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powering progress i'm natasha bertrand at the pentagon. and this is cnn welcome to the lead on jake tapper ahead this hour, the jury in donald trump's hush money cover-up trial has wrapped its first let's day of deliberations. >> the juror sent two notes late in the day to the judge, one asked me to rehear testimony from two key prosecution witnesses, david pecker and michael cohen the other note they wanted to rehear some of the judge's instructions to them on how to do this. jury deliberation thing. plus former fbi director
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james comey is here. i'm going to get his reaction to the brian his thoughts on a potential second trump term and talk to him about his brand new novel. also major league baseball is changing its history books as it now embraces all leagues in its record books, including the segregated leagues, how the addition of more than 2000 players is shaking up the mlb's statistics. >> breaking news moments ago, former president donald trump walked back into that manhattan courtroom, has lawyers and prosecutors have just been negotiating and arguing and bigger bickering over which portions of the testimony the jury will get to rehear tomorrow when it's read back to them cnn's paula reads outside the courthouse polo, walk us through exactly what's happening in court right now is the right now what appears day that even though the jury has gone home for the de it appears that the defense attorneys prosecutors, and they appear poised to go back on the record because the judge is basically locked them in the courthouse
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along with former president trump until they can agree on specifically which sections of the testimony the jury has requested. >> will actually be read back to the jury tomorrow. so we expect shortly the judge will be back on the badge. and, they will hopefully reveal some sort of consensus. they can't leave until they come to some sort of agreement. remember the first note that we got from the jury today requested for different portions of testimony that they heard throughout this trial. the first was testimony from david pecker about a phone call with trump the second was having to do with david pecker and the agreement that was made with karen mcdougal and how that was funded agreement to the life rights to her story. they also asked for a testimony from david pecker on the trump tower meeting in 2015, as well as michael cohen's testimony on that same trump tower meeting. the challenge now is that both sides have to agree specifically what gets read back to the jury. there'll be read back by the court reporter. but while we wait to figure out exactly what they
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will here first thing tomorrow, they also asked to have the jury instructions read back to them. now, jake, this was prize because even though it was 55 pages of instructions, they just heard it this morning. so the fact that they're asking to hear that again suggests that when they went back to deliberate, at least a few jurors did not agree on exactly what the assignment was and the instructions that have been laid out for the judge. now, by the judge, but the judge also said he's not sure if he needs to reread all 55 pages or if it's just a portion of that. so
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>> look, my biggest takeaway is this jury note that requested these four different excerpts of testimony as we've discussed part of them relate to david
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testimony at part of them relate to cohen's testimony about that trump tower meeting in 2015? and i think that the big takeaway from these request is that the jury is really focused on this alleged conspiracy to influence the election keep in mind it is that conspiracy that is the object offense or the step up. so that makes the false negation of business records a felony. prosecutors have to prove that trump intended to commit or conceal this conspiracy to influence the election and although these different requests seemed to really focus on that aspect of this case, the trump tower meeting, where that conspiracy was allegedly born, and then also this phone call that trump had with david in june in 2016, about one aspect of that conspiracy related to the hush money payments to karen
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mcdougall in closing arguments last night, joshua stein glass argued to the jurors that it is that phone call with david knowledge of the hush money payments to care and mcdougall ahead of time, that it was that phone calling which he indicated to david packard that he could work with michael cohen as an intermediary on trump's behalf. >> so please clearly, the prosecution thought this was a very important phone call. the jurors are very focused on it and finally, it's also important what is not included in this request, which is any request about the credibility of michael cohen, the defense case has rested on attacking michael cohen's credibility and you might i'd expect that if the jurors had questions about that at this point, they might be requesting testimony related to the attacks on michael cohen, related to some of the lies that the defense team alleged michael cohen told during his testimony, but we didn't see that in this jury
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note, so i think if you're the prosecution, you're feeling pretty he good about why about what is the substance of this jury node at this point? >> although i have to say and stacy, maybe you weigh in on it. i have no. i mean you know, you might be completely right, nana but they did ask for two different parts of the two different ersions of the trump
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>> he was doing things on his own because he wasn't happy with his role in the campaign that he didn't have didn't approve this deal. and the only person that the jurors had to rely on was michael cohen, whether or not trump approved this because we never heard from alan yslow berg, the cfo, the former cfo, who was also privy to michael cohen being reimbursed through the business records, which is why we're here in the first place. why trump is being charged, running this, these fees through the business records? so i think there's a good signal in there, but it's no guarantee that my hunches right, because it's all in how the jury interprets the
