Its mark down book. Cbs evening news starts now. Norah good evening, im norah odonnell, thank you for being with us after a pivotal day in the criminal trial of donald trump. The former president coming facetoface with his onetime personal attorney michael cohen, who gave six hours of detailed testimony under oath, Painting A Behind The Scenes picture of what was happening in the final weeks of the 2016 campaign. The former fixer and inside man detailed how trump personally approved the socalled hush money hush money payouts to hide his stories he believed would hurt him with female voters in his 2016 run for the white house. It was the Stormy Daniels payment and reimbursement disguised as Legal Expenses that is at the heart of this criminal case. Trump is charged with 34 Felony Counts of falsifying Business Records to conceal that information from voters. Reporters in the room say trump spent much of the day in court with his eyes closed. Cbss robert costa was there for todays rivetin
The reporting. Please keep us posted as well on the status of the little boys mother. And cnn this morning continues right now. Announcer this is cnn Breaking News its the top of the hour. Were glad youre with us. Im poppy harlow with Phil Mattingly in new york. Erin burnett live for us in tel aviv, israel. Its 8 00 a. M. Here in new york city, 3 00 p. M. In israel. And right now Antony Blinken is meeting again with israeli leaders. As a dire humanitarian situation is escalating in gaza. Just a short time ago, blinken said that the u. S. Was actively working to make sure that humanitarian assistance like water, food, and medicine could get into gaza. Blinken also said yesterday that a Safe Passageway via the Rafa Crossing would be open. But overnight, those negotiations appear to have stalled. The Israeli Prime Ministers Office saying this morning, quote, at the moment, there is neither a ceasefire nor humanitarian assistance in the Gaza Strip In Return for the exit of foreigners. We a
Directly to Hush Money Payments to Stormy Daniels. Why he says the fo former president was afraid of the Adult Star Story would be a disaster for the 2016 campaign. Its marked down in. Norah Cbs Evening News starts now good evening im Norah Odonnell and thank you for being with us after a pivotal day in the criminal trial of donald trump, the former president coming facetoface with this one time personal Attorney Michael Cohen who gave six hours of detailed testimony under oath, Painting A Behind The Scenes picture of what was happening in the final weeks of the 2016 campaign. The former fixer and inside man detailed how trump personally approved the socalled Hush Money Payouts to hide stories he believed would hurt him with female voters in his 2016 run for the white house. What was the Stormy Daniels payment and that trumps reimbursement to cohen disguised as Legal Expenses that is at the heart of this criminal case. Trump is charged with 34 Felony Counts of falsifying Business Recor
This is cnn Breaking News. Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. We start in the middle east with new stories of the horror, the terror that hamas inflicted on israel. Some of what i am about to describe to you will assuredly be disturbing. A spokesman for the israeli Prime Minister said today that hamas decapitated babies and toddlers. This was part of a brutal massacre that hamas carried out over the weekend. I should note that as of now, cnn has not been able to independently verify the claims. The Israeli Defense forces said hamas brutally butchered, in an isis way of action, women, children, toddlers, and the elderly. This comes as some israelis are also expressing a sense of frustration that their government is not doing enough. Here you can see individuals at hospitals yelling at israels environment minister, telling her that she is responsible, she should go home. Eventually, the crowd forced her to leave the building. As israel and the military continue to pound gaza with rocke
Hamas Firing A Barrage of rockets. This is video of people scrambling in the wreckage as sirens blared in the israeli city of ash ka lon. Come to us. Come to us. Tell me where i go. You can see streaks in the sky. We have seen the iron dome here three miles from the gaza border. A lot of there is one over there coming in. You are going to hear it right up there. Got it. See if we can watch that one. And you can see those Iron Dome Interceptions right above us. This is video of the destruction in gaza this morning. The government warning that all electricity will completely stop and fuel runs out for Hospital Generators today. Right now we dont know the fate of all the hostages who are kidnapped from israel taken to gaza. President biden confirmed americans are among the captives and at least 20 u. S. Citizens are currently unaccounted for. The death toll in israel from hamas assault continues to rise. 1,200 people now confirmed dead as the scale and savagery of hamas massacre of civili