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is up next the art of the deal by joe biden at michael smerconish and philadelphia. did president biden just snuck or president trump with regard to the debates? by now, you know, the candidates reached an agreement this week, they will debate outside the framework of the commission on presidential debates. they ll square off twice first in june, then in september, potentially with a vice presidential debate in-between, it seemed quick and organic, but i have my doubts two weeks ago, co-founder and co-chair of the commission on presidential debates frank fahrenkopf was my guest here. i asked him if he d heard from either campaign other than the criticism that we just heard from the trump campaign with regard to trying to move the bates earlier in which we think we ve answered as best we can, we can answer it. we ve had no contact with either campaign, which is not unusual cycle, where you normally don t have contact with pressed republican and democrat and other peo ....
blitzer in washington. i ll be back in two hours, 6:00 p.m. eastern in the situation room. starts right now cnn s breaking news. and welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper and we continue to follow the breaking news out of manhattan and where the man at the center of the hush money payments scandal is testifying right now in donald trump s criminal trial, michael cohen is detailing exactly how he came to pay $130,000 to adult film star in director stormy daniels, who came forward about an alleged episode with donald trump in the days before the 2016 election cohen testified, not only did trump know about the uh, hundred $30,000 payment, but trump directly approved it and said that he would pay cohen back and the prosecution is using cohen s testimony to present both an offensive and defensive case offensively by establishing the cohen was the man behind the payments, not just to stormy daniel s, but also to 1998 playmate of the year, karen mcdougal and defensively by tr ....
hello, everyone good morning to you and welcome to cnn. this morning black. well, it is always good to be with you. thanks for joining us this morning happening now, earth is weathering a powerful solar storm brought a spectacular light show. two parts of the us, but also threatened to disrupt life on the ground. scientists say this massive geomagnetic storm is now a level five out of five or extreme with the potential to impact communications power grids, satellites, and the strength of the storm is causing auroras usually only seeing around the earth s northern and southern then pulls to travel further out, appearing in many places that rarely, if ever see them also known as the lights. these pictures were taken in hastings, florida by a storm chaser just a beautiful hues there and these are images taken from a plane over detroit the storm is expected to continue through the weekend now, this is the most powerful solar storm to hit earth since 2003. cnn s kristin ....
i ll see you back here next saturday at 8:00 a.m. eastern summer cottage starts right now tension between the us and israel over the war with hamas on michael smerconish in philadelphia on friday, the biden administration said that it is reasonable to assess that us weapons have been used by israeli forces in gaza in ways that are inconsistent with international humanitarian law. but they stopped short of officially saying that israel violated that law. the report drafted by the state department said investigations are ongoing, but that the us does not have complete information this followed israel s security cabinet approval of an expansion of the area of operation of the shelling in rafah after president joe biden threatened to withhold us weapons if israel were to carry out an all-out offensive in that city, the increased military operation in rafah has put ceasefire for hostage talks on pause to us officials told cnn all of this follows a turning point in us, is ....
monday and they re saying that they may be able to rest their case by next week s events, brin jin grass is outside the courthouse following all of it for us and brynn today today s proceedings late. a lot of the important groundwork for the big witness monday, michael cohen, what can we expect on monday yes. equaliser. this is the guy that said he would take a bullet for his boss and he might be who helps the prosecution sink donald trump. so we ll have to see, of course, he s the person who can bring jurors into that room, into the hello. office in february 2017, when prosecutors say they hatched this plan to make these reimbursement payments ahead of the 2016 election. they alleged that he conspired with other trump org members to figure out how these reimbursements will work. he s expected to be on the stand for a couple of days now, when the defense gets their turn to ask the questions, of course, they re going to attack his credibility. like we have seen them do ....