And the next launch opportunity is Friday Diane Faith abou in Cape canaval Florida thank you and Miss USA is giving up her crown Utah's Noelia Voit says she's resigning her title for the sake of her mental health it's a major shakeup that's raising new questions about the culture of one of the most prestigious pageant organizations in the.
World elef is here with that story missusa 2023 is you that surprise move by missusa noellia avoid saying she's stepping down to protect her mental health the pageant Queen announcing on Instagram I have made the very tough decision to resign from the title of missusa 2023 how's.
Your spirit how are your nerves I am feeling so at peace right now void captioning the post in part never compromise your physical and mental well-being our health is well Miss USA's former social media director Claudia anglehart who worked with Voit before recently leaving the organization herself speaking to GMA claiming there.
Was a toxic work environment at the missusa organization including disrespectful and aggressive behavior it was a series of aggressive behaviors towards the title holders and also the employees I think for me personally it came down to a lack of respect for the job duties as management one would assume that you're letting your team do.
Their job making sure that you're giving them the best advice the best support and especially the best mental health support as well and that was not given the missusa organization firing back at Claudia's claims telling ABC news we are troubled to hear the false accusations made by a former missusa employee missusa is committed to fostering a safe.
Inclusive and supportive environment and we take these allegations seriously in indeed we have and will continue to prioritize the well-being of all individuals involved with missusa and Voit thanked her supporters and said she hopes to inspire others to prioritize their mental health and advocate for themselves and use their.
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Zanda Bad Bunny and so many more dazzling on the Green carpet Deborah Roberts was there on Fashion's biggest night Stars gracing the Green carpet lined by live foliage Garden inspired looks on full display Right In Bloom with this year's dress code The Garden of time this theme.
Is me so I was like you know that's what I want to do and I want to be in my own Rose Garden my mother passed in 2006 and she was my angel and so I always would bring her flowers whenever I visited her and so I think flowers are for Mama others like Mindy Kaling and Demi Moore interpreting the theme with Larger than Life sculptural.
Dresses another Trend CPS sporting short dark hair like Sydney Sweeney and Carrie Washington and Academy Awards stunner Michelle yo and make some room Fashions it girl girl cardi B coming through the Grammy winning rapper needing not one not two but 10 men to help Wrangle her captivating dress while cardi B went long and dark Nicki Minaj went bright.
And short with florals many leaning into the Barely There dress Trend like JLo this is scaparelli It's a 2 and2 million bugle beads about 800 hours of work a true Couture creation it's for but Wings Greta Lee El Fanning and Rita Aura I think that we are seeing a new generation of celebrities and that is.
Reflected in the fact that zanda and Bad Bunny were co-hosts along with Jennifer Lopez who's a kind of classic met attendee and Chris Hemsworth so I think you do see this kind of constant Evolution but that's also what makes this party so exciting to watch the men in the broos and The Bling didn't stop there Spark and sequins and.
Glitter oh my Kim K Gabrielle Union Shakira and Janelle Monae posing to catch your balance after a misstep in her towering heels the Glam Knight a fundraiser for the Met Museum's costume Institute a ticket to get you in the door this year $75,000 and it's invite only by Miss wintor herself what do you hope this.
Will do tonight I mean so much going on in our world how will this maybe I help everybody comes and has a wonderful time and celebrate Ates Andrew's amazing work and the great work that the museum does and also it's very important for the economy of the city and for the visitors here at the Museum if I was to describe my very first met Gayla in one word it.
Would be effervescent there was so much to see everybody was bubbling over what a fun night a thanks to Deborah Roberts for that recap I think Deb had the best look on the red carpet but we're going to get into that now ABC's will Gans is joining me now on with Emily Evans who styled Ashley Graham who hosted the Vogue live.
Stream of the event Emily break down this look that you put together for Ashley last night how did this come together and explain what she's wearing and how it spoke to the theme absolutely thanks for having me so basically I wanted to really deep dive into the book The Garden of time the short story by JG ballad we asked Ludovic to Sans San to.
Make us this custom beautiful chain mail dress in Black so we went from like the darker side of the theme which is more you know like thinking about we create these beautiful things as humans and we destroy them so that's kind of like where we were going with the vibe oh dark yeah a little bit dark and then we wanted to create the crystal flowers.
Which are also um written about in this story and then we asked ludevic he placed them all around the waist so it was like this kind of like goddess thorny dark vibe that's the look we were going for well she definitely pulled it off no surprise cuz Ashley Graham is stunning how long did it take for this look to go to put.
Together for this dress to be made and the whole thing so I originally uh called ludic about 6 weeks ago and I think he it took him and his team 500 hours to make the dress at a chain mail um I actually think I I can't remember the amount of hours that we actually spent talking on the phone I think we actually called each other daily and.
Face timed each other so yeah multiple hours the next time my husband tells me it takes me too long to get ready I'm siding 500 hours as the bar uh well let's talk about some of your other favorite looks from the night okay I want to talk about Mona Patel which a lot of people were asking who is Mona Patel it was her very first time at the.
Met Gala uh but she is a philanthropist she's from India originally she was in custom Iris van irin styled by La Roach who also styled Zena famously works and those butterflies that you were seeing on her arm they moved so it was one of those really cool like who is she what is she wearing moments also want to talk about Ariana Grande and L um her bodice.
Was made out of pearl which I think is really cool and odd to that sort of natural theme and her makeup was also stunning as well Lanning we were talking about in The Green Room in Balman she sort of looked like a melting ice sculpture which I thought also spoke very well to the theme it was just it was such a fun night I had so many.
Favorite looks oh and I also want to talk about Tyla um looking like the sands of time she was my favorite unbelievable being carried up the stairs not the most practical outfit but I love the ones where you you kind of take a second look you look at it you're like oh yeah okay and then wait wait a minute I remember Kim Kardashian's wet look.
From a few years ago I did that I said wait wait a minute oh my God I see it she looks soaking wet and this did that for me where I just thought oh my goodness she's wearing sand right right really really cool and who else did you love love Lana Del re and McQueen a real night f as well Bret Lee Taylor Russell and of course.
Gig in that Tom Brown dress was phenomenal I loved it yeah Emily what did you think of the theme overall and how people interpreted it I thought it was great I think people went in different directions which I think is always lovely with the Met Gala um and it just was like a really vibrant beautiful night I think the carpet.
Looked amazing with all the green foliage and I just think it was like nice that people go in their different ways with their interpretation of the story speaking of interpretations the gift that keeps on giving after these is the trends and the memes that we see going on so will what are some your favorites there well we saw Tyler being.
Carried up the stairs which is like when you know you're committed to the bit if someone is moving your body up the stairs she also was like a statue she stayed perfectly still while which by the way I'm going to removing a cardboard cut out next time I'm coming up the stairs down here from 2: to 3 I want John santui if you're listening I.
Want to be theana horns so while she was herview at the top of the STS she had big horns on and so she would go to a question or listen to someone else answer the question and Kim was like having to duck out of the way of the horns watch it watch it and then DOA cat in the towel obviously everybody's.
Talking about that moment as well you know how do you show up wearing just a towel or a wet t-shirt which by the way DOA said you would think that that's water right if you're going for a wet t-shirt Look hair gel oh sticky sticky sticky well so that brings me to my last question Emily how much does practicality go into all of this because.
You know it's one thing to have a dress that's a little uncomfortable or shoes that are a little too high but we are now seeing outfit after outfit where people literally cannot walk without assistance from an army Fuller right I think it is that one night of the year where practicality does go out the window I mean I love to put Ashley in a.
Comfortable shoe because you know she has red carpets lot in in a week so for us we we're kind of mindful now of the shoe like we had some bespoke shoes made for her by Gena shoes for this event um but normally it really is just like what looks good doesn't matter if you're moveing the dress doesn't matter it yeah we're committed I think you have to be.
Committed to go if there's one night of the year where you're going to go for it this is it also Bravo I mean she just you two never miss when you work together and last night was no exception she's a stunning woman though she you know it's it's not hard she makes your well Emily you do it well thank you so much for coming on well thank you as.
Always love the jacket thank you a little garden of time here you know I went with flight attendant that's my maybe deep tease for next year's me I'll somehow figure out how to work that into the theme later uh well thank you both and thank you at home for streaming with us I'm Diane M ready for our next flight ABC News live.
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Testimony in the criminal hush money trial against him stormmy Daniels is expected to take the stand as the prosecution's second witness of the day right now book publisher Sally Franken is on the stand but again the big Focus will be Stormy Daniels as prosecutors argue Trump orchestrated a last minute payment to the adult film star ahead of.
The 2016 election in exchange for her Silence about an alleged affair with Trump the charges are that Trump then falsified documents to cover up that payment charges Trump denies along with the affair Daniel's testimony comes a day after the jury got its first look at the allegedly fraudulent documents at the heart of the case and after the.
Judge fined Trump for a 10th gag order violation warning the former president could face jail time if he violates that gag order again ABC News senior investigative correspondent Aaron kerki has the latest from outside Court along with ABC executive editorial producer John santui and ab news legal contributor Brian buckmire for more uh.
Ain this will likely be a tough day for the former president as he stands face to face with Stormy Daniels as she takes the stand today what's the latest from the courtroom and what can you tell us about this first witness from prosecutors the first witness is a book publisher and prosecutors had always plan to use some of Donald Trump's own.
Words in his various books against him at this case said one of them you know about how he conducts business going after somebody that wrongs him how he always goes over his bills to make sure he's not overcharged the defense has tried to portray Trump as a passive player in an alleged scheme that really they've said involved Michael Cohen and.
Others doing things uh uh kind of freelancing here in Trump's own words he's an active participant when he pays his bills similar testimony to what we heard yesterday about him signing checks in his bookkeeper saying he's he's involved in Reading over everything uh that this payment and the reimbursements to Michael Cohen were intentional.
Prosecutors alleg uh but once she's finished and she's on cross-examination now we'll get into Stormy Daniels and it could be as you say a tough day Diane because the judge is going to allow Stormy Daniels to to say that she and Donald Trump had sex that's the claim that prosecutors say precipitated the $130,000 hush payment on the eve of the.
2016 election and John they're going through and they're having Sally Franklin read excerpts from this book first starting with how many times Trump appears on the cover I think trying to hammer home that these words came from Donald Trump himself and one of the quotes they read so far I want to make sure I get it right it's quote when.
Somebody hurts you just go after them as viciously and as violently as you can and the quote goes on to say something like if they screw you you screw them back even harder uh how damning are words like that when used in this context horribly because at the end of the day you know in addition to proving their case about you know the money and.
