cheering on the red sox soon. the lead with jake tapper starts right now. never do you see a federal court hearing involving donald trump, but today we heard every single word. the lead starts right now. challenging the order. the former president pushing back on federal judge who put limits on what trump can say and where he can say it. ahead, take you inside the courtroom and why today s hearing mattered so much. plus, anger in israel. the heated exchanges with families of hostages kidnapped by hamas. and protesting boss moves. hundreds of employees at tech giant openai threatening to quick over firing of their founder and face of the company. welcome to the lead everyone. i m in for jake tapper. we start with a remarkable day in one of donald trump s four criminal cases. federal courts do not allow live cameras, but today we got to hear live audio in the federal election subversion case. the former president facing charges that include conspiring to overt
reporting on the potential shake upin the white house. what it could mean particularly in light of how it plays with the russia investigation. you have the president coming back from his first foreign trip. hopefulness that that would change the conversation and we are back here exactly where he was when he left even with an escalating situation. he is somebody that we know believes that he is his best spokesperson, he is the only, you know, effective communicator for himself. and you see him really trying to figure out how to make this better, how to change the conversation. that s looking back to old campaign aides, people he believes are loyal to him, people he feels like he can trust in this kind of ballooning situation that they re trying to contain right now. and people who are, as axios points out, killers. people he thinks are killers and who can come in and be loyal to him. phil you talk about how he s getting some of the information he is using to make these decisions, no