The former president. Speaking after day one of the trial, mr trump sought to cast doubt over the legitimacy of the court. Its a scam trial. If you read all of the legal comments, from all of the legal scholars today, theres not one that i see that said that this is a case that should be brought to trial. Its a scam. Its a political witchhunt. It continues for ever and we are not going to be given a fair trial and it is a very, very sad thing. Live now to new york to speak to our correspondent john sudworth. John, bring us up to date with what happened today . When Donald Trumps motorcade left the precinct here in a man well used to breaking the norms of political life hit another milestone, this time a legal one, becoming the first us president to face a criminal trial. When it did get under way, as is often the case, the business was pretty humdrum, procedural discussion, the defence raising a number of issues and discussions over the timing. Donald trump suggesting he needed a day o
Unpredictability either around the moments that matter hey, happen in the courtroom. All right well hows that for the end of a friday. Thanks. See you guys for being here. Thanks to all of you for joining us as well. Im kasie hunt Cnn News Central, strike right now. Breaking overnight intrigue in trump legal world to trump lawyer turned political witnesses in the maralago Classified Documents Case. Is no long youre representing him. Why this information is, quote disquieting to donald trump. Next hour lawmakers will view classified information ahead of a key vote re authorizing the fisa bill well Speaker Mike Johnson, be able to control his own party this morning still no change in the 1800s, near total ban on Abortion Error for zona. And today, the Vice President heads to the scene what she plans to say. Kate is out. Im john berman with sara sidner. This is Cnn News Central and breaking overnight. Cnn got word that a key attorney to donald trump turned critical witness has left his le
he wants him because he s making a fool of himself saying we ain t got nothing but a squirrel fire and a hound dog says something like that. what was the first one? squirrel fryer. oh, fryer. right. by the way, speaking of eating fried squirrel, did you hear about the new liz cheney book that came out, willie? yes. there s a lot there. but here s my what a jump around, joe. here s my favorite line from it, though. kevin mccarthy oh, no. justifying his trip to mar-a-lago by saying three words that nobody has ever said about donald trump. he s not eating. now all i can say no! is this: if kevin mccarthy s job was to go down to mar-a-lago to get donald eating again, well, he did a hell of a job. yeah. because that ain t been a problem since. wasn t really a problem before. you know, maybe if he said, i got to go down to mar-a-lago because donald is cheating on his wind sprints we d believe that. but he s not eating, i don t believe it,
. this is cnn breaking news. good morning, everyone, and welcome, i m phil mattingly with erica hill in new york. poppy is off today. right now, secretary antony blinken back in the war zone in israel. we are expecting blinken to speak in just moments after meeting with prime minister benjamin netanyahu and his war cabinet. blinken s trip comes as one of the most intense nights. we watched rockets and missiles rain down live on cnn as flares list up the night sky. blinken, president biden and his top advisers are warning israel that the human suffering in gaza is eroding public support for the war and the outcry for a cease-fire could reach a tipping point. the israeli military says its troops are completely surrounded gaza city. the latest video in this morning from those ground operations, casualties are rising on both sides, the idf now says 23 israeli soldiers have been killed since that ground assault was launched in gaza. this morning the red crescent says israe
verdict is read, but of course that means they haven t ruled it in either. right? and there s not much time. nicely. all right. thank carol. thank you. thanks for joining us. the news continues now, right here on cnn it s thursday, may 30, right now on cnn this morning day two of deliberations about to begin in donald trump s hush money trial after jurors sent to requests to the judge supreme court justice samuel alito, blaming his wife for flying an upside-down on flag. now recused, refusing to recuse himself from january 6, cases and dirty tactics, north korea launching balloons filled with feces he s and trash and dropping them on south korea i m here in washington, alive. look at, i guess that s new york city city. there it is a little little cloudy there this morning as those jurors start to wake up, had into their second day of deliberations. good morning, everyone. i m casey, hence it s wonderful to have you with us. the jury in the trump hush money trial bac