Brandnew information breaking out of the criminal trial. Day two of testimony from Michael Cohen. His witness resume as you would know would lead most people to begin with one single fact, he lies as he breathes. Cohen has been convicted of lying to congress and even admits he is a liar. He is forced to untangle now some of those lies after admitting he submitted false invoices. When your Testimony Stabs even yourself. Im Harris Faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. Who knows if thats true . Who knows if anything he says is true . Yesterday cohen testified about his close Working Relationship with the former president. He says trump knew the reimbursement for a payment to the Sex Film Worker Stormy Daniels, ahead of the 2016 election, would be labeled as legal services. But some Big Questions over whether the jury will believe cohen, an admitted and convicted liar. Right now he is still under the prosecutions direct questioning. That has been many hours. One headline on whats to
Day 14 of a criminal trial gets underway with Stormy Daniels back on the stand for day two. Were waiting to see if the former president speaks on as wide range of issues he could be looking to comment on. Well be in contact when it happens including this issue, which is significant today. You have an ultimatum for israel. President biden threatening to withhold weapons from our closest mideast ally. The backlash has been swift. Throughout his entire political career joe biden has a huge supporter of israel. Maybe not so now. Im bill hemmer. Good morning everybody. Thursday, a special day i would say. Dana good morning, im dana perino and this is americas newsroom. Of course, the president held that news until after he gave his holocaust speak earlier in the week. Dana the terrorists are in rafah. The president paused a shipment of bombs and learning the white house tried to hide that decision from the public. Bill the u. S. Backing israel through thick and thin right now super thin for
Manhattan. He is about to enter new yorks courthouse in Lower Manhattan, day 12 of Criminal Trial Proceedings about to get underway. We dont know the witness. The judge agreed with prosecutors not to give the names to the defense. Trump will speak any moment and well carry it for you live when it happens. Meanwhile, Breaking News from overnight. Israels war against hamas could escalate with the idf telling palestinians to leave rafah. Well show it to you in a map coming up. Hope you had a joyous weekend. We go on monday. Im bill hemmer dana . Im dana perino and this is americas newsroom. So were also getting word that just moments ago, Columbia University announced it will cancel its universitywide Graduation Ceremony after weeks of protests. Activists causing chaos on campuses over israels war on hamas that may escalate to another level. Bill ceasefire talks with hamas stalled over the weekend. Israel launches retaliatory strikes against rafah after a hamas Rocket Attack from there ye
President biden and netanyahu of israel are expected to speak by phone about rafah today. Well bring you any news of that as it happens. Taking away my constitutional rights. Im not allowed to answer that question. This has never happened in this country before. It is a ridiculous thing. A ridiculous case. I did nothing wrong. The judge is totally conflicted. And you want to take a look at it. Im not supposed to be talking about it. But i am allowed to say that the judge has a conflict like nobody has ever had before. You have to take a look at it. He has taken away my constitutional right to speak. Dana former President Trump entering Court Minutes ago. The judge already threatening him with jail saying the 1 thousand fines for violating his gag order dont seem to be working. Now we have that to think about. Welcome to a new hour of americas newsroom, im dana perino. Good morning. Good morning. Im bill hemmer. Good morning at home. Waiting to see who the witness will be. Jeff mcconnie
Courtroom right now. We do anticipate at some point Michael Cohen will take the stand. We say that each day because we dont have the witness list but we know he is a prime one for them and it could be any moment. Or another day. A former Trump Organization executive is on stand at this moment. And we will bring you all the details as they unfold during our coverage on The Faulkner Focus all hour long. Keep a close watch on that box on your right because it has some realtime notes and things that are coming out of the courtroom for our journalists and producers. Im Harris Faulkner and you are in The Faulkner Focus. Breaking right now, Columbia University has capitulated to the mob. Theyve caved. Can you imagine paying 588,000 for four years for your kid to go to school there for four years and they cancel commencement . We still dont know what they are doing with the end of the year school tests, the finals. It is still a mystery, all of it. But today those kids will not have a Graduati