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All the wrong reasons basing Perspective Jurors who could make him convicted felon and dozens dismissed almost immediately. In fact, not a single juror was picked today. Will take you inside the Hush Money Trial or source tonight. Maggie haberman had a birdseye view of trump, the lawyers, the jurors and the judge. Im kaitlan collins. And this is the source imagine showing up for jury duty and finding out that you might have a Front Row Seat for the next several months to be the first criminal trial of a former president. And that you could be one of the people who will decide if donald trump should be a convicted felon . And potentially shape his political fate. And while youre being questioned, there is the guy sitting right there who stock and trade has often been intimidation throughout his career. Well, that was what greeted 96 menn he tonights on a beautiful spring day. Youre in new york today. Its a bit chilly or though in the courtroom at one point, every available seat in that Courtroom Gallery and the jury box was filled. But at about the time it takes to say, hush money, at least 50 Perspective Jurors were told that they could leave. They had raised their hand and said they could not be fair and impartial in this trial. Judging from todays proceedings, it could take a while to find the 12th who believed that they can. And if you alternate as her trump, are cnn team and sayyed, the courtroom tells us that he was actually biting his lip during todays proceedings, not just literally and figuratively as well, only uttering three words out loud inside that courtroom. Outside court. However, it was a very different story theres graduated from high school, looks like the judge will not worked very hard next thursday before the United States reported hearing on immunity this is something weve been waiting for a long time. And the judge, of course, is not going to allow us to think she is superior. I guess that leads to three. And were got a real problem this, judge i should know the judge that trump is referring to their judge, juan merchan has not actually ruled yet on his request to be excused from the court for his sons graduation, which is next month he did tell trump though, that he will be required to be in Court Next Week on thursday when those Immunity Arguments are going to be happy happening at the Supreme Court while acknowledging that this Supreme Court is a big deal and it certainly is significant that those arguments will be taking place next week. The judge reminded trumps team that the former president is a criminal defendant here in new york and his presence in that courtroom, as it was today, is required. My source tonight was inside that courtroom and is reported on trump for decades and wrote the Biography Of Pimp confidence man, senior Political Correspondent for the New York Times and cnn political analyst Maggie Haberman is here. Im maggie. I mean just what a fascinating place to be reporting from today. What was it like inside the courtroom . Look we were all i think very conscious that we are recovering history. This was the first trial, first criminal trial of a former us president. This was the beginning of Jury Selection. I didnt get very far in. There were a bunch of motions in the morning but it was really striking Watching Trump in this cavernous courtroom, a very, very dingy courtroom. I might add not at all, like the federal courthouses that he has become accustomed to. And some of his indictments and some of his civil cases, the courtroom and 100 Centre Street is really dirty and its really evocative of the new york that he grew up in. Frankly, and its pretty familiar with, but he is sitting there surrounded when did by initially 96 Perspective Jurors. And it has a minimizing effect on a guy who projects largeness and strength as often as he can. And so that was striking. He was actually on fairly Good Behavior compared to what we have seen in other cases and how he acted certainly in his civil cases, he has been warned by his lawyers that he could get himself in a lot of trouble, not just with the judge, but with jurors. I dont think jurors and the carroll k is liked it when he stormed out during closing arguments, we will see if hes sticks to that, but it was a remarkable i mean, youve covered him for so long and to see him in that setting, you know, youve covered him what hes in the oval office. Youve covered him on the Campaign Trail to see you the courthouse. What was he doing when those 96 potential jurors came in the room . Was he looking around at them as a great question. I mean, he was he was craning his neck to see them in some cases, he seemed to be trying to make eye contact, which is something that he did in the carroll case. He kept of Scanning Jurors faces and try to look at them. Youre trying to connect. Yeah. And in this case when they were first the question was, do you think you cant be fair in this case . Im paraphrasing and it wasnt a giant show of hands. It was row by row, but it was more than 50 people who ultimately ended up leaving of this pool of 96 and trump had the Juror Questionnaire in front of him as the others were then being questioned, he did look around the room as people were raising their hands and listing their jury number. They dont give their names. And then saying that they were leaving he seemed weary of it by the end of it, frankly, i mean, he seemed bored and fidgety as we have seen them, any number of times you often cant sit still but i think this is going to be one of the most interesting Jury Selection processes weve seen in a long time. Was he reading along the questionnaire . It was because the way it would work is the jurors who were asked questions are asked to answer the questionnaire, were seated in the jury box and then they would just go down with the answers