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also this hour, hamas and its money, how the terrorist group is funding its side of the war, its big money tunnel exploration. my guest ahead was a finance tractker at the treasury department a historic day in a new york courtroom, donald trump taking the stand in the civil fraud case that could bring down his family empire in new york, new york. he repeatedly went back and forth with the judge who accused trump of rambling in long-winded testimony. trump today called the case election interference as he runs for president in 2024. he called the new york attorney general who brought this case a political hack and a racist. let's go to cnn's paula reid who is outside the courthouse. trump's strategy on the stand not surprisingly attack, attack, attack. his lawyers debating a motion for a mistrial. where do things stand? >> reporter: jake, after all the chaos and those contentious exchanges in court today, it does appear that the attorney general's office was able to elicit some helpful testimony from their star witness. trump acknowledged at least some role in helping to value these assets in his real estate portfolio, undercutting the argument by his own attorneys where they had been trying to put distance between him and these estimates, that the attorney general's office is trying to prove were fraudulent and should result in these massive penalties. trump, it appeared his goal today on the stand was to use this time to attack the attorney general and the judge. after first the judge was trying to rein him in the he went off course or didn't answer a question directly, the judge would cut in. as the day went on, the judge did that less and less and instead deferred to the assistant attorney general who was ultimately able to get some answers that are helpful for this phase of their case. >> what does this tell us about what we can expect for the other numerous trials trump faces? >> reporter: jake, this is the first time we've seen the former president facing hostile questions. how does he do on the stand? now, i want to 'emphasize this s a civil case. what's on the line are potentially significant penalties and his company's ability to do business in the state of new york. that's significant. but when this moves to a criminal case which is what he's facing in fulton county, georgia and two federal criminal prosecutions, there's the possibility for jail time. so that threat can always alter someone's behavior, alter their conduct. it did appear today he was willing to potentially expose himself to greater legal peril or what he may perceive to be inevitable legal peril to get his message across, and that is he believes he's a victim of political bias and try to paint himself as a martyr in the court of public opinion even if it increases his exposure in the actual courtroom. >> paula reid, thank you. let's bring in former trump attorney tim parlatore. trump's lawyer said his team is happy with his testimony today. how do you think it went? >> obviously, i didn't watch it directly. from everything i heard, it doesn't sound like he did much to really help his case. whenever you don't answer questions directly and you go on and on and answer different things, it doesn't help for your credibility at all. what paula just said about some of the answers at the end, maybe that hurt him. i think this is a case where going into it he had already lost summary judgment, so i think he's already kind of in a bad position where there's not much he can really do to help himself in this case. >> you don't think there's any way if he were to come to the stand and express -- not contrition necessarily, but try to explain his point of view. he has an argument to make -- not you, people may not believe. you have an argument to make about the worth of things might mean more with the trump brand, et cetera, et cetera. there is an argument he could make. if he wasn't attacking the judge, attacking the attorney general, trying to explain his case, might that not win over a judge, not in terms of not fining him, but potentially not fining him $250 million? >> it's one of those judgment calls you have to make in the trial scenario. i've had some cases where you know right off the bat you're going to lose, so you might as well try to build as many points as you can for appeal. i don't know the strategy they're following here. certainly there are things in here that can be explained, other people were doing thing, as far as you said, the value of the trump brand. other things are matters of -- is it plausible. the whole discussion of the size of his atment at the top of trump tower, that's not something tremendously difficult to figure out. all you have to do is look at the footprint of the building. so it is something that i think in the ordinary course you would want to try to explain a little bit better. as i always say in trial, if it's a jury trial, there's only 12 opinions that matter. if it's a judge trial, there's only one opinion that matters. yours isn't it. you have to really play to the decision maker, in this case the judge. >> i've never been tried for anything. i try to imagine, when i get pulled over for speeding, i'm not going to be a jerk to the cop. i'm going to be polite and hope that maybe if i'm nice he'll give me a break. that's obviously not trump's