a greater risk to civilians. what u.s. intel is saying about how many are being used. and in about face for the former new york mayor. rudy giuliani backing down from testifying at his defamation trial. closing arguments underway as we speak. following these major developing stories and more all coming here to cnn news central. counterterror agencies have been on high alert in wake of the hamas attacks on october 7th and the ongoing war with israel. today, officials of several european countries have made terror-related arrests. details are still coming in, but here is what we know as of right now. german authorities say they have arrested long-standing hamas members for an alleged terror plot. officials in denmark have apparently made what they call unrelated terrorists. let s bring in cnn s fred pleitgen in berlin. there are so many moving parts here, it s a little confusing. tell us what we are learning from germany about all of this. reporter: first of all you
anybody that the president spoke about, they should be concerned about that testimony. elliott, thank you so much. thank you, john. protests result in israel as the parliament passes a controversial new bill that dramatically reshapes the power of the courts. also, coming up for us, bye-bye birdie and hello x. twitter is rebranded with a new logo, and a new look. we will explain coming up. [ applause ] the day you get your clearchoice dental implants makes every day a confident day. a never-hide-my-smile day. a life-of-the-party day. a take-on-the-world day. a believe-in-myself day. a flash-my-new-teeth day. because your clearchoice day is the day you get your confidence back for good.
the washington post that reports that mark meadows who was chief of the staff of donald trump at the time, writes to his son attorney blake meadows had been obg possible fraud and found that only a handful of dead voters names, and far short of the votes that trump would have needed to win the election. cnn legal analyst elliott is with us. why would he joke about that lack of the facts there? he could not be joking about
lawyers. one, it could be that they have divided up the labor, certain lawyers are handling certain witnesses and typically you are more sensitive when more difficult witnesses would be handled by him or senior attorneys. the other possibility is that when you get to the end of a presentation, as a prosecutor, and you are ready to ask the grand jury for an indictment, you have to present to them the trump indictment. you begin the charges then you have to instruct them on the law and it s a really important that you do that just right because, if you mess up, if you skipped an element, that charge is going to be thrown out way down the line. so, bob does make it involved at that point as well. normally the talk of people who are there to present the indictment. you would especially in a high stakes case. the special counsel s not the person who would be there, it s the top lawyers in this office. that s normal to, you never see the u.s. attorney, the boss of each office they,
a federal judge will have to decide if that is true about guy who, after all, is being charged in the way that he handles secrets. whether you agree with the filing or not, all of this is likely good lawyering. a trial delayed is a trial that could die, as in never happen if trump wins. first, the action that we saw today and what it might mean for tomorrow, joining us with his legal decoder ring, cnn senior legal analyst elliott these two trump top lawyer from the special counsel jack smith s team are spotted at the courthouse where the grand jury has been working. our eagle eyed journalists who are there say that these two lawyers are not usually there. why might the top people be there now? it s a good catch by our reporters and this requires, by the way, a disclaimer. we re talking about grandeur, we don t know what is happening behind closed doors but let me give you a couple reasons in my experience why we might be seeing these two senior