
because prosecutors alleged that Trump
had violated the gag order in three of
his social media posts on true social
since they brought that up last week at
the beginning of last week later in the
week prosecutors said that he violated
it allegedly violated it seven more
times since then so that is likely to be
a topic of conversation obviously at the
hearing tomorrow the judge says that he
will deal with those alleged seven
additional violations then but this is
certainly going to remain a topic of
conversation throughout this trial
there’s obviously a camera in the
hallway Trump’s lawyers are sometimes
hesitant to have him speak in front of
the camera but for Fears that he will
violate the gag order um he does talk
however he does usually going in and out
of court so this will certainly be a
narrative that will occur throughout the
rest of the trial Trump is obviously
believes that this gag order shouldn’t
be in place he’s upset that he can’t
talk about Witnesses but the witnesses
can talk about them so we will certainly
hear more about that in the morning
before peer takes the stand again and
Ain we heard a little bit from the
president today but we also heard from
his attorney in another case alen Haba
as that civil fraud suit played out just
a few blocks away how careful do the
attorneys here have to be primarily
Donald Trump’s attorneys in what they
say in this criminal hush money case
given the other cases that he is still
facing the Civil fraud case is is over
and and Trump’s attorneys acquiesced to
a couple of demands by the New York
attorney general’s office to uh to to to
better secure the $175 million bond that
that he posted but Trump faces criminal
exposure in three other cases uh whether
anything said here could influence those
I I would imagine that special counsel
Jack Smith and Fulton County district
attorney fonny Willis have have eyes and
ears on on what goes on here um but but
really what we’re talking about here
occurred almost a a decade ago before
Trump was even president and a little
bit into his first term and from pecker
starting probably tomorrow when he
returns to the witness stand we’re going
to hear about other unflattering
episodes in Trump’s life when a doorman
accused him of fing a love child when a
Playboy model accused him of a sexual
trist the these are things Trump denies
but they are both things that
prosecutors say the national Inquirer
acquired the rights to and then buried
so that people wouldn’t find out about
them Rick what does the timing here do
for Trump politically the fact that this
case centers on an affair in 2006 a
payment made before the 2016 election
now we’re months away from the 2024
election does it help Trump to be able
to make that argument that that this is
all political well the timing is either
his best friend or his worst enemy the
timing is actually key to the criminal
case that’s been brought because it was
about an alleged effort to influence the
election that’s what allows this to
become a felony right that’s what allows
the prosecutors to say this was not just
a private transaction this was done with
the intent to deceive and ultimately to
try to to change the election results we
already heard the readout of the Access
Hollywood uh uh tapes to to try to make
that point about how vulnerable he was
politically at that moment why there was
such an incentive for him to uh to to
engage in a in the hush money scheme and
the alleged uh the alleged scheme that
that there the prosecutors say was
criminal the way that it’s his best
friend though is that this is happening
6 months before an election he says it
could have happened a decade to go and
he’s not wrong about that and there’s
former president Trump leaving the
courtroom let’s listen this is a case
that nobody wanted to bring including
Alvin brag it was just at the last
minute they decided to do it it’s a case
that if you’re looking back it goes back
many many years 2015 maybe before that
and it’s a case as to bookkeeping which
is a very minor thing in terms of the
law in terms of all the violent R that’s
going on outside as we as we speak right
outside as we speak but this is a case
where you pay a lawyer he’s a
lawyer and they call it a legal expense
that’s the exact term they used legal
expense in the
books and another thing that wasn’t even
said was we never even deducted it as a
tax deduction so that takes a whole V
year most people want to deduct
everything we never even took this a tax
but they called the payment to a lawyer
a legal expense in the books they didn’t
call it construction they didn’t say
you’re building a building it called a
payment to a lawyer because as you know
con uh is a lawyer represented a lot of
people over the years now I’m not the
only one and wasn’t very good in a lot
of ways in terms of his representation
but he represented a lot of people but
but he puts in an invoice or whatever a
bill and they pay and they call it a
legal expense I got indicted for that
what else would you call it actually
nobody’s been able to say what you’re
supposed to call it if a lawyer puts in
a
bill or an invoice and you pay the bill
and in the book it’s a little line
that’s a very small little line I don’t
know if you can even write more than two
words it’s not like you can tell a life
story they marked it down to a legal
expense this is what I got Indi
over think of it I get indicted I’m the
leading candidate I’m beating Biden I’m
beating the Republicans now I have the
nomination and this is what they try and
take me off the trail for that checks
being paid to a lawyer he is a lawyer or
was a lawyer and also the things he got
in trouble for were things that had
nothing to do with me he got in trouble
he went to jail this had nothing to do
to do with me this had to do with the
taxi cab company that he owned which is
just something he owned and medallions
and borrowing money and a lot of things
but had nothing to do with me he
represented a lot of people over the
years but they take this payment and
they go a legal expense and you heard it
today for the first time this is what I
got indicted over this is what took me
off and takes me off the campaign Trail
because I should be in Georgia now I
should be in Florida now I should be in
a lot of different places right now
campaigning and I’m sitting here and
this will go for a long time it’s very
unfair the judges conflicted as you know
it’s very unfair what’s going on and I
should be allowed to
campaign and whoever heard of this you
get indicted for
that people in the court just said to me
I can’t believe it this is the case so
we did nothing wrong the other thing is
if this were such a great case why
didn’t the southern district bring who
looked at it turned it down why didn’t
uh numerous other agencies and law
enforcement groups look at it because it
was shown to everybody and very
importantly why didn’t the federal
elections do anything about because this
is federal it’s not state they’re trying
to make it a state case whatever and
it’s not state has nothing to do it’s
never happened before I believe never
happened before this has never happened
before where the state tries to insert
itself in F Federal elections never
nobody’s ever seen it but you know
Federal elections took a total pass on
it they said essentially nothing was
done wrong or they would have done
something about it they’re tough they
would have done something about it but
they said nothing and they said we’re
going to take a
pass because they couldn’t even believe
it actually if you read their their
letter they couldn’t even believe it
they were
incredulous and yet brag picks it up now
with he if you look when he first came
in he didn’t want to do it he didn’t
want to do it now when are they going to
look at poman so what pance did because
that’s bad
stuff and when are they going to look at
all the lies that
cooh did in the last Tri he got caught
lying in the last trial so he got caught
lying pure lying and what are they going
to look at that now we’ll go to another
subject because just a few blocks away
as you know they had a trial on the 17
$5 million that’s Leticia James it’s all
coming out of the White House by the way
and that’s in front of Judge
inoran and the judge really didn’t know
anything he didn’t know about collateral
security he said supposing it goes down
well it doesn’t go down because it’s
cash I put up $175 million in cash and
we have a Bonding Company doing and he
challenged the bonding company that
maybe the bonding company was no good
well they good and and they also have
$175 million of collateral my collateral
but the judge didn’t know anything about
it he didn’t know what the 175 million
cash meant he had no idea what anything
meant and he had no idea what he did in
the
trial and he charged me hundreds of
millions of dollars on something where
I’m totally
innocent but if you look at what
happened today judge andoran should not
have done that Tri should have gone to
the business division where they have
complex business trials but actually it
should have never been brought John
because I didn’t overestimate you know
they say I overestimate if you look at
former president underestimated we’re
listening to former president Trump
after day one of the uh post jury
selection portion of his criminal trial
for alleged hush money payments the
prosecution called their first witness
after opening statements today and now
hearing from former president Trump
about that case and another one playing
out uh just down the street I want to
bring in our chief White House our chief
Washington correspondent Jonathan Carl
for a little bit more on on a few things
the president said here John because we
heard former president Trump saying that
nobody wanted to bring this case against
him talking about how this case dates
back many many years that it all centers
on this small bookkeeping thing and then
he said something we’ve heard before
this is all coming out of the White
House yeah and and let me say again and
we should re assert every time we hear
hear this there is no evidence for that
whatsoever Joe Biden the Biden White
House the Biden justice department have
absolutely nothing to do with this case
and nothing to do with the uh criminal
the the the Civil fraud case against his
company the other one that he’s talking
about these are New York cases the
Manhattan district attorney the New York
attorney general have nothing to do with
Joe Biden or the Biden Administration
but I I think what’s ownable here is we
have expected and it’s been signaled by
uh by the former president’s political
advisers that he would use the
opportunity that he has uh every day
because he’s stuck in this courtroom to
come out and to have the platform uh you
know the cable news networks carry it we
carried part of it um and and and to use
that basically as his campaign platform
I I don’t know that this works for him I
mean he he sounds like he is um
complaining grievance about you know the
the the something times esoteric details
of these cases against him and once
again he looks like a guy who is a
criminal defendant because actually he
is a criminal defendant who is
complaining that the system is working
against him which is what criminal
defendants often do he doesn’t look like
a commanding presence a guy that is uh
the uh Republican candidate for
president of the United States uh Jeremy
he also is facing a gag order and this
supposed to be hearing about that
tomorrow among other people he is not
supposed to disparage Michael Cohen one
of the key Witnesses in this case and we
heard him today talking about how
Michael Cohen was a bad attorney for him
and and sort of getting into that ground
is he at risk here and what happens if
he is found to have violated this gag
order because he has posted on social
media many times now about Michael
Cohen Donald Trump’s always at risk and
it sort of not sort of it in fact shocks
me that despite there being an agenda in
terms of politics and and his campaign
that a criminal defense attorney or
criminal defense attorneys he’s got a
team is sitting by and allowing him to
rant and rant like a Charlie Brown
cartoon and just go on and on running
the risk of just as you said potentially
violating that gag order and if there is
another violation the people will make
that application to the court there
would be a potential hearing because
it’s not in the presence of the judge it
can be pursued as something as a civil
or Criminal here would be criminal
meaning that they would want to punish
him up to $1,000 if true and then
potentially up to 30 days in jail which
likely would never happen but more he
does this the more he also runs a risk
of saying something that the prosecution
could potentially even use in their case
and chief meaning their direct case
against Donald Trump so it really
bewilders me I get the agenda here the
politics but you have a criminal
defendant with a potential felony that
does not go away whether he sees a day
in jail or not it is permanent no
expungement and there he is going and
going and going someone really needs to
get control of them if they have the
courage but evidently they don’t and I
want to go back to Ain kki who’s outside
that Courthouse because Aaron we heard
Trump talking about you know this is a
bookkeeping issue a little line he said
where he paid an attorney to deal with
an issue and listed it as a legal
expense he says end of story what do you
make of that compared to what we heard
in court
today well certainly prosecutors have a
different view they believe that this
payment the reimbursement payment to
Michael Cohen after he had wired hush
money to Stormy Daniels was done in such
a way that was meant to undermine the
election so voters before the 2016 vote
didn’t find out about it but uh to to
Jeremy and and Jonathan Carl’s point one
of the things that Trump has just done
in the hallway is potentially undermine
an argument that his defense attorney
was making an opening statements defense
attorney Todd blanch said during his
opening statement that President Trump
had nothing to do with the invoice with
the check being generated or an entry on
The Ledger and in fact there was Donald
Trump now speaking about the minutia of
how this payment reimbursement payment
to Michael Cohen was logged each and
every month how it appeared on the
invoices how it appeared on the checks
and The Ledger and and that is what
prosecutors uh say constitute of the
crime here and why they put Trump at the
center of an alleged scheme John s g how
important is that to hear Aaron saying
that what Trump just said outside the
courtroom contradicts his own attorney’s
opening statement extremely because here
we go again and the reason I make that
point is look at what Donald Trump did
during the New York attorney general’s
case he would go outside of Court make
comments to cameras and there were
multiple instances that in that case the
judge and attorneys for the New York
attorney general’s case would say he
just said this he made this comment in
in particular the judge in that case if
you recall Donald Trump was also under a
gag order was attacking the clerk in
that case Donald Trump during those
proceedings one of the days he showed up
attacked the clerk Donald Trump was
called To The Stand by the judge and
said what did you just say what were you
doing out there so to think that
prosecutors or the judge himself are not
listening to Donald Trump’s words right
now I think he’s going to have to learn
that the hard way all right Eric aury
John Carl kathern falers Jeremy sand
thank you all and we will be following
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history happening before our eyes Court
wrapping up just a short time ago in the
first ever criminal trial against a
former president of the United States
presidents have been impeached they’ve
resigned they’ve been voted out of
office but for the first time ever
former president Donald Trump is facing
a jury of his peers in criminal court
it’s all stemming from those charges
related to a payment to a porn star
hoping to hide an alleged affair with
Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election
prosecutors and defense attorneys now
starting to lay out their cases the
state already calling the first witness
to the stand former National inquir
publisher David pecker who they say was
part of a scheme to buy and bury un
flattering stories about Trump letting
us off this afternoon our senior
investigative correspondent Aon kerki
who is been inside that courtroom along
with our chief Washington correspondent
John Carl and Jeremy sand criminal
defense attorney and former Manhattan
prosecutor Aaron take us inside the
courtroom and what we heard from both
sides
today opening statements laid out how
each side is going to approach this
historic case Kira the prosecution and
assistant district attorney Matthew
Colangelo saying this case is about a
criminal conspiracy and a coverup he
said the defendant Donald Trump
orchestrated a criminal scheme to
corrupt the 2016 election and then he
tried to take the jury through it
talking about the history of the
national Inquirer being Donald Trump’s
friend before the election in 2016
buying up unflattering stories and then
burying them to make sure they were
never in print stories like his supposed
lovech child that Ador man was talking
about or a Playboy model’s allegation of
a of a sexual trist and then Stormy
Daniels and her CLA claim of the sexual
encounter with Donald Trump all things
that he denies but that according to
prosecutors he did not want voters to
know about as he was running for
president in 2016 the defense said that
Donald Trump is innocent and committed
no crimes and then talked about the way
that this hush payment to stormmy
Daniels was logged saying it was just a
legal expense because Michael Cohen was
after all his
lawyer all right John we’ve been here
before with all these characters their
allegations their books the checks the
bank accounts all the salacious details
but it may well be the only one of four
prosecutions of trump to go to trial
before the 2024 election and that could
change everything here I mean and what a
seedy and unseemly uh trial to be the
historic first trial of a former
president featuring all that you just
described uh the lead witness uh being
none other than the head of the national
inquire the former head of the national
inquire which uh you you know uh look at
look at let’s remember what the national
inquire is and what it did even just in
the 2016 election apart from this the
national inquire was the publication
that broke the story uh that Ted Cruz’s
father was linked to the Kennedy
assassination of course you know
absolutely bogus story but designed to
help uh Donald Trump you know in some
ways this is it’s never good to be on
trial for a uh an alleged felony uh but
of all all of the legal trouble Donald
Trump faces uh the the classified
documents case uh the January 6th
federal investigation uh the election
interference uh case in Georgia it’s
this one that goes first and might be
the only one uh that’s something should
be something of a relief uh to Donald
Trump because this is uh hardly as
compelling a case as the other ones so
Jeremy let me follow up on that I mean
this is no longer just a mere hush money
case da Alvin brag has described this as
an election interference case saying
that Trump’s alleged scheme here to pay
off Daniels was geared toward depriving
the voter of crucial information about a
candidate before they even cast a vote
is that a strong or weak argument in
your eyes and and just follow up on what
John said about of all cases start with
this
one well in no particular order let me
just say that when Jack Smith presented
his cases he had those speaking
indictments that really laid out the
foundation and The Narrative of what was
happening in the allegations and what
ultimately they intended to to prove
that didn’t happen here but this never
was a hush money case that just sounds
for salacious it sounds sexy it involves
a porn star so that’s why it’s sort of
been labeled this that that hush money
if you will is almost like the vehicle
to perpetrate the alleged crime of of
falsifying business records and the
reason why the falsifying business
records occurred and then to your point
about you know is this really an effort
to circumvent or imp the election well
that’s what raises us from that
misdemeanor of just making the
alterations and the changes with the
intent to Def frud to the
felony so Erin let’s talk about the
first witness David pecker once again
longtime friend of trump you know as you
mentioned ex-public of the national
inquire for years uh we we’ve covered or
the stories we’ve covered the cover up
and how Trump wanted to get rid of these
damaging stories about his behavior
before the 26 campaign but why have
David pecker is the first
witness he is the narrator who can take
the jury inside this alleged scheme to
buy up damaging stories about Trump and
then bury them and prosecutors are are
are trying to frame this as depriving
voters before the 2016 election of
information about Donald Trump that they
might wanted to have known and that’s
why they consider this case to be sort
of the original election interference
case when pecker took the witness stand
he flashed a big smile and and it was OB
kind of Belling the gravity of the
moment of a former American president on
trial he cackled loudly into a
microphone when the prosecutor was
asking him about some of his phone
numbers and he couldn’t quite remember
them uh so he is going to be a a man
that that the jury’s going to get to
know well he’ll return to the witness
stand for more substantive testimony
tomorrow and John what do we see as more
substant substantive you know what can
the prosecution hope to
learn it more in addition to just this
attempt to pull off dirty tricks you
know before the campaign well I think
that what I’m kind of listening for from
David pecker is is a description of
something we already know about but to
hear it in Pecker’s words his testimony
it’s it’s the meeting that took place in
Trump Tower in August of 2015 so in
terms of the timeline remember this is
uh not long after Donald Trump has
announced that he is running for
president you had the first debate uh
was in August of 2015 and Trump found
himself suddenly leading in all of the
polls and there is a meeting that takes
place between three people uh Donald
Trump Michael Coen and David pecker uh
that outlines the ways in which pecker
could use the national Inquirer to help
Donald Trump part of that was this
so-called catch and kill scheme which
ultimately leads you uh to stormy d
all right gentlemen Aaron uh John Jeremy
thank you so much we’ll continue the
conversation for days to
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come let’s head over to the Middle East
crisis now and the man who was the
symbol of the failure to prevent the
deadliest attack in Israel’s history
netanyahu’s head of military
intelligence has now resigned that Major
General the highest ranking Israeli
official to step down since the Hamas Le
attack back on on October 7th his recog
resignation rather happening as a
special State Department panel here in
our nation’s capital is also
recommending to sanction Israeli
military units linked to Human Rights
abuses for more let’s bring in our
senior National policy reporter and
flirty so an the US is set to make a
decision soon on whether to withhold the
military aid to these Israeli units that
are accused of of torture where’s this
Intel coming from and what more do we
know yeah Cara so secretary blink
addressed this at a press conference
last Friday when he was asked about uh
reports that these IDF units these
Israeli Defense Forces have been accused
of Human Rights abuses and of course in
the US there is a law it’s called the
Ley act that says we can’t use federal
money that would actually provide
weapons or training to military units
overseas that have been accused of gross
human rights violations so uh blinkin
said simply this has been on our radar
we’re looking at this and I expect to
make a determination in coming days so
you know Israel has already responded to
this Netanyahu says absolutely not and
called it a low uh for the country said
this is not the time to do it so what
happens now overall to intelligence GA
intelligence gathering is netanyahu’s
key guy is now out yeah you know it was
really a stunner a 13 38-year veteran of
the Israeli Defense Forces um having all
of that experience but of course being
blamed for the October 7th attack from
Hamas not seeing it that huge breach in
intelligence um I I think it’s showing
that you know that that investigation
might be coming to an end they know uh
who to blame he’s he says simply you
know I will live with this for the rest
of my life uh but all of this puts
pressure on Netanyahu who has not
accepted blame for the October 7th
attack so all eyes on him all right and
flare thanks so much so after putting
his job on the line to push through a
$95 billion foreign aid package house
Speaker Mike Johnson appears to be
gaining new by partisan support the
Senate is now set to vote on that
massive foreign aid package later this
week that also includes that bill that
could potentially ban Tik Tock here in
the US our senior White House
correspondent Selena Wang is on Capitol
Hill with the latest for us so Selena
let’s talk about this moment for speaker
Johnson why did he completely change his
stance on Ukraine Aid yeah car this is a
total transformation for Mike Johnson
remember he had gone from being
staunchly opposed to any more Aid to
Ukraine to then putting his own job on
the line to try and get that Mass a
foreign aid package pass so as you say
the big question here is why the
dramatic turnaround well there’s a few
reasons number one is the pressure
campaign that was from President Biden
as well as other Congressional leaders
and world leaders for that matter
secondly he also had received classified
intelligence briefings including from
the CIA director painting the dire
picture in Ukraine the stakes that we’re
talking about here and that also played
a role in shifting his position then
thirdly he’s a devout Christian and
Congressman McCall said that he prayed
he prayed for guidance on what to do
here so as you say the Senate is now
going to take this up they’re expected
to take it up tomorrow and given the
bipartisan support here this could
really speed its way through Congress
and President Biden says he’s ready to
sign this as soon as
possible all right well the Senate is
expected uh to vote on this forign a
package tomorrow as you mentioned let’s
talk about what happens to tick tock as
well if indeed it
passes yeah so this is interesting this
has been gaining a lot of bipartisan uh
momentum here and this would essentially
give bite dance which is Tik tok’s
Chinese parent about a year to sell the
app find a buyer or it would face a ban
in the US but it’s not really that
simple Kira because it will definitely
face legal challenges Tik Tok said
they’re going to fight this hard in
court they are going to say that this
violates the first amendment that this
devastates millions of small businesses
that rely on the platform then on top of
that you also have the fact that the
Chinese government could block the sale
as well so there’s still a long road
ahead for this and interesting political
Dynamics here as well President Biden
