President biden and netanyahu of israel are expected to speak by phone about rafah today. Well bring you any news of that as it happens. Taking away my constitutional rights. Im not allowed to answer that question. This has never happened in this country before. It is a ridiculous thing. A ridiculous case. I did nothing wrong. The judge is totally conflicted. And you want to take a look at it. Im not supposed to be talking about it. But i am allowed to say that the judge has a conflict like nobody has ever had before. You have to take a look at it. He has taken away my constitutional right to speak. Dana former President Trump entering Court Minutes ago. The judge already threatening him with jail saying the 1 thousand fines for violating his gag order dont seem to be working. Now we have that to think about. Welcome to a new hour of americas newsroom, im dana perino. Good morning. Good morning. Im bill hemmer. Good morning at home. Waiting to see who the witness will be. Jeff mcconnie. Well explain what his role is or was. The judge calling the Gag Order Violations a direct attack on the rule of law. Now that former comptroller for the Trump Organization giving testimony. Prosecutors trying to build their case of falsifying business records. He oversaw 401k, prepared payroll, tax returns, loan docu documents, oversaw the accounting department. The general ledger, accounts payable. The state is trying to get his testimony so they could document and get his views on what money went out and what money went in. Dana he has been involved in other court cases before and there is a report that the last time he had to testify that he broke down because he says he loved working for the company and that it was getting to be too much to be accused of being a part of things that he says they werent a part of. There was just an exchange as well that was played in court and we got to hear it from september of 2016. It is from braggs socalled star witness, Michael Cohen and President Trump about the payment and what cohen said to trump. Watch here. I spoke to alan about it when it comes time for the financing, which will be what financing . Well have to pay. Pay in cash, check . Dana that was played and you had hope hicks, the former Communications Director for President Trump talking on friday saying Michael Cohen is a bad guy. He called himself mr. Fix it because he used to break things all the time. Bill you got that right. That was the stinger of a line here. Also the judge has threatened the former president with jail time. He was fined another 1 thousand. Up to ten grand during the course of this trial for violating a gag order. He says if it continues, quote, Going Forward this court will have to consider a jail sanction. He went on to say he realizes the gravity of such a decision, shall we say. That from the judge a moment ago. Lets move from Lower Manhattan to New York Citys Upper West Side because the former president was talking about this going in. Columbia university allowing the actions of unruly protestors to overshadow what is supposed to be a meaningful rewarding moment in a students life. The ivy league announcing an hour ago it will cancel its universitywide Graduation Ceremony after weeks of antiisrael disruptions. Well take you live to columbia later for a full report talking about having some smaller celebrations. What that looks like we dont know. It was Breaking News for us at 9 00 a. M. Eastern time. All right. Dana this is also happening as the idf prepares a longawaited invasion of the hamas stronghold in southern israel. Fox can confirm President Biden and israeli Prime MinisterNetanyahu Will Discussion The Rafah Offensive by phone today. I understand the white house has given already a preread out of a foreign leader call. A little bit, yeah. When President Biden gets back from a weekend away in wilmington he will have a private lunch with a key player in all of this. King abdullah of jordan. Right before or after he will phone Benjamin Netanyahu to talk about the rafah operation that appears to be coming soon. We expect the president to privately put out what the team is saying publicly. We have been very clear in public and in private that our concerns with a large Military Operation into rafah, we do not were not in support of that. As we learn the support for groups backing antiisrael protests on campuses to cover costs of matching tents and professionally printed signs and food comes in part from wealthy liberal families who are heavily invested in President Bidens reelection with donations to biden allied groups coming from george soros, Susan Pritzker and David Rockefeller junior. Critics in congress continue say his four minute remarks about thursday like they are equal issues on campuses this spring. Why is joe biden so equivocal . Why does he have to draw more all equivalents between thousands of students setting up little gazas across america and engage in hate speech, engage in hate speech against jews and assault jews, disobeying the law and some fictional encampment that is spreading islamaphobia . It is unclear how much these donors realize that their donations are falling on both sides of a tugofwar for the heart of the democratic base. On the one side President Bidens reelection effort. On the other side these groups seen by many as hurting his