Welcome to cnn this morning. Im poppy harlow with Phil Mattingly in new york. Erin burnett is live in tel aviv. A hostage released by hamas yesterday is now speaking. She is tell her story this morning at the hospital. 85yearold Yocheved Lifshitz told reporters how she was abducted and held captive underground for weeks. The grandmother says they stormed her kibbutz and took her away on a motorbike and beat her with sticks. She says they took her in hamas underground Tunnel Network and held had her with four other ginls. They had guards, a doctor and paramedics who took care of them. Hamas had a stockpile of shampoo and other toiletries for hostages to use. There are huge network of tunnels underneath. It looks like a spiderweb. When she first arrived, they told them that they are muslims and they are not going to hurt them. And that they share they ate the same food that the hamas was eating. They have released four hostages as israeli troops gear up to launch an assault by gaza by gr
My own personal funds from the home equity line of credit. To avoid any money being traced back to him that can negatively impact his campaign. He kept on saying over and over again 1020 times i swear to god, bob, i dont have anything to donald trump. Trump is a con man. He asked me to pay off an Adult Film Star with whom he had an affair. He said specifically and i crossexamine him on this this was my idea. I was extremely proud to be personal attorney to the president of the United States. I did not want to go to the white house. When he was elected he took the whole trumps inner circle to washington with one exception. Michael cohen. They left him back in new york. Michael cohen was very unhappy about that. This will deftly get reversed but after the election probably if he gets convicted and thats what they want. Sandra former president Donald Trumps defense team getting other crack today question the prosecutions star witness and former trump lawyer Michael Cohen. It comes after c
Have a spending problem because we spend too much money. What about being on trial and an all trial in court and in the polls it shows its not hurting him. Restraining israel and r emaining in their borders and having iron dome resupply and thats it. Theyll sit there and wait to be hit. This makes no sense. I want cases decided on the merits and not on politics but theres Thomas Mancino question z georgia is. Less hostile terrain for donald trump. Its willingness to use the fight of the jewish people f ighting for political benefit and turn around and kick israel in the face. And my big concern for biden is the policies. Stuart i know that song. Tempations and its 60 degrees on a cloudy day and its 11 00 eastern time and nasdaq up 30 and s p up 18. Big tech northeastly higher this morning. All of them are higher except for alphabet down a mere 20cents. The rest are up. 10year treasury yield, 4. 5 . No, down a bit at 4. 48 . Now this, how does he get away with it . He sits down for a ra
House divided. Rebel republicans depose their own speaker. A first in u. S. History. Kevin mccarthy out in less than five months, blasting his political enemies. You all know matt gaetz. You know it was personal. Whats next with no plan, no clear successor and the gop deeply divided with the next potential Government Shutdown now just weeks away. Were live in washington. Breaking overnight, campus shooting. Gunfire erupts at a college in baltimore. The school placed on lockdown. And this morning the gunman still on the loose. Decision day. Hospitals, doctors offices and pharmacies bracing for what could be the Largest Health care strike ever. Tons of workers threatening to walk off the job in a matter of hours. Well have the latest. Remarkable rescue. New details on the kidnapping or that 9yearold girl abducted on a bike ride. What her family is saying this morning and the Unanswered Questions about the suspect. We want to make sure that hes not connected with any other cases. This the
Pacific. Right now former President Trump is in a courtroom in New York City as the Civil Fraud Trial against him begins. His Business Empire on the line. On capitol hill, a Government Shutdown has been averted for now. But theres a new crisis for House Speaker Kevin Mccarthy. Well talk to congressman Steven Horsford about that, and get his reaction. At the Supreme Court, Justice Clarence thomas has recused himself from a january 6th case for the very first time. Well explain why. And this weekend, large groups of migrants, mostly from venezuela made their way across the border navigating through razor wire to get to shore. Well speak about why they are fleeing their homes in my sitdown interview with the former interim president juan gaido, who is now living in exile in the United States. We begin in New York City where right now former President Trump is inside a courtroom where his massive Business Empire is on the line. Just moments ago nbc news got a look inside that very courtroo