Score. Do i mean at time. Com . Cnn this morning with kasie hunt next its monday, april 22, right now . Now on cnn this morning, Opening Statements set to begin in Donald TrumpsHush Money Trial. New cnn reporting on who prosecutors plan to call as their first witness. A foreign aid bill passed by the house, leaving hard right republicans and hamas infuriated. And a crisis on campus jewish students at Columbia University urged to stay home for their own safety all right 5 00 a. M. Hearing washington, but this is a live look at New York City on this Monday Morning where openings statements are set to begin in the donald trump trial. Good morning, everyone. Im casey hunt. Its wonderful to have you with us Opening Statements in the historic Criminal Hush Money Case against donald trump set to begin just a few hours from now, cnn has learned that david, the former chairman of the national enquirer, is Parent Company company is expected to be the first witness called by the manhattan das office, according to a person familiar with the plans, was a central player in the alleged scheme to pay hush money to adult film star Stormy Daniels to cover up her alleged affair with trump ahead of the 2016 president ial election is the first in a string of witnesses expected to take the stand. They include trumps former fixer, michael cohen, Stormy Daniels herself, the former trump aid hope hicks, and karen mcdougal, who has also alleged that she was paid to conceal an affair with trump the former president briefly spoke to the media after Jury Selection wrapped up on friday we just had another theory the trial starts on monday, which is long before a lot of people fled to judge its good to go as fast as possible thats for his is not for my eraser this is a giant witch to try and earn a campaign thats beating more president in history at this is the only way they think they can win, but its not going to work. Thank you very much all right. Joining me now to discuss is eugene scott his senior politics reporter at axios eugene. Good morning to you and i see so we spent last week in Jury Selection this morning, we are headed to the start of this trial. Its a historic moment really for the first firsttime former president is going to be really involved in the meats of a criminal trial. Here, what are you expecting to unfold today well, listening to obviously these Opening Statements and listening to the former president s attorneys try to make the case that the former president did nothing wrong, that decisions were made that were either beyond him out of his control or that did not involve him. And one of the things that i think were going to see is them really try to pick apart the prosecutions witnesses specifically michael cohen, and make the argument that these individuals who are trying to prove or make the case that trump did do things wrong, just arent reliable, credible people. Why do you think they make the decision to start with david . Here . He obviously was the person who basically said, okay, ill ill keep an eye out. Try to keep bad stories out of the tabloids for you when youre running for present and i think the argument is that is running his own business and making many decisions by himself, that even if he had conversations with the former president , which they probably are going to try to make the case that he did not. That these were choices that he ultimately made, that not that did not involve the president. Their whole argument minutes that the president is innocent that he did not do this and having another Businessman Command Showing how he operated his cooperation could help them make that case. So of course, big picture the politics of this. I mean, you and i have sat here on many of mourning and talked about the fact that these trials, the various indictment immense, the looming trials were something that helped donald trump or seems to help him politically in the primary election. Sure. But we have raised questions about what impact would happen the General Election. Nbc news had to pull out over the weekend a new poll the official cnn parlance is that this rais remains to close theres no clear leader shown, but we can put up there that you see that there is some movement in joe bidens favor when they did this pull back in january, it was 42 for biden. Now he has ticked up to 47 . This is of course in the headtohead, it doesnt account for the Third Party Candidates as it looks well different when you do that. But this does seem to suggest that perhaps there is something to this idea that as the General Election would work to be joined, and donald trump, of course, were to actually have to confront these legal challenges that have been looming over him. Things might start to move. What do you see that weve seen this in a few recent elections to be they congressional midterm more General Election primary voters and general voters are very different, right . You have these loyalists and primary voters who are going to back the former president , almost no matter what. But we have polling. We talked to focus groups where voters who are outside of the base say, if hes convicted, im not sure that im going to back him. And now were getting close so to that possibly happening. And we also see more voters paying attention now and being reminded of what happened during the trump presidency. And theyre deciding, i dont know if i want to go back to this. Did you have a sense that what unfolded last week actually started to break through with people. I mean, the other piece of this and thank heres some members of republican members of congress. We should