We'll talk more about those quotes in a second they're also trying to talk about Donald Trump the man the character right obviously everybody knows you know his Brash bravado that is out in the campaign Trail what people saw when he was living on Pennsylvania Avenue but I think so much about his words and actions around the time of these.
Payments is what they're also getting at look Donald Trump wrote many many books he's known obviously famously for writing the art of the deal which was the book that really catapulted him onto a national stage years ago back in the late 80s but he's written many books a lot of books where he started to get into you know ideas of how to be a.
Businessman a little bit about politics he wrote a lot of policies in one of his book I'm trying to remember which one I know I read all of them um part of my fun job but you know there comments about you know certain ways that he felt on domestic policy that he actually changed over time but a lot of those words that he talks about he talks about.
The way that he ran his business in several of his books he quotes and talks about interactions he had with Allan weiselberg with Jeff mccan and one of the other quotes in the book that she just read on the stand now is always check your invoices it plays right into the heart of this case Diane which is that Donald Trump the prosecutors are.
Arguing knew where every dollar and Cent was going it talks a lot about what Jeff mccan was speaking to yesterday on the stand how closely he tracked it the fact that they had to send checks that he could personally sign down to Washington because he was so meticulous about certain accounts that one account of course being the one that reimbursed.
Michael Cohen for the payments to Stormy Daniels now here's the thing that's actually you know in one way you could argue a little bit you know the defense trying to make this trial go longer keep it boring but this is where I actually think it's a bad move on their part if they had just accepted that Donald Trump had said these things if they had just.
Accepted that these were books and statements he had written you NE necessarily wouldn't have a character witness like the publisher from one of his books up there reading it into the record but nevertheless here we are and I think that this is where as jurors are sitting there and we know from our team myself others that have been sitting.
There watching these jurors they watch everything many of them taking notes throughout all these proceedings Diane Brian I want to read another uh quote to you on that note that sanui is pointing out and it's I always try to read my bills to make sure I'm not being overcharged don't be exessive about it but check through your bills from time.
To time later he talks about asking his financial department for what he calls a financial small shot and the quote is if I didn't check up on it regularly I would be in big financial trouble and I would have no one to blame but myself always look at the numbers yourself what does that do for the defense's attempt to try to distance Donald Trump from.
These payments and invoice and allegedly falsified documents to cover up this hush money payment I mean if I'm Donald Trump's defend I don't know how it makes it remarkably difficult uh we have this custodial witness on the stand because they are the ones who can testify to the.
Authenticity of the book and also its words itself and you are literally using the words of the defendant to dis prove what his attorneys have been arguing that there might be some distance between Donald Trump and these payments he seems to be a very meticulous individual and that's why he's amassed the wealth that he has over the course.
Of his lifetime uh and that's what makes him a businessman so many people come to know and I don't know how the defense then goes up there and says you know what he's multitasking he's signing things he doesn't know he he no even his words I think if if if we were to play this this clip right now he goes back and forth his attorney saying it was a.
Legal expense I knew was a legal expense we what are you supposed to write down for a legal expense he's not using his own words to help distance himself in the way that his attorneys are trying to uh and it's it looks like cross-examination has just concluded and the defense just trying really to emphasize that reading these small.
Excerpts from books doesn't paint the full picture but Aaron of course the big Focus today is Stormy Daniels she's expected to take the stand today and before she even made it into the court before the jury even made it into the court there was a big debate over what exactly Stormy Daniels will be allowed to say today and and the prosecution can.
Ask so what do you expect to hear from her today any minute Stormy Daniels has expected to be called to the witness stand Diane and the the defense is saying in a about books and Records her description of her claim of a sexual encounter with Donald Trump has no place the judge believes there's some place.
Because the judge has said that Stormy Daniels has some credibility issues and and the prosecutors want the jury to understand that her claim was real that she claimed the two of them uh Donald Trump Stormy Daniels had sex 2006 in California I think it was Lake Tahoe uh and and they want the jury to understand and there was a predicate for the.
$130,000 hush payment so while the judge said some of the more lurid details about the encounter are off limits Stormy Daniels can get into it a little bit uh the defense doesn't want any of that in I would expect frequent objections if the testimony Strays too far from just sort of the the straight and narrow but Stormy Daniels is going.
To tell the jury about this alleged encounter that Trump denies uh and then they have already seen the 100 $30,000 wire transfer that Michael Cohen made to to stormy Daniel's lawyer at the time Keith Davidson and John I'm sure at least a little bit is still more than what Trump would like to have to listen to while sitting in that courtroom would.
Love to hear none of it I mean this is one day if Donald Trump could get a you know absentee or call out sick day this would be the day no all of this is going to be hard for him and I and I think just to see what he does you know it's it's pretty dramatic when a witness enters this courtroom they come out from a door right behind Donald Trump.
They walk right behind him they walk in right next to him he clearly will have a visual of Stormy Daniels walking up to the witness stand it's his choice does he want to look her way does he not want to look her way but here's the thing can't put ear plugs in can't get up and walk out he's got to sit there and hear all of it all right Aon kerki John.
Santui Brian buckmire we are now just moments away we think from Stormy Daniels taking the stand in this trial and we will be following those updates all day long as we hear testimony from a book publisher Sally Franklin she just came off the stand and again we expect that adult film actress Stormy Daniels will be called in just a moment we'll.
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Back Dance Moms behind the curtain this is impact by Nightline now screaming on Hulu welcome back to ABC News live Stormy Daniels is expected to take the stand today any minute now in the criminal hush money trial against former president Trump prosecutors argue Trump orchestrated a $130,000 hush money payment to the adult.
Film star ahead of the 2016 election in exchange for her silent Ence about an alleged affair with Trump and that Trump then falsified business records to cover up that payment Trump denies the charges and the affair we'll have updates from the court throughout the day stay with us meanwhile the Israeli military says it's taken control of the Gaza side of.
The Rafa border crossing and what it calls a counterterrorism operation as of right now the IDF says it's killed about 20 people it calls terrorists this comes just after Hamas announced it agreed to a ceasefire proposal foreign correspondent Marcus Moore has the latest from Tel Aviv Israel launched a ground operation.
In the southern Gaza City of Rafa the IDF saying it killed 20 members of Hamas and found three operational tunnel shafts and they have taken control of the critical Rafa Crossing this morning videos show Israeli Flags now flying on the Palestinian side of the Border this as Hamas says they are willing to accept a new ceasefire.
Proposal the deal a different agreement than one proposed by is Israel includes a permanent end of military operations and the withdrawal of Israeli forces from areas adjacent to the Border inside Gaza Israel now reviewing the plan but has yet to agree to these terms prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu saying hamas's counter offer is quote far from.
Israel's core demands which included a six we ceasefire and releasing some Palestinian prisoners for up to 33 hostages despite the uncertainty crowds in Gaza celebrating hamas's announcement while in Tel Aviv today relatives of hostages demonstrated in front of the US Consulate demanding the Israeli government accept the deal do you worry.
That this operation in Rafa will affect the the the efforts to to release the hostages yes I'm afraid that they will all be dead the family of HS Goldberg Poland who's been held hostage by Hamas since October 7th speaking with us this morning it's been 214 days we need to be reunited with our loved ones we're not going to solve everything in the Middle.
East right now today let's get our loved ones out let's bring a cal to the region and Diane today we are here at hostage Square where the memorials you see behind me uh pay homage to those being held captive right now in the midst of this war and while the IDF said overnight that their latest operation in Rafa is limited in scale the relatives.
Of some of those being held hostage fear what the outcome could mean for their loved ones Diane foreign correspondent Marcus Moore in Israel thank thank you and Senior White House correspondent Selena Wang joins me now for more on this Selena where do ceasefire talks stand right now and what role is the US playing well Diane the president has.
Been very Hands-On in these negotiations and in fact he spoke to Netanyahu for 30 minutes yesterday but Diane that was before Hamas announced that they had accepted a deal but us officials are telling me that essentially what Hamas did was offer a counter proposal so now you have us officials in the region working in real time with their.
Counterparts to find some way to try and save and Salvage this deal the big question is can they find some sort of middle ground because what Hamas wants is a complete cessation permanent end to fighting whereas the US and Israeli side have been pushing for the six we pause in fighting for the release of dozens of hostages with the US side hoping that.
That could build into more lasting peace and Selena President Biden and prime minister Netanyahu spoke yesterday but Netanyahu is still vowing to go into Rafa despite us opposition to that so what did that conversation accomplish yeah Diane well during that call we know that the president reiterated his stance on Rafa warning Netanyahu not to invade.
For weeks now the US Administration has been deeply concerned about a large-scale military operation in Rafa in densely populated areas that would significantly worsen the already severe humanitarian crisis now I just spoke to a Us official who said what we're seeing right now is not that not yet but they are still very concerned about what.
Israel could do next and remember Netanyahu had had been warned by President Biden that if he doesn't do more to protect civilians and get more Aid into Gaza that well the us could change its policy that threat still stands Diane now Selena the president will be speaking later this morning to Mark.
Holocaust Remembrance Day what can we expect from his remarks yeah Diane well really the speech is going to be as much about the past as it is about the president the president is going to talk about the horrors of what happened during the Holocaust and what Hamas did to Israel he's going to also condemn the rise in anti-Semitism across the country.
Since October 7th but to say that this speech comes out a difficult time for the president would be an understatement Democrats young people more Progressive part of his party they're very frustrated with his handling of the war in Gaza and you've seen these Pro Palestinian protests erupt across college campuses then on the other side.
You have Republicans who are seizing this moment blaming the president for not doing enough to combat anti-semitism and slamming the president for what they're calling chaos across these college campuses so look with this speech the president is going to try to cool tensions but the question of whether or not he can achieve that well.
It's going to be a very very difficult balance to strike Diane senior White House correspondent Selena Wang thank you and now to the deadly weather outbreak in the middle of the country at least one person is dead after 16 tornadoes were reported in Six States ABC News chief meteorologist Jinger Z is in hard hit barnesdale Oklahoma with the.
L the power went out large tornado tornado on the ground violent storms sweeping across the Great Plains Highway 123 in Barnes doall it's going to be for a tornado hit there in Barnes doall Oklahoma at least one person was killed and several injured after a tornado ripped through that town north of Tulsa are you okay.
The sheriff telling us that many buildings were destroyed this family with a baby and their dog here you go I got you I got you having to be rescued from their badly damaged home to me it felt like it felt like a long time it probably wasn't just to the Northeast in.
