Jerusalem on the war in israel. This time biden seemed open to negotiating a ceasefire if hamas releases the hostages. Just hours later, White House Communications director john kirby had to reiterate full throated support of israel saying in an interview on cnn that the country has a right to defend itself and the administration does not believe its time for a ceasefire. Two more hostages, Israeli Women In Their 70s And 80s were released by hamas remains in captivity along with more than 200 others and iranen proxies continue to attack u. S. Forces in the region and Senior Correspondent Steve Carrigan is live in beirut with what hes seeing on the ground. Steve. Reporter trace, concerns here continue to grow about a possible second front in the war and assignment is israel versus hezbollah here and overnight and hezbollah in lebanon and what they said were cells by hezbollah being used to target israeli position withs antitank missiles over the past two weeks and skirmishes left 29 hez
Santa newsnight starts now the circus comes to the courtroom. Thats tonight on these nine good evening. Im abby phillip the new york tonight. Tensions and chaos erupt inside of the courtroom. Let me set the scene for you. The trump team made a game time decision to call a witness, robert costello. Hes a former Legal Advisor to Michael Cohen. Now about 14 minutes into his testimony, cohen, costello vividly demonstrated why he may have caught trumps the tension. But the Presiding Judge was not amused costello rolled his eyes. A judge merchan, he let out an audible sigh after an objection. And the transcript, maybe the best way to describe what happened next in that courtroom. The judge, he says, i wanted to discuss proper decorum in my courtroom. Costello, right judge okay. So when there is a witness on the stand, if you dont like my ruling, you dont say, jeez. Okay. And then you dont say strike it because im the only one who can strike testimony in the courtroom. Do you, understand that
the prosecutor. providing a plethora of details about the days and weeks after the 2020 election. when donald trump and his allies tried anything and did everything they could to reverse what they knew was trump s election defeat. we re getting a look at what sidney powell and jenna ellis told prosecutors during the recessions. those are the meetings where defendants who take plea deals reveal any information that could be used against the other defendants in this case. which includes rudy giuliani and donald trump. former trump attorney general ellis descriing a chilling conversation with trump aid at a white house christmas party. i said something to him like i m sorry that we haven t been able to do more. and i emphasized to him i thought that the claims and the ability to challenge the election results was essentially over because of the dismissal of the case from the the supreme court. he said to me in an excited tone, well, we don t care. we re not going to leave. i
but for how long sparks flying and hunter biden s trump and make it from the waist down crashes his car into the lobby of a local jail and any moment now a new verdict in the amanda knox case for lawyers looking to overturn a 16-year-old conviction all right 6:00 a.m. here in washington. a live look at the white house on this wednesday morning. good morning, everyone. i m kasie hunt. it s wonderful to have you with us. the message from the white house this morning, the border is closed right now, most asylum seekers crossing illegally from mexico into the us are supposed to be turned back after president biden took executive action simple truth is, there is a worldwide migrant. chuck crushes. and if the united states doesn t secure our border, there s no limit to the number of people may try to come here. so today i m moving past republican obstruction and using the executive authorities available to me as president to do what i can on my own to address the border the
well, with the highlight really of the morning has been testimony called by the defense of two pennsylvania state investigators who work order this case. one of them is now retired. the defense grilling them over their techniques in how they questioned alleged victims in this case. in particular, they concentrated on one, accuser number four. and the defense was suggesting to the jury that these investigators were in essence telling the victims what to say. encouraging them. tainting them by talking about what other victims alleged victims may have said. the defense attorney saying at one point they referred to an audiotape of accuser number four in which the investigator is heard saying that you are doing well, saying words to the effect of you we are hearing very similar things, sometimes word for word from other alleged victims in this case. and, in fact, after at one point told them we also heard others talk about actual oral sex. the investigators who were testifying