situation room, stay with cnn are special live coverage of this truly historic criminal trial continues right now. on the lead with jake tapper cnn breaking news and welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper, donald trump s hush money trial is in its final phase as the prosecution is in the midst of giving its closing arguments, court will be back from break at any moment. the prosecution has been arguing that president trump, quote, quote, corrupted those around him, and he got them to lie and covered up unquote. trump picked michael cohen as his fixer. the prosecution says, quote, because he was willing to lie and cheat for donald trump this follows nearly three hours of closing arguments from trump s defense attorney todd blanche, who attacked michael cohen using trump like nicknames, calling him the gloat not the goat, the glutes. the greatest liar of all time. he also said that michael cohen is quote literally like an mvp of liars and added quote, i don t know how many leinz
breaking a short time ago, benny ganz announcing his departure from israel s war cabinet one day after the military operation freed four hostages from hamas abductors. were going to have report on the and a moment as well. causes ministry of health has updated the death toll. gauze officials say more than 270 million 270 were killed and more than 700 injured. today, on the shows come in reaction to the number of palestinians killed. palestinians killed. every single loss of an innocent civilian in gaza or anywhere else concerns us. it more than concerns us. it is tragic. it breaks our heart, it s awful. that is why president biden is working so hard to bring this war to an end. every civilian life lost in this war is a tragedy. every civilian life lost in this war is a result of how hamas is operated. let s think about for a moment where they were holding the hostages. within civilian houses, people s apartments. right now, president biden is on his way home, having wra
Accomplished in one meeting. He tried the down play expectations in that but we dont have the idea of What Future Conversatio would look like, would he extend the time next week. Have another one in a matter of months, we to be know any of that. But getting things done on the front end is something they are concerned about. Local countries have a lot ride on it. And the president has a lot of shake. We heard from shinzo abe praise for the president to get it thisser if a. There are questith appearances of success versus the substantive success that needs to be determined next week and beyond. President trump may sn be forced to testify under oath thank to multiple depositions he might be facing. On tuesday a judge in new york ruled that President Trump must sit for a deposition in a denamation lawsuit brought by a former apprentice contestant. She accuse had imsexual assault
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Closer to six. Yeah, someone just said, shes far worse for the country than we thought you see, nobody knows who spent it. I heard it was 9. I heard it was 5. 7, then it was nine. In this business they trace it. Close to 9 million. The reason is you dont have to give any papers. Its illegal from a campaign standpoint, financing standpoint. The whole russia thing seems to have turned around. What do you think, sarah . Absolutely. Latest news cycle appears to be taking a toll according to polling analyst. There have been eight live poles in the last few weeks showing the president s Approval Rating in some cases falling to 40 . Im joined by anita kumar, correspondent for mcclatchy. The white house is positioned on the woodwork seems to be that the press is obsessed with it but they want to talk about it all the time. There is no person obsessed about Bob Woodwards book and the oped than donald j. Trump. As axios first reported and the daily beast can confirm, the president has privately
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political stage perfectly captures this moment in history. Tonight, a piece of writing that is deeply consequential or completelyirrelevant. Either an act of bravery or cowardice. More than two dozen Trump Administration officials have disavowed the anonymous oped. Its possible we havent seen