approach. >> right. and one other thing to remember here, this is a civil case where he does not have a fifth amendment privilege ledge. in a criminal case or if you get stopped by the cops, you don't have to say anything at all and it won't be held against you. in this case he is forced to testify. in fact, he was called as a witness by the attorney general's office. so they had to do a direct examination instead of a cross. >> trump is facing criminal cases over his handling of classified documents, allegedly trying to overturn the 2020 election results. this case is personal. the future of the trump organization in new york is at stake. do you think that makes him nervous? what do you think it means to him? >> i think this one, not only is it the entire life's work that he's built up before the presidency, but it also involves his kids. if he goes down for the january 6th case or the mar-a-lago case, that doesn't really involve his family. this is something that directly implicates the conduct of his children and something that would have much longer lasting effects. i think that's one of the reasons he's taking it so much more personally than the other cases. >> why do you think trump's team chose to not cross-examine him today? did that strike you as strange at all? would you have done a cross-examination to at least try to clean up whatever messes he made? >> of course i would. i think any competent attorney would try to do a cross-examination, even if it's a fairly rudimentary one. as to what chris kise and alina habba have as far as strategy, that's not something i can possibly guess. >> tim paratore, good to see you. thank you for your time. we have breaking news for you now. flares are lighting up the gaza sky as we hear a new round of explosions. let's get straight to cnn's nic robertson who is in sderot, israel, near the gaza border. that's one of the communities that hamas brutally invaded and attacked on october 7th. nick, walk us through what you're hearing and seeing on the ground there. >> reporter: just heard a large detonation behind us in the distance. i believe you can see there images from inside gaza, flares illuminating the sky. we're perhaps a little north of there, looking into gaza from further away. we were able to see about four or five flares hanging in the sky. we can see -- we were able to see those flares a short time ago from here. earlier on there were more flares over that same area, over the past couple nights in that part of gaza, we've been able to see flares and hear detonations and at times see some very, very heavy detonations, multiple detonations. right now i'm listening to a fighter plane in the sky above us. we know on the ground, in gaza city itself and surrounding it, the israel defense forces have been about and poised to go in on the ground. of course, this is dangerous territory for them because hamas for them sort of controls these streets, until now at least. they can create what the military will call a killing zone to draw in the troops on the ground, in their tanks, in their armored fighting vehicles and try to block them off with explosions, pin them in and then fire on the piercing rocket propelled grenades at them. that's the military tactics of what can play out on the ground. we know the idf has now cut the gaza strip in two. they've opened humanitarian corridors between the north and the south that they're opening for civilians to move along during certain hours of the day. it's at nighttime that we intend to see some of the heaviest bombardments. we're hearing just a little bit of it at the moment right now, jake. >> all right. nic robertson, thank you so much. we're going to continue to monitor this breaking news. stay with us, we're going to take a quick break and we'll be right back. former president trump wrapping up his -- shall we call it reality tv behavior in a very real civil fraud trial in new york. the drama, and there certainly was a lot of it, was seen both inside and outside the courtroom. cnn's kristen holmes is outside trump tower in manhattan. how have those within trump's circle been reacting to his dramatic testimony today. >> reporter: trump campaign advisers were happy with his performance. they immediately starting turning quotes from the judge, taking them out of context and using them on social media to portray this as a sham case, just a reminder of how this messaging is, they wanted those sound bites. obviously there was no camera inside the courtroom, but we have reporters in there essentially pushing out what exactly trump was saying. what was interesting about it was we knew he was going to go to the cameras and say this stuff about election interference, it being a political retribution, that it was his rivals or democrats were coming to get him. that's the reason he was going through all these various trials because he is, in fact, running for president and they don't want him to win. what was interesting was that he did that in the courtroom as well. one of trump's advisers saying to me they thought he did a good job because of the fact he was controlling the messaging. they said turning this into the trump show. so that's why they were happy with the way it turned out today. >> how did trump's testimony give us any idea of how he'll fight for his presidential campaign? >> reporter: jake, this is exactly how he's going to fight