Santa newsnight starts now the circus comes to the courtroom. Thats tonight on these nine good evening. Im abby phillip the new york tonight. Tensions and chaos erupt inside of the courtroom. Let me set the scene for you. The trump team made a game time decision to call a witness, robert costello. Hes a former Legal Advisor to Michael Cohen. Now about 14 minutes into his testimony, cohen, costello vividly demonstrated why he may have caught trumps the tension. But the Presiding Judge was not amused costello rolled his eyes. A judge merchan, he let out an audible sigh after an objection. And the transcript, maybe the best way to describe what happened next in that courtroom. The judge, he says, i wanted to discuss proper decorum in my courtroom. Costello, right judge okay. So when there is a witness on the stand, if you dont like my ruling, you dont say, jeez. Okay. And then you dont say strike it because im the only one who can strike testimony in the courtroom. Do you, understand that
age from just 2 to 85 years old as well as ten thai nationals and one filipino citizen. in just the last few minutes freed hostages arrived at the israeli children s hospital for care. and in a moment we ll talk to the cousin of duarn cat asher who was just released today alongside her two children. you re looking at live pictures right now, 11 p.m. in israel. we were watching the last camera in the last hour. what we were told at this children s hospital location is that some children were just dropped off at this location. we are now getting this further video of yet more this is the first time we can say this today, former hostages that are now getting the proper care they need both mental as well as physical health assistance. again, they re in petah tyka, israel. we don t know the exact names or ages of those arriving but this first day now ending at 11 p.m. as these former hostages are arriving at various locations to get the care they need. but as all sides have trie
finally destroy them? former terrorism finance analyst at the u.s. department of treasury dr. jonathan shanzer. good evening. not only did the president s representatives say we were part of 65 country coalition. we re working to cut off isis finances. do you buy that? i think we re doing what we can. it won t be enough. in other words, we re bombing isis oil installations and trying to attack some of their funding from other outside gulf countries, for example. but what the president and the spokes people neglect to mention is more than 50% of isis significant finance comes from the plunder and tax of the territory they control. so that means the more territory they control the more wealth they have and the fact we have not been able to push them back. that we haven t been able to take back a lot of that territory they conquered is the reason why isis has the money it has today. but, you know, when you talk
wealthiest terrorist organization the world has ever seen. so the idea of cutting off their funding is a very difficult task. but is it the only way to finally destroy them? former terrorism finance analyst at the u.s. department of treasury dr. jonathan shanzer. good evening. not only did the president s representatives say we were part of 65 country coalition. we re working to cut off isis finances. do you buy that? i think we re doing what we can. it won t be enough. in other words, we re bombing isis oil installations and trying to attack some of their funding from other outside gulf countries, for example. but what the president and the spokes people neglect to mention is more than 50% of isis significant finance comes from the plunder and tax of the territory they control. so that means the more territory they control the more wealth they have and the fact we have