but now there s news of this damning tape that s put more focus on a different jurisdiction on that federal probe in washington where trump was caught on tape admitting key parts of a crime, including stealing documents after leaving office. the tape is from after he was in the white house, 2021, and that s bad for him based on what he appears to admit, because prosecutors are already using it while gathering their grand jury testimony, and it s showing jurors how trump acknowledges and admits himself on the tape that he had classified materials. this is a total breakthrough in the evidence in this case. real talk some people might say, all right, ari we already know trump took the documents down to mar-a-lago and the feds seized them and took them back. didn t we know all that? yes, but in court to win a case like this, prosecutors must prove, one, the documents were classified. two, trump willfully took or directed action to take the documents. and three, he intended to kee
of lying to pay off a porn star. duelling trump world figures, michael cohen, the star witness in this case, he was disbarred after he did time for multiple felonies. this man, new york attorney robert costello who spent over two years yesterday testifying in front of the grand junior saying that michael cohen, who he once advised cannot be trusted. watch. do you have anything on donald trump? he says no. repeatedly. i swear to god, bob, i don t have anything. then you know, you ve got a guy that probably doesn t have anything. it s a typical donald trump play out of the playbook. figure out how you can muddy the water as best as you can, denigrate the person, disparage them. martha: boy, this is a tangled web. first to john yu a former deputy atist about the attorney general, law professor at the university of california berkeley. great to have you here today, john. you know, it s interesting to see what s going on here. we watched robert costello when he came out. he
i m boris sanchez. and i m paula reid. it is great to be with you. great to be with you as well. i was looking at amara walker s social media. looks like she is skiing somewhere with her family. great for her. and there is a lot to get to. here is some of what we re watching for this morning. wake up, wake up, your house is flooded. and i looked on the ground and there was a flood. he seems to be in a good food fo mood for a natural disaster. california was soaked with another storm and prompted evacuations. would we have the latest on where the severe weather is headed next. and overall we ve created more jobs in two years than any administration has created in their first four years. president biden takes a victory lap following a strong jobs report. where we re seeing those jobs. plus the stunning bank collapse that has some small business owners wondering how they will pay their employees. and in politics, testing the waters. presidential hopefuls swarming i
good morning and welcome to cnn this morning. i m paula reid in for am ara wa walker. and i m boris sanchez. thank you to paula for filling in for amara. i know these hours are not really easy to work, but we re grateful for you being here. and paula, stop me if you ve ever heard of an atmospheric river before. are you familiar with those? i m absolutely not. i had to look it up this morning so i could understand all these incredible stories we re watching this morning. how do you live like this. california soaked by another round of storms. those atmospheric rivers are washing out roads, collapsing bridges and prompting evacuations. the latest on the damage and where the severe weather is headed next. i don t know how we ll do our payroll now. a stunning collapse, silicon valley bank folding marking the second largest bank failure in u.s. history leaving some business owners scrambling to figure out how they will pay their employees. and former president trum
favoring any political ideology. oversight committee sounding the alarm over the biden family business dealings. six additional family members got rich. that brings the total to nine. this is a family affair. this is something that should be troubling to every american. pizza delivery man in the right place at the right time as the suspect happened to run right by him. police thanked the pizza man for an assist and said if he is ever interested in a job, they are hiring. ainsley: this is a fox news alert. brand new video this morning of the detained wall street journal reporter evan gershkovich in a russian courtroom. steve: the journalist is appealing espionage charges leveled by the kremlin against him. pete: alexandria hoff joins us from washington with more. today s hearing has to deal with a an appeal gershkovich keep him detained until trial. the 31-year-old reporter appearing resilient in moscow courtroom today. he was contained within a pen, a glas