Bartlesville chaos at a Hampton Inn authorities say they rescued several people trapped in that hotel emergency crews urging people to stay off the roads after a twister left significant damage we were chasing the destructive tornadoes hours earlier northwest of Oklahoma City we're about 6 miles from a tornado worn storm just to.
Our Northwest and it is rain wrapped meaning that the rain is obscuring the actual tornado but it's already shown debris on the radar so we know it's in there footage of where the tornado just went through in Smithfield severe storms also pounding Tennessee a tornado tearing through Smithville just southeast of Nashville out of nowhere uh.
Wind started picking up and I saw debris flying over where we arrived not long ago here in barnesdale Oklahoma the brief field in just this one spot tells you about the power of this storm you can see that truck crushed the home in the distance uh there's still we're working on search and rescue that's why we couldn't even.
Get into the main Town that's over the creek there so we' still got a whole day ahead of severe weather it kind of focuses on that Ohio River Valley Cincinnati Columbus uh Lexington and Indianapolis but what we'll end up doing is getting another storm and this whole Wednesday into Thursday covers a huge area East Coast down to Gul Coast on.
Thursday and focus on kind a Little Rock in Memphis on Wednesday so a lot to cover this week Diane chief meteorologist Ginger Z thank you coming up Social Security concerns a new report says the funds could run short by 2035 the impact it would have and what it means for your retirement also ahead the Knicks take game one in the second round.
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Diane meedo and it is expected to be a dramatic day in former president Trump's kinal criminal hush money trial book publishers Sally Franken just concluded her testimony and that means Stormy Daniels is expected to take the stand next prosecutors argue Trump orchestrated a last minute $130,000 payment to the adult film star.
Ahead of the 2016 election in exchange for her Silence about an alleged affair they then alleged Trump falsified documents to cover up that payment Trump has denied the charges and the affair Daniel's testimony comes just a day after the jury got its first look at the allegedly fraudulent documents at the heart of the case and after the judge.
Fined Trump for a 10th gag order violation warning that the former president could face jail time if he violates that gag order again I want to bring an ABC News executive editorial producer John santui along with ABC News legal contributor Brian buckmire for more uh John what's the latest from our team inside the court uh Stormy Daniels.
Literally this second was just called to the stand Diane prosecutors calling her in so she's making her way to the stand and look to be a fly on that wall to see what's happening in that courtroom right now as we talked about a couple minutes ago the door for witnesses to enter is right behind Donald Trump literally the distance between you and I right now.
Diane so she has to walk behind Donald Trump go through the the you know little gilded rope if you will will and she's up on the stand and we'll take it and listen we knew that Stormy Daniels and Michael Cohen were going to be the most difficult Witnesses for Donald Trump to sit there and listen to and really important point there he has to sit.
There and listen to this is not like the civil cases that Donald Trump became so familiar with late last year we could come and go as he pleases as you well know he has to be there for all of these proceedings and we know the prosecutor has been very careful in really saying any of the witnesses that would be on the stand because Donald Trump has been.
Known throughout proceedings even leading up to them to attack Witnesses it's part of the reason why judge Maran has now hit Donald Trump with 10 violations of this gag order this morning when prosecutors informed the defense team that Stormy Daniels would take the stand Donald Trump put out a comment on Truth social saying he's been.
Informed who the next witness was wouldn't say but what's interesting is that that was immediately deleted because again Donald Trump knows that he is really right on the line here with attack Witnesses and this judge now saying that if you violate the gag order again I am going to potentially put you in jail I will just note from our team.
In court Diane um they did said um her stage name which is interesting uh the people called Stormy Daniels using her stage name in said of her birth name which of course is Stephanie Clifford Brian what are you listening for when Stormy Daniels takes the stand so as we heard before the prosecution ultimately brought Stormy.
Daniels to testify today there was this back and forth about how deep she would go into the actual alleged encounter between her and Donald Trump I want to see where the prosecution draws that line how much information how much salacious information actually we're going to hear about Donald Trump not because I want to hear anything to in.
Depth to this relationship but from a legal standpoint can the prosecution create an appellant issue that Donald Trump can then argue down the road to say that this went beyond just a documents case into just trying to damage and embarrass the defendant and that could have affected the results and so I want to see how the prosecution.
Walks that line going forward and John while former president Trump has to sit there as you said he cannot leave so he's face to face with stormmy Daniels right now he also has his son in court with him today what are you hearing in terms of the Dynamics in the courtroom well it's interesting I mean Eric Trump actually tweeted from.
The courtroom you know he can attack the case he's not a part of the gag order he's not a defendant um you know again attacking the prosecutors saying this is you know a nonsense case no reason to do this while Donald Trump of course is running for president um I will just bring us back into the courtroom because our team is just rapid firing us with.
Updates um Stormy Daniels entered the courtroom according to ABC's Luke bugman uh draped in all black uh did not glance over at former president Donald Trump as she took the witness stand um she's wearing uh glasses um and uh her hair is um is uh held up with some blonde highlights it looks like um Susan hoffinger who of course is the lead.
Prosecutor for Manhattan da Alvin brg is leading the questioning Daniels is saying that she is testifying um as part of a subpoena in this case which we know all the witnesses here Diane um have had it is interesting though um it does look like based on our reporting uh Donald Trump did uh keep his eye on Stormy Daniels as she as we talked about.
Navigated into the courtroom and made it up to the witness stand we know that Donald Trump is not been the same with every witness right certain Witnesses he's looked at others he couldn't be bothered with but again I think this really is interesting and now Aaron kki is reporting uh that's as he's watching Stormy Daniels his head is tilted.
Looking right at her it just really speaks to you know the heart of this case this is a witness that we all knew was going to be rather difficult for Donald Trump to have to sit and listen to and now here we are now John there was a lot of back and forth before the jury was brought into the courtroom this morning over what the prosecution would.
Be allowed to ask ask St Daniels what she would be allowed to say on the stand and what is considered out of bounds so what what are we going to hear today and what are we not going to hear well so I think that you know there was a big question about how much of that night you know if we know that night we know we're both talking about here as as our.
Viewers how much of that night they were going to get into it seems like that scope is going to be limited you're not going to get into too much detail and again I think the reason the defense really you know went in and leaned into that argument as we've been hearing for the last several months leading up to this case Donald Trump um has told.
People that this is embarrassing for him you know one of the things I had heard is that he really didn't want his family to attend any of these proceedings I must admit I'm quite surprised that Eric Trump the former president's um third son is in the courtroom today I just think that's really remarkable um because again Donald Trump has told.
People you know don't don't be around on this day it's going to be you know rather challenging but I also think you know the opposite can be true at the same time right having people around you that can keep you calm right so we know that yesterday while Jeff mccan was on the stand which was clearly a very you know frustrating day for Donald Trump.
Given a longtime employee spilling all several of his other attorneys attorneys for the Trump organization were there I believe with that purpose today in addition to Eric Trump Alina habba who's another attorney for Donald Trump very close to the former president of course served as lead one of the lead counsels on the New York attorney general's case.
Serving that purpose again I think just to help keep him calm and Brian they're now asking stormmy Daniels about her background she says that she was raised in Louisiana by her mother she grew up in a low-income household she edited her High School newspaper uh where do you think the prosecution's going here why lay down.
This background so long before she ever met Donald Trump why lay down this Foundation I think in many ways it's it's to humanize the witness as we often do with so many witnesses but don't forget we always think of Stormy Daniels the porn star actress I think they want to try to show Stormy Daniels even though they're using her stage name uh.
The person by giving some kind of insight to her background her history how she grew up that she is just like you or I so to speak in many ways and I think in humanizing her it makes it uh help the argument that she's a credible individual that she has a purpose right telling the story it even ties in with the fact that she's being subpoena often.
Times a defense will argue that if someone is not subpoena there voluntarily and so what is the um it that they're trying to search for in in testifying today but she's on subpoena they're giving background they're humanizing her and I think they're leading up to this is a person that's credible this is a person you should.
Listen to now here's her story Brian they also now seem to be trying to paint the picture of how she became a porn star an adult film actress however you want to phrase it uh seeming to try to humanize that aspect of all of this too pointing out that she said she was a friend of hers was an exotic dancer and invited her to a club to dance when she.
Was just in high school and that they didn't check her ID and she said that she realized that she could make more money in one weekend than she would shoveling manora eight hours a day how important is that part of this picture yeah so I've never really represented adult film actress but I have represented individuals where.
People would say well you're in a game or you sell drugs you must have come across those two Lifestyles only because of negative reasons you you must have liked killing people or you liked selling drugs because it it gives you so much but when you have an opportunity to explain there's a real human reason why people get into these professions as.
Good or bad as you are the descriptions I gave her clearly criminal being a an adult film actress is not criminal but you humanize why a person would turn to that uh lifestyle to that profession and now people are not looking at it as oh you just have sex for fun and you got paid for it now it's oh times were tough you were introduced to us by a friend.
You were trying to make ends meet just as we all are in this world I think again it goes to humanization and building The credibility to the witness and John what are you hearing about how the jury is reacting to this Tes it's fascinating our Luke bugam and uh writing right now that all almost all of the jurors are looking up at stormmy.
Daniels right now they are very few jotting notes um one of the things in the courtroom with the setup Diane kind of like I have my laptop here in front of me the jurors have monitors in front of them and the monitors pull in different feeds from the courtroom they pull in the witness they pull in the prosecutors they pull in the judge they.
Pull in the defense table so that way if you're a juror you can kind of watch everybody at the same time because we know so much of what juries look at is body language reactions Etc both from both sides prosecutors and especially the defendant according to our team nobody is looking at the monitors they are all head-on looking at Stormy.
Daniels and Donald Trump according to our team um his gaze is downward or straight ahead he's looking either you know away from Stormy Daniels or down at his feet and I can tell you from you know knowing um while he was watching whole pick the other day that was pretty much the same thing he'd closed his eyes at some point he just couldn't bring.
Himself to watch I think that's what we're seeing um right now it's also interesting that you know Stormy Daniels has been on the stand just for a matter of moments Donald Trump is already according to our Luke buerman pulled out his Sharpie jotting down notes passing it over to his lead attorney Todd blanch cuz again we know Donald Trump believes.
He's his own best attorney and spokesperson you got to admit right now he's passing notes to blanch to again hit a little bit of what we were learning from that publisher earlier right if somebody hits you how to hit back Donald Trump has always said famously I'm not a puncher I'm a counter puncher I am certain right now he is.