without saying what the question was in the interest of time because this is such an expansive Juror Questionnaire. So unless you you had it in front of you, you didnt really know what theyre responding to until many of them said with their news reading habits, were and he was reading along to see what they were talking about theres a pool in there, so theres someone sending basically dispatches to us as were sitting outside. And thats what thats what i was part of was the pool. And you were you were actually in the room for that one point, the pool said that he was glare hurrying you for several seconds. You had reported shortly before that during a break that he appeared to be falling asleep at one point. Is that proceedings were getting tedious. Did you notice yes. I noticed that he made a pretty specific stare at me and walked out of the room, been on the Receiving End of upset glare and you have i have to i reported earlier that he had appeared to fall asleep. Now we had seen him and i want to be clear that lots of ive seen lots of people fall asleep in courtrooms. Ive seen jurors fall asleep. Ive seen judges fall asleep. If if anyone falls asleep was a criminal defendant in a case, were going to report on it. But he doesnt like when such things are reported and im im guessing. I dont know that thats what this was about i think that having to sit there and be captive while we all report on him is going to be deeply uncomfortable for him because he is somebody who likes to control things you always thinking about that today. Hes always also in control of his own time before the white house. But certainly when youre the president of the United States, you control basically what you want to go, what you wanna do i wonder what you think its going to be like for him to be under such time constraints of having to be in the courtroom during those Supreme Court Immunity Arguments next week during other opportunities and things that he wants to be doing. Its going to be frustrating for him, i think on two fronts, three fronts, number one, as you said, hes not going to be able to go campaign the way he wants to campaign. Hes not going to be able. Now, he has found some political benefit in these court cases, but we might be seeing the max out effect of what that looks like depending on what happens in the trial. If he gets a hung jury in this trial, then i can look very different in terms of how it plays politically, but for arguments sake, his folks are preparing for a possible conviction. Number two he as i said before, it gets bored easily, he fidgets a lot. He has to sit there. He cant be on his phone. He cant look at truth social. He cant do the normal things that he does. So that i think is going to be taxing for him. And then theres this thing where his words are essentially weapons against him. So the thing i was really struck by in the morning was he had the sit there and theyre all these motions in the morning that were dealt with before we got to the beginning of Jury Selection. And in several of them, prosecutors were reading his old tweets from when he was president and there were a series of tweets about Michael Cohen from April Of 2018 and it was Michael Cohen will never flip and then they used it to compare tweets later after Michael Cohen was cooperating with prosecutors and he said something, the tweet was essentially if youre looking for a skilled lawyer, dont hire them at higher Michael Cohen, those are the only time i saw trump really laugh, by the way, it was at his own words, but he also had to sit there as they read the transcript of the Access Hollywood tape, not all of it, but much of it thats what a lot of this trial is going to be. You know what i noticed speaking of that is wanting to trumps not there this case for all we talk, we will talk about the legal theories with trumps attorney, whos coming on in a moment, but personally for him, it also has an impact because its certainly did when the story was coming out. And we were learning all the details of this. Theres no question and hes been saying to people privately referencing his wife in connection with this trial about it this is im paraphrasing, but that its not pleasant she was very unhappy when they were in the white house. She made hey, that very clear through a number of people i dont expect that you will see her at this trial. I havent seen her at any of these cases, but i do think that the personal effect of this that youre talking about is really the biggest one for him. Its a Question Mark as to whether even if hes convicted, he would get jail time as a firsttime nonviolent offender but he hates this case. Im just wants it to go away. Now, you ever minster ground. We also have a pair of excellent legal sources who are joining us at the table tonight. Were not as tibial as a Jury Consultant who has been through this process with some highprofile defendants from gangsters to politicians, even harvey weinstein. We also have Karen Friedman agnifilo, who is a cnn legal analyst and former Chief Assistant Da under then Manhattan District Attorney cy vance. I should note, karen is of council for a firm that represents Michael Cohen, but she has no contact with him, does not work on his case. And there are no restrictions on what she can say about this case, no gag order in effect. I should say well talk about what that looks like. But on the Jury Selection and maggie talking about how all those jurors raising their hands saying, i cant be impartial or fairness. What we do know about who is still in the mix is their jobs, a salesman, anan attorney, a bookseller, a prosecutor from the bronx a woman who works in social media, a nurse, what does that say to you about where we are at and how theyre going to be going through this process. I think as maggie pointed out, a criminal trial is the great equalizer, right . I spent my