Designers, like get your heart racing. Had inside a prices new every day, hurry. Therell be gone in a flash design, a sales at up to 70 or shop guilt. Com today its friday, may 3, right now on cnn this morning, donald trump back in court this morning for his criminal hush money trial, insisting he is very happy with how things are going president , biden making it clear he will not change his israel Policy Protests or not and heavy rain and flooding forcing mandatory evacuations in texas, residents told if they dont leave, therell be stranded for dates i, am here in washington, dc. A live look at your capitol on this friday morning good morning, everyone. Im kasie hunt. Happy friday. Its wonderful to have you with us, with Donald Trumps hush money trial. Set to resume in just a few hours. We are waiting on the judge, juan merchan to rule on new allegations that the former president violated his gag order. Again, in a Pretrial Hearing yesterday, prosecutors pointed to four of trumps comments since last monday, when the trial resumed, trumps attorneys tried to paint Stormy Daniels, former lawyer Keith Davidson, as a serial Celebrity Extortionist the day ended with the jury hearing a series of secret recordings that were made by Michael Cohen. And one of them was with cohens former boss i need to open up a company for the transfer of water info regarding our friend david. So im going to do that right away. Ive actually come up, i stopped me and ive spoken to Allen Weisselberg about how to set the whole thing up and i spoke to alan about it when it comes time for the final fancy, which will be what paton yourself getting old. I got no, no no, no check after court. Trump address the gag order. He falsely claimed. Its the reason he wont testify in the trial well, im not allowed to testify. Im under a gag idea i said i can know. Were gonna be appealing the games. I love to answer that question, but im not allowed to testify versus judge, its totally conflicted has to be under a unconstitutional gag order. Nobody has ever had that and we dont like it. And its not fair all right. Turn me now to discuss his stuff, Kite Politics reported for axios, steph. Good morning. Nice to see you. Setting aside. He said this has never happened before. Setting aside the fact that a criminal trial for a former president the United States is also never happened before trump. There basically trying to, and again, this is not true, right . He is free to testify in the trial in his own defense. It is up to him whether or not to do that, but it does look like he is looking for an excuse because it does seem like certainly every lawyer ive talked to has said that would be a really bad idea. But he doesnt seem to want to look weak by bowing out of that it feels like a very trump response, honestly, to hear him first saying things are going so well, im really happy with where this case is going. I feel like things are know where i want them to be. And then also to then say, this is very unfair. Know theyre preventing me from speaking, their prevented me from testifying, which again to your point is not is not true what you see trump trying to paint both narratives, both that he is a winner and hes strong, hes not week, but also continuing to put out this narrative of i am a victim of a Justice System that is out to get me and hear all the ways that im being treated unfairly. Yeah. What what stood out to you about what we saw in court yesterday . Because i mean, it really is kind of dragging us all collectively down into the gutter, i guess they were they were trying to say that trump was the victim here. What were your takeaways . I mean, yeah, we are being dragged back into this case, which again was first the thing back before the 2016 election, we talk about, we dont want to rehash 2020 sometimes and now were going back to 2016 time period. It really its the details that we got out of yesterday that was really remarkable hearing the audio from these phone calls and how clear it is that there were real discussions about paying people back over over this whole situation. I think it really is a level of detail that weve seen here. We saw report reports of people in the courtroom. Is that the jury seemed very interested in listening to the audio that trump seemed agitated. So its really the level of Specificity Hearing things and being reminded of what actually went down on in a story line that many people maybe havent really heard all the details on, right so as we go forward today, trump has been denying that he is sleeping during the proceedings. He says contrary to the news media, i dont fall asleep during the cricket das, which onto especially not today. I simply close my beautiful blue eyes sometimes listen intensely and take it all in we should know cnn has reported simply that trump has been observed to be closing his eyes in the courtroom but clearly he doesnt hes a little worried about the optics. Yeah. Again, back to this whole idea of hes trying to paint a certain image. He doesnt want to be seen as weak and you know, its he was probably embarrassed by the reports that he was falling asleep in court and also, you know, hes always loved the sleepy joe tagline. He wants to push back against that. You always have to remember this is all in the context of a campaign. He knows that he has to take every moment of Media Coverage to try to spin it in his favor. In the middle of a closely contested election year, where joe biden is free to go to all the battleground states. And trump is not. 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As a good chance that without taking the right measures that civilians will be civilians will see a lot more Civilian CasualtiesGoing Forward all right, that was Defense Secretary lloyd austin, a short time ago talking about the potential ramifications of israels expected Ground Invasion of rafah the population in Southern Gaza has swelled to 1. 