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statements get underway today the key
Witnesses expected to take the stand and
the two other big legal battles on
Trump’s 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 risked 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
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 denber 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 lower
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 accused 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
stormmy 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 case 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 in 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 in
session 4 days per week Ranna all right
Morgan Norwood live in Manhattan thank
you for that the other big story this
morning is the growing concern about
security at Columbia 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 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 test this is nothing
compared to what people in Palestine are
dealing with people in Gaza they are
starving they have lost
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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
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 confront
the issue of homelessness the case
involves whether homeless people can be
fined ABC’s Allison KK
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 the Eighth 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 dwire
traveled to Grant Pass Oregon 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 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 and won the reality is um the
only thing that works is more permanent
affordable house
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 7even years until he
was freed Anderson died at his home
north of New York City from
complications following heart surgery he
was 76 happy Earth everyone President
Biden will Mark the day by visiting a
National Park in Virginia and a new poll
finds 45% of adults in the US say that
they are more concerned about climate
change in the past year than they were
before that includes about six and 10
Democrats and a quarter of Republicans
ABC News has launched a series called
The Power of us people the climate and
our future featuring reports on the
climate challenges we all face and
possible solutions those will air on all
ABC News platforms all throughout this
week time for your Earth Day weather
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so Denver saw more than 6 Ines of snow
over the weekend the biggest snowstorm
this late in the season in some 17 years
it’ll melt 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
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Phoenix coming up work begins on a major
new high-speed train in the US we’ll
tell you the cities it will link but
first a 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 Roll Hall of
Fame announcing its newest
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this is not about parents who just let
their kid watch violent movies 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 they
purchased that gun for him and bragged
about it you don’t get to walk away from
that that’s a criminal act sins of the
parents the crumbly trials the opposite
of love is not hate it’s just being
ignored only on Hulu right now there’s
just so much happening in our world so
much at stake at the start of every
morning and that’s why at Good Morning
America we’re right here and we got you
we got you we got you a groundbreaking
is scheduled today for a high-speed 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 Tock
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
tiktock 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 there are less
restrictive Alternatives we could have
uh made it a a crime to transfer
Americans data to an adversarial
foration or foreign State interference
but to just ban 170 million Americans
for engage in speech and livelihood I
doubt it survives through scrutiny in
the Supreme Court the proposed ban is
also expected to face legal challenges
from Tik Tok 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
also ahead meet the heroes who risk
their lives to save a man from this
Burning SUV
this is not about parents who just let
their kid watch violent movies play
violent video games this is about
parents who neglected their son ignored
his cries for help then bought him a gun
the first parents in America to be
charged in a school shooting they
purchased that gun for him and bragged
about it you don’t get to walk away from
that that’s a criminal act sins of the
parents the crumbly trials the opposite
of love is not hate it’s just being
ignored only on Hulu
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so these box are identical but one is
real and one is fake this feels like
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of these are chef’s
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kiss this is a counterfeit really the
Louis Vuitton the Prada the Gucci we get
everything to make us a super fake is
easier now than ever before anybody can
be fool anybody super fakes now
streaming on
Hulu back now with country singer Luke
Bryan 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 sixth 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 a 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
that there’s a man in a car that can’t
get out that needs Our 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 emot were so
high Tessa s 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 do 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 State 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
played chess nonstop to set a world
record let us he from the diver who came
face to face with yes an alligator and
live to tell the
tale what does it take to be the most
watched newscast in America
we are part of an operation is this our
combat Operation Center we’re
approaching the gate militants came in
from different directions nuclear
reactor so you have a couple loaded and
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the flag not carry how important it made
the USA great work hi appreciate thank
it’s David David I’m David I know you
are you every night ABC’s World News
Tonight with David mure is America’s
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and bragged about it you don’t get to
walk away from that that’s a criminal
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liar time to check the PO 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
band L night and the feelings right oh
yes it’s l night oh what oh what a night
that is of course cool in the gang they
are among this year’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
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share the Dave Matthews band Foreigner
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to all next a life and death struggle
against an alligator in South Carolina a
hunt for fossils ended a 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 yes
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 at 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 Amica 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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Tonight with David mure is America’s
most watched newscast this is not about
parents who just let their kid watch
violent movies play violent video games
this is about parents who neglected
their son ignored his cries for help
then bought him a gun
the first parents in America to be
charged in a school shooting they
purchased that gun for him and bragged
about it you don’t get to walk away from
that that’s a criminal act sins of the
parents the crumbly trials the opposite
of love is not hate it’s just being
ignored only on
Hulu 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 Hamas 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 and 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
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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
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 um I don’t know my favorite 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 off the streets that 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 it’s the
day where we give back to the Earth
let’s talk about the Earth Day it’s
Earth Day 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 in 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
have such great
advice that’s what we do it for the next
Generation that’s what’s making news in
America this morning happy
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earthday right now on America this
morning 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’s 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 nap
nasty fall because of something a fan
had thrown on stage and face to face
with an alligator a diver describes
being 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 lower
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 stormmy
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
inconsistency 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 case 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 president is
this Thursday when the Supreme Court
hears arguments on Trump’s presidential
immunity claim in 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 in
session 4 days per week Ranna 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 Jewish students to go home
saying Colombia 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 Columbia 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 d 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
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 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 confront the issue of
homelessness the case involves whether
homeless people can be fined ABC’s
Allison KK
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 dwire
traveled to gr Pass Oregon 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 the officer said I
was too close to the playground and I
was too close to the to the fence the
case shines us 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 and won the reality is um the
only thing that works is more per perent
affordable housing Brian Beller runs the
only private homeless shelter in town
but it’s only half full this 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 the
whole 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
Earth everyone President Biden will mark
the day by visiting a national park in
Virginia and a new poll finds 45% of
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past year than they were before that
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New England temperatures across that
region are mostly in the 30s this
morning checking today’s high
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live a groundbreaking is scheduled today
for a high-speed rail line that will
connect Los Angeles and Las Vegas the 12
billion do 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
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
tiktock 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 who engage in speech
and livelihood I doubt it survives
scrutiny in the Supreme Court the
proposed ban is also expected to face
legal challenges from TI T Tok 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
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and smashed the driver side window
allowing them to pull orbovich out and
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it’s 100% a miracle I if those if
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here today you can see what a miracle it
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head of Israel’s Military Intelligence
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intelligence failures that led up to the
October 7th attack by Hamas which
ignited the war in Gaza Columbia
University is stepping up patrols and
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existing wow where would 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
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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 off the streets that it’s Everywhere
by cleaning up the ocean pick up all the
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York City is
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pick up dog poop there’s so much dog
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morning 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’s 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
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ran and Aly and I’m Andrew dibert 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 lower 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 trials 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 case
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 in session four
days per week Ranna 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 has 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 a 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 Colombia 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 Columbia 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 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 milit 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
break 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 confront
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 City’s ticket fine or
possibly jail homeless people who sleep
outside in public areas or does that
violate the Eighth 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 Grants Pass Oregon 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 and won 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 long
time 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 Earth day
everyone President Biden will Mark the
day by visiting a national park in
Virginia and a new poll finds 45% of
adults in the US say that they are more
concerned about climate change in the
past year than they were before that
includes about six in 10 Democrats and a
quarter of Republicans ABC News has
launched a series called The Power of us
people the climate and our future
featuring reports on the climate
challenges we all face and possible
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weather so Denver saw more than 6 Ines
of snow over the weekend the biggest
snowstorm this late in the season in
some 17 years it’ll melt 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 mid6 60s
around the Great Lakes 70s on the west
coast nearly 100 in
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live a groundbreaking is scheduled today
for a high-speed rail line that will
connect Los Angeles and Las Vegas the 12
billion do 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 bite 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 Tock 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 are engage in
speech and livelihood I doubt it
survives scrutiny in the Supreme Court
the proposed ban is also o expected to
face legal challenges from Tik Tok 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
Tok 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
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ABC back now with country singer Luke
Bryan 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 is 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 sixth 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 do 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 a car that can’t get
out that needs Our 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 F 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 guardrail 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 but like 10 times 100
times worse I mean you could feel the
flame even from how F far back I was
standing you could feel how hot it was
eventually a State 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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I time to check the poll 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 band
the feeling right
oh oh what a night that is of course
cool in the gang they are among this
year’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 blig Sher the Dave Matthews
band Foreigner and A Tribe Called Quest
congratulations to all next a life and
death struggle against an alligator in
South Carolina oh hunt for fossils and
did a oneman 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 yes 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 at 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
Times 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 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 Hamas 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 and police near
Detroit say an intoxicated 66-year-old
woman drove her car into a building
where a child’s birthday party part 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
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
popped 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 off the streets that it’s everywhere
by cleaning up the ocean pick up all the
trash I would recycle do you think
nework 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 it’s
Earth Day 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 in 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
have such great
advice that’s what we do it for the next
Generation that’s what’s making news in
