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Abby Phillip delivers a smart, sharp approach to the day's biggest stories.
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A game of risk the prosecution may have just lost. The Trump defense team’s strategy to paint Michael Cohen, former Trump attorney and fixer, as a liar intent on revenge may have worked. But, if anything may derail the government’s case against Donald Trump it might be what happened today.
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The side by side comparison that Americans desperately need is set to occur on June 27th when President Biden and former President Trump will debate live on CNN. There will be no audience, no opportunity for the crowd to make the venue home field for either Trump or Biden. It will happen inside CNN’s Atlanta studios where Jake Tapper and Dana Bash will moderate.
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Donald Trump’s lawyers tried to discredit Michael Cohen on the witness stand today in perhaps the most important testimony so far in the New York hush money cover up trial. We break down the latest testimony transcripts and all the important developments in the trial. Plus, with the 2024 presidential election drawing closer, both candidates are making false claims about a pivotal issue: the economy.
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In the New York hush money cover up trial, Michale Cohen testified for five hours and eight minutes as the government led him through a deliberate testimony which outlined how Trump ordered him to make the hush money payment to Stormy Daniels.
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A series of solar flares and coronal mass ejections have created dazzling auroras that may be seen as far south as Alabama and Northern California — but could also disrupt communications on Earth tonight and over the weekend. The ongoing geomagnetic storm is now "extreme," or level 5 out of 5, the Space Weather Prediction Center said Friday night. This is the first G5-level storm since October 2003.
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On day 14 of the New York hush money cover up trail Stormy Daniels took the stand, yet again, under cross-examination. Donald Trump's defense spent a whole lot of time asking questions about what they originally objected to: the details of her alleged tryst with the former president of the United States. Trump's attorney heavy handedly asserting that the adult film actress had made it all up.
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The president of the United States is drawing a red line in Israel's war in Gaza. In a CNN exclusive interview, Joe Biden is sending a message that will echo across the globe and rattle the normal order of things inside of the Middle East. The commander in chief admitted that American military might has been used to kill civilians in Gaza.
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A look at two Trump legal strategies and the evidence that one is working while the other might be working against the former president of the United States. The first is deny, deny, deny. In minutes, the eight year history of Trump’s repeated denials about Stormy Daniels and insisted a picture is all there is to the story.
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The judge in Donald Trump’s New York hush money cover up trial has issued a damned if he does and if he doesn't the to former president over his repeated breaking of a gag order by threatening to send Trump to jail. The jury got a crash course in the nitty-gritty details of the Trump Organization. It was a day of show and tell that included multiple checks and financial disclosures bearing the signature of Donald J. Trump. That is a critical piece of evidence that the prosecutors need to show that their case doesn't just rest on the word of perjurers like Michael Cohen.
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Reunited from a distance and under subpoena, the former president of the United States and the aide who was by his side as he ascended the political ladder sat mere feet apart today. Hope Hicks was inside the Manhattan courtroom against her will. The woman who spent years answering questions for Trump was now answering questions from the prosecution.
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Sex, lies, and that audio tape. Donald Trump's hush money trial has taken a detour into the seedy underbelly of Hollywood. The lawyer who played the go-between, between the Trump-led effort to buy Stormy Daniels’ silence gave the jury some critical facts about the painful process to get this deal done. That lawyer also got a dose of hardball from Trump's lawyers. Now, did it poison his credibility with the jury?
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Protests sweeping campuses across the country are putting President Biden between a rock and hard place. Why is President Biden on the sidelines when it comes to these nationwide protests? And, is it hurting him politically? Plus, Donald Trump is taking aim at the judge in his current hush money trial, the very same judge who has threatened Trump with jail if he continues to violate his gag order.
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American universities are losing control of their campuses with arrests, tear gas, and suspensions. Schools across the map are cracking down now on pro-Palestinian protests. But, should they? Or, by doing so, are the setting a precedent that undercuts a fundamental American tradition and an American right?
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The banker, the gatekeeper, the publisher. The second week of Donald Trump's trial was all about the witnesses who can put the former president at the very center of a criminal conspiracy to defraud the American people.
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Arizona adds itself the list of states alleging that Donald Trump and his allies broke the law. A grand jury handed an indictment outlining how 11 Republican supporters of the former president lied to Congress, allegedly acting as part of the conspiracy to commit fraud and forgery.
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Judge Merchan issued a gag order before the hush money trial began, limiting Trump from publicly discussing witnesses, the jury or the district attorney’s staff. Merchan expanded the order, which Trump has appealed, to cover his own family after Trump attacked his daughter. He has not yet ruled on the district attorney’s motion to sanction Trump for allegedly violating the gag order. Also, David Pecker, who ran American Media Inc. during the 2016 election, testified for around two-and-a-half hours on Tuesday, walking jurors through how he worked with Michael Cohen on Trump’s behalf to squash unflattering stories during the 2016 election.
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Today, the country heard the beginnings of a story about Donald Trump, but this time, he no longer controls that narrative. Instead it's New York prosecutors who are painting a picture of an alleged hush money cover up scheme where the victims were the American public.
Now, in Trump's own version of events, he says he's innocent, a victim of Michael Cohen's vendetta and Stormy Daniels' opportunism. But he's not in control of that narrative either. Trump, who believes he is his own best spokesman and defender, will now have to leave it to his lawyers.
Breaking news: officers move into pro-Palestinian protests on the campus NYU. Plus, Trump's co-defendant in his documents case was told he'd be pardoned.
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Will the pressure make the Trump jury crack? Week one of Donald Trump’s historic first criminal trial is now etched into the history books and it ends with a full jury box. Week two will start with opening statements. The jurors come from all parts of New York City, West Harlem, Hells Kitchen, Chelsea, Upper West and Upper East Sides. They all say they can be fair despite what they read or said about Trump in the past.
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House Speaker Mike Johnson defended his decision to put forward a massive foreign aid package that pairs billions for Israel with billions for Ukraine and billions for Taiwan earning him praise from the Democratic president and scorn from Republicans. Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi joins to discuss Speaker Johnson’s decision and to question Netanyahu’s desire for peace amid war.
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