from five swing states that is concerning for democrats and the white house. we ll go through those numbers on a potential 2020 rematch. and there is new reporting for donald trump s plans on revenge if he gets a second term in the white house. he has already figured out who he is going to arrest. wonderful. it s about as authoritarian as you can get. also, the biden poll numbers, they looked about as bad as barack obama s in 2011 at about this time. barack obama was losing to mitt romney in several swing states. we still have a long way to go. also ahead, we ll tell you about the potential key endorsement for florida governor ron desantis in the republican presidential primary, as donald trump will be on the stand today in the $250 million fraud trial against his company. plus, we ll show you what ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy had to say about the state of the war and his invitation to donald trump. and we ll have the latest on the diplomatic trip overs
also this hour, hamas and its money, how the terrorist group is funding its side of the war, its big money tunnel exploration. my guest ahead was a finance tractker at the treasury department a historic day in a new york courtroom, donald trump taking the stand in the civil fraud case that could bring down his family empire in new york, new york. he repeatedly went back and forth with the judge who accused trump of rambling in long-winded testimony. trump today called the case election interference as he runs for president in 2024. he called the new york attorney general who brought this case a political hack and a racist. let s go to cnn s paula reid who is outside the courthouse. trump s strategy on the stand not surprisingly attack, attack, attack. his lawyers debating a motion for a mistrial. where do things stand? reporter: jake, after all the chaos and those contentious exchanges in court today, it does appear that the attorney general s office was able to elicit so
martha: good afternoon. i m martha maccallum at fox news head quarters in new york. the story happening right now is new reaction coming in about the white house as president biden has said i think we need a pause in the israel hamas war in order to get humanitarian aid in and people being held there out. but others say that that only gives hamas time to reload as the u.s. tries to accomplish those goals. here s john kirby moments ago. localized that would allow us to get aid in and to get our people out is a good thing for the people of gaza, a good thing for the americans that are being held hostage and it s not going to stop israel from defending itself. the security assistance we re providing continues to flow. a temporary pause doesn t mean a general cease fire when the war is over. it means pause for a specific purpose. martha: so let s go to tel aviv now and speak with danny dannon, a former israeli ambassador to the united nations. good to have you with us tod