lean. i m jake tapper this hour, the trump campaign pushing back on a new report from pulp from propublica, which says quote, witnesses in the various criminal cases against the former president and have gotten pay raises new jobs, and more. i m going to talk to one of the journalists behind the new report, plus that flagrant foul on caitlin clark. why is everybody hating on the woman bringing so much attention? the women s basketball and leading this hour for israeli hostages taken by hamas on october 7, are no longer alive. that today, according to the israeli military which says that the terrorist group hamas is holding the bodies of ami ram cooper and you re on metzler frame perry, and adopt popplewell paris family today calling on the israeli government, calling on netanyahu to pursue this ceasefire deal to save those who are still alive that is a question causing so much confusion is israel close to a ceasefire deal in exchange for hostage release, president biden pro
monopoly in terms of its food exports to egypt. and so again, he had raised these concerns over and over any told jurors that he remembered a specific conversation that he had with senator menendez. he said senator menendez called him on the phone and told them to quote stop interfering with all of this saying to jurors, we had never seen or heard anything like this in my history in the agriculture industry and in the foreign agricultural services. now, of course, the defense is arguing here that there is no wrongdoing that senator menendez did not accept any bribes from hannah or anyone else that he was simply working on behalf of his constituents at another point during another conversation, for example mckinney says that senator menendez told him, i care about new jersey businesses. and there s nothing wrong with that. but of course prosecutors say there is something wrong with what happened here. they said that he was accepting
collusion. it seems you re hell bent on making sure whatever image you want to tell about this white house stays. i m just reporting you re asking me a question and i m going to answer. i m sorry. please stop shaking your head again. there was plenty of reaction from that. maggie haberman said quote stop shaking your head again spiers lectures april ryan who is a grown woman and she simply replied lawd! michael, this, i m looking at the associated press tonight. ap fact check. spicer says case closed on russia. they go on to point out fbi investigation. two committees investigating it.
boat before he was captured. quote stop killing our people and we will stop countering the defense s claim that tamerlan was the mastermind and dzhokhar was under his brother s influence. they needed to prove as the defense is trying to show otherwise the younger brother was a true partner in every part of this. reporter: the defense team, led by attorney judy clark, who successfully fought to keep past clients, including ted. kaczynski off of death row. hoping to spare tsarnaev s life with 17 out of the 30 charges he faces carrying the possibility of the death penalty. defense trying to convince the mostly female jury tsarnaev s role was different from his brother s but adding, quote, there s no excuse. no one s trying to make one. planting bombs at the boston marathon was a senseless act. if tsarnaev is found guilty, the trial will move to the sentencing phase, which could last several weeks. marci gonzalez, abc news, boston. marci, thank you so much. prosecutors are calling
we haven t seen each other in a while. forgive us we are excited. reunited let s get to the top story. let s get to it. we got to start in boston. big day today. very big day. the boston marathon bombing trial. jurors are set to deliberate this morning. at this point what needs to be decided is if dzhokhar tsarnaev is guilty. if he s found guilty the punishment will be the big question. marci gonzalez reporting for us. reporter: some of the final images and words left with the jury, graphic and heart wrenching. during closing arguments, the prosecution replayed videos and showed pictures of the boston marathon bombings and the bloody aftermath. pointing at defendant dzhokhar tsarnaev saying he and his brother tamerlan considered themselves to be soldiers and they were bringing their battle to boston. also focusing on the anti-american words the 21-year-old defendant reportedly scrawled on the inside of the boat before he was captured. quote stop killing our people and we wi