Set. So marshall, this is a big day for the country, a big day in history. A lot of it, it was this wall be happening Behind Closed Doors with no cameras in the courtroom. But what can we expect . We wont see anything. We wont hear anything will be totally reliant on our colleagues in the room. They can provide realtime updates in writing and sketches. Of course, look, its been a long time coming. Here we are. Donald trump faces 34 felony counts. These are state charges. He cant pardon himself. If he is ultimately convicted. And the theory of the case is falsification of Business Records all about that. Hush money payment to Stormy Daniels how they use the ledger of the Trump Organization to funnel that money to Michael Cohen after the fact and the prosecutor say that it was essentially a cover up, cooking the books so a lot of the names, a lot of the people who are involved in this trial are quite familiar to anybody whos been following trumps travails for the past few years, who are
Everyone. Thank you so much for joining me. Im fredricka whitfield. All right. Were less than 24 hours away now from witness singh history tomorrow, Opening Statements began and the trial of defendant donald trump, the first former president ever to be on trial. For criminal charges. Trump well, Walk Into A Manhattan courtroom tomorrow morning, where he will hear the states case against him. He is facing dozens of charges related to an alleged Hush Money Payment to Adult Film Actress Stormy Daniels made before the 2016 election this is the first of four criminal cases against trump to go to trial. 12 jurors and six alternates will decide trumps fate. Heres cnns brian todd ready to empaneled jurors have been excused from former president trumps Hush Money Trial, underscoring just how crucial the six alternate jurors are, whove just been seated in a case of this length in a highprofile case, the alternates are as significant as the regular jury panel, because theres a very high likelihoo
Right . Hello again, everyone. Thank you so much for joining me. Lots of breaking news today. Im Fredricka Whitfield and we continue to follow all of this on capitol hill. Members of the House Of Representatives just pass a series of foreign aid bills providing a total of 95 billion in dollars in assistance for ukraine, israel, and taiwan. It all unfolded in a rare high stakes saturday vote in congress, gop, House Speaker mike johnson was able to advance the bipartisan bills through congress. This week with the help of democrats. Its a move that could cost him his job as some hardliners in his party have threatened to introduce a measure to remove him from his post. We have teamed coverage of todays major development, Priscilla Alvarez, i will have reaction from the white house, but lets get started on capitol hill with cnns lauren fox, lauren, i mean, the votes there now official and how are people reacting overall on the hill yeah. I mean, this was such a Long Time Coming for montse
You are in the, cnn newsroom. Hi, everyone. I am jessica dean in washington and we begin this hour at the white house President Biden unexpectedly on his way back to the white house right now, were turning from delaware to meet with his National Security council over rising tensions in the middle east. Us officials including biden himself warned and iranian attack on israeli territory could be coming within the next few days leaving both the us and Israeli Forces on high alert. And weve already seen some aggression this morning as ronnie and forces seized a Container Ship with ties to an israeli businessman. It was intercepted in the strait of hormuz. The only Shipping Routes that connects the persian gulf to the open ocean and joining us now senior White House House reporter kevin liptak and Senior International correspondent been wedeman. Lets talk to kevin first. We know the president is on the way back to the white house. How is it responding to this moment . As israel awaits of Po
Hello, im alex marquardt. Welcome to the cnn newsroom. We are following Breaking News. Iran has launched an attack act against israel. If youre just joining us dozens of iranian drones are now bound for israel as well as Cruise Missiles, according to the israeli news media yeah, this of course, leaving the entire middle east and beyond very much on edge is forces are planning to intercept as many of those aircraft and missiles as possible. The United States has said they will help with those interceptions at best they can at this hour. However, we do not yet know what the results of these attacks may be just moments ago, the white house said that this attack is expected to unfold over the next few hours. It is just past midnight in israel, we have got reporters and analysts all over the map as we try practice news including mj lee at the white house, Jeremy Diamond in jerusalem, clarissa ward, and tel aviv and ben wedeman in beirut. I want to get straight to our ben wedeman who is in l