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it’s Monday April 22nd he got his bills
passed he just needed Democrats to help
him do it we start
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here after months of resistance house
Speaker Mike Johnson pushes through aid
for Ukraine do you believe you will
still be the speaker come November yes
yes absolutely without question yes but
does this now leave him in a political
no man’s land Israel and Iran tryy to
Tamp down their tempers everyone agrees
that it’s in neither side’s interest for
an allout War but will it be enough to
prevent a regional war and they’ll tell
you every day is Earth Day but that
doesn’t mean they don’t want electricity
okay this is the
moment look at that oh my why thousands
of Navajo homes are finally getting
clean power after nearly a century of
waiting from ABC News this is start here
I’m Brad
milky we talk often about how much power
seems to have tilted away from Congress
in Washington and towards the presidency
especially when it comes to Foreign
Affairs right the president is the
commander-in-chief he’s our Chief
Diplomat plus Congress so rarely agrees
on anything that even if they could
impact foreign events they don’t three
of our primary adversaries Russia and
Iran and China are working together and
they’re being aggressors around the
globe well this weekend you can almost
see how speaker Mike Johnson saying to
himself this is our shot several of
these Global issues stand before
Congress waiting for us to act I I I
think we we did our work here and I
think uh history will judge it well the
Republican speaker teed up several huge
votes some of which have conceivably put
his own job at risk When the Smoke
cleared it was Democrats who had made
the difference on some of these but
Congress is still on the verge of doing
something the president can’t which is
sending huge Aid packages to Ukraine and
Israel let’s bring an BC’s Jay O’Brien
to start the week he covers Congress Jay
as far as the legislation is concerned
can you break down sort of I guess what
the biggest takeaway was here so this is
a package of four bills Brad it has aid
for Israel and Taiwan and there’s also
legislation to force a sale of of of
Tick Tock but the biggest takeaway at
least legislatively is this Ukraine
funding because it’s been stalled in
Congress for months the last time
Congress passed a standalone Aid package
for Ukraine was when Democrats were in
charge of the house in 2022 and
legislation to help Ukraine in its
defense against Russia has been
languishing in Congress really since
that time and for a long time it got
tied up in this debate over the border
and it was something that speaker Kevin
McCarthy when he was speaker was
grappling with and it was something that
speaker Mike Johnson was frankly
delaying putting on the floor for a long
time until Mike Johnson makes the
decision Republicans who are close to
him tell us to do what Johnson has said
is the quote unquote right thing I’ve
said it very simply I’ll say it once
again it’s an old military adage but we
would rather send bullets uh to the
conflict overseas than our own boys our
troops one Republican who was with
Johnson the night before he made his
decision said that Johnson remarked that
he wanted to be on the quote right side
of history and that is why he said to
his conference I don’t care if you’re
going to vote for this or not vote for
it I’m going to put this Aid package on
the floor and more importantly it is
inside of it going to have $60 billion
for Ukraine and that’s what he did on
this vote the A’s are 311 and the Nays
are 112 the bill is passed but notably
Brad there were four bills four
individual votes but on the Ukraine vote
more Republicans voted against Ukraine
Aid than for it we should not secure the
borders of Nations abroad the European
Union can do more America last that’s
all this is every single day and that is
why Johnson needed Democratic votes to
get that support for Ukraine over the
goal line but I mean for decades Now
sort of going against the majority of
your own conference has been considered
a big no no especially with Republicans
the fact that Johnson had to rely on
Democrats here I mean is that the sort
of thing that could cost a speaker his
job oh it’s angering Hardline
Republicans and some of them are more
Angry than others some are just fed up
with Johnson they say he should have
focused on border security and others
like marger Taylor green want him out he
did this bull in here on the house floor
foreign war package that does nothing
for America there are now at least two
other Republicans who have joined
margorie Taylor Green in her efforts to
oust Johnson the vote was held today
Mike Johnson is a lame duck are you done
she’s already called what’s called a
motion to vacate against Johnson but she
hasn’t brought it to the floor for a
vote and instead what she’s doing is
holding this motion to vacate which is
the same thing that got rid of Kevin
McCarthy over John head and try to push
him to resign I don’t walk around this
building being worried about a motion to
vacate I have to do my job Johnson
meanwhile says he’s not going anywhere I
asked him after that dramatic vote Mr
Speaker I know you just mentioned motion
to vacate but do you believe you will
still be the speaker come November yes
yes absolutely without question because
of how slim the Republican numbers are
eventually Johnson would probably need
at least a few moderate Democrats to
bail him out well and in regard to then
this whole package of bills that they
were passing in the house this weekend
so there was the Ukraine Aid Israel now
gets several billion dollars in Aid as
well you mentioned border security a
kind of water down border security bill
was voted on but it was farri
conservatives and Democrats who did not
even allow that to go through what
happens next like some of the ones that
passed here they need to pass in the
Senate right so they’re all now packaged
together into what is essentially one
bill and the Senate is going to take
each of these four pieces of legislation
together as one vehicle and that’s
important because it means all of this
stuff is wrapped into one
bow and so when you think about that
legislation for instance to force a sale
of Tik Tock away from its Chinese parent
company and if that sale doesn’t happen
then the app could be banned right now
the choice that the Senate is facing is
if it wants to vote for that aid for
Israel and Ukraine for instance it also
has to vote for that legislation aimed
at Tik Tok the thing that they’ve been
wanting to vote on for months now is
also tied to the sale of Tik Tok correct
and and by the way remember the house
sent them a bill about forcing a sale of
Tik Tok and the Senate kind of dragged
its feet on it this is an election year
this is not an issue that a lot of young
voters are in support of taking action
against Tik Tock and there were Senators
who said they had serious concerns with
the legislation it gave bite dance to
short of a window to potentially sell if
this bill became law that window has now
been extended from 6 months to a year
and that has gotten the support of some
pretty high-profile Democrats who now
say they’re on board with this
legislation aimed at Tik Tock that they
previously weren’t on board with Tik
Tock by the way is bulking at all of
this they say that this bill could strip
the app away from 170 million us users
brat that’ll be fascinating to see if
one thing could kind of derail this
thing that both the Senate and speaker
Johnson have been pushing for which are
these Aid bills see if Tik Tok of all
things ends up being their the new
reason this Aid doesn’t go through uh
Jay O’Brien after a busy weekend in
Congress thank you so much thank you
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Brad so heading into this past weekend
Israel had just attacked Iran on Iranian
soil the latest Act of retaliation and
this back and forth that’s really
ratcheted up beyond anything we’ve ever
seen from these two countries Iran had
promised that if Israel did fire into
Iran it would unleash an even bigger
response so for days everyone’s been
wondering what will Iran do about this
strike to which Iran now seems to be
saying strike what strike they’re not
even acknowledging internally to their
citizens that anything’s happened here
let’s figure all this out with ABC’s
foreign correspondent Tom Sufi bur who’s
there in Tel Aviv right now Tom this is
this has gotten wild can you just catch
us up on what’s been happening there
yeah Brad look the Israeli strike was
limited in scope but senior Us official
briefing ABC News has given some pretty
intriguing detail but effectively That
official saying that Israeli war jets
were involved and that they fired from
outside of Iranian airspace and that
they were targeting a air defense radar
system near the central Iranian city of
Isfahan in a military base but close to
Iran’s key nuclear facility of nans but
the official underlining that the
nuclear site was not the target so the
message everyone is saying and this
official is saying is that Israel was
sending a warning a very clear warning
we have the capabilities we can fly in
we can shoot very near destroy that
radar defending the site and if we
wanted to but we won’t this time we
could even hit your most prized assets
like your nuclear facilities that’s
interesting though T that you’re saying
this is like a warning this is not the
the huge Counter Strike you know
blanketing a military base like like
some had feared this is actually less a
little less than that sounds like yeah I
mean it was an a massive massive strike
and what’s critical is not only did the
Israelis not own it which suggests that
they kind of went back to their modus
operandi of the past right and that is
targeting Iranian proxies and interest
in the region but not owning those
strikes MH and then you’ve got the
Iranians sitting back playing down the
scope of this attack playing down the
importance of it claiming that only
drones were involved we think drones
could have been involved uh it’s just
not clear but the Iranians are playing
it down you know you saw Iranian State
tv within hours of that attack showing
scenes of normaly in Isfahan and Iran
saying look our nuclear sites weren’t
hit it’s nothing is that then are you
saying essentially each side when they
could be ratcheting up this sounds like
steps for each side to ratchet down the
tension a little bit Israel tells its
people we’re doing a big strike but then
they hit one thing in Iran Iran says
we’re going to go hard at them and then
they’re like actually we’re just not
going to acknowledge this at all is this
them bringing it down oh look every
analyst we’ve spoken to every former
Israeli military official we’ve spoken
to over the last week agrees it’s not in
Iran’s or Israel’s interest for a
massive allout war between the two sides
we should not take any actions that if
we make a miscalculation might drag the
old region to a cycle of violence and
everybody later might blame Israel it is
a risk that we should not take one
former Israel milary official we spoke
to said look in their opinion Israel
might not have all the ammunition and
arms and really the will to go to war
with Iran in a prolonged way we can
continue and fight against important
Iranian Targets in other places
especially in Syria something that we do
successfully in the past 9 years and
this is important because it can prevent
the establishment of another in Syria
and the Iranian economy isn’t doing
great the regime you know it’s not that
long ago we had Mass protests all across
Iran but everyone agrees that it’s in
neither side’s interest for an allout
War okay so then this is one of those
situations then where you would expect
the US and Israel to be in lock step
right like they Israel was just attacked
by Iran Israel does the strike back us
has been sanctioning Iranians and yet
now this morning it sounds like we’re
hearing the US might sanction Israelis
what is that about yeah look on the
fundamentals I think what we just talked
about demonstrates that the fundamentals
of the Israeli American relationships
are is really really strong but that
doesn’t mean that the Biden
Administration and Prim Minister
netanyahu’s government are not at
loggerheads on key
issues we cannot support a major
military operation in Rafa firstly Gaza
we know the Israelis want to get into
Rafa as soon as possible the Biden
Administration is saying don’t do it
without protecting the civilian
population there and now the Biden
Administration is also
uh taking action we believe it’s not
confirmed us officials right now are not
confirming this but prime minister
Netanyahu is already coming out and
saying if you sanction an IDF unit we
are going to oppose that with all our
might and the story behind this is an
ultra Orthodox unit of the Israeli
Defense Forces it’s called netsat Yuda
basically uh in the late ’90s it was set
up then was deployed to the occupied
West Bank it was in charge of security
there effectively and over the course of
number of years they were accused of
multiple uh human rights abuses the most
notorious case was in 2022 the death of
a palestinian-american man a 78-year old
man who was arrested by soldiers from
that unit and then gagged and abandoned
in the street in the middle of the night
in the depths of winter and he had a
heart attack and died now the rdf says
soldiers involved in that case were were
disciplined the Biden
Administration is potentially looking to
limit or restrict the supply of us
Weaponry to that specific unit now if
confirmed it’s just not clear how in
practice that would actually work well
and the Israeli defense minister came
out last night saying the whole world is
watching our relationship right now and
that this sends a bad signal he said
quote this is not the right path for
partners and Friends end quote but I
think it’s also helpful to remember that
Benjamin Netanyahu is in power in part
because of the ultra Orthodox Community
they do not want an embarrassment there
still a lot to unfold here Tom Sufi
Birds there in Tel Aviv thank you so
much thanks
brde today is Earth Day and this whole
week across all of ABC’s platforms we’re
going to be highlighting stories that
reflect where our planet is at like
remember that 1.5° c threshold the Paris
agreement talked about the idea that if
the global temperature goes one and half
de higher than pre-industrial levels
that were all in trouble well according
to a recent study global temperatures
last year exceeded that threshold some
of the most important change undoubtedly
needs to come from government and
corporate interests but you’ve also got
individuals who have essentially said we
can’t wait for these entities to act we
got to do something ourselves which is
why this year we’re calling this series
of Stories the power of us and recently
ABC’s chief meteorologist and climate
correspondent Ginger Z traveled to
America’s largest Indian Reservation
Navajo Nation where in the year 2024
people are fighting to get electricity
in their own homes Ginger joins us now
and ginger when I first heard you
describing this I was thinking you must
mean these folks don’t have renewable
energy they don’t have affordable energy
you meant like they don’t have
electricity at all do not have
electricity and nor do they use it and
it’s not just a couple people in Navajo
Nation it’s 15,000 homes that is
estimated up to about 60,000 people that
live without not just the niceties of
flipping a light on or having a
refrigerator to refrigerate your food
but tella health education via the
internet all of
it so we went to Arizona let’s hit it
let’s get out into Navajo Nation we met
up with a guy called Brett Isaac in
Flagstaff and then we drove into Navajo
Nation so we’re in the western part of
the Navajo Nation and this is like the
high desert it is such expansive
gorgeous land and it doesn’t just stop
in Arizona it’s roughly the size of West
Virginia kind of straddling New Mexico
Arizona and Utah with the majority of
the land being in Arizona there are more
than 200,000 people that still live on
Navajo land there and so even though
they’re very spread out you do see
population and it certainly follows
roads and it certainly follows what
looks like power lines because there are
power lines
everywhere through Navajo Nation but
many of them are not powering the homes
of the Navajo people wait so there are
power lines there and yet they’re not
powering those homes right below them
what why why is that correct so Brett
was telling me that Navajo Nation is
kind of called the battery of the
Southwest cities like Las Vegas and Los
Angeles wouldn’t be in existence without
the coal resources that were extracted
on the navoo nation and you know
converted to electrons through the power
plants that operated here for years and
so a lot of you know land leases were
made throughout history from the federal
government from all these places so that
we could power up the desert Southwest
in the process though they built this
infrastructure but it wasn’t built for
the people here and I think for a lot of
people it’s like those power lines
represent an era when promises were made
but not upheld and there were a lot of
we’re going to get to you we’re going to
get to you and then it didn’t happen but
there’s also something really important
called the benit freeze so this is a
1966 law and basically there were some
oil and gas leasing issues they say
between the Hopi and the Navajo people
the federal government said listen if we
can’t agree on Whose land is whose and
who gets what out of these oil and gas
