All right. Thank you so much im going to let your husband know your birthday present. Thats right thanks so much to all of you for being with us. We appreciate it. Its time for anderson good evening. Welcome to our continuing special problems on coverage of the trump at new york Hush Money Trial De 40 ten. So im prosecutor focus or for current bookkeeper a former white house staffer on how closely their boss wants to every dollar, including far smaller sums and his Jackson Michael cohen, also day two of crossexamination for Stormy Daniels, perhaps at the defendants behest, whether or not it helped his case. And after the jury left to defense motions, one, to modify by the gag order that mr. Trump is under to allow them to talk about Stormy Daniels the other asking for a mistrial for the second time this week, John Juan Merchan denying the Gag Order Motion saying and i quote, your clients track record speaks for itself. He also denied the Mistrial Motion, which the defense had based on
Intent of killing innocent civilians, women, children, babies, beheading babies. This is a barbaric, disgusting, vile Terrorist Regime that needs to be eliminated. And israel has every right to defend itself and its right to exist. And they should take any and all action necessary to do that. Congressman mike lawler, we appreciate the overtime with you in having a very broad conversation. Please keep us posted on whether you plan to support speaker scalise if you wind up speaking with him later today or not. Thanks so much. Thanks. Of course. Still plenty more news to come. Stay with announcer this is cnn Breaking News. Im Boris Sanchez live in washington, d. C. Alongside anderson cooper, who is in tel aviv, israel. And we are tracking major developments on capitol hill and in the middle east. Republican congressman Steve Scalise has just locked down the republican nomination for House Speaker. A full vote to determine if he will become the 56th Speaker Of The House is potentially comi
Id front next israel could be just days away from a military operation on rafah. Fareed zakaria joins us. Lets go out front good evening. Im Erin Burnett Outfront tonight. A dramatic moment in court as trumps former gatekeeper and confidence on hope hicks broke down on the stand. Hicks was sitting just feet away from her former boss. This is the moment caught by the Sketch Artist immediately got emotional when trumps team began the crossexaminatio n and asked her about her time at Trump Organization now, that was that particular moment. The reality is from the moment he picks walked into that courtroom, the atmosphere change. This is an important witness. Are reporters who were there say it was almost electric in terms of the change in the room, hicks is as inner circle for trump as it gets and she did prove to be a key witness of the witnesses so far revealing never before known details that frankly were crucial to both sides for the prosecution. When asked if Michael Cohen would have
Times. We have a rogue judge who rules that a property is a tiny infraction, and we have a racist Attorney General who is a horror show on the basis that she would get trump before she knew anything about me and she used this to run for governor and failed. She had no following and came back and said, i will go back to get trump again, and this what we have. It is a scam and a sham. Just so you know that my Financial Statements are phenomenal, and they are actually less in terms of the numbers used all right. You are listening to donald trump speaking, and we know for now that this is a Campaign Event for donald trump exactly. And yes, he is going to be looking to what appears in the courtroom may be incidental compared to what he feels he can get out of it for campaign purposes. You heard him going after the judge and the Attorney General in this case, and again, this is no longer a bug of the campaign, but this is the legal operation that he is facing right now. And one thing that we
Events at issue in this case i asked her what trump is going through right now, look, it just really sucks to be in court to be a defendant. It is just one of the stressful things you could possibly go through and of course trump being who he is, everything takes on an extraordinary nature. But for anyone to be in that seat, its one of the worst things you can go through and your entire life david, i think really importantly, we should note here for people who may say, why is this guy testifying and revealing all this information . He has an Immunity Agreement prevent exactly with the government. So hes been involved, if interestingly, going back to about approximately 2017 he has been involved in these investigations into whether this was criminal conduct, these Hush Money Payments. This was first something that was primarily investigated at the federal level or the manhattan district attorney, the state investigation took took a little bit of backseat as they often do when youre deal