don jr. and eric trump boast testified in the civil fraud case with the future of their family business at stake. today was eric trump s second day on the stand, and nbc reporters note that eric trump seemed more nervous today than in yesterday s testimony. they report that he was often leaning back and forth in his chair and fidgeting, and they also described him as agitated and defiant. the civil prosecutor spent part of today asking eric trump about allen weisselberg s severance package. weisselberg served three months at rikers island for tax fraud and was removed from cfo of the trump organization. when he left he was given a $2 million severance package with strings attached, including a provision specifying that weisselberg could not communicate with, provide information to, or otherwise cooperate in any way with any other person or entity. and weisselberg has been true to his word. he has never cooperated with manhattan prosecutors in donald trump s stormy daniels hus
happening right now, the secretary of state, tony blinken, is on a mission, back in israel for the third time since the october 7th hamas terror attack. we re going to be hearing from tony blinken, we believe n a short time. tony blinken also spoke just a short time ago. listen to this. we stand strong for the proposition that israel has not only the right but the obligation to defend itself and to do everything possible to make sure that this october 7th can never happen again. how israel does this matters and it is very important that when it comes to the protection of civilians who are caught in the crossfire of hamas s making that everything be done to protect them and to bring assistance to those who so desperately need it. blinken saying standing next to the president of israel that how israel does this matters. that s part of the discussion today. this moment appears a critical one in the israel-hamas war. idf forces now say they have gaza city completely surrounde
public remarks on the war in israel. hezbollah is backed by iran. attacking israel from across the northern border out of lebanon. the violence stoking fears of a larger regional conference. the u.s. and israel watching it as well. we ll bring news as we get it. also at the hour of 9:00 a.m. eastern the u.s. calling for humanitarian pause, israel a pushing forward. secretary of state antony blinken with the israeli prime minister back in tel aviv today. we expect to hear from him soon as well. a lot of moving pieces. i m bill hemmer. welcome to friday in new york city. dana: i m dana perino and america s newsroom. we ll take you through all the news. secretary blinken met with netanyahu and his war cabinet. earlier this morning he spoke with israeli president herzog. they reiterated israel s right to defend itself and urging palestinians in gaza to let s talk about new protests erupting in the west bank. good morning, to you. a real sense of tension hanging in the air
trying to appease other people. they tried to present it as him being, you know, a bold leader on this issue. i think in reality he knows that he s losing and donald trump is setting the tone on this issue, and i don t see that changing any time soon. we ll certainly watch the fallout in the weeks and months ahead. msnbc political analyst brendan buck, thank you as always. thanks to all of you for getting up way too early on this wednesday morning. morning joe starts right now. right now millions of americans are getting blasted by a heat wave. when you show the weather app it shows the middle finger emoji. so hat in maine the lobsters will be getting in pots just to cool down. [ applause ] it s so hot in new york this week the rats are wearing crop tops. [ laughter ] it is so hot in south dakota, kristi noem s dog good morning. welcome to morning joe. it s a very going to be a very hot wednesday, june 19th. jooernt. we ll bring in the former communications
for example, majorshirt companies manufacturing a certain goalkeeper s jersey? i mean, yeah, it s top and bottom. like mary said that they saying that goalkeeper is not important because what mary did within that tournament and the last tournament has been incredible. like she s the best in the world right now and she doesn t have a jersey. you know, she didn t have a shirt that, you know, young boys and girls can buy. and does that mean that goalkeeper is not important? no. from number one to number 23, the staff behind the squad, everybody is important. and that should be that should be out there for mary. and i m glad she spoke up about it. to the victors go the spoils though as spain landed in madrid on monday night to show off their trophy to thousands of adoring fans. jorge vilda s team bounced back from a tough group phase to progress all the way to a final and 1 0 victory over england as they won the tournament for the first time. arsenal s100% start to the new premier league s