for his presidential campaign, talking about the election interference, talking about how this is all political. we know the messaging between the legal world and political world has combined. he doesn't want to fight any of these cases in an actual courtroom. he wants to fight all these casss in the court of public opinion. take a listen to just one of the things he said today about this. >> it's very unfair. in the meantime, the people of the country understand it, they see it, and they don't like it, they don't like it. it's political warfare as you would call it, or political lawfare. >> reporter: jake, i get asked all the time what people on the campaign trail think, what do voters think. i will tell you, it's not just his base listening to this rhetoric and picking up on it. i've talked to republicans who attend these events who aren't sure they're going to support donald trump, but they do believe this messaging, that there's a two-tiered justice system, that it's unfair and people are targeting donald trump. that's something they're going to continue to message out there. i, of course, want to draw attention to the polls we saw over the weekend, "new york times" times polls leading head-to-head in the battleground states against joe biden. that's all the team talked about on sunday before this testimony, these poll numbers. when they see those kind of polls, that doesn't make them change their strategy. it makes them double down on it. >> kristen holmes, thank you so much. major elections in several states tomorrow will likely give us a preview of what 2024 will look like from the trump factor to the momentum of democrats, to abortion rights on the ballot in the wake of the roe v. wade decision. we'll talk about it next. is it possible my network could take my business to the next level? 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>> reporter: that's exactly right. that's exactly what's on the ballot here in virginia. the governor is sprinting across the state in the final hours trying to get out the vote. just to remind everyone, the reason we look to virginia in these off years is because oftentimes what their legislature does correlates with what happens at the national election the following year. in 2019, democrats flipped both the house and the senate, then joe biden won this state by ten points in 2020. in 2021 republicans took back the house, and of course in 2022 republicans took back the house in congress. so that is what we see in terms of patterns here. oftentimes they mimic what happens nationally. jake, you mentioned glenn youngkin's agenda. he has tried to put forth a number of issues and legislations that the senate democrats have blocked. chief among them, virginia remains the only southern state that has not enacted any further restrictions since roe v. wade was overturned in 2022. youngkin pushed for a 15-week ban with exceptions for incest, rape and the life of the mother, but that was blocked. that is one of the key issues that drove the turnout. we'll see what happens here in virginia tomorrow night. >> now on to eva mckend in the commonwealth of kentucky. how do they have a democratic governor in the first place and does andy beshear have any hope of winning a second term? >> reporter: jake, governor bashir is going to hold a rally here in about an hour. he enters the final stretch with key advantages, one being his name. his father served as governor here for two terms. he's also been at the help during several tragedies, the pandemic, natural disasters. all the while he really dismissed partisanship during those efforts, really branding those efforts, emphasizing to kentuckians they're all on the same team. that's why when you talk to some trump supporters, they say they like governor beshear and are willing to give him four more years. cameron presents a real threat to the incumbent democratic. cameron has worked tirelessly to tie beshear to president biden. he also has spent a lot of time attacking beshear for his record during the pandemic, arguing more needs to be done to work with the republican state legislature to address learning loss. a lot of folks expecting this race to be very clear. >> kyung lah is in ohio where abortion is on the ballot. voters have a chance to say yes or no with what the republican governors want. >> reporter: you have republican governors saying they want to make sure that abortion and recreational marijuana, yes, they're both on the ballot. it is absolutely issue one, abortion rights that will be what drives voters. that's what we're hearing from advocates. that's what you're seeing when you talk to the voters themselves. what is issue one? it's a measure where voters in a republican-controlled state are being asked to protect abortion rights. that's what is at stake. that's what we will be looking at to capture the national sentiment of republicans and independents and how they feel regarding abortion. we spent some time in franklin county. this is a county that's highly populous. we saw a lot of ballots still being dropped off. early vote numbers statewide certainly show there's a lot of interest. it is expected, if these trends continue -- if you look at early vote numbers and moving forward, that it is going to potentially be a high voter turnout for this off-year election, higher than in 2019, the last off-year election. those that