leases we’re going to put kind of a
moratorium on any building the freeze
essentially said we cannot build um
improve renovate any type of
infrastructure unless both tribes and
the federal government consent to that
work and getting two Nations along with
the federal government to agree to do
anything is very very difficult that law
that went into place in
1966 went through 2009 at the same time
this country was landing on the moon
they were telling us we couldn’t build
here these people were frozen in time
and actually in some instances regress
because of that lack of access yes so I
asked Brett I was like was there malice
in that I mean I I think a lot of the
initiative was you know they wanted our
they wanted the tribes and the people
and everyone to just merely adopt you
know an American
lifestyle he said you know this is how
Academia kind of refers to that era of
assimilation they very much wanted
Navajo people to leave their pastoral
land and go to cities that is well known
and and well documented and if you think
about how do you get somebody to to get
out I’d say not have them grow with the
rest of the it’s fascinating well and so
if you’re there and you’re talking about
like the power of us what what what can
be done what what are there Solutions
then there are huge Solutions and that’s
the beauty of Brett
Isaac he said instead of living under
these power lines that were not meant
for us he said he took any frustration
and put it Forward into making change
and so Brett is is the founder and the
uh president of Navajo power at its
heart it’s a development company we do
clean energy Development Across the
country on travel lands first thing is
he’s bringing off-grid solar to Navajo
people to power up homes that have never
had power before every time we do that
you know you’re kind of just reigniting
that hope inside of these folks and
that’s like a a real memorable
experience for me the second thing is he
is invested in this land and already has
bought and already ready to start this
project of a solar field that will be
able to power more than 2 100,000 homes
that solar field is going to be on top
of an old uranium mine if you look
around the fringes around here you’ll
find the legacy of where uranium was
extracted and enriched and you know sent
to support the United States nuclear
program that means that it’s radioactive
and not able to live on not able to
graze on it’s just useless land but now
and thankfully Brett and his company are
giving it a chance to be useful land
again well and I feel like it’s so easy
to take all this for granted I mean what
is it like to get electricity in your
home for the first time so we arrived to
Elanor Paddock
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Hogan it’s a very traditional type of
home it’s kind of a circle home and you
usually have a fire in the middle and
it’s definitely off the beaten path my
Homestead Homestead and so this
Homestead was was it a dream of yours
yes she’s got like this really Rocky
driveway but gorgeous Vistas and and she
can see mountains you know right in
front of her this Big Red Rock Mountain
this is where my great grandparents used
to live in the 60s early 60s and I grew
up on the other side of the hills here
so I understand so much the connection
to the land because her ancestors have
lived on that very land this is really
home yes this is really home she had
kind of gone off and lived off
reservation for a while but she had come
back about 10 11 years ago I believe
when she came back she built this home
this was after the benett freeze lifted
and she built this home and then you
know there were no power
lines when we walked into her place she
had cleared it out for a lot of the
solar folks to get in there and do the
work but in the middle of the room was
an exposed car battery that’s how she
had been powering her phone yes my uh
cousin recommended that to use a
charging system off the auto battery a
lot of her food because she doesn’t have
a refrigerator um she had a lot of
coolers that had been out she has kind
of a barn or an area where she kept
things and a lot of things were just out
in there right this is the
moment look at that oh my and I said
what’s what’s the first thing or the
most excited you are you know once these
lights turn on and once the electricity
starts pumping through these solar
panels and she said turn on the
refrigerator yeah should we do should we
move it and get it started up yes all
right can I help can we move it over
toward where you want
it
okay I don’t hear anything but I imagine
it’s there it
goes I hear it I hear a hum she she’s a
substitute teacher and she said well as
a substitute teacher can’t wait to just
do a lesson plan at home and you weren
able to do that before no it was hard
for me to do technology is going to be
here it’s going to bring technology here
she’s a humble and kind of quiet woman
but she was elated and she really was
speechless uh because it was
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life-changing and Brett he’ll tell you
through and through he also is so
dedicated to doing this because this is
for Navajo people by Navajo people
and it takes back the sovereignty the
power of power this story wrote itself
because that word power and the power of
us has a lot of meaning in
this it’s such great reporting it’s such
a great way to kick off this series The
Power of us you can actually see some of
the images that Ginger is reporting on
here tonight on World News Tonight with
David M to Great segment Ginger thanks
for being with us happy Earth Day happy
Earth Day and one last thing
with everything happening in the world
there are suddenly concerns about the
Olympics Paris is supposed to have this
huge opening ceremony on the river sen
it’s supposed to be the biggest crowd in
the history of the games but due to
security concerns the number of
Spectators approved by police keeps
shrinking in fact recently France’s
president said they might have to hold
the ceremonies in a stadium like old
times for safety sake but that is no
longer the issue making the biggest
splash at these
games on Saturday the the world
anti-doping agency confirmed reports
that 23 swimmers from the Chinese
Olympic team tested positive for a drug
known as TMZ trimetazidine not TMZ the
news agency back in 2021 this was just 7
months before the games information the
US anti-doping agency now says was
hidden from the public all these years
this report reignited old questions
about China’s sporting programs for
years they focused on dominating certain
sports with high medal counts like
shooting and Diving it’s also spent
heavily on Sports like women’s
weightlifting and swimming they’ve been
racking up metal counts and at this
pre-olympics warm-up back in 2021 more
than half the athletes tested positive
and while Chinese officials have long
chocked this up to contamination
suggesting this TMZ might have found its
way into a hotel kitchen this also
prompts questions of the people who
investigate doping in the first place
think about it with results this
widespread this close to the Olympics
you’re not going to publicize this
you’re just going to going to let these
athletes compete like nothing happened a
senior director for the world
anti-doping agency defended their
decision not to go public saying the
concentrations of TMZ were small and
that this didn’t seem to be a pattern of
doping by the Chinese but keep in mind
what happened just a year later next
year at the Olympics yet another
dramatic turn in the case of Russian
skater camil Vala who was allowed to
compete of course after testing positive
for a ban substance in 2022 when news
broke that a 15-year-old Russian ice
skater was found with this same drug in
her system her and her team’s medals
were taken away so why didn’t that
happen at China some have speculated
it’s because China was about to host
games of their own that’s where Vali Eva
got the boot some wonder if it’s because
doping officials are worried that if you
lose Russia and China from the games the
Olympics become less meaningful overall
those within W the anti-doping agency
say there just not comparable situations
in the first place but keep in mind
several of these Chinese athletes are
expected to compete later this summer in
Paris if they appear there on the river
sen in these glorious Opening Ceremonies
the cleanliness of the water might not
be the only question floating
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right now on America this morning 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’s 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
underwater and how he was able to fight
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Andrew denbert 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 lower
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
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 drump 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 years 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 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 case 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 in 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 in
session four days per week Ranna all
right Morgan Norwood live in Manhattan
thank you for that the other big story
this morning is the growing concern
about security at Columbia 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 a 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 Colombia 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 Columbia 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 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 B 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 confront
the issue of homelessness the case
involves whether homeless people can be
fined ABC’s Allison KK
explains this morning the Supreme Court
takes up the issue of homelessness and
what cities and towns can do about it
the question can City SE ticket fine or
possibly jail homeless people who sleep
outside in public areas or does that
violate the Eighth 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 Grant Pass Oregon 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 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 and won 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
encampment
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
in Virginia and a new poll finds 45% of
adults in the US say that they are more
concerned about climate change in the
past year than they were before that
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snowstorm this late in the season in
some 17 years it’ll melt 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 most
mostly in the 30s this morning checking
today’s high temperatures mid-60s around
the Great Lakes 70s on the west coast
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Phoenix coming up work begins on a major
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one step closer to reality after a
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that day the day that my son
died 911 the I’m my step
son right from the start you’ve got some
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where would we
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nowhere I really like that the Earth
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too hot we can’t live on Neptune the
whole place gives us food we can’t live
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McDonald’s paying you a big sum of money
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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
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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 conceal a hush money
payment to Stormy Daniels before the
2016 election we have Team coverage
starting with senior investigative
correspondent Ain kerki 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 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
account I didn’t know Mark 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 jurs have advanced
degrees one jur praised Trump’s
outspokenness another called the former
president selfish each promised to be
fair and
impartial and 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 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 rapping 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 of Donald 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 an 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 gonna come up at
some point during this trial because one
of the witnesses is Stormy Daniels
they’re going to talk about at 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 itan 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
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 prosecutors 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 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 forers 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 Melania
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
state 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 and 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 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 Carroll
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 that 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 cas 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 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
politici 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 vaer 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 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 of proof 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 U 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 bill billion dollar 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 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 aidid 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 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
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 the 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 own bite dance one year to
divest Tik Tok or face a nationwide ban
ABC’s J Norman has more on what it could
mean for Content creators and the more
than 170 million Tik Tok users
today I’m saying my final goodbye to Tik
Tock the clock could be ticking for
popular app Tik Tock breaking news right
now the House of Representatives has
officially passed another Tik Tok 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 open
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 life 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 Tock
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 shudder a
platform that contributes $24 billion to
the US economy annually I don’t think
it’s is 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 house 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 and
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 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 measures 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 Lincoln
expected to address the issue later
today Diane Tom Sufi bur and Tel Aviv
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our top 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 Stormy Daniels before the
2016 election ABC News senior
investigative correspondent Aaron kerki
joins me now from outside the courthouse
along with ABC News Chief Washington
correspondent Jonathan Carl ABC News
editorial producer John santui ABC News
White House correspondent Mari Ellis
parks and ABC News legal contributor Kim
wayy Aaron 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 that 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 logged 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
Coen 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
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 Aaron say
they will make is that Michael Cohen was
uh 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 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 6 eight
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 in 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 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 the former president
walking into court uh Mar Alice 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 santucci’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 uh 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 strict abortion law is
set to go into effect there uh so we are
going to see as 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 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 believe 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 juries are jury’s
going to have to decide um who’s more
credible and whether the government’s
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 it it 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
mean 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 tantui
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 tesy what are
you watching for well actually right now
I was texting our colleagues Aaron gki
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 prose is
going to argue along with Cohen and
Trump devise this catch and kill scheme
and the big thing here is that you and I
were talking offir that though this Cas
is about Stormy Daniels and this payment
there’s more than just that right it’s
Karen 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
pecker 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 pecker 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 first one
year and again they 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 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
