judge and a combative eric trump and a prosecutor, will it be a preview of next week and the former president s testimony after his son calls the trial itself an absolute joke. the current president, sending his secretary of state on a very high stakes mission to israel, making a personal plea to stop the fighting if only for a few hours. the desperate push to get more people out of harm s way even as israeli forces encircle the largest city in the gaza strip with thousands trapped inside. a former u.s. ambassador to israel will join me to explain where things go from here. and the alarming surge of anti-semitic threats on college campuses now leading one university to pull the plug on classes today citing stress on the students. with no end to the war in sight, will the threats and the fallout get worse before they get better? but we start in new york where tensions exploded in a testy 25-minute long back and forth between donald trump s legal team and the judge at his c
hearing for one of the two migrants charged with the killing of a 12-year-old girl in houston. the men lured her under a bridge, tied her up and killed her. each is facing capital murder charges. prosecutors are asking for the men to be held on $1 million bond. more on that as we get it. first there is this. how are you preparing for the debate? we see president biden is out at camp david and you are on the campaign trail. what is your strategy. i look forward to the debate. campaign trail versus camp david. strategies could not be more different. both are preparing for the debate just three days away. i m gillian turner, bill and dana are off today. mike: i m mike emanuel, this is america s newsroom. president biden has been at camp david since thursday. he and his team are rehearsing behind closed doors with no public events on his schedule. gillian: former president trump was in philly this weekend and he got an emotional response from one young supporter. ma
harbor in southern new mexico. back to you. gillian: madison, thank you. mike. mike: court hearing getting underway in texas this hour for one of the two illegal migrants accused of killing a 12-year-old girl in houston and dumping her body in the water under a bridge. welcome to a brand-new hour of america s newsroom, i m mike emanuel. gillian, great to be with you. gillian: i m gillian turner. dana and bill have the day off. both suspects in the tragic murder are facing capital murder charges. this is according to ice. they entered the country illegally and later caught and released by border patrol near el paso weeks before 12-year-old girl was murdered. the duo lured her under a bridge, removed her clothes, tied her up strangled and murdered her. if the medical examiner determines she was sexually assaulted they could face the death penalty under texas law. mike: michael mccaul laid part of the blame on president biden s open border policies. we re seeing this
the shooter told investigators according to a sheriff who spoke at a press conference today that the attacks were not racially motivated. it is fair to ask whether we have any reason to believe or take on its face that an accused spree killer said but that is what authorities are telling us so for now that is the official word. what we can t deny is that some attacks against the asian-american and pacific islander communities, something we ve reported on extensively on this show and something that president biden and kamala harris herself a member of the community underscored today. whatever the motivation here, i know that asian-americans are in very very concerned, because as you know i ve been speaking about the brutality against asian-americans for the last couple of months and i think it is a very, very trouble some. it is tragic. our country, the president and i and all of us, we grieve for the loss. we re not yet clear about the motive. but i do want to say to ou