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bret: 100 percent not. thanks. good evening, welcome to washington. i m bret baier. breaking tonight the key prosecution witness in the criminal trial. concluded his testimony and the prosecution rested its case today. but, before that former trump attorney and self-described fixer admitted to stealing 10s of thousands of dollars from his boss company. when the defense took over, cohen was followed on the stand by one of his former legal advisers. now, there has been a request by the defense for the judge to dismiss the case from the bench. correspondent nate foy is outside the new york state supreme court again tonight, good evening, nate good evening, bret. todd blanche requested that the judge dismiss this case on the grounds that prosecutors did not prove that trump falsified business records or did anything illegal to influence the 2016 presidential election. the judge reserved his decision and trump spoke about that while leaving court tonight. hopefully the ....
welcome to a special two-hour edition of the beat. i m katie phang. we re nearing the end of the first criminal trial of a former u.s. president donald trump. next week the case could be in the hand of the jury. before that happens, michael cohen will be back on the witness stand monday for a third day of cross examination by trump s defense attorney todd blanche. the defense s focus so far has been to try and portray the state s key witness as a serial liar, someone who cannot be trusted and who is only out for revenge against his former boss. the word lie was used more than 60 times in court yesterday. through what felt at times like a meandering cross examination blanche may have been able to poke a hole in cohen s credibility as a witness during questioning about one of the phone calls from october 2016 that cohen testified earlier in the week he had made with trump, allegedly telling him the payoff to stormy daniels was being handled. yesterday cohen admitted tha ....
dangerous storms moving east through louisiana after bettering texas and killing four people in houston. ten people under tornado watches across the golf range and risk for severe flash flooding being described as a nightmare scenario. you are watching fox & friends first on a friday morning, aimed todd piro. carley: on carley shimkus 1 million power outages across texas and louisiana. widespread damage across houston. you can see the intense rain flooding into stores and blowing out windows. looking at this looking through the retractable roof, the houston astros were playing. todd: fox news senior meteorologist janice dean standing by to tell us where those storm is but the latest on power outages and storm damage. todd, carley, the sun rises early in several cities and the storm s path will begin to take stock of extensive damage caused by intense wind and rain overnight that tore through parts of texas before pushing into western louisiana here this is video ....
the easiest questions that could possibly be asked. only a guy like michael can answer those questions. they have him tied up in this ridiculous prosecution that is not about dresses. it is all about politics. it is election interference and it s tying up the president from being out of the campaign trail. this is a sham and that is the only thing this is. it s a joke, a farce, a travesty, we are better than this as americans. the only thing more depressing then this court room is what is happening in there. it s a scam it s election interference at a level that is never taken place before and if you don t mind i m going at it the icebox to sit for a long time. former president donald trump getting a huge show of support by allies in washington as the unprecedented criminal trial continues in lower manhattan. the court is on lunch break at this moment. that was the former president departing just a few moments ago. we just saw him walk out of the courtroom ....
and prince harry and meghan are in nigeria as part of the duke s promotion of the invictus games. you are watching bbc news. more on those solar storms with an expert explaining how that happens, the link between the sun and those storms, in the next 15 minutes or so. let s talk about ukraine for now. more now on russian forces launching a surprise new ground offensive in ukraine crossing the border into the northeastern kharkiv region. for months fighting has been focussed in the east where russia occupies large areas. friday s attack may be an attempt to open a new front and intensify pressure on kharkiv, which is the country s second largest city. small groups of russian troops with armoured vehicles pushed through the front line military sources say they advanced a kilometre, before being pushed back amid reports of sustained russian shelling. earlier i spoke to maria avdeeva, a security analyst from ukraine. i asked her to explain, what is happening in ....