says he’s in support of this legislation
but his campaign is actively using Tik
Tok to try and reach young
voters all right Selena Wang at the
capital Forest Selena thank you and for
the first time in decades the Supreme
Court is hearing a major case involving
homelessness the justices are weighing
whether cities can find unhoused people
for sleeping outside Advocates say this
amounts to cruel and unusual punishment
and it comes as homeless numbers are
skyrocketing Nationwide right now
California has the largest homeless
population in the country and Governor
Gavin Newsome says he means business and
is calling for
accountability it’s about people’s lives
people are dying on our watch people are
dying on the streets and we all have a
responsibility to do better all of us
not just the state it’s not about
blaming folks pointing fingers anymore
all of us accountability Drive
accountability get out there let’s get
this stuff fixed let clean up our
streets save people’s
lives let’s bring in our senior
Washington correspondent Devon DWI out
in front of the Supreme Court there
Devin let’s talk about how we got here
and the arguments that the justices are
actually hearing today a historic case
today Kira the biggest case on
homelessness in more than 40 years it
came from the city of Grants Pass Oregon
one of many in this country that have
passed ordinances trying to crack down
on homelessness and homeless encampment
Grants Pass as you said passed a law few
years ago saying it would be a crime to
sleep in public if you didn’t have a
home to use a blanket that police could
ticket you sight you and eventually if
you kept violating it put you in jail a
group of homeless people in that
Community I was out there uh brought
this legal challenge they said it
violates the eth amendment cruel and
unusual punishment because the city of
Grants Pass has no homeless shelters
public shelters for these people uh and
places to go a federal appeals court
agreed with them Kira and today here at
the Supreme Court arguments just
concluded a short time ago more than two
hours uh of debate over this very
complicated issue of homelessness in
America it’s on the rise at record
levels especially on the west coast what
can cities do about it can they pass
laws that penalize people who are
sleeping on the streets a very tricky
case today kakira and the justices
really were grappling with that well you
always humanize these stories for us
Devin tell us about this woman that you
met in Oregon who’s struggling with
homelessness and what she thinks about
this case one of the interesting things
about Grant’s pure is that so many of
the 600 or so homeless people in that
Community are natives of Grants Pass
they grew up there they lived there uh
one of those people was Helen Cruz she
had lived for 5 years she told me in a
local city park next to the Little
League field until a church took her in
and during that time she said she was uh
faced with
$5,000 in fines and here’s what she had
to say about that
experience I was holding down two jobs
when I was out here and uh still not
enough to be able to rent a place their
their uh terms of low-income housing
here is $1,000 a month and that’s that’s
not workable either you
know now Helen Cruz had two jobs at the
time Kira she said she was doing her
best simply could not afford the rent
there in Grant Grants Pass much less the
fines that she was getting from from the
city she was one of the uh supporters of
this case she hopes that the city will
back down from this enforcement
opportunity and simply invest more uh in
affordable housing up and down the west
coast and in Grants Pass but the city
today uh Kira telling the justices that
laws like these are so important for
Public Safety uh and cranking down on
encampments the justices seems really
torn we’ll have to see how they come out
in the next couple of months Kira right
and if there’s bigger implications for
other states as well we’ll follow it
closely Devon thank you so much and we
we may be will into spring but it sure
doesn’t feel like it for much of the
country millions of Americans are
feeling some pretty frigid temperatures
and a new threat of severe weather is on
the way our meteorologist Samar theor is
tracking the forecast Samara are we ever
good to see a true start to Spring I
know I’m trying to see what I could do
uh here but you know I always say that
spring is really the battle between
summer and winter and right now it looks
like winter is winning a little bit so
here’s a look another shot of Frosty air
this is the uh temperature trend for the
next couple of mornings okay so that
means you’re waking up you’re headed
outside around 6:00 a.m. Tuesday morning
Chicago 50s but by Wednesday dropping
down in the 30s look how the chill is
spreading Eastward Boston 32 degrees
Thursday morning Burlington below
freezing Thursday morning down into the
20s as a result we’ve seen the shift for
Frost and freeze alerts shift a little
bit farther Eastward I know earlier this
morning we had it in a lot of places
like uh the Midwest into the Great Lake
well tomorrow morning we anticipate the
freeze and frost alerts to be happening
towards uh Eastern Kentucky right on
into parts of Virginia Maryland and up
into Pennsylvania meanwhile out west
they have been dealing with their own
chill right so this morning pretty
chilly but look what’s happening we’re
getting a pretty big warm-up out west
and just a think that in Denver we just
came off of all that snowfall and now
they will be waking up or going home
should I say to temperatures in the
upper 70s this afternoon near about 80°
in in Trinidad Colorado there and a lot
of that heat helping to fuel some storms
later this week it’s a quiet start to
our week now but that’s going to change
severe weather is riding through the
Heartland by the end of the week here
we’re going to show you uh where you can
anticipate that on Thursday from great
Ben down to Western Oklahoma and then on
Friday that shifts farther east there we
could see large Hill damaging winds and
a few tornadoes Kira all right
appreciate it Samara thank you and
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peaceful protests I mean students were
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suspended that’s right Kira and and I’m
outside Columbia University right now
you can see there are demonstrators here
Pro Palestinian demonstrators pro-israel
demonstrators the friction is worsening
here at the school there are a lot of
shouting matches there is some conflict
the NYPD is standing ready to ready to
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they’re across the street right now uh
it seems like though it seems as though
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they’ve got the Baton uh but they are
not involved just yet right now it’s
just the two groups kind of going at
each other uh but we know what we saw
last week Pro Palestinian demonstrators
pitching tents on the campus refusing to
leave the university uh unless the
university met their demands which
included uh divesting from companies
with time to Israel the school called
the police as you mentioned at least 100
people were arrested uh but that did not
deter other groups we know that Pro
Palestinian demonstrators not affiliated
with the university also uh joined some
protests over the weekend Kira all right
so let’s talk about additional security
measures uh that the school the NYPD is
now taking and since classes are
happening remotely um have you seen any
staff teachers getting
involved not that I know of and if they
are it’s hard to tell if they are staff
if they are teachers professors we know
that there are a lot of different groups
kind of kind of joining in and in in in
in in these demonstrations well we do
know that and as you mentioned this is
the first night of passover we know that
NYPD officials have said because it is a
a Jewish holiday it may be a catalyst
for acts of violence or streamis group
to take advantage uh so they are keeping
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has said that they they don’t want to so
much involve the police they want to
step up and double up on the campus
Public Safety officers that they have
before uh calling the police again which
is what they did last week and has not
deterred groups from coming back to the
campus to protest kir all right
Stephanie R Ramos for us there we’ll
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story this hour history happening right
before our eyes Court wrapping just a
short time ago in the first ever
criminal trial against a former
president of the United States
presidents have been impeached they’ve
resigned they’ve been voted out of
office but for the first time ever
former president Donald Trump is facing
a jury of his peers in criminal court
it’s all stemming from those charges
related to a payment to a porn star
hoping to hide an alleged affair with
stormmy Daniels before the 2016 election
prosecutors and defense attorneys now
starting to lay out their cases the
state already calling the first witness
to the stand former National inquire
publisher David pecker who they say was
part of a scheme to buy and bury
unflattering stories about Trump we have
Team coverage our senior reporter cther
falers and Attorney Jerry goldfeder
senior councel at Coen o Conor and
director of forom law school’s voting
rights and democracy project kathen
let’s start with you how did court go
today well it was short Kira there was a
juror who had an emergency dental
appointment so uh they wrapped about an
hour ago but look I I think the one of
the most significant things at least so
far we’ve heard opening statements and
as you mentioned a brief bit of pecker
taking the witness stand uh it’s the
focus on Michael Cohen here and that’s
what prosecutors focused on in their
opening statements uh the defense team
Trump’s defense is going to paint
Michael Cohen Trump’s former lawyer and
fixer as a not credible witness here he
can’t be trusted the defense team will
say and has said during the opening and
that’s because he has a criminal record
he has been accused of lying uh the
prosecutors tried to get ahead of that
and said that you’ll hear a lot about
Cohen that they believe he can still be
credible as it relates to this payment
to stormmy Daniels that Trump allegedly
was involved in and directed so I think
that’s at least the takeaway so far from
today we didn’t get very far opening
statements the first witness on the
witness stand only for a number of
minutes really uh but I think going down
the road in this trial Michael Cohen
which we assume by the way that he will
be called to testify he will be called
to testify he will be Central to the
storyline here all right so Jerry
Trump’s defense attorney said uh there
is nothing wrong with trying to
influence an election it’s called
democracy so what are your thoughts on
the approach so far
here well there’s nothing wrong with
trying to influence an election as long
as it’s lawful the allegations here the
charges here is that there were crimes
committed in order to influence the
election crimes committed in order to
prevent the American people from knowing
the truth about his affair and his
falsifying business records that’s what
this is about the prosecutor laid it out
very nicely in opening statements and uh
Trump’s lawyers tries to um uh uh
suggest that that’s not the case that
there’s nothing to be seen by the jury
um we’ll see exactly how the prosecutor
makes the case and we’ll see what the
defense uh tries to uh suggest otherwise
and I think that as the witnesses come
to testify the jurors are going to get a
pretty clear idea and by the way that’s
the reason why they I think that they’re
starting off with pcker because um it’s
true that con has a history of lying and
what they want to show is that these
events that con is going to testify
about these events can be corroborated
by all sorts of other Witnesses
including pecker so we’re going to see
the prosecution lay out its case showing
that there were all sorts of false
invoices false checks falsifying of
business records to the intent of
committing or concealing another crime
and those other crimes including tax
fraud um relate to um uh election fraud
federal election laws and state election
laws having been violating having been
violated and and we’ll see if they can
prove that case well that’s let me
follow with you on that Jerry because
although yes you know Michael Cohen uh
has has told a few tales in his life as
has the former president by the way but
when it comes to just going back to the
very beginning of the the Stormy Daniels
Saga um we we saw the checks signed by
Trump I mean Michael Cohen went into
detail about the bank accounts and the
the LLC and all these things that were
set up so it’s I mean doesn’t Michael
Cohen have something here on his side I
mean yes popped for lying but also the
documents don’t necessarily
lie he appears to have truth on his side
there’s documentary evidence just as you
say there are checks there are false
invoices but he also has other Witnesses
on his side just in case the the the
jury feels that well con is Li in the
past and we’re not sure if we should
believe him there’s all sorts of other
people and documents that corroborate uh
what he is going to testify to which of
course demonstrates that the
prosecution’s case is
valid so Katherine why do you think
David Becker was on the stand only for a
short bit of time well I think Jerry’s
right in the sense also in terms of why
he testified is that they want to paint
this picture of Trump’s character they
want to give more credibility to these
instances that occurred that they’re
going to be talking about in terms of
the short period of time look I thought
they might punt it until tomorrow they
might given that they had to get out of
court pretty early um but they wanted to
call him the judge has made clear that
he doesn’t want any delays in this trial
at all they’re moving at a pretty fast
pace so you will see David pcker on the
stand tomorrow now he won’t be on the
stand until 11: a.m. that’s cuz the
judge is going to have a hearing to
begin on the gap gag order and alleged
violations that of the gag order by a
former president Trump which might
include something that he actually just
said moments ago outside of court I’m
sure that will come up where he talked
about Cohen uh we will kick off the day
with that hearing and move into pecker a
couple hours later
Kira overall Jerry what do you think
about this case I mean clearly it’s not
just about hush money it it it’s about
election interference but strong case
weak case um because ‘ known all the
characters and the details and the
allegations and all the salacious stuff
for years when this first broke what six
years ago um when Michael Cohen’s office
got raided and then from there it’s just
kind of been a domino effect um of what
we’ve been able to learn the reason this
case wasn’t brought uh originally uh
when it occurred is because the Trump
justice department made sure that it
wasn’t made sure that the prosecutors
the Federal prosecutors didn’t uh bring
this case so now we have it and it
appears to be um well old news uh
election interference
2016 but it’s very important and by the
way it’s not so different than the
election
interference uh that he attempted to uh
uh pull off in 2020 it takes a different
form but it’s the same uh uh modar
operand by Trump uh uh he appears to
have not learned anything from uh all
the accusations that have been made by
federal prosecutors and state
prosecutors he continues to go outside
the courtroom and make statements about
the witnesses that are not true to make
statements about the process that are
not true this is a
straight uh prosecution by a straight
shooting district attorney in Manhattan
if he didn’t think that there were
serious charges he wouldn’t have brought
the case and the really the case comes
down to no matter what uh Trump’s
lawyers say it comes down to election
interference falsifying business records
covering up this hush money uh operation
in order to uh impact uh the the
election and I think we’re going to uh
have the district attorney show that bit
by bit Witness by witness document by
document but it’ll be up to the jurors
to make uh the decision as to whether or
not the district attorney has proved the
case you know and that that brings up an
interesting point um Katherine dis
listening to Jerry it it will bring up
his past and and all these Witnesses
whether it’s Stormy Daniels or Karen
McDougall or the Access Hollywood tape
which I guess there will only be a
transcript the tape will not be heard in
court is that right and if if that’s the
case it’s still all very
embarrassing um situations here for the
former president and I’m sure every
member of that jury is going to be
looking at him to see if he’s squirming
or getting angry or starting to sweat or
rolling his eyes because if he doesn’t
get that jury to fall in love with him
um he’s
hosed yeah k no I I think you’re exactly
right the body language from him will be
fascinating to watch
probably critical as the jurors are are
looking at him and you mentioned that
Access Hollywood tape that Infamous
Access Hollywood tape that we’ve heard
so many times you’re right it can’t be
played in court um it’s interesting
because it was one of the first things
that during the opening statements today
that prosecutors read they actually read
a portion of that transcript which the
judge allowed them to do so certainly
Trump was sitting there and and heard
that even though he has heard the tape
multiple times his words will be
introduced in the case as they were this
morning so yes I I can imagine that as
you say it’s embarrassing to hear these
details they’ve been reported on but
they haven’t uh been said during a trial
the first criminal trial certainly he
will be hearing a lot more of this in
the coming weeks all right Katherine
thanks Jerry gold fitter thank you too
it’s great to have you on
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crisis now and the man who was the
symbol of the failure to prevent the
deadliest attack in Israel’s history
netanyahu’s head of military
intelligence has now resigned that Major
General the highest ranking Israeli
official to step down since the Hamas Le
attack back on October 7th his recogn
resignation rather happening as a
special State Department panel here in
our nation’s capital is also
recommending to sanction Israeli
military units linked to Human Rights
abuses for more let’s bring in our
senior National policy reporter an
flurty so an the US is set to make a
decision soon on whether to withhold the
military aid to these Israeli units that
are accused of of torture where’s this
Intel coming from and what more do we
know yeah Caro secretary blinkin
addressed this at a press conference
last Friday when he was asked about uh
reports that these IDF units these
Israeli Defense Forces H uh have been
accused of Human Rights abuses and of
course in the US there is a law it’s
called the Ley act that says we can’t
use federal money that would actually
provide weapons or training to military
units overseas that have been accused of
gross human rights violations so uh
blinkin said simply this has been on our
radar we’re looking at this and I expect
to make a determination in coming days
so you know Israel has already responded
to this Netanyahu says absolutely not
and called it a low uh for the country
said this is not the time to do it so
what happens now overall to intelligence
GA intelligence gathering is netanyahu’s
key guy is now out yeah you know it was
really a stunner at 13 38-year veteran
of the Israeli Defense Forces um having
all of that experience but of course
being blamed for the October 7th attack
from Hamas not seeing it that huge
breach in intelligence um I I think it’s
showing that you know that that
investigation might be coming to an end
they know uh who to blame he’s he says
simply you know I will live with this
for the rest of my life uh but all of
this puts pressure on Netanyahu who has
not accepted blame for the October 7th
attack so all eyes on him all right and
flarity thanks so much so after putting
his job on the line to push through a
$95 billion foreign aid package house
Speaker Mike Johnson appears to be
gaining new bipartisan support the
Senate is now set to vote on that
massive forign a package later this week
that also includes that bill that could
potentially ban Tik Tock here in the US
our senior White House correspondent
Selena Wang is on Capitol Hill with the
latest for us so Selena let’s talk about
this moment for speaker Johnson why did
he completely change his stand on
Ukraine Aid yeah car this is a total
transformation for Mike Johnson remember
he had gone from being staunchly opposed
to any more Aid to Ukraine to then
putting his own job on the line to try
and get that massive foreign aid package
passed so as you say the big question
here is why the dramatic turnaround well
there’s a few reasons number one is the
pressure campaign that was from
President Biden as well as other
Congressional leaders and world leaders
for that matter secondly he also had
received classified intelligence
briefings including from the CIA
director painting the dire picture in
Ukraine the stakes that we’re talking
about here and that also played a role
in shifting his position then thirdly
he’s a devout Christian and Congressman
McCall said that he prayed he prayed for
guidance on what to do here so as you
say the Senate is now going to take this
up they’re expected to take it up
tomorrow and given the bipartisan
support here this could really speed its
way through Congress and President Biden
says he’s ready to sign this as soon as
possible all right well the Senate is
expected uh to vote on this foreign a
package tomorrow as you mentioned let’s
talk about what happens to Tik Tock as
well if indeed it
passes yeah so this is interesting this
has been gaining a lot of bipartisan uh
momentum here and this would essentially
give bite dance which is Tik tok’s
Chinese parent about a year to sell the
app find a buyer or it would face a ban
in the US but it’s not really that
simple Kira because it will definitely
face legal challenges Tik Tok said
they’re going to fight this hard and
Court they are going to say that this
violates the first amendment that this
devastates millions of small businesses
that rely on the platform then on top of
that you also have the fact that the
Chinese government could block the sale
as well so there’s still a long road
ahead for this an interesting political
Dynamics here as well President Biden
says he’s in support of this legislation
but his campaign is actively using Tik
Tok to try and reach young
voters all right Selena Wang at the
capital Forest Selena thank you and for
the first time in decades the Supreme
Court is is hearing a major case
involving homelessness the justices are
weighing whether cities can find
unhoused people for sleeping outside
Advocates say this amounts to cruel and
unusual punishment and it comes as
homeless numbers are skyrocketing
Nationwide right now California has the
largest homeless population in the
country and Governor Gavin Newsome says
he means business and is calling for
accountability it’s about people’s lives
people are dying on our watch people are
dying on the streets and we all have
respons responsibility to do better all
of us not just the state it’s not about
blaming folks pointing fingers anymore
all of us accountability Drive
accountability get out there let’s get
this stuff fixed let’s clean up our
streets save people’s
lives let’s bring in our senior
Washington correspondent Deon DWI out in
front of the Supreme Court there Devin
let’s talk about how we got here and the
arguments that the justices are actually
hearing today a historic case today Kira
the biggest case on homelessness in more
than 40 years it came from the city of
Grants Pass Oregon one of many in this
country that have passed ordinances
trying to crack down on homelessness and
homeless encampments Grants Pass as you
said passed a law few years ago saying
it would be a crime to sleep in public
if you didn’t have a home to use a
blanket that police could ticket you
sight you and eventually if you kept
violating it put you in jail a group of
homeless people in that Community I was
out there uh brought this Le legal
challenge they said it violates the eth
amendment cruel and unusual punishment
because the city of Grants Pass has no
homeless shelters public shelters for
these people uh and places to go a
federal appeals court agreed with them
Kira and today here at the Supreme Court
arguments just concluded a short time
ago more than two hours uh of debate
over this very complicated issue of
homelessness in America it’s on the rise
at record levels especially on the west
coast what can cities do about it can
they pass laws that penalize people who
are sleeping on the streets a very
tricky case today kakira and the
justices really were grappling with that
well you always humanize these stories
for us Devon tell us about this woman
that you met in Oregon who’s struggling
with homelessness and what she thinks
about this case one of the interesting
things about Grant’s Pass C is that so
many of the 600 or so homeless people in
that Community are natives of Grant’s
past they grew up there they lived there
uh one of those people was Helen Cruz
she had lived for five year she told me
in a local city park next to the Little
League field until a church took her in
and during that time she said she was uh
faced with
$5,000 in fines and here’s what she had
to say about that
experience I was holding down two jobs
when I was out here and uh still not
enough to be able to rent a place their
their uh terms of low-income housing
here is $1,000 a month and that’s that’s
not workable either you know
now Helen Cruz had two jobs at the time
Kira she said she was doing her best
simply could not afford the rent there
and Grant Grants Pass much less the
fines that she was getting from the city
she was one of the uh supporters of this
case she hopes that the city will back
down from this enforcement opportunity
and simply invest more uh in affordable
housing up and down the West Coast in in
Grant’s Pass but the city today uh Kira
telling the justices that laws like
these are so so important for Public
Safety uh and cranking down on
encampments the justices seem really
torn we’ll have to see how they come out
in the next couple of months Kira right
and if there’s bigger implications for
other states as well we’ll follow it
closely Devon thank you so much and we
we may be willing to Spring but it sure
doesn’t feel like it for much of the
country millions of Americans are
feeling some pretty frigid temperatures
and a new threat of severe weather is on
the way our meteorologist Samar theor is
tracking the forecast Samara are we ever
good to see a true start to Spring I
know I’m trying to see what I could do
uh here but you know I always say that
spring is really the battle between
summer and winter and right now it looks
like winter is winning a little bit so
here’s a look another shot of Frosty air
this is the uh temperature trend for the
next couple of mornings okay so that
means you’re waking up you’re headed
outside around 6:00 a.m. Tuesday morning
Chicago 50s buai Wednesday dropping down
in the 30s look how the chill is
