the president andriy yermak. he became mykola tochytskyi, who was previously deputy minister of foreign affairs of dmytro kuleba, and... actually, instead of tochytskyi , andrii sebigu, who was once the deputy head of the president 's office, was previously appointed to this position. it did, we currently do not understand, maybe there are certain motives in this, there will be certain changes in powers, we do not know, yes, but we understand that these personnel appointments took place and we will continue to monitor how interesting they are. personnel appointments will actually affect the work of the office of the president and the ministry of foreign affairs, but now we will not talk about that, now we will talk about the situation in the dnipropetrovsk region, in particular in the city of dnipro, we are adding to the ether christina kalyushik peltyk, a deputy of the dnipropetrovsk regional council, with us, she should already be in touch, ms. khrystyna, i greet you, good evening, good evening, studio, so i would actually like to ask you about the situation in... the dnipro and in the dnipropetrovsk region , last night the rashists fired rockets along the dnipro, there are people wounded, there is some destruction, i w

>> reporter: the former president slammed cohen and daniels on cohen last week calling them sleazebags. and attorneys with the manhattan d.a.'s office asked the judge to hold the former president in contempt and fined him $3,000 from violating a gag order. also complained that the judge filed his request to skip court to attend washington in ten days for the land market supreme arguments on presidential immunity. >> i would like to go for a half a day and go to d.c. and go for the united states supreme court, because -- >> reporter: sources close to trump's legal team tell me that trump's lawyers will soon push for a change in venue, arguing trump can't get a fair hearing in new york. for now, trump will be at this court tomorrow for jury

the desk. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: s. res. 640, commemorating and supporting the goals of world quantum day. the presiding officer: is there objection to proceeding to the measure? without objection. the senate will proceed to the measure. mr. schumer: i ask unanimous consent the resolution be agreed to, the preamble be agreed to, and that the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. schumer: madam president, i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to the consideration of s. res. 641, which is at the desk. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: s. res. 641, designating the week of april 7 through april 13, 2024, as national water week. the presiding officer: is there objection to proceeding to the measure? without objection. the senate will proceed to the measure. mr. schumer: i ask unanimous consent the resolution be agreed to, the preamble be agreed to, and that the motions to reconsider be con

the desk. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: s. res. 665, supporting may 3, 2024, as national space day, and for -- and so forth. the presiding officer: without objection. the senate will proceed to the measure. mr. whitehouse: i ask unanimous consent the resolution be agreed to, the preamble be agreed to, and the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table, with no intervening action or debate. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. whitehouse: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that the appointment at the desk appear separately in the record as if made by the chair. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. whitehouse: i have four requests for committees to meet during today's session of the senate. they have the approval of the majority and minority leaders. the presiding officer: duly noted. mr. whitehouse: i ask unanimous consent that when the senate completes its business today it stand adjourned until 10:00 a.m. on wednesday, may 1. that following the prayer and pledge, the morning hour be

the names be waived. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection. mr. schumer: mr. president, as if in legislative session, i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to the consideration of s. res. 638 submitted earlier today. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: senate resolution 638 calling for the immediate release of -- united states citizen -- [no audio]. the presiding officer: is there objection to proceeding to the measure? without objection. mr. schumer: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent the resolution be agreed to, the preamble be agreed to, and that the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. schumer: mr. president, today i am very proud that the senate just passed leader mcconnell and my resolution calling for ryan corbett's immediate and unconditional relies. -- release. by passing this resolution today, the senate sends a resounding message that it is time to bring ryan home. this weekend is ryan's birthday. we are all thinking about him because it has now been 609 days since ryan, a new york native, was unjustly detained by the

