trump and mike pompeo from jerusalem. just before things got started tonight, we got word that one of tonight s speakers had been pulled from the program. maryann mendoza was scheduled to appear in i a video. she shared an antisemitic video today. chuck todd is at his post. you ve been listening for about an hour and a half now, the second night of the republican convention. what themes are emerging. i would say there s a little less red meat so far. tonight you re seeing another similar theme. there s another focus, particularly show casing what president trump has done with criminal justice reform. you know, both campaigns, guys, tell me that there is a chance that donald trump could overperform with african-american men. a it s a concern of the biden campaign and it s a focus of the trump campaign. a lot of this targeting here is something we talked about last night, trying to cut against this narrative that the president has been stoking racial tensions. they ve bee
to a special edition of news night. i m abby phillip alongside laura coates right here and donald trump s lawyers tried to pan fry michael cohen on the witness stand today and perhaps the most important day of testimony so far, eight oh, tonight, donald rumsfeld? yes. that donald rumsfeld gives us all a lens to view what s left in the hush money trial. the known knowns, unknown knowns, and unknown unknowns. so first the known knowns all those bad fats. so the prosecution took painstaking care to get in front of the jury so that they did not hear them for the first time and cross-examination, that cohen was a jerk, that he was a bully, that cohen was designated a thug, that michael cohen cashed in on donald trump s name all of them facts that the government s attorney put on the record to make the cross case a little bit less of a rough and tumble affair. second, you haven t the unknown knowns how the j. will actually choose to react to everything they ve seen and heard from c
internationally we re creating the evidence what is possible so that others can pick it up and run with it oh, i love that. i ll be sure to tune in next saturday at 9:00 p.m. eastern for that champions for change, one-hour special and thank you so much for joining me today. amphoteric a whitfield smerconish starts right now tension between the us and israel over the war with hamas. i m michael smerconish in philadelphia on friday, the biden administration said that it is reasonable to assess that us weapons have been used by israeli forces in gaza in ways that are inconsistent with international humanitarian law. but they stop short of officially saying that israel violated that law. the report drafted by the state department said, investigations are ongoing, but that the us does not have complete information. this followed israel s security cabinet approval of an expansion of the area of operation of the shelling in rafah after president joe biden threatened to withhold us
stay with us, stay with us, please. thank you so much. a listen to be shorted. join cnn on monday four, eclipse across america. we are on the air with special coverage starting at 1:00 p.m. eastern on cnn and also streaming on macs. hey, thank you so much for watching. let here bonnie tyler are covers continues eclipse tonight on three 60, the former president fails again to delay his first of many criminal trials and special counsel jack smith challenges the trump appointed classified documents, judge, to make a ruling so he can take her to court. also tight. we re live from taiwan after the worst quake there in decades and million because if people are plotting and planning and gearing up the total solar eclipse, just days away, we have the latest sun where you can see it and how you can view it safely good evening. thanks for joining us. major developments tonight in two of the many trials, the former president has been trying to delay in a moment the one he has la
we ll president biden faces a red line moment and a high-stakes call over the deadly strike against aid workers in gaza will change any the thing. plus new video from inside the raid on his home and the new reporting on the interviews, the feds are now conducting tonight. a lot barcodes life in just a matter of hours. president by i will be speaking on the phone with benjamin netanyahu is their first phone call since the deadly israeli airstrike in gaza that killed seven people, innocent aid workers with chef jose andres s world central kitchen, a strike that. geoff andres know now says was the deliberate targeting of his workers these was not use bad lag situation where we dropped the bomb in the wrong place or, or not, this was over 1.51, 0.8 kilometers with a very defined humanitarian convoy that had signs in the top in the roof a very colorful logo that we are obviously very proud of, that that s very clear who we are and what we do. but i know is that we we