We have to have a better understanding from the israelis about what they want to do. We have had several staff talks with them. We intend to do that more. They have assured us they were not going to rafah until we have had a chance to share our concerns with them. Reporter there have been working level conversations between the israelis and the Biden Administration over the last several weeks about the administrations concerns and thoughts about what israel could do differently in rafah. We are still waiting to hear, alex, exactly whether the u. S. Recommendations are being taken to heart and will be used in rafah to try to mitigate some of the death weve been saying in gaza over the last 67 months. The donald trump trial through the eyes of a former insider, sarah matthews. She gives me her take on her testimony in our next hour. Hou very good day to all of you. Now to donald trump busy week ahead in the Hussman Trial. There is no hearing on monday. Trent will be back in the defendant
His Home State Governor is now urging the democrat to resign from the u. S. Senate. This as menendez has already been forced to step down at least for now as the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. First lets go to cnns kara scannell. Shes outside the courthouse in new york where the charges were announced. Kara, the new jersey governor isnt the only one calling for menendez to resign. Reporter theres a growing chorus of lawmakers frommage new jersey calling for Senator Menendez to step down. Thats after federal prosecutors announced this allegedly brazen bribery scheme. They detailed how an fbi search of the senators home turned up the proceeds of this alleged crime. Some of the cash was stuffed in the senators jacket pockets. Reporter indicted again. New jersey senator bob menendez facing corruptionrelated charges for the second time in ten years. Prosecutors announcing a threecount federal indictment against the democratic senator and his wife over their dealings wit
And more, allegedly trading his influence to benefit business associates, and egypt. Also tonight, ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy takes his appeal for western aid to canada after getting a mixed reception from top officials here in washington. This, as Ukrainian Forces target russianoccupied crimea with new attacks. And President Biden leads donald trump in cnns exclusive new poll from New Hampshire. Well break down the numbers and signs that anger at trump that outweigh concerns about bidens age in a potential rematch. Welcome to our viewers here in the United States, and around the world, im wolf blitzer, youre in the situation room. Announcer this is cnn Breaking News. We begin with the federal Criminal Indictment of a powerful senate democrat, democrat bob menendez temporarily giving up his post as Foreign Relations Committee Chair as he faces corruptionrelated charges for the second time in ten years. Cnns Senior Justice Correspondent Evan Perez is working to support the
what is acceptable from a political candidate in one of america s two political parties when it comes to inciting threats of violence. an urgent plea today from manhattan district attorney alvin bragg to keep in place the gag order against trump. prosecutors asking judge juan merchan to extend much of the gag order imposed on the ex-president in that hush money election interference case. bragg s team argues that merchan no longer needs to enforce the ban on statements about trial witnesses, but they do ask that the gag order remain in place when it comes to jurors, prosecutors, court staff, and their families. they note that trump s request to lift the gag order is filled with what we on this program might describe as nonsense. quote, the people note that defendant s motion once again includes a number of categorically false accusations. for example, the defendant claims that the d.a. is acting in concert with the defendant s electoral opponent and unspecified cast of associ
his new boston globe op-ed is titled in defense of maine s secretary of state shenna bellows s courageous decision to keep trump off the ballot. professor tribe, i want to go to the new information we have tonight in donald trump s legal filing in maine. point one is he did not engage in insurrection. those words are in quotation marks, engage, an insurrection, leaning heavily on whatever the legal definition of engage and insurrection turns out to be in this case. that s exactly what we would expect. there s nothing new about that. shenna bellows held a hearing in which she considered all the legal materials relevant and all the factual evidence including the evidence developed at the january 6th congressional hearings in which