the last several deep se videos of president joe biden have surfaced recently. the materials seems to aim at making the u. s. president. look, i'm fit for office. and this one he follows the mentions that he has been occupied by headquarters for 10 years already from russian occupation, which has lasted for 10 years. and another i use supposedly looking at dimension levels. both videos has been analyzed by international fact checkers and what i've done to far as definite be face. nowadays, almost anything can be say, convincingly with a technology, images, videos, and sound. that's why we should always be cautious, wouldn't be consuming, use online, and ask ourselves if what we see here could be manipulated. even when the information matches all the lease, especially when it's presented in an emotional way. stay vigilant. have you ever said things to alexa or your great seely with a high voice assistance, it's easy to treat them like do minutes and studies show that kids believe voice assistance have feelings. so what does it mean when the line between human and it gets blurry? that's alexa have feelings, and as long as the systems are becoming

the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: s. res. 594, a resolution designating april 17, 2024, as national assistive technology awareness day. the presiding officer: without objection. the committee is discharged and the senate will proceed to the measure. mr. schumer: i ask unanimous consent the resolution be agreed to, the preamble be agreed to, and that the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. schumer: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to the consideration of s. res. 655, which was submitted earlier today. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: s. res. 655, honoring the life of joseph lieberman, former senator for the state of connecticut. the presiding officer: without objection. the senate will proceed. mr. schumer: i ask unanimous consent the resolution be agreed to, the preamble be agreed to, and that the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table.

president, did you know about the $130,000 payment to stormy daniels? >> no. >> reporter: the former president slammed cohen and daniels on social media last week, calling them sleazebags, and today attorneys with the manhattan d.a.'s office asked the judge to hold the former president in contempt and fine him $3,000 for violating a gag order. trump also complained the judge rejected his request to skip court to travel to washington in ten days for the landmark supreme court arguments on presidential immunity. >> and he won't allow me to leave here for a half a day, go to d.c. and go before the united states supreme court because he thinks he's superior, i guess, to the supreme court. >> reporter: sources close to trump's legal team tell me that trump's lawyers will soon push for a change in venue, arguing trump can't get a fair hearing in new york. for now, trump will be at this court tomorrow for jury selection. the judge says he has no choice. norah. >> robert costa, thank you very much. >>> tonight, the chief of staff for the israeli military announced there will be a response to iran's unprecedented large-scale drone and missile attack over the weekend. cbs's debora patta reports on how the alliance of western and ar

>> reporter: the former president slammed cohen and daniels on social media last week, calling them sleazebags. and today attorneys with the manhattan d.a.'s officeed the judge to hold the former president in contempt and fine him $3,000 for violating a gag order. trump also complained the judge rejected his request to skip court to travel to washington in ten days for the landmark supreme court arguments on presidential immunity. >> he won't allow me to leave here for half a day, go to d.c. and go before the united states supreme court, because he thinks he's superior, i guess, to the supreme court. >> reporter: sources close to trump's legal team tell me that trump's lawyers will soon push for a change in venue, arguing trump can't get a fair hearing in new york. for now, trump will be at this court tomorrow for jury selection. the judge says he has no choice. norah. >> norah: robert costa, thank you very much. tonight, the chief of staff for the israeli military announced there will be a response to iran's unprecedented large-scale drone and missile attack over the weekend. cbs's debora patta reports on how the alliance of western and arab cou

the presiding officer: the clerk will record. the clerk: s. con. res. 33, concurrent resolution authorizing the use of the rotunda of the capitol and so forth. the presiding officer: without objection, the senate will proceed. mr. schumer: i ask unanimous consent that the concurrent resolution be agreed to, the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. schumer: i note the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: the clerk: ms. baldwin. quorum call: >> serious as four heart attacks and a stroke. the first one is systemic refusal to comply with the law. not negligence. willful and systemic refusal to comply with the law. the second charge is breach of the public trust breach of the public trust. serious, serious charges. as that happened, every day or every week or every month or even every year around here. our currency is almost 250 years old. this is only happened 22 times. 22 times has the united s