spreading Eastward Boston 32 degrees
Thursday morning Burlington below
freezing THS Thursday morning down into
the 20s as a result we’ve seen the shift
for Frost and freeze alerts shift a
little bit farther Eastward I know
earlier this morning we had it in a lot
of places like uh the Midwest into the
Great Lakes while tomorrow morning we
anticipate the freeze and frost alerts
to be happening towards uh Eastern
Kentucky right on into parts of Virginia
Maryland and up into Pennsylvania
meanwhile out west they have been
dealing with their own chill right so
this morning pretty chilly but look
what’s happening we’re getting a pretty
big warmup out west
and just a think that in Denver we just
came off of all that snowfall and now
they will be waking up or going home
should I say to temperatures in the
upper 70s this afternoon near about 80
degrees in in Trinidad Colorado there
and a lot of that heat helping to fuel
some storms later this week it’s a quiet
start to our week now but that’s going
to change severe weather is riding
through the Heartland by the end of the
week here we’re going to show you uh
where you can anticipate that on
Thursday from great Ben down to Western
Oklahoma and then on Friday that shifts
farther east there we could see large
Hill damaging winds and a few tornadoes
Kira all right appreciate it Samara
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suspended that’s right Kira and and I’m
outside Columbia University right now
you can see there are demonstrators here
Pro Palestinian demonstrators pro-israel
demonstrators the friction is worsening
here at the school there are a lot of
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the NYPD is standing ready to ready to
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it seems like though it seems as though
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wrapping up today in the first ever
criminal trial for a former president
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Phillips our top story this hour it’s
history happening right before our eyes
Court wrapping just a short time ago in
the first ever criminal trial against a
former president of the United States
States presidents have been impeached
they’ve resigned they’ve been voted out
of office but for the first time ever
former president Donald Trump is facing
a jury of his peers in criminal court
it’s all stemming from those charges
related to a payment to a porn star
hoping to hide an alleged affair with
Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election
prosecutors and defense attorneys now
starting to lay out their cases and the
state already calling the first witness
to the stand former National inquire
publisher David pecker who they say was
part of that scheme to buy and Barry
unflattering stories about Trump leading
us off our investigative reporter Olivia
Rubin Attorney Jerry goldfeder senior
council at Kosen o Conor and director of
the forom law school’s voting rights for
democracy project Olivia let’s start
with you a lot of salacious details
brought up in court how did Trump handle
it some really brutal moments Kira I
think zoning in on the moment when
prosecutors in their opening statements
brought up the infamous Access Hollywood
tape they read portions of of the
transcript to the jury they said that
Donald Trump was uh bragging about
committing sexual assault and Donald
Trump just had to sit there and listen
and I will say just watching that camera
that’s directly on his face you could
tell it was difficult it was one of the
few moments when prosecutors brought up
this tape that you could see Donald
Trump shaking his head he pursed his
lips he was fidgeting in his seat a
little bit shuffling with papers at one
point he grabbed a pen clearly sort of
you know trying to figure out what to do
in that moment where remember he can’t
really do much he can’t talk he can’t
chime in he can’t say anything and so
for that time it’s really just about
sitting there and listening and I do
think that his attorneys when they uh
got up for their turn his attorney Todd
blanch tried to humanize him a bit uh to
counter against these ideas of him as
the president of him in power of him you
know in the Access Hollywood tape and
Todd blanch is attorney said to the jury
you know he’s not just the former
president he’s not just the man that
you’ve seen on TV with The Apprentice
and what Todd said was he’s a man he is
a husband and he is a father and it was
a really striking line that I think was
going to be tried to use to counter some
of these really salacious these really
runchy details that are going to be laid
out in front of the jury for the next 6
to 8 weeks so Jerry what do you make of
former National inquir publisher David
pecker as the first witness called by
the prosecution why set the tone here
with Trump’s longtime friend and
protector of damaging
stories well I think pecker is important
because uh the defense is going to try
to devalue the testimony of Michael con
and other Witnesses like David pecker
will corroborate what the district
attorney has to say in its charges uh
about this uh cover up and there are
documents that will show that as well
you know it’s interesting uh he may be a
husband and a father uh but I’m not sure
that that’s a great defense cuz after
all if if I were a juror sitting there
and I would and I was told well he’s
just an ordinary guy he’s a husband and
his a and a father look what he did and
there’s no getting away from what he did
and the Access Hollywood tape even
though they’re not going to hear the
tape they’re going to hear the
transcript they’ve heard part of it
already and when they hear that they’re
going to say well what kind of husband
was this what kind of father
was this and and and the Access
Hollywood tape uh shows what kind of
person he was and why they were so
crazed about covering up uh the Stormy
Daniels because it was right before the
election and right after the Access
Hollywood tape uh came out so that’s
what really motivated them to uh have
this hush money scheme and cover it up
and falsify business records that the
jury’s going to hear all the those
details about so I’m not so sure that
the defense was so smart by trying to
portray him as just an ordinary guy the
jurors may say not such a good
husband so Olivia what else is the
prosecution hoping to learn uh from
David peger besides uh Trump’s attempt
here to just pull off these dirty tricks
before 2016 campaign and then all the
way to the election day really he was
scrambling well David pecker is sort of
a keyy uh aspect and if you think of the
link of what uh occurred here in terms
of the payments because remember Donald
Trump didn’t pay stormmy Daniels
directly it was Michael Cohen and David
pecker who worked together to buy the
story Michael Cohen made the payments
Donald Trump paid Michael Cohen so what
prosecutors need to do is they need to
lay out this link for the jury so they
can understand the flow of the money
because what this case is actually about
on the charges is the flow of the money
it is not about the affair it is not
about you know Access Hollywood it is
the falsification of business records
and the payments so the jurors need to
understand exactly where money changed
hands and they also sort of framed it as
this bigger story that David pecker is
at the center of because the charges are
related to the payments of Stormy
Daniels but what prosecutors say is it
was just one piece of a broader scheme
where uh Karen McDougall was paid off
where a doorman for Trump Tower was also
paid off and that it all started with
this one meeting with Michael Cohen
Donald Trump and David pcker and that’s
how they open their case today so they
opened their case as David pecker the
central man at the center of what
happened
here all right Livia Rubin Jerry
goldfeder thank you both so much and you
can pretty much assume that Trump’s
trial is a reality show that he never
really wanted and at this point he can’t
delay it any further either even though
he’d love to it’s the only one of four
prosecutions of trump to go to trial
before the election this year and a lot
is on the line former special counsel to
the Trump White House Ty Cobb joins me
now uh Ty great to see you again I guess
overall question here what do you think
about this particular case being the one
to hang history
on I think it’s unfortunate it’s nice to
be with you again care um I think it’s
unfortunate that this is the first case
because uh the two most serious cases
obviously are the two Federal cases
where he uh ran rampant over the
Constitution and uh uh attempted uh to
obstruct
the you know transfer of power um so I
think those I think those are the most
serious cases I think this is probably
the least serious case on the other hand
it presents him in a personally very
abhorent way um sort of affair with
Stormy Daniels um you know payments to
Karen McDougall for a long um um
standing Affair uh David pecker and the
you know catch and kill stories and of
course Michael Cohen and you know the
the the difficulty with some of the uh
attacks on Cohen all of which are valid
by the way but the difficulty with those
attacks is you got to remember that
Cohen was Trump’s you know asset TR
Cohen was Trump’s friend Cohen was
Trump’s consor so um yes Cohen is a bad
guy but Trump knew that and hired him
for that purpose
Point well made it’s sort of like
Trump’s misogyny is on trial here in New
York when you you start to hear about
everything so far that’s been presented
like with David pecker I mean what did
you make of that his longtime friend
helped you know protect him uh from from
damaging stories he was head of the
national Inquirer why start with David
pecker you
think well I think you want to start
with you know somebody who can put um
you know some meat on the bones um and
you want to probably take the person
that is most credible from that group
certainly in the you know David Cohen
Stormy Daniels David pecker troa uh
David pecker is the most credible person
uh just because he had a longstanding
business career he’s more Nimble uh on
the stand than uh the other two will be
and he’s more sophisticated in terms of
you know uh going back and forth with
Advocates and um aggressors on the other
side so I think um you know he’s going
to be he’s going to be as good as it
gets frankly for the prosecution and uh
starting with him makes makes perfect
sense particularly where they can get
the broad outlines of the alleged scheme
now I think you know the um most
interesting issue with pecker is the
extent to which he’s going to be able to
tie any of this conduct to actual
concerns about the election uh because
keep in mind this this is a misdemeanor
bookkeeping trial uh that has got a hook
into um trying to avoid other crimes
those crimes being campaign Finance laws
and it’s the tie to the campaign Finance
laws that is essential for the
government in order to get a felony
conviction definitely I mean a simple
recordkeeping case made much more
complicated by the felony um charge so
let me ask you you know you were the
defense attorney who represented the
Trump White House during the special
counsil uh Robert Muller’s Russia
investigation I I’m just curious if you
were still having to represent Trump do
you think you could defend him in a case
like this I me I’m throwing spaghetti at
the wall here and just seeing what
you’re going to say would you be able to
defend him how would you take this case
on so I think there is a good defense
and I think that um Tod blanch is and
you know his co-counsel are you know
well suited to present that defense I
think though that Trump has really
hampered this case by insisting on
continue to lie about uh not having had
the sexual trist with u stormmy Daniels
and not having had the affair with M
mcdou I think those
lies um make it very very difficult uh
to cross-examine those Witnesses because
it’s not going to it’s not going to be
it’s not going to be the issue of you
know uh did it did you know why did you
do this it’s going to be did it happen
at all and it’s it’s clear that it
happened taob great to have you and of
course um you were right there uh
through through many of the the
allegations uh truths and uh and uh
Twisted situations that we all had to
cover and I just appreciate you um
bringing more light onto this for us
great to see you great to be with you
thank you now to the Middle East crisis
and the man who was the symbol of the
failure to prevent the deadliest attack
in Israel’s history netanyahu’s head of
military intelligence has resigned the
major general is the highest ranking
Israeli official to step down since the
Hamas Le attack back on October 7th this
resignation happening as a special State
Department panel here in our nation’s
capital is also recommending to sanction
Israeli military units linked to Human
Rights abuses let’s bring in our foreign
correspondent Tom Sufi bur in Tel Aviv
along with our senior National policy
reporter and FL so Tom let’s just talk
about about the resignation first of all
of this Major General um do you think he
is the sole person responsible for for
the lack of intelligence uh that led to
that Hamas attack back on October 7th or
do you think he’s just taking the fall
for the Prime
Minister well he’s certainly not the
sole person responsible for that
intelligence failure Kira I mean he’s
definitely one of the top people in
charge at the time and as you said he
headed up Military Intelligence he’s
still in charge at the moment but he is
going to resign and he’s the first
senior military officer to to resign in
connection with those intelligence
failings of the Dead for the deadliest
terror attack in Israeli history I mean
in his resignation letter he effectively
says that the intelligence directorate
of the IDF simply didn’t live up to the
task and he says he’ll carry that black
day with him forever but just to remind
people you look Israeli intelligence had
a document which they code named the
Jericho wall and effectively they had
that about year before the attack
actually happened and it was in effect a
blueprint of hamas’s plan it really was
a sort of premonition of the actual
tactics that Hamas ended up uh using
deploying to get over the Border fence
to storm into Southern Israel and to
Massacre 1200 people and take hundreds
of hostages there were other intell
intelligence failures too unusual uh SIM
card cell phone activity in the hours
running up to it warnings from
surveillance officers mainly female
surveillance officers down on the Gaza
border to their superiors which were
ultimately ignored there’s a massive
massive intelligence failure and
although he’s the first person to resign
the first mil senior military officer I
don’t think he’ll be the
last so and the US is set now to make
this decision on whether to withhold
military aid to Israeli units that have
been accused of Human Rights abuse what
more do we know about exactly what
they’re being accused uh of doing yeah K
this would be a big deal if this happens
we heard from secretary blinkin saying
that he was considering it and we’ve
seen reporting that there is one unit in
particular an IDF Battalion accused of
torture operating in the West Bank this
is prior to October 7th which I think is
an important thing to note uh but there
have been questions about how this
Battalion has handled itself now under
us law we’re not allowed to give Federal
money to military units that are accused
of gross human rights violations so the
question is whether or not uh this has
triggered this this law which is called
the Ley act uh blankin says he’s looking
at it he’s going to make a determination
in coming days we know he’s speaking
right now but uh we’re not expecting to
hear any news on that today we do expect
it later this week Cara all right and
thank you Tom appreciate you so for the
first time in decades back at here at
home the Supreme Court is hearing a
major case involving homelessness the
justices are weighing whether cities can
actually F unhoused people for sleeping
outside Advocates say this amounts to
cruel and unusual pun punishment it
comes as homeless numbers are
skyrocketing Nationwide and our senior
Washington correspondent Deon DWI has
been following this story from the very
beginning um Devon just kind of lay out
what the arguments are that the justices
are hearing today a fascinating case
Kira about a problem a lot of cities are
confronting especially on the west coast
as you mentioned what can cities do to
try to incentivize homeless people to
take advantage of resources possibly
shelters that are in their community and
get off the streets clear out public
parks and public sidewalks the city of
Grants Pass Oregon in this case passed a
law a few years ago saying it was a
crime for anyone to sleep outside with a
blanket in an effort to try to get
homeless people out of their city parks
off Little League fields uh but the the
ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Cura said
that that would be cruel and unusual
punishment because Grants Pass does not
have any public uh homeless shelters and
today just a short time ago the justices
here at the Supreme Court concluded more
than 2 and a half hours of arguments
over this very question is it cruel and
unusual and I got to say k the
conservative majority here was very
sympathetic to the city they no doubt
we’re acknowledging the difficulties of
homelessness and those that people have
living in the streets but they seem to
suggest that cities have to retain some
ability even if it means giving out a
ticket or citation to try to get some of
these encampments cleared out
Kira so you actually spoke with a number
of people there in Grant p in Grant Pass
including the executive director of the
only private home homeless shelter in
town and I want to point out only
private homeless shelter in town what
did he tell you and why isn’t there more
support for those that are struggling
there is one shelter in Grant Pas Kira
it’s a Christian shelter they require
you if you stay there to go to church to
give up drinking smoking drugs and your
pets if you have them and a lot of
homeless people in that Community I talk
to struggled with those addictions or
had pets or simply didn’t want to
worship and so they didn’t go to the
shelter but that’s one of the questions
in this case how involuntary is
homelessness well here’s what the
director of that shelter had to say take
a
listen the ninth circuit said that it’s
cruel and unusual punishment on the part
of Grant’s Pass to sight and find some
homeless folks for living in the park
when there’s nowhere else to go well
that’s the part that’s the big question
is there nowhere else to go or is there
just nowhere else that they want to
go and so we heard that argument again
today repeatedly here at the court Kira
it was picked up by the conservatives uh
they didn’t really buy this idea that
homelessness is entirely involuntary and
so perhaps cities like Grants Pass and
we heard it today can in fact lawfully
enforce laws like these to nudge people
along Kira we’ll see what the court says
at the end of June when they issue their
decision we’ll follow it Devon thank you
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uh that the school the NYPD is now
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story this hour history happening before
our eyes Court wrapping just a short
time ago in the first ever criminal
trial against a former president of the
United States presidents have been
impeached they’ve resigned they’ve been
voted out of office but for the first
time ever former president Donald Trump
is facing a jury of his peers in
criminal court it’s all stemming from
charges related to that payment to a
porn star hoping to hide an alleged
affair with stormmy Daniels before the
2016 election prosecutors and defense
attorneys now starting to lay out their
cases the state already calling the
first witness to the stand former
National inquire publisher David pecker
who they say was part of that scheme to
buy and bury and flattering stories
about Trump let’s bring in our
investigative reporter Olivia rman just
outside Court there senior reporter
kathern falers and Tim Jansen criminal
defense attorney and former Federal
prosecutor Olia big day for both sides
actually uh and the first chance to
present uh the cases or each side to the
jury what’s stood out to
you well I think a lot of Donald Trump’s
attorney Todd blanche’s arguments were
really fascinating that’s always what’s
so interesting about opening statements
on the day of a trial because it’s
really the first time you hear the
defense’s case in Earnest and something
we saw from Donald Trump’s team today
was a really interesting strategy which
was essentially Kira blame Michael Cohen
and Todd blanch spent a lot of time of
his opening statement in front of that
jury setting up the scene of who Michael
Cohen was he called him a criminal
someone who is obsessed with Donald
Trump someone who wanted to stop at
nothing to make sure that he ended up in
jail and essentially what he said was
that Michael Cohen was a criminal long
before he even worked for Donald Trump
and that he just wanted to work with him
and get close to him but Donald Trump
did not know that he was hiring a
criminal and why that’s so important is
because it was Michael Cohen’s invoices
every single month in 2017 for the
repayments that are really at heart uh
in this case here so what the team is
trying to do is essentially say hey it’s
Michael Cohen who made the invoices he
put it as legal fees he’s the one that
you know has essentially started a lot
of this and they it was a lot of blame
shifting onto him which I think we could
have expected to see but it was
fascinating to see how much time Todd
blanch actually spent setting up uh
attacking The credibility of Michael
Cohen so Katherine why choose David
pcker as the first witness here well you
heard Olivia just talk about The
credibility of Michael Cohen of course
something that the defense will attack
and something the prosecutors
acknowledge so I think in calling pecker
he’s another witness here to what’s
alleged to be his role in brokering this
payment for example they’re going to
also discuss a meeting that occurred in
2015 between pecker Trump and Cohen
where pecker allegedly agreed to use his
media Empire to help defend Trump’s
presidential campaign so he’s a witness
who prosecutors hope can add more
credibility to what you will potentially
hear from Michael Cohen as former lawyer
and fixer Trump’s former lawyer and
fixer later on in the
trial all right Tim prosecutors alleging
that Trump committed election fraud that
the hush money payments were not spin or
communication strategies but a
coordinated conspiracy to influence the
2016 election what’s your thought do
they have a case to back this
up well they’re trying to butress
Michael Cohen because they have to he’s
got zero credibility the problem they
have with this is ndas are legal catch
and kill is is legal the only thing
they’re claiming is illegal was he tried
to influence the election by
mischaracterizing the invoices as legal
fees well who did that Michael Cohen did
that and you know if you really get down
to they have to prove intent by
President Trump well so what happens
these records if the records were done
properly right and they put in their
paying hush money those records would
not have been released till after the
election so what would his intent have
been to uh steal the election by hiding
this um and you look at Michael Cohen’s
payments he got
$420,000 in legal fees after that um
Trump wouldn’t have been paying he
doesn’t like to pay um I think the
state’s going to have a hard time
because they have to rely on Cohen they
don’t want to and they’re going to
introduce all this other stuff like
pecker um and he all he does he’s just
you know a vegetable when you got the
meat of the case is going to be Michael
Cohen what he did his vindictive and
Vendetta against Trump he’s a horrible
witness everyone knows it and we’ll see
what the jury believes anything he says
so bottom line you’re saying you would
never let Trump take the stand if you
were representing
him that well the problem you have the
judge has already ruled for impeachment
purposes a lot of bad things are going
to come in some that are questionable
some are probably proper but a jury can
decide to convict them just on those
events and not what’s charged in this
indictment well Katherine then we’ve got
the Access Hollywood tapes being bra
brought back into the fold once again in
which talk talks about how easily it is
to sexually assault women I mean he
still became president even after those
tapes were exposed so could it be any
different this time around Kira it’s a
good question so many people have heard
that tape for years and years now now I
say heard uh it won’t be heard in court
Trump’s words are allowed to be read
aloud from that tape that’s what the
judge ruled they’ve already been read
aloud in that courtroom earlier today
and before the jury I think it’s too
early to tell whether this specifically
has any effect down the road if it’s
specifically the Access Hollywood tape
with voters if it’s if for example Trump
is convicted if that has more of an we
we’ll just have to see what the polls
ultimately show but surely it’s part of
the conversation again and as you’ve
noted it’s something that he doesn’t
particularly like out there he knew that
this was quite a problem during his
campaign when it first came out so we’ll
see how he reacts to that after court it
did seem that um Trump wasn’t
particularly happy potentially violated
that gag order again so I’m not sure
that he loves sitting there hearing all
of this evidence come out and be uh at
least discussed before the jury so just
to follow up on in light of all that
that how salacious this case is Tim um
would it be smart for Trump to take the
stand there’s talk about it there’s
there’s lawyers in a panic that have
been talking about it would it be a good
strategy or could it be just a complete
nightmare I think it would be really bad
Optics I think it’s fraught with
problems and the image of a former
president sitting on the stand defending
himself is going to lower his standard
that they don’t want to do you heard in
the open they’re trying to build him as
a regular person they’re calling this
President Trump because he was elected
putting him on the stand and fighting
these allegations when it doesn’t seem
that the evidence is going to require it
if they and the state carries a burden
and if they can’t prove intent or he had
anything to do with those invoices or
had knowledge how they were invoiced
they were not going to be able to meet
the
standard and Court Olivia is set to
resume with David pecker once again back
on the stand tomorrow what can we expect
well prosecutors when they first got up
in front of the jury this morning laid
David pecker at the center of their
story they opened to the jury with
essentially this meeting between pecker
Michael Cohen and Trump where they said
they made this agreement that they were
going to buy stories and kill them and
Trump was going to pay Michael Cohen
back so we didn’t hear anything about
that from him today he was only on the
stand for about 30 minutes so it’s going
to be up to them to get into sort of the
meat of that testimony when he resumes
tomorrow but I would say Kira David
pecker is back on the stand at 11: a.m.
