Conundrum that biden finds himself in. I get, i get the sense that i think graeme is right, that we need to stand by our allies. I dont think finding nuance in this case during war time is a very easy thing to do, particularly when youre a superpower sometimes wars like this force you to choose sides. And israel as our allies. And i can see why a number of democrats are upset with what biden has done. Certainly republicans are, but biden is really trying to placate his base in this country, which is, which is obviously very split on this and particularly in the state of michigan. So i think a lot of the message its like politics are entering into bidens thinking on how to manage this war charlie matt bennett. Thank you so much. A new our Have Cnn News starts right now the crucial moment in the trump criminal trial, Michael Cohen takes the stand to testify against his former boss. The same Michael Cohen who once said he would take a bullet for donald trump. What is he going to say now . Secretary state tony blinken warning and Israeli Ground invasion, Ground Invasion in rafah could leave a vacuum filled by chaos. That might be filled also once again by hamas and the longawaited demolition of the Collapsed Key Bridge begins. Today. Im kate baldwin with sara sidner and john berman. This Cnn News Central the breaking news this morning we have arrived at the critical moment in the criminal trial against donald trump. This is our special coverage as the key witness takes the stand. And you could see Michael Cohen as he left for the courthouse just a few minutes ago prosecutors will try to use his testimony to make a link between trump himself and the documents at the center of the case, trump is charged with falsifying documents to cover up Hush Money Payments to an Adult Film Actress, all to influence the 2016 election. She does brynn june grass live outside the court where this testimony takes place today, brynn, a way it really adult come down to this it really has jen, listen, its important to know these two men had been in the same courtroom before, right . Michael cohen testified in the Civil Trial Last Year and was in front of donald trump. There was a lot of drama, but arguably the stakes are higher with a criminal conviction possible on the line here. So it is going to be eventful. Few days with Michael Cohen on the stand. And as you just said, for prosecutors, the hope is that Michael Cohen is going to be able to Connect The Dots, be the narrator for the entire story that they have presented to jurors. They have laid out all the evidence, they have called all the witnesses trying to explain what they believe donald trump did to basically pay off these Hush Money Payments and Michael Cohen is the person that can bring jurors in. To that room in the oval office in 2017 of february, where a prosecutor say the two of them hatched this plan to make the Reimbursement Payments and disguise them as legal fees on the books. So well see if he can do that for jurors. Of course theyve heard his name a lot, a lot of people had been calling them all different kinds of names. Theyve said hes aggressive. They said hes a jerk. Well see how he is in front of jurors. And of course, when the defense gets there, turned to ask the questions. Well, theyre gonna be hammering at his credibility. They have argued that donald trump doesnt know what Michael Cohen does. These kind of a rogue player in his life. And Donald Trumps life. So certainly, like i said before, theres gonna be a lot of fireworks and it all gets started when court resumes today and nine, 30 pretty good. All begins today. All right. Bringing grass. Thank you very much for that. Keep us posted. Gate joining us right now is legal analyst and former us attorney, Michael Moore, its good to see you, michael, how do you run this line of questioning . Well, good morning. And im glad to be with you. This has gotta be an extra day thats a pivotal de, for the state. Frankly, as well as the defense. I mean, they theyve hitched their entire case. It basically hitch their wagon to mr. Cohen to bring this together. The question at the end of the de would be whether or not, you know, theyve hitched their wagon to a lame horse person. I think thats gonna be the question that we see going forward. I mean, the state is spirit essentially several weeks now trying to sort of Pre Rehabilitate and pre corroborate cohens testimony. I mean, theyve brought in witnesses to say, well, maybe dont pay to what he says. Look at the documents, look at you know, what i saw versus what he saw all but the one piece of this case is remain missing has been whether or not trump had some specific information and direction and involvement in how the Business Records were recorded and so theyre going to have to drill into that issue and their direct examination and quit dancing around it, quit talking about the fact that he may have signed a check and that was enough or whether or not he took a long time looking at the bills that came across in a fedex envelope, whether or not that was enough that theyre not going to have to really say, look, tell me what happened, tell me what it said. Tell me what the plan was. Tell me was there some specific decision made by you, cohen and pecker . Maybe to label this in a weird way. And there having to overcome some of the Witness Testimony has already been out there, and one of those things being from this account, a person who says, look, our system has a dropdown menu and one of those things says Legal Expenses and thats what thats what we put it on and we also know the trunk. This somewhat from the daytoday management during about the time of this alleged criminal conduct. So those are the holes theyve got to fill it. Im not saying they cant do it. Im certainly not here as a defender of the defense. Ive got good lawyers. Through that on their own, but these are real things that they hangout these jurors and it only takes one juror to hang a case up and to create a mistrial. And so theyve got to answer questions and if he is the only person, were about whether or not somebody else, ill front with a sharpie and actually drill end of what was said and what decision was made as a group on how these Business