report. thank you so much for being with us this afternoon, jessica. thanks for having me sitting in the chair, come back tomorrow. you do the same but don t go anywhere because the leader, jake tapper starts right now cnn breaking news welcome to the lean. i m jake tapper and we were falling breaking news out of new york. of course, we re day and donald trump s hush money trial. the defense rested right now in court, there s a meeting to determine what the judge will tell the jury next week before the jury begins debilitating the deliberating. what will no doubt be a monumental verdict one way or the other in the very first ever criminal trial of a former president trump himself is at this court meeting. and we ll bring it you all the updates coming up, but leading this, our israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu joins us live from jerusalem a day after the historic decision by the international criminal court in the hague to seek arrest warrants, not only for the three t
get robin has gold and make your cash or and 5% apy joined today and get your burst 30 days free. i m more in liebermann at the pentagon. and this cnn welcome to the lead on jake tapper. this hour, the combative cross-examination of michael cohen has donald trump s legal team picks apart his testimony in the new york city hush money cover up case. who will the defense call if anyone will, trump himself. take the stand. the former president has evolved on that question, plus israel s deadly strikes in gaza, local hospitals reporting at least 40 people killed. israel says they were targeting hamas war room imbedded in gaza. here, what winning? this is told cnn about the attack and a reversal from president biden announcing new tariffs on chinese goods, but didn t he knock trump for that when he was candidate biden will roll the tape let s start the hour with the hush money cover up case, though. cnn s paula reid, is that the court but in manhattan, paula, today the
new york are continuing to monitor gentleman s out of the middle east where we re learning more about the ceasefire proposal that hamas, except in israel, rejected today and is really strikes on southern gaza. there are raising new questions about whether these limited operations will grow into a full fledged invasion of raffa, which binding ministration has been warning against for weeks. we begin the hour right now today, 12 and the trump hush money trial and judges second contempt finding against the former president today in his warning that a third could mean jail time that i m is calling two longtime trump employees as they try to show exactly how michael cohen was repaid by trump s trust and personal accounts in 2017 after he paid hush money to stormy daniels back with the panel joining us as well as harry lipman, who was in court today s and la times legal affairs columnist, host of the talking feds podcast, and former deputy assistant attorney general. i m wonderin
assignment with potty cornish. listen wherever you get your podcasts when welcome back to our special coverage of donald trump s criminal trial. we are of course, staying on top of all of today s major elements. but right now, we have some major breaking news coming out of the middle east hamas has agreed to a ceasefire agreement for opposed by both egypt and khader. we know israel help craft this deal. but it s not fully agreed to it, at least not yet. we have reached out to prime minister benjamin, a tiny house to office in jerusalem. we are awaiting official response from the israeli government. will have a live report from jerusalem adjusted moment, but i want to make sure that as everyone appreciates what s going on, hamas has announced that is had dea the head of its political euro, has told both cutlery and egyptian mediators that hamas has agreed to their proposal for a ceasefire agreement much more in this coming up a very significant development for right now, t
i m melanie zanona in washington and this is cnn hello again, everyone. thank you so much for joining me on for greek of whitfield and we begin with the dangerous weather situation okay. texas that could get even more treacherous this weekend, heavy downpours and parts of the state have swept away vehicles, damaged homes, and triggering evacuations some areas have gotten hit with almost two feet of rain triggering widespread flooding and more rain is in the forecast cnn correspondent rosa flores as in houston for us. so rosa, people living in the flood ravaged communities are bracing for more rain. and i see the air boats behind you. they re ready for evacuations, are picking up people this just happened in the last few seconds fred, so i ve actually haven t been able to talk to them other than one individual who just got off this vote and said that there was water in his house and he literally was just rescued but this is literally happening as we re going live. so i haven