are against issue one say they're focusing on the rural counties. those who want to pass this measure say they're framing this as a non-partisan issue, hoping to win over these independents. >> big races and big issues at state. kyung lah, eva mckend and jessica dean, thank you very much. i'll be talking to all three of you all night, tomorrow night. get some coffee brewing. what political watchers will be looking for in these elections tomorrow. we're back with that next. welcome back to "the lead." we're 70 days away from the iowa caucuses. tomorrow local races could provide clues about the national mood ahead of next year's presidential election. so let's bring back this august political panel. jonah goldberg and kate bed ding field. let me start by just asking which races tomorrow are you particularly interested in. let me start with you, kate? >> i'm particularly interested in ohio in part because abortion is so cleanly on the ballot. we've seen it's been such a motivator for voters across the country. it was in the midterms. we've seen it in a number of ballot initiatives. >> just to be clear, this is a referendum that the abortion rights community has written to put in the constitution. >> exactly, which ohio voters voted on earlier this year as well and voted to allow it to go forward and to not change the rules to make it harder to get it on the ballot, if that makes sense. so i'm just interested to see, particularly in an increasingly red state like ohio, how this fares tomorrow. actually abortion across the board in all of these races is going to be interesting to see because a lot of these candidates, governor beshear in kentucky have made this central to their argument. i'm interested to see how this will play out tomorrow night. >> jonah? >> i agree. historically abortion was good for voter turnout and fund-raising it seems it has flipped since dobbs. that will be the big story. if they do this in ohio, a state that trump carried by eight, that will be a big deal. i'm also sort of interested, one of my favorite endangered spee sees are southern modern democrats. if andy beshear could actually survive in a state that is so thoroughly republican, that will be very interesting in kentucky. also it will be interesting because there are these crosscurrents of the mcconnell operation in kentucky, obviously very powerful. also the maga base of the party hates mcconnell. for political nerds it will be fascinating. >> one of the stories i'm interested in nearby in virginia is glenn youngkin who has tried to steer the republican party in virginia where he's not alienating the maga base but also steering a different direction for the republican party, and he has really invested in trying to find candidates that are, for want of a better term, conservative but not crazy, excited that joe biden won the election, on his program for a 15-week abortion ban. i know you don't agree with that. not an outright ban, a 15-week abortion ban. it will be interesting to see if he's able to sell that in a state that is increasingly blue. >> absolutely. i think it will have interesting overtones by the 2024 election coming up. it's almost an interesting microcosm of a challenge that the republican party is facing across the board which is how do they appeal to, speak to a wide swath of the country, frankly, that isn't maga crazy -- to use your term, maga extremism. how do they put forward a conservative vision that isn't just maga crazy? it will be interesting to see tomorrow night in virginia whether he's been successful in doing that. there are other issues at play, the education issue, crime for those of us who live in d.c. and northern virginia, crime is an issue that a lot of these candidates have tried to really make a wedge issue in the race. >> republican candidates against democrats. >> yes. it will be interesting to see how that plays out tomorrow night. i do think it will have broader implications moving into 2024. >> the off year in virginia elections, in part because it's the back yard of d.c., always get outside attention, out sized attention. also, the story you're telling about youngkin trying to find more non-crazy republicans, democrats are trying to find more non-crazy democrats in the state. there's more military vets, more guys with law enforcement running because basically both parties have a problem and we're seeing this really in response to the israel stuff. both have a problem where their bases are much more extreme and much more polarizing. whoever can claim to be the least not crazy, or the most not crazy, has a real shot of being a majority party. >> not a huge problem for virginia democrats as opposed to democrats in other states. thanks to both of you. up next, inside the wall between israel and hamas. what leaders of the terror group said they expected as they launched the whorrific attack against israel on october 7th. you're probably not easily persuaded to switch mobile providers for your business. but what if we told you it's possible that comcast business mobile can save you up to 75% a year on your wireless bill versus the big three carriers? 