Situation room. The lead with jake tapper starts right now cnns Breaking News welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. We are following Breaking News out of Donald Trumps Hush Money Cover Up Trial in New York City were right, this i mean, it Michael Cohen is facing an incredibly aggressive crossexamination so far, trump attorney todd blanche has gotten cohen to confirm that he wants to see trump convicted in this case, that he makes money off of his antitrump social media posts and even sells merchandise showing trump in jail. Earlier today, prosecutors had cohen explained why he felt there was the Pressure Campaign to keep him from turning against trump. And how and why he eventually flipped from a loyal confidant to a cooperating witness. Prosecutors also tried to get ahead of the defense by having cohen admit to multiple lines. He has previously told including his plea of not guilty his plea of guilty to the tax charges the sent him to prison cohen also owned up to the fact that he lied
By cnn contradicts pentagon reports about that Chaotic Afghanistan Withdrawal and the explosion outside the kabul airport, 13 u. S. Service members were killed in that blast, Hundred Grids are dozens at least of afghan, some of the goldstar families are now accusing the pentagon of telling lies. And leading this hour as the new york hush money cover up its picks back up tomorrow in new york, a change in tactics from Donald Trumps legal team were told when it comes to Adult Film Actress and director Stormy Daniels being back on the stand. Lets go to cnn paul read in new york and paula, the defense crossexamination of Stormy Daniels, we were told it originally was expected to be fairly brief, but but sources are telling you thats changed why . Yeah. They have a while to go at this point. And the reason they want to spend more time here is because they were surprised that in her testimony, she raised the possibility that the sexual encounter was not consensual, something that she had not
First time since the attack. However, its reported that several Foreign Airlines canceled their flights to israel. The idf intercepting the majority of the 300 droughns and mill ices drones and missiles fired by iran as israel is killing the people who were had hurt during the attack. Right now, the big question, how will israel respond . As n nenetanyahu vows theyre rr all scenarios. Peter learner joins us live from tel aviv with an update. Thats the operative question, what is the response . Give us an assessment of what happened from your perspective last night and whats the the prospect for a response . Good morning, to you all. I would he say first of all what was the defining moment was the unity of eastern nations that came together around israel to protect israel and defeat or object irans die bole call pla, the United States, together with the british and french, regional players as well, we sent a clear message to iran that whatever you throw at us, we will fight back. What w
james comey is here. i m going to get his reaction to the brian his thoughts on a potential second trump term and talk to him about his brand new novel. also major league baseball is changing its history books as it now embraces all leagues in its record books, including the segregated leagues, how the addition of more than 2000 players is shaking up the mlb s statistics. breaking news moments ago, former president donald trump walked back into that manhattan courtroom, has lawyers and prosecutors have just been negotiating and arguing and bigger bickering over which portions of the testimony the jury will get to rehear tomorrow when it s read back to them cnn s paula reads outside the courthouse polo, walk us through exactly what s happening in court right now is the right now what appears day that even though the jury has gone home for the de it appears that the defense attorneys prosecutors, and they appear poised to go back on the record because the judge is basically l
podcasts. news continues on cnn with wolf blitzer, right externa place. i like to call the situation which win we ll see you tomorrow happening now and escalating campaign battle over immigration. as president biden orders, new protections for some undocumented spouses and children of us citizens and slams donald trump for fueling fears of immigrants, stand by two. here are trump is hitting back tonight also this hour and extraordinary seen in north korea as kim jong-un and braces without rebooting and gives him the red carpet treatment the us watching wearily as these adversaries of the west are cozying up and increasing their military cooperation at a moment of reckoning, that s what one senator is calling a tense hearing about growing worries over the safety of boeing jets. we re going to tell you how the testimony of boeing s ceo played with lawmakers and with relatives of crash victims who were there in the room welcome to our viewers in the united states and around th