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newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. good evening. we begin with a troubling outlook for president biden. exactly one year out from the 2024 election, a new set of polls from the new york times and siena college show biden trailing former president donald trump in hypothetical match-ups in four key swing states. tomorrow trump is set to take the stand in a high-stakes civil fraud trial that could help decide the fate of his business empire in new york. this happening at the same time that president biden is trying to strike a balance in the war between israel and hamas, pushing for a humanitarian pause. this just in to cnn. we re learning that cia director bill burns is traveling to the middle east to meet with multiple leaders in that region as negotiations over hostages taken by hamas continue. while the white house continues to focus on the crisis in the middle east, the biden campaign is responding to this latest polling. cnn s priscilla alvarez is in rehoboth ....
welcome to our continued coverage. the new york criminal trial of former president donald trump. i m rachel maddow joined by my colleagues. also, lawrence o donnell is with us pick we are going to be joined by the star witness for the prosecution in this trial, michael cohen. he will speak to us exclusively. his first reaction to this verdict tonight. michael cohen will be joining us in one moment live. 4:20 p.m. p.m. and it is we, the jury have reached a verdict. 45 minutes later at 5:05 p.m. the jury was back in the courtroom and is seated. the defendant donald trump was seated as well. the judge addressed the four people. and the judge. without telling me the verdict, how s the jury? and yes, they have reached a verdict. take the verdict, please. with the foreperson please rise to the members of the jury agreed upon a verdict? yes. and how say you to the first count of the indictment, charging donald j trump with the crime of falsifying business records in the first ....
frfree palestine. free, free palestine. eric: thousands salute flooding the nation s capitol streets to voice their support for the people of gaza and the slam israel you hear them saying free palestine. but are they calling about freeing up palestine from hamas and calling on hamas to stop its attacks? this is a fighting is intensifying as gaza to israeli troops have encircled gaza city hamas leaders but israel said they continue to use civilian casualties for propaganda purposes as there are continuing calls for a cease-fire. this is fox fox news live i m eric shawn. arthel: five arthel neville israel again urging civilians in gaza to fleet areas of conflict and head south. the hamas terrorist are trying to take advantage of evacuations into egypt. a senior u.s. official telling fox news the terror group is trying to sneak out injured militants among civilians. meanwhile the israeli military s is advancing the offensive on gaza amid intense pressure for humanitaria ....
i m paul gigot. a manhattan jury found donald trump guilty this week on all 34 counts of false iffying business records, the first time in history that a former u.s. president has been convicted of a felony. thursday afternoon s verdict marked a dramatic end to the almost 6-week trial, but trump vowed that the legal fight is not over. this was a rigged decision right from day one. with a conflicted judge who should have never been allowed to try this case, never. and we will fight for our constitution. this is far from over. paul: let s bring in jim trusty, a former federal prosecutor and former donald trump attorney. welcome, jim. good to see you again. so what do you make of this verdict? well, it s not a shock, unfortunately. i mean, this is the lawfare. it s really at a its worst with. you had a politicized prosecutor who had a picked through the trash of a case that the southern district of new york specifically rejected doing that his predecessor rejected doin ....
have a cease-fire that serves hamas s goals to rearm, and attack us again and perpetrate another massacre. anyone calling for a cease-fire is serving the pro-hamas position. that means that they could get away with what they did and do it again and again. there was a cease-fire on october 6th. hamas broke it on october 7th and will be a cease-fire against once hamas terrorist threat is eliminated and once we get back the hostages. dana: one of the things antony blinken was asked about. i don t know details on it. apparently in the meeting earlier blinken brought up some concerns expressed about they said extremists in the west bank attacking palestinians there. and he said that he was reassured that the israeli government is on top of that. is there any more you can say on that? i can say that we are on top of that as the secretary said. it is a marginal phenomenon. we will address it. when we do something wrong on the israeli side we conduct inquiries and address t ....