also this hour, hamas and its money, how the terrorist group is funding its side of the war, its big money tunnel exploration. my guest ahead was a finance tractker at the treasury department a historic day in a new york courtroom, donald trump taking the stand in the civil fraud case that could bring down his family empire in new york, new york. he repeatedly went back and forth with the judge who accused trump of rambling in long-winded testimony. trump today called the case election interference as he runs for president in 2024. he called the new york attorney general who brought this case a political hack and a racist. let s go to cnn s paula reid who is outside the courthouse. trump s strategy on the stand not surprisingly attack, attack, attack. his lawyers debating a motion for a mistrial. where do things stand? reporter: jake, after all the chaos and those contentious exchanges in court today, it does appear that the attorney general s office was able to elicit so
might hurt him in any one of his criminal cases? not just high stakes, high unprecedented stakes. great point, john. trump is expected to be leaving trump tower any minute now for what has become an oddly familiar drive to the manhattan courthouse where once inside he could speak to cameras set up in the hallway. he s done it many times before. but today is different. he will then head into the courtroom where cameras are not allowed, have not been allowed since the start of this. once in court wild dynamics comes into play including while testifying trump will be sitting next to a judge that he publicly called a wacko, unhinged and also trump hating. talk about weird dynamics there. this marks the first time that trump himself is facing extensive courtroom questioning since he left the white house, even before opening arguments some, you know, month and plus ago. this judge already found that donald trump is liable for persistent and repeated fraud, and since then has fine
hello. i m dana bash with wolf blitzer in washington. it is the top of the hour and we re tracking this historic and chaotic donald trump testimony in new york. the former president is taking the stand in his own defense, facing a civil fraud trial that could determine his future as a businessman and his political prospects. court is in recess for lunch. so far, trump has been on the stand for nearly three hours. and, dana, he s used much of that time to filibuster and rail against the judge, and that s very significant. trump keeps attacking and disobeying the judge, even though the fate of trump s family business is in that judge s hands. there is no jury in this civil trial. we have cnn s indkate kaitlan collins outside the courthouse. bring us up to speed the testimony that has gone on and what we anticipate. reporter: yeah, wolf, it has been tense, to say the least, inside that courtroom. there was a brief period where the judge was not as frustrated with trump as he
anthony blinken, it makes a surprise trip to the west bank to meet with the president of the palestinian authority. we are live with the latest from the secretary s continuing push for humanitarian pause. meanwhile, the war between israel and hamas has triggered a spike in antisemitism and islamophobia at home. jonathan greenblatt, director of the anti-defamation league has here in studio to talk about how we can stand up to hate. supreme showdown and justices are under scrutiny for receiving lavish gifts. senator sheldon whitehouse of the senate judiciary committee joins me live to discuss plans to subpoena some of the billionaires at the center of the controversy. daddy daughter week. donald trump is set to take the stand tomorrow in a civil fraud trial just days before his daughter, a blanca, is put on the hot seat. but their testimony could mean for the family business, and for the twice impeached, four times indicted of 91 counts, former president. i m jonathan capehart.
u.s. secretary of state antony blinken speaking moments ago during an unannounced trip to iraq as he continues his high-stakes trip through the middle east as the israel-hamas war intensifies. here is what he had to say. we just finished meetings here in bagdad. we started with a briefing for our entire team at the embassy about the security situation. as you know, there have been a series of attacks directed at our personnel, both in iraq as well as in syria. job number one for me is to ensure the security of our people. so i got an update on everything we re doing to make sure our personnel are safe and secure. in addition, i had a good, productive, candid meeting with the prime minister. there were two areas of focus. the first was to reaffirm our commitment to our partnership with iraq. we ve made tremendous progress with iraq in recent years, particularly working with the iraqi government on everything from economic reform, to energy independence, helping to strengthen