Now todays other top stories. Skies across the world are lit up in dazzling cover from a massive Geomagnetic Storm. There are possible potential disturbances to power plants and spacecraft. In a few hours, the your Row Vision Song Contest kicks off the grand finale in sweden. There is last minute drama. A dutch contestant was kicked out. Swedish police are investigating a criminal Incident Reporting backstage involving a female crew member. Prince harry and Meghan Markle are in nigeria today. They are there promoting the Invictus Games an event that the prince started to help to rehabilitate service members. In moments, the impact of Stormy Daniels testimony and the crossexamination that might have been harder than the defense imagined and trump may owe 100 million from double dip tax breaks, audit shows. I we bid you a good day in new york. Welcome to alex witt reports. We begin with the breaking news. Israel is ordering new evacuations in rafah as it plans to expand the incursion of the city. This is after months of the u. S. Trying to discourage Prime Minister netanyahu from invading that area where thousands of displaced palestinians are seeking refuge. The white house reacted to israels decision. We never told them they cant operate in rafah. What we have told them is, that the way they do it matters and that we wont support a major ground operation, an invasion smashing into rafah with multiple divisions of forces in a hand fisted indiscriminate way. Meanwhile, a preliminary state Department Investigation found reason to believe israel may have violated International Law in gaza. According to a new report submitted to congress, the administration does not believe israel has defied u. S. Weapons terms but the highest level civilian casualties are raising questions about military tax kicks. Back with us is holly. Lets talk about the humanitarian situation and what its like on the ground in Southern Gaza and how many are evacuating. What are you seeing . Reporter the latest evacuation order, alex, would affect up to 400,000 people. As many of the viewers know, over a million displaced gazans have been crowded into Southern Gaza up against the border with egypt. They have been told to go to other encampments there is a small plot of land in coastal gaza where there is really no sewage or electricity or running water. Some of these people have been displaced multiple times as well having a lot of trouble operating because of the lack of fuel. One midwife who works in a neonatal intensive care unit, the only remaining in Southern Gaza described working conditions in her hospital and her unit. Listen. Its palpable how nervous people are, where to go and unclear. Every other place is unsafe. Every other place is demolished. People are afraid to Access Health care given the long standing history of the military attacking health care, hospitals, patients. And it has been loud and constant. There is not a moment where there are not bombs dropping and scary noises abound. Reporter the israeli Prime Minister, benjamin netanyahu, going into rafah if he launches the full scale operation would be doing it in defiance of President Biden and his administration. As you mentioned for months they are warning against that. But netanyahu and others in his government say the operation is necessary to neutralize hamas, alex. Holy, thank you so much from cairo, we appreciate that. Lets go from there to new york and Donald Trumps hush money trial. The prosecutions star witness is set to take the stand monday. Michael cohen will test about negotiating 130,000 payment to Stormy Daniels on trumps behalf. Judge merchan Directing Prosecutors to tell cohen not to make statements about the case or mr. Trump but not placing a gag order on cohen. After court the former president complained about his gag order and he would be proud to go to jail for the constitution. Everybody can say whatever they want. They can say whatever they want. But im not allowed to say anything about anybody. Its all fake. The whole case is fake. The judge is corrupt. This week Stormy Daniels gave detailed testimony about a 2006 sexual encounter with trump. Jurors heard from other witnesses about checks and invoices and ledgers. Prosecutors say they could rest their case by the end of next week. Trump denied a sexual relationship with daniels and is pleading not guilty to the 34 Felony Counts against him. Meanwhile, trump has a Beachfront Rally in new jersey. Supporters started lining up thursday on the boardwalk ahead of the speech. Some are coming from out of state. It turns out the former president s son barron will not be a florida delegate at the Gop Convention in milwaukee in july. Melania trump said barron will not be going due to prior commitments. He graduates from high school later this month. We got a number of reporters and Analysts Covering all these elements. We go first to wildwood, new jersey. Trumps team is expecting a megacrowd at the rally set to begin in a few hours. It kind of looks like its true. Look at all the supporters there. Have supporters been following what is happening in the courtroom . Reporter alex, so far, this is one of the bigger rallies that i have been to in quite some time here. And we have got a little bit of singing in the background happening