Sending notes to blanch basically saying to destroy her when they get their chance now Brian Daniels is is now testifying about about how she went from that high school girl in the club to posing in magazines um you know she says that she started that at 21 so that she could Elevate her dancing career because she says uh the quote here is if you're.
Just a regular girl in the club that's one thing but if you're a Playboy centerfold you became the headliner are prosecutors just trying to paint her as someone who was just sort of trying to make it trying to elevate her career trying to figure out a way to get by like so many any of us I think that's exactly what they're.
Trying to do but as a defense attorney I would say be careful where you're going with that because a big part of the defense's argument is that Stormy Daniels and many others are extorting Donald Trump that he is kind of the quote-unquote cash cow so to speak and that this is an individual who's using a story to get one over on Donald Trump.
And so they've got a tow the line yes we understand that you came to this this career path um because like many of us if you said are just trying to make ends me and try to make a living out here but you don't want to get to the point where you're doing so much that that Stormy Daniels that looks for a person as an opportunity to make money and so it's.
Going to be interesting and I agree with with John uh Donald Trump is probably writing feverously I'm reading the S notes about destroying when she gets up there he's probably writing that he's like look she's going for opportunities I was an opportunity make sure you highlight this when you cross-examine her well and they're now going into how.
Posing in magazines turned into adult film she says at 23 she traveled to Los Angeles with a friend she was a background actor in a film at that time and one of the producers approached her and she's talking about being scared to do it oh we just got another update in um she produced she said she's produced over 150 films and won multiple Awards.
She says she was one of the youngest if not the youngest featured director so now it sounds like we're going from how I got into this as a scared young woman two accolades Brian why go in that direction again I think you were continueing this theme of humanization but then also I'm expecting that at some point uh they're going to portray Stormy.
Daniels as kind of like the crem de La Creme the the crown jewel of her industry at the time in which Donald Trump uh was the same in in the reality TV show and the real estate industry and so I think you're going to get this intersection of here's this adult film actress at the top of her game and then here's this Real Estate Mogul at the top.
Of his game this is why they connect this is why he's interested in her this is why the relationship occurs and I think we'll just continue down that that that the kind of road as to how they''re connected and why we're now in this case I think that it's it's storytelling in many ways and Brian speaking of the storytelling part she just testified.
That she was in music videos for Maroon 5 that she acted in movies like 40-Year-Old Virgin and knocked up and the the the prosecutor asked her to slow down she's apparently talking really fast and it seems like they really want to make sure the jury hears that filmography movies like The 40-Year-Old Virgin and knocked up which presumably.
Many of the jurors if not all of them have seen why is that important it's again we've got to place her in the stratosphere of Donald Trump as to why those two would have intersected at the time of 2006 when this alleged sexual interaction occurred it wouldn't make sense for for like a nobody or some lowlevel adult film.
Actress to interact with Donald Trump uh we know that he's a person of very fine Taste of in terms of having Attractive people around him and and beautiful large towers that he always says are the biggest and the most beautiful I think they're trying to create this Narrative of this is why this man in one way sought or another sought after this.
Woman this is why this interaction occurred between the two of them and that led to the need to silencer I think again it's all just storytelling of trying to get the jury to understand an understanding jury whether you're understanding the defense of the prosecution is always at in my mind halfway to convincing them that your.
Theory of the case that your stance on the case is correct so get the jury to understand stormmy Daniels get them to believe her get them to believe that Donald Trump falsified these documents get that guilty verdict that the prosecution's plan Brian they also just asked her about a podcast and she said she made remarks about Trump but that.
She doesn't work there anymore that she got fired because she didn't want to keep talking about Trump she said I was reluctant to continue talking about that one narrative about this case and about politics what does that do for the defense's attempt to try to paint her as an opportunist so we know the defense is.
Going to more likely than not use prior statements of Stormy Daniels against her to try to challenge her credibility to try to prove or at least show uh that she's in it for an opportunity think of the same way the prosecution brought in custodial witnesses to try to confront Donald Trump uh that he is heavily involved in the campaign heavily.
Involved in management of his finances and signing of invoices all the stuff we heard from the book The prosecution is trying to preempt those issues that they know the defense is going to bring up by bringing up that she worked in these environments that she made these comments and getting understanding as to why she stopped and.
Give color as to why she gave those comments to try to for forecast any kind of issue that might happen on cross-examination and John we seem to have jumped from Stormy Daniels talking about her history how she grew up how she got into this career how she then developed that career to now we're jumping ahead to a podcast that.
Obviously happened after her encounter with Donald Trump after this case yeah how do you expect or or what are you listening for when they actually get into how she met Donald Trump and and how this whole alleged Affair happened I I I think basically what they're doing is they're bookending her life right sort of you know where she's been the.
Last little bit of time and how it began and now they're going to sort of move towards the center here because I think what they're preparing for and think about you know the opening statement prosecutors gave where they had to own a little bit of Michael Cohen here right that's where they're really going to have to own basically Stormy Daniels and.
How she's talked about Donald Trump in the in the most recent compared to 2006 I will say that according to our team um the gears have flipped a little now uh in the courtroom according to our Peter haral lumus Susan hoffinger has shifted the top to Trump they are now asking Stormy Daniels about her role at the Lake Tahoe Golf Tournament of course.
That is where as we know Daniels met Donald Trump in 2006 and that story will keep unfolding but Brian I want to ask you about the notes part of it because former president Trump all this is happening apparently is looking down or looking away from Daniels and also repeatedly writing notes and passing them to his attorney when.
You're in a case like this what kind of notes is a client writing I know obviously you don't know what's written on these specific notes but in general I know this is something that happens a lot so paint that picture for us yeah so you have to understand as a defense attorney you are in two places at once mentally at least you're listening to.
The direct examination of a witness that the prosecutor is asking questions of but you also have a client next to you and that client is writing notes either I categorize them in two um two folds either one their frustration of what's being said about them and you got to mitigate how they're feeling about that at that time while still focusing on the.
Testimony or two they are giving you the greatest Insight you could ever get into what the witness is saying there is no better source of information about the authenticity The credibility the truthfulness however you want to put it of the events that are witness is testifying about when your client is involved than your client and so Donald.
Trump might be giving insight to that's a lie this is incorrect this is how it happened I didn't turn left I turn right it can be as small as that or it can be as big as that statement is completely false I did not say that I said this and so it can be helpful it can be just mitigating emotions uh but that's basically what you're going through and.
You have those feverish notes being handed to you from a client in an environment like this and and so far Daniels is saying that that particular encounter in 2006 was just a very brief encounter uh on the golf course but Branan I want to go to the challenge for the defense here because Donald Trump has repeatedly denied this affair ever.
Happened yeah now what's said outside Court sometimes is different than what happens inside court so do his attorneys now have the burden of trying to disprove this affair happened at all or or can they just leave that alone and just try to focus on on the payments and and what happened in relation to the hush money payment here so again this.
Case operates in what I would say is two different courts and the court of law defense never has any burden to disprove the elements of the case or disprove any kind of ancel issues like did or did did a relationship happen or did it not happen um but I think in the court of public opinion in the way that this case has has kind of veered itself I think.
The defense May Embrace um this kind of like pseudo um responsibility of trying to disprove that the actual incident occurred we've never seen the conversation or the questioning of Stormy Daniels as to whether or not this interaction happened happened in a criminal setting cross-examination is very different in a criminal setting.
Than it is in an interview is as it is in a civil context and so I think this might be Donald Trump's attempt or opportunity to disparage The credibility of of Stormy Daniels and in his mind proved that this is all false and I think they may step into that even though they don't have to they can be very Surgical and just go about you.
Don't know the documents you don't know when they were signed all you know is you got money in your bank account and Michael Coen was involved you don't know that Donald Trump was involved they could go that route but I think they're they're probably more inclined to attack The credibility in the actual story as to whether or not this occurred and.
While we wait to hear more of that testimony I want to bring in ABC News Deputy political director Avery Harper on the politics side because Aver As Trump is in this courtroom he can't be on the campaign Trail and as we talked about uh earlier with Trump and this alleged Affair a new poll shows 80% of Trump's supporters would still support.
Him if he's convicted of a crime 20% unsure or won't so how significant is this case to the presidential election right I I think it's really important to look at the number that's on the opposite side of that poll question yes we know that there has been a great deal of his supporters that would still support him despite the fact or if he is.
Convicted of a crime uh but 20% uh did not answer that they would continue to support him if he is convicted of a crime 16% say they would reconsider their support for uh the former president and 4% say they would withdraw that support alog together that could matter uh in a race that is likely going to be won or lost uh with very slim.
Margins and so uh this is something that the Trump campaign has to think about as they are uh continuing to campaign and to think about how to keep uh their supporters on their side and Stormy Daniels was just asked to identify former president Trump in court she apparently uh set up slightly in her and said navy blue jacket second at the.
Table uh John I want to go to you on that point and Avery thanks for breaking down the politics but John I want to go back to what's happening inside that court room right now because Donald Trump as you said has avoided eye contact he's been looking at the floor he's been looking away from Stormy Daniels he's been writing notes what's.
The significance of that moment for him to have to sit there while she identifies him that's the guy I'm talking about I I mean think about every episode of Law and Order you've probably watched in your life right how many times have we all seen the person on the witness stand point to the person that's being accused saying is that the guy is.
That the girl is that the person is that the one that happened that night that is what is going on in that courtroom right now and to think that as a former president of the United States someone is sitting on a witness stand and identifying you as the person involved in any criminal activity right I mean obviously that night's not the crime but.
It's what happened thereafter that's just again as we've said humiliating for Donald Trump Trump I think the idea that you know even Stormy Daniels had to like Lean Forward one of the things we've heard and we're trying to you know get a sense from talking to some witnesses here some of them said that it's pretty hard to see Donald Trump from their.
Position in the courtroom because you know again you have the judges deaths a little higher you know the way the courtrooms positioned Etc but to think that there was a moment where she's having to lean over and look and say yep that's the guy I mean I wonder if we see you know what the review is from Donald Trump what he's doing our team's.
Reporting right now that Trump and blanch are just sitting there going through paperwork not really paying attention um there is a photo that apparently was just shown um in the courtroom to our friends in the control room Kate I don't know if we have it but um it's a photo of Stormy Daniels and Donald Trump together at that golf club.