say defenders have donald trump allude to this, but they will say that like voters dont distinguish and sarah longwell, whos, whos on with us at regularly. She talks to trump voters as well. Theres this sense that its all the same, all the legal problems hes facing are the same in voters minds. And that it is kind of baked in, was that the sense you got, you covered this last week and as we head into the real, the real heart of this trial, i did last week, i spoke with a lot of people outside of washington, some Student Groups and focus groups, and theyre paying attention now and they want to know, is this actually going to happen . Are there other cases that are going to make it before the flexion . What did i think the outcome was going to be people are tuning in now because four months, if not more than a year, weve been saying that things are moving in this direction and now that a jury has been selected, people are paying attention. Eugene scott thank you very much with us this morning. I really appreciate it all right. Up next here, hamas and farright republicans are furious with house leadership after aid for Israel Passes plus crisis at Columbia University, jewish students urged to stay home for their own safety and north korea reportedly launching multiple Ballistic Missiles just hours ago will give you details ahead the sinking of the titanic how would really happen, especially to wow, premier sunday at nine on cnn, a perfect de, for Family Outing shingles doesnt care, but chambers ttx only shingles has proven over 90 effective. Shane bridges vaccine used preventing those in adults 50 years and older does not protect everyone whos not for those with severe allergic reactions to its ingredients or to a previous dose, an increased risk of De Bar A Syndrome was observed after getting shot in Bricks Fainting can also happen. The most common side effects are pain, redness, and swelling at the injection, sayyed muscle pain, tiredness, headache, shivering, fever, and upset stomach. Ask your doctor or pharmacist about chambers today . A naimah phi its kind of amazing wow, my goto is lumify eye drops. Lumify dramatically reduces redness in one minute and look at the difference. My eyes look brighter and wider for up to eight hours. Lemma five really works. See for yourself nothing dims my light like a migraine with nortech ott. I found relief. The only Migraine Medication that helps treat and prevent allinone, two i was with migraine, i see you for the acute treatment of migraine with or without aura the preventive treatment of Episodic Migraine in adults dont take if allergic to nurture echo dt allergic reactions can occur even days after using most common side effects are nausea, indigestion, and stomach pain. Its time. We talk to a Health Care Provider about nortech from pfizer whats brilliant think about it. Boring is the unsung catalyst for bolt. What straps mold to a rocket and hurdles and Industry Bass or boring makes vacations happen early retirements possible, and startups start off because its smart, dependable, and steady. All words from your math thank you for nearly 160 years, pnc bank has been brilliantly boring. So you can be happy to fill im just pretty unvarying if you think about it. Wow in sugar ray leonard, you everyday tasks wearing Boxing Gloves how bird and now putting on his new arch bit skechers lipids, you just step in and go with covered that will knock you out to try new arch fit handsfree sketcher slipups start, your day with nature. The number one pharmacist recommended Vitamin Supplement brand Rose Sparks Engineered for the spontaneous, a dual action formula with the active ingredients of viagra and sialic faster acting and long lasting grad. The moment get started at row. Com slash sparks as loose. Got you going through it grabbed new column for q. Were Asthma Attack nikola is a once monthly addon injection for were eosinophilic asthma, not for sudden breathing problems, allergic reactions can occur. Get help right away for swelling of face, mouth, tongue, or trouble breathing, infections that can cause shingles have occurred. Dont stop steroids unless told by your doctor. Tell your doctor if you have a parasitic infection may cause headache, injection site reactions, back pain and fatigue, and thats going to Asthma Specialist if no cola is right for you a heart attack, do they have Life Insurance . No but we have Life Insurance john, im trying to find something we can afford fortunately, it only a few minutes. Select boat found john a 500,000 policy for only 29 a month and his wife and a 500,000 policy for only 21 a month we want to select quote. Com now and get the insurance your family needs at a price, you can afford. Select quote, we shop, you save, right now, pet debtors in cells, mold, spores, pollen, and dirt are being sucked in your air. Ducks get cleaner air in system efficiency. Now, with Stanley Steamer, your air ducts are clean until their stanley still temur these name again. Try killing bugs, the worryfree way. Not the other way. Because evo, traps use light to and trap flying insects with no order and no mass they were continuously. So you dont have to his evo people friendly, deadly im Sunlen Serfaty in washington in this is cnn welcome back. The head of israels military Intelligence Unit has just resigned for not detecting hamass preparations for the october 7 attacks. Hes the first senior Military Official to resign over the intelligence failures that led to the deaths of over 1,000 israelis hundreds more taken hostage cnns max foster is with me now. Max. Good morning. I great to see you. This