assignment with potty cornish. listen wherever you get your podcasts when welcome back to our special coverage of donald trump s criminal trial. we are of course, staying on top of all of today s major elements. but right now, we have some major breaking news coming out of the middle east hamas has agreed to a ceasefire agreement for opposed by both egypt and khader. we know israel help craft this deal. but it s not fully agreed to it, at least not yet. we have reached out to prime minister benjamin, a tiny house to office in jerusalem. we are awaiting official response from the israeli government. will have a live report from jerusalem adjusted moment, but i want to make sure that as everyone appreciates what s going on, hamas has announced that is had dea the head of its political euro, has told both cutlery and egyptian mediators that hamas has agreed to their proposal for a ceasefire agreement much more in this coming up a very significant development for right now, t
welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper what we re going to start today with our law and justice lead& a stern warning for donald trump today from the bench. keep violating your gag order and your hush money cover of case, and you may well end up in jail. judge juan merchan, finding today the trump via lord, violated that gag order for the 10th time. he find a trump $1,000 which is the maximum penalty. but judge, where shine went on to tell the former president, quote, at the end of the de, i have a job to do and part of that job is to protect the dignity of the judicial system and compel respect as much as i do not want to impose a jail sanctioned and i ve done everything i can to avoid doing so i want you to understand that i will if necessary, and appropriate, unquote. today we ve also heard testimony from two witnesses who went through check by check, the payments made by donald trump to his former attorney and fixer, michael cohen. those payments are at the very heart