Along with species, harold fo fold jr. , Katie Pavlich and greg got field. Its 5 00 in New York City and this is the five. The fixture turn a photo. Michael cohen finally taking the stand and alvin braggs Hush Money Trial against donald trump where the radical d. A. Putting all of his chips in the testimony of the disgraced Serial Perjuring convicted felon that is behind prison walls for 13 months. Today, the jury got to hear from a desperate and duplicitous man. Longing for trumps approval and affirmation and will do anything for ed including taking out a Home Equity Line of credit to take care of the situation for his boss. Secretly recording donald trump without his knowledge. Still no evidence of a crime y yet. Trump is still gagged and unable to respond to his former attorney. Everybodys saying, there is no crime. D. A. Bragg by the way, he turned it down in the case. It couldnt be brought because seven years ago, eight years ago, right in the middle of my president ial campaign.
Good afternoon, thank you for staying with our special coverage of the israelhamas war. Im Andrea Mitchell In Washington, where there is breaking news. The State Department confirming in the last hour at least 22 americans have been killed in the conflict so far. That update coming just minutes after President Biden doubled down on his strong comments supporting israel with remarks at the white house. This attack has brought to the surface the painful memories and scars left by antisemitism and genocide against the jewish people, and this moment we have to be crystal clear. There is no justification for terrorism, no excuse. Were also learning that Secretary Of State blinken will be traveling to israel this afternoon with a delegation that includes steve gillon, the special envoy for special hostage affairs. This hour well check in on capitol hill where a deeply divided House Republican conference could be one step closer to selecting their next speaker. Joining me now msnbcs chief cor
Polantz at the federal court in washington, and this is cnn hello again, everyone. Thank you so much for joining me on for greek. A whitfield were following major developments on capitol oh, hell, right now, the House Of Representatives is in session for a rare saturday highstakes vote for the past several hours, lawmakers have been debating milk ill let terry aid bills for ukraine and israel and taiwan totaling 95 and at any moment now, lawmakers are expected to begin voting on the three laws. Longawaited Funding Bills to sweeten the deal for House Republicans, a fourth bill contains sanctions for iran, a seizure of Frozen Russian Assets thats plus a potential nationwide tiktok ban gop House Speaker mike johnson was able to advance the bipartisan bills through congress this week with the help of death democrats. Its a move that could cost him his job as some hardliners in his party have threatened to introduce a measure to remove him from his post and moments so go, House Minority lea
a surprise visit and a major show of support. secretary of state tony blinken on the ground in ukraine and meeting with president zelenskyy. blinken s message for ukraine and also for americans back home. we are burning up. this summer we re experiencing the hottest temperatures ever recorded in human history. is this the new normal? i m sara sidner with the masterful kate bolduan and john berman. this is cnn news central. later today a historic first in the various criminal cases against donald trump. cameras will be on in the courtroom. so we can all see the proceedings inside and that means voters can see. this will be in georgia where a judge will hear arguments about whether a trial should start as soon as next month, october 23rd, and whether trump s case should be severed from some or all of his 18 co-defendants. that s what trump wants, along with a much later trial as speculation swirls over whether any of his co-defendants might turn on him. with us now cnn
good evening. next for joining us. we begin tonight with breaking news. new federal charges against the president s son hunter biden. they have not yet been made public. we learned of their existence just before air time and do not know the details, only that in addition to being the second set of charges he is facing, anything to do with the president s son is potentially significant, all the more so during a presidential campaign. hear with the latest cnn legal affairs correspondent paula reid. pa paula, what do you know about these charges? good evening, anderson. our colleague evan perez breaking the news that the justice department has filed a new criminal case against hunter biden. we don t know the specific charges because the court documents are not yet public. just a few weeks ago, we broke the news that the special counsel appointed to investigate the president s son david weiss has been using a los angeles-based grand jury to gather evidence about hunter biden s