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testimony and applies it to the big themes that are created and the prosecution's theme is very different from the defense theme. the defense theme is all denied, denied, denied, didn't happen the prosecution's theme is here a little kernels from all these witnesses about what really happened. >> all right. stacey snider, an anna bauer. thanks to both of you really appreciate your insights and just to get you at home up to speed on the disagreements going on. the prosecution and the defense have agreed on which lines will be rerun read on request. one, which is about david testimony regarding a phone conversation with donald trump while packer was in an investment meeting. and number two, they've agreed that's testimony about the decision to not finalize and fund the assignment. of karen mic do goals life rights, and number four, which is michael cohen's testimony regarding the trump tower meeting, the sticking point is which parts of the testimony regarding number three, which is david
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testimony regarding the trump tower meeting. that is what the prosecution and defense or disagreeing over right now. and, judge, won more. sean will inevitably if they cannot agree have to intervene there coming up a former fbi director james comey, will weigh in on donald trump, hillary clinton, and his latest murder mysteries. stay right here. >> in one of the most active tornado seasons you can't control a tornado what kinds of interventions can we design go inside the store the premiere of london birth with bm schreiber, sunday at nine on cnn consumer cellular this is sam palmy althea this is a button. >> well, somebody's but just thought i'd let you know that would consumer cellular, you can get the same exact coverage as the leading carriers but for up half the price high, it's christina again, i'm here to tell you about an all new special offer from my friends
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suspense, but the novel centers on the character nora carlton, who had worked at a us attorneys before landing a job at a hedge fund. she struggles to clear her name, having to turn to some shady characters, having to deal with personal slanders, of course, is something that you have some experience and was this cathartic for you? >> yeah. in a way because i'm able to go back to things i did in my career, but also bring it to the current de because nora is inspired by my children, especially my oldest who's a federal prosecutor. so i can close my eyes and picture her and writer in situations that i lived through. it is it is pretty great. for me, so there's a lot of political intrigue in your life. what about the, this g and experience of your de when you were just an fbi agent. i mean, did you draw on murders and criminal investigations, obviously fictionalizing them, et cetera, et cetera. but did you draw yes. and i haven't yet
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written about anything in washington. it's a little too icky for me at this point. maybe a few years down the road, i can get to it, but i've tried to draw on real cases, real characters, and fictionalize them, but, but bring readers inside the real-world of that work. one last thing and then i have to turn to the news so you and i were talking about because i've written some novels to mine have taken place in the 50, 60s and 70s years take place today? yeah. and i told you you said you thought that it sounded more challenging for me. i'm telling you it's actually better to not have a drama where you're saying, well, why didn't he do? this call? i'm on his cell phone or why didn't she just google it and find out he's a mass murderer that made it easier for me. and then also once i realized how much more difficult technology makes writing about drama today, that now you'll understand why so many characters in movies and tv shows today and up in the middle of the desert and don't have any cell for service because because? because it really is a problem. did you find that problematic at all
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writing your dramas because you're in a world where you can just call the person or just google them or no, i challenge was being cool enough. i'm not a particularly cool person, so i needed my children especially to tell me that people don't really talk that way these days and they would say something it's cringe what you wrote to look that up. but i'm trying to be current and opposes its own challenges. >> all right. that's good. it's good to have editors and kids can be the toughest. yes. >> let's turn to the news of the day the jury deliberating right now, if donald trump broke the law of 34 counts gu thank whatever. i don't know how much you've been following this, but do you think based on what you know that the prosecution has made the case beyond a reasonable doubt. i do. i've tried a lot of jury cases and i know you can't fully tell even if you've been in the courtroom the whole time, but it seems to me a very strong case. i think a high likelihood of conviction, some likelihood of a hung jury, almost zero of an acquittal there was this other criminal case, stan and florida having to do with the classified documents? that's probably a matter, you know, something about i'm sure you dealt with
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classified documents a lot. yeah. >> both in the justice department and then separately in the fbi. >> judge cannon yesterday denied the special counsel's request for a gag order to limit the former president's ability to criticize the fbi. this has to do with people at home, i know, you know, donald trump suggesting that when the fbi agents had their instructions that they were that there was some sort of assassination plot. he didn't go that far, but some of his supporters did in any case, it was fairly standard language in st. language used when they looked into president biden's house in office is my understanding anding what's your reaction to the ruling and also to what he said about fbi agents, what he was reacting to something as you said, it's in every fbi ops order. it's boilerplate standard language his interpretation of it was so crazy and frankly, dark that you put it in your novel will be stricken by your editor because it's so nuts what's going on down in florida? it's hard for me to understand from the outside the judge denied the application, i think based on the failure of the
