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hi, everyone. it s 4:00 in new york. there s no shortage of news today in the legal troublesing the disgraced ex-president and current gop front runner, including a third trump lawyer and fourth trump associate earlier today pleading guilty in the fulton county criminal election interference case. we begin with a moment years in the making at aen manhattan courthouse. the disgraced ex-president coming face to face with michael cohen, the former fixer who said he would take a bullet for donald trump now, star witness in that civil fraud trial that threatens to bring down the trump business empire. here is what michael cohen said on arrival at court today. let me just turn around and say that this is not about donald trump vs. michael cohen. this is about accountability, plain and simple. we leave it up to the judge in order to make all the duststorm nations. i thank you all for coming. a few hours later in what he called a, quote, heck of a reunion, he took the stand ....
right now, though, we start with this another trump lawyer confessing to election crimes today. jenna ellis sloan in her mug shot. third lawyer to confess within one week. last weekended with two lawyers who used to represent donald trump going into court, confessing and pleading guilty. ellis joins them. i want to show you briefly all three of these pleas together. how do you plead? guilty. guilty. guilty. there it is. in all this is the fourth total conviction in the rico cases. d.a. willis is 4-0, the key trump lawyer convicts are, of course, the higher up in the food chain of this chart. the other two trump lawyers, they pled out on the eve of a trial that was expected to begin this week. if they hadn t pled guilty we d be covering this right now. ms. ellis was not about to start a trial. she rushed back to court, her choice, trying to get a deal while she can. what you see here, this new footage is from that atlanta program today. ellis plea is differe ....
tried to crash that passenger plane over the u.s., what he now says he ingested. first, this evening, the news on the more than 200 hostages being held by hamas in gaza. tonight, abc news has learned negotiators are working on efforts to free a significant number of hostages before any potential israeli ground invasion. what we ve now learned. and what one of the hostages just released has now revealed. what was done to her, where they took her. the maze of hamas tunnels underground. and what she said to her captor just before she was released. also, our team inside gaza tonight. hospitals near collapse. and the kits they re now giving to mothers about to give birth to deliver on their own. matt gutman reporting. and the u.s. warning to iran tonight. martha raddatz with late reporting in washington on the attacks on u.s. targets. on capitol hill tonight, new chaos in the battle to find a new house speaker. the republican congressman tom emmer nominated by secret bal ....
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 ....
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