liability mr president you can do whatever you want, i am worried that we would have a worse problem then the problem of the president feeling constrained to follow the law while he is in office. >> 's are your present trump's argument saying if i don't have immunity and the president doesn't have the protection they can do their job and make difficult decisions. the justices said that's how we've been doing a couple centuries now, they question that. also the question came up about pardoning the presidents and why wouldn't they in the waning days of their administration if they are worried about it simply part of themselves against any future potential criminal charges, it's not a question the supreme court has answered either. now we will wait to see how long it takes them to get to a decision on this case sandra. >> and said now i appreciated shannon. let's get to read from the former clerk for justice clarence thomas and constitutional law professor don i thought there was so many fascinating exchanges inside the supreme court today listening to the arguments really opens up to the country to hear how they take this all in and make their decisions. what was your take away? what

the one that should be on trial. we have a crooked president. he should be on trial, but he is the one in charge. his top people are here, working with the d.a.'s office to make sure everything goes right. it should be right because they have no case. it really is a shame, this country is developing into a third world country between having no orders, no justice, we have no justice, and having a press that doesn't want to cover the facts. thank you very much.

the d.a.'s office. in coordination with washington. i just want people to understand that. this is done for purposes of hurting the opponent of the worst president in the history of our country. second of all we have another trial going on right now that is letitia james. campaigned on the fact that i will get trump. and it has to do with a bond of $175 million. first of all she doesn't want me to participate with financial companies in new york so we had a company i guess based in california, a bonding company and i put up $175 million in cash but she said the funding companies isn't good. she doesn't like the company because she doesn't know if their collateral is good. i put up $175 million in cash and she is questioning the bonding company. when you push the cash and the number is $175 that what we were supposed to be putting up and give it in cash she shouldn't be complaining about the bonding company. the bonding company would be good for it because i put up the money. i have plenty of money to put up. nobody will be putting up with this. nobody will be listening or coming to new york anymore. businesses will be fleeing because people are

officers were killed in the line of duty in syracuse. listen to behind the scenes with planning of the trip and words of president of the ben evolent s associationd and then the manpower it would take and everything our members have been through in the past week, concerns were expressed to the biden administration and they are moving forward with this. >> we had the chicago police officer just killed, when will this president put politics aside, i need to be there for law enforcement. put it aside and after you pay respect and show care, then move forward. you would think this president would say enough is enough, you are going to jail for life for killing a police officer or we will have death sentence, he will not say that. >> carley: the president did not want to go to east palestine, and now the police department saying we can't handle this right now. this trip is scheduled. what are you doing later today? >> we have -- hosting charity event, chaz and my friend joe pisca pescapo. >> carley: charity cigar -- you have tickets being told? >> www.bluelivesmatter. come have italian food. >> carley: money for a great cause. thank you for joining u

president trump. colangelo from the department of justice goes to d.a.'s office to go after president trump. ice tok pomz does the same thing. >> it was all about getting top in facl aboutrump,t, these u who said we can put michael cohen as our star witneshes. that was the one thingt that probably bothers me most about this case right noprobabw is fact that they put a gag p order on president trump. formerut gag president, current republican nominee for president of the united states, likelyte to be our next president. i certainly hope he is. ho h to talk.wed but michael cohen is, you know, a convicted perjurer, a guyin f who came in front of congress and lied six times and woncongrs congressional hearing. he's allowed to say whatever he wants. but president trump' is allowesa order by this judge, this obviously partisander from judgr daughter worked for every democrat you can think of. >> this is thi fors what is so unfair. >> it's all driven by politics. the wholle plan here is to keepi biden in the basement because he can't talk about anythingn, can keep biden in the basement and trump on

