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Good afternoon. Its 3 01. Our top stories this hour. Donald trump has arrived at a court in new york where hes due to stand trial in a civil fraud case. Now, we should be able to see pictures coming to us live from manhattan where the former us president is accused of inflating the value of his assets by billions of dollars to secure better loan and insurance terms. And for those of you watching on television, we can see live footage there of donald trump speaking outside the civil court in new york city. Now, of course, this comes a week after the judge found that mr trump was liable fraud will was liable for fraud and will largely concern the penalties that he must face. Now, the prosecutor is seeking 250 million fines and a permanent million in fines and a permanent ban against trump from running businesses in new york. Well bnng businesses in new york. Well bring you more on this story as we get in. Well, a government source has told gb news that no decisions have been taken on hs2 ....
Temperatures in Southern California pose another challenge for firefighters. With the heat around you, depending on the flame length and whats burning, maybe 130plus. Reporter the situation all too familiar for some trying to protect thefl selves from fire dang remember for the last several years. This is a third time that we got threatened by a fire. Reporter many back in washington have seen the fears realized. The question now is, how much worse will it get. Reporter later today, more help is on the way. Were expecting an additional 250 firefighters to arrive. Were told this area is so squares with resource that is help has been requested from as far away as australia. Erica. My goodness. Gadi schwartz, thanks. Dylan is here with a look at the sheer number of fires and what the firefighters are up against today. Were at the peak of fire season right now. It lasts through basically the middle to end of october. We have 85 u ....
Champion of liberty award from the Goldwater Institute among many, many others. . 1986, the wall street journal called him perhaps the most powerful journalist in america and the Chicago Tribune has dubbed him americas leading poet of baseball. For me, three things stand out above and beyond his innumerable intellectual contributions and accolades. First is his television fame. I refer here not to fox news or his incredible run on the abc sunday talk show this week, although i must say i learned a lot about how to think like a lawyer from watching him on that show on sundays in the 1980s and 90s even though he, like Abraham Lincoln, never attended law school. But more important than that. Mr. Will is such a household name that like Mickey Mantle and joe dimagg ....
And obama said im sympathetic to this. He said go read my nobel prize acceptance speech. I had seen the nobel prize acceptance speech. Ever seen something and read it and not understood it . Well, it happens to me too often. So i went home and got out the speech. And there, in plain english, obama says, yeah, wars sometimes necessary, but then he said it is always an expression and manifestation of human folly. And i realized at that point he just does not like war. And the problem is, when you are involved in a war as commander in chief, youve got to really be tough. A couple of years ago, i was having breakfast with a world leader, head of government of one of our closest allies. And i asked about obama. He said, obama is so smart and i like him. But then he said, but no one is afraid of him. And my heart sank because i realized that the distaste, the disgust for war looms so large with obama that he has not conveyed the message of fear. Which is what a leader must do. What is intere ....