will not be the final witness in the civil fraud trial against his business organization. we ll go through the last-minute reversal from the former president. also ahead, we ll bring you the latest from the middle east. israel continues to strike what it calls hamas strongholds in southern gaza. it comes as we are learning more about some of the hostages still held by the terrorist group. plus, a controversial ruling in the state of texas. that state supreme court is blocking an abortion for a woman whose fetus has a fatal diagnosis. good morning and welcome to way too early on this monday, december 11th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day and week with us. we ll begin here. former president trump will not, after all, testify in his own defense at his$250 million fraud trial. he was scheduled to take the stand today, but in a last-minute reversal, it was announced late yesterday he would not testify i his defense at all. he was previously called to t
another thing to know about him, post conviction, post sentencing, after his trial, after hisng sentencing, he chand lawyers. he got himself a new lawyer. a like-minded lawyer, a segregationist, a bit of a weirdo. and his new lawyer represented him during the time he escaped from prison, but he and his new lawyer also cooked up a scheme by whiched they would recant jas earl ray s confession. even though he confessed, he pled guilty, they took it back. they said he hadn t done it. they don t know why he confessed. it was crazy. a moment of madness. he didn t do it.n and they cooked up a scheme they would blame the assassination of martin luther king on a mysterious man named raul. who is raul? there s no raul. they made up that much about it but never got much further with that. james earl ray is in prison