Good to be with you, im katy tur. We just got our first hopeful news out of israel in two weeks. Nbc news can now report hamas has released two american hostages, judith renan, and Natalie Ranan of evanston, illinois. Who are in israel and on their way to see their family. Joining us is nbc news Foreign Correspondent raf sanchez. What else did we learn . Reporter we have received official confirmation from the Israeli Government that judith and natalie are in israeli hands, they were released at the gaza border and they are now in the custody of the Israeli Military. They were released to a former israeli general, his name is brigadier galhersh, he is in charge of the Hostage Recovery Effort on behalf of the Israeli Government. The Israeli Government says that the hostages were released at the gaza border. They were received at the border and at the moment, they are on their way to a Meeting Point at a Military Base in the center of the country where their Family Members are waiting fo
Right . You would have a pretty good sense of what he was going to be asked and a pretty good sense of how he was going to answer it. None of this goes perfectly from a prosecutors perspective. Danny will tell you, none of this goes perfectly from the Defense Attorneys perspective. This is why you have redirect. This is why you have final arguments, this is why as danny said earlier, you keep a list of defenses and some fall out along the way and some get better. As much as you plan, you have to be flexible. Is the prosecution happy with the cross . If i were the prosecutor here and they wanted to spent 3 1 2 days saying the same thing, my view would be let him have it. Keep doing it. I think at some point, jose, youre losing your jury. I take anas point, sometimes you lose your jury, but you never try to. My goal is to never lose my jury. And if youre saying the same thing over and over for days on end, i think youre losing your jury. There is an agony in a crossexamining of a witness
Shannon good evening, welcome to washington. Im Shannon Bremen in nor bret baier. House lawmakers try to force President Biden to give specific military aid to israel. President Biden Invokes Executive Privilege over the Audio Recordings of his interview with the Special Counsel and a Major Development in the search for the origin of the coronavirus. But, first, breaking tonight, the defense tries to paint former trump lawyer and selfproclaimed fixer Michael Cohen as a serial liar. Suicidal and bent on revenge. Cohen has been the key prosecution witness in its criminal case against former President Trump. Crossexamination has been difficult. Correspondent nate foy is outside the New York State Supreme Court building. Hello, nate. Hey, shannon, so the importance of Michael Cohens testimony is reflected by how long it is taking. He took the Stand On Monday of this week. He has been here all week. He will be back when court resumes at 9 30 monday morning. Of course he has a documented his
Say. And this is approved by all agencies, that is what they are all writing now. Nothing written and that is a shame it is a very unfair trial. At the very, very unfair trial. The good news is they have nothing. John a live look outside the new York Supreme Court building where a jury has been hearing broadly from a Adult Film Actress Stormy Daniels. She is one of the prosecutions key witnesses and former President Trumps historic criminal trial. So begins the criminal trial. Gillian good to be with you covering the trial end of the brick across the country im gillian turner, sandra is off, this is america reports. The court is in the lunch break right now they will reconvene about 2 00, Stormy Daniels has been a key prosecution witness so far against the former president , they are arguing trump falsified Business Records to cover payments to daniel through his attorney, Michael Cohen, this in a run up to the 2016 president ial election. John shes been testifying about her First Enco
Netanyahu is about to address his nation. Were going to go there live once he begins. The situation in israel is changing by the hour. Here is a look at the gaza skyline right now. You can see smoke even though its very dark, and flames out there in the distance, from near continuous israeli strikes. The idf says thousands of targets have already been hit. Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has promised that this is only the start with more than 700 israelis dead, he says what is coming next will be painful. But what exactly can come next . There are those within the Israeli Government, including the former Defense Minister who told the bbc that the only choice is to eliminate hamas period, and there are others who say the only way to do that is to flatten gaza. But how do you do that without incurring major civilian losses. There are roughly 2 million civilians trapped in gaza, blockaded by both israel and egypt. The Israeli Government has told them to get out. Where exactly can they g