Do you see . My first step is shipping houston. Second championship oh, my god hello, again and welcome. Hey, its time to break down the big stories with some smart people. Today, were asking thank after days of salacious details, was porn star Stormy Daniels testimony and let Trump Hush Money Trial, crucial or just cringy then Perception Problem resident bidens as the economy is great. But with most americans not feeling it can flip the script and convince voters before the alliance upshot. And named che. Well discuss whether the Boy Scouts Rebranding deserves a merit badge the gang is all here and ready to go. So sit back, relax and lets talk about it up first. The intimate at a Times R Rated testimony from important star Stormy Daniels dominated the headlines this week and Donald Trumps hush money trial but once you get past that spanking and silk pajamas questions remained whether the prosecutors are making a convincing argument so donald trump railing against judge juan merchan af
Internationally were creating the evidence what is possible so that others can pick it up and run with it oh, i love that. Ill be sure to tune in next saturday at 9 00 p. M. Eastern for that champions for change, onehour special and thank you so much for joining me today. Amphoteric a Whitfield Smerconish starts right now tension between the us and israel over the war with hamas. Im Michael Smerconish in philadelphia on friday, the Biden Administration said that it is reasonable to assess that us weapons have been used by Israeli Forces in gaza in ways that are inconsistent with International Humanitarian law. But they stop short of officially saying that israel violated that law. The report drafted by the State Department said, investigations are ongoing, but that the us does not have complete information. This followed israels Security Cabinet Approval of an expansion of the area of operation of the shelling in rafah after President Joe Biden threatened to withhold us weapons if isra
Planning to free the Dali Cargo Ship from the debris that has been laying across. Its bow, allowing the ship to eventually be floated and moved from the waterway. This comes a few days after the six and the final body was recovered from the water. Investigations will also are in investigators will also be having a hearing on capitol hill next week to discuss federal response to the catastrophe all right. Hello again, everyone. Thank you so much for joining me out for greek all right, we begin this hour with dramatic new developments in the middle east. Israeli military forces are calling for the immediate evacuations of some neighborhoods in in the Southern Gaza city of rafah. The idf says about 300 people have already fled the orders, come ahead of an anticipated idf Ground Offensive in an area more than 1 million palestinians where they are seeking refuge. This on the heels of a new report from the white house the Biden Administration says, its reasonable to assess that american weap
Plus, ask how to get up to an 800 prepaid card. Call today direct redefining insurance how it really happen tomorrow at nine on cnn hello again, everyone. Thank you so much for joining me. Im proud a whitfield. All right. New today, israels military says it is intensifying operations in central gaza and ordering the immediate evacuation of severe are several more neighborhoods in the Southern City of rafah where millions of displaced palestinians are seeking refuge. The idf says about 300,000 people have already fled. These evacuations following new deadly round of air strikes across gaza. Cnns scott mclean has more frederick, a new airstrikes in northern and central gaza have flooded hospitals with a new round of victims included amongst them, a journalist, his wife, and 12 son and the death toll may yet still rise as people search through the rubble of those airstrikes thanks with little more than their bare hands searching at this point for bodies. And the video of the aftermath and
Joe biden over what he is arguing is being bombed behind the criminal indictments, he is basic. Now we talked about the criminal indictments. More generally, he did not specifically discuss his new york hush money case, which of course he was just returning from this week from being out of the courtroom. So i found that very interesting. I think a big question that still remains as donald trump is probably halfway through his remarks right now. We know that hes is still currently under a gag order despite his attorneys earlier in the week trying to see if they could alter that gag order to allow him to talk about witnesses more generally but they said that he could not do that. So were still unclear whether or not hes going to go back to discuss this case in more detail. I can tell you, jessica, from my conversations with trump still in behind the scenes, his lawyers are really urged him not to do that, not to delve too much into that. But again, well see if that changes for the rest o