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government to adequately confer and advance with opposing counsel. and so i don't know that kid that case should have been tried long ago. it's not i don't want to attribute it to malign intention by the judge. it's most likely inexperienced and incompetence. what do you think about the way that the us supreme court has handled the request for a hearing on immunity. i know a lot of people who want jack smith's trial on january 6 to go forward or very frustrated that there doesn't seem to be any expedited way that they're going about hearing the president's arguments which some people think like that should have been heard a long time ago. >> yeah, i don't think they should be that frustrated. the court is moving for the court unusually fast and a half to answer this question, it's easy to say there's no absolute immunity, but the need to define the scope of immunity if god forbid joe biden loses in november, we're going to want to know what is the scope of a president's immunity against later criminal problem? prosecution? >> hillary clinton recently gave an interview to the new york times. she reflected on why some women did not support her in 2016. how democrats failed to protect abortion rights adequately she again, partially blame you for her
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defeat for reopening the investigation into her email server holding the press conference where you called her extremely careless without any formal criminal charges? she told the times quote, once he did that to me, the people, the voters who left me were women. they left me because they just couldn't take a risk on me because as a woman, i'm supposed to be perfect. they were willing to take a risk on trump would a long list of let's call them flaws to illustrate his imperfection because he was a man and they could envision a man as president and commander in chief. but what did you think? what was your response? >> we're never trying to do anything to either of the candidates in 2016, we regretted being involved. we're just trying to do the right thing given the facts that landed on us and what would you say to hillary clinton if she were here right now? >> i mean, do you feel any regret or you think she's the one that made the decisions to do xyz. >> i regret being involved all of that, but i didn't put 300,000 of her emails and anthony wieners laptop that the fbi then had to look at. and so i hated the situation, but i bear her no ill will and i get the pain she feels. i'm sure about 2016. i hope we had
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nothing to do with the outcome, but we were just trying to do the right thing and i still think we did the right thing. >> all right? james comey, former fbi director and author of the brand new novel, westport, available in stores now, thanks so much for vga, great to be with you to president biden expected to speak about trump's trial after the verdict. how will that play in the court of public opinions de right here? >> russia is we're trying to spy on us. we were spying on them. >> i i'm just happy friday this is a bit secret, war, secrets and spies, a nuclear game from years sunday at ten on cnn, switch to shopify. so you can build it better scale is faster and sell more much more take your business to the next stage when you switch to shopify, nail fungus is nasty.
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have a protest at robert de niro yes, that is a fool broken down standing out there. >> he got he got magen hey, guys magen yesterday got a big dose the biden campaign had been staying clear of commenting on trump's trials in any major way. >> now, breaking that, they sent actor robert de niro along with two former capitol hill police officers who defended the capital on january 6, one of them from the metropolitan police department, the other from capitol police to speak outside the court. here's how some of that went even these people on here it's kinda crazy it's really crazy in this donald trump has created this he should be telling them not to do this i got a little more heated from there. >> let's discuss with our panel. first of all, let me start with you, former biden
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white house official what do you think? good idea. like the biden time to send in dnipro and to cops too. >> i got to say it strategically, this is not this didn't make a ton of sense to me. and here's why if you buy the biden campaign's theory of the case that voters are not really tuned in yet, which i think it's true. i mean, if you look at the data, i think that's that's pretty demonstrably true if you also look at data that shows that biden is struggling playing the most, i'm gonna i'm gonna put a pin in you right now. i'm going to come right back to you after this. let's listen in here and fairs and i'm not campaigning. >> in this room all day. from morning till night in the bison, which take a look at where the people come from. it's a biden which just weaponization. so it seems that there are a lot of witnesses, whether people that they could have called that they didn't call now they didn't call them obviously because they would've been very bad witnesses for them. but take a look at this. and because of the gag order, i won't go down into individual names but you have a lot of big
