Get robin has gold and make your cash or and 5 apy joined today and get your burst 30 days free. Im more in liebermann at the pentagon. And this cnn welcome to the lead on jake tapper. This hour, the combative crossexamination of Michael Cohen has Donald Trumps legal team picks apart his testimony in the New York City hush money cover up case. Who will the defense call if anyone will, trump himself. Take the stand. The former president has evolved on that question, plus israels deadly strikes in gaza, local hospitals reporting at least 40 People Killed. Israel says they were targeting hamas War Room Imbedded in gaza. Here, what winning . This is told cnn about the attack and a reversal from President Biden announcing new tariffs on chinese goods, but didnt he knock trump for that when he was candidate biden will roll the tape lets start the hour with the hush money cover up case, though. Cnns paula reid, is that the court but in manhattan, paula, today the defense got its first crack a
Starts now good evening. Welcome to our continuing special coverage of the trump new york Hush Money Trial. I was privileged which to watch some of day 11 inside the courtroom. Today was both fascinating was fascinating to see up close. Hope hicks, once a top advisor to former president , testifying for the prosecution recounting first the access Hollywood Tape coming out, then the Stormy Daniels and Karen Mcdougal revelations finishing her direct testimony with a potentially damaging account of what the former president s said in retrospect when the daniel story finally broken 2018, then moments later, hope hicks started crying. Hicks in that final answer saying, quote, it was mr. Trumps opinion that it was better to be dealing with it now and that it would have been bad to have that story come out before the flexion, which could bolster the prosecution case that the former president was motivated by campaign and not necessarily Family Concerns and suppressing both that and the Karen
is running in to a buzz saw. this moment forcing the first of what could be more presidents resignations to come. remember this. at penn, does calling for the genocide of jews violate penn s rules or code of conduct? yes or no. if the speech turns in to conduct, it can be harassment, yes. i m asking calling for the genocide of jews, does that constitute bullying or harassment? if it is directed, it s harassment. so the answer is yes? it s a context dependent decision. that s your answer? calling for the genocide of jews is context? it s not bullying or harassment? this is the easy answer. that was the university of penn s president and harvard and mit and perhaps others next? when cnn lays in to this story with this monologue yesterday, we may finally be seeing a tipping point in america. listen closely to his words. american universities have been neglecting a core focus on excellence in order to pursue a variety of agendas. many of them clustered around di