but Donald Trump is back in court at
9:30 a.m. because the judge is holding
that hearing on the potential gag order
violations remember prosecutors say he
violated the gag order at least 10 times
some of those posts by attacking witness
Michael Cohen what his lawyers did in
front of the jury today so we will see
what uh you know the judge ends up doing
about that but it’s fascinating how
they’re you know attacking Michael
credibility in front of the jury today
and tomorrow Donald Trump will be uh
heard as the reasons why he shouldn’t be
held in contempt for doing the same
thing which he cannot do per the gag
order all right Katherine Olivia Tim
thank you all so
much now to the Middle East crisis and
the man who was the symbol of the
failure to prevent the deadliest attack
in Israel’s history netanyahu’s head of
military intelligence has resigned the
major general is the highest ranking
Israeli official to step down since the
Hamas Le attack back on October 7th this
resignation happening as a special State
Department panel here in our nation’s
capital is also recommending to sanction
Israeli military units linked to Human
Rights abuses let’s bring in our foreign
correspondent Tom Sufi Burj in Tel Aviv
along with our senior National policy
reporter and flarity so Tom let’s just
talk about about the resignation first
of all of this Major General um do you
think he is the sole person responsible
for for the lack of intelligence uh that
led to that Hamas attack back on October
7th or do you think he’s just taking the
fall for the Prime
Minister well he’s certainly not the
sole person responsible for that
intelligence failure Kira I mean he’s
definitely one of the top people in
charge at the time and as you said he
headed up Military Intelligence he’s
still in charge of the moment but he is
going to resign and he’s the first
senior military offic to to resign in
connection with those intelligence
failings of the Dead for the deadliest
terror attack in his history I mean in
his resignation letter he effectively
says that the intelligence directorate
of the IDF simply didn’t live up to the
task and he says he’ll carry that black
day with him forever but just to remind
people you look Israeli intelligence had
a document which they codenamed the
Jericho wall and effectively they had
that about a year before the attack
actually happened and it was in effect a
blueprint of hamas’s plan it really was
a sort of premonition of the actual
tactics that Hamas ended up using
deploying to get over the Border fence
to storm into Southern Israel and to
Massacre 1200 people and take hundreds
of hostages there were other int
intelligence failures too unusual uh SIM
card cell phone activity in the hours
running up to it warnings from
surveillance officers mainly female
surveillance officers down on the Gaza
border to their superiors which were
ultimately ignored so it’s a massive
massive intelligence failure and
although he’s the first person to resign
the first mil senior military officer I
don’t think he’ll be the
last so an the US is set now to make
this decision on whether to withhold
military aid to Israeli units that have
been accused of Human Rights abuse what
more do we know about exactly what
they’re being accused uh of doing yeah K
this would be a big deal if this happens
we heard from secretary blinkin saying
that he was considering it and we’ve
seen reporting that there was one unit
in particular an IDF Battalion accused
of torture operating in the West Bank
this is prior to October 7th which I
think is an important thing to note uh
but there have been questions about how
this Battalion has handled itself now
under us law we’re not allowed to give
Federal money to military units that are
accused of gross human rights violations
so the question is whether or not uh
this has triggered this this law which
is called the Ley act uh blankin says
he’s looking at it he’s going to make a
determination in coming days we know
he’s speaking right now but uh we’re not
expecting to hear any news on that today
we do expect it later this week
K all right and thank you Tom appreciate
you so for the first time in decades
back at here at home the Supreme Court
is hearing a major case involving
homelessness the justices are weighing
WEA cities can actually find unhoused
people for sleeping outside Advocates
say this amounts to cruel and unusual
pun punishment it comes as homeless
numbers are skyrocketing Nationwide and
our senior Washington correspondent Deon
DWI has been following this story from
the very beginning um Deon just kind of
lay out what the arguments are that the
justices are hearing to today a
fascinating case Kira about a problem a
lot of cities are confronting especially
on the west coast as you mentioned what
can cities do to try to incentivize
homeless people to take advantage of
resources possibly shelters that are in
their community and get off the streets
clear out public parks and public
sidewalks the city of Grants Pass Oregon
in this case passed a law a few years
ago saying it was a crime for anyone to
sleep outside with a blanket in an
effort to try to get homeless people out
of their city parks off Little League
fields uh but the the ninth Circuit
Court of Appeals Cura said that that
would be cruel and unusual punishment
because Grants Pass does not have any
public uh homeless shelters and today uh
just a short time ago the justices here
at the Supreme Court concluded more than
two and a half hours of arguments over
this very question is it cruel and
unusual and I got to say k the
conservative majority here was very
sympathetic to the city they no doubt
were acknowledging the difficulties of
homelessness and those that people have
living in the streets but they seem to
suggest that cities have to retain some
ability even if it means giving out a
ticket or citation to try to get some of
these encampments cleared out
Kira so you actually spoke with a number
of people there in Grant p in Grant Pass
including the executive director of the
only private homeless shelter in town
and I want to point out only private
homeless shelter in town what did he
tell you and why isn’t there more
support for those that are struggling
there is one shelter in Grant Pas Kira
it’s a Christian shelter they require
you if you stay there to go to church to
give up drinking smoking drugs and your
pets if you have them and a lot of
homeless people in that Community I talk
to struggled with those addictions or
had pets or simply didn’t want to
worship and so they didn’t go to the
shelter but that’s one of the questions
in this case how involuntary is
homelessness well here’s what the
director of that shelter had to say take
a
listen the circuit said that it’s cruel
and unusual punishment on the part of
Grant’s Pass to sight and find some
homeless folks for living in the park
when there’s nowhere else to go well
that’s the part that’s the big question
is there nowhere else to go is there
just nowhere else that they want to
go and so we heard that argument again
today repeatedly here at the court Kira
it was picked up by the conservatives uh
they didn’t really buy this idea that
homelessness is entirely involuntary and
so perhaps cities like Grants Pass and
we heard it today can in fact lawfully
enforce laws like these to nudge people
along Kira we’ll see what the court says
at the end of June when they issued
their decision we’ll follow it Devon
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suspensions that happened at Columbia
University classes are taking place
remotely today as part of increased
safety measures after those anti-israel
protests on campus police say at least a
100 people have been arrested so far the
University’s president calling for a
reset there on school grounds ahead of
the first night of passover which begins
tonight our Stephanie Ramos is on the
story for us so Steph these were not
peaceful protests I mean students were
arrested and even
suspended that’s right Kira and and I’m
outside Columbia University right now
you can see there are demonstrators here
Pro Palestinian demonstrators pro-israel
demonstrators the friction is worsening
here at the school there are a lot of
shouting matches there is some conflict
the NYPD is standing ready to ready to
interact if they need to we we know that
they’re across the street right now uh
it seems like though it seems as though
they are wearing Riot Gear helmets
they’ve got the Baton uh but they are
not involved just yet right now it’s
just the two groups kind of going at
each other uh but we know what we saw
last week Pro Palestinian demonstrators
pitching tents on the campus refusing to
leave the university uh unless the
university met their demands which
included uh divesting from companies
with ties to Israel the school called
the police as you mentioned at least a
100 people were arrested uh but that did
not deter other groups we know that Pro
Palestinian demonstrators not affiliated
with the university also uh joined some
protests over the weekend
K all right so let’s talk about
additional security measures uh that the
school the NYPD is now taking and since
classes are happening remotely um have
you seen any staff teachers getting
involved uh not that I know of and if
they are it’s hard to tell if they are
staff if they are teachers professors we
know that there are a lot of different
groups kind of kind of joining in and in
in in in in these demonstrations well we
do know that and as you mentioned this
is the first night of passover we know
that NYPD officials have said because it
is a a Jewish holiday it may be a
catalyst for acts of violence or
extremist group to take advantage uh so
they are keeping a close eye on that but
this university has said that they they
don’t want to so much involve the police
they want to step up and double up on
the campus Public Safety officers that
they have before uh calling the police
again which is what they did last week
and has not deterred groups from coming
back to the campus to protest K all
right Stephanie R Ramos for us there
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happening before our eyes Court wrapping
just a short time ago in the first ever
criminal trial against a former
president of the United States
presidents have been imp Peach they’ve
resigned they’ve been voted out of
office but for the first time ever
former president Donald Trump is facing
a jury of his peers in criminal court
and it’s all stemming from charges
related to that payment to porn star
Stormy Daniels hoping to hide an alleged
affair with her before the 2016 election
prosecutors and defense attorneys now
starting to lay out their cases the
state already calling in the first
witness former National inquire
publisher David pecker who they say was
part of that scheme to buy and bury
unflattering stories about Trump we do
have team coverage starting off with our
senior investigative course on Eric
canki he’s outside Court there we also
have Tim Jansen criminal defense
attorney and former Federal prosecutor
Aaron paint us a picture of inside court
today what stood out to
you there was former president Trump
seated at the defense table slouched in
his seat the jury walked in he had to
stand but did not appear to look at the
jury and he sat there rather passively
occasionally maybe subtly shaking his
head as if to say no as prosecutors with
the Manhattan District Attorney’s office
accused him of election fraud pure and
simple by paying hush money to porn
actress Stormy Daniels and then logging
it as a legal expense illegally
prosecutors say because they believe it
was meant to conceal information that
voters in 2016 should have been able to
know to make a better informed Choice
Trump perked up a little bit more when
his defense attorney Todd blanch said he
committed no crime and tried to distance
him from the hush payment but there was
Trump leaning forward with his arms
crossed on the defense table something
of a glower on his face when his friend
David pecker the longtime publisher of
the national Inquirer became the first
witness nothing terribly substantive
from pecker but but you could tell Trump
was not happy to see someone he
considered a friend there testifying
against him Tim if convicted I mean his
freedom is it stay care could we
actually see the former president being
taken away in
handcuffs well that would be really bad
Optics I don’t even think this judge
who’s not a friend of trump for a
firsttime offender on offense on a
technical offense that probably would
not call for
incarceration I think the purpose of the
trial is is not for
incarceration um so I would find that
very difficult I think the Judge would
be misplaced to do
that so Erin where do you see this going
tomorrow with David pcker what more
could we hear him
say I think that we’re going to get to
the substance of why he’s the first
witness he is going to take the jury
inside a meeting at Trump Tower in 2015
Donald Trump had announced his candidacy
and pcker according to prosecutors
promised to be his eyes and ears he
would buy and then bury any unflattering
stories about Trump whether it be a
doorman’s claim that Trump fathered a
kid out of wedlock uh a Playboy model’s
claim of a sexual Affair and then Stormy
Daniels the adult film actress and her
claim of a sexual trist with Trump he
denies all of that but David pecker was
part of what prosecutors called a a
Triumph conspiracy with Michael Cohen
and Trump himself to make sure voters
did not know everything that they might
have been entitled to before they made
their choice in
2016 and Tim Aaron describes uh all the
stories allegations against the
president as very unflattering uh I
think there would be a lot of other
people that would use different terms
when you think of a former president and
someone also uh who’s leading in the
polls uh to possibly uh win this this
white house I mean how would you defend
this case if you were a part of Trump’s
defense
team well I think that uh Todd is doing
the same thing that I would do I would
lay out that he’s innocent that the
state carries the burden that the
government’s Witnesses are not to be
believed and even if you believe part of
what they’re saying they still cannot
prove intent that he didn’t fill out the
invoice he didn’t produce those records
the lawyers did the accountant did that
sure he’s going to probably have the
John Edwards defense right he was trying
to save his family reputation and his
brand had worked for John Edwards and
while they they they bring all this Sal
ious material in Stormy Daniels remember
she was done 10 years ago only when
Trump started to come up in the polls
and get the nomination did she want to
get a Payday Cohen wanted to get a
Payday the Playboy said she wanted a
Payday everybody wanted a Payday and
Trump’s going to say I it’s not illegal
to pay hush money it’s not illegal to
pay for non-disclosure agreements what
happened here is what Cohen did and the
accountant
you know I was trying to look it up real
quickly yes it was John Edwards
extramarital fair was exposed in the
National inquire so this is the same the
same publisher the same publication that
we’re talking about here um yet uh
clearly his story wasn’t uh bought and
buried um Ain tomorrow the judge is also
going to hear arguments over whether
Trump disobeyed The Limited gag order by
posting those disparaging things about
Michael Cohen and and stormmy Daniels is
that significant to the case at this
point well could be for Trump because
prosecutors are asking for a fine of
$1,000 for each offending post now that
amount of money isn’t going to mean much
to Trump but it could well be an
indication that the judge is trying to
set a particular tone and perhaps would
curtail Trump from from attacking
Witnesses which is what prosecutors want
they say it’s had a chilling effect on
the ability of witnesses to come forward
and they don’t want Trump doing it now
is he going to stop he didn’t today in
the hallway after court as he was
leaving he said more uh disparaging
things about about Cohen on his way out
uh but for prosecutors uh there’s a gag
order in place Trump should follow
it all right Aaron Tim thank you
Gentlemen let’s continue the
conversation once again with Tai Cobb
former assistant us attorney for the
District of Maryland also served as the
special counsel to then president Donald
Trump during the investigation into
Russian interference uh in the 2016
presidential election so Tai in January
you said that Trump poses the gravest
threat to democracy that we have ever
seen specifically when asked about
presidential immunity and what it covers
as we’re watching all of this infold uh
this particular case what’s going
through your
mind so I this case doesn’t have that
much to do with democracy unlike the two
Federal cases on the other hand it’s a
sad day for America I mean now our
country’s been exposed as country stupid
enough you know to elect pres as a
president somebody who’s been indicted
four times and is now standing trial in
a case involving ass sorted uh affair
with a porn star and a monthong affair
with a Playboy model and you know hush
money payments and ndas etc etc
unfortunately none of that’s a legal and
that’s the difficulty that the uh
prosecution has in this case is tying uh
these um uh recordkeeping pay uh
misdemeanors to an actual crime and I
think that’s going to be difficult for
them to do not at trial I think there’s
really no doubt that uh this jury is
likely to convict uh Donald Trump but I
think on appeal there are some
significant issues and I’m sure the
defense will be trying to seed those
throughout the cross-examinations of the
various Witnesses you know do you agree
with Tim Jansen what he just said uh
prior in the prior segment that he
doesn’t see the president uh being taken
off in handcuffs and serving any prison
time here absolutely and this is not a
case um that uh typically would result
in prison time first offender the amount
of money is not consequential
$130,000 or even even the inflated
amount paid to Cohen uh plus uh you’ve
got uh the fact that you know the
conduct you know the affair with Stormy
Daniels is 18 years old uh the payments
here were you know um eight years old so
it’s it’s not it’s it’s not uh um that
the president poses an imminent threat
uh of lawlessness in the sense of uh
danger to anybody so I don’t see I don’t
see jail time as as likely and keep in
mind that even if he did get jail time
he almost certainly would get Bond
pending appeal and he wouldn’t be in in
jail uh during the campaign uh based on
this case that that was my next question
it’s a lot of embarrassing information
he can’t control the narrative which I’m
sure is driving him nuts he has to watch
uh everything he he does in that
courtroom because the jury’s looking at
him and wants to see if he rolls his
eyes or starts to sweat or uh blurts out
a comment I mean they’re paying very
close attention to that but the bottom
line is you brought it up I mean this is
not new information um and and it’s just
it’s it’s historic in the sense that
it’s a criminal trial and it’s a former
president and it’s the first time that
we’ve seen this but is it going to
impact his Run for the White House could
we still see President Trump president
of the United States once
again I fear that’s uh possible if not
likely uh at the same time I think this
case will have an impact U particularly
on people who you know have even the
slightest open-mindedness because um
anybody who is trying to make a decision
about who to vote for who hasn’t already
uh uh taken aside is going to be
interested in uh uh these facts and you
know most people don’t have an
encyclopedic uh recollection of the
Stormy Daniels Affair the mcle affair uh
the hush money the relationship with
Cohen uh and then all the all the other
consequential things that Trump has done
that would come up if he made the
serious mistake of testifying so I do
think that people uh will see a drip
drip drip um impact here that will
affect their view of his character
whether that is actually going to be
enough to change his status as U the
current leader in the polls hard to say
um I I I would hope so as a as a citizen
and a um somebody who believes that the
presidency is reserved for uh only
people of impeccable character but I’m
not sure it
will Point well made Tai Cobb great to
see you thank you great to be with you K
thank you so much you bet now to the
Middle East the crisis there and the who
is the symbol of the failure to prevent
the deadliest attack in Israel’s history
netanyahu’s head of military
intelligence has resigned the major
general is the highest ranking Israeli
official to step down since the Hamas
leet attack back on October 7th this
resignation happening as a special State
Department panel here in our nation’s
capital recommending to sanction Israeli
military units linked to Human Rights
abuses for more let’s bring in our
foreign correspondent Tom Sufi bur in
Tel Aviv along with our senior National
policy reporter and flarity so Tom let’s
talk about the resignation here of the
major general and what it tells you
about Israel’s intelligence
failure well given the scale of the
intelligence failings in the runup to
and really on the night of October the
7th Kira I think it was almost an
inevitability that the head of military
intelligence would step down perhaps the
more interesting thing is why it’s taken
him so long to do so and that’s really
probably down to the fact that the IDF
has been so busy with the war in Gaza up
on the northern border against Hezbollah
against Iranian proxies and Iran itself
has as we’ve seen in the last uh few
days look you know the intelligence
failings it’s kind of hard to overstate
them I mean the IDF and the intelligence
Community here had a dossier a year
before uh the actual terror attack
itself they called it Jericho wall and
effectively it was a blueprint it really
detailed the plan that ultimately Hamas
ended up executing so I I think the head
of military intelligence stepping down
was inevitable uh it has happened now
and I don’t think he’ll be the last
senior military official here in Israel
to step down because of those
intelligence
failings so and in this annual report
the state department is considering Gaza
in the midst of a severe humanitarian
crisis and this comes as the US is about
to impose sanctions on this IDF unit and
human rights abuses um put this in
context for us yeah Carisa we heard from
secretary blinkin just minutes ago who
said yeah the US is looking into whether
or not Israel has committed human rights
violations war crimes essentially uh he
said we’re not going to give anybody a
cut here because they’re simply an ally
we’re we’re going to look at this
process do it fairly and make a
determination so he said you know watch
more of this space but we’ll follow the
facts on that you know I think there are
are obviously a lot of questions um you
know worth pointing out the October 7th
attack by Hamas a clear violation of any
International standard of uh you know
war crimes and so forth so uh but really
for the us to hold Israel accountable um
it would be historic we have not seen
this law being applied to an IDF unit
before Kira we follow it Tom an thank
you so for the first time in decades the
Supreme Court is hearing a major case
involving homelessness the justices are
hearing Arguments for more than two and
a half hours and appear to favor whether
cities can find unhoused people for
sleeping outside Advocates say that this
amounts to cruel and unusual punishment
and it comes as homeless numbers are
skyrocketing Nationwide sping in our
senior Washington correspondent Deon
dwire who’s been following it since the
start so let’s just talk about how we
got here and the implications of these
arguments fascinating case Cura the
biggest case on homelessness here at the
Supreme Court in 40 years and it comes
from the city of Grant Pass Oregon I was
out there a few weeks ago and it looked
like many other cities Nationwide that
we’ve seen dealing with encampments and
public Park sidewalks and the city in
Grant’s past decided to pass an
ordinance that would make it a crime to
sleep outside if you didn’t have a home
and used a blanket a group of homeless
people in the city uh sued uh alleging a
constitutional violation of federal
appeals court agreed with them said it
was cruel and unusual punishment and the
city was here today at the Supreme Court
appealing Kira and as he said at the top
they found a very sympathetic AR uh
audience a majority of the conservative
Justices today while certainly
empathetic to the unhoused uh situation
uh seem to say that it should be up to
local officials to pass ordinances to
regulate these encampments that of
course have come with issues of crime
public sanitation issues um and so we’ll
have to see what the justices say but as
of now uh the city of Grants Pass
fighting to get that law back on the
books cira all right and you spoke with
people in Grants Pass what are they
telling you one of the things that we
heard repeatedly Kira is that this is uh
pits residents of a community who want
their leafy line streets and kids to
feel safe in public parks with advocates
for the unhoused and soaring housing
prices in so many different parts of the
country those things colliding in public
places uh and here’s a little bit of uh
some of the folks on both sides of this
told us when we were out there we’re
fighting between what the law is telling
us and what the people want us to do and
trying to make everybody happy that’s a
big huge struggle for us a city
government criminalizing the the victims
of our failed housing policy is morally
wrong and it’s
unconstitutional and that’s essentially
what the city’s the city of Grants Pass
has done by making it illegal for
someone to exist while being
homeless now while the conservative
justices Kira seemed sympathetic to the
city the three liberal justices on the
court today did not mince words they
were aggressive passionate attacking the
city for passing an ordinance like this
Justice Elena Kagan saying perhaps the
city should just as well criminalize
breathing on the sidewalk if they’re
going to go after sleeping uh of course
an intense debate around a very
complicated issue that cities are really
struggling red cities blue cities red
States blue States as they try to get
their arms around this record numbers of
Americans right now Kira as you know are
homeless so this case will have very big
impact yep state by state Devin thank
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being told right now again that that
18-year-old who was found shot and
killed on the campus of Delaware State
University went by the name of K
Mitchell D Silva obviously of Wilmington
