Good morning, it is 11 00 a. M. Eastern, and 8 00 a. M. Pacific. Im jose diazbalart. Former president Donald Trumps new york Hush Money Trial is off today, as the former president attends his youngest sons High School Graduation in florida. The day off comes after former trump lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen spent another day on the stand being crossexamined by trump attorney todd blanche. Blanche may have been able to poke a hole in cohens credibility as a witness, during questioning about a phone call from october 2016. More now from nbc news senior Legal Correspondent laura jarrett. Laura . Good morning to you. Michael cohen has been nearly unflappable on the Witness Stand as the defense tries to show this jury that he has changed his story about things big and small. The word lie used more than 50 times in court just yesterday. The jury may not remember every single defense attack line, but they only need one person not to buy his story. This morning, Donald Trumps hush money coveru
foster who is in israel. here in the uk. the home office has earmarked at least £700 million to manage the arrival of migrants on small boats until 2030. the projections flew under the radar yet officials published them online last week, as home secretary james cleverly flew to rwanda to sign a new treaty to, quote, stop the boats . they predict the channel crossings could continue up to 203k. 0ur chief political correspondent henry zeffman has more from downing street. it s been the government s mantra for the last three prime ministers, although that does not actually take you back that far in time, given the turmoil in the conservative party, but rishi sunak very much made it his own, at the start of this year he set out five promises for the year ahead and one of them was, in his words, to stop the boats. now, he was dealt a very significant setbackjust a month or so ago when the supreme court ruled that his plan to deport asylum seekers to rwanda was in its current for
victories for veterans go to dab.org. i m gustavo valdes in mexico city, and this is cnn here on the cnn newsroom. hi everyone, i m jessica dean in washington convicted felon and former president donald trump is still six weeks away from finding out what he his sentence will be and his history, historic hush money, conviction. but trump says he d be okay with serving prison time this morning. and the lander view he s done since being convicted. the current republican candidate for president warn fox news a harsh sentence could lead to anger from his supporters judge could decide to say, hey, house arrest or even jail. it could face what that okay with it, i saw one of my lawyers. he had today on television saying, oh, no, you don t want to do that to the i don t know. beg for anything you ve just the way it is. i don t know that the public would stand it. you know, i don t i m not sure that the public would stand for with a house arrest for i think i think it would be tough
Hostages who were abducted by hamas on october the seventh back into israel. and number three, to ensure that the gaza strip no longer poses a threat to israel. so they want netanyahu was trying to do was to clarify that the ceasefire proposal that he himself would have signed off on part of israel s war cabinet does not preclude israel from meeting those war objective. so the ball as far as the ceasefire proposal for now is hamas is caught, i think at the same time, netanyahu was trying to preempt the inevitable blowback against the ceasefire proposal from the far members of his governing coalition. those react section blowback. julie came at the end of the jewish sabbath when they said that this proposal seemed like to them a capitulation to hamas. it would be a defeat for israel. it would be a reckless deal. and if it goes ahead, they would pull their party s out of the governing coalition. now, if they were to make good on that threat, that would likely lead to the collapse of neta
in my experience, eric, president putin always has more than one objective in any enterprise the fact it s illegal does not worry president putin as we have seen. his overall goal is to subdue ukraine, is to change its orientation to deny the democratic will of the ukrainian people at fundamentally to bring it back into russia s orbit. there are some people say put it was to re-create the russian empire by bringing ukraine back under russian control. i don t know about that. all he succeeded in doing so far as reestablishing the soviet economy of 30 years ago. so as a war objective is not doing so well that front. you think he misjudged and will listen has this been backfiring on mr. putin? whether it will ultimately backfire i don t know.