a 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 he’s 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 Aon kerki John Carl John santui
Mar parks and Kim wayy 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 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 John 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 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
he’s done he’s done with the gop’s
raiser 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 Terry
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
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
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
encamp
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
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done enough well the fact is President
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scientists have said that we still can
avoid the worst of the worst of the
climate crisis but what we do in these
next few years is essential Nathaniel
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Americans have been told to focus on
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
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president Trump is speaking outside I’m
in courtroom as he heads into court for
his criminal trial let’s
listen right thank you very much I just
want to say before we begin these are
all Bon trials 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 HT 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 of the fact
that I will get Trump up going to get
Trump and it has to do with a bond of1
175 million dollars 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 million in cash
and she’s questioning the bonding
company well when you put up cash and
the number is 175 which is what we’re
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 flinging 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 Cas 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 businesses 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 fleeing but on Laticia
James the money was put up it’s 175
million and I don’t think she’s
complaining about 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 called 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
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 sanui what is the latest on
that the fact that he put up the the
bond for this civil fraud case and now
ltis James is saying she’s not so sure
about the company underwriting so
exactly that she’s challenging the
company that under 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 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
we’re going 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 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 because 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
people 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 that’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 prosecu the defense
lawyers in their open 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 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
cuz 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 and 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 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 took a real Victory last 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 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 2024 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 from
2006 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 is 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
denst has to go to the dentist and that
appointment is not at 2:30 no sorry I
know you’d think the dentists would make
a little room in their schedule and
squeeze them in but I think it’s 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 sanoi Kim wayy thank you all
and we will be following this trial all
day long we’ll bring you updates as we
get them right here on ABC News live
keep it here 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 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 a 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 Columbia 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 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 Rihanna Aly thank you and
Reagan meie from our New York station
WABC is near Columbia’s campus joining
me now for more rean 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 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 say 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 IIA
University to divest in any Israel
backed business so um things like they
say divest it stocks it’s 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
met rean meie from our New York station
WABC thank you coming up is sleeping on
the street a crime the Supreme Court is
weighing that very question today why
some major cities say fines are
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are 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 oie Osborne Mary J
Blas A Tribe Called Quest and Dave
Matthews Band four of the eight unices
were on the ballot for the first time
including Sher forer cool and the Gang
and Peter Frampton the induction
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 Greenpeace 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 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 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 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 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 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’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 the 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 alleg 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
try 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 I
had a beautiful vegetable garden I love
to cook Laura a 55-year-old Grants Pass
native and mother of three says
homelessness hits suddenly after her
husband died in 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
your 8T by 8T diameter limits is
considered rubbish trash her home is now
a tent in this park I need 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 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 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 bow tell 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
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 a 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 with a really big
homeless problem and no place to put us
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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
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walking and incorporating aerobic
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do I need to do every week is there a
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too much what what do I need to do
important question it’s 50 minutes a
week so 20 25 minutes a day um and if
you miss the day it’s okay um but key is
just sticking with it and I always think
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little faster but you get all the
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our top story former president Trump is
inside a New York courtroom for opening
statements underway now in his historic
criminal hust 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 stormmy
Daniels before the 2016 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’s
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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 months
Sayan 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 a 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 do 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 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 John 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 acquit 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 has 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 discussed 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 jurors 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 not 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 sources say that
former National Inquirer publisher David
pecker set 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
are you listening for as he takes the
stand 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 pcker
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
Rubin in court Diane judge Maran
specifically ruled that 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 Carol cases Etc all of that
can come up in court and talking about
where 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 near
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 it 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 went 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
and I would say this is just the tip of
the iceberg because when a prosecutor is
given the ability to go into these
issues it doesn’t mean that if uh Donald
Trump takes this 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 as 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
buckmire 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 news 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 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 uh
history will judge it well 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 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 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 Lena Wang joins me now
from Capitol Hill for more on this
Selena let’s first talk about this big
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 Aid 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
there 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
Johnson 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 the
possibility that this actually speeds
its way through the Senate all right
senior White House correspondent Lena
Wang on Capitol Hill thank
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Good Samaritans are speaking out after a
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group rushed across a busy highway to
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701 old driver is doing okay as one
witness calls it a 100% Miracle gma3
anchor Eva Pilgrim has their
story it’s the fiery Minnesota highway
rescue caught on tape all I see is
there’s a man in the car that can’t get
out that needs our help watch as Good
Samaritans jump into action racing to
rescue 71-year-old Sam orbovich who was
trapped inside his Honda SUV that was
engulfed in flames you could feel how
hot it was the smell of the smoke just
wafting in the air Minnesota state
patrol telling ABC News orbovich is
vehicle struck a light pull and then
guard rail Thursday during rush hour on
Interstate 94 in St Paul one of those
Good Samaritans 24-year-old registered
nurse Tessa sand I was scared like
shaking scared the car just totally went
in Flames sand and several others
stopping their own cars rushing to help
free orbovich sand directing others to
pull on the doors I was trying to figure
out one how to get him out of the car so
trying to break the guard rail down
pulling the car trying to see get him
out on the passenger side which was also
um engulfed in flames then Highway
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orbovich out of that window to safety
you could see the fear and the panic in
his eyes he was taken to an area
Hospital surviving with minor injuries
it’s 100% a miracle 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 and a
lot of people calling these Good
Samaritans Heroes one telling me he
doesn’t consider himself a hero but it
does feel good he could help Diane I
love that ending to the story Eva
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look this is my routine in the
morning at first glance Mike reynolds’s
morning probably doesn’t look much
different than many of ours this water
was rain but he doesn’t live in a
typical house he lives in something
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different this is an Earth Ship a home
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 stain 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 wash your 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 gallons or you
know three gallons of water to take a
shower that same three gallons of water
Waters my banana trees and my tomatoes
that same three gallons of 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 and it hits that
mass and then the tire retains it and as
the temperature in here were to drop
that heat would be
released we tested out the tire wall
living in an Earth Ship for 3 Days the
house itself is 5,400 ft and 2, of is
dedicated to Growing space and in this
house there’s two ponds in the
greenhouse and we have tilapia out there
and then you could catch a fish pick
your citrus wrap it in a banana leave
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 Earth Ship 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 plenty of these
kind of smaller green houses that you
can invest in and extend your season be
a little closer to
Earth there are more than 100 Earth
ships near T but Mike says we need more
I mean the solutions are the way forward
on this planet it’s going to have to be
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extreme there are at least one our ship
in each state and so they work in other
places you know the base model uh that
starts at $400,000 for a two-bedroom two
B and it really is less sacrific 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 an 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
features 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
goes into the drain from that drain it
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 the 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 interesting and so beautiful at that
ABC News chief meteorologist Ginger Z
such a fascinating story thank you
Ginger you’re welcome thank you and you
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straight to 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 stormmy
Daniels before the 2016 election sources
tell us the District Attorneys Office
plans to call former National inquir
publisher and longtime friend of Donald
Trump’s David pecker as its first
witness let’s bring in ABC News
executive editorial producer John santui
ABC News senior reporter Katherine
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 of
all 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 E Carol cases
that evidence 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 a 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
guardrails as to what the prosecutor can
and cannot go into but you can often
times go off those guardrails 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 could 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 there’ve
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’d be
showing up voluntarily it is different
this time and it will dominate the news
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-wall
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 uh 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
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 uh directed a 2015 deal to pay
30,000 to 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 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 prosecutors
get in into there how much of as you
mentioned uh the eyes and ears pecker
they alleged 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 to the catch and kill schemes
that we’ve been 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 a toothache 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 Hing the
toothache goes well everybody is intact
meaning that what jury you mentioned
juror number nine talked about media
attention had a conversation with the
judge for now judge Maran announced the
juror 9 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 questioning by
Donald Trump’s attorneys and prosecutors
having to basically say sometimes
positive sometimes negative things about
Donald Trump with 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 of a certain crime however may be
um but that’s got to be difficult but I
think at least at this point into 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 a child care it
could be someone 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 to
deliberate if it gets below that that’s
a mistrial then the bigger question
becomes well 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 him 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’ve
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 a as an American citizen both AK 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 what they they tried to
bring their best he did it with
impeachment the first time around if
you’ll recall I made the Mueller 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 this look
like what he has said that it has been
which is a politically motivated effort
to bring him down legally and I think an
acquittal would be an absolute best case
scenario for Donald Trump that would
then I think Propel him into an even
stronger position than he is in now
politically all right John santui
Katherine falers RI Klein Brian
buckmeier 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 a 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 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 Rihanna Nally thank you and
Reagan meie from our New York station
WABC is near Columbia’s campus is