Delaware now officers say that this
entire investigation started just before
2 amm when campus police were called to
the area of the Warren Franklin
residential hall for reports of shots
fir now once on scene police officers
say they found dilva suffering from a
gunshot wound to her upper body she was
transported to an area hospital where
she was later pronounced dead now
according to investigators dilva was not
a registered student at the universities
officials say that dilva and another non
student were visiting a student on
campus at the time of the shooting now
we’re being told no other injuries were
reported however University lead leaders
did say that the suspect was seen
fleeing the campus uh on the direction
of College Road Again away from the
campus now we’re being told that there
will be a forum for students faculty
staff and parents on Tuesday tomorrow to
share any updates of this case and
obviously they’re asking anybody with
information to contact the Delaware
police uh we’re being told that classes
have been canceled for the rest of the
day today we have no word on whether
those C uh classes rather will resume
tomorrow but again the Delaware State
Police is still conducting this active
investigation and again they’re asking
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history happening right before our eyes
Court wrapping up just a short time ago
in the first ever criminal trial against
former president of the United States
presidents have been impeached they
resigned they’ve been voted out of
office but for the first time ever
former president Donald Trump is facing
a jury of his peers in criminal court
and it’s all stemming from those charges
related to a payment to a porn star
hoping to hide an alleged fair with
Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election
prosecutors and defense attorneys now
starting to lay out their cases the
state already calling the first witness
to the stand former National inquir
publisher and longtime friend of trump
David pecker who they say was part of
the scheme to buy and bury all those
unflattering stories about Trump let’s
bring in our investigative reporter
Olivia Rubin outside Court there
executive editorial producer John sanui
and legal contributor and law professor
at the University of Baltimore Kim Wy so
Olivia highlights from
today well I think what we saw today was
not only the jury getting their first
look at this case and if they listen to
prosecutors it was a fraud plain and
simple if they listened to Donald
Trump’s team there was no crime here at
all but what is also so fascinating is
we got a first look at Donald Trump also
getting his first taste of what it is
like to be a criminal defendant in front
of a jury and I think it’s sort of a a
lot of the same uh observations that we
saw during jury selection which is sort
of the painstaking process for someone
like Donald Trump who is used to uh
being the leader of the Free World going
out in front of a microphone whenever he
feels like it the plane takes off when
he gets on he runs uh essentially his
whole life and now he just has to sit
there while prosecutors talk about him
in front of a jury and today his old
friend David pecker got up on the
witness stand to testify against him so
it sort of set the stage for what is to
come and they didn’t get into much of
the nitty-gritty with David pecker
because Court ended early today uh but
they are expected to resume with him
tomorrow morning where he’s going to get
to the heart of prosecutors case which
is this overall catch and kill scheme
that David pecker allegedly worked on
with Donald Trump and Michael Cohen to
bury negative stories one of which of
course was stormmy Daniels which is what
the entire case here centers
around so John Trump always takes
advantage of the cameras after
proceedings like this let’s take a look
at some of what he said today sure this
is done election interference everybody
knows it I’m here instead of being able
to be in Pennsylvania and Georgia and
lots of other places campaigning and
it’s very unfair fortunately the poll
numbers are very
good so John pole numbers and primaries
are one thing but when it comes to
voters that cast ballots in the general
election could this be time in court
that could actually cost him it’s not
going to help him that’s for sure Kira I
mean the reality is that Donald Trump is
really stuck in this courtroom for the
next several weeks I mean look at you
know just last week as a great example
right they had no court um on Wednesday
so they took advantage of that with a
campaign stop at a bodega in the Upper
West Side of Manhattan I mean that
doesn’t really do a lot if you’re trying
to win votes in Battleground States so
they certainly are struggling with this
you saw this weekend he tried to get on
the campaign trail out in North Carolina
but there was some bad weather so that
made it tricky it just shows that really
there is less and less time to do this
the other thing that we have to remember
and a lot of exit polling data in the
early states that voted this year showed
this there are some voters that have set
a conviction in any of the four criminal
cases Donald Trump faces could
potentially sway their vote now is that
a big enough uh percentage of the voter
turnout that could impact the election
remains to be seen but it is
nevertheless something the campaign is
fully aware of and knows that while they
are in court they are not connecting
with voters they are not connecting with
fundraising they’re simply
stuck so cam Trump’s defense attorney
said there is nothing wrong with trying
to influence an election it’s called
democracy what do you make of that
argument it’s a pretty bold and
aggressive argument frankly it suggests
that when it comes to the elements of
the crime that is uh the alleged crime
whether there was an intent to cover up
the hush money payment that they might
be concerned that Michael Cohen’s
testimony uh presumably directly uh
incriminating Donald Trump in that um
and will be corroborated so they’re
essentially saying they’re trying to
persuade the jury that this is this is
all normal businesses usual that it’s
okay to to essentially Keep information
from voters to to fraudulently uh change
documents around to to help Sway and
dupe the voters in the election this is
kind of out of Donald Trump’s political
Playbook where people get confused where
the lines are begin and end when it
comes to the rule of law and just sort
of normal corrup coruption as usual um
it’s going to be a challenge I think for
the prosecution to keep the the jury on
task and lay out the elements and make
it clear that this is a these are
statutory crimes and that if the if
there’s sufficient evidence that Beyond
A Reasonable Doubt their obligation is
to convict so Olivia why do you think
David pecker was the first witness to be
called well it’s seems that prosecutors
find David pecker to be really Central
to their story when uh the prosecutor
Michael Colangelo got up to do the
openings for the jurors one of the very
first things he spoke about was this
meeting that Donald Trump David pcker
and Michael Cohen had all together and
they that was sort of the origin of what
they say was this catch and kill scheme
and remember when prosecutors go in
front of a jury they need to tell a
story with this case and I think it was
very telling that that is what they
began with that meeting between the
three of them so it seems maybe that
pecker is going to sort of start to
thread that need for them before they
get into the nitty-gritty of the
payments to Michael Cohen and then
stormmy Daniels but David pecker who uh
appeared today via a subpoena and is
testifying against his old friend Donald
Trump uh is going to lay that groundwork
for him and it was a for them and it was
a really interesting demeanor from
pecker inside of the courtroom who
seemed at times uh I would say almost
joal he actually took the stand this
morning with a huge smirk on his face so
it was interesting to see that from him
and John the Access Hollywood tapes the
infamous tapes brought back into the
spotlight tapes where Trump talked about
how easy it was to sexually assault
women how is how do we see this
impacting Trump’s current campaign for
president because this was all exposed
the last time around and it didn’t hurt
him you know I don’t think it’s going to
really matter too much Cara to your
point I I think when everyone hears the
Access Hollywood tape words they kind of
know we’re talking about at this rate
cuz to your point it’s Infamous it was
everywhere I mean I was talking with um
a colleague of ours a competitor of ours
at another Outlet uh when this first
came up a few days ago this would become
part of evidence and we both reminisced
about that weekend because everybody
remember that weekend of Donald Trump
held up in Trump Tower debating what to
do with his 2016 campaign well he won
and look where we are now you know
almost a decade later um I don’t think
it has any impact but nevertheless it’s
not a good image for Donald Trump right
and I think you even saw this morning as
part of a ruling by the judge of if
Donald Trump took the stand there would
be other past transgressions other legal
issues that prosecutors could bring up
including egene Carol um so anything
that paints Donald Trump and the way he
speaks about women in a negative way is
obviously just not a good thing in
general for
him K let me ask you about um you know
this uh gag order that was put uh on
Trump we have seen him put things out on
social about people that are tied to
this case Ry Daniels Michael Cohen and
now Trump has attacked uh Mara for not
allowing him to attend uh the supreme
court hearing comparing himself to um a
rogue cop in immunity claims um what do
you think did he violate the gag order
here and what what what could
happen well I think technically the
question is whether the judge himself
constitutes uh Court Personnel uh which
is this you know covered in the scope of
the gag order the the judge has to be
really careful to not create an
appealable issue for Donald Trump and
Donald Trump is very Savvy at walking
this this fine line uh between violating
the terms of the order and sort of
violating it asking someone else to
tweet or retweeting something for
example how this is enforced uh the
judge would start with a a financial
penalty I think it’s $1,000 that’s going
to be a drop in the bucket for Donald
Trump but if he continues he can
actually remit him to custody and that I
think his lawyers are going to have to
make clear to him is a line he does not
uh need to cross or should not cross I
would suspect something like this a
judge will let it go um but it certainly
builds the case for the prosecution
which is now racking up multiple alleged
violations of the gag order that with
six weeks to go if he’s not sort of
brought into line there might have to be
some major action taken to to bring him
there because people safety is really on
the line these jurors the witnesses
Court Personnel Court staff this is is
not just rhetoric and First Amendment
rights this is serious Public Safety for
these people that are really voluntarily
uh participating in this for the good of
the country and then Trump putting Trump
putting out on on his social uh
referring to judge Maran as the highly
conflicted judge in the Manhattan da
quote unquote case uh prohibiting him
from attending all right it’s just
getting started too Olivia John Kimberly
thank
you now to the Middle East the crisis
there and the man who is the symbol of
the failure to prevent the deadliest
attack in Israel’s history netanyahu’s
head of military intelligence has
resigned the major general is the
highest ranking Israeli official to step
down since the Hamas leet attack back on
October 7th this resignation happening
as a special State Department panel here
in our nation’s capital recommending to
sanction Israeli military units linked
to Human Rights abuses for more let’s
bring in our foreign correspondent Tom
Sufi bur in Tel Aviv along with our
senior National policy reporter and FL
so Tom let’s talk about the resignation
here of the major general and what it
tells you about Israel’s intelligence
failure well given the scale of the
intelligence failings in the runup to
and really on the night of October the
7th Kira I think it was almost an
inevitability that the head of military
intelligence would step down perhaps the
more interesting thing is why it’s taken
him so long to do so and that’s really
probably down to the fact that the IDF
has been so busy with the war in Gaza up
on the northern border against Hezbollah
against Iranian proxies and Iran itself
as we’ve seen in the last few days look
you know the intelligence failings it’s
kind of hard to overstate them I mean
the IDF and the intelligence Community
here had a dossier a year before uh the
actual terror attack itself they called
it Jericho wall and effectively it was a
blueprint it really detailed the plan
that ultimately Hamas ended up executing
so I I think the head of military
intelligence stepping down was
inevitable uh it has happened now and I
don’t think he’ll be the last senior
military official here in Israel to step
down because of those intelligence
failings so an in this annual report the
state department is considering Gaza in
the midst of a severe humanitarian
crisis and this comes as the US is about
to impose sanctions on this IDF unit and
human rights abuses um put this in
context for us yeah Carisa we heard from
secretary blinkin just minutes ago who
said yeah the US is looking into whether
or not Israel has committed human rights
violations war crimes essentially uh he
said we’re not going to give anybody a
cut here because they’re simply an ally
we’re we’re going to look at this
process do it fairly and make a
determination so he said you know watch
more of this space but we’ll follow the
facts on that you know I think there are
are obviously a lot of questions um you
know worth pointing out the October 7th
attack by Hamas a clear violation of any
International standard of you know war
crimes and so forth so uh but really for
the us to hold Israel accountable um it
would be historic we have not seen this
law being applied to an IDF unit before
Kira we’ll follow it Tom an thank
you so for the first time in decades the
Supreme Court is hearing a major case
involving homelessness the justices are
hearing Arguments for more than two and
a half hours and appear to favor whether
cities can find unhoused people for
sleeping outside Advocates say that this
amounts to cruel and unusual punishment
and it comes as homeless numbers are
skyrocketing Nationwide springing our
senior Washington correspondent Deon DWI
who’s been following it since the start
so let’s just talk about how we got here
and the implications of these
arguments fascinating case cira the
biggest case on homelessness here at the
Supreme Court in 40 years and it comes
from the city of Grant Pass Oregon I was
out there a few weeks ago and it looked
like many other cities Nationwide that
we’ve seen dealing with encampments in
public places Park sidewalks and the
city in uh Grant’s past decided to pass
an ordinance that would make it a crime
to sleep outside if you didn’t have a
home and used a blanket a group of
homeless people in the city uh sued uh
alleging a constitutional violation of
federal appeals court agreed with them
said it was cruel and unusual punishment
and the city was here today at the
Supreme Court appealing Kira and as he
said at the top they found a very
sympathetic AR uh audience a majority of
the conservative Justices today while
certainly empathetic to the unhoused uh
situation uh seem to say that it should
be up to local officials to pass
ordinances to regulate these encampments
that of course have come with issues of
crime public sanitation issues um and so
we’ll have to see what the justices say
but as of now uh the city of Grants
passed fighting to get that law back on
the books cira all right and you spoke
with people in Grants Pass what are they
telling you one of the things that we
heard repeatedly Kira is that this is uh
uh pits residents of a community who
want their leafy line streets and kids
to feel safe in public parks with
advocates for the unhoused and soaring
housing prices in so many different
parts of the country those things
colliding in public places uh and here’s
a little bit of uh some of the folks on
both sides of this told us when we were
out there we’re fighting between what
the law is telling us and what the
people want us to do and try to make
everybody happy that’s a big huge
struggle for us a city government
Criminal in the the victims of our
failed housing policy is morally wrong
and it’s
unconstitutional and that’s essentially
what the city’s the city of Grants Pass
has done by making it illegal for
someone to exist while being
homeless now while the conservative
justices Kira seemed sympathetic to the
city the three liberal justices on the
court today did not mince words they
were aggressive passionate attacking the
city for passing an ordinance like this
Justice Elena Kagan saying perhaps the
city should just as well criminalize
breathing on the sidewalk if they’re
going to go after sleeping uh of course
an intense debate around a very
complicated issue that cities are really
struggling red cities blue cities red
States blue States as they try to get
their arms around this record numbers of
Americans right now Kira as you know are
homeless so this case will have very big
impact yep state by state Devin thank
you you coming up a deadly shooting at
Delaware State University the breaking
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play violent video games this is about
parents who neglected their son ignored
his cries for help and then bought him a
gun the first parents in America to be
charged in a school shooting involuntary
manslaughter charges against parents of
the shooter at Oxford High School who
killed four students and wounded others
there’s a myth that a shooter just snaps
it’s just not true there are always
signs he was crying for help and being
ignored he had pictures of a Target on
his bedroom wall shell casings on his
nightstand
a very toxic turbulent relationship
those people are yikes the life they
lived was just crazy the sexting and the
really terrible things they video of
their sexual
acts they purchased that gun for him
with his money and bragged about it
they’re being told by a school counselor
that he thinks their son’s going to kill
himself and they do nothing as soon as I
heard they were called to the school
that day the messages about lol don’t
get caught those were very very
concerning to me that’s the moment that
no juror is going to think well haven’t
we all been there here’s what it is I
got it they do not seem shocked about
him having the gun there was no shock
zero zero School stre leers aren’t
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Delaware searching for a suspect after
an 18-year-old woman was shot and killed
on the campus of Delaware State
University that victim has been
identified as K Mitchell DVA of
Wilmington according to investigators D
Silva was not registered student at the
University but was visiting the campus
with another student our ik aachi is
following the late breaking details for
us Ike what do you know well car we’re
being told right now again that that
18-year-old who was found shot and
killed on the campus of Delaware State
University went by the name of C
Mitchell D Silva obviously of Wilmington
Delaware now officers say that this
entire investigation started just before
2 a.m. when campus police were called to
the area of the Warren Franklin
residential hall for reports of shots
fired now one on scene police officers
say they found dilva suffering from a
gunshot wound to her upper body she was
transported to an area hospital where
she was later pronounced dead now
according to investigators dilva was not
a registered student at the universities
officials say that dilva and another non
student were visiting a student on
campus at the time of the shooting now
we’re being told no other injuries were
reported however University lead leaders
did say that the suspect was seen
fleeing the campus uh on the direction
of College Road Again away from the
campus now we’re being told that there
will be a forum for students faculty
staff and parents on Tuesday tomorrow to
share any updates of this case and
obviously they’re asking anybody with
information to contact the Delaware
police uh we’re being told that classes
have been canceled for the rest of the
day today we have no word on whether
those C uh classes rather will resume
tomorrow but again the Delaware State
Police is still conducting this active
investigation and again they’re asking
anybody with any kind of of information
on the whereabouts of the possible
suspect or any kind of information
surrounding this incident should contact
them as immedi immediately and as fast
as they can care up all right we follow
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passionate about our world’s Forest that
he spends every day looking for ways to
scale up restoration and protection of
our world’s forest ecosystems but it’s
not just all of us here at ABC that are
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Prince William has also celebrated his
community-led work as an earthshot PR
winner by co-leading Axion andena
florant has worked throughout South
America planting 10 million trees and
restoring thousands and thousands of
Acres of high andian forests Region’s
critical for biodiversity because it’s
home to not only plant species but
thousands of species of birds reptiles
and amphibians Earth shot recipient
Florent Kaiser joins me now Fon so good
to see you talk about what inspired you
to start Axion and Dina and how did you
know protecting these forest ecosystems
were so
important hi K thanks thank you so much
actually our co-founder Constantino Oka
who is an un Earth’s Champion 2022
inspired us to start this work he wanted
to reforest the Andes with the
communities he’s from indigenous
communities of the high Andes in South
America and when we met you know in in
2018 he shared his dream he wanted go
what he had built in Cusco in Peru
across the entire Andes and we knew he
couldn’t do it alone we knew we wouldn’t
be able to do it alone so we teamed up
in 2018 to start Axion andena it started
as a project that is now becoming a
movement led by the communities They’re
bringing back forests for water security
so what’s happening in the Andes is
glacious melting climate change is
hitting really really hard water
security is becoming a huge issue the
communities are not teaming out with the
support of Ain andena to actually bring
back the forest bring back the ecosystem
nature that is the only substitute to
those Glacier that will guarantee the
water long term whether it be for
livelihoods whether it be for um
Agriculture and the water security
basically of the entire economies and
societies across South
America you know it’s interesting you
talk about water security I mean let’s
just go back in history let’s think of
the Incas let’s go up to Machu Picchu
and how they created these incredible
ducks to bring water flowing throughout
the region I mean it only makes sense
you would want to you know continue to
protect such a spiritual and historical
part of the
globe yes um indeed and I I think
looking ahead at this at this Century
that is coming at us ax Anda has to be a
100 year long effort this is the scale
of of time we need to look at we
appreciate of course the the work that
you’re doing and the 22 projects across
five countries and how you’ve been able
to to manage such terrific work we will
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live court wrapping just a time ago in
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former president of the United States
prosecutors saying this case is about
criminal conspiracy using Trump accusing
Trump of arranging a
$130,000 payment to adult film star
stormmy Daniels to keep her from
revealing their alleged affair right
before the 2016 presidential election
the defense arguing Trump relied on
lawyer Michael Cohen to arrange that
payment former National inquir publisher
David peckler was called as the first
witness who prosecutors say was part of
that scheme to buy and bury unflattering
stories about the former president
president Trump denies any wrongdoing
Court will be back in session tomorrow
morning with David Becker back on the
stand but first the judge plans to hold
a contempt hearing on Trump’s alleged
violation of The Limited gag order in
this case the head of the Israeli
military intelligence is resigning after
almost 40 years of service over the
failures that led to the surprise
October 7th attack by Hamas Major
General Aaron halba becoming the first
senior figure in the IDF to step down
for his role in what became the
deadliest attack in Israel’s history
and Robert Craft the owner of the New
England Patriots and graduate of
Columbia University releasing a
statement today that he’s no longer
supporting the University Craft is also
the founder of the foundation to combat
anti-Semitism and in his statement he
said he’s no longer confident that
Colombia can protect its students and
staff and it’s his hope during this
difficult time that the Craft Center at
Colombia will serve as a source of
security and safety for all Jewish
people craft Foundation has been at the
Forefront of the fight against
anti-Semitism since the October 7th
Hamas ter attack against his country
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this was a complete coincidence that’s
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was not wrinkled right that sometimes
that’s the winning formula right there
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and you’re breaking down some ways that
not only we can help the Earth but also
help our health yeah and you know we’ve
been talking a lot about how the Earth
and climate change has a direct not an
indirect impact on our health and the
World Health Organization bringing that
uh into the Forefront again not just on
Earth day but every day um in particular
talking about air pollution and
respiratory disease obviously we know
this can impact um the development of
other pulmonary conditions most notably
COPD it can increase or exacerbate
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matter and nitrogen oxide then of course
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breathing polluted air on a regular
basis so this isn’t just someone else’s
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we can control because obviously there’s