During that golf tournament and that really is what prosecutors are going to say is that you know for Donald Trump denying the affair I never met her I never saw her unfortunately as we know Donald Trump is always the person that takes a photo any chance he can get and there is a photo from that Golf Tournament of a smiling Donald Trump in.
A yellow Polo as yours were just shown next to Stormy Daniels uh Brian they're also talking about ages here Daniels testified that she was 27 on that day when she met Donald Trump and she said I didn't know his age but I knew he was as old or older than my father noting that her father was 60 at the time uh they're also showing another photo of trump at.
The golf outing wearing The Identical outfit so they seem to be going through these photos from that day to show Stormy Daniels apparently isn't making this up here are photos of the two of them together clearly she's recounting this day they met and here are the photos to show that they did uh Brian what do you think about this line of.
Questioning it's it's it's strong testimony doesn't go to the actual question of whether or not Donald Trump is guilty of these charges but anytime you have testimony from a witness and then corroboration through another form of evidence it only bolsters The credibility that individual where as John is pointed out in the past Donald.
Trump has said I don't even know who this person was there's the photo there I believe now um who could this person be and now you have stormmy Daniel saying no I did meet him there um and here is the proof to do so testimony and corroboration it makes it for a very powerful combination in front of the jurney and Brian what about the age Gap.
Why highlight the fact that she was just 27 and clearly significantly younger than the former president in this picture I I mean maybe I'm a little jaded I've practiced in in Manhattan and Brooklyn as well but I think the the overall idea here for the prosecution is because the difference in age has nothing to do with.
The allegations is to try to maybe present uh a that Donald Trump was or that Stormy Daniels felt that he was in a position of power because he was older and who he was and that there was some level of when the paychecks came and she was told to keep quiet she did so because of who he was both in a age and power that's the only thing that I can.
Surmise of that because there's real no there's really no relevance as to his age or her age at the time that they met because nothing uh in that interaction has anything to do with the case other than they know each other all right well we're going to take a very quick break John sanui Brian buckmeier thank you and obviously stick around with me because.
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This historic trial prosecutors argue Trump orchestrated a $130,000 payment to Daniels ahead of the 2016 election in exchange for her Silence about an alleged Affair and then falsified documents to cover up those payments Trump has denied the charges and the affair and now he and Stormy Daniels are face Toof face in court.
ABC's senior investigative correspondent Aaron kerki has the latest from Court along with ABC News executive editorial producer John santui and ABC's legal contributor Brian buckmire Aaron we're getting into to now when Stormy Daniels and former president Trump met and this invitation to dinner talk us through the latest the courtroom is wrapped as.
Stormmy Daniels sits on the witness stand she appears almost disheveled her hair messily up she's in a a black sweatshirt black T-shirt uh not the way we've seen seen her more glamorously portrayed the jury has just seen the now Infamous photo of trump and Stormy Daniels when they met in 2006 at a golf tournament in Lake Tahoe there's the.
Photo on your screen uh Daniel's described being there because she was working for an adult film production company that sponsored one of the holes on the golf course and she elicited laughs when she said does sound kind of funny an adult film company sponsoring a hole on the golf course but now she's recounting for the jury how at the.
Invitation of trump she went to join him for dinner and it's at that dinner where Stormy Daniels will testify she and Donald Trump had sex an encounter that he denies and John I have to highlight this quote because initially she says that she rejected the offer that he invited her to dinner through somebody else and and her initial reaction was in.
Her words e no right um but then her publ has told her to reconsider saying if nothing else you'll get a great story and goes on to say what could possibly go wrong that was his words to me I mean you know listen now we're really getting into the heart of this whole dynamic this night that frankly if this Night Never Happened we wouldn't be here right.
Now um it it's actually remarkable how you know minute by minute prosecutors are going into the evening I think that you know hopefully that structure for Donald Trump's sake is going to stop in a second once it gets to a certain point of the night but it's remarkable um even to hear um about Keith Schiller and just to explain who that is for a second.
Because she's saying that Keith Schiller approached her on Donald Trump's behalf inviting her to dinner Keith Schiller was Donald Trump's bodyman um you know as many people know think of you know former presidents like Donald Trump you have somebody that's always at your side even Donald Trump as a businessman Diane had a body man had somebody that was.
Always with him and Keith Schiller was that person Keith was a former NYPD cop um eventually retired went to work for the Trump organization was always seen next to Donald Trump we know that you know as part of the prosecutor's case one of the things they've talked about is that if you couldn't get to Donald Trump directly you'd call Keith because.
Keith was always next to him and had the phone Etc um it it does again you know talk about Daniel's credibility right you know that you know she's making this up according to the Trump team we have photos we have other names we have other people we have contact information in phones with you know people's names that were related to Donald Trump at the time.
I I think this is all building up into you know again forming this idea look she was there this did happen and thus eventually we'll talk about the money that said Brian that quote right you could get it could be a great story or or you know something along those lines can the defense St try to use that to say listen she went into this looking.
For a story yes um but I would be if I was a defense attorney I would hesitate to ask that question it's one of those situations where you don't really know the answer to that question and sometimes the answer could be more damaging I mean think about it if I asked stormmy Daniels okay you said on.
Direct examination that this person said that it could be a good story U is that why you went there and as she responds yeah good story that I had dinner with Donald Trump not that he would and then just imagine filling in the blanket how devastating that could be and so yes go into that issue as a defense attorney but tread lightly.
Because that answer could be very damaging and Erin it seems her testimon is consistent with how she described this interaction in her 2018 book full disclosure how much is that going to come into play the the number of times she has told this story and how much what she says on the stand today needs to match those previous.
Accounts and in fact she told ABC's the view not long ago that her story is consistent because it's true and she has told it uh the the same way the defense will undoubtedly seek on cross-examination to highlight her prior denials in 2016 that this encounter happened then she went on Jimmy Kimmel Jimmy kiml showed her a state denying.
This sexual encounter and stormmy Daniel said that's not my signature and and and that's how the story eventually unraveled but she has consistently told this account and now she has told it in a courtroom with Donald Trump on trial at one point prosecutor Susan hoffinger asked her to point out Donald Trump in the courtroom she looked around a couple.
Of the monitors leaned forward in her seat finally pointed with her finger to the person sitting second at the defense table and a navy blue jacket that was Donald Trump uh the jury saw all of that unfold in real time Aon now she's talking about a very different outfit that Trump was apparently wearing when she went to meet him for dinner she said.
She was told to go to his suite and the former president was wearing silk or satin pajamas John what what more are you hearing from the courtroom in terms of this testimony I mean this is riveting I mean the fact that even Stormy Daniels um is looking and engaging right at the jurors um as our Luke bergman's reporting appearing to.
Make eye contact with them as she's telling the story we know the jurors according to our team you know they've previously been taking notes looking down at the monitors they cannot take their eyes off stormmy Daniels and I think even to hear her describe what Donald Trump was wearing you know you say the pajamas apparently she turned as.
She walked in she teased him and said you know could you change he obliged according to Daniels putting on a dress shirt and dress pants I just think that level of detail um it it it's really quite revealing you know we we've obviously heard from Stormy Daniels Aaron spoke about um you know her uh on The View a few weeks ago she gave um her.
First interview years ago to 60 minutes where she talked about that night um but I think it's very different to talk about that in a television media interview versus on a stand and for Donald Trump to have to be less than 10 feet away and watch and hear it all and and Bren she's really painting a picture here saying she was told to meet him for.
Dinner then when she got there she was told to go directly to the suite when she got there he was wearing silk or satin pajamas and she says I immediately made fun of him uh saying does Mr Hefner know you stole his pajamas as John pointed out she asked him to change and he politely obliged uh and and she goes on to say this hotel room was three.
Times the size of my apartment what do those kind of details do in not only painting a picture but also for the credibility of this witness Brian details in a story especially a story that alleged have happened back in 2006 are of often associated with telling the truth if any one of us regardless of the circumstances were to.
Try to tell someone what happened in June of 2006 and I started painting a picture as detailed that Stormy Daniels is it would be perceived as more truthful than if I just said yeah in April I was crossing the street and it was somewhere in Manhattan uh absent details people think all are you making it up the way which you're telling it.
Doesn't seem to be truthful it doesn't look or sound like you are reexperiencing those acts as one would when they're remembering an actual event it sounds like you're piecing it together like you're trying to tell a story and so the way in which Stormy Daniels is being led in this direct examination not only brings the audience.
Specifically the jury into the memory but I think it also shows us that this is a memory and not a falsehood and eron the prosecutor is really taking her through step by step obviously talking about her arrival at the hotel room that night now they're talking about before dinner that it was a little early so Trump asked her if they could just sit.
Down and talk for a while get to know each other how critical is it Aaron right now with the prosecution is doing in terms of trying to build up this story piece by piece this is all Prelude and which will end with this sexual encounter that Daniel says she had with Donald Trump and according to the judge and the.
Parameters he set on this testimony before Daniels took the stand and out of the presence of the jury uh it's not going to go much farther than than the sexual encounter itself so any of these details these colorful details that that prosecutor Susan hoffinger can elicit will go uh toward her credibility earlier the jury uh heard about her.
Upbringing uh uh how she grew up in Baton Rouge brought up by her mom she now lives in Florida shares custody of her young daughter she talked about shoveling manure uh at a horse farm so she could board her horse and afford riding lessons before she discovered in high school that exotic dancing paid more on a weekend than a week's worth of.
Of shoveling manure and all of this um set to paint a more broad portrait of who Stormy Daniels is than any of the jurors might might actually know and she talked frankly about her entry into adult films uh performing in them writing them directing them uh prior to meeting Donald Trump on this golf course in Lake Tahoe now describing the.
Circumstances of their uh their initial encounter and Aaron you mentioned she's done interviews on The View she's been on Jimmy Kimmel she has talked about this in the Press do you expect any of those appearances to be entered as evidence uh the the appearance on Jimmy Kimmel has certainly come up the jury didn't see it but uh it was described uh.
With Keith Davidson on the witness stand her attorney at the time in 2016 who arranged the hush payment he talked about drafting this statement of denial that she was supposed to read on Jimmy Kimmel and when he put it up on the screen that's when stormy Daniel said that's not my signature and and and and that's the moment where uh the the the.
Sexual encounter really became confirmed by by Stormy Daniels Trump continues to to deny it and expect the defense on cross-examination to to hammer that home and attack her credibility but as she has said uh many times before this is her story and she is looking forward to telling it and it's sound the same every time because she says it's true and John.
