Ibach welcome to the Journal Editorial Report as we wrap up a busy week for donald trump and his legal team. Stormy daniels took the stand with some salacious testimony that may have done the prosecution more harm than good as the Defense Calls for a mistrial as two criminal cases against the former president hit new roadblocks that could push them past the november election, with the judge delaying the classified documents case in florida. An Appeals Court reviewing the decision to keep District Attorney vani will less on the case. Kims trostle and Manhattan Institute senior fellow jason riley. You are following the trial in new york. What are the most important things we have learned now that in an is in its third week . The most important thing we have not learned is what the second crime is. Donald trump was indicted for falsifying business records, this would be a misdemeanor normally unless you could claim he had a felonious intent to commit another crime. Da alvin bragg has been all over the place in terms of what the second crime is. There were claims that it was tax issues, Campaign Finance violations. What we are seeing is alvin bragg throwing everything at the wall including from Stormy RamblesStormy Daniels, suggesting and intimating this was a nonconsensual moment with donald trump. This is not related, a lot of besmirching of the defendant. It was greatly prejudicial. When you needed was to show for the sake of the Prosecution Argument was that it took place. It is not there to establish credibility. The judge said so and trying to instruct the jury what to on here and so forth. Someone sitting down, starting the appeal already. It is clear the judge let things get out of hand, acknowledged as much, what the takeaway was. Paul did Stormy Danielss testimony hurt the prosecution . It is aiming at public opinion. Humiliating for trump which may have been the point. That was the point and has been all along. This prosecution has been brought mainly, wind it back. All these prosecutions will, the idea at the bottom of it is trump is a, quote, threat to democracy. Democrats believe he is a threat to democracy. Rather than appealing to voters, say vote against this threat to democracy they have decided to undertake this legal offensive and create whatever arguments they could against him. They are trying to knock down trump personally while on the other side making a legal argument. Our other friends in the cable News Business are running headlines, the hush money trial, hush money is legal. It is a campaignfinance trial. He will not get many viewers if you are averaging thing advertising a campaignfinance trial and that is a stretch and it is not beyond imagining to me that you will get a hung jury. Paul you think it could be a hunger jerry kiker manhattan jury . That his chances of being vindicated will be appealed. Jurors take work seriously. I dont think all of them are going in there automatically for preconceived notions donald trump is guilty. The judge is going to give them instructions. He will mitigate the Stormy Daniels testimony. Its not beyond imagining theres a hung jury on this. Paul put tenants in larger context, one of four criminal cases, this is the only one that is proceeding to an actual trial. They are delaying, what is this telling us about the effectiveness of this democratic trial, campaign by criminal prosecutions. What it is telling us is risky business. Democrats faced a stark choice last year. They can confront the fact they had a week potential nominee for reelection in President Biden. A man who is unpopular and presiding over an unpopular progressive policy and try to fix that and win an election the oldfashioned way or they could go down the road of lawfair and they were banking on a couple things, that you were going to rally republicans around donald trump, win him the nomination so he was a sure thing as an opponent but drain his resources, stick him in court and by the process of indicting and making too toxic to win a general election. What we are seeing is a lot of these campaigns, the American People are not taking them on board or deciding that that is disqualifying for donald trump and you have these delay is because a lot of these prosecutors brought bad cases are overreached and what they were trying to prove. They are complex issues and the courts are saying we have to work through them so they are being delayed so its not going the way they planned. They dont have a plan b other than confront the fact that President Biden is there nominee. Paul they are left with the weakest case being the new york case being the one that proceeds which means even if he is convicted, his question whether or not voters will be affected by it. Its the weakest ticket is the easiest to show partisan motivation. Its the weakest for a couple reasons but it is not working. Donald trump spent his days sitting in a court room leading in National Polls and in swing states even though hes not able to campaign. They were hoping that this would neuter donald trump. They thought this strategy would work and i think the biggest setback of all the three cases out there for democrats is probably the january 6th case. The democrats wanted to run on january 6th and threats to democracy. They were hoping to get a conviction out of that case going into the election to harm donald trump. That delay, the Supreme Court has looked at that, at the oral arguments, they are probably going to say donald trump does not get total immunity but the case will go to lower court, find out what comes under immunity and what does not, that is a delay and that is probably of all the cases out there. Paul protests continue on campuses across the country leading to Police Crackdowns and Commencement Ceremonies and bidens support for israel may not be so ironclad as the president threatens an arms embargo. Ill be okay. Does this look ok . ugh. How do i protect myself . With the new Scotts Healthy Plus lawn food. Its the only product that prevents 27 diseases while feeding your grass to help keep your lawn healthy this season. Want me to show you how to put it on . No, i think i know how to use a spreader. Pick up a bag of the new Scotts Turf Builder healthy plus lawn food today. Feed your lawn. Feed it. This is the tempurpedic breeze mattress, and its designed to help you feel cool. 