from now. we will bring you those comments from that podium there live. white house officials say today s meeting will allow the three nations to, quote, coordinate a path forward and compare notes on the move. this comes just hours before president biden leaves for his first trip to asia since taking office. over the next several days he will make stops in south korea and japan with hopes of reinforcing those alliances, of course, with china in mind there. plus, we are watching a continuing losing streak on wall street. the dow down again this morning, though, not quite as far as it was earlier. this on the heels of its worst days in nearly two years yesterday. let s begin with white house correspondent john harwood on the north lawn. this meeting, an important show of support for the allies making an enormous strategic change here. do they believe this is baked in? turkey continues to make bones about standing in the way. i don t think baked in, but there does seem to be
Score. Do i mean at time. Com . Cnn this morning with kasie hunt next its monday, april 22, right now . Now on cnn this morning, Opening Statements set to begin in Donald Trumps Hush Money Trial. New cnn reporting on who prosecutors plan to call as their first witness. A foreign aid bill passed by the house, leaving hard right republicans and hamas infuriated. And a crisis on campus jewish students at Columbia University urged to stay home for their own safety all right 5 00 a. M. Hearing washington, but this is a live look at New York City on this Monday Morning where openings statements are set to begin in the donald trump trial. Good morning, everyone. Im casey hunt. Its wonderful to have you with us Opening Statements in the historic Criminal Hush Money Case against donald trump set to begin just a few hours from now, cnn has learned that david, the former chairman of the national enquirer, is Parent Company company is expected to be the first witness called by the manhattan das of
international coalition to defeat i.s.i.s. or to defeat al qaeda. it took many years. i don t think it s going to be many years. but i ve set targets and not a deadline, and we re proceeding as quickly as we can and also as carefully as we can because we want to minimize civilian casualties, and we want to minimize casualties on our side. that s israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu on a potential timeline for the war with hamas. it comes as gaza s largest hospital, which is caring for newborns, is out of fuel to power the facility. also ahead, we ve got new reporting on the impeachment inquiry into president joe biden. the new house speaker does not appear ready to move that effort forward, at least for now. meanwhile on capitol hill, the republican-led house released its plan to avoid a government shutdown. we ll go through the stopgap measure and the chances it could pass the senate by friday s deadline. good morning and welcome to way too early on this mo
How important this process is, to getting confirmation, as we saw what happened in 1986. More importantly, i think he took head on a lot of the critics and criticism of decisions that hes made and votes hes cast. And i thought in particular, with cory booker becoming historic, you saw the first sho for the 2020 democratic nomination for president. Lets just put that on the table. Certainly, thats part of the drama and theater of what he chose to do. But i also found it somewhat ironic that just in january of 2016, in legislation that he cosponsored with mr. Sessions, that celebrated those who walked from walked the selma mile, if you will, that he referred to him as it was a great honor to work with him and that he appreciated his commitment to civil rights. And yet now sees him as he referred to him as a danger
with danger to our country, as hes been quoted to say. The politics is not lost here. I think everyone in this town understands that. And to have this staged the way it was wit
Theres this sense that its all the same, all the legal problems hes facing are the same in voters minds. And that it is kind of baked in, was that the sense you got, you covered this last week and as we head into the real, the real heart of this trial, i did last week, i spoke with a lot of people outside of washington, some Student Groups and focus groups, and theyre paying attention now and they want to know, is this actually going to happen . Are there other cases that are going to make it before the flexion . What did i think the outcome was going to be people are tuning in now because four months, if not more than a year, weve been saying that things are moving in this direction and now that a jury has been selected, people are paying attention. Eugene scott thank you very much with us this morning. I really appreciate it all right. Up next here, hamas and farright republicans are furious with House Leadership after aid for israel passes plus crisis at columbia university, jewish