Records would be labeled as expenses would be labeled in that State Records Pre Rehabilitation on someones reputation is something i am excited to learn more about it havent, we often dont hear about you laid out what they need to hit on with him, how explicitly does Michael Cohen need to sit like, say the words Connect The Dots between the documents and trump and falsifying the documents and trump yeah. I dont we wont have as much explicit testimony as we had from another witness in the case. Here or elicit testimony, but we have to really nail down, but this issue was i mean, he needs to say you know, we discussed this this was an intentional thing to influence the election. We decided we would list these as Business Records so that we could essentially mislead the public so that we could mislead anybody who looked at these state records. This is how we did it. This was this was this was our plan are or our intention was to violate that another law thats what this case is really is that they did this with the intention of violating another law. And thatd be in the federal election law. And that means that they would have been a Campaign Contribution limit expenditures and all those things have to be listed accurately. And so hes going to need to talk about decisions around that, not just the fact that the payment was made didnt mean that sort of given at this point, right . I mean, everybody is going to make sense. Yeah. He paid and the question is, why did he do it . How did they calculate it and what was the purpose for why they listed it that way on those Business Records were going to see a question to begin shortly. Well watch it play out together. Listen to it, play out together. Read the transcript as it plays out together. Its good exactly good to see you, sir. All right. Before we before we get to that today crew set to start to the Collapsed Key Bridge in baltimore, but there is an enormous Cargo Ship Tracks of course, under that records the difficult tasks ahead. And for the second time in less than a week, a Church Service interrupted by someone armed with a gun. This time is a Great Children were about to get their first communion here, how worshippers jumped into action to try and stop the teenage suspect and wildfires raging Out Of Control in canada the smoke is affecting the air quality in several states here in the, we will discuss all this. I had like a fat tallies street. You told me there going to be like wow, its cavaliers Thunder Mavericks Coverage begins tonight at 6 30. India play was presented by google pixel. 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It ended up killing six workers who were on the bridge at the time and get this the crew of that ship is still onboard. Theyve been there since the accident happened. Cnns gabe cohen is joining us now, gave this was supposed to begin on saturday. It is now happening today. Why the delay . Storms sara bad weather in baltimore just made it to difficult to end dangerous for cruz to do this over the weekend, but they are expecting theyre going to have a much better window late this afternoon to finally do this, controlled demolition, which the coast guard is saying is really the quickest and the safest way to remove that huge piece of the bridge. We are talking thousands of tons of steel still sitting on and really weighing down the bow of the dali. And once they do that, they can finally to the ship away. Its been too heavy over these past seven weeks, and that is the next critical step toward finally clearing and reopening the channel we want to show you an animation that we have that really gives you a much clearer sense of how they are going to do this later today. So we know that crews are making these precision cuts only millimeters. You can see it right there in the steel in specific spots on the bridge, then theyre going to insert those charges, the explosive since and cover them up essentially with a big piece of tape, but adhesive thats going to keep it in there. And the plan is later today. Theyre going to detonate those charges separating rapidly. All of that still and thrusting it away from the ship to be clear, sarah, it is not going to be some sort of big Fireball Officials or at least it shouldnt be Officials Say, this is really going to look like small puffs of smoke like little fireworks going off. And if all goes well official cmo hopeful that they can still reopen the channel in the next couple of weeks. But the timeline has been so fluid over the past couple of months as we continue to wait for the fet for federal investigators to put out their preliminary a Report Outlining why the ship lost power. We still dont really know what happened that night that caused it to barrel into the bridge speaking of which the crew still on the boat, the ship, will they remain there as this . These explosions are going to happen yeah, thats the plan, sarah, the crew of the dali, as you mentioned, they have been on board for the past seven weeks and they are going to remain there as this unfolds but of course, remember this is a massive Container Ship close to 1,000 feet long, about the size of the eiffel tower just turned on its side and so officials have said, this is going to be perfectly safe. There is space for them to shelter in place where they will be secure as all of this is unfolding. Yes. Again, we can see where the bridge has crushed down on the shipping. Its the very, very front. So theres hopefully some safe space for them. Gabe cohen. Thank you so much for that update. John all right. Chaos at a church mass for children, new video shows the moment a teenager walked into a Service Armed with a gun. And then flat amir putin replaces one of his closest military advisors, just as russia is making a new alarming advances. And ukrainian territory russia is, were trying to spy on us. We were spying on them. This is a secret, war. Secrets and spies, premier sunday, june 2, but ten hey, with priceline vip family, you can unlock deals five times faster. You dont even have to be an actual family. Id be the dad on the day physically, its clear that im the dad. Okay. So which dad is pain youre physical well done. 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