good morning, everyone. welcome to cnn this morning. ok caitlyn, what a great job she did. former president trump said he wouldn t if he want u krin to defeat russia. border countries are expecting a new surge of migrants. and mccarthy said he won t back santos for re-election but won t ask him to resign. and the suspect in the 2005 disappearance of natalee holloway will be extradited from peru to the united states. jordan vander sleuth is expected to be on charged of extortion and wire fraud. advisors to the fda unanimously recommended that a birth control pill be made available over the counter without a prescription. cnn this morning starts ragt now. right now. someone who chief white house correspondents, what is it likd watch is the town hall last night? a slightly different vibe than our day today in the press briefing room, to say the least. i think it is reflective of the fact that individual on stage with caitlyn collins who knows him better than anybo
Okay. Tonight in The Trump Trial, Michael Cohen wrapped donald trump gold by the defense and sometimes testy crossexaminati on. Trumps lawyers ccg on cohens pass lies at his recent attacks on the former president in hopes of discrediting the prosecutions star witness. This after a cone directly tied trump to the alleged false records scheme at the heart of this the middle case, saying it was all aimed at hiding the Stormy Daniels Hush Money Payment to protect his former boss. And his 2016 president ial campaign for the next hour, well take you inside the courtroom from gavel to gavel will break down all of todays most important developments and look ahead to whats next. Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world im wolf blitzer with a Special Report in this room, The Trump Trial today the crossexamination of Michael Cohen is off to a very fiery start with the case against donald trump, potentially hinging on whether jurors believed the former fixer. Lets get
alert. the polls, they are officially closed in the statpoleofficialek and soon maybe the fire alarms on capitolhe. maybe they can rest easy. we are monitoring the results they pour in. but far left, congressman jamaal bowman is real jeopardy of losing his reelection bid after getting primarieead someoneimar slightly less radical. bowmanbyslightly best known forg along with the squad hating israel. g spleading guilty to ain misdemeanor for intentionally pulling a fire alarmg guil insie the capitol complex in what was an unsuccessful attempt to delay a funding bill. now, congressman bowman also suggested that america deserves the border crisis we have. whted y? because of our evil capitalist ways. that s all coming up straight ahea l comingd. also coming up, you will hear wl from the mother and the grandfather of 12 year old jocelyn nun gray, the latest victim of joe biden s border crisisth. there has been a lot of them lately. now we now know this innocent littlet litt was
talk in the press about how we can do better, locally and national media to make sure that we re covering the races in people s communities. let s name the paper. the north shore leader was one the earlier reporters i want to point to mark tuson. he was raising a lot of questions about santos. there was a lot to uncover. i think there are a lot of questions as we head into the next midterm cycle about how we re going to vet candidates in a lot of crowded races. we can always do better. you have done the real work. thank you. former president trump refusing to say whether he wants russia or ukraine to win the on going war. but that ended in, quote, 24 hours. we ll tell you what the republican contender responded by calling trump a, quote, puppet. they re called small businesses.
of the clinton campaign tucker: can i stop you right there? i think you may be right about that, i thought that from day one trend, we don t know that but that s a very good point. the clinton people believed it was coming from russian sources. steele said his sources were high-level russian officials and that intelligence from him was u being used as part of clinton campaign messaging, calling trump a russian agent. it helped inform the fbi s investigation and was even used in a fisa warrant. if we are concerned about foreign dirt, it s reasonable to highlight the foreign dirt to the campaign was paying for. it s fair to highlight the hypocrisy of the clinton camp and democrats who are fulminating about foreign dirt when they themselves met with ukrainian officials in the spring of 2016 and they used