a lot of this that people cannot uh
control but first of all you can always
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begin with the new developments overseas
the head of Israeli Military
Intelligence resigning over his role in
the failures to prevent the October 7th
terror attack by Hamas he is the first
senior official to step down following
that worst attack in history on Israeli
soil here at home the massive foreign
aid package that includes billions in
funding for Israel Ukraine and Taiwan
was pushed through this weekend by GOP
house Speaker Mike Johnson in a dramatic
vote on the hill Johnson needed help
from Democrats to overcome opposition
from his own party in fact more
Republicans voted against this than for
the Senate Now set to vote on it
tomorrow however this measure includes a
closely watched provision that could
potentially ban Tik Tock here in the US
if changes aren’t made regarding its
Chinese ownership by next year now let’s
check in with our Ginger Z on the Big
Spring freeze what you got
Ginger Colorado had some late season
snow Denver’s airport 6.3 Ines of snow
which is the most this late in the
season they’ve had since the airport has
been the Observation Center so probably
most this late even longer than that uh
but do see that cold air and we even had
frost and freeze alerts this morning but
that’s going to have a reinforcing shot
later this week we could even see a
couple of Records be broken from Flint
Michigan to tying one maybe at LaGuardia
uh Boston itself dip into about freezing
Thursday morning and a quick look at
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week possible too and if you’re going to
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president is accused of falsifying
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Stormy Daniels he’s pleaded not guilty
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there the trial is getting underway what
are you hearing about the expected
timeline and what Witnesses should we
expect early on
here this case is going to last perhaps
6 weeks will and the first witness is
going to be David pecker the former
publisher of the national Inquirer
according to prosecutors he was at the
center of this alleged scheme to buy and
bury unflattering stories about Donald
Trump before the 2016 election and one
of those stories was Stephanie Clifford
better known as the porn actress stormmy
Daniels she had a tale to tell about a
sexual encounter with Trump that he
denies and in order to keep her quiet
about it the campaign decided it would
be best to pay her
$130,000 the defense says there’s
nothing unusual about wealthy people
paying hush money as part of
non-disclosure agreements but
prosecutors say the way that payment was
logged constituted the crime of
falsifying business records because was
done with the intent to keep information
away from voters before the 2016
election Brian what’s the biggest
challenge that prosecutors are going to
face here I actually see probably two
large challenges here one the
prosecution has to make sense of taking
what is often a misdemeanor case and
connecting it to what might be uh
federal election interference and that’s
why we’re at a felony and not a
misdemeanor but also another large issue
that they have to do is prove that a
person specifically Michael Cohen who is
known to be a liar to the courts to
Congress to investigators is now telling
the truth here in this case when he
being the star witness testifies against
Donald Trump and basically lays out
their case for them Aaron what kind of
sentence is former president Trump
facing if he is indeed
convicted if he’s convicted it’s
possible will that he could face up to 4
years in prison but prosecutors would
have to ask for it and having a former
president didn’t serve prison time just
seems highly unlikely and and perhaps
you know would really test the the
system in a way that it’s never been
tested before as have all of these
criminal cases that the former president
is facing but in theory up to four years
in prison if he is convicted as charged
of falsifying uh 34 business records
Brian former president Trump says he
wants to testify in this case so what
can we expect to hear
if he testifies we’ve already kind of
seen a bit of a glimpse of this because
he comes out after every day and gives
us his take on the case he’s already
said that this was a legal expense and
so if he testified which I would
probably highly recommend that he
shouldn’t I would expect him to say hey
I asked Michael conohan to do a job for
me he did a job for me I wrote it down
as a legal expense what’s the problem
but that admits to a large portion of
what the prosecutor’s alleging in this
case and so I think we’re still not
quite sure whether or not he’s going a
testify he’s told us that he that he was
and he wants to I think that’s more
testing the waters but time will tell us
to whether or not his attorneys
convinced him to testify or not but
ultimately like any criminal defendant
it’s his right to choose that and no one
else can tell him otherwise Brian
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Muse okay you got everybody you got to
tell us about this what are women saying
yo Eva and will I went down a rabbit
hole this weekend I found this article
called inside hook and this article
suggested that men are just not engaging
on dates and are not conversational uh
the author goes on to say that in a
podcast as well would say that they will
actually sip their coffee or their drink
and wait awkwardly for the man to say
something to which the man never says
anything they also go on this article to
say that sometimes the Trader Joe’s
cashiers would talk more to them than
actual men do and I just wholeheartedly
disagreed um with this assessment but
I’m curious to know what are your
thoughts I that’s a good way of engag
people yeah I haven’t like had to do
that in a while but I think you you got
to if you’re actually interested in
someone you need to show interest I I
guess our executive producer cat was
saying she wants someone to play tennis
with her you’ve got to at least be able
to keep the conversation going yeah do
ping pong so I was doing some my market
research so I was talking to a lot of my
single friends and they were actually
agreeing partially with this article and
saying that some PL it’s the second date
uh where the guy clams up and not so
much the first date I think when you
aren’t connected to someone it can be
hard to have like a truly engaging right
there’s nothing worse than the boring
like oh man I’m not having a good time
I’m on the hook for this whole meal and
like can’t wait for it to be over that’s
why you pay cash you bring cash you can
pay for it and go this was lovely you
are lovely this is not a thing you can’t
well no you can’t as a guy you better be
doing well enough that you don’t get a
runner but this is what they’re saying
also too in terms of how social media
has changed the construct of the
conversation because because everyone’s
on their phone
not used to how to say words to each
other you mean not on a date if someone
breaks out their phone on a date I’m
like all right I’m I’m out I don’t I
don’t need that but also too though it
talks about this idea of social media
has created these conversations about
commodity so guys are now viewed as like
a commodity as well as women when it
comes to high quality value of a man
high quality value of a woman um is this
guy able to fund a lifestyle wish you
could see Kesha’s face right now I like
really want you to see
an eyebrow the fact that you just
referred to men as a
commodity no that not me K social media
but that’s what they’re saying in some
of these articles is that men are being
looked at as Commodities and so
therefore they may be more reserved in
the conversation not knowing and
trusting the intentions of this date I
mean women have been treated like
commodities for a long time so I’m just
going to say that I wanted to say New
York City and it is it is not nice out
there to be a female dating in New York
I’m just going to put that out I wanted
to say that but didn’t feel that it was
my place but I appreciate that you’ve
introduced that the making that face at
you like watch yourself you got to walk
out of here kha in America this is not
me I’m just reporting the weekend in
terms of when I’ve going down to Rabbit
Hole on what are guys doing wrong and
how can we do better there are a few
School of thoughts here one school of
thought that from the mall article that
I read down the weekend I mean literally
I was down this Rabbit Hole article in
the m is suggesting that Society now has
become more selfish um and then that
part of it it’s a me Society it’s what I
want let me figure out if this is for me
versus doing the dance or as our
executive producer cat is saying playing
tennis um also too I was reading another
article where Millionaire Matchmaker
Patty Stanger was suggesting that now
we’re in this position in space I think
Eva I would curious your thoughts on
this comment is that women are making so
much more money now and are having such
successful careers that they’re an
ownership of owning their own agency
able to pay for their own meals pay for
their own you know lifestyle
nontraditional Norms are being shattered
and so therefore women are owning the
agency so the dance is becoming
disrupted due to the social conversation
that’s happening online that sounds like
a good thing though right like I that
doesn’t sound like a negative uh
chemistry is chemistry it always is you
either have it you either have it or you
don’t and what we don’t have is more
time but thank you so much for being
here and waiting into these Waters with
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know we’ve heard before this sterile
hypothesis where we’re trying to make
our environment too clean too completely
devoid of any kind of other organisms
which a lot of times are good organisms
to this playing in dirt which my
daughter was making mud pies this
weekend see such a good mommy um but you
know there’s a lot of Truth to that and
so there are actually certain daycares
that have a forest floor have you ever
heard that I think that sounds amazing
um but but we can get into a little of
those benefits literally just by going
for a walk outside planting a tomato
tree you know on on your backyard on
your porch on your front step literally
it doesn’t have to be playing in dirt to
get some of those benefits and a lot of
uh scientists are really saying that the
mass lay public has
overemphasized you know how much dirt
has to be in our kind of environment to
get that benefit it doesn’t take that
much quite literally even taking a walk
in a park gives us and our body the good
exposure that we need for for diversity
which I think is interesting right this
is of a piece of like the more you can
get out in nature the better exactly I
saw the wheels spinning well yeah for
sure I was we started off you just go
dirt I’m like you didn’t want to go to
the bill you know planting a tomato
plant but I’m I’m not kidding like that
can actually do it and there’s benefits
to gardening that go beyond the the
micro prob biob cuz you can eat that
tomato correct and it’s relaxing you
certainly can but if you’re like me and
you have a brown thumb it’s not going to
go but try it anyway all right Dr
Jen we will return no dirt here was like
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look for Dr Jen when I’m choosing a
protein powder okay protein is as many
of us know incredibly important uh as a
macronutrient and there’s a calculation
that’s generally weight based for how
much protein we should shoot for getting
on a daily basis my number is 80 I can
take you guys uh through the calculation
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because there’s some math involved but
it’s hard to get that from natural food
sources so a lot of people I think us
included turn to a protein powder to get
you know kind of a high amount of
protein in a in a relatively easy and
consistent way what should you look for
first of all all uh there’s no way to
verify Purity and accuracy with these
kind of products so it’s kind of you
know buy or beware uh you should look
for taste you should look for the source
of the protein whether it’s whey protein
or plant-based protein you should
definitely look for cost um and you
should look for the number of grams per
scoop or per serving I try to get 20
gram of protein anytime I’m using a
protein powder protein collagen powder
so that you know I know that in that
shake I’m getting about 20 to 30 grams a
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Health you know I’m a big hair person um
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fell in love with Nature’s tiny workers
when she learned how factors like
climate change and pesticides were
killing them off at an alarming rate she
jumped into action it’s disappointing
for me but it’s also a very real world
issue that we do need to take on Sharice
transformed her backyard into a science
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honeybees how to fly through these
patterns and colors representing those
of wild flowers she set out to prove how
certain pesticides May reduce bees
cognitive ability
ities Sharice convinced her parents to
help her acquire
150,000 honeybees this is so heavy
because it’s full of Honey full of honey
yes wow when observing small groups of
bees she found the ones exposed to
pesticides appeared not to remember how
to get through the maze I wanted to see
if my research could decrease the usage
of pesticides in the real world her work
now submitted to a scientific journal
they’re our world’s most crucial
pollinators bees alone pollinate 80% of
all flowering plants including more than
130 types of fruits at vegetables but
bee populations are rapidly declining
like the American bumblebee where nearly
90% of them have been wiped out in the
last 20 years many of them are in danger
Jim Beach an avid beekeeper who
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declines can be due to several factors
though mainly habitat loss if bees poof
disappear
then there’s a huge economic hit to
agriculture the agricultural research
service found radical shifts in
temperature droughts wildfires and
floods resulted in habitat destruction
and forging disruptions while honeybee
populations have been relatively steady
in recent years they still face major
threats like barrero might in Spring
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colonies were Afflicted with the
parasite that’s where another young Beek
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Tom’s River New Jersey you said they’re
pretty gentle yes after weeks of field
studies her now published work found
that thyo based essential oils extracted
from time leaves through a Mis diffuser
could stun barrero mites this continuous
release system had an efficacy of over
97% which is really promising and
exciting Katie was crowned the honey
Queen acting as a spokesperson for the
New Jersey Beekeepers Association with
few young people people having hi Mind
Over beekeeping Katie says knowing
Sharice is out on the west coast it
makes me super excited that there’s
someone else out there who’s like me so
what can you do to help experts say you
can avoid using pesticides and check
with your local Garden Center about what
plants are native to your area to put
down around the house and despite a
sting or two it’s pretty solling I can’t
even barely walk oh wow both of the
girls parents say it’s worth it what
doesn’t hurt having homegrown honey all
year round
wow and M joins us here in studio oh my
God first of all you were around all
those bees I cannot imagine what was
that like okay so it actually was pretty
intimidating at first you know the
buzzing of the bees it’s a lot louder
when you’re actually next to them but
the two girls they were such great
teachers so it was a really fun
experience and what what are the things
that we should be thinking about if the
be population does decline right great
question so the US Department of
Agriculture actually says that billions
of dollar dollar worth of crops would be
affected if the population of
pollinators really took a hit so that
means the prices of the fruits and
vegetables that we love like apples
bananas watermelons even almonds all of
that would Skyrocket if pollinators were
to take a hit wow now these two women
young women are 17 18 years old they’re
about to graduate high school what’s
next for them okay this is great so they
are so intelligent I loved being around
them Sharice tells me she’s not sure
which college she’s going to go to but
she’s going to go into Neuroscience
which is spurred by her cognitive
research of the honeybees and then Katie
she’s going to go into biology and
political science and I hope I’m not
spoiling this for her F friends and
family but she has accepted an offer
from Harvard University congrats to and
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of us we’re going to take a closer look
at how we can all minimize waste in our
daily lives one mom took the idea to a
surprising extreme going zero waste
after the birth of her first child then
launching an eco-friendly cleaning brand
I sat down with the CEO of bland to talk
about her mission to change people’s
daily habits for a better
Earth this is plastic entrepreneur Sarah
pyu broke new ground in sustainability
creating the refillable eco-friendly
cleaning brand blue land the company
says it’s diverted more than 1 billion
plastic bottles from landfills and
oceans so far and it all started when
you became a mom you went zero waste
after you had a
baby my mind is blown because babies
make a lot of waste yeah and I think
that that was part of it I was doing all
this Research into the water that I
would use to mix with my um Sun’s baby
sons formula I was horrified to learn
that regardless of if you’re drinking
tap water or bottled water here in the
United States you know a lader contains
hundreds of pieces of microplastics the
US produces 42 million metric tons of
plastic per year and adults consume over
100,000 microplastic particles a year
through air food and beverages that
inspired you to create products with the
goal of changing people’s daily habits I
would say we spend as much from more
time really thinking about how do we
Empower educate inspire people to make
more sustainable choices across their
lifestyle and joining us now is the CEO
of blueland Sarah pyu thanks so much for
being with us thank you so much for
having me and to be clear you’re not
zero waste every day now but you learned
a lot about living sustainably and
you’re actually going to show us some of
those changes that we can make ourselves
in our gma3 grocery store let’s start in
the produce section yes so one of my
favorite tips is for produce is just to
ditch the plastic produce bag um so what
I like to do is I have my fruits and
veggies just roll naked in my cart they
have roll naked in my fridge I promise
you it’s okay it’s unfortunately already
dirty and you know you’re already going
to wash your fruits and veggies before
you use them so it’s a good way to you
know cut out 8 to 10 produced plastic
bags per grocery trip oh that’s amazing
I do the same thing that’s uh that’s
good to know um so let’s move over here
right to the snacks and drinks section A
lot of this stuff does look delicious
admittedly but how do you avoid all the
packaging that can be problematic yeah
so unlike produce snacks and and drinks
are a category that everything seems to
come packaged in plastic um the good
news is that there are so many grocery
stores now that offer a bulk section um
which offers things like snacks like
pretzels nuts granola even chocolate and
candy and so what my family likes to do
is we bring our own containers to the
grocery store we can get exactly how
much we need and we we save money as
well because we’re not paying for the
excess packaging I saw this in your
pantry yes and then how about here on
the these
crinkly bottles of water but can’t be
good yeah so one of my biggest tips is
for everyone to just carry around a
reasonable water bottle as well as a
reason able coffee mug if you drink
coffee um Americans use over 50 billion
plastic single-use plastic water bottles
each year and even though they’re
intended to be recycled only about one
in five is actually recycled yeah
recycling is Never As Good As that’s
crazy okay we got to talk about the
cleaning products of all so many of them
say oh Earth friendly eco-friendly but
that isn’t actually a claim that’s
provable yeah unfortunately that claim
is not regulated here in the US um I
mean things like pods for example there
are a lot of pods and laundry sheets
that are marketed as eco-friendly um but
this thin film that you see wrapping
each pod it’s actually plastic um and so
what I recommend is you know our company
blue land we make these naked uh laundry
tablets without the plastic but you get
the single
dose okay um but I also recommend you
know good old laundry powder that comes
in a big cardboard box or even a jug of
liquid detergent cuz at least this jug
is recyclable versus this plastic um
polyvinyl alcohol it breaks down into
tiny pieces of plastic it goes down our
drains and ultimately into our
environment and on our plates yeah and
our you can’t have that on the
dishwashing pods and finally storage
paper goods plastic wraps sandwich bags
all that what do what do we need to
change about yeah so the great thing is
there are a lot of great Alternatives um
to sort of the plastic wrap and the zip
top sort of plastic baggies my family
lives by these silicone reusable bags
for snacks and for leftovers oh that’s
great can wash them and yeah you just
wash them and you can reuse them and
there’s also great like bees wrap wax as
well that you can that’s moldable that
you can use the C of the Saran ra
awesome Sarah thanks so much for being
with us of course thanks so much for
having me and when we come back actor
Wilson Cruz bringing the laughs what
Drew him to his new role in the film
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Beyond starring in cult classics like my
so-called life and Star Trek Discovery
and now he’s bringing the laughs in the
new film mother of the bride please
welcome Wilson
Cruz thank you what about this character
Drew you to this role well I have to say
you know after five seasons of saving
the universe and high stakes in on Star
Trek Discovery it was really nice to go
to puket and like sit by the pool and
make people laugh like you know I didn’t
have to save the universe all all day so
that and the fact that you know I’m a
huge fan of Benjamin Bratz who is like
the Latino Carrie Grant I like to say
and I wanted to you know pick up some
tips on that and Brook Shields has been
an icon M since I was a teenager
obviously so uh it was just a it was a
paid vacation let’s be honest let’s be
real it was so much fun but it was also
hard work obviously oh no it wasn’t hard
work at all I’m and I would love to sign
up for that uh location you you were at
a luxury resort in Thailand yes oh I
know how to say hello in in Thai Saad
yes right uhhuh is that pretty good okay
what else did you learn what was it like
you know being in Thailand I’ll tell you
the food was amazing the people were
amazing we had an an all tie crew um
it’s just a gorgeous place in the world
you know I took a week after we finished
filming and my brother and I explored
the entire Island Thailand is at the top
of my bucket list so I’ll have to get
some recommendations from you and live
vicariously through you by watching
mother of the bride but I want to go
back now 30 years can’t believe it to
that One Singular amazing season of my
so-called life critics dubet is one of
the best team drama series ever and when
you reflect upon the success of that
show and your career 30 years on what
where does your mind go I mean the first
thing that comes up is gratitude you
know I am so grateful for that
opportunity it just set up the rest of
my career but also the Gratitude I have
for being allowed to be that person for
a generation of young people and more
Generations that followed that really
got to see a young queer person of color
come into their own and go on this
journey of self-acceptance and you know
I know how much that character meant to
lgbtq people because it would have meant
that much to me I’m I’m the chair of the
board at glisten which is an
organization that works to um support
students in in schools um and so I know
how difficult schools are um to be to to
go through that process we actually have
our big New York City gala April 29th if
anybody wants to come uh you can go to
.org and buy tickets um but you know
it’s it was it was a huge moment in
terms of visibility and I’m just really
proud to have been able to be that
person that’s crazy you think that was
30 years ago yes and we only I only look
15
now thank you Wilson Cruz for being here
for sharing yourself with us here it is
a pleasure to see you and be with you
and you can check Wilson out on the
mother of the bride on Netflix on May
9th and that is what you need to know
for this Monday I’m
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testimony such to resume tomorrow in the
first criminal trial of a former US
president Donald Trump back in court in
New York for his hush money trial what a
former tabloid publisher accused of
catching and killing negative stories
about Trump told the court today also
growing concerns over security and
anti-Semitism at Columbia University the
major safety step from the school ahead
of the first night of passover also
Congress moving closer to passing a
potential ban on Tik Tok how the Senate
may decide the future of the app used by
170 million people across the United
States but we begin here on this Monday
with testimony set to resume tomorrow in
the first criminal trial of a former US
president Donald Trump defiant again
today while leaving his hush money trial
in New York doubling down on his defense
that payments to his former attorney
Michael Cohen were appropriately labeled
as legal
expenses actually nobody’s been able to
say what you’re supposed to call it if a
lawyer puts in a
bill or an invoice and you pay the bill
and in the book it’s a little line
that’s a very small little line I don’t
know if you could even write more than
two words it’s not like you could tell a
life
story they marked it down to a legal
expense this is what I got indicted
over well prosecutors say those payments
were actually part of an effort to
funnel hush money to porn star Stormy
Daniels and that Trump falsified
