prime minister benjamin netanyahu. on wednesday they slowed traffic to a crawl near tel aviv airport ahead of his flight to germany. israel has been rattled by weeks of demonstrations against the reforms, which opponents say would undermine the system of checks and balances in the government. and now israel s president is putting a compromise on the table while issuing a warning about the state of the country. for more, elliott gotkine joins us now from tel aviv. so elliott, what is the latest on this compromise and of course the warning from israel s president that his country is on the brink of a civil war in the midst of more protests? that s right rosemary. as you can see i m in the midst of where the protests in tel aviv are just starting. they are going to do a circuit and then head down to the government buildings. this is been going on mid week for about a month in terms of the large-scale protests
he s pleaded guilty and one of the earlier witnesses in the prosecution presentation of the evidence and he will admit that he didn t pay taxes on company cars, a company apartment and private school tuition for two of his grandchildren. next up will be the trump organi organization s turn. there are two chances for them to talk to the jury. they re expecting to say that weisselberg was a rogue employee who did this to benefit himself and not the company. then the prosecution will call their first witness. that is a current executive, the controller jeff mcconnie. he received immunity for this testimony before the grand jury. he will be one of the first witnesses, we leave the first witness on the stand for the prosecution and he could walk the jury through how the decisions were made at the trump administration and lay the groundwork for how this scheme worked. kara scannell, thank you. so elliott, when we look here, in terms of the
the declassification, again, it s on its face, you know, potentially a ridiculous type of claim. ludicrous. so the bottom line is he was not to transport protect these documents, he was not to be in possession of these documents at mar-a-lago. and of story. full stop. that is correct. and you added a footnote, if they were there, there is a protocol for transporting the documents. for housing the documents. once they are there. who can see them. there is a whole laundry list of security measures that are in place to prevent exactly this type of thing from possibly happening. so elliott, on sunday, trump claimed that the fbi took some material protected by executive privilege in the search. but haven t we seen that the
that were unchecked in their power. and it didn t work well! the first time. we tried to create government to put checks and sort of rain in presidents. so this is almost like a perfect test case of what happens when the president sort of abuse is power that he actually does have. but is applying incorrect and inaccurate way. professor, thank you very much. elliott, thank you as. well i learned a lot. this is when i was talking about at the top of the show, talking about our critical democracy siri. one-on-one on where this goes and what is important here. thank you for helping out. let s talk about monkeypox, monkeypox cases are on the rise. should we have been better prepared? especially after going through covid? i will ask white house official hailing the monthly rip-off that s next. gies designed to help you keep more of what you earn. and set aside more for things like healthcare,
stewart. so elliott, cheney dropping this bombshell that trump was contacted, has contacted a witness that we have not seen yet. cheney says that person never picked up, instead, telling their lawyer who told the committee, who then inform the doj. what does it tell you that trump himself made the call, instead of a staffer? right, you have to find out who the person is, if it is ivanka trump, it may not be a big deal. if it s another witness, may much be a big deal. so it depends on number one, who he called, why he called them, and what the purpose was? okay elliott ivanka trump would not be calling the committee saying that my dad called me. all i m saying okay come on man. it s somebody we haven t heard from yet. all we know is that a potential witness was called. let s find out more about it. but look, witness tampering, it s not that hard to get to. if a person, in a position of the president, calls someone with an attempt to suede or