to the editor and chief of a english language onlin publication about israel bosto in, called 9 to 7 i asked about his perspectiv on the progress as a member of the israeli left the israeli public has woke up to what it means to have fa right run its country an they ve started to break up to realize that these people have been waiting in the wings, but empowers for decades if i can make an analogy to th united states and th republican party, the attemp to enshrine authoritarian lie can the u.s., to take over state legislatures and ensur that next time there is an election to make sure that the republicans are able t basically stop the count o reverse the cow or make sure that a democratic candidate is not elected, it s different in the israeli system
straight week. at the same, time a new wave o violence has kicked off betwee israeli forces and pets dillio militants amidst a holy week for both jews and muslims. i want to bring in nbc, is raf sanchez, who s in tel aviv for us raf, what led, if you will, to this latest round of violence. talk to us about what happened over the past 24 hour or so. , well yasmin, just the last couple of minutes the israel dispense ministry has announce new restrictions on crossing from the occupied west ban into israel, as well as ne restrictions on the very few people who can cross from gaza and israel which is a way of signalin that from israeli perspectiv this is not over yet as we, speak there is a majo man hunt underway in the occupied west bank israeli forces are looking ver suspected palestinian gunmen who killed two israeli sisters yesterday. their mother is still in the hospital, she is in critical condition right now fighting for her life
tuesday. we have heard over and ove again the historic nature of a president of the united states being criminally indicted fo the first time can you put this in perspectiv for us well, it s obviously somber moment. it is a somber moment. i ll tell you why i say that i think if you want to understand this, you have to g back to something donald trump said when he was running for president in january - and iowa he said, i could shoot someone of fifth avenue, i would not face any - that turns out to be true. he didn t shoot anyone, bu he s done pretty muc everything else. including, been charged fo something, the facts of th case being precisely wha michael cohen went to jail for michael cohen being by the trump justice department, this whole mess of, whatever you want to call what s really sad though, alex is that it s scary that nothin will change their minds abou donald trump we re not above the la territory, we re in demigo territory. people think he can commit n wrong. what sad
meaning that because he s in florida, it s not actually legally required for him t surrender. he could sit on his rights and say, come extradite me fro florida it may sound weird to people, but because of our state system, h would be indicted in new yor and would technically brin someone who is resisting arrest, they would have to extradite him from florida i could imagine a number o reasons why the former president wouldn t want to g through that process that woul involve governor desantis and somewhat protracted lega proceeding, but ultimately, don t think that there i really a snowball s chance tha donald trump would prevail a that it may just be a battl maneuver from his perspectiv to surrender to those charges, and then try to delay things a that point well, sam, trump s team has come from last night tha trump s going to hold his firs official campaign rally next saturday in waco texas
justice department found michael cohen guilty that same justice department this is the federal justic department, says that michae cohen s actions were directe by individual number one, whic we know to beat donald trump and that this wasn t legitimat expenses for legal fees and th like, but that it was hush money. now the most important fac about this is that that was no the obama justice department making that finding. it was not the merrick garland justice department making that finding, it was donald trump s own justice department tha made that finding in federal court. so, you know, when you hear al this talk about this is al politicized in the like, i think it is important to remember that trump s ow justice department drew similar conclusion back then but of course there was doctrine that said that sittin presidents could be indicted for federal crimes trump is no longer a sitting president. i tell, you that perspectiv