joining me now for more rean 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 St the university just
to have a reset day as we know sundown
tonight begins the holiday Passover l 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 its funds and
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
met rean Mei from our New York station
WABC thank you coming up is sleeping on
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here are 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 will 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 indu
the latest class includes oie Osborne
Mary J Blas A Tribe Called Quest and
Dave Matthews Band four of the eight
unict tees were on the ballot for the
first time including Sher Foreigner cool
and the Gang and Peter Frampton the
induction 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 pea 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 Deon DWI
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 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 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 five $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
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 grants past 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 the 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 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
loveed 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
your 8T X 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 a 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 bow tell says so long 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 parties urging the J
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 with a really big
homeless problem and no place to put
us Devon dwire thank you coming up
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you miss a day it’s okay um but key is
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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
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 ruin 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
pecker 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 Stormy 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 tap 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 at the end of
the trial quote what we have is called
the criminal justice and or the jury
instruction 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 imaginary a doubt is an
actual doubt based on the evidence or
the lack of the evidence and that’s just
kind of paraphrase paraphrase
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 judge is the tri of
the law the the jural will take the
evidence and see if they have reached
that level now they don’t have to
technically prove a criminal conspiracy
he’s 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 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
going 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 speak
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 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 because 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 Donald Trump with
through this process it’s a pretty
common practice a lot of my clients
often say bring your mom because 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
case um Eric and Don Jr 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 does 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 todrey 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
it’s 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 I do think that this
might be a little bit of the exception
to the rule of trump dominance that uh
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 he’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 by those
partial gag orders but he he’s not
really fighting this entirely on his own
terms no matter what he says outside the
courtroom 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 TDY 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 would 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
claim and once during essentially one of
the opening remarks of the opening
statement When U Matthew Colangelo said
that Donald Trump engaged an 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
6 to8 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 it
could possibly be one step forward and
10 back I I’ve 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
Olivia Rubin John santui Rick Klein
Brian buckmire thank you and we will be
following this trial all day long we’ll
of course bring you updates right here
on ABC News live with those opening
statements underway in the criminal hush
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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 Stormy
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
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’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 Tik 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 own bite dance
a year to sell Tik Tock 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 Tik Tok 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 but 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 there
again there is this year-long window
they have on top of that there’s the
intense lobbing effort there is the
legal challenges actually finding a
buyer 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 wank 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 senior
Washington reporter Devon DWI has more
on the case Devon 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 Deon d thank you
let’s bring ABC’s 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 fines can
reach thousands of dollars but really I
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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
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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 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 and
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 ction 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 week’s 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
conversations 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 Blan Diane got
right up according to our team to the
podium and said president Trump is
innocent and one of the things he said
it 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 prosecutor’s Witnesses now the
assistant district attorney got up there
and 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 and
there 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 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 against opening statements are
underway in that historic criminal hush
money trial against former president
Trump we’ll have more on that right
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straight to our top story the defense is
now turning in O 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 stormmy
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’s 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 that 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 but they do say that he has a
criminal record that he lied to prot
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
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 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 uh or
another crime specifically or Aid and
Abed in that crime and improving a beond
the 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 is 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
statement 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 fton
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 you know Olivia ruin
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 because 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 base off the fact that we’ve
already seen this other courtrooms di in
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 and what they say in this case
given he is facing several other
criminal cases as well I mean I’m
playing catch up 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 because the
investigation was sloppy based on the
prosecutor or law for 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
guys so I’m going to 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 attorney when I
email you to be like hey do you want to
go to the Central Park with our are 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 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 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 learn 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
with 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 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 media
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
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 di 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 fers Brian buckmire
thank you all and we will be following
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defense is now up in the opening
statements 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 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 Dan before the 2016
election and his defense started their
opening statements with a very clear
statement that Donald Trump is innocent
let’s get the latest now from ABC News
executive editorial 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 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 Donald 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 service 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 but be watching that but of
course that’ll come after opening
statements John Cuchi thank you and we
will be following this trial all day
long as the defense is now giving their
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morning probably doesn’t look much
different than many of ours this water
was rain but he doesn’t live in a
typical house he lives in something
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different this is an Earth Ship a home
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 wash your
dryer you got to 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
gallons or you know three gallons of
water to take a shower that same 3
gallons of water Waters my banana trees
and my tomatoes that same 3 gallons of
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 and it hits that
mass and then the tire retains it and as
the temperature in here were to drop
that heat would be released we tested
out the tire wall living in an Earth
Ship for 3 Days the house itself is
5,400 ft in 2,000 of his dedicated to
Growing space and in this house there’s
two ponds in the greenhouse and we have
tilapia out there and then you could
catch a fish pick your citrus wrap it in
a banana leave 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 Earth Ship 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 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 plenty of
these kind of smaller green houses that
you can invest in and extend your season
be a little closer to
Earth there are more than 100 Earth
ships near T but Mike says we need more
I mean the solutions are the way forward
on this planet it’s going to have to be
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extreme there are at least one or a ship
in each state and so they work in other
places you know the base model uh that
starts at $400,000 for a two-bedroom two
B and it really is less sacrific 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
features 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
goes into the drain from that drain it
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 the 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
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 howal
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 interesting and so beautiful at that
ABC News chief meteorologist Ginger Z
such a fascinating story thank you
Ginger you’re welcome thank you and you
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our top story opening statements have
just ended in the historic criminal hush
money trial against former president
Trump Trump’s attorney Todd Blan 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
Rick 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 NDA 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 prosecution 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 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 listen he
should not even be here today because he
did nothing wrong it is the epitome of a
witch
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 tax 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 Witch 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 lawyers 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 to
our judicial system and it’s the 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 in 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 Fe 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 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 were 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 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 long
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 build 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 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 the 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’s alleged to have been involved
in in a payment to Karen McDougall a
payment to a 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 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
prosecutor discretion and to prosecute a
case in the manner in which they uh want
and 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
cols in because if they just came
forward with just Stormy Daniels story a
defensive attorney like myself would
come be 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 advise 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 Mueller 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
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
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 case I’m told that
Alan Garten Who’s chief counselor 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 habba
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
but this is It’s not like Michael Cohen
right where somebody has been so outward
facing attack youer 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 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 stering 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
is the defense going to poke the holes
here and we’ve already got a bit of a
road map from the opening statements
well 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 that 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 uh
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 but 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 in Donald Trump shook his
head I not but you know I think 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 something 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
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 uh
we haven’t seen it play out in as public
of fashion of it 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 uh and 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 that he’s 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 or 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’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
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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 now that
massive foreign aid package is headed to
the Senate and it also includes a bill
that could potentially ban tick talk 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 Tock 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
Tok with fears that American data
private data could end up in the hands
of the Chinese government that is
something that Tik Tok View vly 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 they’re 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
talkk 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 to get
there but 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 stores
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 is this year-long window
they have on top of that there’s the
intense lobbing effort there is the
legal challenges actually finding a
buyer and d and 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 Devon
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 this 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 R 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 Diane uh and again
those decisions coming by the end of
June Diane watching those closely senior
Washington reporter Devon DWI thank you
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top story prosecutors have called 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
senior investigative correspondent Aon
kerki now outside the courthouse along
with senior investigative corres
respondent excuse me ABC News Chief
Washington correspondent John Carl
senior reporter Katherine falers
political 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
know pecker said that that Trump used to
be a personal friend Trump once said
that he would make meeing 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 uh 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 in August of
2015 this is just shortly after uh
Donald Trump has announced his
presidential campaign and they talk