entire career in that very building. Ive tried many cases. There have appeared toward judge martian. And this Jury Selection is just as ordinary as any other Jury Selection. It takes a lot of time. People saw select to get off the jury for all host of reasons i used to do sex crimes cases. Youd get more than 50 of the people saying for one reason or another they couldnt sit on his sex crimes case its just thats why the clerk, Milton Tingling has been the clerk forever. New to bring in 500 people to get 18 jurors because they just its to be expected that there are people who cant sit for two months, they cant they have Childcare Issues or job issues. So theres lots of reasons why somebody wont serve irvin. So now, if you call down to a few, weve now got a box of people who will be questioned to starting tomorrow. And it things start out slowly, like they did today, where you have to do a lot of housekeeping ministerial type things, like although they did a lot of Motion Practice ahead of time to try to not. Have too much of a delay. There were some things they had to take care of today. And again, that always happens in the beginning of a trial, but youll see things start to pick up. Well, one question that there have, they do have to try to suss out. Where these juror stand is. Where did they get their news . What what are they . Its what maggie was just talking about, what they were asked. And what we were hearing from some of them. One New York Times daily mail, fox news, another, the New York Times cnn, we saw some saying, you know, instagram, the Wall Street Journal i mean, how has an attorney the defense team, and the prosecution looking at those answers well, youre trying to figure out their political ideology, right . Thats the Name Of The Game this Jury Selection. So conventional wisdom is, if youre a msnbc, youre leaning more liberal. If youre a fan of Foster Leaning more conservative. So thats the purpose of those questions. But look, the reality is people watch a lot of different news sources and they might not watch just one new source. So it tells you something, but it doesnt tell you everything what we saw trumps saying there at the end about the schedule here of what this is going to look like. He was complaining that he may not be able to attend to sons graduation next month, the judge said, well, to see what the schedule looks like, one thing was clear todays the judge does want to keep this on track. I think the judge will allow things like that. Thats very routine and very normal. I think the judge i got the impression that judge just didnt want to rule on that today. Lets just see how that goes and but but hes letting people not sit for passover. Hes already making accommodations and those are the normal type of accommodations that this particular judge, hes a very fair down the middle kind of judge. Hes not known in the courtroom or the courthouse of being either pro prosecution or pro defense. Hes very much a judge who just who tries to be fair and just call balls and strikes. What did you make of the arguments over what the schedule is going to look like, how this is going. I mean, its going to take a while for us to just get the jury in and of itself. Yeah. Sure. We saw its going very slowly right now. I mean, they didnt even get one juror, but in terms of Making Requests for the defendant not to be there for certain days. Thats not going to happen. They might adjourn the trial for a day to accommodate various schedules, but a criminal defendant has to be there and hes not im going to just let donald trump not show up one day now. Itll be interesting to see if that actually happens. Maybe hes going to be on the Campaign Trail and he doesnt make it back in time itll be interesting to see what happens then well, theyll inches another piece of that too, caitlyn, excuse me one second, but i think there has been some frustration with the judge and you saw it today . Where the Defense Strategy has been to leverage one case against the other. And so granted what todd blanche was saying, the trump wanted to attend was a Supreme Court argument. It was not that was related to another one of the cases. And so the argument in florida has been hes so busy with the manhattan case that the florida case cant go ahead and the argument here was he should be allowed to have this day, even though were so busy and you could see Martians Frustration with that. So i do think that he is likely or its much more reasonable to assume that he will allow trump to go to his sons graduation. But the thing next week is just a different caliber. Okay. But maggie makes a really good point here, which is that they have been arguing with the classified documents case needs we pushed back because were spending so much time and effort with this case. But today theyre arguing. Okay. Well, we cant show up to this on thursday because he wants to attend the Immunity Argument Arguments next thursday. Right. The judge also showed frustration today that they havent provided a witness list that trumps team hasnt provided a witness list yet. And the judge is unusual, which is very unusual. The required to do it and one of the issues, one of the reasons the lawyer said was because theyre so busy the Southern District just gave a big Discovery Amount of discovery over at the last and theyre busy going through that and they need more time and there just theyve got a lot going on and the judge, you could tell is starting to get frustrated with this and in some of his orders, hes s starting to show that delay is the goal and hes not putting up with that. What did you make of what theyre going to be talking about tomorrow, which is trump himself testifying. They were supposed to talk about it today. They didnt actually get to it, but its basically are we going to hear from him and if not, you cant explain that later, ron, to the