Contentious Cross Examination, how the former fixer turned star witness is upending Donald Trumps hush money trial, and when this whole thing may drew draw to a close. And then the other big trial in New York City, senator bob menendez is arriving this morning for another day of Jury Selection. Well have the latest on his criminal trial. Good morning, it is 10 00 eastern. Im Ana Cabrera Reporting from new york, and lots of news this morning. Lets begin with the Breaking News in the race for the white house. President biden announcing a short time ago he will not participate in the three traditional debates organized by the nonpartisan debate commission, instead challenging donald trump to two nontraditional matchups with this video. Donald trump lost two debates to me in 2020. Since then he hasnt shown up for a debate. Now hes acting like he wants to debate me again. Make my day, pal. Ill even do it twice. So lets pick the dates, donald. I hear youre free on wednesdays. And just moment
Fullscale invasion of rafah. Lets go out front and good evening. Im Erin Burnett Outfront tonight. A crying little expletive. It got ugly in the Hush Money Case Today For Trump and right away, i mean, right off the bat. That was just one of the first leinz trumps defense attorney, Todd Blanche Confronted Star Witness Michael Cohen. The width as the crossexamination began this afternoon. So i was there watching as trumps former fixer went toetotoe with the trumps attorney. And as i said, it was literally i mean, basically the first line, trumps attorney todd blanche starts his questioning by confronting Michael Cohen and hes he whether he was pretending to be or truly angry, he came off so angry that he was shaking and he pulls up a video that Michael Cohen and posted on tiktok and he said you went on tiktok and you called Me A Crying Little Expletive, didnt you i mean, it was just so intense. Now, cohen responds. Sounds like something i would say. Trump leaned forward is blanche went o
Now, its a fast moving situation in the middle east. Is there anything you can say at all about the half dozen or so british citizens who have been taken hostage by hamas . Is britain working with the us to keep safe routes open and whats our role in the humanitarian effort . Yeah, its one of the things that ive been discussing with students here today who obviously have family and friends that are impacted by this in israel. Now were doing everything we can to provide support. I know its an anxious time for many families who will have loved ones who are impacted or missing. Were providing all the consular support through the Foreign Office that we can and also providing direct support to the israelis. And the humanitarian situation is one which, of course, were concerned about, and that ive raised in all the calls and interactions ive had with other leaders from across the region, and in particular making sure that we can try and get the Rafah Crossing Open that will ease the humanita
And why so many palestinians are dying in this operation. So hamas has had a diabolical plan of embedding all of its infrastructure within the civilian arena. We are currently targeting their leaders, from ismail haniyeh, who is the Prime Minister of hamas, but is actually the mastermind of the massacre in the south, on october the 7th. From him, right up at the top, down all the way down to the terrorists that conducted the infiltration, we are gathering intelligence and seeking them out and destroying them. So wherever they are hiding, congregating, planning their next attack, that is a legitimate target and well within the realm of the laws of armed conflict. We will seek them out. We didnt start this war. We didnt choose to go to war with hamas. They chose it, but we will win it. Critics of israel will say that the thousands of people who have been killed, the Hundreds Of Thousands who have been displaced, they didnt choose this war either, what do you say to them . I would say tha