about ways that David pcker 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 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 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 because the
ulterior motive is to enrich Michael
Cohen take all of that aside I think
seeing David pecker on the stand Aaron
talked a little bit about the body
language and the demeanor our Olivia
Rubin repeatedly W 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 pcker 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 pecker 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 that point
because the state says that pecker here
was not active as a publisher they say
he was acting as a
co-conspirator 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 pecker 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 in this 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 Stormy
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 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
Daniels 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 a 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 is 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 U portends uh
the beginning of a of a spiral or
support bleeds away from him for any
combination of reasons we’re not going
to know the historical question Diana
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 predictable 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 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 TR 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 gang 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 pecker takes the stand again and
Erin we heard a little bit from the
president today but we also heard from
his attorney in another case alen habba
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 Cas 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 uh 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
fathering a l 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
timeing 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
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 they 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 ago 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 crime
that’s going on outside as we as we
speak right outside as we speak 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 of a
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 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 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 could 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
indicted
over think of it I got indicted I’m the
leading candidate I’m beating Biden and
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
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 C it 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
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 it
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 it 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 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 brag
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
bance at what bance did because that’s
bad
stuff and when are they going to look at
all the lies that
con did in the last trial he got caught
lying in the last trial so he got caught
lying pure lie and what are they going
to look at that now we’ll go to another
subject because just a few blocks away
you know they had a trial on the $175
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 do it and he
challenged the bonding company that
maybe the bonding company was no good
well they good and they also have $175
million of collateral my collateral but
the judge didn’t know anything about 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 and gorin 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 BR 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 uh for alleged hush
money payments the prosecution called
their first witness after opening
statements today and now we’re 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
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 notable 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 uh
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 a 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 sometimes 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 there’s 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’s 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
in 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 lanch 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 constituted the crime
here and why they put Trump at the
center of an alleged scheme John San G
how important is that to hear Ain 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 Erin kki
John Carl kathern falers Jeremy sand
thank you all
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unprecedented the first day of Court
wrapping up just moments ago in the
first ever criminal trial for a former
president the witness we heard from
today and how lawyers for Donald Trump
are mounting a defense punishing the
homeless the Supreme Court weighing
whether cities can ticket the homeless
the debate over constitutional rights
versus cruel and unusual treatment of
those who live on the streets plus
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are demanding following those
anti-israel
protests good afternoon everyone I’m
Kira Phillips our top story this hour
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 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 unflattering stories about
Trump letting us off this afternoon
afternoon our senior investigative
correspondent Aon kerki who has 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 cover up 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 a doorman was talking
about or a Playboy model’s allegation of
a of a sexual trist and then Stormy
Daniels and her 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 Stormy 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 know 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 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 but 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 and 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 impact the election
well that’s what raises us from that
misdemeanor of just making the
alterations and the changes with the
intent to Def fraud 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 exu 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 pcker as 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 sub
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 Donald Trump
Michael cooh 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 to Stormy Daniels 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 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 Anne FL
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 do we know
yeah car so 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 G
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
flarity thanks so much so after putting
his job on the line to push through a 95
billion foreign aid package how’s
speaker Mike Johnson appears to be
gaining new bipartisan 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 massive
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 4 and8
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 Cura 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 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
Capitol 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’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 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 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 stor
stories for us Deon tell us about this
woman that you met in Oregon who’s
struggling with homelessness and what
she thinks about this case what an
interesting things about Grant’s Pass
cure is that so many of the 600 or so
homeless people in that Community are
natives of Grant’s 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
dollars and 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 and in Grant’s 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 seemed 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 byai 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 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 afterno 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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live now to the security safety even
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 at at least
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 two groups kind of going at each
other uh but we know what we saw last
week Pro pales and demonstrators
pitching tents on the campus refusing to
leave the university uh unless the
university met their demand which
included divesting from companies with
ties to Israel the school called the
police as you mentioned at least 100
people were uh 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 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 what 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
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back to the campus to protest here all
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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 inquir
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 counsel at Kosen 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 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 Stormy
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 influen 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 prose
computer makes the case and we’ll see
what the defense uh tries to 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
pecker 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 Daniel’s Saga um we we
saw the checks signed by Trump I mean my
Michael Cohen went into detail about the
bank accounts and 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 has lied 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
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 pecker 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 gag order and alleged
violations that of the gag order by
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 we’ve known all the
characters and the details and the
allegations and all the cacious 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 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 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 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 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 dising 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 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 and 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 a 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 this 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 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 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 Caris so 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 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 feral 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 eyeses 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 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 massive
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 talk 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 you and
for the first time in decades the
Supreme Court is hearing a major case
involving homelessness the justices are
weighing whether cities canine 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 states 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 bringing our senior
Washington correspondent Deon DWI out in
front of the Supreme Court there Devon
let’s talk about how we got here and the
arguments that the justices are actually
hearing to today a historic case today
Kira the biggest case on homelessness in
more than 40 years it came from the city
of Grants Pass Oran 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 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 about it
can they pass laws that penalize people
who are sleeping on the streets a very
tricky case today kakira and the justi
has 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 PC is that so many of the
600 or so homeless people in that
Community are natives of Grant’s 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 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 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 Grant’s Pass but the city today uh C
telling the justices that laws like
these are so important for Public Safety
uh and cranking down on encampments the
justices seemed 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 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° 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 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 Pennsyvania 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 for 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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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
theyve got the Baton uh but they are not
involved just yet right now it’s just
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
uh arrested uh but that did not deter
other groups we know that Pro
Palestinian demonstrators not affiliated
with the university also uh joined some
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
happing 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 ROM Ros for us there
we’ll continue to stay in close touch
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wrapping up today in the first ever
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I’m Kira Phillips our top story this
hour it’s history happening right before
our eyes Court wrapping just a short
time ago in the 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 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 bury unflattering stories about
Trump leading us off our investigative
reporter Olivia Rubin Attorney Jerry
goldfeder senior council at Coen 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 Cara I
think zoning in on the moment when
prosecutors in their opening statements
brought up the Access Hollywood tape
they read portions 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
his 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 eight
weeks so Jerry what do you make of
former National inquire 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 because 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 is 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 FAL by
business records that the jury is going
to hear all 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 key 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 Stormy 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 pecker 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 car 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 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 sorted affair with
stormmy Daniels um you know payments to
Karen McDougall for a long 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 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 die 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 pcker 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 long-standing
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 he
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 U 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 müller’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 Todd 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
Stormy Daniels and not having had the
affair with M mcdouall 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 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 out of 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 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 he 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 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 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 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 uh to their superiors which were
ultimately ignored so there a massive
massive intelligence failure and
although he’s the first person to resign
the first 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 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
Kaa 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 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 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 street 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 pasura
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 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 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 issu their
decision we follow it Devon thank you
and coming up time’s up for Tik Tok how
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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
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 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 extremist group
to take advantage uh so they are keeping
a close eye on that but this university
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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 Forest there we’ll continue to
stay in close touch with you especially
as these protests are
ongoing so the massive foreign aid
package before the Senate includes a
bill that could potentially ban Tik Tok
in the US that bill giving Chinese owned
bite dance one year to divest Tik Tok or
