This is really an attack or a political opponent thats all it is. Jessica dean, cnn washington thanks for joining us. The news continues here on cnn its tuesday, april 20. Right now on cnn this morning, a hearing to determine whether donald trump violated his gag order yes. Hush money trial set to begin in just hours the senate preparing to take up a foreign aid bill that could save ukraine and potentially sink tiktok and tensions rising on College Campuses as propalestinian protests erupted across the country all right 5 00 a. M. Here in washington alive. Look at New York City on this Tuesday Morning, the sight of all todays political news. Good morning, everyone. Im kasie hunt. Its wonderful to have you with us in just a few hours. The judge in Donald Trumps hush money trial will hear arguments to determine whether the former president violated his gag order in the case prosecutors argue that trump has failed to comply with it at least ten times and just hours before the hearing, tru
Retaliatory strike against iran overnight while you were sleeping. So far, zero comment from the israelis. Were awaiting live remarks from Secretary Of State Anthony Blinken very shortly. The strike was inside of a major Iranian Military air base that contains facilities associated with their nuclear program. But we know Irans Nuclear facilities apparently not impacted. They did not hit them. Ainsley we have not received an official statement from the Biden Administration. But a source says the u. S. Was not notified before the strike and was not involved. Lawrence jeff paul is on the ground in tel aviv, israel and retired tony tata has excellent analysis. First, brian is breaking down exactly where this happened. Brian, what can you tell us . Right now you take a look at israel right near here. And you take a look at iran over here. A Long Distance to travel. Thousands of miles where they wanted to hit. Did they want to go tehran where theres a lot of Drone Manufacturing . They decide
brian: georgia on hold. the documents case aileen cannon doesn t seem close to putting that up. steve: she is in no hurry. brian: january 6th case waiting on the immunity situation. ainsley: you know the democratic party will wait until the last minute to release anything they have on him. just like they did with the billy bush tape. they would love to hold off these trials. they need to get some started, i think, in their mind to get some momentum but hold out until the very possible last second before the election. brian: will it be ruled as election interference that close to the election? brian. ainsley: it could backfire. brian: are they going to put him in court lawrence the department of justice has this silly argument they are making now that it is not considered before the election since they started this months ago. or years ago. their investigation. they are not judging this by i think it s ridiculous because you have a trial in a case still happening before
decided to write off the white house for 2024 and focus on trying to hold on to the house and get into the senate and finding that much more politically advantageous for themselves. however, i would say is that the republican party has a long history of simply choosing cowardice over courage when it comes to doing what is right with regards to donald trump. twice, they could have voted to impeach him, won a does would have removed him from office. there is talk at the beginning of trump s administration about the 25th amendment, and there was nobody brave enough to discuss it publicly. i would also remind folks that it goes back to before trump became president. you know when the billy bush tape came out in 2016 between the two debates, just before the second debate, there were several of us on the rnc in touch with the chairman, begging him to at least put it to a vote to the rnc members to
i ve been hitting him much different than i have because i ve always respected the office and then when they indicted me for nothing i said now the gloves are off now we have to say it like he is. he s a crooked joe biden, i never called him that. i took the name away from hillary clinton. we call her beautiful hillary now. beautiful hillary. [laughter] talk about that humor, something no one but chris christie on the republic inside really has it could this be a deciding factor for republicans? just go back to 2016. the billy bush tape was tough, pretty much done at that time. the things trump said this and trump did that, you might believe and believe it s bad and then hold a rally and the charm comes out and the ability to dip in the conversations people have in their living rooms. there isn t a holy person in this country who does it say something in their living room they probably wouldn t say outside their living room because i don t want it taken