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children bloody, children's bodies, families starving, little if any medical care, homes destroyed. israel defense forces insists they're only targeting hamas, who hide among the palestinian people, among civilians' homes. but the secretary-general of am necessity international told cnn that israel has waged a, quote, campaign of violations of international law. something must happen, she said, so we alleviate the suffering of the people of gaza, unquote. queen rania of jordan who is palestinian said this in an interview with cnn's becky anderson. >> i know some who are against the cease-fire argue that it will help hamas. however, i feel that in that argument they are inherently dismissing the deaths -- in fact, even endorsing and justifying the death of thousands of civilians. that is just morally reprehensible. >> justifying the death of innocent civilians. that's an interesting turn of phrase. something that has concerned us greatly, something that we have wondered about ever since hamas brutally attacked so many israeli civilians on october 7th is what exactly did hamas think the israeli military would do in response to that? did they not anticipate that israel would retaliate? did they not anticipate israel would retaliate in a way that would cause innocent palestinians in gaza to die? especially given the fact that, as has been established by israeli intelligence, u.s. intelligence and journalists who have visited gaza, the fact that hamas embeds within the palestinian population. what did they think would happen? it turns out that a saudi journalist asked a spokesman for hamas that very question. his response was quite telling in terms of hamas' concerns about palestinian lives. >> translator: dear sister, nations are not easily liberated. the russians sacrificed 30 million people in world war ii in order to liberate it from hitler's attack. the vietnamese sacrificed 3.5 million people until they defeated the americans. afgha afghanistans sacrificed million. the algerian people sacrificed 6 million martyrs over 130 years. the palestinian people are just like any other nation. no nation is liberated without sacrifices. >> no nation is liberated without sacrifices. not exactly an expression of regret for innocent palestinian deaths. a journalist from russia today, a russian state media outlet asked musa march zook from the hamas political bureau, quote, you have built 500 kilometers of tunnels in gaza. why haven't you built bomb shelters where palestinian civilians can hide during bombardment. here is how hamas responded. >> translator: we built the tunnels because we have no other way of protecting ourselves from being targeted and killed. these tunnels are meant to protect us from the airplanes. we are fighting from inside the tunnels. everybody knows that 75% of the people in the gaza strip are refugees, and it is the responsibility of the united nations to protect them. >> the biden administration would argue a pause allowing innocent palestinians to flee and allowing humanitarian supplies to get into gaza, that that's one thing, but that stopping the israeli campaign against hamas which is what a cease-fire would be, stopping it would be another. here is how former secretary of state hillary clinton put it at an event at the baker institute? >> people who are calling for a cease-fire now do not understand hamas. that is not possible. it would be such a gift to hamas because they would spend whatever time there was a cease-fire in effect rebuilding their armaments, creating stronger positions to be able to fend off an eventual assault by the israelis. >> you know, don't take her word for it. a member of hamas's political bureau told lebanese tv that the al aqsa flood, that's what they called the october 7th attack. >> translator: this is just the first time. there will be a second, a third, a fourth, because we have a determination, the resolve and the capabilities to fight. will we have to pay a price? yes, and we are ready to pay it. we're called a nation of martyrs. we're proud to sacrifice martyrs. >> so hamas which is the government of gaza, based on their own words, a, they think the loss of palestinian civilian lives is just the cost of liberation. b, they think that even though they're the government of gaza, it's not their responsibility to protect palestinian civilians, the tunnels are for themselves, for fighting, not for civilians. c, they're determined to continue attacking israel the same way they did on october 7th over and over and over based on what they say. so for these reasons, israel says we can't have a cease-fire. listen to what they say, so they're pushing forward with their ground incursion into gaza. from the point of view of israel, they hear all the calls for a ses fire. what they do not hear is anyone in the international community proposing anyway for them to get back their 240 hostages that hamas kidnapped. they don't hear anyone proposing anyway for hamas to be removed from the leadership of gaza. israel sees the parades and the rallies for the cease-fire, and they see no parades and no rallies for the return of the hostages or the removal of hamas. so here we are, and here is president biden in a tricky situation. president biden spoke with israeli prime minister netanyahu just a few hours ago we're told, pushing for a humanitarian pause, but not a cease-fire, which secretary of state antony blinken says the u.s. is trying to get israel to agree on. >> there are obviously different views, including on the question of the cease-fire, but there's no doubt from