business records to hide it the former
president in court today as the first
witness in the case took the stand his
longtime friend and former publisher of
the national Inquirer David pecker
testifying about what he called the
tabloid’s brand of checkbook journalism
essentially paying for stories so
prosecutors say that he acted as a
co-conspirator in helping buy and bury
damaging stories about Trump so joining
me for more on this is our investigative
reporter Olivia Rubin along with our
executive editorial producer John santui
and criminal defense attorney and former
Federal prosecutor Tim Jansen so thank
you all for being here and Olivia let’s
start here with you please tell us I
mean what was it like for Trump in court
today what was his move and how did he
respond Olivia to Pecker’s
testimony I think we saw a few different
moods from Donald Trump in the courtroom
today Kano we saw the board Donald Trump
letting out a yawn during sort of the
lengthy jury instructions that were
delivered by Wan Mara at the beginning
of the day we saw sort of a maybe more
angered Donald Trump when the
prosecutors were going through their
opening statement talking about how he
committed a fraud talking about how he
tried to influence the election how they
read through the Access Hollywood tape
said that he bragged about abusing women
and then we saw Donald Trump uh when
David pecker first got on the stand and
it was so interesting to watch him watch
David pecker make his way up to the
stand and it was a really fascinating
moment the demeanor of David pecker sort
of flashing this big smile right when he
got on the witness stand right before he
began his testimony but Kaa I do think
that it was the prosecutor’s opening
statement that appeared to get under
Donald Trump’s skin the most today
specifically with what I just said the
Access Hollywood tape you could see him
shaking his head he you know was kind of
pursing his lips at times passing notes
with his attorney and that that’s when
we kind of saw the most reaction out of
him but you have to remember a lot of
what court is is very slow at times it’s
very laborious it’s very just litigious
and it’s not as exciting as some of the
more uh high-profile moments and those
are the times when you see Donald Trump
just sort of slumped in his chair with
absolutely nothing to do
right and even uh to that point elv I
know the judge told everyone including
the jurors you know don’t think about
how this plays out in TV this is a real
courtroom it’s going to be different so
John yeah so John to you look uh Trump
and David pecker I mean they’ve been
close for years right at one point Trump
calling him brilliant David pcker
referring to him as a close personal
friend at one point uh so how crucial is
he right now to the prosecutor’s case
and why call him to the stand first well
he’s critical I mean because at the end
of the day dis Arrangement was between
allegedly three people Donald Trump
David pcker and Michael Cohen so getting
two of the you know Partners in this up
on the stand really is what prosecutors
need to do to show not only that this
was the team that did this but this was
a Repeat Performance right though Stormy
Daniels and that situation is the only
one part of the 34 criminal count
indictment brought by prosecutors here
in New York the idea is that pcker Trump
and Cohen had done this multiple times
before Kaa so really what David pecker
does is give voice to the scheme and and
look prosecutors acknowledged it today
during their opening statements that
look you know there’s certainly some
issues with Michael Cohen but the
reality is this was a deal that he
carried out at Donald Trump’s behest as
his lawyer he worked with David pecker
and this is how the deal got done I do
just think though and Olivia hit on this
point very smartly a couple seconds ago
with you you know calling David pecker
first in part sort of sets the table up
obviously into what catch and kill is
and this relationship they had but it
does also give a different voice to all
of this and what I mean by that is look
we’ve heard Michael Cohen talk before
we’ve heard Stormy Daniels talk before
you have never heard David pcker speak
before so even for the jurors some of
who might be familiar with this to see
somebody new in this performance already
sets the stage oh peing that interest
that’s a really good point and we know
uh that defense attorneys to quot Aaron
kki tried their best to ESS eviscerate
The credibility of Michael Cohen and
David pecker will be back on the stand
tomorrow so Tim to you also tomorrow uh
the judge is going to hear some
arguments about whether Trump violated
the gag order in this case in part by
posting about expected Witnesses
including Michael Cohen do and Stormy
Daniels doing this on social media uh do
you think you might see any firm
enforcement of this gag order I know
they’ve talked about you know
potentially throwing $1,000 at him each
time he does
it well clearly he violated the gag
order uh the judge set the gag order and
Trump apparently violated it multiple
times I’m surprised they haven’t done
anything
beforehand um I think the judge is going
to get some control he he might give him
some fines and and give him the riot act
and let him know next time I’m going to
start double def fines triple def fines
but I I think he’s got to take control
he can’t allow Trump to be out there
every day after court criticizing
Witnesses I mean that’s the whole
purpose of the gag order right and he’s
violating it so he’s violating a court
order uh against this judge on a daily
basis and he also even uh again today
according to reports attacked the judge
on social media for not allowing him to
attend the supreme court hearing on
Thursday that’s happening so I know that
all of you will be watching this closely
we’ll continue to discuss this as it all
plays out Olivia John and Tim thank you
so much also President Biden today
weighing in on those protests that have
raised major concerns about safety and
anti-Semitism on college campuses he
answered questions that were shouted to
him from reporters while leaving an
earthday event take a listen do you
condemn the anti-semitic protests on
college campuses I condemn the
anti-semitic protest that’s why I’ve set
up a program to deal with that I also
condemn those who don’t understand
what’s going on with the
Palestinians so protesters rallying
again at Columbia University in New York
City calling for it to cut Financial
ties with businesses connected to Israel
administrators stepping up security
they’re shifting to Virtual learning
today ahead of the start of Passover
tonight the NYPD also helping form safe
corridors as they call it for students
and saying that there are no credible
threats right now to any particular
groups or individuals Pro Palestinian
rallies taking place at other schools
including Yale University in Connecticut
police there saying that they took
dozens of protesters in into custody and
charge them with trespassing that
happened earlier today uh turning our
attention now to Capital Hill where the
$95 billion foreign aid package heads to
the Senate and is expected to pass this
week Senate Majority Leader Chuck
Schumer bringing the package to the
senate floor that would provide Aid to
Ukraine Israel and Taiwan now the
legislation also includes a ban against
Tik Tock unless its chinese-based parent
company bite dance sells it the package
is a combination of four bills that the
house passed on Saturday after months of
delay with Democrats helping push the
funding measure through over the no
votes of a group of Hardline GOP
lawmakers who strongly oppose it arguing
that the US should instead focus on the
crisis at our own Southern border some
even threatening house Speaker Mike
Johnson’s gavel but Johnson defending
the legislation despite the push back I
want to bring in our ABC News senior
White House correspondent Selena Wang
from Capitol Hill for us so uh Selena a
lot a lot going on here with this Aid
package again expected to pass in the
Senate but what does that mean if it
does for the future of Tik Tok yeah Kaa
there’s a lot of bipartisan support for
this so this whole Aid package including
this part that includes Tik Tok it is
expected to speed through the Senate but
what does this actually mean so it would
result in a ban here in the US for Tik
Tok unless it’s Chinese company bite
dance parent company bite dance sells it
within a year now this is not going to
be an easy process first of all Tik Tok
is going to fight this in the court
saying that it violates the First
Amendment and saying it devastates those
millions of small businesses that rely
on the platform in addition to that the
Chinese government could block a sale of
the app and it’s not going to be easy to
find a buyer Kana we’re talking about
tens of billions of dollars here this is
an extremely expensive
app and then of course wondering if all
the information and data Bites come with
it of course Selena also talked to us
about how speaker Johnson pushing his
way with this bill he had to have help
from Democrats to do it which
essentially you know put his job on the
line I mean is his speakership right now
under threat yeah a total 180 for
Johnson going from being staunchly
against Ukraine Aid to putting his job
on the line to get this $95 billion Aid
package passed now for now his job is
safe but there is a still threat this
threat is still out there that he could
lose his speakership with Marjorie
Taylor green and two other House
Republicans signaling that they would
back her motion to vacate but so far
Marjorie Taylor green she’s been all
bark and no bite she’s lording this over
their head his head but she still hasn’t
done it she could do it when the house
is back in session next week but even if
this motion to vacate goes through Ka
it’s not clear that it would be
successful you’ve got Democrats and
moderate Republicans saying he should
keep his
job all right well that’ll be
interesting to see how all of that plays
out especially as we watch that vote
come down tomorrow Selena thank you so
much and now to the Middle East where
Iran is speaking out about the Israeli
air strikes that hit near a major air
base and nuclear site in the country
Iran’s foreign Ministry calling last
week strikes harassment and saying that
they caused no damage whatsoever but
warning about a more powerful response
if there is another attack and the head
of the Israeli military intelligence is
now resigning over the failures that led
to that surprise attack on October 7th
by Hamas Major General Aaron haliva
becoming the first senior figure in the
IDF to step down for his role in what
became the deadliest attack in Israel’s
history uh that news coming as the US
state department considers sanctioning a
specific IDF unit that is accused of
Human Rights violations in the West Bank
and that was before the war in Gaza
began ABC News foreign correspondent Tom
Sufi bur is joining us now from Tel Aviv
with more on this so Tom thanks for
being here look how significant right
now is this resignation of this Major
General in the IDF what does it tell us
about the scale of that intelligence
failure oh it underlines the enormity of
those intelligence failings Kaa I mean
the IDF had an Intel dossier a year
before the attack and it read like a
blueprint for hamas’s plans but Israeli
intelligence didn’t think Hamas was
capable of executing that plan and there
were multiple other warnings in the
months and even hours before the attack
so I think it was almost an
inevitability that the head of military
intelligence would resign he is the
first senior officer to do so but I
probably don’t think he’ll be the
last and the US is now said to make a
decision on whether to sanction the
specific IDF unit that’s accused of
these human rights violations uh in the
West Bank so what right now are you
hearing about that and how is Israel
resp
fonding yeah that’s netar Yehuda it’s an
IDF unit for Ultra Orthodox Jews and
prior to October the 7th it was accused
of multiple human rights violations
against Palestinians in the West Bank
now the IDF says it did take
disciplinary action against soldiers
involved with some cases of alleged
human rights abuses the Biden
Administration has signaled it might
take action against that unit we don’t
have details of what type of action are
confirmed at this stage but that hasn’t
stopped an angry response from Top is
Israeli officials including the Prime
Minister Netanyahu saying if anyone is
thinking about putting sanctions on a
unit of the IDF he’ll fight it with all
his strength the defense minister here
also saying the US would be wrong to
single out one unit and doing so would
cast a shadow over the entire
IDF all right Tom sui verage in Tel Aviv
for us Tom thank you so much coming up
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the first time in decades the justice is
weighing in on a case that could affect
how cities treat people who are homeless
this comes after a ninth circuit ruling
found that finding people for sleeping
on the streets amounts to quote cruel
and unusual punishment officials in
California and Oregon argue that
homelessness numbers are skyrocketing
amid housing uh housing costs that are
rising and income equality as well so
for joining us for more on this is our
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Devon dwire he’s live outside the
Supreme Court and Devon I know you’ve
been following this closely uh this case
really one of the most significant legal
disputes over homelessness in more than
40 years uh so what stood out to you the
most today in court a fascinating debate
today K lasted more than 2 and a half
hours and the Court’s concer
conservative majority was clearly
sympathetic to cities like Grants Pass
Oregon the one that bought this case
today uh while certainly empathetic with
people who are unhoused the the
conservative justices said cities need
to be able to crack down on those
homeless encampments we’ve seen an
explosion of those up and down the West
Coast in particular they frame this as a
matter of public health and safety uh
Justice Clarence Thomas suggesting that
the eth amendment that cruel unusual
punishment ban doesn’t apply to civil
fines Amy con Barrett worried that if
they wouldn’t allow a camping ban maybe
cities then could be at risk for
punishing people for public defecation
and urination she said that clearly
needs to be prohibited even though it’s
a human need but the liberal justices
Kano were on fire today they were
adamant that sleeping is a basic human
right that doing so in public when there
are no other places for these people to
go um it needs to be protected it cannot
be punished by the state and the
justices will have to issue dep an
opinion here uh in the next few weeks
Kanan well and Deon I know that you even
went to Oregon and you spoke with
officials there how do they feel about
this case you know the community uh the
community level so divided you know and
we talked to uh State Attorneys local
Council people out in Grants Pass and
they said look this is something that
residents feel strongly about they have
a right to be in their Parks too and
here’s what the police chief had to say
along with the city
attorney we have community members in
Grant’s Palace that that are afraid to
come to their Parks we’ve had shootings
in our Parks we’ve had fights in our
Parks chronic drug abuse in our Parks so
so much of our citizenry are not walking
through our Parks it’s not acceptable
for anyone to call the streets or Park
their home and cities need to have these
ordinances so that they can help to
incentivize people to accept offers of
help that’s what these laws do so the
city saying these sorts of laws are
incentivizing people to seek shelter but
a number of homeless residents in Grants
Pass I talked to Kaa I said this is
simply about human rights there was
nowhere else for them to go the city
doesn’t have a public shelter uh and
therefore the answer to this problem a
very complicated and emotional problem
Nationwide is more affordable housing
and more shelters that the city needs to
do that rather than punish people with
tickets again the justice has appeared
sympathetic to the city uh but we’ll
have to see what they saying their final
opinion in June Ka well and so Deon as
you mentioned there we aren’t expecting
this final opinion until June but it’s
coming quickly uh so how could this
ruling then impact other states and
cities uh with large homeless
populations I know uh the Genesis of
this argument even started in boyy Idaho
right it it sure did and States like
Idaho Washington State California up and
down the coast are watching this very
closely because cities uh want to move
in they want to clear out these
encampments they want to more
aggressively pursue them and they don’t
want to face constitutional challenges
so whatever the court says here will
have a sweeping impact it won’t solve
the Homeless Problem uh more than
600,000 Americans homeless On Any Given
night in this country that’s a record
number uh both sides acknowledge
whatever the court says won’t fix that
here um but cities states red States and
blue States Republicans and Democrats in
many cases hoping that the Supreme Court
will give them back this charge to be
able to clean it up on the other hand
Kaa Advocates are hoping that the
Supreme Court won’t green light more
punishment for people already in a tough
spot Kaa all right Devon DWI thanks to
you also the Supreme Court today
agreeing to take up a legal battle over
ghost guns as well these are weapons
with no serial numbers they’re assembled
from Individual parts that are often
created with a 3D printer uh the Biden
Administration appealing to keep a
regulation in place targeting ghost guns
after Lower Court Struck it down the
justices had previously voted 5 to four
to keep that regulation in effect as the
legal battle played out all right coming
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today Donald Trump back before a judge
in his criminal hush money trial in New
York what he said while leaving court
and the testimony from a longtime friend
of his accused of being part of this
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voters okay of course we begin here with
our big story testimony set to resume
tomorrow in the first criminal trial of
a former US president Donald Trump
defiant again today while leaving his
hush money trial in New York doubling
down on his defense that his payments to
his former attorney Michael Cohen were
appropriately labeled as legal
expenses actually nobody’s been able to
say what you’re supposed to call it if a
lawyer puts in a
bill or an invoice and you pay the bill
and in the book it’s a little line
that’s a very small little line I don’t
know if you could even write more than
two words it’s not like you could tell a
life
story they marked it down to a legal
expense this is what I got indicted over
well prosecutors say that those payments
were actually part of an effort to
funnel hush money to porn star Stormy
Daniels and that Trump falsified
business records to hide it the former
president in court today as the first
witness in the case took the stand his
longtime friend and former publisher of
the national inquir David pecker
testifying about what he called the
tabloid’s brand of checkbook journalism
essentially paying for stories
prosecutors say that he acted as a
co-conspirator in helping buy and bury
damaging sto stories about Donald Trump
uh joining me for more and this is our
ABC News Chief Washington correspondent
Jonathan Carl so John thank you so much
for being here with me today and look
this is something that you have covered
for so long and actually I was just
watching you watch the former president
address the media there as he left the
courthouse today talking about this
little line that you can’t write a life
story in uh what’s your take on that
well well look uh first of all overall
what a day uh for history this is not
the first day of the trial but it’s the
first day opening statements the
substantive First beginning of this
trial and it features David pecker uh a
guy who is uh the the the former head of
the national Inquirer a lead witness so
fascinating because they LED with him
clearly because they think that he is
going to be Central to their case the
testimony barely got underway we don’t
know where exactly it’s going to go but
put this in context here you have the
three Central Witnesses now that we know
for this case the basically a
scandalmonger head of a tabloid uh a
convicted liar in Michael Cohen and a
pornstar uh that seems to raise
questions about how the prosecution is
going to make their case it also raises
questions about Donald Trump all three
of them are Central to this case because
of their direct ties to the former and
potentially future president certainly
and we know that the defense jumped to
their chance in opening statements to as
Aaron kki wrote to essentially
eviscerate Michael ‘s credibility uh but
also John I’m curious to get your
thoughts on after the sand ofal hearing
uh judge the judge said that if Trump
does take the stand that prosecutors can
in fact ask him about a number of past
legal issues it’s limited in scope a bit
uh so knowing that now John do you think
that he’ll still testify so I I I have
to tell you Ken I’ve been skeptical that
he would testify primarily because I’ve
seen Donald Trump over the course of so
many other cases where he said I’ll
testify I’ll talk I’ve got nothing hide
and then he doesn’t testify this goes
all the way back to the Muller report
but I actually you know my understanding
and his lawyers are not counseling him
against testifying I don’t think he’s
going to testify in any of the other
criminal cases if they come to trial but
on this one it basically comes down to
Michael Cohen’s word against Donald
Trump’s word so there is a reason for
him to get on the stand and to directly
dispute what Michael Cohen has said
about these statements I still think
there is a very good chance that Donald
Trump will testify in this case oh well
that’ll be something and also John as
you know tomorrow will again it will
start with this contempt hearing
prosecutor saying that Trump has
violated the gag order multiple times
some even questioning you know if what
he said about Michael Cohen today after
court is yet another violation we also
know he mentioned the judge on social
media today as well uh so he’s also
though taking those moments at the
microphone John to highlight what he’s
missing in his opinion he’s missing at
his time on the campaign yeah and by the
way it’s looks like he violated the gag
order today he is not allowed to
criticize the witnesses to go after the
witnesses and he went after Michael Coen
over and over again at this uh at the
microphones but overall you know he is
his advisers have urged him to use those
moments before the camera when really he
has the attention of much of the country
everybody following this case to use
those moments to do what he can’t do
which is the campaign cuz he’s stuck in
the courtroom so come out and emphasize
uh his themes to go after Joe Biden on a
substantive way and instead he is out
there making smallish complaints about
being mistreated by the by by the court
system by the prosecutors uh I I I don’t
think it’s been particularly effective
and he is he’s deprived of being on the
campaign trail that is true and he’s not
using the attention that he
has all right uh thank you so much for
your analysis as always John Carl it’s a
pleasure to have you with us I want to
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Heidi height Camp our ABC News
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buckmire okay so there’s a lot to talk
about even though we just had a short
day in court today uh so Brian let’s
talk about what the judge made very
clear that the burden lies with the
prosecution they have to prove here be
Beyond A Reasonable Doubt right the jury
just can’t think that Donald Trump is
probably guilty uh but Brian the defense
arguing that these payments the practice
of catch and kill and influence
influencing election isn’t illegal they
said it’s democracy yeah I’m not sure of
that argument it seems more rhetoric
than a legal argument it’s again where
the campaign is kind of bumping up with
the criminal court itself uh but other
than that argument from the defense they
did make some points where they were
trying to highlight The credibility
issue that some of the prosecutors
Witnesses may have and another point
that I think that wasn’t really
highlighted but might be a larger issue
down the road if not for this trial and
for the appeal is in order to make these
falsification of business records a
felony there needs to be an underlying
crime and it seems like the prosecution
kind of glanced over that in many ways
the defense May harp on that a little
bit uh louder come the end of this trial
and that might not win the day for the
trial but maybe a strong argument for an
appeal if Donald Trump is found guilty
of these crimes all right looking far
down the line there as you always do in
anticipation Brian buckmire thank you uh
Heidi to you uh first of all what is
your reaction to to Brian’s statement
there well I think that is going to be
tough for this prosecutor to try and
Link the the the uh falsification of
business records which Trump is going
directly at when he said I didn’t faly
anything I paid a legal bill that was
handed to me along with election fraud
and and so this isn’t a slam dunk but
the the most important part politically
is it is highly unflattering to Donald
Trump going forward and if Donald Trump
gets on the SC stand it’s going to be
very very difficult for him to recover
any kind of reputational uh recover from
the injury that’s going to happen so you
got to look at this from a legal
standpoint that’s tough political
standpoint I don’t think this is good
for Donald
Trump yeah and Barbara what’s your take
on what Heidi just said there about
politically you know he’s he’s not
filling his campaign Cofer he’s not
going to the states that he needs to be
campaigning in instead he’s sitting in
this courtroom he can’t go to the
Supreme Court as he’d liked to on
Thursday as well uh so what’s your take
well I think it’s smart to start with
this David pecker The National Enquirer
because having worked on a lot of
campaigns the idea that a candidate
himself was sitting down and starting
with this conspiracy with his lawyer and
the national Inquirer to catch and kill
these negative stories about him and
talking about about how you know either
the national Inquirer would pay off a
Playboy model or these or Stormy Daniels
or whoever that he had affairs with and
