Good morning and welcome to the final day of the third week of Donald Trumps criminal hush money trial, where the former president just reentered the courthouse here in manhattan. Were you all again go before the prosecution as they are going to bring a witness back on the stand, a witness that we saw yesterday . Should i stillman that older testimony when court ended, soon again, trump will be part of that captive audience that is going to be listening to the prosecutions version of a trump tale, a sexual when counter with the Adult Film Star that the former president allegedly tried to keep hidden. From american voters. Yesterday for the first time, the jury actually got two hear trumps boys and thats secretly recorded audio tape. Good morning. Im Kaitlan Collins here in new york thank caitlin. Im John Mccarthy austin here in washington. And you are watching cnn Special Coverage of Donald Trumps hush money cover up, trial in minutes from now, testimony, resumes and zeros in on trumps
Trumps lawyers are looking to shred david peckers testimony and damage his credibility. Plus, whats next after Supreme Court arguments on president ial immunity, and the prominent republican who now says president s should not be immune from prosecution. Also ahead, dramatic demonstrations continuing on College Campuses as propalestinian protests lead to hundreds of arrests. Good morning, and happy friday. It is 10 00 eastern. Im Ana Cabrera Reporting from new york. We begin with the breaking news out of a manhattan courtroom where the first witness called in Donald Trumps Hush Money Case is back on the stand this morning. This time facing questions from trumps attorneys. Now, trumps team attempting to poke holes in david peckers testimony. Pecker is the former publisher of the National Enquirer who has testified that he was involved in efforts to catch and kill stories that could have hurt trump during the 2016 campaign. Nbcs Vaughn Hillyard is outside the courthouse. Also with us, jo
Free, visit otter. Ai. Ai or download the app im melanie zanona. On capitol hill, and this is cnn you are in the cnn newsroom. Hi everyone. Im jessica dean in new york. We have breaking news out of Northern Gaza tonight where israels prepared to reopen the erez Border Crossing. And to use its Port Of Ashdod to get humanitarian aid into gaza. Just hours before the israelhamas war reaches the sixth month mark. This is the un humanitarian aid chief calls the situation in gaza a quote, betrayal of humanity with 33,000 People Killed there. And many stars just this week, a deadly israeli strike killed seven humanitarian aid workers from World Central Kitchen. Cnns Nic Robertson is in jerusalem for us tonight and it gunfire and explosion since were here today at the erez Border Crossing what does this tell us and what are you learning yeah, we went down to the Border Crossing today to see what the premise variations. Werther would be going on for the expected aid convoys to go through the Ere
hard want to do because once you do it, you gotta keep doing here. monday. how about that? all right. sounds good. and be sure to watch speaking of which cnn special coverage of the eclipse across america starting monday 1:00 p.m. eastern or stream it on max, a new our of cnn news central starts right now all right breaking news, waffle, new number is just in from the new jobs report way higher than expected. the unemployment rate dropped, no recession in sight it justin israeli military releases initial findings into the strike that killed seven world central kitchen aid workers, where the idf is placing the blame. i m john berman with kate bolduan and sara sidner. this is cnn news central all right breaking news coming in hot red hot the economy added 303,000 jobs in march. way way higher than expectation. cnn s matt egan is with us now, mac give us a sense of these numbers and what it means john, this is another blockbuster jobs report and i gotta give you
i m chris hayes. president joe biden just wrapped up a four-hour summit with chinese president xi jinping. in northern california. we are expecting the president to take questions from the press any minute now, right there at that venue at woodside, california. today s event was the first time that president xi and president biden had met face to face in a year. it s only the second time that they had spoken in person since biden had been elected president. it s also the first visit of president xi to the united states since he met with then president trump at mar-a-lago. of course, more than six years ago. the two presidents held and expanded, bilateral meeting for two hours of southern noon, before having a more smaller, private meeting at 4:30 pm eastern time. there is a lot to talk about, to say the least. at the top of the agenda, a number of unfolding political geo crises. the white house is taking a renewed effort from china to curb the flow of illegal fentanyl in the