Good morning, it is 11 00 a. M. Eastern, and 8 00 a. M. Pacific. Im jose diazbalart. Former president Donald Trumps new york Hush Money Trial is off today, as the former president attends his youngest sons High School Graduation in florida. The day off comes after former trump lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen spent another day on the stand being crossexamined by trump attorney todd blanche. Blanche may have been able to poke a hole in cohens credibility as a witness, during questioning about a phone call from october 2016. More now from nbc news senior Legal Correspondent laura jarrett. Laura . Good morning to you. Michael cohen has been nearly unflappable on the Witness Stand as the defense tries to show this jury that he has changed his story about things big and small. The word lie used more than 50 times in court just yesterday. The jury may not remember every single defense attack line, but they only need one person not to buy his story. This morning, Donald Trumps hush money coveru
portion of that money all when 8085920400. that s when 8085920400 under biden on trial, the president s son is in a delaware courtroom today for the start of jury selection in his federal gun trial. what we re learning is a number of potential jurors are dismissed from the panel. plus dr. anthony fauci back on capitol hill facing tough questions about the us covid response the question that had fauci overcome with emotion and put me in coach. we re going to talk to a golf fan who went from the crowd to catch patti at the canadian open. canadian open, we re falling these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to get a new central right now de want of jury selection in an hunter biden s federal gun case is moving pretty fast. it s potentially on pace to seat a full panel of jurors by the end of the day-to-day, the judge overseeing the case just indicated that opening statements are expected to begin tomorrow. the president s son has pleaded not gu
Back in their arms. and today they got the worst possible news that they could get from the israeli military being informed that the israeli military now believes that these four hostages were killed during their captivity in gaza. and now jessica, questions are arising about exactly how they may have been killed and part of it has to do with the wording from the israeli military s top spokesman. he explained that the israeli military was now able to assess their intelligence, that they were killed a few months ago, and he said that they were killed while they were together, quote, in the area of khan younis during our operation, there against hamas. and we should note that one of these four hostages hamas actually said last month, that he had been injured in an israeli airstrike and had subsequently died of his wounds and daniel hagari, the israeli military spokesman, acknowledging that there will be difficult questions about exactly the circumstances of their deaths. i want to read t
Could involve any sort of cyber attack or something like that. so russia was obviously initially angle agree at the decision and said that accused the us of escalating that response has effectively continued here saying the us will feel a russian asymmetric response as a result of this change in policy all right, well, with that, oren liebermann life worse from the pentagon thanks. jessica we have more breaking news this coming out of the israel or the idf is telling the families of four hostages that those hostages are no longer alive. cnn s jeremy diamond to ease in bruce alum and jeremy, this sad news comes as talks continue and negotiations continue to play out about a potential ceasefire and hostage deal. yeah. in this is absolutely heartbreaking news for nearly eight months now, the families of these four hostages have hoped and prayed that their loved ones would eventually emerge from gaza alive. to be