For the next debate. State of the union live tomorrow morning at nih you re in the cnn newsroom. I m jessica dean in new york and this how are we are still following breaking news out of gaza, israeli forces saying they quote, located a number of bodies during combat in the gaza strip cnn international diplomatic editor, nic robertson is joining us live from jerusalem. Nic, we re still learning more details and expect more details. What do you know right now yeah, that statement by the idf is unusual. They would not normally talk about finding bodies and being in the process of a combat operation. They wouldn t comment on those details. Normal normally, i think the expectation here is for the people of israel when they hear this and for the families of the hostages, and we should be very clear here, the idf is only talking about discovering bodies, but obviously for the families of the hostages, when the idf says something like that, they re going to listen to this still stands to be p
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Lies, and that audio tape, Donald Trumps hush money trial, has taken a detour into the seedy underbelly of hollywood the lawyer who played the gobetween between each trumpled effort to buy stormy daniels. Silence gave the jury some critical facts about the pan, the pain process to get this deal done now that lawyer also got a dose of hardball from trumps lawyers now did it poison his credibility with the jury . Well, well find out. Im abby phillip, and youre watching a Special Edition of this slide. And im laura coates in todays day in court and it was filled with unsavory stories to say the least. I mean, the sex and there was plenty of that and not just a rumor, trysts between the former president or a porn star or a playmate. The defense put Keith Davidson life on display for the story and his noir like character arc, apparently as the guy who makes things go away for the rich and the very famous the lie is now, there were plenty of those from the former president , including, well,
sentence and non-prison sentences virtually the same. and in fact, a prison sentence, maybe he gets a sentence, but they expect, they hoped that it would be stayed immediately and that it would not go into effect. and so this is all i guess short-term political strategy i still think that we should just be aware that there is also a very good possibility that he does not get a prison sentence let s hear right. just based on the facts of this particular case but the fact that so many trump allies are suggesting to me that they see present in his feature, they think that that is going to be just a shot of adrenaline into the republican base. and that s all that is on their minds at this point. look verdict has calmed down. they re going to take what they ve got and run with it and they think that this is going to be the motivating factor we heard one republican hugh hewitt a commentator, say, this is almost like the dobbs decision for democrats. i don t know if that is true int
most part i found it. i was totally zoned in that one pretty pretty quick. i felt towards the last hour or so that mr. steinglass couldn t move to the long and i didn t know if we needed like six book excerpts choice. choice xors. i think get less where the been a little more with that. but i think i think look on the defense and i think todd blanche rule was i heard the word meandering yeah, i certainly subscribe to that. i think he made a real legal and tactical mistake by diving into people s exhibits 35 and 36. the weisselberg notes, i think they are the smoking gun evidence and i think he dove into a minefield without a plan to get to get through it. do you think he should not have even brought those up? if anything? i wouldn t he like lead with it. right. that s not hit those documents are not his strong suit. and i anticipated and then i saw steinglass just went to town. he really he got to a plus on that bolt documents up you ve got weisselberg s handwriting