the d.a.'s office accused former president donald trump of conspiring to influence the 2016 presidential election. while he and his lawyers maintain he did nothing wrong and say this trial is an effort to influence this year's election. during opening statements, the prosecutor said this case is about a criminal conspiracy and a cover-up involving trump, his former lawyer and the state's first witness, david, prosecutors argued they engaged in catch in kill, where people who wrote -- he paid stormy daniels to suppress the affair. he put fraudulently listed those payments as legal expenses. >> bookkeeping is a very minor thing. >> his lawyer said all payments represented legitimate legal expenses, adding he received three times more than what cohen paid daniels. nondisclosure agreements are not illegal and neither is trying to influence an election. trump maintains the manhattan d.a. office is interfering with the election. >> this has never happened before. nobody has ever seen it. >> tomorrow before david's testimony continues, the judge will rule on whether or not trump violated the gag order a

sold door-to-door for a couple years and got promoted and ultimately became the division president, corporate officer in my mid 30'sid: so at the beginning you thought maybe you could aspire to be the ceo but you had an offer to leave, why did you take the offer? bill: i did it because i stopped learning. i was like, what else am i going to do? all i really want is the ceo job and there are steps left before i will get it. and i started to think that is not the right reason to stay. so gartner group offered me a job to be the president there. i was very excited about that and i felt that i.t. advice and really meeting all the technology leaders of the world and advising them would really get me sharpened up for anything. david: you took that job but you didn't stay there long. bill: i didn't. i missed that the technology stage that is kind of whatever they wanted to do, so i rent a one world tribe -- worldwide sales and operations in california. and i learned the software industry. david: so after that you took a position as the head of sap america. sap was a software company, but what made them such a strong compa

the d.a.'s office was objecting to the defense attorney referencing president trump -- i mean as president trumppresident trump saying that and it was a tweet just came out, during the cross of pecker, trump's defense attorney bove had repeatedly been referring to president trump as president trump when referencing periods of time when trump was not in office. the d.a.'s office keeps objecting and judge merchan keeps sustaining those objections. so, okay. convict him of using the wrong title for trump at that time. this is where we are, mike. >> mike: i mean. >> laura: i howled at that one. we called president obama, president obama. that's crazy you wouldn't call a former president the president. that's their title for the rest of their lives. and it just shows you how political this process is. and even though the evidence is completely bogus. the legal allegations are completely bogus, you still have a clearly biased judge, this juan merchan who donated to biden, donated to another anti-trump cause. his adult daughter has raised $100 million on this case. he should have recused. he didn't rec

the former president. and specifically listening to the d.a.'s office outline some of the evidence they would like to present and on which they wanted some clarifications from judge merchan was fascinating because it shows you just how thoroughly they have researched this case and found documents and evidence to support the general scaffolding of the story michael cohen has told. >> let me ask you about something that happened right at the end of the proceedings today, lisa. it was right at the end of the day and at the beginning of the day they had had that discussion you were describing about what evidence is going to be allowed. it does give us some sense of the scaffolding on which you say they're going to build their case, but at the end of the day a sort of unexpected scheduling matter came up. trump's lawyers asked if trump could skip coming to court next week when the supreme court is going to hear this case in which he's claiming he's immune from prosecution. in this criminal trial trump is a defendant and required to be in court every day. he'

the d.a.'s office argued the former president violated the gag order in three separate truths social posts where he made comments about cohen and stormy daniels. the d.a. office wants trump fined $1,000 for each violation. trump's attorneys have not yet responded to the effort to hold him in contempt. danny, what do you make of that? and the suggest setting a hearing on this next week. why not deal with it immediately? and is there any chance anything in contempt could lead to trump being locked up? >> two reasons why i think. number one, by next week you might have more instances of contempt and consolidate them and hear them all at once. number two, i i think more importantly judge merchan indicated he wanted to get started. it's day one. they already burned through an entire morning and part of the afternoon before the jury selection process even began. all indications were that judge merchan was thinking we've got all these people here, we need to get started. yes, there's a contempt hearing but let's do that next week. we've got to get to these jurors. and even with that kind of imperative,

