Briefly, but hes not staying for the dinner. Jerry bernard, great to have you do for that and thank you all so much for joining us. Cnn news, node starts right now Donald Trumps pitch to black voters versus the real story thats tonight on these value good evening. Im abby phillip in new york and tonight, the former president goes home. He was right here in new york rallying a crowd of thousands, promising a new york turnaround ive seen new york through good times and bad through boom times and crime waves through Market Crashes and terrorist attacks but ive never seen it quite like this right now. You dont have public spaces. Theyre occupied by migrants, intense that happened in the bronx. What is historically the most democratic burrow in the city, and lead us to say it is an unlikely spot for a republican to Campaign Obama won by 81, 91 let the vote here in 2012, biden won nearly 84 in 2020. But trump sees an opportunity and opening with black and hispanic voters. Even as he makes a
Heads into unchartered territory. Donald trump could potentially learn within a few days if these the first former president of the United States to be convicted of crimes at the same time, hes gearing up for the early he is president ial debate between General Election candidates in modern history, cnns Kristen Holmes as more on trumps efforts to rally support at this critical moment former President Donald Trump training the courtroom for the campaign trail this Holiday Weekend, were going to win so big as the jury in his criminal hush, money trial is poised to begin deliberations in his case next week. As he continues to try and make inroads with black and hispanic voters. I did criminal Justice Reform at a level that nobody told was fine. Us all again. And i did that dr. Julie for the black and hispanic community, trump making a Campaign Stop in the bronx thursday night. The simple fact is joe biden is not getting the job done for the bronx at that event, trump weighing in for the
Following these stories and so much more lead with jake tapper starts right now these cnns Breaking News walkability. And im jake tapper. We start with Breaking News stark scenes of division protest, arrests, and the time in this blatant antisemitism sweeping College Campuses will bring you to the university of Texas In Austin in just a minute. Were police in riot gear just encircled a group of protesters. Summer grass tebor reportedly been made, but first this afternoon at Columbia University in new york, Student Protesters just blew past 2 00 p. M. Deadline to clear the encampment or risk suspension or even expulsion, according to columbia administrators students circled the tenths as a group of Student Leaders addressed the crowd. Take a listen you can see outside you now that are mobilized theres hundred of them here today. They will not be weak divest we will not be moved on rough by force right now, the new York Police Department is on Standby Waiting for an official order from t
will be back in the room right now seeing a news night with abby. phillip starts the jury is deciding donald trump s fate and he is invoking mother teresa. that s tonight on newsnight good evening. i m abby phillip new york tonight. a jury of 12 men and women are considering whether to make donald trump, the first former president to be convicted of a crime after receiving instructions from the judge today, they deliberated for more than four hours and then they send back to notes. you ll hear what those notes were in just a moment and we ll discuss the significance of each of them. but first, you heard the prosecution and the defense making their closing arguments this week, the jury is deliberating over those right now. but now donald trump is making his own closing argument in the court of public opinion. it won t come as a surprise to you that it needs a hell of a lot of fact-checking i mean, what is very unfair as it i m not campaigning. did this room all day from
Seem to have everything thats been a response to everything that the democrats have done. They announced impeachment charges, Michael Horowitz report. Bill barr is out there. Articles are introduced. Horowitz testifies today. On one hand they get exactly what they want. They create sort of confusion about mueller, the obsession to get trump. That story is out there. It seems as if this is part of a strategy the way the Trump Administration has used the government to respond to impeachment. Last night in hershey, pennsylvania, i was there, covering President Trumps rally. He talked about the ig report. He talked about the ongoing Impeachment Inquiry. He claimed that he was spied on. This is the counternarrative that has been building on the Trump Campaign, on the white house side, the Republican Party for a long time. When you read the igs report there was not an intention, according to horowitz, to spy. What was going on was Counterintelligence Investigation about possible russian inte