it s newsday. hello and welcome to the programme. we begin with breaking news donald trump has become the first us president in history to be charged with a crime. he ll be charged in new york over alleged hush money given to a porn starjust before the 2016 presidential election. mr trump, who s running again for president, has repeated he s innocent and called the indictment political persecution and election interference . his son eric said it was the opportunistic targeting of a political opponent in a campaign year. the bbc s nada tawfik s outside the court in new york. we can speak to her now. it is late in the evening there, as i understand it, nada, and the press have been gathering, as you have pointed out. what has been the reaction of people who have been passing you by, talking to you about this? figs talking to you about this? as ou talking to you about this? sis you said, talking to you about this? is you said, a few moments ago, the district attorney was a
. also the latest republican to join the 2020 for race is on a mission to abolish affirmativ action and destroy woke culture. i don t know if you know who he is. he will join us. he s made quite a splash lately. we will introduce you to him. first three weeks now after the disaster in east palestine in ohio and one day after a visit from former president donald trump, he was the first one to go. america s underqualified transportation secretary pothol pete made a trip to ohio. he was definitely not thrilled to be there as he looked miserable the entire time. he was dodging and ducking questions all day and refused t take any responsibility for anything. in fact, he all but blamed a right-wing conspiracy for his bad press that he has been receiving. even faulting the trump administration for the train wreck. according to pothole pete his only mistake is he didn t tweet about the crisis sooner. maybe you should have been dealing with the crisis and a chemical burn that was ki
a great president. i don t about polls, but i dow know about winning the races one district at a time and utterly delusional. nancy pelosi says everything is awesome and joe biden s america and the democrats deserve to be rewarded in the midtermrm. meanwhile, back in the real world, the president is setting records again for all the wrong reasons. biden s approval hitting a record low in a new ap poll just 39% of the country thinks s he s doing a good job d. but record inflation is crushing americans wallets and surging gas prices, setting a record for 11 days in a row and are now projected to go up to six dollars this summer. w but the biden administration does want to talk about it. do you believe that gas prices are too high? completely understand the crunch that so many americans are under rightan now think that they re that americans are still recovering from this terrible pandemic and there are a lot of other world t events that areng making things difficult fors all
i don t know about polls, but i do know about winning the races one district at a time. jeanine: utterly delusional nancy pelosi says everything is awesome in joe biden s america and that democrats deserve to be rewarded in the midterms. meanwhile, back in the real world, the president is setting records again for all the wrong reasons. biden s approval hitting a record low in the new a.p. poll. just 39% of the country thinks he s doing a good job. but record inflation is crushing americans wallets and surging gas prices setting a record for 11 days in a row. and now projected to go up to $6 this summer. the biden administration does not want to talk about it. do you believe that gas prices are too high? completely understand the crunch that so many americans are under right now. i think that americans are still recovering from this terrible pandemic and there are a lot of other world events that are making things difficult for all of us. so it sounds like you are un
Crossexamination aimed at undermining her credibility into some embarrassing moments for the former president. At one point saying that if she were making up her story about sex with donald trump, quote, i would have written it to be a lot better today also saw testimony from Trump Organization bookkeeper about how closely he monitors the checks he writes detailing the attention he paid two amounts considerably smaller than 35,000 checks. He wrote two Michael Cohen the day ended with judge juan merchan and rejecting another trump motion for for mistrial and denying his request to modify the gag order. He is under so we can talk about Stormy Daniels and capping it all off. Stormy daniels tweet this evening saying this about the former president , quote, real men respond to testimony by being sworn in and taking the stand in court. Oh, wait never mind. Back of the panel joining us conservative lawyer george conway, who was in court today what were your takeaways on my takeaway. Was that