Fox news alert. We begin with continuing moment by moment coverage of day eight of former President Trumps New York Criminal Trial. This is the faulkner focus. Hello. Happy friday. We have a lot of news packed in for you this hour. Court got underway last hour. A loss hat gone on so far. David pecker ends how he started on the witness stand. Right now trumps Team Continues their Cross Examination. Pecker to remind you is the former ceo of american media. His testimony this week mostly focusing on a quote, catch and kill scheme to buy stories about his then friend donald trump without publishing them effectively keeping them hidden. Atactic he used for other celebrities, too. Separately braggs team accused former President Trump of violating his gag order four more times. Thats in addition to the ten claims already made, by the way. Prosecutors meantime want the judge to fine trump and hold him in contempt for every one of those. A hearing on the gag order is set for thursday, may two,
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of a hearing in d. v. that will decide whether a judge s gag order against donald trump should stand. it was a fiery morning in court torques say the least. with raised voices and hours of heated debate. that may give us some clues about their decision, one that could change trump s court cases and his campaign. plus, a second hospital now in the line of fire in gaza, even as israeli forces rescue some of the most vulnerable patients from al shifa, heavy fighting erupts at another medical facility. the israeli military is justifying its actions by claiming terrorists fired first from inside that hospital. the political gut punch from a new nbc news poll, president biden s approval rating falling to the lowest level of his presidency, his numbers crushed by democrats, especially young democrats who are at odds with his stance on the israel-hamas war. pollsters calling it a political stunner. so what can the president do about it? we begin with the hugely consequential ca
they talking sorry, guys. i missed you. i didn t hear what you said, but just came out of court where they finally have seated the six alternates, five of those alternate it s receded today. what we know about them is that what is a woman from spain? another is the man who is a native new yorker. we also know there s a woman who is a contract special willis, another two females, one works for clothing company and one is a project manager. now, the judge decided to keep this to keep court in session a little later than usual, so we can get through the jurors that were already in the room today. they started with 22. we ve got the five alternate jurors. now, as we went through this form, de or what was interesting stinging today s session, which was different from the other ones, is that two of the jurors before the attorneys began questioning them specifically. but as the attorney questioning was underway, they both become emotional and said that they didn t feel that they could do
i would agree with that, yes. reporter: the attorney questioning why the accuser didn t walk away and instead was texting and even snapchatted video of the alleged incident. what the video shows is a person s hand make contact with the shirt, correct? yes. okay. not any body part? correct, you don t see any body parts. reporter: the defense attorney pointing out that the accuser told spacey he was 23 when he says spacey bought him multiple drinks. now, tom, that accuser did not immediately report the alleged incident, but according to that police report, he did tell family and friends right away. now, spacey denies the allegations, but if convicted, he faces up to five years in prison. tom? matt gutman with those new developments tonight. matt, thank you. we turn now to the death of a second child in u.s. custody along the mexican border. the mother of 8-year-old felipe alonzo-gomez from gas guatemala