reelection effort. Dana. Dana peter doocy at the white house, thank you so much. Bill lets bring in marc thiessen. Things are popping here and there. You have columbias suspension of a big graduation, then this to dovetail what peter is reporting in politico. Propalestinian protestors are backed by a surprising source, bidens biggest donors. What is your take on that as we peel back the curtain, marc . You know, why are these protests continuing . They are working, right . Joe biden what are these protestors asking for . Theyre asking for biden to pressure israel not to invade rafah, to push for a ceasefire, push for an end to the war. What is biden doing right now . He has tony blinken in The Middle East now pushing for a ceasefire to stop the offensive in rafah and to end the war. Exactly what they are asking for. We saw the Wall Street Journal reported that they withheld a Weapons Shipment as pressure to stop the invasion of protest. If you are a Student Protestor and looking at this. Dana we have the headline saying bidens bad weapons to israel report says the u. S. Put a hold last week on a Weapons Shipment to our ally. That wont help end the war. Now we know because theyve told us, that the president will have this call with netanyahu today and they give us a prereadout which says they will be pressuring israel even more on holocaust remembrance day. So exactly. If you are a protestor you are looking at this and saying its working. He is doing what were asking him to do. What were demanding. We are taking Campus Buildings and building encampments and disrupting the world and biden is listening to us. They are pressuring biden and biden is pressuring netanyahu. And so why would you stop . Bill you say in politics when it comes to 8020. Issues, maybe it is 90ten. You want to be on the 80 side. Biden is moving that now. He is on the 20 side. There was a poll harvard poll 80 of americans support israel. 78 say hamas needs to be removed from gaza. 72 say israel should move forward with the operation in rafah even with civilian casualties. The opposite of what joe biden is pushing for. He have is siding with the 20 minority or 10 minority, depending on what issue it is. The other thing thats devastating for him the poll finds 52 of americans, majority, say he is making decisions on the israel hamas war because of his domestic political considerations, not what is best for u. S. Foreign policy. That is incredibly damaging to him. He will never appease these people. Do you think any of these people will vote for joe biden . Theyll vote for jill stein and cornel west, maybe Robert Kennedy junior, not joe biden. A lot of people who might vote for joe biden say he is weak and capitulateing to the protests. Dana this weekend they have a new strategy for the president s speeches. You are a former president ial speech writer. Shorter speeches, quality over quantity. How do you think that will go . Has there been quantity . I thought he has taken more vacations than any president in my lifetime. He has trouble reading from a teleprompter. The guy who said four more years, pause. I havent seen a lot of quantity. They have scaled back his interviews and the lowest of any president in modern times and now scale back the speeches as well . The Basement Strategy worked in 2020 and might work in the white house basement, too. Bill marc thiessen. Good to have you on. Thank you. 80 years ago, in the holocaust, the jewish people were totally defenseless against those who sought our destruction. No nation came to our aid. Today we again confront enemies bent on our destruction. Never again is now. Dana today is holocaust remembrance day. Benjamin netanyahu drawing a direct line between nazi germany and the goals of hamas. Sirens sounding across the jewish state to mark the day bringing life to a virtual stand still. [siren sounding] dana also six holl cost survivors among other survivors leading a March Of The Living in auschwitz. You can see that there. Bill we were reporting this phone call between President Biden and Benjamin Netanyahu. It appears that the call has taken place. Lasted 30 minutes and it is over. So maybe well get a readout on that later today. 12 minutes past. It is day 12 of new york versus trump. Former Trump Organization executive now on the stand talking about the accounting aspects thus far of the organization how they ran it. Well let you know what is significant based on that testimony coming up. Dana President Biden promises taxes wont go up despite scrapping the trumpera tax cuts. Does the math add up . Bill the war in gaza comes to College Commencements nationwide turning a day of celebration into a day of conflict. Now one school is making a plea for help. Dana check this out. Scary video of a pennsylvania man. A man attempting to shoot a pastor during a live streamed church service. He chose bill look at him. Dana Brave Bystander stopped the attack. It all took place at jesuss telling place church in pennsylvania. Authorities arrested 26yearold shortly after and police found a dead body at his home following his arrest. More to come in that. Bill 18 past now. President biden insists the expiration of trump era tax cuts will not raise your taxes. For anyone making less than 400,000 a year. New projections from the Tax Foundation shows that aint the case. Edward