case, they have pleaded not guilty to racketeering and other criminal charges. so, unity, i guess. beyond that though, these 19 defendants are not exactly marching in lockstep. five of trump s codefendants have filed to have their cases removed to federal court. they argument they are trying to make to ensure that that happens, those arguments do not look good for the former president. take, for example, three of georgia s alleged fake electors. david schaffer and kathy latham in sean still. they have all said in their court filings, their cases belong in federal court, because they were just, quote, acting to assist the president, or acting at the direction of the president. now, those arguments might help these three folks in claiming they were defective federal employees, which weird, if true. and then maybe that will help them argue that they should be tried at the state level, but wow, does that argument not help their codefendant in all of this, mr. donald trump. it is
david: welcome to journal editorial report, i m david asman in for paul gigot. first of all, with israel it is 10 p.m. where just moments ago prime minister benjamin netanyahu promised to abillionish the evil abolish the evil of hamas and said the ongoing ground operation in gaza is the second stage of the war. infantry and armored vehicles have moved in backed by massive strikes from the air and the sea including the bombing of hamas tunnels which is a key target in this campaign to crush the terror group once and for all following its brutal ea attack the on israel three weeks ago today. let s go straight to southern israel where fox s trey yingst is standing by. trey, it s all yours. reporter: yeah, david, good afternoon. we are here along the israel-gaza border. you can hear those thuds mt. distance, both israeli artillery and tank units that are working at this hour hammering the northern part of the strip. airstrikes targeted a number of different positions tonight,
hi, everyone. it s 4:00 in new york. there s no shortage of news today in the legal troublesing the disgraced ex-president and current gop front runner, including a third trump lawyer and fourth trump associate earlier today pleading guilty in the fulton county criminal election interference case. we begin with a moment years in the making at aen manhattan courthouse. the disgraced ex-president coming face to face with michael cohen, the former fixer who said he would take a bullet for donald trump now, star witness in that civil fraud trial that threatens to bring down the trump business empire. here is what michael cohen said on arrival at court today. let me just turn around and say that this is not about donald trump vs. michael cohen. this is about accountability, plain and simple. we leave it up to the judge in order to make all the duststorm nations. i thank you all for coming. a few hours later in what he called a, quote, heck of a reunion, he took the stand in th
jerusalem on the war in israel. this time biden seemed open to negotiating a ceasefire if hamas releases the hostages. just hours later, white house communications director john kirby had to reiterate full throated support of israel saying in an interview on cnn that the country has a right to defend itself and the administration does not believe it s time for a ceasefire. two more hostages, israeli women in their 70s and 80s were released by hamas remains in captivity along with more than 200 others and iranen proxies continue to attack u.s. forces in the region and senior correspondent steve carrigan is live in beirut with what he s seeing on the ground. steve. reporter: trace, concerns here continue to grow about a possible second front in the war and assignment is israel versus hezbollah here and overnight and hezbollah in lebanon and what they said were cells by hezbollah being used to target israeli position withs antitank missiles over the past two weeks and skirmishes
but they don t follow you around. humanitarian relief has crossed join the millions of people taking back their privacy by downloading duckduckgo on mobile and desktop today. in from egypt. the first round of much-needed aid and from gaza early saturday. the land now estimates roughly 60% of people in gaza, that s about 1.4 million people have been displaced since the start of this. war special envoy from middle east humanitarian david earlier today on msnbc. our expectation of the discussions at all sides starting tomorrow, you will see a continuous flow of assistance moving, we want to build it up to the levels necessary to begin to meet gazis needs. in the vatican city today, pope francis praying for all suffering, calling for more humanitarian aid for a few minute palestinians living in gaza. they also demand the release of all hostages being held by hamas. they also spoke today with president biden. meanwhile, on the ground, israel s military launching a rare air