The deals on top before there job the defense has rested. Testimony has wrapped, and donald trump notably did not take the stand of course, sanchez, alongside jessica dean in the nations capital, and soon the judge and attorneys for both sides are expected to go back in court to go over Jury Instructions. In this historic Criminal Hush Money Trial of the former president. Earlier today, jurors were dismissed for the week the judge telling them to be ready for Closing Arguments next tuesday it comes after the defenses second and final witness, attorney Robert Costello, took the stand for a second day, and once again, the former adviser to Michael Cohen face some tough crossexaminati on prosecutors, youth castellows, emails in an attempt to show he made several efforts to stop cohen from flipping and assured him that he had a backchannel to trump won email dated april 19, 2018, indicated trumps former lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, was joining trumps team and costello wrote to cohen, quote im su
War with. Israeli forces launching a counterstrike on lebanon. Will the attack comes after hamas invaded the country during a major jewish holiday killing at least 350 israelis in the deadliest take on israel in decades. Babies, women, the elderly were dragged outside of their homes, were taken hostage. This is our 9 11. Pete Israeli Defense forces now going after hamas forces in gaza city. An idf Spokesman Says they have closed nearly 30 of the entry points hamas used to get into israel. Youve seen the imagery of bulldozers and others used to knock over that security fence. Meanwhile, the conflict could be widening in egypt, at least 2 israelis and 1 egyptian shot and killed in alexandria. The suspected assailant, who is a police officer, was detained. So yesterday we ended our show, guys, kind of obviously talking about the horrific nature and the particulars of whats happening, but the question is would it widen and how quickly. Because one of the things of note is hamas is a terror
Denuclearization of the korean peninsula. This will impose sanctions on north korea that will continue our progress toward that goal. Additionally reminder, no, know, has sported acts of International Terrorism including assassinations oregon foreign soil. The president s position is this, the north korea north korean regime mug cease all support for bier National Terror jim. This afternoon, we have secretary of state Rex Tillerson with us to answer some of your questions on this topic. He will come up and make couple of remarks and then take case on that topic and i well be back after that to answer other news of the day. With that, mr. Secretary. Thank you, sarah, as sarah indicated the president did make the designation earlier today, announced in the cabinet meet, and i think its really just the latest step in a series of you can see ongoing steps to increase the pressure, i call it the peaceful Pressure Campaign. The president calls it the maximum Pressure Campaign so theres no co
Directions but we are truly fortunate to have rob joyce in his place. For those that dont know rob, rob is the cyber lead at the National Security council. Hes the socalled cyber czar, the coordinator for all things cyber. He comes to the white house from the National Security agency where among other roles he ran t. A. O. Which i think has gotten a little more noticed in recent years and there was a time we couldnt even mention that, but rob comes to this job with true professionalism. And he has a natural ability to translate sort of those ideas into policy and the like. So rob, thank you for doing this, especially at last minute. I thought wed start with a general question. The executive order promulgated in may. I know a lot of homework items were due early september, late august. Can you sort of give us a sense of where we stand and i dont expect you to break all news in terms of what exactly was provided but tell me where things stand and in particular, just because its been a co
To ask questions. Without objective, thats so ordered. Can would like to welcome everybody to the hearing today. Its going to focus obviously on how we can build the 21st century infrastructure. And the committee is holding a host of hearings to gather ideas on what congress can do to achieve this goal. And today, were going to hear ideas from our highways and transit stakeholders. Gathering input from our stakeholders is essential to the process. That we use to again surface transportation policy. Its valuable in our efforts to pass the act, which was the first longterm highway bill in a decade, and were going to continue to need your assistance with future legislation. Even with the Additional Resources we provided, the nations surface Transportation System still needs additional investments. Enacting a long Term Solution for the Highway Trust Fund is a critical component to insuring we can address those needs long into the future. Since passage of the f. A. S. T. Act, building a con