lawrence, fox business live at the white house. We could change your name toed war business. Were down to business on this. Its unclear how the president will be able to keep this promise. The president over the past two weeks has been saying that he will let those tax cuts expire and letting crowds get ramped up about that. The fact is that he makes it sound it would only affect the wealthy or corporations. The fact is if those tax cuts expire, it will affect all americans. Almost all americans. Listen to this. If that law expires it does raise taxes on almost every american. Does he still support that expiring without Anything Else in place . So look, as you said, the president is going to allow is going to is going to let the trump tax cut expire and he was very clear but he will not raise taxes on anyone making less than 4 Hundred Thousand a year. The president cant pick and choose what part of the law sunset. The Tax Foundation says that someone who is married, two kids, making 85 thousand would pay 1700 more in taxes. Thats somebody under 4 Hundred Thousand. The has been very clear. He will protect working and Middle Class Americans making less than 4 Hundred Thousand a year. Tax foundation a family with two kids making 165,000 a year will pay more than 2400 in extra taxes. If you no kids and making 75,000 youll pay an extra 1700 a year. These are not people who President Biden considers wealthy. These are folks who make under 4 Hundred Thousand a year. It is unclear how the president will live up to his pledge. Bill we shall see and why we call him edward business. He is all business. Thank you, buddy. North lawn. Thanks. As you know theyve taken away my constitutional rights. I am not allowed to answer this question. This has never happened in this country before. A ridiculous case. I did nothing wrong. Absolutely nothing wrong. Dana former President Trump maintaining his innocent despite the judges increased gag order threats. Kerri and jonna are here. You have been in the courtroom. I have to hear more from you. I want to show you this. Hope hicks, president s former Communications Director testified friday about the star witness Michael Cohen. He used to like to call himself mr. Fix it but it was because he first broke it. How did that go over . The witnesss testimony in general about Michael Cohen has been devastating. They are painting this picture before he even takes the stand that he is not credible. He is not likable. Thats what stuck out the most. No one seemed to like Michael Cohen versus witnesses have said a number of nice and good things about trump. It doesnt help the prosecution when every Single Person who takes the stand has less than good things to say about him. Bill when we get to the former accountants is on the stand now. Eventually when we get to Michael Cohen you insist that cohen cant change anything about this trial. Right. My theory they are saving the worst for last. He wont say that will turn what we know so far into a crime. It doesnt matter if donald trump knew if he was paying off Stormy Daniels and running for office at the time it happened. It happens all the time. It is pretty disgusting that the president s former attorney is going to be testifying at all. Attorney client privilege is completely out the window. I dont see him saying anything truthfully that will hurt donald trump. Dana yet we have the president being there monday, tuesday, thursday, friday. The New York Times the headline. Former president s scandals captivate the courtroom but the case hangs on dry details. You have the judge this morning saying my Gag Order Violation Orders against you at 1 thousand a pop arent working and again says i dont want to have to go the jail route but doesnt take jail off the table. I have people asking me is it really possible that trump would go to jail for this . It is possible but it would be political suicide for this judge to do this. It would create trump as an instant martyr. Sometimes i wonder if he is daring him to do it. Maybe its part of the strategy. It would make him extra he is complaining it is an unconstitutional restraint an his peach. Everything that donald trump says is effectively political speech because as we know everything you say matters at this point on. There is a reasonable aspect to what he said there. Should he comply with the gag order . Yes. At the same time it has been very unfair only imposed against him and not Michael Cohen who continues bill they said that they paid cohen in lieu of another crime. We know alan weisel berg is in rykers island prison, which is youve got murderers, child rapists, the worst of the worst in New York City go to rykers island. He is 76 serving a second sentence for lying, right . For perjury. If they got mcconney on the stand are they trying to build a tax case against trump . Is that where this is going . Let me say this. We dont know what the Predicate Crime is. The problem with this case is as a defendant you are supposed to know. You cant go to trial and hope that some crime materializes from the witnesses that you put on the stand. Due process dictates otherwise. The fact that we dont know what that Predicate Crime is means there is no Predicate Crime. Thats part of the theater and farce of this entire case. Dana i hear you. Yeah, completely agree. My father used to work at r