jury why hes not testifying is that the argument well, i guess the argument is that first of all, he has an absolute right to decide whether or not hes going to testify. But if he decides not to testify, you can make excuses to the jury about why that is he either does or he doesnt. If he doesnt, thats fine. The jerk cant draw an inference against him, but you can tell them why it is that he wouldnt testify. Theres a huge amount of speculation out. There are triple never testified. Ill never testified you and i both know that he thinks hes his own best spokesmen and Comms Director and lawyer, frankly. And so i think that even though he has a law degree, i think that if if its up to him, he will testify. I do think that they will make a decision when they see what the judge will allow prosecutors to ask are not as remember his testimony in the carroll trial. Obviously, a very different situation. It was a civil trial and it was settled already. This is not a settled case. This would that was about damages, but the verdict was there already. It was three minutes and it was very narrow and hes still went over what he was supposed to do. So im not sure that he will actually go ahead and do it. Yeah, thats a great point of what this could look like in the scope of what they could crossexamine him on. Maggie haberman, were not as to build karen great to have you all here. Talking. About all the developments today up next, were going to speak with one member of trumps legal team to talk about his defense and what they saw that stood out today right now, were also waiting for israels response after that brazen attack iran over the weekend, the question is when and how Anderson Cooper is on the ground f for us live n tel aviv. Hell join us shortly this source weve kaitlan collins. Hes brought to you by up devo plus your boy find out more at up devo. Com if advanced lung cancer, has you searching for possibilities, discover a different first treatment, immunotherapies work with your Immune System to attack cancer, but up devo plus your voice is the first combination of two immunotherapies for adults newly diagnosed with nonsmall Cell Lung Cancer that has spread tests positive for pdl1 one and does not have an abnormal egfr or alk gene up devo plus your voice is not chemotherapy it works differently. It helps your Immune System fight cancer in two different ways. 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Im told directly is granting im doing a c4 were only care of anything you need taken care of im going to be surprises and surprises that jinx part two streaming exclusively on macs outside of that courthouse today. On the other side of the Police Barricades were trumps supporters who had gathered outside of the courtroom. The flag. So this face on them flying in the face of his claims on the manhattan as an island populated exclusively by Biden Supporters obviously his folks were there as well. The crowds smaller than what we have seen it, some of his past Court Appearances as we note as the trump team has been claiming that the Media Attention has left new yorkers with no way to avoid pretrial publicity the next source tonight, here on the sources will scharf. He is part of the legal team who is working on the former president s immunity case. It is also a republican running in the primary to be missouris attorney general. So you are very busy. Thanks for joining us. We were just talking about the Jury Selection, 32 said that they could not be they felt like they could not be impartial what are 32 jurors are still in the mix after this, i wonder what you just made up day one and how it went with your expectations. I think played out with respect to Jury Selection almost exactly as we expected when youve had walltowall Media Coverage in frankly, the Media Capital of the world on a case like this, for as long as youve had it, its going to be very tough to find people who can come into the courtroom without preconceived biases about the evidence, about the law who will accept the judges instructions and who will view the facts dispassionately. I think we saw that with the number of jurors who basically pull themselves out of consideration at the start. And i think its going to be very difficult to seek an unbiased jury here for all of those reasons. And were gonna see that play out over the next couple of weeks. But there were over 30 thats still believed that they could be fair and impartial. I mean, youll you will get the chance to question them Going Forward so there is a group that says, yeah, i can i can do this, i can put aside whatever my beliefs are and the point of the Voir Dire Process is to really assess whether jurors are going to be able to do their dirty duty as jurors, whether theyre going be able to set aside preconceived notions and with a defendant like President Trump, whos probably one of the most famous people in the world, if not the most famous person in the world, its very difficult to find jurors who come into the income into the courtroom without preconceived notions about what the evidence may or may not be. You may have some who are pro trump and dont agree with the evidence. So what are you going to be looking for . What will these jurors be being asked . By the Trump Defense team will look, we want jurors who will dispassionately view the evidence and rule according to what is presented in the courtroom and not what they may have heard on a tv show or what they may have read online were looking for fair and unbiased jurors because we believe the facts and the law are on our side here. I would say with respect to the jury pool itself, mean weve consistently moved for A Change Of Venue of this case because new york wanted to Media Capital of the world. Its also a place where President Trump does not have Many Political supporters politically, this is a very, very bad jurisdiction