the manhattan d.a.'s office investigating the former president, and subsequently left after alvin bragg became the manhattan d.a. i'm worried to know too much. i'm worried it's going to seep in some way. there are no wrong answers, sign steinglass says, can you put that aside? and the juror says yes. this is a couple of examples of what's going on in the courtroom. in a minute or so it's going to change over, todd blanche, the former president's attorneys in which they're going to get their shot at these potential jurors and it moves on to the period where they decide who will get struck from this jury. if they have causal reason to strike them or they want to strike them. they only have four chances either side to do that left. >> so yasmin, stay with us. also keep an eye on that google doc with the latest reporting so we can be on top of it all. charles, today we are moving backwards. we started the day with seven people who had been seated in this jury. now we're down to five. what does that tell you? >> it tells me this is going to be as arduous and difficult a process as many of us expected to. many of

the table, all en bloc. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. schumer: i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to the en bloc consideration of the following senate resolutions -- s. res. 661, s. res. 662, s. res. 663. the presiding officer: is there objection to proceeding to the measures en bloc? without objection. mr. schumer: i ask unanimous consent that the resolutions be agreed to, the preambles be agreed to, and that the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table, all en bloc. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection. mr. schumer: finally, mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that when the senate completes its business today, it adjourn to then convene for pro forma sessions only, with no business being conducted, on friday, april 26, at 10:00 am. further, that when the senate adjourns on friday, april 26, it stand adjourned until 3:00 p.m. on tuesday, april 30. that on tuesday, following the prayer and pledge, the journal of proceedings be approved to date, the morning hour be deemed expired, the time for the two leaders be reserved for their use later in the day, and morning business be closed. following the co

the brand i trust. s. res. 661, s. res. 662, s. res. 663. the presiding officer>> just moments bjago, the senate passed a package of four bills to give billions in support to ukraine, israel, and taiwan. the final passage only happened because house democrats bailed out republican speaker mike johnson last week. joining me now to talk about that is claire mccascal. thank you for joining me. is this a moment, there have been a lot of conflicting headlines about who deserves credit here. quite obviously, democrats do for bailing out the republican speaker of the house and members of his own party getting it through the rules committee and out of the house. but do you think mike johnson deserves credit for bucking the hard liner ins the republican conference? >> i may choke a little when i say this. he got the high level intel briefings. listened to the commanders. spent some time talking with people in europe who he knows are our allies. and i think he figured out that he didn't want to be with putin at this moment. he didn't want to be the american who allowed put

the great claire mccaskill, coming up next. e great claire mccaskill, coming up next. s. res. 661, s. res. 662, s. res. 663. the presiding officer: is there objection to >>> just moments ago the senate passed a package of four bills to provide billions in foreign aid to ukraine, israel, and taiwan. those bills now headed to president joe biden's desk for his signature. they received bipartisan support tonight, but this final passage only happened because house democrats bailed out republican speaker mike johnson last weekend. joining me now to talk about all that is claire mccaskill, former u.s. senator from the great state of missouri. claire, thank you for joining me here. and i kind of wonder is this a moment -- there's been a lot of conflicting headlines about who deserves credit here. quite obviously democrats do for bailing out the republican speaker of the house and members of his own party, getting it through the rules committee and out of the house. but do you think mike johnson deserves credit? does he get a gold star for bucking the hard liners in the republican conference? >> i may throw up a little bit when i say th

the manhattan d.a.'s office also accusing president trump of violating the court's gag order again as we await a decision from george marchand. and it to react to any live updates from the court room. >> sandra: starting outside the court in new york city, air, what do you have? >> hi -- under the -- any moment now for lunch. they have heard this morning from stormy daniels. turns out she wanted twothousand dollars -- $200,000 -- >> sandra: we will start with eric's audio he has good stuff but we will get back with that report. >> john: sounds like a microphone battery we will get back and meantime let's bring in our panel, law attorney and a fox news contributor, we have to add a couple more titles to t that. and former counselor to attorney general bill barr and fox news editor, leo trial is a attorney and fox news contributor. so let's start with you, carrie, you were in the courtroom on tuesday, i believe it was, for the proceedings in person. they are really hammering in here with david pecker who was it who authorized the payment to karen mcdougal? at one point pecker asked michael cohen who will p