is really the first significant move toward israelis, the Israeli Government taking accountability for having been on watch when october 7 unfolded. What do you see in this move here . Will the intelligence agencies, a while ago didnt they . They they admitted they were intelligence failures and on a pretty epic scale, if you look at the fallout from what happened on october the seventh, but also the fallout since then as well, the reaction this war thats come out of it and the pain that israel has been through. So this is someone finally taking account and responsibility for that. The question is whether or not its enough. This is just one Senior Intelligence officer. Were many people are pointing the finger at benjamin netanyahu, the Prime Minister who was ultimately, who is ultimately responsible for the reaction, and someone who is, of course plugged into intelligence and whether or not he saw that intel and whether he was part of that failure. So i dont think this is the end of it, but i think there will be some satisfaction at least that someones taking responsibility its interesting at max netanyahu, its seems in the wake of these attacks from iran is almost been strengthened in this way as that, as those attacks from iran had been launched on israel, it has kind of reinforced his repeated messaging that weve talked a lot about here. That while we can have conversations about out a political accountability until were done with the war, until were kind of out of this immediate situation, that kind of throw him a lifeline in this kind of strange way. I mean, certainly it changed the politics on the ground here in washington in terms of the movement of aid to israel getting out the door and the House Speaker mike johnson, finally act we asked him to the pressure around that. Is this all unfolded . What is your sense of how events have kind of turned things at for netanyahu, even of course, as we have the administration, the Biden White House basically saying they want to make moves against a west bank unit that Military Unit accused of human rights abuses. That is a significant thing that they are basically going against the israelis in that way. Thats not something weve seen either. I think Public Opinion is firmly against that. Yahoo washington, tony against a netanyahu as well but is it the right time to for a change in leadership when youre involved in a war with hamas. And theres this huge amount of tension as well with iran, which seems to have died down for now at least, but its not going away anytime soon so its a question of whether or not you want a lot of political instability at this time. And this is something that cynics about netanyahu say hes, hes playing to as long as theres this tension they need a strong war leader in power and hes the man two to do it. But i think if you look at any of the evidence as soon as all this is over his politically extremely weak max, on another topic. Although related in that big bill that the house passed over the weekend, foreign aid bill. They also sent a tiktok ban to the senate its a little bit modified from the one that they had done before. It gives him a little bit more time. What did you make of that . And i know weve talked a lot about this here and i know you are on the im actually not active on tiktok, but you are i would highly recommend to everyone that they follow you if theyre on the platform because i certainly have learned from you in terms of how you use it. But i think it really does underscore the fear that a lot of lawmakers here in washington have around chinas control over the platform and the influence it has even how they conducted their campaign against it, has reinforced everything that lawmakers have been saying because theyve been flooded with these calls saying, hey, look, china wants to influence our political process. Theyre doing it right now yeah, i mean, theres several different angles on this certainly bears you could argue theres a possibility that there could be a lot of chinese influence on the app, whether or not theyre using that isnt quite clear, but its certainly does suppose a lot of people to the potential of chinese authorities having access to at least the data on the app thats what all the question and concern is in washington. Lot of legitimate concern as well and Big Questions being asked it has however taken hold in america in an extraordinary way. Lot of young people quite dependent on it, but also a lot of brands dependent on it. So what im interested in seeing is if this gets through the senate we know that biden is going to sign it if it does get through the senate, what happens after that . Because the idea that it would be closed down pretty quickly we have china or if bytedance doesnt sell it isnt necessarily the process that might play out because there are so many vested interests in america in this app, you wonder if it will get caught up in all sorts of legal cases and theyll survive a while because of that. And you cant really imagine a situation where the Chinese Government would actually allow it to be sold by bytedance. So maybe its not a Bite Dark Bytedance Decision in the end lots of potential avenues there youre absolutely right. I mean, theres no way tiktokker shutting down in the at before the election. So from that perspective, democrats yeah, go ahead. Theres just a great debate on tiktok about this at the moment about how President Biden seems to be. So against it was going to sign this into law. And yet is appearing on tiktok and using it as barb his campaign on the democrats account fair enough. Max foster, person wanted