Get robin has gold and make your cash or and 5 apy joined today and get your burst 30 days free. Im more in liebermann at the pentagon. And this cnn welcome to the lead on jake tapper. This hour, the combative crossexamination of Michael Cohen has Donald Trumps 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 israels 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 didnt he knock trump for that when he was candidate biden will roll the tape lets start the hour with the hush money cover up case, though. Cnns paula reid, is that the court but in manhattan, paula, today the defense got its first crack a
exclusively obtained of those steel slat proto barriers. they were at the president s direction. all of those different materials. that steel that he said that he came to concensus with the democrats to move forward, the shutdown and et cetera:00 sliced clear through. the impenetrable bare grer the president is insistent on, while 800,000 people are sitting at home on furlough. is this something, is this information that s available to the president now? especially after an exchange like that. wouldn t people say, that s the latest stuff. reporter: not only is it available to the president. those tests were ordered by the president. that he had reality show contest
shutdown and et cetera:00 sliced clear through. the impenetrable bare grer the president is insistent on, while 800,000 people are sitting at home on furlough. is this something, is this information that s available to the president now? especially after an exchange like that. wouldn t people say, that s the latest stuff. reporter: not only is it available to the president. those tests were ordered by the president. that he had reality show contest where he went down there last march to fick best prototype. the one that he liked the best. he said we might peick different design. that s not true. they ll go with steel.
tell speaker gingrich. listen, you are asking me and i m telling you. if i have the opportunity to speak to newt, i will speak. it s interesting, but there are you saw kellyanne conway, who i love, had some interesting words and then these are obviously much stronger words by the former speaker. so there are some emotions flying. but it s important that donald trump as the leader of our party and that s who he is right now, that he brings this party together and brings everyone on board. some people aren t going to be happy. at the end of the day i think the ultimate selections are going to be the right discretiodiscretioselections for our country. amanda, i want to get your take on what you heard from newt gingrich. tell us how you really feel, newt, because in the end, when it comes to two of the four being floated in this reality show contest, mitt romney and rudy giuliani, if they don t get picked, they are going to be