Former President Donald Trump has shown up in person for His Civil Trial Lawsuit in new york. Im Harris Faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. New York Attorney general Le Tisha James wants trump on the hook and ban him from doing any business in new york. Who is deciding the future of a former president and his real estate empire . All judge, no jury. Thats him on the right. The judge already found trump liable for fraud this week. Now he begins resolving the remaining claims of the suit and decides the monetary damages. The former president tore into both the a. G. And the judge just before the trial began last hour. Yeah, he talked. We have a racist Attorney General who is a horror show who ran on the basis she was going to get trump before she even knew anything about me. This is what we have. Its a scam, a sham. Harris his legal team also eager to talk about the motivation of this. What were witnessing is Election Interference of somebody who is leading in the polls the more
Crossexamining the prosecutions first witness, former Tabloid Executive if david pecker, this is peckers third day on the stand and today for the very first time, he described the deal that he helped broker with Adult Film Star and director Stormy Daniels, a deal that is at the center of this case, the fusion has used packer to set the scene for the jury, introducing them to keep players in the case. How they all fit together in the story right now, the Defense Tactic in its early questioning is part of a strategy two, strategy to argue the David Pecker Is Work Helping Trump during the 2016 election was nothing new who . Nothing unusual. Also notably today, judge juan merchan so far still has declined to issue a ruling from tuesdays Hearing On Whether Trump has violated his gag order, despite the prosecution arguing that this morning that trump continues to violate this order against disparaging members of the jury and the witton this is of course this is four times over the last three
get started for $49.99 a month plus ask how to get up to an $800 prepaid card. don t wait- call today. i m taylor available now on the apple app store, android in washington. in this is cnn it s friday, april 5th, right now on cnn this morning, we re waiting for the release of a highly anticipated report from the israeli military on the killing of seven aid workers in gaza, plus motion denied twice, two judges rejecting donald trump s attempts to have his trials thrown out and the important lesson that donald trump says he learned from richard nixon right? 6:00 a.m. here in washington and in new york as the sunrises here on the east coast, beautiful sunrise in new york city this morning hey good morning to you. i m kasie hunt. it s wonderful to have you with us happy friday. we made it. this story this morning, president biden demanded it and israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu appears to be responding this morning, the israelis agreeing to open the erez
cloud. rishi sunak battles to head off a parliamentary revolt by his own mps, ahead of a crunch vote on his rwanda asylum policy. a new draft resolution is expected to be announced shortly after the un climate summit, after the backlash against plans which made no pension of facing out fossil fuels. the bombardment of gaza continues as a un aid chief says ahead of a crunch vote on his rwanda asylum policy. ukraine s president zelensky is in washington as efforts to secure a new package of us aid stall in congress. now to time to take a look at is we start in the us where in the last hour we ve had the latest indication of how quickly prices are rising. the us consumer price index rose by 3.1% in the year to november, that s down slightly on the 3.2% recorded in october. this latest data comes a day before the us federal reserve sets interest rates for the final time this year. erin delmore is in new york. give us a sense of what the figures talent us about how effective the f