It also looks at all cachet, just not federal cachet, but state or local cash assistance programs and barring some of them getting a green card or entering the United States. It English Proficiency as a positive factor or lack of proficiency has a negative factor. It would look at medical conditions, whether or not they have private Health Insurance and whether or not theyve ever used a fee waiver to waive a filing fee for past immigration application. It would also allow to potentially overcome a public charge determination if they pay a bond, the minimum amount of which would be 8,100. The rule will not take effect until midoctober, until that time, all pending green card applications and those that are postmarked before that date, october 15, 2019 will be adjudicated under what our current standards for public charge. As i mentioned, under existing policy, the only programs i look at our federal cachet that people receive, and whether or not they are in long term institutionalized c
Beco i was born here, i grew up here. I see whats happening with this judicial system. And is all kangaroos. To rule from the bench and determine its a witch hunt. It needs decisiveness. We have phenomenal we have won the case many standard. John thats a look as they return to the courtroom as the Criminal Trial enters its final stretch. About one hour and 15 minutes away from that lom don roberts in washington. Here we go again, sandra. Sandra we do, im sandra smith in new york and this is america reports. Witness testimony has wrapped, both sides have rested their cases. We await the ever important Jury Instructions. The judge to hear arguments from the prosecution and defense teams on exactly how the jury should be charged before they had into deliberations. Sandra we have an allstar team of legal and political voices to take us through the next two hours. John first the former federal prosecutor trey gaudi has been in the courtroom all morning and, trey, if they wrap up the case no
Michael cohen testifying. I watched him inside the courtroom where cohen was speaking against his former boss just a few feet away. Defense started their Cross Examination. We have been reporting on that along with our colleagues here. How it has been going. Asanother pivotal day. Michael cohen back on the stand. Trumps former fixer Michael Cohen taking the anstand. It is a whole new game this afternoon. This is the moment we have been waiting for. The crossexamination. Will cohen keep his cool when trumps lawyers begin an intense crossexamination . It has been an explosive last hour of testimony. It is getting testy. Michael cohen is about 45 minutes now into todd blanches crossexamination. Donald trumps attorneys attempted to shred the credibility of the star witness. That is some of what went down. Prosecutors have you confirmed something new. Cohen is their last witness which means they are on track to rest their case here because there will just be this Cross Examination i told yo
Continues. Host we are joined by ronald sullivan, a criminal professor of law at Harvard University a professor of law at Harvard University. Guest thank you for having me. Host how difficult is it to find partial given that the defendant is a former president. Guest in normal circumstances it is difficult to find an impartial juror come even more difficult in highprofile cases and even more difficult when the defendant is a former president. We have seen the process work in the way it should. The board methodically and slowly went through the process and so far we have 12. We still have to get the alternates. In all likelihood, in very short order, we will have a jury. Host can you explain what does it mean for the jury to be impartial or at least for them to look up impartial jurors . In this case and it cannot be that you dont know who the defendant is. Guest that is right. I will start by explaining what it is not. An impartial juror does not mean injured or who does not know about
Host good morning it is friday, april 19. A vote is scheduled for the house to take out a foreign aid package tomorrow. It would be 26 billion to israel and 8 billion to taiwan. We are discussing the bill with the reporter and here are the phone lines to wait in. For republicans 202 7488001, for democrats 202 7488000, for independents 202 7488002 you can send a text at 202 7488003 include your first name, city, state and on facebook at facebook. Com cspan and x cspanwj. Before we get started i wanted to update you on a news item because israel has retaliated against iran in retaliation for drones launched last weekend it is not clear the damage the limited strike caused but it was intended to signal that israel had the ability to strike inside the country. A second person said the strike was carefully calibrated. We will update you us more information comes in throughout the program. Getting back to the foreign aid packages i wanted answer introduce Joe Perticone we will put on the scr