face a nationwide ban Jana Norman has
more on what it could mean for Content
creators and 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 Tok
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 had 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
intelligents 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 a crime to transfer
Americans data to an adversarial foreign
Nation or foreign state interfer bill
has now passed the house 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
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top 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 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 that scheme to buy and bury in
flattering stories about Trump let’s
bring in our investigative reporter
Olivia Rubin just outside Court there
senior reporter Catherine falers and Tim
Jansen criminal defense attorney and
former Federal prosecutor Olivia big day
for both sides actually uh and the first
chance to present uh the cases or each
side to the jury what stood out to you
well I think a lot of Donald Trump’s
attorney Todd blanches 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 cred
ility 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 there
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 uh 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
effect we we’ll just have to see what
the polls ultim 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 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 opening 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 intend 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 pcker 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 pcker 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 meet of
that testimony when he resumes tomorrow
but I would say
David pecker is back on the stand at
11:00 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
post 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 Cohen’s
credibility in front of the jury today
and tomorrow 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 bur in Tel Aviv
along with our senior National policy
reporter and flarey 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 it’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 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
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 U 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
whether cities can actually fine
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 Devon 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 Le Fields uh but the the
ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Cura said
that that would be cruel and unusual
punishment because Grant’s 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 PA 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 pasura
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 Grant’s Pass and
we heard it today they 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
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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 University right now you can see
there are demonstrators here Pro
Palestinian demonstrators pro-israel
demonstrators the friction is worsting
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 RI 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 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 join 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 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 these demonstration
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 we’ll continue to stay in
close touch with you especially as these
protests are ongoing so the massive
foreign aid package before the Senate
includes a bill that could potentially
ban Tik Tok in the US that bill giving
Chinese owned bite dance one year to
divest Tik Tock or face a nationwide ban
Jana Norman has more on what it could
mean for Content creators and more than
170 million Tik Tok users
today I’m saying my final goodbye to Tik
Tock the clock could be ticking for
popular app Tik Tock breaking news right
now the House of Representatives has
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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
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over 170 million users on Tik Tok in the
US many like content creator Jennifer
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the platform suddenly my voice mattered
and I had a purpose and I started Living
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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 Tock
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 contribute $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 house 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 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
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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 impeached they’ve
resigned they’ve been voted 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 stormmy
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 Inquirer
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 kki
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 at stake here 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 pecker 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 pecker 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 of trump he
denies all of that but David pecker was
part of what prosecutors called 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 Aon 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
salacious material in store Daniels
remember she was done 10 years ago only
when Trump started to come up in the
polls and get the nomination that 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 Aon 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 Stormy 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 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 taob 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 Ty 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 unfold 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 months long
affair with a Playboy model and you know
hush money payments and ndas etc etc
unfortunately none of that’s illegal and
that’s the difficulty that the uh
prosecution has in this case is tying uh
these um uh recordkeeping pain 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 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 uh 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 not uh um that the
president poses an imminent threat uh uh
a 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 n
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
rules 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 um 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 taken a side is going to be
interested in uh uh these facts and you
know most people don’t have an
encyclopedic recollection of the Stormy
Daniels Affair the mogle 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 uh believes that
the presidency is reserved for uh only
people of impeccable character but I’m
not sure it
will Point well made Tai cob great to
see you thank you great to be with you
car thank you so much you bet now of the
Middle East the crisis there and the man
who is the symbol of the failure to
prevent V 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
as we’ve seen in the last uh few days uh
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 Caris that 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 he said we’re not going to
give anybody a cut here because they’re
simply an ally 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 bring in 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 Kira the
biggest case on homelessness here at the
Supreme Court in 40 years and it comes
from the city of Grants 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 Parks 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 a federal
appeals court agreed with them said it
was cruel and unusual punishment and the
city was here today at the Supreme Court
appealing Cura 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 Grant Pass
fighting to get that law back on the
books Kira 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
pits residents of Community who want
their leafy line streets and kids to
feel safe in public parks with advocates
for the unhoused and soaring housing
prices is 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 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 Grant Pass
has done by making it illegal for
someone to exist while being
homeless now while the conservative
justices Cura 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 c as you know are
homeless so this case will have very big
impact yep state by state Devon thank
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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’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 those charges
related to a payment to a porn star
hoping to hide an alleged fair with
stormmy Daniels before the 2016 election
Pro UT and defense attorneys now
starting to lay out their cases the
state already calling the first witness
to the stand former National Inquirer
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
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Olivia Rubin outside Court there
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So Olivia highlights from
today well I think what we saw today was
not 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 listen 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 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’s 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 but they are expected to
resume with him tomorrow morning where
he’s going to get to the heart of
Prosecutor’s case which is this overall
catch and kill scheme that David pucker
allegedly worked on with Donald Trump
and Michael Cohen to bury negative
stories one of which of course was
Stormy 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 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 so John poll 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 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 Cor cerated so they’re
essentially saying they’re trying to
persuade the jury that this is this is
all normal business as 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 corruption as usual um it’s
going 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 seems that prosecutors
find David pecker to be really Central
to their story when uh the prosecutor
Michael Colangelo got up to do the open
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
pcker is going to sort of start to
thread that needle for them before they
get into the nitty-gritty of the
payments to Michael Cohen and then
Stormy 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 or for them and it
was a really interesting demeanor from
pecker inside of the courtroom who
seemed at times uh I would say almost
jovial 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 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
because to your point it’s Infamous it
was everywhere I mean I was talking with
a colleague of 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 be other past transgressions
other legal issues that prosecutors
could bring up including eege Carrol 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 Stormy Daniels Michael Cohen
and now Trump has attacked uh Maron for
not allowing him to attend uh the
supreme court hearing uh 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
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 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
made 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 too 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’s safety is really
on the line these jurors the witnesses
Court Personnel Court staff this is not
just rhetoric in first seme 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 fail 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
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 and
Tel Aviv along with our senior National
policy reporter and flarity so Tom let’s
talk about the resignation here of the
ma General and what it tells you about
Israel’s intelligence
failure well given the scale of the
intelligence failings in the runup too
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 Caris that 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 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 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 unusual ual punishment
and it comes as homeless numbers are
skyrocketing Nationwide bring in 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 Grants 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 Parks 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 a
federal appeals court agreed with them
said it was cruel and unusual punishment
and the city was here today at the
Supreme Court appealing Cura 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 Kira 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
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 there 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
happen that’s a big huge struggle for a
city government criminalizing the the
victims of 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 Cura 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 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 c 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
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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
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signs he was crying for help and being
ignored he had pictures of a Target on
his bedroom wall shell casings on his
nightstand the very toxic turbulence
relationship those people are yikes the
life they lived was just crazy the sex
sting 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 very
concerning to me that’s the moment that
no juror is going to think well haven’t
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zero zero School scers aren’t created
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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 dilva of
Wilmington according to investigators
dilva was not a registered student at
the University but was visiting the
campus with another student our Ike
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 K
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 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 Ward 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 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 Kira all right well follow it I
thank you some other top headlines we’re
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will soon allow Arizona doctors to
practice reproductive care in the Golden
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Arizona’s 160-year abortion law going
back into effect Governor Gavin Newsome
says he’s pursuing emergency legislation
hoping to provide access for those
fleeing Arizona and seeking reproductive
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billion high speed rail today that’ll
take commuters from Southern California
to Vegas that trip usually takes about 3
hours by car but will only take 2 hours
each way by rail construction is
expected to finish in 2028 just in time
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tree hugger matter of fact he’s so
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 Prize
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worked throughout South America planting
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and thousands of Acres of high andian
forests Region’s critical for
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Earth shot recipient Florent Kaiser
joins me now floron so good to see you
talk about what inspired you to start
Axion Anda and how did you know
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much actually our co-founder Constantino
Oka was 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 Tino in in 2018
he shared his dream he wanted go what he
had built in Cusco and 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 axin 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 think looking
ahead at this at the centur that is
coming at us a 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
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live court wrapping just a time ago in
the first ever criminal trial against a
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
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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 Aon 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 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 Hamas
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Forefront again not just on Earth day
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matter and nitrogen oxide then of course
can worsen pre-existing or any chronic
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globally nine out of 10 people are
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basis so this isn’t just someone else’s
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a lot of this that people cannot uh
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people can’t avoid being outdoors and
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poor air quality walking around biking