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As a back lash grows on the left, the Administration Support for israel may not be so ironclad after all. The president confirming the president and the administration pause delivery of some weapons and could move forward with a broader arms embargo launching a fullscale invasion. Jason, what did you think of the president s remarks . Where they adequate to the moment . The remarks are fine. People are saying the right things here. People in charge of this arent doing it. They are indulging it. Graduation ceremonies being canceled, faculties joining the protesters, demands being met. The protesters are winning, thats the problem, not what people are saying, what people are doing or not doing. Paul any signees protests are ebbing, the protesters can say we are going to do this because its getting us somewhere. Theres two things going on. Jason is right theres a feeling among the protesters and leftwing members of congress that the protests work. Having said that, it is worth noting get the protests are being taken apart. Leadership matters. Biden said these things are he didnt. He did say the right thing. In the week that followed, the George Washington protests were taken down, dc police and the encampments at mit and pen. And this has to stop. The president s as well, it is moving in a volatile direction. This was discovered here, the outside agitators, not merely willing to sit down and protests. Progress was made. It still raises the question whether they were success and affecting the policy of the administration. Paul i want to talk about another reaction to protests, a group of ten or so federal judges have written a letter that we will not hire Columbia Law School clerks if they protested until the school fixes things and antisemitism. I understand what they are trying to do, send a message to administrations, doing harm by not requiring kids to follow the rules. What we are finding is this is captured on camera, follows kids around the rest of their life. My concern, it doesnt make distinctions, they are not taking part of this and will be collectively ostracized from having attended the university. Theres an element of cancel culture here and i do wish these judges were being more specific about how they will make their hiring decisions based on peoples personal actions, not necessarily the failure of an administration. Paul you agree with collective punishment . If Muslim Students on campus were being threatened or gay students or black students i dont think people would have a problem and i dont understand why jewish students should be okay to threaten them. I do take kims point you are Painting A Broadbrush here. The moment calls for that. Paul it would have a Deterrent Effect in students, i would like to be a clerk under a federal judge but if you go to columbia maybe not. Its a significant sanction. Whether it is in missions, donor intent and even the makeup of the faculty. If they let this roll over i hate to say it, some of those protesters will eventually be back faculty at these universities. Paul the decision to hold weapons, threatening a fullscale embargo, this comes soon after congress voted to pass more weapons. What do you make of the decision . After october 7th President Biden said that hamas needs to be taken out like isis. What happened to that joe biden . If israel stops now without going into rfafah where they believe the mastermind is holdup, hostages including children with Human Shields in place, if israel stops now everything up until now hamas will regroup and not only that, you have hezbollah watching up north, what will they think . Go get some hostages and wait out the United States. Only bad things can come from how biden is responding to this moment and im Glad Congress was upset. Those were overwhelming my barges it bipartisan majorities, israel and ukraine, and Congress Wants israel to win this war, the American Public wants israel to win this war and President Biden needs to get on board. Paul why is the president doing this . Some people think it is because he views the protests as a threat to his presidency but also the administration wants a Security Deal between saudi arabia and israel as a Foreign Policy victory he can run on between now and november so saudi arabia, why do you think he is doing it . If thats the reason you are doing it, that you are undermining yourself because as jason notes we do not allow israel the ability to finish this task, this will drag on longer. I think most of this is blatant partisan political pandering aimed at dearborn, michigan and that is a mistake too because the president is very focused on young voters, the most liberal progressive members of his base, keeping them on board and enthused to come out in this election but these actions are antithetical to the broad will of the American Public and a president that has horrible ratings, hes risking getting on the wrong side of yet another important american priority in a way that could hurt him more in an election scenario. Paul the president could be disapproved by both sides, the protesters may not say this soon enough or enough, the pros israeli wing of the party could say you are betraying us. What are our allies thinking when the president said his commitment to israel is ironclad, suddenly he is pausing these munitions, that does not send a good message to our allies in the rest of the world. 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We could all unsubscribe and switch to xfinity. Their connection is unreal. And we could all unexperience this whole session. Okay, thats uncalled for. Paul antiisrael protests are spreading across the country that is my next guest says the unrest is not always spontaneous or organic but cultivated by potentially dangerous groups, individuals and organization nations with ties to hamas charities, that provide training, tacking talking points and financial support. A former terrorism for finance analyst, for research at the foundation for defense of democracy. The Policy Dispute over an arms embargo for israel, do you think that will deter the Israeli Government from moving into rafah . The israelis were widening their operation which is a surprise to me. They want to send a message of defiance that a us embargo imposed by the president will not stop them in their goal of destroying hamas after the 10seven attacks. The israelis look on the third. Paul the main subject is your research into who is behind these protests. In particular i want to ask about Students For Justice In Palestine which seems to be on a lot of College Campuses, providing a lot of Network Infrastructure if you will. Tell us about this group, and where does it get its money from . As jp is the most ubiquitous group out there on campus space, they have 200 chapters across the country. When you go back and look, they found the first chapter founded by the guy who created the first chapter on berkeleys practice in the 1990s, the founder and chairman of an Organization CalledAmerican Muslims for palestine based in virginia and this is a group we can now see on campus, directed at columbia, gw, penn, this group that incubated and funded as jp to begin with, their leadership is being spotted on campus. They are at the encam