for him and for this trial to be occurring at the height of the president ial election season, its almost impossible for it to occur without some sort of bleeding over of political animus. And thats really our biggest sounds like youre making an argument to kind of set yourself up for an appeal. Is that the case . I think were going to win at trial, obviously, if we have appealable issues, we have every right to appeal those issues. Do you think youre going to win this case ultimately, i think if the jury decides based on the facts and the law law theres no way that President Trump can be convicted. Do you does a legal team agree that former President Trump should take the stand i think thats going to be a question for President Trump in the trial team based on how the trial goes, a defendant obviously has every right to take the stand in his own defense. He also has every right, not too. And the prosecution is now not allowed to try to get the jury to for many inference based on a decision one way or the other, what do you personally think . Do you think you should get up . There was one of his attorneys my personal view really isnt in question here. Legal advice, i would say that i think President Trump would be a very compelling witness in this case. I think his testimony would would be able to explain as other witnesses testimony would that he did nothing wrong here. You were saying earlier to my colleague jake tapper that you believe that the judge cant be a fair judge here. But when we werent listening to those backandforth maneuvers this morning over what evidence can be allowed to the extent of it, i mean, he ruled in your favor at some points so which is do not believe that hes fair when he makes decisions like that. Weve moved to recuse, judge. Mmr shot off of this case. We believe that he has irretrievable biases that under new york law require recusal. Its also important to note that in the seminal case on judicial recusal, the Supreme Courts cap rate and v. Massie. They held that even the appearance of Impropriety Given sufficiently extreme fact but i can justify refusal. He disagreed with that and we disagree with him and thats an issue that well have to see play out. Is this case proceeds. But the point is, i think yall were Making Arguments today. The trump team, the prosecutors are Making Arguments at some points here, go to the prosecutors and at some point he agreed with Trump Defense team on what can be allowed in there. Well, but the fact that he sided with us on a given evidentiary ruling are not doesnt address the underlying bias which we believe is severe and we, which we believe requires recusal. Here, you were saying that if the jury pays attention to the facts of this case, that you believe ultimately you will win, which facts . Are those that you believe will ultimately win you this case, look the question is what trump knew about those payments and how they were labeled . Well, this is a case thats consistently been labeled the trump Hush Money Trial, and thats a total misnomer at a total mischaracterized station of what this case is about. This case is about Business Records, charges the Question Gender is whether Business Records relating to payments made to Michael Cohen were missed, recorded, whether Recording Payments to one of President Trumps lawyers as legal Retainer Payments was improper. Theres also a serious factual question about the level of involvement President Trump himself had with the recording of those Business Records. And then on top of that, for this to be a felony as its been charged they would need to show that the reason those Business Records were incorrectly recorded was to cover up another crime. Now, that aspect of this case, this Election Fraud aspect of it, i think that the idea that these payments could have plausibly been Election Expenses just doesnt mesh with federal law on whats allowable in that context. And thats why the Biden Department of justice, the fec and cy vance himself, the previous new york de of all declined to take action on either this case are very similar legal theories. Stop there unless you because you just mentioned a legal retainer fee here how do you dispute that when Rudy Giuliani is on television from that time period saying Michael Cohen wasnt doing any legal work for donald trump at this time, and Rudy Giuliani said trump was aware generally of the arrangement that he had with Michael Cohen to make payments like this to cover up these stories . Well, i think your Question Points to exactly the problem we have with jury bias here, that theres been so much Press Coverage and so many people have said so many Different Things about the underlying facts. He was his attorney. Its not like just a commentator who doesnt know anything. Rudy giuliani was at the white house that time. I was at the white house. Where did you learn it would be on the white house grounds like he knew what was going on. The jury is going to have have to make a decision based on the evidence. Stay here in the courtroom. And thats a linchpin of our system of law and order. Its a linchpin of our courts. Its a lynchpin of the constitution i think what Rudy Giuliani may or may not have said years ago really doesnt bear on this case the facts are the facts and i think the truth is on our side. But how do you dispute what his own attorney at the time was saying, i guess is my question. Im not push back on that, caitlin, im not familiar with the statements in question but i do know what the facts are in this case and Michael Cohen was one of President Trumps lawyers. Payments to Michael Cohen were booked as legal Retainer Payments. Whether thats an accurate or not is ultimately going to be a question. For the jury. I dont believe those were inaccurate recordings, and i also dont believe that trump personally made those recordings and thats another