tapper started that s right now so does mr. trump wants to leave abortion up to the state? bates we re not believe starts right now in classic donald trump passion, the former president, given his supporters whiplash, blasting both arizona and florida for there are abortion bans just two days after saying abortion should be left up to the states and he s not the only republican trying to run away from past comments on abortion breaking news and other appeal hearing involving donald trump getting underway right now, this latest hail mary from the former president as his legal team tries anything they can think of the stop the stormy daniels case from beginning first criminal trial, just five days away, las tornado tornado from tornado warnings to flash flood emergencies. we are on severe weather they re alert in the united states is dangerous storms move in welcome for the lean on jake tapper and we re going to start with our politics lead days away from the first-ever
don t wait- call today. code now and ask about the bosley guarantee central. today. and second welcome back. it s wednesday, april 10, right now on cnn this morning, a civil war era abortion law reinstated in arizona, igniting a problem for republicans that donald trump was trying to tamp down president biden, questioning israel s war strategy against hamas and elevating his criticism of prime minister netanyahu and house republicans delaying their attempt to impeach homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas all right 6:00 a.m. here in washington, there s a live look at the nation s capital on this wednesday morning. good morning, everyone. i m kasie hunt. it s wonderful to have you with us problem leave it up to the states. that was donald trump s big announcement on abortion rights on monday. but it didn t take long for voters to be reminded what leave it up to the states actually can look like. the state supreme court in arizona upheld an 18, 64. yes, that s c
here s how it came to be. in may of this year, may 22nd, the new york times had a scoop that they probably only got because they are specifically the new york times. they sent crack reporters to an otherwise sleepy courthouse in albany, new york, not a federal courthouse, a state court, because that day in that state court in new york, a long-time business partner of michael cohen s, a taxicab mogul named gene friedman who everybody called the taxi king, he was in court. he had been facing really serious charges in new york, tax evasion charges in new york more than $5 million and four criminal counts of tax fraud and facing a charge of grand larceny. a big stack of charges involving a large amount of money and potentially a large amount of jail time. the story they uncovered at the courthouse that day, for some reason, friedman had gotten this huge criminal liability he was facing winnowed down to almost
nothing. he was able to work out some sort of deal where all of that priso
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charge of grand larceny, a big stack of charges involving a large amount of money and potentially a large amount of jail time. the story they uncovered at the courthouse that day, for some reason, friedman had gotten this huge criminal liability he was facing winnowed down to almost nothing. all the prison time and felonies evaporated. instead of being tried for evading $5 million in taxes, prosecutors let him plead guilty to one count of evaluating $50,000 worth of taxes. not $5 million, 50,000. instead of decades in potential prison time the deal he cut with prosecutors got him zero prison time. people do plea deals all the time they offer their testimony for prosecutors letting them off the hook and going easier on
them. this was like the mother of all plea deals. the amount he offered must have been very very valuable to the government given how sweet the deal was he got from them in return. that happened in la
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a source familiar tells us that weisselberg s interview happened weeks ago and that it focused on michael cohen and the hush money payments to two women who said they had affairs with trump, which trump denies. weisselberg is a major player, in the secret reporting from a few weeks ago, cohen says he consulted with weisselberg, and in the plea deal, he s referred to as executive one, who arranged $420,000 in payments to cohen to pay him back for the payment he made to stormy daniels. he wrote please pay from the truth, post to legal expenses when he forwarded the invoices to another executive. it s very clear that he s played a key role. athena how big a there et to president trump is it that prosecutors are talking to weisselberg? this is certainly a big deal. we re talking about a person who has been working for trump for decades. he is the chief finance officer
different way for the past, you know, year,