That is this week apps last word. The 11th hour with Stephanie Ruhle starts now. Hope hicks on the stand. You cannot overstate just how significant this testimony was. Hope hicks described the Meltdown Inside Trump world over the release of the access Hollywood Tape. The impact of the access Hollywood Tape as well as be concerned about the other stories has to be driven home to the jury. She just started crying. Tissues came out and the court, the judge said well take a break. Im not allowed to testify because this judge has me under an unconstitutional gag order. Altavista unconstitutionally gagged. He gagged me. Today trump has the absolute right to testify. Police crackdowns continue on College Campuses across the country. We plan to be here until our demands are met, no matter what. These are radical left lunatics. The right to protest but not the right to cause chaos. Nationwide, more than 2100 arrests have been made connected to campus protests. Because of donald trump mama more
trump will see it? oh, he s going to keep the convention and he s going to use it as rocket fueled energizes base, but don t know how it plays with swing voters. all right. well, thank you both very much. thanks for joining us. the news continues right here. on cnn it s friday, may 31, right now on cnn this morning he didn t do a thing wrong. i m a. very innocent man guilty on all 34 counts, donald trump calling his hush money trial rigged, and assisting you only verdict he cares about is the one that s handed down on november 5th i did my job manhattan da alvin bragg speaking out and praising the jury after that the historic conviction as soon as we can appeal, we will and donald trump s lawyer vowing to fight the verdicts and the possibility of jail time. for the former president right fiber him. your in washington alive. look at new york city where donald trump is waking up. it convicted felon this morning. good morning, everyone. i m kasie hunt wonderful to have y
the future hopefully about good news. thank you for coming on today. great to have you and thank you all so much for joining us, seeing a news night with abby. the loop starts right now race, america, and a fiery debate over jim crow in the stalls yeah, that s tonight. on this time good evening. i m abby phillip in new york and i want to get right to it tonight. one of donald trump s vice presidential contenders, congressman byron donalds. he made some comments that has a lot of you take in a lot of democrats fired up. i m gonna speak with him, live in just a couple of minutes but here are the original remarks they were made as a part part of a pitch to black voters in philadelphia. and i want you to hear it in its full context. listen girl with my mom my dad about things don t work out as an adult i ll look at my father and i say grow i don t know what happened. when you want father and i love here. i don t know what happened. i wasn t what i m going to say it is gro
Todays proceedings. I would like to recap my recognition of the timeline in which these events played out. I testified about all of this at length in my deposition. In july, i became aware of a hold being an obligation of the State Departments Foreign Military financing and dods usai funds. In a series of interagency meetings, i heard that the president had directed the office of of management and budget to hold the funds becausf his concerns about corruption in ukraine. Let me say at the outset that i have never discussed this or any other matter with the president and never heard directly from him about this matter. At a senior level meeting i attended on july 26, chaired by National Security council leadership, as at all other interagency meetings on this topic of which i was aware, the National Security community
expressed unanimous support for resuming the funding as in the u. S. National security interest. At the july 26 meeting, there was a discussion of how ukrainian anticorrup
months after the civil rights act is passed on july 2, in 19 things 65, the voting rights act is passed august 6. so when we think about the democratic party, black people helped to transform the democratic party. that s how we have heroes like shirley chisholm, heroes like fannie lou hamer, heroes like, like, like jesse jackson and others don and brazil who really challenged the democratic party and really the way for barak obama and it s such an important point. i brought it up with the congressman. you cannot just throw around. well democrats used to be republican. there s a reason that a majority of black people don t vote with the republican party. and i think it s perfectly within the congressman s rights to want to change that. but you also have to be accurate about the history as well. peniel joseph. thank you very much for joining us tonight and sharing all of that with us. thank you for having me breaking news. donald trump has scored