Absence. The court does usually give an explanation for a justices absence. And weve also seen justices take part in arguments remotely when they are sick and the context here is not just the lack of transparency, but that it also comes just one week before the Supreme Court hears Oral Arguments on whether or not donald trump is protected from criminal prosecutions because a president ial immunity because he was president when the acts were committed. A case critics of thomas argue he should recuse himself from because of his wifes jeannies efforts to help trumps team overturn the 2020 election thomas is 75 years the most senior Associate Justice on the Supreme Court. He missed several arguments in 2022 with an infection and tonight the Supreme Court is not responding to our requests for Additional Information about thomass leave of absence today leaving many important questions unanswered. Thanks for joining us, the lead starts now welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper in this our criti
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Director Stormy Daniels to keep it away from voters right before the 2016 election. Lets discuss now with p2, people who know key players in this case, Stacy Sneider is a manhattan Criminal Defense Attorney and a former contestant on trumps tv show, the apprentice. She has also worked with Manhattan District Attorney alvin Braggs Office and appeared before judge juan former engineer r trump is a cotructionrojects and author of the ok, tor of lies, what my years of working with donald trump reveals abouhim barbara, lets start with youwhat do you think donald tmps mindset is right now as he sits in court foris very first criminal trial, is a former president yeah, an someone asking me a yea barba, cau not hear me all right. Hear you . T go to see anything. Ok. Lets go to acy. Scy, you haveorked with bh trump and jue mercn. Tmp has ready centlyled dge ooked. Ow do you expe this ll all play out so i think judge ma seanto and thanu for having m jake, i thk judgmae sean it has cpletntrol of
Imprint. Com. Imprint for certain cnn breaking news hello, and welcome to our viewers here in the United States and all around the world. Im Alex Marquardt live in washington with our continuing cnn breaking News Coverage of iran is unprecedented strike inside israel overnight. It is noon in israel, the country getting back to normal following that historic never before seen attack by iran against israel. Take a listen those are the israeli airraid sirens that Israeli Citizens to become all too accustomed to in the past six months with the war between israel and hamas but those were not hamas rockets flying it. Israel, those were iranian drones, ballistic and Cruise Missiles. The Israeli Military saying that more than 300 of those projectiles were fired at israel well over the course of five hours. But the idf says that the vast majority, almost all of 99 were shot down. The few that did get through those formidable American Allied and israeli air defenses all across the region. And in
see is that we get more aggression from iran when we fail to respond with strength why the turnaround here the obama administration they negotiated of course with iran they brokered this historic treaty with the country why now the turnaround trump basically considers iran a threat as well your sign. it s iran is absolutely a threat iran is essentially been in an asymmetrical war with the united states for 40 years since 1989 iran is the world s worst state sponsor of terrorism support of hamas hezbollah 600 american serve them so members lost their lives during the iraq war because of the militias in iraq that showed their potency and in some cases their existence to iran cnn s could force so the trump mistake made the decision to withdraw from the iran deal. people of good faith can disagree on the wisdom of that approach but what i think you we have to agree is that there are some