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players, very big players that would have solved their problem or actually would have given us the way we already have the wind we hit, we had a fair judge, this case would have been over a long time ago but a lot of key witness or we're not look if your list, look at the players and you know, i've talked to you about, you can take five or six why did they call it as witnesses at involvement? because could have been or are side and it's a shame. and in particular what went who's now suffering gravely because of what's happened because of the viciousness of these thugs the vicious people, what they've done to that person and you know what i'm talking about. and they didn't columns the winter said he call anybody is what the said all these people they could have called itself problem. >> the other thing we confusion is nobody knows what the crime is because there's no crime nobody knows what the crime is. >> the dag named the crime the
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crime is that's what the problem is. it's a disgrace. this thing would be ended immediately. the judge juan ended and save his reputation. thank you very much all right former president donald trump, after the first day of jury deliberations, the judge is indeed making him stay in the courthouse, if not the courtroom, while the jury deliberates. >> let's bring in cnn's daniel dale, who fact-checking what we just heard from mr. trump daniel any thoughts? >> yeah. two things, jake, there's the groundhog day fact check. he calls this a biden, which again for the i don't know how many time there is no basis for any suggestion that president biden had personal involvement in this case. it was brought by a locally elected manhattan district attorney. no evidence biden was personally involved, and then a new way claim, jake he said the de didn't name the crime and on on first glance, i'd say that's false at very least it's a gross oversimplificatio
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n of an arguably valid criticism of the case. so what has actually happened here is that the de and the judge have specified what the alleged crime in question is. it is the falsification of business records with the intent to commit another crime, which the de and the judge has specified is an alleged violation of new york oh, election law. now what trump appears to be alluding to is the fact that the prosecutors did not specify a which soap called unlawful means, trump is alleged to have used to violate this election law. the prosecutor said, well, and maybe one of three things it could be a violation of tax law. it could be a violation of federal election law. it could be the falsification of other business records. now the jury doesn't have to be unanimous on which particular unlawful means they believe trump used to violate that election law, as long as they unanimously agreed that trump use some unlawful means. so you could argue, okay. that's like a russian nesting doll that's, that's a three-step process is
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confusing, but it is simply not the case that the da did not specify any crimes or that as trump suggested earlier today on social media, the judge didn't specify what crimes he's talking about. those crimes have been explicitly identified, even if you find the case complicated, they have been specifically outlined by the prosecution and by judge merchan today. >> all right. daniel dale, thanks so much. cnn's kristen holmes, just watch trump's remarks from outside the courthouse. christian, what are you hearing from team trump? >> well, actually one of the things donald from so that was so interesting to me is something that i've heard time and time again from the defense, something that they believe is going to help them in the case. and it is the fact that the prosecution didn't call a number of witnesses that could have corroborated the story from michael cohen that being in particular, allen weisselberg and keith schiller, they were several conversations that michael cohen relayed between him and allen weisselberg. they did not call weisselberg to confirm that conversation, as well as that specific call that we know that the defense tried to say was
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about a prank color, whereas the prosecution had said it was about a stormy daniels, something that michael cohen himself had said they could have called keith schiller, that call went to keith schiller. this is something that offense things will help them in the end, there could be speculation among the jury as to why exactly they didn't call those witnesses. now, i will say, well, we don't know exactly why they didn't call them. both are considered trump loyalists. i'll maisel burke's are currently please, sitting in rikers was likely not to be a co-operative witness with the prosecution, keith schiller, and no one has heard from from a long for a long time, but he ended on good terms with trump and is still considered a close trump confidant so things to keep in mind here clearly trump read regurgitating the information he's hearing from his defense team. one other thing i want to note donald trump sounded very tired. this is a long day for a man who is almost 78 years the result, sitting in the courtroom a through all of these procedures, not really doing anything waiting to hear if there's going to be a
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verdict i am told by his team that they are hoping that this lengthier period of time that it wasn't a quick conviction or a quick verdict means something optimistic for the former president, jake throw his birthday's coming up june 14. that's very it's very sweet of you to remember that kristen holmes. appreciate it. thanks so much bring back car. >> let's bring back our panel. all right. kate benningfield, i rudely interrupted you while you while you were at donald. well, but i enabled so you don't think it's a great idea for the biden deemed to be sending a robert de niro and my quinone and harry dunn, the two capitol hill january 6 plus cops too, out there to comment on the case. >> i don't. and the reason for that is because we see in all of the data that joe biden is struggling the most with voters who aren't watching the news, who aren't tuned into what's going on day-to-day and the audience, who is why? putting this trial following this trial is very tuned into what's going on day-to-day. and so what i think the biden campaign did yesterday was sort of exchange a talking point that the trump