Now they're talking about STD tests in the courtroom honestly words I never thought I'd say on live TV with you Dian but yeah that's exactly what they're talking about right now Daniel's recounting um how much Trump was asking about the adult film industry how does it work or there unions uh and then the conversation apparently according to.
Daniels rning the Trump specifically asking her um about testing you know sexually transmitted diseases um and Daniel's allegedly responding to Trump at the time every test that I have ever done and I have never had a bad test I've never tested positive for anything now John throughout the course of this trial and particularly during opening.
Statements the defense made the case that Donald Trump is a he's a man he's a husband he's you know not just the guy on TV or the former president but that he's a family man and we've heard certain lines of questioning of certain witnesses to get to that point Eric Trump is in court with him today but what does it say that we have not seen.
Melania once we haven't seen Melania throughout any of this and I think that one of the things that we have heard repeatedly is that as this is embarrassing for Donald Trump we know that when these stories emerge and I'm using that word purposely stories plural we know that Karen McDougall and Stormy Daniels both came out and gave.
Television interviews within days of each other I remember being told in real time how Melania Trump vacated the White House the minute those stories those interviews got announced she literally bolted out of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue flew down to Mara Lago did not return to Washington at the time Diane for several days when the interviews played because.
Remember Karen McDougall spoke to CNN Stormy Daniels spoke to 60 Minutes Melania Trump as I was told in real time watched both interviews alone didn't want to be around anyone couldn't handle it it was extremely upsetting to her and recall Not only was she married to Donald Trump at the time she had just given birth to their son Baron who was a.
You know a child very young at the time so all of that incredibly stressful on their marriage we know from Hope hicks's testimony last week that when news reports started to emerge she and others avoided sending the newspapers up to the residents at the White House purposely not to upset the former first lady and and yet Aaron Eric Trump is in.
The courtroom today something that came as a surprise to many because Trump has said that he really didn't want his family around particularly for a day of testimony like today MH and Eric Trump like his father seems to be doing his best to appear disinterested uh he barely looks at at Stormy Daniels as she's testifying.
Although at times you just can't help it the way she is speaking she talks very quickly uh she has still still a hint of her Louisiana upbringing in the way she talks and at many points prosecutor Susan hoffinger and judge Juan Maran asked her to slow down a little bit uh but if the trumps are interested in what she is saying they are doing their best.
Not to show it when stormmy Daniels entered the courtroom Donald Trump uh seated at the defense table couldn't see her enter until she rounded the table and at that point he appeared to tilt his head ever so slightly to to watch her walk up to the witness stand but as she's testifying he has kept a rather blank expression Eric Trump seemingly.
The same way uh but they are all too familiar with this story Dian and Brian now they are actually talking about Melania on the stand uh stormmy Daniels first talked about having a conversation about Trump about his televised appearance with Vince vicman from the Wrestling Federation and now she's saying she recalls having a very brief.
Conversation with Trump about his wife Melania saying he showed me a few pictures and I said oh what about your wife and he said oh don't worry about that we don't sleep in the same room that's what she says Trump's response was and Eric Trump remained looking down for that exchange Brian when you're prepping your clients for a day like.
Today if if you're prepping a client like former president Trump or Stormy Daniels for that matter what do you say to them to try to prepare them for that moment cuz Daniels is apparently talking very fast they keep having to ask her to slow down presumably she is nervous and this has to be hard for Donald Trump to sit in court and listen to as well so.
It's it's preparation that goes well beyond Justice trial it's from the time that you get the discovery the information that the prosecution is going to use to try to indict or convict your client depending on where you are in that process and you remind them this is what that witness is going to say you're going to have to hear this.
Multiple times from me and I'm I tell my clients the bad information multiple times going leading up to the trial because I want to almost desensitize them because if they are still physically reacting to this information in front of the jury it's never going to be positive and what I tell my clients is is that from the second you walk into.
A courtroom to the second you go home and close the doors and close the blinds and no one sees you you are always being watched by the jury I include even the time during a lunch break if you go across the street and go get some food and you come back when you're in the Halls you're always being watched and for Donald Trump that's what I'm seeing.
Times a million and so I think they walked this information past Donald Trump multiple times and that's why we're getting the reporting of him looking straight down or straight across I'm pretty sure he was given advice as to this is how you react because you're going to have every News Network watching you in the court you're going.
To have the 12 jurors watching you and you're going to have someone like sitting in their home saying look at how Donald Trump is reacting and you don't want it to be negative so I think he's been well prepared John what's the what's the impact here of this testimony not only legally because obviously that's the the Crux of what we're.
Talking about here but beyond that how does this impact Donald Trump as a person and Donald Trump as a candidate I I I'm sorry I just have to read this from our team um this is unbelievable ABC's Luke bugman reporting that Stormy Daniels is detailing how she rolled up a newspaper and hit the former president on it seems like spanking him um on on.
On his rear um I I I don't think even Donald Trump um based on what Brian just said about being prepared for this I don't even think Donald Trump or anyone was prepared for something like that about a former president um apparently according to Daniel she's now also said that Donald Trump um told um told Stormy Daniels that she reminded him of his.
Daughter probably referring to ianka Trump um which is again I I I just think that all of this you know we've heard from our team ABC's Olivia Rubin reporting that Donald Trump as he's P this has gone on has turned his body further and further and further away from Stormy Daniels you know as a a source of mine said to me last week when.
I called this person and said you know he's closing his eyes he's not paying attention what do you make of it the person observed to me it's like you know trying to close your eyes and tune out a bad dream and pretend you're not there this is not a bad dream for Donald Trump this is an absolute nightmare for Donald Trump you know the only thing he.
Benefits from today is that thank God for him the state of New York does not allow cameras in court because this is just humiliating Brian how do you defend against this because again former president Trump has denied this affair altogether so how is the defense now going to try to come up and paint stormmy Daniels as.
A witness who is not credible when she's giving this much detail about what happened I mean they had her reenact that spanking incident that that John is is referring to not only are those details embarrassing but legally how difficult are they to defend against so I think you can pick and choose what part of Stormy Daniel's.
Story you want to find to be not credible or incredible as say legally speaking I think when it comes to the interaction at that dinner that's probably something you're not going to want to attack it's probably something you don't want to revisit um if the direct examination is horrible of Stormy Daniels bringing up this supposed.
Spanking with the newspaper um having it on cross- examination is going to be just as bad if not worse you don't want to represent that information so you may attack stoy Daniel's credibility in another part of her story uh where that be in the payments and you might try to cast doubt on one as aspect and then try to have that roll over to all other.
Aspects of her testimony and when it comes to the salaciousness of this of the testimony the judge merely confined the prosecution to the questions in which they were asking but no one can predict what a person is going to answer when you ask those questions and so I think there really are no constraints here.
Because to John's point we're hearing things that are a nightmare for Donald Trump are really embarrassing and it's I think it's going to get worse I think we're we're just beginning here Brian are you surprised at the detail they're going into given the conversations leading into court about would be inbounds and what would be out of bounds.
In terms of the questioning of the details of what happened that night oh not at all I I'm again practice in in the state of New York specifically Brooklyn and a little bit in Manhattan and we hear this all the time it's like oh we only want to go into this much information we only want to ask these questions but there's there's a.
Knowledge and an understanding that if you ask a certain question of witness who may not be properly prepped all the way to really constrain thems because in those conversations prior to Stormy Daniels taking the stand stery Daniels isn't there hearing from the judge I want you to only be asked these types of questions and give these types of.
Responses yes the prosecutor probably went back there and gave a a bridged version to Stormy Daniels but they're not walking her through the ins and outs of what she can and cannot say and if she's here to tell her story and her story includes rolling up a newspaper and spanking the former president she's gonna say it and the prosecutors are.
Going to let her say it and as we say as attorneys you can't unring a bell even if the judge then corrects the jury to say forget what you just heard they've heard it already and I think I'm not surprised about how salacious it is and I'm not going to be surprised that how salacious it gets I'm only going to be surprised as the actual details itself.
Brian she's always also talking about a conversation that was happening at that time saying he told me an idea that I should go on his television show I said there was no way they would ever let me on TV and Daniel says she she then added I said even you don't have that much power and that his response was you remind me of my daughter remarking about.
How people underestimate her intelligence what does this do not so much the daughter comment but just this conversation about hey you should be on my TV show given Rona graph testified that she saw Stormy Daniels at Trump Tower and mentioned something about Trump having considered her or or or having told Rona graph that he was.
Considering her as a contestant on The Apprentice yeah this is a point that I can see the defense jumping on to say that that the sexual encounter never occurred but this was more of a business deal and that the way that you can tell this was a business deal is because Stormy Daniels confirms that this idea of her being contestant on Donald.
Trump's uh show was brought up during that encounter and then later on there are witnesses who corroborate that she was there at Trump Tower for that very idea it's the same concept of testimony supported by corroborating evidence with via another witness or a photo just like when Stormy Daniels testified that she had met Donald Trump and then the.
Picture we had just seen with Donald Trump in the yellow shirt and red hat was then shown it's again evidence then corroborated by other evidence makes her a stronger point but this time the defense gets to use that for their argument and and John she's saying they were talking in the suite for 2 hours she said it was a really long time what.
Do you make of that so I want to actually give more quotes in context to this spanking incident um because our ABC's Olivia Ruben you know one of the things that we've been seeing from this courtroom is that prosecutors and the judge have repeatedly asked Stormy Daniels Diane to slow down she's speaking very very quickly so our team.
Has now gone through their notes and this is what we have so the way that this conversation began according to Daniel she says quote um are you always this rude Daniel says she said referring to Donald Trump are you always this arrogant and pompous um admitting that she got a little Snappy with the former president Daniels testified that Donald.
Trump was quote pretty taken aback and said quote someone should spank you with that Daniels then recalled that she quote spanked Donald Trump with a rolled up newspaper quote right on the butt she said no according to our team this is Olivia rubin's reporting nobody aside from a few journalists audibly or visibly reacted when Daniels picked up.
That newspaper and or know she motioned with her hands uh and then used that quote right on the butt um it's just remarkable that no reaction from jurors Trump his son Eric of course there just seeing everybody almost according to our team Frozen watching and listening to this testimony so intently it also sounds like we should clarify what she's.
Talking about here is something that happened in this conversation maybe some flirting this is not something that she's describing happened as part of their sexual encounter no and and we should also note that the jury has now taken their morning recess so I hate to say it but it's only just begun of where the stories going um it does seem as.
Though they had a as you noted in a very lengthy conversation two hours as we talked about earlier Donald Trump asking storming Daniels about her history asking about the porn industry um asking you know I if anything about STDs and you know if she ever tested for STDs she said that she never had a bad test um but I think you know it's interesting.
