Countries in asia. Well hear how the money will help in a moment. Voiceover live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. Its newsday. Hello and welcome to the programme. We begin in the United States where a key witness at the Hush Money Trial of donald trump has told the court in new york how he suppressed negative stories about the former president to help him win the 2016 election. The court heard today how the then candidate picked up the phone and called this man, david pecker, former publisher of a tabloid, the national enquirer, to discuss whether to pay off a Playboy Model who was shopping around a story of having a year long affair with trump. Before the trial resumed though, thejudge held a fiery hearing to determine if mr trump violated a gag order, which bans the former president from verbally attacking the jury and witnesses. This was Donald Trumps response. Well, i think the gag order is totally unconstitutional. Cant even allow articles to be put in. For example,
of this lecture and the stakes couldn t be higher. the president and the former president, one stage two, very different visions for america s future. the cnn presidential debate tomorrow night at nine, live on cnn and streaming on max happening now, the final countdown to cns historic presidential debate with just one de to ago before president joe biden and former president donald trump go head-to-head right here in atlanta. we re getting do behind the scenes details and how the candidate let s hope to impress voters and attack one another we re also following a breaking story. the united states supreme court reportedly tips that s han briefly posting a draft ruling on a pivotal abortion case we re breaking down the apparent decision and how it was mistakenly released. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world, i will flits you re in atlanta and year in the situation room we re coming to you live from cnn studios in atlanta, the back drop for t
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along party lines it striking down, striking down a trump era federal ban on gun bumps, stocks delivering a major blow to gun safety advocates. in a scathing dissent, justice sonia sotomayor says the ruling will have deadly consequences for words and just moments ago, the bybi campaign laid the blame directly on the former president saying, and i m quoting right now from the biden campaign statement, weapons of war have no place in the streets of america. but trump s supreme court justices have decided the gun lobby is more important than the safety of our kids. and our communities. i want to bring in our chief legal affairs correspondent, paula reid, who s watching all of this unfold, update our viewers the significance of this, paulo. will, if this is one of the most significant cases going before the high court, this term also one of the few questions related to gun rights that the justices need to decide. now, this case focuses on bump stocks and for anyone who s not clea
visit xfinitymobile.com to learn more. doc? back control with lipo flavanoid. this is a secret, war. secrets and spies. sunday at ten on cnn welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper this hour investigating hate in new york city, blatant acts of vandalism and antisemitism. and now the nypd is launching i knew hate crimes task force to look into the disturbing ax plus cold war allies reunite as russia sends a group of warships to cuba, is putin again trying to taunt the united states ahead. what we re hearing with cnn teams positioned in both moscow and havana and leading this hour, the breaking news, a house vote led by republicans holding the us attorney general in contempt of congress at issue. audio recording of an interview with president biden during a special counsel investigation into biden s handling of classified documents, the special counsel, robert hur, released a report about that investigation. the justice department also released a transcript, but not the actual