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team really wants that donald trump has been driving. this is all politicize. this is joe biden trying to make this happen for outreach to an audience that is all for the most part already decided one way any other if you are somebody who is following the coverage of this trial, you pretty much know where you're coming down. so this wasn't outreach to a new audience. and i think that the cost that they paid in making that decision wasn't worth the trade-off. that's why i think it was strategically. what do you make of it and how do you have to grieve actually with this taken in for donald trump, he has made this political at all times. frankly, probably to the detriment of the case, his lawyers in the legal sense of and trying to make. >> but the biden team, i have praised president biden for being relatively muted on this, i believe on this very show and so to see this shift, i think it's frustrating one because i put myself in the mind of thinking of, say, one of those voters first who turned out to vote for nikki haley in one of these republican primaries. >> so they don't want donald trump to be the nominee. >> those are the sorts of folks biden, should we trying to court? >> and i think by turning this into a political circus, you
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then you just start putting yourself down in the mud with donald trump. you're lowering yourself to his standard. i think that potentially turns off the sort of voter who might be thinking, why donald trump don't make me do it. >> i issue, what do you think we're going to hear from the white house after there is a verdict. >> well, i think that's gonna be a very difficult thing for them to maneuver because they don't want to, depending on what the verdict is. obviously, if he's found guilty they're going to want to show showcase that, but without them, you know, kinda taking a real victory lap because they don't want to seem like they are even though they're not a part of this, they don't want to give that impression. and if they don't get if he's found not guilty or there's a mistrial, then that's very difficult to because that plays into this idea that this is just all people are out to get trump. they can even succeed in this. this was just, this was a useless kinda prosecution. and so i think that it plays into that. so i think that it'll be
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difficult for them to kind of figure out how to not take a vic too much of a victory lap, but also highlighted like the fact that this man is on trial for many different crimes. >> speaking of court cases to a different story. now, us supreme court justice samuel alito is refusing to recuse himself from any cases around january 6 and the insurrection falling reports of flags carried by rioters in january 6. here's part of his official fonts to congress. he, dick durbin and some other democrats in the senate have said, he should recuse himself because he, he flew a flag upside down. it is house or at least at his house had that featured whether or not he was responsible, the letter addresses as i have stated publicly, i'd nothing whatsoever to do with the flying of that flag. justice alito rights. i was not even aware of the upside-down flag until was called to my attention as soon as i saw it, i asked my wife to take it down. but for several days she refused. my wife and i own are virginia home jointly. she therefore has the legal right to use the property as she sees fit. and there were no
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additional steps that i could have taken to have the flag taken down more promptly interesting thoughts mrs. alito did it well, this is the story that they said last week and frankly, there's been more now, like contemporaneous reporting that's come out that is kind of confirmed that this was not martha-ann alito trying to make some big political statement about january 6. >> it was a really unpleasant dispute with neighbors. i think the idea that he should have to recuse himself from cases is ridiculous over this. if martha-ann alito was going to benefit financially from the outcome of a case. maybe we'd be having a different conversation, but this sounds to me like it was a neighborhood dispute, gone very awry. there's no reason you should recuse disagreeing. >> well, i do think it's worth noting seeing that the standard for recusal for federal judges and justices is not just actual bias, but the perception of bias. and i think it's very hard to argue, but somebody who's, you know, even, even their argument about the fact that it was a personal dispute was still actually a dispute about donald trump and about
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her neighbor having been yelling at her about trump's so i think it's very hard to remove the idea that the justice and his wife don't have some sort of political leaning here. and i think given the standard of recusal, it's reasonable to suggest that he shouldn't be part of those cases. >> thanks. one and all for being here, coming up, the us secretary of state asks, is israel's incremental gains in gaza are worth the cost of innocent civilian life how is israel responding? that's next in one of the most active 22 seasons you can't control a tornado what kinds of interventions can we design? when cite the storm premiere of london earth with the leon schreiber sunday at nine on cnn. >> the all new temper p-adic adapt actress was designed to help me aches and pains. >> a thing of the past, because only temper material eases your pressure points in a way no other mattress can for a limited time, save up to $500 on select temper p-adic
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clumps. never scoop again with litter robot even mckenna in washington and this is cnn it's time for our worldly and a cnn analysis shows israel used in american made bomb and it's deadly strike against hamas in rafah on sunday. a strike that ignited a raging fire in a camp for displaced palestinians and killed at least 45 people, including women and children, according to the hamas-run gaza health ministry. and while the white house maintains that sunday's strike does not cross, it's red
