south without today welcome back to our special coverage of donald trump s manhattan hush money trial. it is the first criminal trial el of a former president i m erin burnett outside the courthouse in new york and wolf blitzer, of course is with me from our nation s capital today. so far the judge i just heard heated arguments over evidence and trump s social media posts as the former president was seated with his defense attorneys, he s been in the room all morning. trump facing 34 felony counts of falsifying business records stemming from payments that were made to adult film star stormy daniels payments allegedly made to stop her from speaking publicly about their alleged affair prosecutors say the six-figure sum was part of an illegal scheme to hide damaging information from voters in 2016, it is the motive and that reason that is at the heart of this case trump leads not guilty. and in moments, courts will, the court will reconvene. there s been a lunch break. jur
free, visit otter.ai. ai or download the app i m melanie zanona. on capitol hill, and this is cnn you are in the cnn newsroom. hi everyone. i m jessica dean in new york. we have breaking news out of northern gaza tonight where israel s prepared to reopen the erez border crossing. and to use its port of ashdod to get humanitarian aid into gaza. just hours before the israel-hamas war reaches the sixth month mark. this is the un humanitarian aid chief calls the situation in gaza a quote, betrayal of humanity with 33,000 people killed there. and many stars just this week, a deadly israeli strike killed seven humanitarian aid workers from world central kitchen. cnn s nic robertson is in jerusalem for us tonight and it gunfire and explosion since we re here today at the erez border crossing what does this tell us and what are you learning yeah, we went down to the border crossing today to see what the premise variations. werther would be going on for the expected aid convoys
are back and we re out for redemption new season. you challenged gtd good morning. you are alive in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington today president biden will hold a phone call with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu there will almost certainly be tense and administration official says the president is angry and will voices frustration over israel s military killing of seven aid workers in gaza this week, the founder of that organization world central kitchen, jose andres is calling for an independent investigation and says the idf systematically targeted his groups, aid workers. a cnn analysis of videos of the aftermath shows the attacks appear to have been multiple precision strikes outside of the conflict zone. the entire convoy, two armored cars and another truck what struck these was not used. bad lag situation where, oops we dropped the bomb in the wrong place or not. this was over 1.51, 0.8 kilometers with a very defined humanitarian
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if you ever miss an episode, the lead, you can listen to the show went to get your patent happening now, breaking news, donald trump returns house from our sources inside the meeting, including the moment the former president shook hands with one of his toughest critics turned supporter, senate minority leader mitch mcconnell, plus, we re following president biden at the g7 summit in italy, where he just signed a historic ten year sure security agreement with ukraine. the ukrainian ambassador to the united states joins me this hour. also tonight, fulton county district attorney, fani willis is lashing out at her critics. what the woman leading the trump prosecution in georgia said about her detractors during a fiery speech at a church welcome to our viewers. here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer a year in the situation room the skis, cnn breaking news first up tonight, donald trump s trip here to washington where he s trying to unify republican la