change in policy? we begin america reports with the white house walking back president biden s comments about china and taiwan, and all comes as president biden faces a series of crisis here at home while claiming a recession is not inevitable. i m sandra smith in new york. great to be back with you, john. john: great to be back. let me be the first to officially well come you. the president wrapping up a trip, up and down stock market, fears that gas prices will hit $6 a gallon nationwide and potential food shortage, to leave americans scrambling to feed their fires. sandra: the president admitting it will take time to lower gas prices and ease inflation but the u.s. economy is performing better than the rest of the world. we have fox team coverage now, byron york is standing by. john: jacqui heinrich is travelling with the president live in tokyo. what about the comments regarding taiwan and china? jacqui: john, the fact the president made those comments standing
Good to be with you. Im katy tur alongside my colleagues, Andrea Mitchell and chris jansing. Whats happening right now in Donald Trumps Hush Money Trial could determine how it all ends. A legal conference between judge merchan, prosecutors, and attorneys for donald trump to determine the charges the jury can consider. And there arent any fireworks to note inside the courtroom right now, no fireworks, but really important conversations, arguments with the conference thats highly sequential, theres gamesmanship at play on both sides. This is the final phase of the proceedings, right, before Closing Arguments begin next week. And jurors now have an extralong weekend. Actually, they have a full week to absorb this weeks testimony. They probably need it. Theyre not going to be back in court until a week from today, next tuesday, when Closing Arguments will start. Prosecutors rested their case against the former president earlier, after another lessexplosive round of testimony from Defense A
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Hi, everybody. Its thursday. Its 4 00 in new york. It is also day 18 of the people of the state of new york vermont donald trump, the expresident s former Attorney Michael Cohen is just off the Witness Stand. The jury is done with their service for the day. Prosecutors and attorneys for the expresident are dealing with the all important question of what happens next. Its happening right now. A hearing over what the defenses case will look like and if they will make a case, if they have a case to present the updates from that hearing that is happening as we meet well bring them to you right away. All this is in the wake of a rather desperate and uneven attempt to undercut Michael Cohens credibility. It was to be generous, hit and miss, defense attorney todd blanche had a Second Chance at cross examining Michael Cohen after a day of rest yesterday. He moved around from topic to topic so quickly that todd blanche decided that todd should apologize to the jurors who would decide Donald Tru
Going for donald trump at this point in time. We will have to wait and see we dont know if thats because people dont care about the trial or if they care about other things about the border, they care about the economy, they care about a great many things that unfortunately get swallowed up by this process. Thank you so much. I appreciate you, gentlemen. The next hour of seeing a new central starts right now. These cnn Breaking News im john berman outside the criminal court in Downtown Manhattan and the Breaking News we are about to enter the most contentious moment in the criminal trial. Against donald trump. The key witness Michael Cohen, left his apartment just a short time ago. We got footage of him leaving. He is on his way down here he will be back on the Witness Stand facing questions from prosecutors, but we do expect at some point today the crossexamination will begin Donald Trumps lawyers will get their chance to go after Michael Cohen and he expect that to be something firew