Russia with a new push to the white house to try to get paul whelan home. And nasa is set to speak about at the new report about ufos and how the government will study sightings in the future. Im sara sidner with john berman. Kate bolduan is on assignment. This is cnn news central. All right. Breaking news out of Fulton County, georgia. And by the way, you are looking at live pictures from inside of the courtroom before judge George Mcafee and the subversion court case. And now, two of the defendants are about to appear before the judge. You are seeing the live pictures there before our eyes, but donald trump and the rest of the codefendants will be tried separately and later. We will get to zach cohen, and the details of what we are learning so far, zach. Yeah, john, the top line is that donald trump will not be starting his trial in georgia in five weeks alongside at least two of the codefendants Sidney Powell and ken chesebro and trump and two others who said they dont want a speedy
Enforcement agencies all over Fulton County to then make sure that these grand jurors are safe. So i think one consideration the court also needs to make in allowing this is the safety of these grand jurors and their concerns that have already been voiced. But ill just say the Georgia Supreme Court observed the grand jury as a Public Institution serving the community might suffer if those testifying today knew that the secrecy of their testimony would be lifted tomorrow. The indispensable secrecy must not be broken except where theres a compelling necessity. Theres been no compelling necessity raised by this defense to pierce this veil of secrecy of the grand jury. What was the cite for that, the last one . Sorry, judge. Where is that coming from . Kessler, judge. Can you spell that one for me . You have that case, judge. In my stack. Can we just pause one moment . Sure. And then the state talked about this, but i wanted to point out, talking about deliberations and the fact it should
announcer: this is cnn breaking news. welcome back to cnn news central. we re following two breaking stories happening right now. prime minister benjamin netanyahu just spoke after a major hostage deal was finalized between israel and hamas. we re also following a developing story out of new york state. two are dead and the fbi is on the scene after a vehicle exploded at the u.s./canada border crossing near niagara falls. sources say a car carrying two male occupants exploded on its way to a secondary search location at the checkpoint at the rainbow bridge. we know president biden is receiving updates and the white house is in touch with canadian officials. we ll bring you the latest from upstate new york. first, we want to listen to prime minister netanyahu who is speaking for the first time since the deal was announced. translator: and the hostages, since the beginning of the war i cannot stop thinking about them and the members i met you. i heard from you what is
it out in the overflow room. it was definitely not cold, contrary to what donald trump likes to tell people that it s a, quote, icebox, i actually think we were all profusely sweating. but it could have been because there s just so much at stake. alex, malcolm, one of the brightest, brightest stars in pennsylvania. i m a huge fan. i m glad you got a chance to talk with him. he s a star. he s available in the 10:00 p.m. hour too, no, he s not, heist ours. he can hang out in our a block if you would like. we re not doing that tonight, my friend, but bless you for the suggestion. have a wonderful show.. thanks, alex. and today it s 421 days since donald trump was indicted on charges of falsifying business records to pay off porn star stormy daniels in an attempt to hide their affair in the final days of the 2016 election. and a 12-person jury of new york citizens began a historic process, deliberations to determine whether to convict a former u.s. president of any of
stormy daniels in an attempt to hide their affair in the final days of the 2016 election. and they began a historic process. deliberations to determine whether to convict a former u.s. president of any of the 34 felony counts. trump was at the courthouse today where he has been every day in his trial and where he must remain every day the jury deliberates his fate. here is how one court reporter captured trump after the jury left the courtroom. todd blanche appeared to gently shake trump awake. nudging his shoulder as the six alternated filed out of the the courtroom and he was the only person still sitting down. judge juan merchan handed the case over to the seven men and five women jurors with this charge. quote. it is not my responsibility to judge the evidence here. it is yours. you are the judges of the facts and you are responsible for deciding whether the defendant is guilty or not guilty. these 12 jurors are the quote judges of the facts. only they have the power to d