without a speaker. many more republicans are now starting this new week by jumping into that chaotic and messy race. we have that report coming up later. our top story is the prosecutors on offense in the trump coup cases. jack smith has already put pressure on defendant trump after winning that partial gag order. now, if you ve been following the news, d.a. willis has just won convictions on the eve of her first rico trial. indeed, that was supposed to start today, but she won it so decisively, there is no trial. i ll explain. two trump lawyers pled guilty two days ago nay row, showing new concern today that he is worrie they will testify against him and it will be damaging. he posted a new statement, which asserts, referring to sydney powell that she was, quote, one of millions who thought the 2020 presidential election was rigged and stolen. that s his typo, by the way. he goes on to say, quote, ms. powell was not my attorney and never was. that claim is false, but it is
to those words and admit he has a financial stake in how donald trump s hush money trial plays out. tons of details and memorable moments in his testimony today including an admission cohen stole from the trump organization and that he paid one client with cash stuffed in a brown paper bag. just before the trial broke for the lunch break, the prosecution started its redirect by focusing on the stormy daniels payments and pushing back on the defense s suggestion they were correctly labeled as legal work cohen did for donald trump. the question now, did multiple days of cross-examination destroy cohen s credibility in the eyes of the jury, and could that help donald trump s defense get the former president off the hook, or do they believe him? do they believe hissy kwens? a key thing that was raised out of the earshot of the jury when they went to lunch, chris, this whole issue of the c-span clip that showed keith schiller and donald trump were on a stage in a rally when tr
reporting there are no signs of life. seen at the crash site of a helicopter that was carrying president ibrahim raisi and others. news of reese s death comes nearly 15 hours after the helicopter crashed in a remote part of the country during dense fog. rescue efforts have been hampered by bad weather and tough terrain. a number of other top officials, including the country s foreign minister, were also on board. the chopper was heading back to the country s capital when it reportedly went down. the crash comes at a fraught moment in the middle east, with war raging in gaza and weeks after iran launched a drone and missile attack on israel that was in response to a deadly strike on its diplomatic compound in damascus, hardliner raisi became president in a historically, uncompetitive election in 2021. iran s supreme leader is stressing the business of iran s government will continue no matter what. under the iranian constitution. in iran s first vice president takes over if th
supplies are finally making their way into war torn gaza through egypt s rafah crossing. you re taking a live look at the border which just opened within the last hour for the rafah border crossing is the only route for aid to enter gaza directly from outside israel. and it s also gaza s only gateway to the rest of the world. that is not directly controlled by gaza or israel. that is more than 2 million palestinians are facing shortages of food, water and medicine, which prompted president biden to strike a deal with israel and egypt to open the rafah border crossing. but after the white house announced the deal to allow 20 trucks of aid into gaza, there have been negotiations. israel voiced concerns about the aid getting into the hands of hamas . that s the gaza based militant group whose deadly surprise attack on israel earlier this month killed more than 1400 people, some 200 people are also held hostage at this hour. two of them an american mother and her teenage daughter
correspondent has more on those developments. if the west wants to stop russia s advances in ukraine, they know here is one place they know here is one place they can do that. now, beijing is not supplying moscow with weapons, but the west believes it is supplying russia with components that it can use in its war machine. the us has a raft of new sanctions at the ready, this time to target chinese banks. so president xi has a decision to make. for more on that relationship, i spoke to a former us ambassador to china from 2011 to 2014. vladimir putin really wanted to play up vladimir putin really wanted to play up the significance of this meeting with xi jinping play up the significance of this meeting with xijinping in china, and he said that he and xi are as close as brothers. do you think xijinping xi are as close as brothers. do you think xi jinping sees xi are as close as brothers. do you think xijinping sees it that way? you think xi jinping sees it that way? you think