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report. thank you so much for being with us this afternoon, jessica. thanks for having me sitting in the chair, come back tomorrow. you do the same but don t go anywhere because the leader, jake tapper starts right now cnn breaking news welcome to the lean. i m jake tapper and we were falling breaking news out of new york. of course, we re day and donald trump s hush money trial. the defense rested right now in court, there s a meeting to determine what the judge will tell the jury next week before the jury begins debilitating the deliberating. what will no doubt be a monumental verdict one way or the other in the very first ever criminal trial of a former president trump himself is at this court meeting. and we ll bring it you all the updates coming up, but leading this, our israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu joins us live from jerusalem a day after the historic decision by the international criminal court in the hague to seek arrest warrants, not only for the t ....
breaking tonight, hamas is blinking? well perhaps. earlier today two elderly hostages were released. one 79, the other 85. now tears of joy for sure but still they claim one quarter of their community is either murdered, missing or was abducted. more details on that in moments. also tonight we re going to talk to one muslim scholar who viewed raw footage of all the horrors, murder, torture, all of it that was committed by hamas. plus a survivor of the festival attack, her startling assessment of america s rising anti-semitism later in the show. we are also learning more about other atrocities the terrorists planned to carry out, cyanide bombs reportedly coming from al qaeda. fox s lucas tomlinson is standing by. what can you tell us? reporter: laura, moments ago a helicopter delivered the hostages released from hamas to a hospital here in tel aviv. what s striking one of the hospitals used to volunteer to drive palestinians into israel for better medical care. israeli ....
i m still kind of reeling. cohen stole money fromorgani the trump organization. the prosecutor misled this jury . it s a higher degree of a felony than what donald trump is chargedry it is with. michael cohen is a liar. and now we knoa trump w he s a f who took the trail of broken t promises, silly black communities behindra. be he d be a black man who loves his country, even if it doesn t love him. it in lovn equal measure,it biden tells blacks that americansoesn t don t love. you have a problem figuring out whethe tr you re for me or trumm and you ain t black. i do what? why are women so angry? i stopped there. i was. don t let nobody tell you that. you only know money and money don t buy happiness because listen to me ishow doe ls it only took 19 days, but we finally have a crime in the trump trial. michaebul cohen not only a liar today we found out he s a thiecf . alvin bragg, star witness. in another gruesome day anotr , larcmination he confessed to larceny, a ....
where this trial gets underway in just a few hours morning disorder in the court. the prosecution s star witness sing a reimbursement far greater than the payment that he had made on the company s behalf. trump s son, eric, taking notice in real time with this tweet declaring, quote, this just got interesting cohen under redirect, explaining he stole the money because his annual bonus had been slashed. he described it as self-help then there were the fireworks. robert costello and former legal advisor to cohen, and now a trump defense witness was scolded. shall we say? by judge merchan for uttering comments under his breath and rolling his eyes during testimony. the judge clearing the courtroom and threatening to have costello removed, warning him when there s a witness on the stand. if you don t like my ruling you don t say jeez, you don t give me sayyed, eye and you don t roll your eyes to be continued. this morning, our panels here from our federal prosecutor, el ....
the statute of limitations has run out on this abuse, he can t be charged as well. so the apology coming after knowing that as well, elizabeth wagmeister. thank you so much for breaking that story for us. now, if you or someone you know, is a victim of domestic violence and you need help. you can call the domestic hotline that number 800 safe, which is 807, 997233 a new our of cnn news central starts right now cnn breaking news we do have major breaking news for you this morning involving the israel-hamas war, the international criminal court just this morning announced it is seeking a warrants for israel s political and military leadership, including prime minister benjamin netanyahu, and israeli defense minister yoav them on, on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity. and for three liters of hamas for the october 7 terrorist attack, including yahya sinwar, who is in gaza and ishmael honey, who lives in qatar and has been party to the ceasefire negotiation ....