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line for the actions of israel in this war today, us secretary of state antony blinken said that the government of israel should ask itself whether quote incremental gains, unquote against hamas are worth these unintended horrific consequences. cnn's jeremy diamond is live for us in jerusalem, israel jeremy, tell us more about this. us made bomb and what is what israel and the government of israel says it was intended for? >> well, jake, we had four munitions experts look at footage of the remnants of one of these munitions that was on the ground at the scene of this strike. and all four of them said that this is consistent with a gbu-39 small-diameter bomb. this is a us made munition and we should also note that the payload that it carries is consistent with what the israeli military has said they drop, they said that they dropped two munitions carrying about a 37 pound warhead. each. this type of bomb is actually designed to try and limit civilian casualties, but
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experts said that there are obviously risks heightened in terms of civilian casualties when they are dropped on densely populated areas. and indeed in this case, these really military drops, these weapons on to container like structures that were immediately adjacent to other container like structures with very thin walls were displaced. palestinians were currently sheltering. now, the israeli military says that it was targeting two senior hamas militants two were running. hamas is west bank operations. and they say that these munitions were not intended to cause them to cause, i should say, civilian casualties. they say that they believe there was another source that caused the large fire that engulfed the area. and they say that they are still investigating them where they said it was like a the israel says it was a hamas munitions depot or of some sort, right? i mean, that's their claim as to how that happened they say that that's one theory that they have put out there. >> they put out an intercepted call that we can't verify, but
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they have i've been provided any other verifiable evidence so far, and they even they say there's still investigating it, they're not certain that that's the cause of the secondary explosions. >> so meanwhile, jeremy, israel, the idf has advanced seeing in rafah in gaza and they say they just secured a key piece of land along the border of gaza and egypt. tell us about the significance of that yeah this is a 7.5 mile strip of land on the gaza side of that border. it's known as the philadelphi corridor and it is israel has had its sights set on this corridor since the beginning of the war because it has enormous strategic significance, the israeli government believes that hamas has used this corridor too small although weapons in from egypt and then to put them in tunnels and smuggle them to the rest of the gaza strip. the israeli military now says that it has operational control of that philadelphi corridor. they say that troops have already found about 20 different tunnels in that area with weapons. this means that israel now controls every single land and sea border along the gaza
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strip. this doesn't spell the end of that rough offensive. in fact, today, it's afia nagbe, the national security adviser in israel, says he believes the fighting in gaza will last for at least another seven months. >> jake, seven months, cnn's jeremy diamond and israel, thanks so much setting history straight and changing the record books. why babe ruth is no longer the greatest slugger of all time and the man who should instead via household name, a story you're not going to want to miss. that's next this is no secret. >> secrets and spies premiere sunday at ten on. >> you need new replacement windows, but you're just not sure if they're in the budget this year, right? i'm brian garry here with ted cohen's from renewal by anderson and he's here to talk about how to make window replaced he spent more affordable. >> well, first, brian, you don't have to do them all. you could just replace your worst windows first or another way to make them affordable is to change the style of window. for example, you could do gliding window instead of a casement we
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overdue. >> cnn's tom foreman takes a look now at the legendary players who have now literally changed the record books, even replacing babe ruth and ty cobb in some major categories in the golden age of baseball, babe ruth hammered his way into the record books with the best career slugging percentage ever. >> ty cobb scored the best all time batting average. but now both have been bested by josh gibson a power for hitting catcher from the leagues, jazz gibson was the greatest baseball clear tab put on baseball uniform. when you look at what he was able to do as a ketose and as many of you know, he wasn't a good cachin was a great catch it. and he is arguably the greatest combination of power and average this game has ever seen object proper said the story of the first black man in majorly
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baseball, jackie robinson and as long been lionized. >> i'm just fall flat but sports historians have just as long argued that the record books were incomplete because they did not include stats from the leagues. >> are robinson and so many others held forth before the game was integrated. recognizing former league players, sam allen and pedro sierra, not many are left, but major league baseball databases will now carry the accomplishments of over 2,300 league players from 1920 to 1948 along with a promise, i think focus on the history of the leagues is consistent with our efforts to produce diversity on the field and in the front office. >> so there's lots of things, lots of good things going on what's more the inclusion of the leagues records will also boost the resumes of some players who made it to major
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