fact thats going to have to be developed as the trial goes on. Trumps involvement. What do you know . Michael cohen will testify they did, but can i do im somewhat limited in what i can say about Michael Cohen because of the gag order, the unconstitutional additional gag order thats been placed against us. Well, the ga order just says Trump C Attack a witness, michael he thats correct. It says that we i cant speak about what his testimony might be or really get into a lot of details i would otherwise like to i will say though, and weve said this in legal pleadings that numerous previous courts have found Michael Cohen to be a perjurer and thats going to be a Credibility Question thats going to be placed squarely in front of the jury. Play this Rudy Giuliani, just moment for you because i am curious as an attorney for the team for trump, what you what you make, what he said on fox news a few years ago when i heard cohens retained are 35,000 when he was doing no work for the president. I said, but thats how it was repaying thats how hes repaying it with a little profit and a little margin foot paying taxes for michael. He didnt know about the general arranger that michael would take care of things like this i mean, if they play a moment like that in court, what does the defense argue . Well, again, one thats not evidence and too i dont think those are the facts. I think that these were payments being made to one of President Trumps lawyers that were recorded as legal Retainer Payments. And i dont believe that was an inaccurate recording. I think the core of this case is whether that recording constituted Business Records for odd and under new york law, i just dont think it did. Yeah. 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The Biden Campaign has taken a virtual valve silence on trumps court dates here tonight, former Deputy Assistant to President Biden Jamal Simmons so trump trumps former White House Communications director, alyssa farah griffin, and jabal, President Biden kind of gave this. Im not going to talk about it. His campaign did put out a statement tonight relating to what happened today, saying, Wake Up Donald after a stormy abortion ban coverage, trump pulled Memo Attempts to hush panic. I think there are choosing their words carefully there. What do you make of how were still the white house, how youd advise them to handle this though . Oh, i think theyre handling it the right way, which is to stay away from it. You old rule of politics is when your opponent is sticking himself in the eye with the fork, dont try to stop them, dont get in the way. And thats sort of whats happening right now. You got a former president United States, who was on is in a criminal trial at the end of which he could be branded a convicted felon. The last thing you wanna do is give him any more rhetorical ammunition to say that biden is somehow behind this are benefiting from it . Yeah. I mean, you just saw they had been connecting all of this to the Biden Justice Sharman Trump was doing it earlier trump is fundraising off of this as well. I should note they were saying he stormed out of the court earlier, which he had not, but they were sending out a lot of fundraising emails today as this was going on, alyssa . Yeah, remarkably, i still receive them. Listen, hes missing a lot of time on the Campaign Trail, so hes going to have to make up for how he can hes going to fundraise off of it. Hes on air and key battleground states, but think is remarkable as this is just stepping back this is who Republican Voters decided they wanted to be the nominee. But primetime on a monday night you know, six plus months out from an election or talk about his trials. Were not talking about his campaign platform. His second term agenda in this is what the next stretch is going to look like if its not this, its going to move on to the question over immunity on the Supreme Court and then potentially onto the january 6 trial and there is going to be fatigue with voters. Now, ive said many times, i dont think many republicans, carroll whole lot about this case. I think they made their peace with whatever wrongdoing may have been there back in 2016 but they are just going to get weary of the fact hes not talking about their issues. Hes out there at a courtroom, not on the Campaign Trail, not showing up to vote for voters, given that i was so surprised to hear what governor chris tenuto said over the weekend. I mean, our viewers will be very familiar with all of his criticisms of donald trump and his strength as the republican nominee when he was out campaigning for nikki haley, he was asked but all of that this weekend and this is what he had to say to George Stephanopoulos support him present, even he is convicted classified documents, you support him for president , even though you believe he contributed to an insurrection, you support them for present, even though you believe hes lying about the last election, youd supported for president , even if hes convicted in the manhattan case, i just want to say the answer to that is yes, correct yeah. Me and 51 of america i mean, it even if hes a convicted felon, if he is the republican nominee, does that mean youre still going to vote for him . Look, i think right now most of america looks like they would, they would vote for him because hes winning. But what about america is right there . Yeah. Oh, im going to support the republican nominee. Absolutely okay. So that was a midjanuary and a george kinda just listing all of the factors that are now part of it. I mean, listen, governor scenarios, a friend on this, we just fundamentally disagree. Did donald trump remains unfit to be president , but also the second point thats the munich kinda makes there, which is like i care about a republican administration. Hes not running on a conservative platform by any means. Thats why his own