hello, and thank you for being with us. it is 10:00 eastern. i m ana cabrera reporting from new york. we begin with donald trump back in court for the second day in the defamation case brought by writer e. jean carroll. this time with carroll herself expected to take the stand as the first witness. carroll is seeking $10 million in damages arguing trump ruined her reputation with the comments he made during and after his presidency. now, today s proceedings follow an intense jury selection process where trump and carroll came face to face for the first time in more than 25 years. nbc s garrett haake is covering the trump campaign, joining us from new hampshire this morning. also with us nbc s rehema ellis who s following developments in the courtroom along with our legal analyst former assistant manhattan district attorney catherine christian. so rehema, carroll did testify in her first defamation trial, but not with trump sitting right there in the courtroom. set the st
face. while there may have been others above him, the leader of aqap above him in sort of the food chain so to speak, he was very much one person you would see in social media who delivered the public message of that particular group. at a time when they were struggling to gain traction in extremist circles, the charlie hebdo attacks were a way to put them back on the map. but also now concerns that given the turmoil inside yemen, the civil war between the houthis and the forces loyal to the current president backed by saudi air power, that has given them breathing room to work. you heard from ashton carter he wouldn t confirm it s a drone strike but said they are continuing to pressure aqap. we will see exactly what that does to the operational capability the group that have sworn to attack the united states. nick paton walsh in beirut.
three armed men controlled that entire concrete space. yes, there s yemeni air traffic control still functional but certainly chaos in the capital. makes hard for petrol to move supplies. some contested by fighting right now. so yes, the needle on the ground is going to be very hard to move because much of that fighting is being done by young houthi men who have light weapons and military weapons they ve taken from the yemeni army and frankly doing pretty well despite the enormous onslaught of saudi air power. nick paton walsh, interesting to see that perspective. thanks nick. sentenced to 20 years for cheating is it too much not enough? the judge gave them a shot to escape jail time they didn t take it. now, there s a new cnn original series high profits that s telling the story of two of the
you re saying? i m sure it will happen. it s just a question of aligning everybody s schedule. but the king would come? this is what he informed the president. he already told him. bottom line on this iran deal is you need more information. you are not ready on this day, lot of people are watching you right now, to say you support the deal? because we don t know what the details are. we are dealing with a country that for 35 years has been flaunting international law that have been violating laws that has been supporting terrorism, that has been involved in the affairs of other countries in the region that has had a program that was secret that was unaccounted for and that has discovered after the fact. so we have to see the final agreements. i hope that they will be able to make a solid and serious agreement. because the iranians have not been very good at keeping their word in the past. i hope that they will change now. you hate what they are doing in yemen right now, whe