this is america s newsroom. all right. today is the day. moments from now we ll be seeing president biden, he is set to depart for saudi arabia late yesterday the kingdom lifted its longstanding ban on israeli commercial flight towards normalization. bill: the real objective of the trip. convincing the world s largest exporter of oil is ramp up production and reestablish things with this administration. we watch a beautiful air force one head down the runway, complicating all of this, remarks from then candidate biden back in 2020. president biden: i would make it very clear we are not going to sell more weapons to them. we were going to make them pay the price and make them the pariah that they are. there is very little social redeeming value of the in the present government in saudi arabia. one of the president s first acts in the white house was releasing the c.i.a. report assessing the saudi prince ordered the killing of journalist khashoggi and also sanctioned
New york are continuing to monitor gentlemans out of The Middle East where were learning more about the Ceasefire Proposal that hamas, except in israel, rejected today and is really strikes on Southern Gaza. There are raising new questions about whether these limited operations will grow into a full fledged invasion of raffa, which Binding Ministration has been warning against for weeks. We begin the hour right now today, 12 and the Trump Hush Money Trial And Judges Second Contempt Finding against the former president today in his warning that a third could mean jail time that im is calling two longtime trump employees as they try to show exactly how Michael Cohen was repaid by trumps trust and personal accounts in 2017 after he paid hush money to Stormy Daniels back with the panel joining us as well as harry lipman, who was in court todays and la times Legal Affairs columnist, host of the talking feds podcast, and former Deputy Assistant attorney general. Im wondering what you observe
As well as harry lipman who in court todays in la times Legal Affairs columnist, host of the Talking Feds Podcast and former Deputy Assistant attorney general im wondering what you observed as judge merchan worn trump about potential jail time. It was really sort of jaw dropping. Weve been having different judges and different courts kind of wag their finger theres but he looked directly at trump, softspoken, but very firm. Mr. Trump you are out of rope and it was really the sort of statement weve been waiting for, for a year next time. Youre done and its sensible in a way because with only 1,000 to work with for other violations, why . I should he did all around, but he said next time thats it. And he really means that his credibility would be on the line as well as the integrity of the judicial system. It was a dramatic moment for jeremie, the point of the last hour, which i think is very correct that trump actually has been abiding by the gag orders since the violations, which has n
Weather forecast have changed for some with over but so far its not dampening the mood. Cnn has reported bitters fanned out across the country. Miguel mark has is outside the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame in cleveland, ohio. And harry enten is at niagara falls. I love seeing both of you start with miguel first. What are the preparations like . Theyre by the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame . Yeah, just awesomeness clevelands an awesome city on a good day, but its going to be totally awesome and rocketing on monday and we just pray for weather that we have right now. It feels a Little Like A Rock And Roll or Music Festival here at the rockefeller, weve got the merch from the hot Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame. We have our backstage password, solar fest even havent tshirt that looks like a concert tshirt for the Path Of Totality tour city. That the Path Of Totality will go down the coolest thing, the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame maybe doing those that theyve curated a playlist that the, that will follo