using car pooling we can all do that to
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also not wearing green so I feel but I
wore some I wore blue I guess but yeah
okay sure and we 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 it the Senate Now set to
vote on it tomorrow tomorrow however
this measure includes a closely watched
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there the trial is getting underway what
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timeline and what Witnesses should we
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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 Cliffords
better known as the porn actress Stormy
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
$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
loged constituted the crime of
falsifying business records because it
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 serve prison time to 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 is 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 prosecutors alleging in this
case and so I think we’re still not
quite sure whether or not he’s going to
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 convince
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 Ryan buckmeier and
eron kerki hitting every angle for us as
former president Trump’s hush money
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who’s responsible for a bad date is our
favorite Monday Morning Quarterback Mike
Muse okay you got everybody you got to
tell us about this what are women saying
yo Eva and well I went down a rabbit
hole this weekend I found this article
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 and 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 will
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
wayen people yeah I haven’t like had to
do that in a while but I think 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 PLS 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
convers there’s nothing worse than
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
this is why you pay cash you bring cash
you can pay for 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 phones not used to having 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 life we can see Kesha’s face
right now I like really want you to see
Kesha’s face there’s an eyebrow r that
you just referred to men as a commodity
yeah no that not me K social media uh
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 live in 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 I appreciate that you’ve uh
introduced that the is making that face
at you like watch yourself you got to
walk out of here Kesha in America this
is not me I’m just reporting the weekend
in terms of when I’ve been going down a
rabbit hole off 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 Mashable
article that I read down the weekend I
mean literally I was down this Rabbit
Hole article in the Mashable is
suggesting that Society now has become
more selfish um and then that is part of
it it’s a me Society 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 this space I think Eva
I be 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 in the
ownership of owning their own agency
able to pay for their own meals pay for
their own you know Lifestyles this
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 yeah 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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bed dirt it’s good for us yeah micro
also known as
microbial diversity so inspired by a
recent article New York Times you 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 of 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 Wheel spinning well yeah for
sure well 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
microbiome um 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 very
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health and wellness question on viewers
mind and on mine which is what should I
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
for that I’ll put it on my Instagram
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 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 gram A
Day Makes Sense your prescription for
wellness all right has to do with hair
Health you know I’m a big hair person um
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boost our hair in terms of oil for hair
Health coconut oil is in my bathroom uh
I think in DeMarcos as well it it boosts
the um strand health and appearance
almond oil also good for softening and
moisturizing you can put a little of
that on the ends and then castor oil
believe it or not is good for the scalp
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project constructing a maze to train
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
abilities sh 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 these alone pollinate 80% of
all flowering plants including more than
130 types of fruits and vegetables but B
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 specializes
in genetics says population declines can
be due to several factors though mainly
habitat loss if bees poof
disappear then there’s a puge 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 verites in Spring 2022 more
than 40% of all honeybee colonies were
Afflicted with the parasite that’s where
another young beekeeper comes in
18-year-old ktie colberts of Tom’s River
New Jersey you said they’re pretty
gentle yes after weeks of field studies
for now published work found that thy
based essential oils extracted from time
leaves through a Mis diffuser could stun
verites this continuous release system
had an eacy 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 having
hive 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 strolling 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 mem 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
B population does decline right great
question so the US Department of
Agriculture actually says that billions
of dollars 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 her
and happy birthday to
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Earth this is plastic entrepreneurs
Sarah pyu broke new ground in
sustainability creating the refillable
eco-friendly cleaning brand Bland 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 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 son’s baby son’s
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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 product s with
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more time really thinking about how do
we Empower educate inspire people to
make more sustainable choices across
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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
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 protu 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 cuz 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
reasonable coffee mug if you drink drink
coffee um Americans use over 50 billion
plastic single Ed 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 it 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 pot 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 when
it’s a tiny piece of plastic it goes
down our drains and ultimately into our
environment and on our plates yeah and
on our plates you can’t have that on the
dishwashing pods and finally storage
papered Goods plastic wraps sandwich
bags all that what do what do we need to
change about the storage 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 you just
you wash them and yeah you just wash
them you can reuse them and there’s also
great like bees wrap wax as well that
you that’s moldable that you can use the
instead of the Saran Wrap 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 mother of the bride
we are going to find that out on GMA 3
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welcome Wilson
Cruz you guys okay so 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 Carri Grant I
like to say and I wanted to you know
pick up some tips on that and Brook
Shields has been an icon of mine 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
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 tha sawadika yes right uhhuh
is that pretty good 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 Thai 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 dubb it is one of
the best teen 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 Galla April 29th
if anybody wants to come uh you can go
to glen. 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 it’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
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right now on ABC News live witness
testimony set 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 stes 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 Il
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 mood 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 Kana 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
anger 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
pcker 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 El 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 this Arrangement was between
Alle three people Donald Trump David
pecker 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 pecker
Trump and Coen 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
whom 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 the defense attorneys to quot Aon
kerki tried their best to essentially
eviscerate The credibility of 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 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 $ thousand dollars
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 defines
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 sh Ed 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
charged them with trespassing that
happened earlier today uh turning our
attention now to Capitol 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 it’s 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 line 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 kada
there’s a lot of bipartisan report 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 this 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 talk 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 staunched
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
margorie 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 vake 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 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 Kana 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 set 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
responding
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 Israeli officials including the
Prime Minister net Yahoo 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 Su 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 Deon 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 conservative
majority was clearly simp empathetic to
cities like Grants Pass Oregon the one
that brought 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 eighth amendment
that cruel unusual punishment ban
doesn’t apply to civil fines Amy Cony
Barrett worried that if they wouldn’t uh
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 Kan 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 an opinion here uh in the next few
weeks
Canon 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
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 it’s not acceptable
for anyone to call the streets or a 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
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 say in
their final opinion in June Kaa
well and so Devon 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 boy SE
Idaho right 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
Cana advocate are hoping that the
Supreme Court won’t green light more
punishment for people already in a tough
spot Kaa all right Deon D 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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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 payment
ments 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 prosecutor say that those
payments were actually part of an effort
to funnel hush money to porn star
stormmy 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 stories about Donald Trump
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 porn star 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 uh jumped to their chance and
opening statements to as Aaron kki wrote
to essentially eviscerate Michael
Cohen’s credibility uh but also so John
I’m curious uh to get your thoughts on
after the sand ofal hearing uh Jud 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 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 to
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
prosecutors 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 sure looked 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
Cohen 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 courtrooms so come out and
emphasize uh his big 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
is 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
bring our big story now to our panel so
joining us today is our ABC News
political contributor and former
Democratic us from North Dakota Heidi
height Camp our ABC News contributor and
former Virginia Republican Congressman
Barbara comto our ABC News contributor
and serious ex XM radio host Mike Muse
and our legal news contributor and trial
attorney Brian 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 V IL
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 Witness 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 for the appeal is in order to
make these falsification of business
records of 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 bu
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 FAL by anything I paid a legal
bill that was handed to me along with h
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 coffers 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 pcker the national enquir
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 how you know either the
National Inquirer would pay off a
Playboy model or these or stormmy
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 him and 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
Inquirer imagine Ronald Reagan doing
that and uh yeah mik Mike I want to get
your take too on there was a lot of
characterization that happened today in
these opening statements
right I keep saying it Aaron kki said
that they tried to essentially
eviscerate the character of Michael
Cohen but also the defense trying to
paint Donald Trump as Donald Trump the
man the husband the father but they also
Mike continue 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
prosecutions star witness which is
Michael Cohen which is kind of what
Barbara is alluding to and what 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 Kane 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 spended 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 them and that’s highly unusual to
not have any 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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billion foreign aid package passed by
the house this weekend now heads to the
Senate where it’s expected to see a vote
this week it would provide Aid to
Ukraine Israel and Taiwan the
legislation also includes a ban against
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
months of delay with Democrats though
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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 could 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 Tik 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
teac 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 and
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 Tock 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 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 use 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 made it more
enticing perhaps to 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 a
reports uh there are 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 Tik Tock the Kumbaya moment I’m
happy for it but Kaa 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
legislation on behalf of not just the
American people but for our allies and
so it’s hard for me to give an award
Ward or a trophy uh uh to a speaker for
doing the job of the speaker but we are
in unique unprecedented times so here we
are today in a Kum Bay moment here we
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
fascinating conversation I appreciate
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Barbara and Mike thank you all I mean
Elie Peter Frampton he’s been making
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know this is the reason why I hate these
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slip between the seats uh Barbara what
about share Shar is
in I know but but the politics of this
seems uh even more complicated than what
Congress is sometimes so I’m gonna defer
to these guys who know more than I do oh
no Barbara’s like Kumbaya on in Congress
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she’s my new phone friend um but I’m
really happy for Susan depas to receive
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