here. Listen, this is a place where a lot of the folks that we have been talking to, yes, they are paying attention to the trial but they mostly are paying attention to how the former president is framing it. We hear the same rhetoric from them as we hear from him calling it weapon anyzation, unfair, unjust and generally they are here on a bright, sunny day. Here is what we heard from them. I feel as though he is the best cure for this country, how its going at this point. I believe that our the strength of our country comes in capitalism and career politicians in this day and age have no clue how to bring the country back to where it needs to be. We need someone with wholesome values and put america first. The country is a mess, the border, want economy. Peace through strength. Trump stands for all of that. There is not an issue that he represents that i dont agree with. Reporter alex, this rally is a bit of a break from the courtroom for the former president. On monday, as you mentioned, one of the most important witnesses in this trial so far, Michael Cohen. We have seen the jury has heard his voice, seen his text messages, seen some evidence of the alleged Hush Money Scheme to protect the Trump Campaign from the story that Stormy Daniels was planning to tell. But he is the key tying the former president to those payments. His credibility will be central here because that is where the defense team is going to try to under cut him and try to poke holes in his story and his ability to tell the truth. Whether or not this jury finds him believable will be essential here. Its getting loud there. We will check back in later. Thank you. Joining me in the studio, Suzanne Craig, Investigative Reporter for the New York Times and kristy green greenberg. Both have been in the courthouse. You sat through cringe worthy moments of this week with Stormy Daniels in the courtroom describing her alleged tryst with donald trump in 2006. Did she leave the stand with you thinking the jury needed to hear all that . Im not sure they needed to hear it all. I think that part of the what we will discuss for a while, people will look back on that first day of testimony. Tuesday was one day then back from a break on thursday and she was very strong on Cross Examination. On tuesday, i think what was important about it is she did take jurors through all the nittygritty and that was the story that donald trump was trying to keep out of the paper. That was the catch and kill scheme. So, in one way it was important that they understood it but it may have gone too far. Its important that they understand what he was trying to make sure didnt get published. I dont think any of them were under any illusion about what happened. But on thursday, she came back and she was really strong with suzanne neck less. Less nervous. She was less nervous and forceful. I got written down if i can read it rather than paraphrasing it, some of the exchanges. Susan is crossexamining her, Donald Trumps lawyer. They are going back and forth. She went at her hard. Stormy is not giving an inch. You to this day continue to make money to sell a story that you promise will put president president in jail, right . She says no. Isnt it a fact that you are posting on social media how you are going to be instrumental in putting President Trump in jail. Show me where i said putting donald trump instrumental in jail. Susan couldnt produce the post. She produced something that didnt stay that, something else. She said i dont see instrumental or jail there. You are putting words in my mouth. Those sort of exchanges, when i look back at it on a saturday, thats what i remember about the week. I remember a very defiant Stormy Daniels giving as good as she got. If you remember it, thats probably what stayed with the jurors as they reflect as well. Its interesting because i think maybe on tuesday there will be debate whether that went too far and when this case goes on appeal, that day will be memorialized on appeal. I think there is a feeling that the jury maybe heard too much but on thursday in terms of whatever stumbles the jury may have seen or felt was made if they thought anything, she came back to it on thursday really well. At one point Stormy Daniels described details of the alleged one nightstand and trumps attorney asked, you made this all up. Daniels responded, no. How successful do you think she was at deflecting the Defense Attempts to portray her as an extortionist who keeps changing her story . I thought daniels was at her best when she was attacked for being a porn star because Susan EquatingPerson A Porn Star with being a liar. That failed. At one point she asked the question you have a lot of experience making up phony stories about sex and daniels said, wow, thats not how i would put it. The sex in the films is very real just like what happened to me in that room. It was such a moment. Susan equated being a porn star with being a absolute. That failed too. I think that that line of cross really could have alienated the jury. It certainly alienated me and there are five women on the jury that may not have been comfortable with that. The one thing that she was successful with in the cross was really driving home the point that Stormy Daniels claimed that she wasnt motivated by money and