trace: good evening, welcome to los angeles. i m trace gallagher in for bret baier. presidential candidates former president trump fights efforts to exclude him from some state ballots. california s population declines for a third straight year. tax documents reveal the surprising groups that are leaving the state. and as issue with the creeps. in energy experts are calling for updates to the power grid. bret baier looks at efforts to protect our most critical assets but, first breaking tonight, the u.s. and mexico say they will work together more closely in coming weeks to address the crisis at the southern border. mexican officials cleared what was once a large tent camp sitting near the border as u.s. officials agree to keep rail crossings open after temporary closures. but, republican critics say they are not convinced these efforts will alleviate the massive migrant crisis. fillian turner is in mexico city tonight. gillian, good evening mexican delegation going to tr
Breaking news welcome to the lead on jake tapper, right now, right this minute. I knew witness in Donald Trumps Hush Money Cover Up Trial. The prosecution just called its third witness. His name is gary pharaoh. Gary pharaoh is a banker who worked with Michael Cohen at the time that the payments were made to former playboy model, Karen Mcdougal and porn actress and director Stormy Daniels, both of whom alleged romantic entanglements of sorts with mr. Donald trump. This comes after rona graph was called as the second witness in the trial. Rona graph, shes on the screen right there. Shes a longtime trump assistance. She worked for trump since he hired her in 1987 after she cold calls to Trump Organization were on a graph, testified id two contacts you maintained at the Trump Organization were for Karen Mcdougal Stormy Daniels run a graph was on the stand for less than half an hour earlier today, trumps attorneys crossexamined david pecker, the former Tabloid Magnate and longtime friend o
Above seder plate, Defense Attorneys with why is this trial not like any other exactly. But for any number of reasons, number one, the defendant has multiple attorneys who can handle the hearing. Number two, the judge has made an accommodation by cutting court a little bit earlier that day look, theres many reasons why theyre going to have bases to appeal later on down the road. Passover is not gonna be one. No, i got it 99 problems, but passover one as has been said by no one let me just do while were waiting for mr. Trump to come out and were told that he is hes on his way just a little thing about juror number ten, who we havent discussed, elliott, he works for for retailer, says he doesnt really follow the news again, tofu, he does in your words, he does, however, listened to podcasts on behavioral psychology its my little hobby there. He said during Jury Selection, he was born and raised in ohio, is unmarried, lives with another Adult Roommate he loves to spend less Time Outdoors
we have a moment of extraordinary history. it is a moment of unbelievable history unprecedented. we ve said that so many times involving donald trump. but truly this moment involving a former us president and the legal system, the criminal justice system in this country of evan tents concept got a consequence. judge merchan is on the bench. we do expect the jury to come forward with their verdict in ten minutes or so. so we are really in the closing minutes and again, we don t know what the verdict is going to be. we know it can t be a hung jury because they ve only been doing it for lesson 12 hours. and so that s not enough time to say, hey, we can t come to a conclusion. they it could be 12, it could be 34 counts of acquittal. it could be 34 counts of guilt and conviction. it could be. and one of our experts at least is going out on a limb and said that she thinks that it s possible that it s a mixed verdict because otherwise, why would you need 30? three minutes to go ov
evan paris and new york. thank you so much. cnn s daniel dale is cnn s resident fact checker. he s handy to have around the times like this, daniel, we just heard a little speech from mr. trump. what do you make of it? did he say anything? thing that was not true? he did. i mean, it was mostly unshakeable subjective opinion, but he did say a few things that weren t weren t quite right at very least. so he repeated his false conspiracy theory that essentially the joe biden is behind this case, which was brought by a locally elected district attorney. he said biden is behind it. he has this top people working with the da s the office to make sure everything goes right. there is no basis for that. that appears to be a reference to a former justice department official who went to work for the da s office, but there s no sign that that was anything but his own employment decision. in fact, this former official, matthew colangelo, had previously been a colleague of de bragg, so he rejoin