Just how um you know the conversation as she testified was a lot of getting to know you uh for 2 hours and it seems like we're building up to another moment uh Brian what are you listening for they're in recess now what are you listening for when stormy goes back on the stand and the prosecution continues their.
Questioning I think at some point we're going to get to the actual alleged sexual encounter and it's going to be a real battle between the defense and the prosecution I think we're going to see far more objections and sidebars and it's going to get contentious I want to see how that plays out um both in terms of the the judge's rulings what they the.
Judge allows in uh but also where the defense kind of makes that Line in the Sand of we're not going further into this encounter because I already thought that we wouldn't hear about rolled up newspaper and I won't keep laboring the point um but yeah I think this is as John said this is just the beginning and it's gonna be interesting to see how far.
This goes uh in the afternoon John final thoughts on how this morning has gone so far horrible I I don't think anybody could have predicted it would be bad this quickly and we haven't even gotten into the ACT if you will Donald Trump according to our team has exited the courtroom as part of that morning recess did not speak to cameras pumped his fist.
Um but again his back turned to the camera I think very quickly just trying to get with his attorney's huddle and honestly I think probably needs a little bit of a coaching session for what's about to come all right Aaron kerki John santui Brian Buck Meer thank you and we will be following this trial all day long as we hear more testimony from.
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Sunshine hi I'm D today on ABC News live first it's a dramatic day in former president Trump's criminal hush money case as stormmy Daniels is testifying as a key witness today in the past hour Daniels has been detailing her first meeting with Trump in 2006 in Lake Tahoe and what she says happened in his hotel suite prosecutors argue Trump.
Orchestrated a last minute $130,000 payment to the adult film star ahead of the 2016 election in exchange for her Silence about an alleged affair with Trump and that Trump then falsified documents to to try to cover up those payment Trump denies the charges and the affair altogether ABC News executive editorial producer John santui joins me.
Now along with ab's legal contributor Brian buckmire John this is a very different day in court yesterday focused on accounting today we're getting some pretty salacious details from stormy Daniel so far and we haven't even gotten to the actual alleged sexual encounter here what do you make of what you've heard so far I I mean this is probably.
By far the hardest day for Donald Trump right it didn't matter about his long time Aid someone he talked about as a daughter being Hope piix on the stand on Friday it didn't matter about Jeff MCC who was the com controller of the Trump Organization for nearly four decades talking about the process of sending checks down to the White House we've now.
Heard testimony of a woman Donald Trump had a one night affair with talking about spanking the former president in a buildup to a conversation they were having that involved conversations about the porn industry and STDs I mean all of this is simply REM remarkable and again Donald Trump as a person humiliating in and of itself but to think that we're.
Having this conversation about a former president of the United States and potentially a future president of the United States the guy who has sealed up the Republican nomination for 2024 this is truly just remarkable Vivid detailed testimony Stormy Daniels has taken us inside this late Tahoe Suite Diane which she has described as three.
Times bigger than her apartment talking about entering Donald Trump wearing silk pajamas asking him to change into a shirt and dress pants it's so vivid it's so detailed Stormy Daniels is talking so quickly on the stand that prosecutors and the judge have repeatedly told her to please slow down the interesting thing Beyond everything I mean all of.
It's interesting but as jurors are mesmerized by Stormy Daniels they're not taking notes they're not looking down at the monitors in front of them they have their eyes fixed on her and Stormy Daniels is leaning into that according to our team looking right at the jurors as she is telling that conversation and while she is looking at the jurors.
Donald Trump is not looking at anyone he has turned his body so far away from anyone in this case this is truly very hard for the former president Brian the defense is expected to go after Daniel's credibility former president Trump has denied first he denied knowing her at all we've just seen pictures in court of the two of them together he backed off.
That since initially saying it but he still denies that this affair ever happened so we do expect the defense to go after her credibility how do you think she came across today as a witness so far does she seem like someone the jury will view as credible so take up the grain of salt and that I'm just getting the very very.
Detailed notes that are coming from John's team but I don't have the ability to actually see uh Stormy Daniels again one of the disadvantages of having TR in the state of New York but from the information that we're getting from her again I I always reflect on the amount of detail and how long ago and the photos to support the actual interaction.
Between the two of them that presents us credible the information that we're getting uh about how the jury is reacting looking straight up at her uh kind of on the edge of their seat so to speak uh not really taking notes or looking down at those monitors to see how other people react uh that suggests to me that the jury is at least of the.
Very set least sorry uh enticed paying attention interested and often times you don't do that or you don't hear about that when someone's line so all factors in my mind Point towards this being a very credible witness and the jury believing that as well and John the the defense even in opening statements has really tried to.
Pay Trump as a family man who was concerned about his wife now we have stormy Daniel saying they talked about Melania that night and he said oh don't worry about her we don't sleep in the same room what do details like that do not just for this case but for Trump's reputation as a person as a businessman and also as a presidential candidate.
It's all humiliating for Donald Trump and look so many times people have said you know where is Melania where is milania we of course see I just want to interrupt you to point out there's the former president walking back into court John what do you what do you think about the big impact the bigger impact here it's all huge I mean Eric Trump just.
Followed right behind him I I I think that this is all so hard for Donald Trump and we know that Milani is someone that has never liked the spotlight at all as Donald Trump has campaigned for the White House now for a third time his wife has not been on the campaign Trail that's not too uncommon she was barely on the campaign Trail in 2016 or 2020 um.
But even the fact that you know she has not been around for any of the big moments over the last couple months as Donald Trump was locking up the Republican nomination for this year she was not at Mara Lago on any of the you know Victory nights where would come out and celebrate a win in any of the primaries between Iowa New Hampshire Etc.
Uh this has been something that they knew was going to be a problem both for Donald Trump his marriage his family for everybody that this would be complicated but I think now as he's campaigning right I don't know how many of his supporters are watching all of this in real time but they're going to hear about it they're going to see it.
Somewhere because so many of these things are just so un unavoidable right right I mean just to think if you're watching any type of news or information content you're going to hear about today it's going to be completely unavoidable and I do think that one of the things we know from everything we have seen is that a conviction in this case could.
Turn certain voters away but we know that one of the most important bedrocks the Republican party is evangelical voters right people that really believe in the value of Family Faith marriage Etc this is something that I think is really really hard to square you know I remember talking to supporters back in 2016 out on the road as you know.
Accusations about Donald Trump and women came out and people would say I don't believe them and you know listen I don't believe he's a saint either you know he he's obviously had a life that I know about but this I just think is something very different Brian that said the toddy details of the affair are not key to this case what's key to this case is.
What happened after that alleged Affair the payments and the allegedly falsified documents to cover it up so what do the prosecution need to prove with Stormy Daniels on the stand what are the key points that they need to hit on today so I think not only for for this trial but also for any kind of appell issues down the road the prosecution has.
To tie all of this salaciousness toward an actual motive to suppress the information I think the theory here is and they've got a they still got to do some work to kind of get there is that it was really bad that the information about this story was so bad and they knew about it at the time they being Trump Cohen weiselberg everyone kind of.
Enthralled in this during the campaign of uh Donald Trump's first run of the the White House that they knew how bad it was and we are only learning about how bad it is now that they had to do this payment they had to falsify the information they had to make it so that no one could even even even from a sliver of information would be able to.
Discern okay they are hiding something they they they put this here to put this there because they didn't want anyone pulling out the strings to get more information that's what a prosecution has to do they have to tie that idea together that this was so bad they had to do so much to cover it up and then they can be successful in this case.
Brian Daniel has also been asked to slow down several times she's apparently talking very quickly in the courtroom but she's also been quick to answer questions she doesn't seem to be hesitating when she's asked she can go straight into answers she's answer ing confidently and and once she sort of settled in she was apparently kind of.
Periodically almost joking with the jury she seems to be fairly comfortable in that regard does that help to make a witness more likable and appear more credible when they can do things like she continuously apparently addressing the jury directly and looking directly at them so a part of and I'll just dissect.
All the little questions there a part of it is uh is that the ctum stenographer there's a person actually recording everything that's being said and so she may be speaking quickly in the terms of just how one would receive information uh but she was probably speaking too quickly for someone to write down her words and what the judge is doing is.
What we call preserving the record can at some point in time especially for stormy Daniel's testimony someone's gonna look back at the record and they want to know exactly what she said they don't want someone to speak so quickly that the record is muddled and we can't discern what was said because the stenographer or the court reporter was.
Wasn't able to get everything that she's saying so I don't think she's speaking so quickly that people can't understand her just for that that record issue and then to your point of being able to answer the questions and look at the jurors um it depends on where people are standing I I know what will typically what I mean by that is what typically.
Happens is when you are direct examining someone uh depending on how the courtroom works the attorney will stand behind the jury so that the witness is looking at the attorney but has to look past the jury because you want the the the jury to feel like they're having a conversation with the witness during direct examination the opposite is true.
Is cross-examinations often times a w an attorney will stand on the other side to force the witness to look at them rather than the jury because you want both parties to be uh involved in a cross-examination so either Stormy Daniels is told to to make that connection with the jury which helps with credibility or the prosecutor is.
Standing in a way to create that illusion to again help her credibility Army Daniels is back on the stand now being questioned by the prosecution but John before that happened the judge sort of told the prosecution to ease it up a little bit pull their foot off the gas saying the degree of detail is just unnecessary and again we know that you.
Know before Miss Daniels took the stand the defense team already tried to narrow the scope here we've talked about how Vivid Stormy Daniels has been in her details she's going a mile a minute as Brian was talking about you know those stenographers I know cuz my mom is one of them they go 225 words a minute if they are saying slow down that means.
Daniels is firing rapid rapid rapid fast um what's interesting though is that she's walked back into the room according to ABC's Luke bugman uh did not look over at Donald Trump as she entered the room just now Diane the courtroom that is Donald Trump his head down looking at papers on his desk not giving any eye contact stormy Daniel's.
Way so far and again we know how um Vivid that testimony was right before she you know got off the stand for morning recess and now we would imagine based on the timeline he now going to get into the actual sexual encounter and Brian the judge is saying you know the amount of detail here is just unnecessary we don't have to ask about.
Everything but as you point out the prosecution can control the questions they ask but they can't control how much detail stormy then decides to provide in her answers exactly and that's kind of the danger of a judge giving the prosecution so much roope you may give the questioner uh an inch or a foot or.