the people, means all of us. so please call or go online to my aclu.org to become a guardian of liberty today. s. res. 661, s. res. 662, s. res. 663. the presiding officertisenan passed a package of four bills to provide billions in foreign aid to ukraine from israel, and taiwan. those bills are headed to president joe biden's desk for signature. they received bipartisan support tonight, but this final passage only happened, because house democrats bailed out house speaker mike johnson last weekend. former u.s. senator from the great state of missouri, claire, thank you for joining me. there have been conflicting headlines about who deserves credit here. quite obviously democrats do for bailing out the republican speaker of the house and numbers of his own party, getting it through and out of the house, but do you think mike johnson deserves credit? does he get a gold star for bucking the hardliners in the republican conference? >> you may chuckle a little when i say this, but yeah, probably. he got the high level he listened to the commanders. i think he spent time talking with people in europe, who he knows are our allies, and i think he figured out t

the parties thereto shall be guilty of a misdemeanor" it's worth pointing out, sandra, that these records that former president trump is accused of falsifying were internal business records area rather than external records and the d.a.'s office argued he did that to promote a conspiracy to when the white house as you see form president trump leave court now, sandra. >> these are articles over the last day at a hash are very good articles. they say the case is a sham. and it should not have been submitted or tried. i don't even no, we have a gag order which to me is totally unconstitutional. i am not allowed to talk but people are are allowed talk about me. they can say whatever they want, they can lie but i am not allowed to say anything. i just have to sit back and look at it can why a conflicted judge is ordering me not to say anything i'm not sure anyone will say anything about this. i would love to say everything that is on my mind to you people but i am restricted because i have a gag order. and i am not sure anybody has ever seen anything like this before. and even having to do with articles. if someone writes an article if i read every single one of these articles, i will look at headlines and this case is a sham. but

the former president intended by that false trail. >> reporter: defense attorneys argue trump is innocent and that the manhattan d.a.'s office should never have brought the case. >> he should not even be here today because he did nothing wrong. it is the epitome of a witch hunt. >> reporter: the trial is expected to last several weeks. >> in addition to the criminal trial, there was also a hearing related to the $175 million bond trump put up in his new york civil fraud trial. that bond stops the state from potentially seizing trump's assets to satisfy the more than $454 million that he owes. >>> still ahead, an incredible roadside rescue as drivers put their lives on the line to pull someone from a burning car. >>> plus celebrating earth day by turning trash into art, a local artist working with a unique medium. >>> a community flushed with excitement, so to speak, the big celebration for san francisco's newest lavish lavatory. >>> a surge of a different sort today, the southerly surge and fog factor at the bay area coastline rolling through the golden gate. our time lapse shows the fog making its way >>> ferry service coul

the u. s. interests. well meanwhile, that cutting shorter weekend stay, the us president has returned to the oval office for an urgent meeting with his national security team. several days ago, the us report, please send reinforcements to the region. that fee is open and running. a tech of correspondent k that often is across develop the united states has been fully committed to backing up and supporting his rail, providing it with weaponry and providing it we implemented cover at the united nations security council since october, 7th, and beforehand on. now we have the united states basically announcing before today's events happen that they would stand with israel in such a circumstance and that they would not accept the idea that iran had the right to retaliate for the destruction of its consulates in damascus. here's what we heard from us state department officials and the us president. we are devoted to the defense of israel. we will support is real, we will defend, help defend israel and iran will not succeed. we continue to be concerned about the risk of escalation in the middle east, something we ha