and that his lawyer would be paying them
off and then you have all these receipts
and all these things and that the
candidate himself not somebody on his
campaign but the candidate himself
Donald Trump was going to be involved in
it and then you have all these receipts
of him paying his lawyer who he was very
complimentary of Michael Cohen until the
time when Michael Cohen turned on him
and then he trashed him so I think the
timeline’s going to be what’s going to
be interesting of when he was nice to
him and when he started trashing
them the timeline and what they can
actually submit into evidence uh to
prove the point that they’re trying to
make uh so Mike I’m also really curious
Inquirer imagine Ronald Reagan doing
that and uh yeah Mike Mike I want to get
your take too on there was a lot of
characterization that happened today in
these opening statements right uh I keep
saying it Aon kki said that they tried
to essentially eviscerate the character
of Michael Coen but also the defense
trying to paint Donald Trump as Donald
Trump the man the husband the father but
they also Mike continued to refer to him
as president and they said that that was
purposeful yeah Aaron always does great
reporting Kan and I think he was on to
something I think what the defense is
going to have to do is really try and
undermine the character of one of the
prosecution star witness which is
Michael Cohen which is kind of what
Barbara is alluding to and would you
look at it on paper the data is there
the paper trail is there you are able to
connect the dots in terms of receipts
and evidence it all goes down to a tent
to which Brian was talking about and so
with these key Witnesses if they can
prove the intent of former president
Trump’s doings um that is strong for the
prosecution which is why the defense
needs to make the jury discredit the
characters of these leads Witnesses but
politically Kan I’m really interested to
see what’s coming out particular over
the weekend uh we saw the campaign
filings of the strength of his campaign
and we saw his super pack and what we
saw is it’s almost equal part money is
coming in equal parts to how much is
being spend it on his legal bills so I
think as time goes on politically no
matter the outcome of the case I think
that’s going to be a bigger story to
watch uh in the near future and I know
that also John family is not there no
one from his family is sitting there
with him and that’s highly unusual to
not have anybody is possible right it is
possible that they end up getting called
to testify right they were on that
initial list and also as John sanui has
pointed out here uh time and time again
that we really have to see how this does
play out with his campaign because there
are some voters out there that say if he
is convicted they will not vote for him
all right Heidi Barbara Mike and Brian
thank you so much for your time with us
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Tik Tok unless its chinese-based parent
company bite dance sells it uh the
package is a combination here of four
bills the house passed them on Saturday
of course you remember this is after
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Hardline GOP lawmakers they strongly
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defending the legislation despite all
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LZ Granderson so Heidi let’s start here
with you I mean it as we have seen it
play out it takes a lot to get
Republicans and Democrats to agree and
work together but senators from both
parties here in the Senate intelligence
committee claim that Tik tock be used as
a propaganda tool by China so what is
your take here on the urgency they’re
using to address this issue yeah I’m
sure Barbara will agree um those members
have more information than we do there’s
been a lot of work done by the Intel
committees to expose the the risk that
Tick Tock presents and I know Mike
disagrees with us but um I think this is
a smart move and I I know on the Queue
up there was a question about
politically whether this would affect
the election but you got to remember
that they’ve been given nine months to
uh alienate and sell Tik Tock um by that
time the election will be over so we’ll
see how this plays out with young people
going
forward yes certainly it could be a
critical voting block there uh for the
Biden Administration in terms of tic tac
users Barbara what is your take here on
Johnson standing firm with
that well listen I think it is so
exciting that the speaker went forward
on this with all the threats that he had
from the right on the Ukraine piece and
I just want to give kudos to my friend
Mike McCall who was fighting for this
for so long to get the Ukraine peace in
Israel and this was such a great Kumbaya
moment on Saturday for everyone to be
celebrating on that you know
International win so I think there was
less Focus probably on the Tic Tac part
because the other pieces were such you
know an international crisis that that’s
what was so important that we get done
and was was such a great win to kick
that freedom caucus to the curb and
Marjorie Taylor green who’s now having
her moment of you know uh you know his
hysteria is just a beautiful thing to
see as for Tik Tac I do think there’s
going to be you know a lot of legal
challenges there so I don’t know that
it’s really going to happen the way it’s
in the bill I do think there’s going to
be some legal issues there as that goes
forward yeah it’s certainly certainly
sounds like there might be it’ll be
interesting to see how this does in the
Senate tomorrow so LZ what is your take
here especially considering the fact
that some people say it was a bit of a
trojan horse right to put Tik Tok in
there the way that they
did I don’t know if it’s a trojan horse
given the fact that we’ve been talking
about CH China using Tik Tok as a method
to infiltrate you know various
Departments of government for years so I
wouldn’t necessarily say it’s a trojan
horse but I would say was it made it
more enticing perhaps Republicans who
have been concerned about this for a
number of years and I would just you
know agree with Barbara I think this was
a really powerful moment uh in our
country’s history given how divided we
have been and how nonsensical we have
been even about the most sensible of
things um speaker Johnson does deserve
credit for his courage to go forward
with this despite the possibility of
losing his job I’ve been very critical
of him in a lot of different things and
so I want to compliment him on the
strength of this because this was about
more than just the party this was about
the country and he came through
wow this I have to be honest the fact
that we’re having this conversation
right now is kind of amazing to me I
wasn’t sure what everyone was going to
say and how this would play out today so
Mike I would just love your just sort of
overall take here do you share that
sentiment this Kumbaya is
sentiment well one I love that Heidi
knows me way too well uh in terms of my
sentiments around um Tik Tok Heidi my
sentiment Still Remains True to this day
I I I do believe that as we’ve heard our
reports uh there are other adversaries
are out to do cyber attacks and cyber
warfare against us in particular around
infrastructure and so I’m just wondering
if this is just a way of getting
distracted from a lot of key issues
around big Tech um in ways that they can
easily just pinpoint China relationship
to to tick tock the Kumbaya moment I’m
happy for it but Kana I still go to the
Baseline principle of this is the job of
Congress Congress is supposed to Act
Congress is supposed to move forward
with legislation on behalf of not just
the American people but for our allies
and so it’s hard for me to give an award
or a trophy uh to a speaker for doing
the job of the speaker but we are in
unique unprecedented time so here we are
today in a Kum Bayan moment here we are
awesome on it too so you know he he made
it happen too all right LZ Heidi Barbara
and Mike thank you so much this is
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Barbara and Mike thank you all I mean
Elie Peter Frampton has been making
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set to resume tomorrow in the first
criminal trial of a former US president
Donald Trump defiant again today while
leaving his hush money trial in New York
doubling down on his defense that his
payments to his former attorney Michael
Cohen were appropriately labeled as
legal
expenses actually nobody’s been able to
say what you’re supposed to call it if a
lawyer puts in a bill bill or an invoice
and you pay the bill and in the book
it’s a little line that’s a very small
little line I don’t know if you could
even write more than two words it’s not
like you could tell a life
story they marked it down to a legal
expense this is what I got indicted
over well prosecutors say those payments
were actually part of an effort to
funnel hush money to porn star Stormy
Daniels and that Trump falsified
business records to hide it former
president in court today as the first
witness in the case took the stand his
long time friend and former publisher of
the national Inquirer David pecker
testifying about what he called the
tabloid’s brand of quote checkbook
journalism essentially paying for
stories so prosecutors say he acted as a
co-conspirator in helping buy and bury
damaging stories about Donald Trump ABC
News investigative reporter Olivia Rubin
has
more the first preview of the case today
playing out in that Manhattan courtroom
prosecutors telling the jury that this
was a fraud plan and simple that Donald
Trump and Michael Cohen and David pecker
all worked together a conspiracy to
influence the 2016 election and even
more so what was likely more painful for
Donald Trump in that courtroom was to
hear prosecutors tell the jury about
that Access Hollywood tape that Infamous
tape that they say Sparks the need to
pay out Stormy Daniels for her claims
for Fears that he could lose the 2016
election and it was the the first time
that the jury this body of 12
individuals that are going to decide
Donald Trump’s case got to hear
prosecutor side of the story but they
also heard for the first time Donald
Trump’s side of the story and his
attorney Todd blanch tried to humanize
Donald Trump he said that he is you know
the former president he is the man you
see on TV but he is also a father he is
also a husband and he is also just a man
and what they said is that there was no
crime here that there is no uh crime
against paying hush money there’s no
crime in having someone sign an NDA and
what this was were payments to someone
who was Donald Trump’s attorney and what
Todd blanch did in front of that jury
was just eviscerate The credibility of
the prosecution’s lead witness Michael
Cohen they said he is obsessed with
Donald Trump they said that he wants to
see him behind bars and that that is
exactly what he is trying to do here so
at times a difficult day for Donald
Trump when he heard about the Access
Hollywood tape at times a slow
apparently boring day for Donald Trump
at one time yawning through some of the
more procedural purposes but regardless
that is going to be Donald Trump’s
reality for the next six to8 weeks and
David pcker his longtime friend now
leading it off a little bit of testimony
today that will really get underway
tomorrow in Earnest as he tells the
story likely of how the three of them
work together to catch and kill stories
including stormy Dan
all right Olivia ruin our thanks to you
as always I now want to bring in our ABC
News legal contributor and trial
attorney for more on this Brian buckmire
so Brian thank you so much for being
here with us and as Olivia pointed out
here look the defense is trying to say
that you know it’s not a crime to
essentially pay someone for an NDA it’s
not a crime to try and influence AE an
election they said that’s democracy and
and they can make these arguments during
opening statements Brian but really what
it boils down here right is can the
prosecution prove intent right yeah and
to your point yeah they can make these
arguments or these statements because
they’re opening statements not
necessarily arguments and not evidence
at all but yes the state has to prove
this intent to defraud and also to cover
up a crime in Aid in a bed that’s
something that seemed to be lacking a
little bit in the uh prosecution opening
statement but to the defense’s point I
didn’t see really much push back other
than don’t believe uh Michael Cohen uh
Donald Trump didn’t really know the ins
and outs of these agreements you’ll see
his names on a few of those papers as
references the 34 accounts and those
invoices but not so much everything else
but then Donald Trump comes outside and
starts talking about what seems to be
like a lot of knowledge as to the ins
and outs of how these payments were made
that seem to be a little bit
contradicting the opening statements
from what the client is
saying right we’ve heard time and time
again Brian right that Donald Trump knew
where every penny of his money was going
that it was something that he looked at
very very carefully but also in terms of
credibility uh the defense did their
best as Aon k says to eviscerate The
credibility of Michael Cohen uh they
talked about how he as a goal he was
like obsessed with Donald Trump and with
getting to know him and they said
absolutely he cannot be trusted so what
does that mean here for the prosecution
when their star witness at this point is
a known liar for the prosecution they’ve
got to show that two things can be true
at the same time that as the defense
puts and Michael Cohen is obsessed quote
unquote with Donald Trump has all these
social media platforms and and books and
whatnot and even to some extent stormmy
Daniels but through the art of
corroboration I think the prosecution
has to make their case out that says yes
he’s a liar he’s lied to Congress he’s
lied to court he’s lied to other people
but look at when he’s telling the truth
here because the evidence backs it up in
the opening statements the prosecutors
say that Michael Cohen actually kept
recordings of Donald Trump almost as if
he didn’t believe that Donald Trump
would pay him back so if Cohen takes a
stand and he has evidence to corroborate
his statements he seems to be less of a
liar in this instance and might actually
in fact help the prosecution rather than
hurt them when the defense tries to poke
holes in his
credibility all right and as we know in
the end here the state carries that
burden Brian buckmire our thanks so much
to you as always for your analysis also
today President Biden weighing in on
protests that have raised concerns about
safety and anti-Semitism on college
campuses he answered questions that were
shouted to him from reporters while he
was leaving an Earth Day event take a
listen do you condemn the anti-semitic
protests on college campuses I condemn
the anti-semitic protest that’s why I’ve
set up a program to deal with that I
also condemn those who don’t understand
what’s going on with the
Palestinians well protesters rallying
again at Columbia University in New York
City calling for it to cut Financial
ties with businesses connected to Israel
administrators stepping up security and
shifting to Virtual learning today ahead
of the start of Passover tonight the
NYPD also helping form what they call
Safe corridors for students saying that
there’s no credible threat to any
particular groups or individuals right
now also Pro Palestinian rallies taking
over places at other schools including
Yale University in Connecticut a police
there say they had to take dozens of
protesters into custody and charge them
with trespassing ABC News Stephanie
Ramos is live for us now at Columbia
University who’s been tracking the very
latest and Stephanie look I know you’ve
been out there all day so can you sort
of uh give us a look inside of what
you’ve been seeing there throughout the
day and also are we hearing any reaction
right now from Jewish leaders at this
moment absolutely Kana there is tension
on both sides here from Pro Palestinian
demonstrators who are students who are
non students here at Columbia University
and pro-israel demonstrators it was a
much larger group earlier today outside
the gates here at Columbia University
the group is a it’s a bit smaller right
now but I can tell you I mean we just
spoke with a student uh she is studying
here and she was arrested last week she
says that she did not expect one to get
arrested and also to get suspended she
says that she is here to fight for the
people of Gaza she says that she and the
other demonstrators want the genocide in
Gaza to stop she says that is her
message that is their message and that’s
why they are here of course there there
have been incidents uh harassment and
other intimidation tactics uh that have
been taken that have taken place toward
Jewish students by other individuals
that have been here she tells me
together with other Pro Palestinian
demonstrators that we met throughout the
day they say that these are isolated
incidents we also just spoke with a
rabbi who says he is urging students to
stay safe travel in groups not go by the
school right now and just urging caution
there was one Rabbi specifically that
urg students to stay home saying the
school and the NYPD cannot guarantee
Jewish students’ safety but again there
are still Pro Palestinian demonstrators
who insist those incidents are isolated
Kaa and Stephanie look we know we’re
already seeing a ripple effect from this
a big announcement today from New
England Patriots owner Robert Craft uh
saying that he’s going to stop donating
to Columbia what more do we know about
that that’s right the New England’s uh
Patriot owner Robert Craft indicated
that he will no longer donate to
Colombia he says uh that through a
statement that he hopes his Center which
he has a center here at the school will
serve as a source of security and safety
for all Jewish students and faculty but
he is concerned about the future of his
Alma moer k
Stephanie Ramos thank you so much for
your reporting we appreciate you being
with us tonight uh now to the Middle
East where Iran is speaking out about
the Israeli air strikes that hit near a
major air base and nuclear site in the
country Iran’s foreign Ministry calling
last week’s air strikes quote harassment
saying that it caused no damage
whatsoever but warning about a more
powerful response if there’s another
attack we also learned that the head of
Israeli military intelligence is
resigning over failures that led to that
surprise October 7th attack by Hamas um
Major General Aaron haliva becoming the
first senior figure in the IDF to step
down for his role in what became the
deadliest attack in Israel’s history
that news coming as the US state
department considers sanctioning another
specific IDF unit accused of human
rights violations in the West Bank
before the war in Gaza began ABC News
Ford correspondent Tom Sufi Burge has
the latest for us from Tel Aviv yeah
Kana his resignation underlines the
enormity of those in elligence failings
the IDF had an internal dossier a year
before the October 7th attack and it
read like a blueprint for hamas’s plans
but Israeli intelligence didn’t think
Hamas was capable of executing that plan
there were multiple other warnings in
that months and even hours before the
attack so I think it was almost an
inevitability that the head of military
intelligence here in Israel would resign
he’s the first senior officer to do so
but I don’t think he’ll be the last now
it comes as the house uh signs off an
additional $17 billion of military aid
for Israel but that doesn’t mean that
the overall relationship between the
Biden Administration and the Israeli
government is all now smooth sailing and
we’re now picking up on another area of
potential tensions and that is
surrounding one particular Israeli
military unit called NSA Yehuda it’s a
unit for Ultra Orthodox Jews prior to
October the 7th it was accused of
multiple human rights violations against
Palestinians in the West Bank now the
IDF says it did take disciplinary action
against soldiers involved with specific
cases fairly minor disciplinary action I
think it’s fair to say the Biden
Administration has signaled it might
take action against that unit no details
of what type of action confirmed at this
stage but that hasn’t stopped an angry
response from top Israeli officials
including the Prime Minister Netanyahu
saying if anyone is thinking about
putting sanctions on a unit of the IDF
he says he’ll fight it with all his
strength the defense minister here also
saying that if the US does do this it
would be wrong to single out one unit
and doing so would cast a shadow over
the entire IDF Kaa all right Tom Sufi
verage in Tel Aviv for us thank you also
now to dramatic V video showing the
moments that a Russian missile attacked
Ukraine it broke a huge TV tow
essentially splitting in half so we have
the video again this happened today in K
you see see it falling right there uh
this is Ukraine’s second largest city
it’s just 18 miles from Russia’s border
Ukraine’s President says that the attack
took place just minutes before before he
spoke on the phone with President Biden
he also called this strike part of a
deliberate effort from Russia to make
kive uninhabitable all right coming up
next here tens of thousands of people
taking to the street in major cities uh
in Colombia to protest their president’s
reform plan why potential policy changes
are causing an uproar there thus
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test firing short- range ballistic
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North’s Capital flew about 185 miles
before crashing in the waters between
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range suggests the weapons could likely
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95 billion foreign aid package heads to
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the weekend Senate Majority Leader Chuck
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senate floor that would provide Aid to
Ukraine Israel and Taiwan the
legislation also includes a ban against
Tik Tok unless its chinese-based parent
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senior White House correspondent Selena
Wang has the latest for us hey Kana that
massive 95 billion foreign aid package
is finally making its way through
Congress and house Speaker Mike Johnson
he put his job on the line to push this
through the house defying the far right
wing of his party so this is a major
transformation for Johnson who had for
months been stalling on the president’s
request for more foreign aid and he had
staunchly been oos opposed to any more
Aid to Ukraine so why the change well
number one the pressure from the
president as well as other Congressional
leaders number two he had these
classified intelligence briefings
including with the CIA director that
helped shift his stance and in addition
to that he’s a devout Christian his Co
his colleague Congressman Michael McCall
said he got on his knees and prayed
about what would be the right thing to
do so in order to get this through the
house he split this forign a bill into
separate parts in order to get a
majority Coalition for each one of them
and now this entire package it goes to
the Senate where it it is expected to
speed through the Senate with major
bipartisan support now this bill it does
also include that possible ban on Tik
Tok so the legislation would force a
sale of Tik Tok if the Chinese owner of
Tik Tok bite dance doesn’t sell the app
within a year so how would that work
well first of all it’s going to be a
complicated process because Tik Tok is
going to fight this law in the courts in
addition to that the Chinese government
could block a sale of the app and even
if this ban actually went through it’s
not just going to disappear for the
millions of people that have Tik Tok on
their phones it would likely mean that
App Stores wouldn’t be able to offer the
app anymore so that means new users
would have issues downloading it as well
as those who want to update the app
Kaa all right Selena from Capitol Hill
our thanks as always to
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production by 60% by the year 2040 and
like so many movements children across
the country are helping move towards
that goal ABC’s Chief climate
correspondent Ginger Z explains how
Elementary School students are
demonstrating the power of
us the school cafeteria might seem like
just a place to eat but for these
students the learning hasn’t stopped
when we use
plastic they send it over to like
factories and they burn it and it
affects like the ecosystem it’s plastic
free lunch day at this school in
Brooklyn New York the plastic free lunch
movement all started in 2018 after fifth
graders advocated for the change and
they started to ask a question wow this
is a zero way school but how can it be a
zero school when we have so much plastic
in our lunches so much plastic packaging
Ronda Kaiser is the program director at
cafeteria culture an organization that
facilitates plastic free lunch day she
says the initiative has grown
exponentially now one day a month
schools across New York City go plastic
free during lunch that means they don’t
use any single-use plastic like utensils
or packaging reusable trays are ideal
but since this school doesn’t have a
dishwasher they’re using compostable
plates and composting them the right way
the menu modified handheld foods like
sandwiches and veggies that they can dip
bananas
cauliflower cucumbers and broccoli 19
school districts across the country have
joined the reach of plastic free lunch
day has been enormous just the data from
New York City Schools from the 16
plasticfree lunch days we’ve reduced
more than 13 million single-use plastic
items from the waist stream a review
published by the National Institutes of
Health revealed that public schools in
the US generate about
14,500 tons of Municipal Solid Waste
every day and approximately 42% of that
is packaging generated by school’s food
service if your kids pack a lunch for
school there are ways to reduce plastic
there too so we invested in this vento
box that is aluminum cleans up really
nicely it’s even dishwasher safe uh but
we mostly hand wash it no microplastic
shedding into my kids food and I don’t
have to have that ugly habit of buying
plastic baggies the kids know they’re
making a difference I think it’s
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first witness testimony in the first
criminal trial of a former US president
what the former publisher of the
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