i m victor blackwell. good to be with you. three weeks from election day, and today president biden is putting abortion rights front and center for voters. this afternoon he promised to make roe v wade the law of the land. promising to send a bill to congress to codify the law. they re hoping this could galvanize voters. if you care about the right to choose, then you ve got to vote. that s why in these midterm elections, it s so critical to elect more democrats to keep control of the house of representatives. folks, if we do that, here s the promise i make to you and the american people the first bill i will send to the congress will be to codify roe v. wade. when congress passes it, i ll sign it in january 50 years after roe was first decided as the law of the land. cnn s phil mattingly is at the white house this afternoon. what s behind the strategy here of making abortion a focus of the mid terms. polling is showing that it s not the boost it was a few weeks ago
Blitzer in washington. Ill be back in two hours, 6 00 p. M. Eastern in the situation room. Starts right now cnns Breaking News. And welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper and we continue to follow the Breaking News out of manhattan and where the man at the center of the Hush Money Payments Scandal is testifying right now in Donald Trumps criminal trial, Michael Cohen is detailing exactly how he came to pay 130,000 to Adult Film Star In Director Stormy Daniels, who came forward about an alleged episode with donald trump in the days before the 2016 Election Cohen testified, not only did trump know about the uh, hundred 30,000 payment, but trump directly approved it and said that he would pay cohen back and the prosecution is using cohens testimony to present both an offensive and defensive case offensively by establishing the cohen was the man behind the payments, not just to Stormy Daniels, but also to 1998 playmate of the year, Karen Mcdougal and defensively by trying to establish that co
Both of you now. That is all for us. This has been cnn central, cnn special live coverage of the criminal trial. Donald trump picks up right now a live look at the Manhattan Courthouse behind me. Were shooting the jury will hear again from Marquee Witness for me, daniels, moments ago, the former president of the United States heading into court for you, listen to testimony from the Adult Film Star comes as his lawyers are adopting a new Mission Store his reputation by attacking her credibility made her school for life from new york and distance cnn special live coverage on trumps Hush Money Trial and im jim acosta in washington today, court resumes with crossexamination were told to expect Stormy Daniels to be on the Witness Stand with a while still to go. Thats a giant change in the trump and his legal team. Initially saw her as a witness who would be a wash, neither helping nor hurting the peoples case against donald trump. Now sources familiar with the former president s legal strat
both those and issues are likely to be center stage tonight in a historic presidential debate here in atlanta, president biden will face donald trump in a primetime show down here at the cnn world headquarters in atlanta. and america. of course, the world will be watching take a look at this new york times sienna college poll shows nearly three out of four registered voters in the united states plan to watch tonight s debate. let s begin this hour over at the supreme court, seen as pamela brown, who s joining us right now. pamela, what can you tell us first of all, about the abortion rulings handed down just minutes ago well, wolfe, what the high court did today with this opinion officially released, we should note is it essentially put the near total abortion ban and idaho temporarily on hold. so what this means is that women in idaho, they can get an abortion if there is a medical emergency, not just when they re life is on the line when this near-total abortion ban was i
president and the former president, one stage moderated by jake tapper and dana bash good morning. you relied on cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington right now in delaware. hunter biden s fate is in the hands of a jury. the president s son arrived in court this morning as jurors resume deliberations in his federal gun trial and just about a half hour later, he left the courthouse in wilmington. hunter biden is accused of lying about his illegal drug use when he bought a handgun back in 2018, if convicted of all three charges, he could face 25 years in prison. cnn s evan perez drawing this is from outside the courthouse in delaware. evan wasn t expected that hunter biden would only make a short visit there as the jury deliberates, what s the latest no, jim, i think we didn t anticipate that he would be able to leave during the time that the jury is deliberating. typically defendants have to sit here like the rest of us as we wait for the jury to complete its work