4 Million People since the start of israels war with hamas. Many of them living in refugee camps. Israeli Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu has vowed to go ahead with an incursion into rafah. But sources inside the Biden Ministration tells cnn they dont believe in offensive is imminent. Secretary austin also noting yesterday that quote right now the conditions are not favorable to any kind of operation. Lets bring in ben wedeman. Ben. Good morning to you is netanyahu heating President Bidens warnings about invading rafah . How is the israeli Prime Minister balancing the pressure that hes feeling from the International Community on the one hand, and his own government and coalition on the other well, hes certainly seems to be speaking out of sort of two sides of his mouth on the one hand, he has said that the Raffa Operation is going to go ahead with or without a deal. The problem with that is if a deal is reached, an essential part of a deal for the release of hostages is a pause in the fighting. Obviously, a Rafat Operation which would be a Major Military operation, cant happen under those circumstances now, as we heard, the United States has real profound reservations about any such operation in rafah and theyve made it very clear to Prime Minister netanyahu and other members of his government that the United States believes that a, there needs to be a humanitarian planning in place of four people if they have to be moved to provide for them elsewhere, shelter sanitation, food, some sort of basic health care. And weve heard antony blinken, the secretary of state, saying that no plan is in place as far as the United States is concerned, the United States has also made it clear that they dont believe a Major Military operation is the kind of thing that israel should be doing in rafah. They are suggesting much more targeted Military Operations to avoid Civilian Casualties, major Civilian Casualties. But at this point, if we go by the record of the last 210 days of that war, one thing the israelis clearly do not excel out is avoiding Civilian Casualties tragic. And indeed, we heard from austin, of course, a warning about more on that score at ben. We also learned yesterday that hamas said in a statement that theyre studying the latest Ceasefire Proposal they characterize it as saying a quote, positive spirit, end quote, what is the latest on the negotiations around a potential ceasefire and hostage deal well, the hamas seems to be changing its tune yesterday, we were reporting that a another hamas official, osama hamdan, whos based in beirut had told his bullet tv it hamas looked upon the egyptian proposal in a negative light. Now were hearing from its mine hernia, a more senior hamas official based in huc code that theyre going to look at it in a positive spirits. So certainly theres a lot of pressure on hamas, on israel to somehow come to deal to release the hostages to at least temporarily halt the fighting. But both sides seemed to be dealing with internal divisions that prevent them from doing that. All right ben wedeman for us on the latest with the israelgaza war. Ben, thank you very much for your reporting. I really appreciate it all right any moment now, china will launch its mission to the moon, the Unmanned Rocket aims to go to the Far Side Of The Moon for the first time and bring back samples china hopes this will be the first step to taking their astronauts to the moon. Theyre shooting to do that by 2030. Cnns marc stewart is in china at their Space Launch Center and he is standing by waiting for launch. Mark, good morning to you. Good morning. Casey. Let me just say right off the top, we begin this relatively up close view because of an invite by Chinese Government is such a big deal for china right now, chinese leader xi jinping calling it his eternal dream. So there are people from all over china who have gathered here around the space center on the beaches of Hainan Island to watch this lift off. In about 13 minutes or so from now, as you mentioned, its immediate priority is to collect some moon samples from the Far Side Of The Moon but there is also this bigger goal of putting a human back on the moon sometime in the next decade by china as well as creating some kind of luder study station. But case as you know, this is not just about science, politics, and National Pride certainly intervene. The Chinese Government maintains that their view towards space, toward the moon is peaceful. But as we have heard in recent weeks, nasa officials, including the administrator of nasa, bill nelson, there has been concern that pinup perhaps is going to use. Its civilian program for military reasons, even suggesting a takeover of the moon. But nonetheless, all of that aside, there is a lot of excitement always seen as space launch is exciting, and that is the anticipation and the thrill that people here in china all over the nation are looking forward to in the minutes ahead, casey, martin, well talk for a second about the significance of the Far Side Of The Moon. I mean, that was really what makes this particular launched unique. No one has done that right . So it is an area of the moon on the southern part, if my geography is correct, the southern part of the moon that is ripe for exploration. This is what is so interesting. Once the launch happens, it will take about four or five days for this rover of sorts, this lunar lander to get into the moons atmosphere, and that it has to basically spiral into the orbit. It could take as many weeks into early june and then it will be able to land. But this part of the moon, the dark side of the moon, it just does not get a lot of exposure. I mean, thats why why its called that is just full of so much intrigue. I should also tell you were starting to hear some thunderstorms here. So i think fingers are crossed that this launched still moves forward. Yeah, and it sounds like weve gotten a little bit of a delay here, so were going to keep an eye on that, but we really appreciate you being there for us. Mark, do keep us posted. Thank you. All right ahead. Here a State Of Emergency flooding forcing mandatory evacu