Now im pete medina, Reagan National airport this morning, a defining moment in donald about a critical phone call how much will it impact the jury . Deadly storms in texas for People Killed and several states in the south now facing lifethreatening flooding and Hurricane Force winds and Supreme Court Justice Samuel alito reportedly flew an upsidedown american flag. Representing the stop the steal movement at his home. After the january 6 insurrection right, 6 00 a. M. Here in washington alive. Look at the white house on this friday morning. It has been all week. Good morning, everyone. Im kasie hunt. Its wonderful to have you with us. Donald trump had a pretty good day in court. The former president s sat back and watched his former Fixer Struggle on the stand for several flowers on thursday, Michael Cohen facing an intense crossexamination about his past lives and a more recent possible inconsistency. Trump lawyer todd blanche zeroing in on testimony, cohen gave just three days ago in
Continue to stay on top of all of these stories. Thanks very much for joining me here in the cnn newsroom. Im wolf blitzer in washington, and ill of course be back later. Tonights 6 00 p. M. Eastern. In this room Inside Politics with dana bash starts right now welcome to Inside Politics. Im dana bash as woke just said, we have been listening to President Biden speak at the National Museum of africanamerican history in washington i want to start this hour by going straight to cnns white house correspondents, kayla tausche. Kayla tell us about the speech we obviously herded here live with the president delivered, but take us behind the scenes on the intent and the hope that this speech what did achieves pollute politically and also policywise well, dana, it is one of a series of events that President Biden has hosted this week catering to the black community, that speech, of course, held at the National Museum of africanamerican history street and culture, part of an event commemorating
Is more like it the same goes for my foot work. Why one handsfree with wide fits, get your sleep dry wipe fit sketcher, slip a game of risk that prosecution may have just lost. Good evening. Im abby phillip in new york tonight, the Trump Defense strategy was obvious from the job. It was to paint Michael Cohen as a line liar obsessed with revenge but what was an open question as crossexamination started was whether he had the strategy would actually work. Of course, we wont know until the jury actually renders its verdict. But if anything made israel, the governments case against donald trump, it might be what happened today. Todd blanche, the lead lawyer for the former president , is on the attack. He asserting that a phone call that cohen claimed was about the Stormy Daniels payment hey, man wasnt made to trump at all, but rather to Keith Schiller, whose trumps bodyguard. And it was about Something Else entirely. Now, cohen has claimed that the call drove directly the heart of the cas
doesn t exist any more. i m hopeful that the fact that you see for instance in that washington post poll that someone like nikki haley has seen a lot more consideration from republican voters and getting a lot of second looks. that is a good sign. but at the same time, you have to wonder, donald trump wasn t up there on the stage, how different does this look when the field narrows if trump ever decides to hop back on the stage, i expect a very different conversation. and if i could try to play an intellectual game and link one of your earlier segments, you have the kings on, the march on washington, a irning foot note is both john lewis and doctor king didn t give the speech they wanted to give because they feared it would alienate the vast middle so they tempered themselves and you saw republicans refuse to do that in most cases. and so ultimately, the goal is, yes, to win a primary but it is to persuade the majority of americans and i think this debate watched by a lot of americ
my dad never you would never go catch him sitting in the den up front or, you know, in the living room. he just wasn t up there. he was in this room watching tv or even he was on this back deck. and my mom was either in her room, which was just off of that, or she might be in the kitchen. or the breakfast room. and when you got to the house, who was there? your mother s house on the night of june 7th? my mom was there and shelly smith was there. and what did you do when you got there? the first thing i did was i tried to i knocked on the door. the door was locked. i locked on the door. shelly didn t hear me. what did you do next? i called. called what? i called my mom s house to let shelly know i was there, please come let me in.