my conversations with all of our colleagues who were in amman yesterday that everyone would welcome the pause because it could advance all the things we're trying to accomplish. israel has raced important questions about how humanitarian pauses would work. we've got to answer those questions. we're working on exactly that. we turn now to jonathan he also worked in the rshry department tracking the terrorists finances during the george w. bush foundation. thanks so much for being here. so, you tracked who funds hamas for years. currently, we see two main sources. iran, providing about $100 million a year and qatar, providing about $120 million to hamas and the gaza strip generally. where's that money going? z >> to hamas. to the hamas military command centers. it's going to some of the political leadership as they call it although there really is no fire wall between the political and military. as i think we've seen, the government spoupports this activity. those numbers may be low. 200 million and about 150 million give or take from the qataris, but there are a few more. the turks, malaysia, al jgeria, kuwait. >> we're now a month almost exactly. tomorrow will be 30 days. from those brutal attacks. are you seeing the funding for hamas stay the same? increase? dry up? >> i think it's hard to tell. i think there's a lot of money flowing to their external headquarters right now. and again, there, we're talking a about iran, turkey, qatar. a significant area where hamas is operational. if the money's not going to gaza, it can still go to these external leaderships and they can move that money back into gaza or wherever else hamas finds itself at the end of this war. >> it seems as though there is nowhere one more a victim of hamas than the palestinian people in gaza. is any of this money in any significant way going to help them with food, medical care, education, housing? anything? >> really, not much at all. and you can really see where that money has been spent when you see the tunnels that have been built beneath the ground. this is where hamas has determined it wanted to spend its money and it has spent tens, maybe hundreds of millions of dollars on this underground infrastructure. under hospitals. under schools. right? this is the really the depraved thing about hamas. forget just i mean of course we saw the murder from a month ago. but the way that they have forced the gaza people to suffer under their rule is really hard to stomach. especially as we see the images now. >> as you track iran, how do you see their influence in the wider region? do you think iran wants a wider regional conflict that they would have to fight or receive armaments? they don't want to be attacked, right? >> ino, they don't, but this is their strategy. they're fighting to the last palestinian, syrian, last iraqi. they use proxy group to their advantage so they can get safely back in tehran and watch. >> you just heard a bunch of hamas officials basically speak very openly and honestly and how they don't care how many palestinians die in this cause. that they don't build bomb shelters for them. that's for the u.n. to do. but they're safe in the tunnels. they're going to keep doing october 7th attacks as long as possible. they're very open and honest about this. are they stupid or are they just know that they think the world won't care? >> no, i think right now, they understand that they have a certain amount of public opinion on their side but i think what we heard from one of those leaders was that quite simply, he's willing to sacrifice this population if it might lead to a broader war. this is of course what the iranian had been dreaming about. what hezbollah's been dreaming about. this is what they think about is a war that would end all wars and ultimate will annihilate israel. they are testing right now. they are probing to see whether this is their moment. it's interesting because of course the u.s. has naval assets stationed off the coast and near iran in the persian gulf t israelis have saved a good chunk of their military facing northward right now at hezbollah. this is a stand off and i think iran is still trying to determine. >> the american military assets are not there for hamas. they're there for iran. s >> they're trying to prevent a wider regional war. >> thank you so much. appreciate it. we'll be right back. a staggering new statistic tops our health lead. the number of kids sent to the emergency room due to injuries from firearms doubled during the pandemic. the er visits went from 18 to 36 per day. researchers say this is due to factors such as an increase in firearm purchases, plus economic uncertainty and youth mental health struggles. behind each one of these number s is a name like serabi. she feel she was shot and killed while heading to our front door carrying ice cream. she was 9 years old. you can follow us. if you miss an episode, you can listen to the show. make sure you join me tomorrow night for cnn's special coverage of election night in america. we're going to be tracking key races and results in virginia, kentucky, ohio, mississippi and more. our coverage begins at 6:00 p.m. eastern on cnn. our coverage continues now with wolf blitzer in "the situation room." happening now, breaking news. donald trump wraps up a day of combative testimony in a

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