the 2308ing senate resolutions -- s. res. 634, s. res. 635, s. r res.. -- 636. the presiding officer: the senate will proceed to the resolutions en bloc e has hayes ask unanimous consent that the resolutions be agreed to, the preambles be agreed to, and that the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table, all en bloc e. the presiding officer: without objection. has mass mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that the appoint at the desk appear accept vatly the records a if made by the chamber. expeditious officer without objection. ms. hassan: as a reminder, senators will gather tomorrow at 10:20 a.m. to proceed as a body to the hall of the house of representatives for an address by his excellency, can a she did a fumio, prime minister of japan. and i move to recess until 12:30 p.m. on murals day, april 11. the presiding officer: question is on the motion. all those in favor, say aye. those opposed, say no. the ayes appear to have it, the ayes do have it. the motion is agreed to e the senate stands in recess until senate stands in recess until the senate today c

the things president trump said he is willing to testify in his defense. but the judge has ruled here that if he does take the stand, the d.a.'s office can ask about all sorts of other things including the trial -- the order and what he was fined in the carroll case, that he made false statements about her, they would talk about the gag order where trump was find $10,000 and it goes on and on. all the things they could bring up. at this point, jonna, even though he might think it would be a good idea and he feels like he is innocent and wants to testify, given they could bring up all these other things do you think ultimately he will? >> i hope not. if i were representing him, that would be a hard no for me. the good news is, i don't think he has to testify, dana, i really don't. i think this case can be won, if it will be won at all, through cross examination. i don't think donald trump has to take the stand to say -- to counter anything that a lot of these witnesses for the prosecution, who have built-in credibility problems, are planning to testify to. his better move is to sit there and shut up quite frankly and once again, we ha

the manhattan d.a.'s office is saying this morning, it is the former president's own incessant rhetoric that is leadingthe pretrial publicity. it would be perverse to reward him for talking as often as he is and making the trial as much a focus of public attention as it is. that, of course, also comes as some of the rhetoric is about judge merchan's own daughter, and her role in a digital strategy firm that works with democratic candidates including the biden/harris campaign. it is on that basis that trump's lawyers also have told judge merchan on monday that they would like to make a second motion for his disqualification, recusal motion, to have another judge preside over the case. many people, me included, see that as yet another delay attempt as well. >> and, lisa, meanwhile there is a battle between donald trump and the co-founders of his truth social social media platform. what is going on there? >> so, the two co-founders, they had a dispute with donald trump about the merger into truth social -- sorry, trump media, which merged and became a public company. they say that basically they were give

the new york a.g.'s office from potentially seizing some of the former president's assets. in florida. judge aileen cannon has denied trump's bid to dismiss the case, rejecting his argument that the documents he took to mar-a-lago after leaving the white house were considered personal under the presidential records act. but the ruling did leave open the possibility the defense argument could be used later on. the ruling also comes just a day after special counsel jack smith blasted judge cannon's request for jury instructions pertaining to the use of the presidential records act, contending it would essentially result in the jury being told to accept trump's defense right from the start. the judge stated in her ruling yesterday of smith's demand she decide the issue now is, quote, unprecedented and unjust. the trial is scheduled to begin may 20th, but the judge has repeatedly indicated the date will be pushed back and has already asked both sides to submit new proposed dates. both sides did so back in late february, but judge cannon has not yet ruled on it. trump, of course

that's a complete lack of credibility and when you look at the president rated there in that press conference in the oval office weeding from notecards,'stly obvious, how could he expect action from this white house? >> trace: we are behind israel. watch... >> most of the rockets and missiles that we saw being fired are being paid for by the biden administration's sanction, the hostage payment money, and the failure to really enforce top sanctions at the previous administration. >> trace: what is it about iran that we simply won't punish them? >> it's the time to decide -- when biden decided to run for office he said he'll get back to the iranian nuclear deal, and they got the message this a be an easy ride for them with no consequences, it's not a foreign policy that got us here, we took that the houthi of the tearless, leads to billions of dollars to them and multiple instalments, we took all the vital sections -- sanctions and they got the message. it wasn't don't, it was here you go, we are not going to punish you for anything. so coors determines does not start on the right to see, deterrence does not start with israel responding,