former Vice President , a consummate conservative, mike pence, as im not going to be supporting him this time around. Hes running away from commitments that he made in the first term and is frankly just not running as a republican. I have no problem myself saying, i will never support him, but its remarkable scene people well go back as someone who is hoping to get those independent central minded republicans, centers minded republicans over on your side of the aisle. What did you hear that oh, this is just clearly political expediency but i dont understand why people feel they have to be politically expedient when it comes to donald trump. Im hearing a lot of reports from friends who are working on for campaigns and states. Theyre not seeing a lot of evidence of republican, a coordinated campaigns are taking place. Report republican State Candidates are leery of doing Joint Fundraising Agreements with the Republican National committee. Theres still some backandforth between who worked for who in the primary and whether or not you can get a job, the infighting this taking place around this candidacy. Its just mindboggling about how youre going to run not only a president ial campaign, but if you want to run for the senate. And to run for congress. Want to run for county commissioner. How do you do that in an environment where the top of the ticket is a felon and you cant count on them to do anything to support the rest of the people running as republicans tbd, he may not be a felon. We will see what happens. Those farah griffin. Thank you both for being here tonight up next well go live to the ground and israel where leaders are right now, valley to make iran pay a price for that massive salt over the weekend. The us and other allies are urging restraint from israel is a response coming soon . Anderson coopeis there, but the very latest lets get started. Though wheres your mask . I really tried sleeping with it, everybody. Now i sleep with inspire. Inspire. No mask just sleep. Learn more and you Important Safety Information at inspire sleep. Com our pharmacy has been in business for nearly 100 years. My wife and i have run it we will is 30 American Technology is making this more efficient and customerfriendly. 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It caused massive alarm at the white house and senate President Biden home early from his trip to delaware to go to monitor everythings in the situation room. A rons leader said it was punishment. Idfs attacks on the iranian consulate in syria earlier this month that killed iranian commanders. Most of those projectiles from iran were intercepted by israel and its partners, including the United States and i want to bring in Anderson Cooper, who is on the ground in tel aviv tonight. And anderson obviously, this attack from iran, this attempted attack, was targeting Israeli Air Base base where iran says israels strike on the consulate was launched from i mean, given what they were targeting and what they were going after, how is israels war cabinet weighing that when deciding how theyre going to respond here i think theres certainly a lot of factors going into whats you know, whats being weighed for fall the timing of a response, is it something that should occur right away . Is it something that will be done . Down the road at a time and a target of their choosing, there is some thought certainly that the longer they wait, whatever sympathy and goodwill there is right now toward israel because they have come under a tack that, that might dissipate by the time there is a, a later attacks. So that would, that would be sort of pushing for you an attack sooner rather than later then theres question is whether it should there be would there be attacked directly to iran . Would it be two . Has blocked or iranianbacked hezbollah forces in lebanon or elsewhere. I think theres a lot of different considerations and also with a target be something that they would want to try to maximize and make sure that there were no civilians or very limited action so fatalities involve it would be against more of a facility given the libname number of fatalities that occurred or injuries that occurred here in israel. So i think theres a lot in consideration, but the cheapest staff, these are the idf today made clear that there will be a response we dont know if the war cabinet has made a decision about the exact nature of that response that well, i mean, that response could either escalate what is happening in the region or deescalate it potentially. I israels still fighting another war in gaza. How much of this is having an impact on how there are conducting their operations. And god, i know youve been speaking with idf officials about this yeah. I talked to Idf Spokesman Colonel Peter Lerner earlier today. Are Jeremy Diamond had been reporting that israel ahead plan to begin to drop leaflets in rafah in Southern Gaza starting today, telling people that they had to leave that area in advance of Ground Operation in rafah, which would have likely occurred later on in this week, that did not occur today, which seems to indicate perhaps that whatever plan there may have been for Rafah Operation that may be on hold or delayed for now because of what happened i asked kernel learner about that he wouldnt say whether or not that operation is on hold, but he did stress that the road to getting hostages released, the road to the destruction of hamas, which is still the stated purpose of the israeli operation in in gaza. That is, that road goes through rafah. Heres what he said if we want to fulfill our mission of dismantling hamas as a Governing Entity and bring home the hostages. They still hold 133 hostages in gaza. The roads to fulfilling those objectives goes through rafah the other thing to consider, of course, kaitlan is right now, there is this sympathy for israel on the international stage, you have the United States, european allies, other countries expressing support for israel. The focus is not on gaza, for right now if, if israel was to go forward with a Rafah Operation, obviously some of that International Support would start to lessen and weekend. Thats another consideration here on the ground. Yeah, a lot hanging in the balance its Anderson Cooper at until theyve thank you in washington, theres the prospect of a coming vote on aid to israel and to ukraine as well. Its now setting off republican firebrand Marjorie Taylor greene. So a new thread to owls House Speaker mike johnson over his latest proposal. 