we are delivering and you think results matter. so now it s time to put it in the hands of the voters to ask them to send a team to richmond to work with me and not against me. i believe we will hold the house and flip the senate. we have demonstrated that s a license that voters should extend to us after 2021 where we swept in across the state races and flipped the house. that was virginia governor glenn youngkin on a consequential election day particularly in his state. today abortion rights are taking center stage in key races across america. in virginia the state legislature up for grabs. republicans are seeking full control in richmond as youngkin pushes to restrict abortion after 15 weeks. ohio voters deciding if abortion rights will be enshrined in that state s constitution. kentucky, a democrat is fighting for re-election in a deep red state. in mississippi the republican incumbent facing a tougher than expected challenge from elvis cousin. harry, you are not elv
half an hour and they have been taking breaks? that is true. they have been brief breaks, but as we have seen in the past week, they have been taking a length of a break between 11:00 and 11:30, but we don t know the motivation of this break yet. over to kaitlan collins on the courthouse steps. kaitlan? i think that this is going as poorly as it could potentially go. no one thought that it would go well with donald trump on the stand, but the fact that they have taken a break, and they are less than an hour into the testimony and the judge has repeatedly admonished trump and just threatened to remove him from the witness stand and said that he would draw every negative inference that he could, that is not good. that is essentially trump not appearing or taking the fifth, because the judge s discretion here is quite high in making the determination, and the highest actually in making the determination of what these damages are going to look like, because at the heart of
but the only thing that matters are the facts and the numbers and numbers, my friend, don t lie. really election interference. it s all it is. ridiculous. the numbers are much greater. you have a racist attorney general who made some terrible. this showing as trump beating biden in five states. steve kornacki breaks it all down one year ahead of the election. overnight, new israeli air strikes on gaza city now surrounded by israeli tanks and troops where hundreds of thousands of civilians remain now cut off from escape routes from the south. and secretary of state blinken made unannounced stops in the west bank and baghdad after israel s prime minister netanyahu apparently rejected his calls to limit the air strikes and have temporary pauses to aid can get in and americans can get out. good day. former president trump is testifying in his new york civil fraud trial. the case that could collapse his new york real estate business. the judge telling mr. trump s attorne
welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper in washington, d.c. a busy afternoon as we come on the air this afternoon, an historic and contentious day in court has just come to a close. moments ago we saw donald trump leave the courthouse in new york followed by the new york state attorney general letitia james who brought the civil fraud case against mr. trump and the family business. the former president spend the day on the stand repeatedly classing with the judge, the very person who will decide how much the trumps must pay after he already found them liable for fraud. we re going to go to the courthouse in a moment where this case could put trump at risk of losing his entire business operation in new york where he s accused of inflating financial statements. hs ahead, an astounding number coming out of gaza, the p.i.n. mrin stri of health which is controlled by hamas, the palestinian ministry claiming more than 10,000 deaths have taken place in response to the initial hamas
on the stand in new york today? so i increasingly feel, and you ll have to let me know at 7:00. i don t have the training to analyze donald trump anymore. i need a psychologist or a psychiatrist. i don t know how much of this was as some of the journalists suggested was performative deflection, and i don t know how much of this is actual holy you know what, they took my toys, right. i think that he cherishes his company more than democracy. i accept the journalism that supports this trial means more to him than some of the federal ones that are to come. i don t have a good enough answer for you about whether it is performance art or an actual meltdown. quickly, i have to ask, we ve got the political lens, and then we ve got the actual legal lens. i m not going to ask about the legal lens. there s tons to talk about that i ll be going over in the next hour. politically, do you think this was a successful strategy for the former president today? i think those are, you kno