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santa newsnight starts now the circus comes to the courtroom. that s tonight on these nine good evening. i m abby phillip the new york tonight. tensions and chaos erupt inside of the courtroom. let me set the scene for you. the trump team made a game time decision to call a witness, robert costello. he s a former legal advisor to michael cohen. now about 14 minutes into his testimony, cohen, costello vividly demonstrated why he may have caught trump s the tension. but the presiding judge was not amused costello rolled his eyes. a judge merchan, he let out an audible sigh after an objection. and the transcript, maybe the best way to describe what happened next in that courtroom. the judge, he says, i wanted to discuss proper decorum in my courtroom. costello, right judge okay. so when there is a witness on the stand, if you don t like my ruling, you don t say, jeez. okay. and then you don t say strike it because i m the only one who can strike testimony in the courtroo ....
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 ....
is one of the most powerful things that came out of this news conference, saying that behind every one of those thousands of people, tens of thousands, they said who were affected, is a family. and that s a reminder, they said that saying sorry would go some way, but what would you be saying sorry for? but they would welcome an apology and it is expected when we hear from the prime minister later this afternoon there may be an apology on behalf of the government. and i want tojust behalf of the government. and i want to just say that in the last ten minutes or so, we saw some of the relatives behind me. you can still see them there in the distance and they re holding a banner, it s got they re holding a banner, it s got the faces of their beloved on it and the faces of their beloved on it and the caption simply says murdered . that s the view that people feel here. it felt that many of the report felt that many of the deaths were largely avoidable, and the takeaway ....
two phrases that are guaranteed to lock up the youth vote. donald trump said at the debate, he wants both of them to stand instead of sit. that s the status of our presidency. standing is a feat of strength. i think we could learn a lot more watching them both try to get out of a bean bag chair. that d be a good one. as the presidential candidates prepare to debate next month, donald trump s hush money trial, the criminal trial, resumes today in new york city. we ll have expert legal analysis on the case so far and a preview of what could be the final week in court. plus, we ll have some of the highlights from president biden s commencement speech at morehouse college, where he attempted to thread the needle on several issues connected to his re-election campaign. also ahead, we ll recap a wild weekend at the pga championship with new details about the arrest of scottie scheffler. that was incredible. we ll show you the dramatic final putt to win the major tou ....
this is gps the global public square. welcome to all of you in the united states and around the world. i m fareed zakaria coming to you live from new york. today on the program, tensions and deaths mount in the middle east as the world watches and awaits israel s expected ground invasion of gaza. i ll talk to former prime minister ehud barack who is one of the most decorated soerms. we ll talk about fighting hamas, a potential ground invasion, and whether a divided israel has been united by war. then, retired general david petraeus led the american military fight against insurgents in iraq and afghanistan and more. what lessons from those wars should israel take into its war on hamas. i m ask pet rayous and his co-author, andrew roberts. but first here is my take. the crisis in the middle east has revealed an important reality about the world. while american influence may not be what it once was, it is still true that no other country can replace the u.s. as t ....