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So my foot slides into place mind blown tonight, i knew warning coming from Marjorie Taylor greene, the republican congresswoman from georgia, says that the House Speaker, mike johnson could be near the end of his speakership in her view, if he moves forward to pass a series of bills, including aid for ukraine hes definitely not going to be speaker next congress if were lucky enough to have the majority. And i think that is widely held belief throughout the conference. Speaker for the rest of this congress, do you think that is to be determined its fair johnson meanwhile, dismiss those threats i dont spend my time worrying about motions to vacate. Were having to govern here and were gonna do our job i want to bring in josh rogan, Foreign Policy columnist for the washington post, and josh, i mean, to hear this, this fight that has been kind of simmering on capitol hill. And Speaker Johnson saying hes not worried about these threats, but bringing these aid bills to the floor, depending on what happens, could potentially remove him from that job. Thats right. Caitlin and i hate to contradict the speaker, but according to my sources, he is worried about those threats. Hes very worried about them and he spends a lot of time thinking about how to keep his job and this latest gambit by Speaker Johnson, which was just released tonight is his scheme to try to get israel aid ukraine aid taiwan aid, plus a bunch of other stuff passed without losing his job. And thats to avoid the motion to vacate. Thats being threatened by Marjorie Taylor greene. And frankly, i dont think its going to work. Marjorie Taylor Greene said its not going to work. Shes shes going to go forward with it. If he goes forward with his plan, plus the whole idea that he put forth fourth, which is that you pass all of these bills separately and then join them together at the end and then send them over to the senate. Is kind of harebrained. Its really complicated, it makes sense on paper, but in real life it may not actually even work. So i think that what were seeing is that until she actually does it, Marjorie Taylor greene has all of this leverage what she actually does it she loses the leverage. So while she has this threat hanging over, johnsons had like a sort of damocles. Hes dancing and once she actually pulls the trigger, i think its very possible that others could join her. Beer. Your perspective on the other side of the political aisle, which is so obviously this is, these are separate bills for israel, for ukraine, for taiwan. A fourth one, its kind of a gop. Everything priorities this is top of mind for President Biden as well. Whos been weighing in on this and waiting to see he has Speaker Johnson spoke about this plan. I should know, but we saw today these prout, propalestinian protests playing out across the United States today in major cities in new york, chicago, and oakland, they shut down the Golden Gate Bridge for several hours. I should know before we saw any arrests happen. I mean, this is also determining what this is going to look like for the white house and how they handle this well, thats right. Joe, President Biden is torn between his desire to get the ukraine aid past, which means hes gotta deal with the republicans. And in fact, the white house is dealing with the Speakers Office pretty well in negotiating this stuff. Now the other hand, a lot of democrats dont want to support the israel aid for all the reasons that you just laid out. And thats the the theory by which this Johnson Scheme makes sense, which is, you let Everybody Vote for the different parts and then the democrats, some democrats can vote against israel aid and some republicans good vote against ukraine aid. But its really complicated and it doesnt solve the binds that President Biden and his in either hes going to support israel or hes gonna move towards the progressive side. And again to both and hes eventually hes gonna have to choose well see what that looks like. Of course as we creep closer to the election as well, josh rogan, great to have you. Thank you anytime and this just didnt to cnn, another historic tonight for the another chip first tonight, i should note for the already historic resume of basketballs, Caitlin Clark with the first pick in the 2024 wnba draft the Indiana Fever select Caitlin Clark Caitlin Clark is the alltime leading scorer. Of course, in the ncw, a Division One Basketball history, Ticket Prices to watch the fever in indy this season more than doubled after clark announced that she would enter the draft, it was obvious she was going to likely be the first number one pick and she spoke to core wire just beforehand im super excited. I know this always super special and i have lot of family coming. My coaches are coming. So on my teammates are coming so just getting to enjoy it. And so get in, i think is the biggest thing because like it once in a lifetime this only happens once also worth noting tonight, lsus angel reese went six picks later as the chicagos sky. Second pick thank you. All so much for joining us, congrats to both of them and everyone in the Wnba Draft Tonight Sit A Nenews Night with abby phillip starts right now