hello, i m dana bash with wolf blitzer in washington. a historic courtroom clash. right now former president donald trump is testifying in his own defense in his new york civil fraud trial, and within minutes of trump taking the stand, a battle with the judge quickly unfolded. judge arthur engoron accused trump of making long-winded speeches, the judge told defense attorneys, i beseech you to control him, if you can. if you can t, i will. the former president of the united states is accused of inflating the value of his various properties by billions of dollars to acquire loan and insurance benefits, and the stakes for trump are high right now. he potentially could lose his certificate to do business in new york, and pay very hefty fines, in the millions and millions of dollars. cnn s kaitlan collins is just outside the courthouse, long with chief correspondent paula reid. paula, what are we hearing from trump s testimony so far today? has it been smoother this hour? repo
strikingly densely populated refugee camp for days prompting international outcry. jeremy bowen has the latest. tank rumbles. tonight, israel says it has surrounded gaza city. an army statement said that soldiers were attacking hamas positions. explosion. gunfire. ..places where it launches rockets, and killing terrorists. israel has increased the tempo of its ground war in gaza. the army said its soldiers needed to be resilient is the coming weeks, and a ceasefire was not on the table. the troops have been visited by israel s prime minister benjamin netanyahu. translation: icall- on the uninvolved, get out - get out, move south because we will not quit our efforts to eliminate the hamas terrorists. we will advance, we will advance and win. hamas has released its own video, it said, of an attack against an israeli tank in the zeitoun area east of gaza city. hamas said it would make gaza a cursed place for israel and send more of its troops home in body bags. israel hit bure
israel has been striking the densely populated refugee camp for days, prompting international outcry. jeremy bowen has the latest. tank rumbles. tonight, israel says it has surrounded gaza city. an army statement said that soldiers were attacking hamas positions. explosion. gunfire. ..places where it launches rockets, and killing terrorists. israel has increased the tempo of its ground war in gaza. the army said its soldiers needed to be resilient is the coming weeks, and a ceasefire was not on the table. the troops have been visited by israel s prime minister benjamin netanyahu. translation: icall- on the uninvolved, get out - get out, move south because we will not quit our efforts to eliminate the hamas terrorists. we will advance, we will advance and win. hamas has released its own video, it said, of an attack against an israeli tank in the zeitoun area east of gaza city. hamas said it would make gaza a cursed place for israel, and send more of its troops home in body b
Times. it is unclear how that helps republicans. the other issue is donald trump backed a lot of candidates in the primary but one thing, he didn t do much for them. mitch mcconnell. i know people revile him in the republican party some places, but he went full stop for these candidates, raised lots of money and helped drag them across the finish line. and i wonder what would have happened in donald trump did that. i will be curious to see what he does in the georgia runoff, if he just says oh, he got my endorsement, that s enough or if he really puts the money there and helps herschel walker. dana: i know you watch and observes president as communicators. yesterday afternoon president biden gave a press conference. he seemed upbeat. he didn t lose as much as he thought he would.
Donald trump junior, eric donald trump, ivanka trump and earlier trump junior had testified in the russia investigation. this sort of thing happens a lot. what republicans will be looking at is hunter biden s business dealings specifically his foreign business dealings and more specifically how those may have intersected with his father. it will be a joe biden investigation more than a huntser biden investigation. dana: we ll see how that goes. the president gave the press conference yesterday. you have watched many presidents and observed them as they usually do lose seats in a mid-term. president biden s reaction yesterday. president biden: i will do everything in my power to reunite the country. hard to sustain yourself as a leading democracy in the world if you can t generate some unity. so i m not going to change anything in any fundamental way. dana: he said he wanted to compromise and heard the american people and not going to