Now, were following two major breaking stories tonight he case begins. Its the first time a former us president as ever stood trial. On criminal charges. Jury selection now underway as the judge, the Defense Attorneys and the prosecutors marrow down a massive list of potential jurors to find the 12th New Yorkers who will consider trumps fate also tonight, The Middle East on edge after israel vows to exact a price for an iranian attack, what israeli official tells Cnn The War Cabinet is determined to act, but its still unclear where, when and how the idf might retaliate the white house, meanwhile, urging calm in the region as President Biden turns his focus to diplomacy and deescalation welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world im wolf blitzer, a urine the Situation Room the skis, cnn, Breaking News we begin our coverage tonight in new york. Were Donald Trumps historic criminal trial is finally underway. The court adjourning for the day just a short time ago
Speaker mike johnson and walk trump will make a public appearance with johnson, a big question is, will he give the Speaker A Public show of support . Johnson is facing a serious its challenge to his leadership. Gop congresswoman Marjorie Taylor greene is Still Standing firm on her threat to force a vote to remove johnson as Speaker Trump and johnson are expected to deliver remarks on wait for it election, integrity. Remember, johnson played a key role in trumps efforts to overturn the logit jim, it results of the 2020 election. We are told the two are planning to draw attention to alleged efforts to allow ncitizens to vo. Wehould note currently federal law bans noncitizens from voting in federal elections if they do, which th often do not, they riskajor fines up to a year in prison and rtees i want to bring in cnns melani what more do we know about why speaker johnson feels that he needs to go marao to kiss theing mieah. Brianna, this is a big ment for speaker joson, on the line right
Ron goldman. Then watching simpson flee police in a white ford bronco at a angeles highway, people literally lining up on the road to see this kind of low speed chase. Cnn since tom form and certainly remembers time you covered what would be one of, if not honestly, the most historic highprofile murder trial in the United States of america. Yeah, i covered it along with i think eve National Correspondent in T Wesrn Hemphere at e time, jake, look, this was real just a ground shaking trial ll, it was absolutely la in the troom. Sometimes f you thought to yourself a little, this is really simply a cal muer trial. And yet the implicatio were so broad at the time, i think l of us do. It was changing our society and changing theay news would be covered. Forever r lese believe that that oj simpson is in that car forwo hours over 60 miles, almost 30 ars ago, the low speed pursuit of an American Icon became an american sensation. People were Leavingir Homes Antheir work and wherever they were a
edition of hannity . i m judge jeanine pirro, in fore sean. and we begin with breaking news. moments ago. israel approved what prime minister benjamin netanyahu was callinmoments g a lull in the fg with hamas. in exchange, hamas will reportedly return 50 hostages, women and children, during a four day pause in fighting. and just in reuter ess. is reporting that hamas has also just agreed to there deal. here now with the very latest from tel aviv, alex hogan is with us. alex. hi, judge jeanine, thiass major is major news after weeks of trying to strike a deal. israel tonight nweeks rying sas approved this hostage negotiation deal and what this would dohie , allowing the reley of 50 hostages, women, in and children in exchange for a four day cease fire as well. the release of palestinians currently being detained in israentlyl. israel also tonight says that if ten additional hostages released every single day, that would allow another pauseed in the fighting. we have heard
also, why in the world does the united states find itself number one on a top-10 list with yemen, iraq, and serbia? i ll explain. but first, here s my take. mitt romney has picked a bad time to launch an attack on barack obama s foreign policy. as he was speaking to the annual gathering of the veterans of foreign wars this week, charging obama with weakness, betrayal, and man dacity. there s a new poll on. handling foreign policy, americans prefer obama to romney by a whopping 15 points. romney s principal charge against obama is that he has angered america s allies and emboldened its enemies. shabby treatment of one of our finest friends. well, it turn out again that there s some recently released data that contradicts the claim. the pew foundation released one of its global surveys in june, soliciting opinions from several countries around the world. when asked if they have some or a lot of trust in president obama, the numbers are overwhelmingly positive across most