good morning to you on saturda april the 8th, i m velshi. it is been a short week in american politics. former president donald trum appeared for arraignment i manhattan, criminal cour political tensions are on th front. his extremist ideology wil carry on whether or not he succeeds in getting back to th white house. on tuesday, we saw trump i unfamiliar territory inside courtroom waiting for the judg to give him the criminal charges division filed against him. former president already twice impeached and still currentl facing eleni of other criminal and civil complaints, he pleaded not guilty to the 34 felony accounts of falsifyin business records in relation t the hush money payments made t stormy daniels with whom h allegedly had an affair. trump continues to lie those allegations. he s also reported to making dozens of social media pos criticizing the manhatta district attorney, alvin brang the judge assigned to his case and even their family member who have nothing to do
you can t be. because in a democracy, the government has a moral and legal obligation to tell you the truth, always. period. and that makes sense because in a democracy, you are not a subject or a mere consumer, you re a citizen. you are a shareholder in the system. you are an owner of it. the people who run your government are your employees. they re like your cleaning lady. you may appreciate the work they do, good job, but the minute you catch them stealing your cuff links, you fire them. those are the rules because it s your house, not theirs. but what if the rules were inverted? what if you caught an employee stealing but instead of seeming ashamed and pen tant, he ripped around and attacked you like you were the criminal? well, that is the experience of watching white house spokesman john kirby talking about the destruction of the north stream pipelines. anyone who think that the biden administration was in any way involved with that sabotage, directly or indirectly, is
Oh, wow. Oh, what, what . What . I love. Tonight, events in The Middle East spiraling out midd. Trol i an airstrike at a hospital in gaza has left hundreds dead. But its not what it seems. Hamas claims israel struck the hospital. Israel denies struc it. Fault they say a Faulty Hamaset Rocket fired from gaza hit their own hospital. Number one, israe numl does r target places like hospitals. Theyre not a target for us. S ouldnt and we wouldnt have deliberately hit a hospital. Number two, we know that at the time of the of this tragedyt that hamas was firing a barrage of rockets at tel aviv and thevr center of the country. The idf has just released Surveillance Footage showinghed a rocket launch towards israel, igniting midflight and thendire propelling directly down into gazactly. There that is right there, the surveillance Camera Timestamp also directlyo th corresponds to the moment the hospital was struc thek. The idf also reportedly have recorded a Conversatio N among jihadists that l
Los angeles. The Israeli Military releasing a statement moments ago saying it has killed a senior hamas member involved in planning last saturdays horrific attacks in israel. Murad abu murad was killed in a strike targeting a building in the gaza strip. We also just received some new video showing the damage from the israeli city of ashkelon. Hamas armed wing al qassam saying friday that it launched 150 rockets toward that city. There are now reports whether any israelis. No report, should i say, whether any israelis were injured in that attack. Its been exactly one week now since hamas staged those shocking, brutal and deadly attacks against israel. Israel has been striking back hard all week. Now, the Israeli Military says Commando Units are conducting localized ground raids in gaza. And a short while ago, they also issued a statement that more than 120 civilians are confirmed to be held captive by hamas in gaza. The idf also continuing to pound gaza from the sky. Hundreds of thousan
Smith documents case, where judge Aileen Cannon has a big decision to make, is she going to throw out the testimony of tabarras, the team member whos cooperating with the team. Ken, good to have you. Talk to me about the meadows appeal and the request hes making of the court while the appeal goes forward. Hes requesting that the judge grant a temporary stay of his own order. Which ruled obviously that mark meadows could not have his case removed to Federal Court but that it should go back down to state court. Meadows is saying he could be irreparably harmed by this decision. He wants to appeal and have the judge put a pause on things while he appeals. If this judge doesnt do that, hes going to ask the Appeals Court to do that. Generally you get a stay if you have a chance of winning on appeal, and this judges opinion was pretty resounding that mark meadows didnt meet any of the tests to remove his case to Federal Court, and what the judge said is it was clear that mark meadows, when lo