States of scandal with jake good morning. You were alive in the cnn newsroom. Im jim acosta and washington donald trump is off the Campaign Trail and back in the courtroom just minutes ago he arrived at the federal courthouse in South Florida for a hearing and his classified documents, case trump and his attorneys will ask the judge to dismiss the charges or at least grant them a delay in the trial and delay could also be looming in trumps election subversion okay. Its down in Fulton County, georgia at any time now, the Presiding Judge there could announce if District Attorney fani willis is disqualified from the case and a decision that could derail the trial from starting in august. Lets begin with the classified documents hearing today in florida. Cnns Kaitlan Polantz is outside the courthouse. Kaitlan, how likely is it that a judge Aileen Cannon will dismiss the case . There jim, that is going to be entirely up to her and were watching to see exactly how she reacts to the arguments
Than liebermann at the pentagon and this cnn welcome to cnn and Special Coverage. If former President Trumps Hush Money Criminal Trial, im wolf blitzer in washington, along with abby phillip. Whos just outside the courthouse in new york today, Michael Cohen, trumps former were fixer and lawyer is back on the Witness Stand. Prosecutors appear to have some work to do during their redirect of cohen after he made a purely stunning admission during crossexamination . Today, defense attorney todd blanche was able to get cohen to admit to stealing Tens Of Thousands of dollars from the Trump Organization. Abby, you were inside court today . Playing, how it all went down thats right. Wolf, earlier in the trial during the direct examination, cohen had actually said this, that he had pocketed monday money from the Trump Organization. That was meant for a technology company. But today, while he was being pressed by the defense attorney Todd Blanche Cohen agreed that it was essentially plants said,
Not backing down, even though this case includes incriminating photos of gold bars, huge chunks of cash. Menendez says hes done nothing wrong and is confident hell be vi vindicated. I understand how deeply concerning this may be. However, the allegations levelled against me are just that, allegations. I recognize this will be the biggest fight yet. As ive saitated throughout the whole process, i firmly believe when all the facts are presented i will be exonerated. Weve been tracking this. Cara, we know the facts ads presented by the prosecution, all the cash, the gold bars and why the prosecution says he had it. What was his defense for having all this . Reporter so Senator Menendez really focusing on the allegations in the indictment to some extent. Hes been accused of taking cash, hundreds of thousands of dollars of gold bars and a mercedesbenz convertible in exchange for helping three new Jersey Business men and aiding the government of egypt. The senator saying the cash the fbi fou
To go to congress, but i respect congress. I respect the views of congress. And i respect, most importantly, the views of the people of our country. And i think it would be much harder for me to sign a deal if he did something violent in hong kong. Do you support cutting 4 million in foreign aid . Are you talking about the rescission . Yeah, i support many of those things. Well negotiate it ourkt, but ie cut back a lot on countries. We give billions to countries that dont even like uand ive been cutting that a lot. We give billions and billions to countries that dont like us, dont like us even a little bit, and ive been cutting that. And we put a package of about 4 billion additional dollars in. And in some cases i can see it both ways. In some cases, these are countries that we should not be giving to. To help the United States . Does it make us safer . I dont think so. If it would, id probably do it. But i cut back 1. 3 billion a year to pakistan. And when i cut it back, i have a bet
As of last night the fbi did not want to get into the investigation details, but said that we could expect more to be released about him today. As you mentioned, the shooters uncle spoke to cnn saying that there was nothing to indicate that his nephew might carry out this attack. He said his nephew is 21 years old, described him as likeable and exceptionally smart. He did also say to cnn that saudi arabia needs to get to the truth of this, and that if his nephew is guilty, he will be accountable before god. Now, a couple of Law Enforcement sources did tell cnn that this is Saudi National Mohammed Al Shamrani and authorities did say that he used a handgun in this incident. He was killed by a couple of deputies who exchanged gunfire with him. Those deputies were injured themselves but are expected to be okay. They are among the eight people wounded in this situation being treated right now at Baptist Health care. Thats in addition to three others who were killed. Now, the fbi wants to fo