Step counter those sport matt and wireless remote call good morning. Good morning. Welcome to cnn this morning, its saturday, april 20. Im victims walker. Heres what were working on for you this morning congress is in session for a working weekend because see a final vote on a 95 foreign aid package for ukraine and israel as early as this afternoon. A much different vote though could cost. Mike johnson, the speakers gavel, Marjorie Taylor greene says theres a civil war in the House Of Representatives. And as another lawmaker joining her motion to vacate, were going indepth ahead annually, a half a dozen blasts, rock a Military Base belonging to an iranbacked militia in iraq at a time of high tensions across the mideast. What we know about it coming up and former President Donald Trump hits the Campaign Trail today, just two days hes before Opening Statements begin. In an historic Hush Money Trial in new york, the judges stern warning to trumps legal team, thats coming so in just about
bounds for potential trump testimony really, he is considering the relevance to the trial, the reason, first of all, let me say i think the prosecutors were somewhat conservative in the different areas that they put forth as being potentially useful for cross-examination. the main problem for trump here is that the areas that they want a cross-examine him in all go to veracity credibility, and he s on trial for fraud. basically. and so that really opens up an issue if you ve previously found to be lying, and that s what s really opening the door to all of these other issues. so there s been some discussion, i think a little bit confusing in the media that this is all bad character evidence that s true in a sense, certainly, because it slams up his character but it will only come in because he s taken a stand and his credibility, any witnesses, any defendants credibility is very much an issue when they re testifying
against the ever growing virus of fake news which exposes all people your irrational fear and imaginary risk. and you can hear he got applause there but what s the message there the or maybe the the sub message about the fake news the us president he is the one who was really made that term a household name is it. well he certainly has but we don t know how mccrossin is using the term fake news it is a kind of pollution that you see all over social media i would draw a distinction between that and what the mainstream news media the professional news media does we don t put out fake news if we are wrong we are corrected we will correct our information we have a higher standard of veracity credibility or should then social media
correct our information we have a higher standard of veracity credibility or should then social media social media is rife with. fake news and to conflate the two things i think is a mistake and it now but again i won t hold the crown to that standard i know that president trump likes to demonize by calling us fake news basically that whenever he sees a story that he doesn t like even when the story is true yeah you know this demonization of journalists and also the the i guess a lack of respect for the work of dickie parisian that s all coming together right now and if i was reminded of that in some the huge we did a couple of days ago we want to pull that up and show our viewers you tweeted that once again i m amazed by how many people you ve never reported a story or work in the newsroom are experts in journalism i assume they also know