motivated to protect her family in selling the story. That didnt really come across clearly, i will say. I didnt buy that. I thought she was motivated by money. So what. I can believe that she was motivated by money to sell her story and that her story was real at the same time. So, i didnt think the Cross Examination was that effective and i thought she did well on the whole. The fact that donald trump never wanted this story out as you pointed out sitting feet away watching her tell this story. What was his demeanor like . For most of the Court Proceeding where we can see him, for most of it, he has got his eyes closed. So, that is one thing. I think that is significant because the court picks up on that. Jurors are looking at him. The most famous man in the world, a former u. S. President. That sends a message to the court. I think that was one thing. At one point he was muttering, getting upset about what she was saying. So, i think he was cursing at one point. He was cursing. The court picks up on that. I think those are important things. Sometimes his demeanor, we make jokes about it but it has an impact on the jury. Lets take a quick break. When we come back, the backlash over stormys testimony and what to expect when the prosecution calls the final witnesses this week. Sue, we will ask you about this New York Times headline. Trump may owe 100 million from double dip tax breaks, audit shows. This happened a short time ago. This happened a short time ago. Shingles. Some describe it as an intense burning sensation, or an unbearable itch. 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Is that the judges take also that donald trump can testify under oath and say on the stand that he disagrees with her testimony . Yes. I thought that motion for a mistrial, i dont think we approached a mistrial. I think the judge was correct to deny that. There is an issue should he be convicted on appeal about some of the details that Stormy Daniels testified to that the state elicited and shouldnt have. Those are the ones that got close to the line of he her saying this was a Sexual Assault like their height difference, the fact that he was bigger than her and blocking the way tout leave. She didnt say no because she didnt say anything at all and he didnt wear a condom. Those kind of details make it seem like there was an issue of consent. That would be far more prejudicial than problemtive. That conduct is more serious than falsified business records. You dont want the jury convicting him because they are mad because they think he sexually assaulted her. All of that said, there are things, the defense didnt object. They sat on their hands. If you dont object, you dont preserve the issue for appeal. Two it got cleaned up on cross. Stormy daniels on cross when asked what made her enter have sex with him said it wasnt anything donald trump did, he didnt force her or threaten her. She was very clear about that on cross and said it was my own insecurities that caused me to do it. So, i think they will raise the issue on appeal. I dont think it will ultimately be successful. But it certainly was one of those moments where, you know, you were worried. If donald trump wants to refute it and say she was not telling the truth, he can take the stand and do that. His attorneys got to cross examine her. They did their best. I dont think they were successful but he can take the stand and refute her. She was a flashy witness of course. But the jury heard others testify to facts in the case that include how the checks were processed, invoices as well by donald trump and the trump org. What did the prosecution accomplish with custodial witnesses . I think with a lot of those custodial witnesses, some were Trump Organization employee that walked us through the checks and general registry entries. And jeff made clear that this is because allen weisselberg, the cfo told him they were reimbursements that needed to be paid to Michael Cohen. He got that Critical Evidence into admitted at the trial but he also provided some additional context for it which was very important. And then we heard from both of them about donald trump being in the weeds, being in the details and maybe not he is not in the general ledgers but he would get checks sent to him, personally sign checks. Ask questions about his finances. It was incredibly tedious testimony at times to get through the exhibits but important. Monday the prosecution is expected to call Michael Cohen to the witness stand. Yeah. How has this trial led up to this moment that begins monday . I think the whole trial has been leading to Michael Cohen. I think what we have seen from the beginning remember david pecker the first witness, former head of the national enquirer. He was incredible. I see him analogous to Michael Cohen. Michael cohen coming at the end. David pecker was a principal dealing with donald trump and provides some of the elements of intent that the prosecution needs if they are able to get to a guilty verdict but he was able to set the table. He had this incredible view of everything. He was part of the catch and kill discussions and he had that meeting at trump tower with donald trump talking about we will catch and kill stories that are negative about donald trump and write positive ones and pl