Whatever measurement you want to give but therefore you have to understand that gives the witness a yard or then more so um because you cannot control what a witness will say I think the Judge should have known that I mean this is this is an argument that I make not because of who's being uh prosecuted I make this argument as a defense attorney.
I do it for my own cases as well judge if you let them ask that question you have to understand that the question may be narrow but the answer may be wide and there's no unring of that Bell and so I think the Judge is smart to say hey guys we haven't even gone to the encounter yet and it seems like a little much let's narrow your your questioning to.
Therefore narrow the scope of the answer because if he doesn't do it now it's only going to get broader and broader as they continue and John now we're getting a a description a detailed description of Daniel's talking about the room and the bed that day walk me through those so uh according to ABC's Peter haral lambus um Daniels has just testified.
That uh she noticed the bed in Donald Trump's Suite was unmade um but there were no personal items around um she did notice uh that there was um a leather toiletry bag you know when people travel obviously they they carry things with them um she says she's not proud of it but she did look inside um so there were uh there was Old Spice referring I guess.
You know to men's clone deodorant Etc I use that um plus a manicure set which was gold um but you know again I think it's it's it's interesting you know taking what Maran just said about details that's really detail you took the words out of my mouth Brian on one hand we're hearing the judge say you know the level of detail is not.
Necessary and now we're hearing the description of what was in former president Trump's toiletry bag which does not sound relevant to this case h what do you make of that yeah again the judge giving an inch and the prosecutors taking a yard and then some the the questions I mean they prepped storyy Daniels they must have spoken with her a.
Numerous times and know what her answers will likely be or or where this story can go um again I think it's it's going to be very interesting in the afternoon because I while the judge may be saying hold off in the gas I think the prosecution is going to keep pushing and pushing until the judge pushes back hard enough uh the question becomes what's.
Going to be heard in that push and push before the judge says all right that's that's too much and I and I think we're going to get to a point where it's going to be an interesting afternoon I keep saying that I I have a feeling that story Danel was going to respond to something in a way uh that is very reminiscent of this prosecutor's office.
Of when I sat in the Harvey Weinstein case where they ask the question you're like whoa we we we did not see that answer coming and John now she's describing coming out of the bathroom and finding Donald Trump on the bed yeah so I'm going to read this reporting from our team uh Daniels just said on the stand quote uh Mr Trump had come into.
The bedroom and was on the bed basically between myself and the exit according to Daniels Donald Trump was quote wearing his boxer shorts and a t-shirt Daniels then goes on to say on the stand quote I felt the room spun in slow motion I felt the blood basically leave my hand and feet she goes on to say what did I missread to get here it's getting into.
It and Luke one of our producers down there is saying one juror had been writing down notes looked up from his page raised his eyebrows as Daniel recalled the sight of trump on the bed in boxer shorts and a t-shirt uh in that scene Brian I'm curious and to go back to the detail conversation on the one hand the the judge says you know we.
Don't need all of the details and maybe thought before the break there were too many but can the prosecution make the argument that they do need the details if the defense is going to try to deny this affair ever happened and so they need the details to show that stormmy Daniels is credible and is telling the truth about what happened that night the.
Prosecution can and the prosecution will make that argument you may hear things like uh we need this information to complete the narrative we have the ability to prosecute or present evidence in the way that we feel is most appropriate based on the need to prove our burden these are all statements that are very common uh for prosecutors in.
Kind of pushing the bounds of what information is there uh I I would expect an argument along the lines of if we need to one as you've hinted uh kind of insulate our witness against the attacks that we see coming we need to ask these questions and get the information in this level of detail so the jury can understand her credibility uh if we are.
To argue how feverishly the defendant and his uh cohorts so to speak were moving into in order to suppress this information we need to get into the details and I think we're going to see those types of arguments and and then it's going to be the defense and was clearly going to push back and say no you don't you don't need any of these.
We've gone too far already whatever cative response the judge is going to give is not going to be good enough to unring this Bell You're simply here to damage The credibility of an individual not to find information and I think it's going to be a big back and forth and a big argument uh and regardless of where the judge lands I think there's going to.
Be some piece of information that gets in that the judge is going to think I wish we had stopped the question earlier and it does sound like the defense just objected and the judge sustained uh that objection and John now we're hearing a little bit more about what happened next okay so couple So Daniel let's go into Daniel so what Daniel says is quote.
That's when I had that moment where I just felt the room spun in slow motion I felt the blood basically my hands and feet I said misread goes on Daniels goes on to say how did I misread the signs to end up in this position where I come out of the bathroom and Donald Trump is on the bed in a t-shirt and boxers she goes on to say I think I blacked out um she.
Affirmed that she was not drinking or on drugs during any of the exchange as she testified earlier before the break Dian she was talking to Donald Trump for about two hours before it became to this moment I will just note that on the objection it came as Donald Trump according to our team was actually you know hitting gesturing towards his.
Lawyer Susan necklace who of course is going to part of the team she's going to question when it's time for crossy examination basically it was him you know again we know Donald Trump is his own lawyer it was Donald Trump saying let's go say something yeah and the objection was sustained and I think again it was because of the level of.
Detail that was going on in that courtroom and as we know we reported this a couple minutes ago judge Maran had encouraged prosecutors to take the foot off the gas not that much detail as necessary here because this is not the crime the money is the crime that he's been in charged for 34 criminal accounts but now this is where these details both.
Personally are humiliating but obviously could be politically damaging and Brian how careful does the prosecution have to be here because they obviously want as much detail to get out as possible they want this is the part of the story that they want to make sure is clear and they want to you know and they want to hear those details but they also don't want.
To be having objections come through every two seconds or half the story will get lost just in that process it's not just the objections and the losing of this jury it's also the objections that are likely to come on an appeal if Donald Trump is convicted I would bet my bottom dollar he's going to appeal and you don't want to create.
Appell and issues that can have uh the case in Jeopardy and have it being reversed and then come back again and then we either one have to do this all over again or two the prosecution has to swallow a very tough pill and say we're not going to go forward again just because of how poorly the executed at the first time I know I keep drawing the.
The similarities and I'm not doing it to draw similarity between the defendants I'm drawing the similarities between the way in which the prosecution handled the case with the Harvey Weinstein case that just got reversed that didn't have anything to do with the defendant or the evidence it had to do everything with the strategy of the prosecution of them.
Overreaching and so I draw the comparison to be to say here if the prosecution overreaches and getting that cous salacious information out of Stormy Daniels they could be creating their own appic issues that could get reversed if this case is conviction if it's conviction sorry and it comes back because of the ARs you're doing today.
Well and now we have another objection sustain Stormy Daniels is now talking about having sex with the former president and apparently as soon as she mentioned the position that was when former president Trump tapped his lawyer and she did go ahead and object and that objection was sustained but Brian when you're telling a story like this how do.
You decide what the guidelines are in terms of what is and what's out of bounds before you have the details to decide right the judge does not have this full story in front of him he does not know exactly what Stormy Daniels is going to say and the prosecutor also can't control everything she says based on the.
Questions that they ask so how do you govern something like this very carefully there there's no right or wrong answer I think I'm eligible to become a judge myself next year I will definitely pass on that because it is not an easy task uh as you clearly out outlined that no one really knows what answers are going to come up.
No one really knows where the story is going and it's just the way our system works it's a battle between one side pushing the envelope perhaps a little too far and the other side pushing the envelope in the opposite direction probably a little too far and then leaving someone in the middle to decide where that line is um and it's it's a.
Imperfect perfect uh system or Perfectly Imperfect system however you want to put it uh but the worry is always that is they're going to be a little bit too much information I think that's why you're getting those objections sustained which if you're not following like the legal terminology it's when one side objects because a question or.
Answer would give an improper response based on the law and the judge agrees with that size objection and that's why it's sustained rather than overruled overruled that question or answer can come in all right and John sanui Brian buckmire I want you to stick around because we are going to come back to these live updates but I do want to turn.
Briefly to President Biden who speaking at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum's annual days of remembrance ceremony let's listen thank you thank you Z please thank you st I after that introduction for your leadership the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum you're a true scholar and.
Statesman and uh a dear friend speaker Johnson pader Jeff members of Congress and especially the survivors of the Holocaust my mother here she looked at say God love you all God love you all a foxman and all other survivors who embody absolute courage and dignity and grace are here as well during these sacred days of.
Remembrance we grieve we give voice to the 6 million Jews who were systematically targeted and murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators during World War II we honor the memory of victims the pain of survivors The Bravery of Heroes who stood up to Hitler's unspeakable evil and we.
Recommit to heading and heeding the lessons that one of the darkest chapters in human history to revitalize and realize the responsibility of never again never again simply translated from me means never forget never forget never forgetting means we must keep telling the story must keep teaching the truth must.
Keep teaching our children and our grandchildren and the truth is we're at risk of people not knowing the truth that's why growing up my dad taught me and my siblings about the horrors of the showa at our family dinner table that's why I visited Yad vashem with my family as a senator as Vice president as president and that's.
Why I took my grandchildren to DACA so they could see and bear witness to The Perils of Indifference the complicity of Silence in the face of evil that they knew was happening Germany 1933 Hitler and his Nazi party rise to power by rekindling one of the world's oldest forms of prejudice and hate.
Anti-Semitism his rule didn't begin with mass murder it started slowly across economic political social and cultural life propaganda demonizing Jews boycotts of Jewish businesses synagogues to face with swastikas harassment of Jews in the street and the.
Schools anti-semitic demonstrations pgms organized riots with the indifference of the world Hitler knew he could expand his reign of terror by eliminating Jews from Germany to annihilate Jews across Europe through genocide the Nazis called the final solution concentration camps gas Chambers mass.
Shootings by the time the war ended 6 million Jews one out of every three Jews in the entire world were murdered this ancient hatred of Jews didn't begin with the Holocaust it didn't end with the Holocaust either or after even after our victory in World War II this hatred continues to lie deep in.
The hearts of too many people in the world and requires our continued vigilance and outspokenness that hatred was brought to life on October 7th in 2023 on the sacred Jewish holiday the terrorist group Hamas unleashed the deadliest day of the Jewish people since the.
Holocaust driven by ancient desire to wipe out the Jewish people off the face of the Earth over 1,200 innocent people babies parents grandparents slaughtered in their Cabots massacred at a music festival brutally raped mutilated and sexually assaulted thousands.
More carrying wounds bullets and shrapnel from the memory of that terrible day they endured hundreds taken hostage including survivors of the showa now here we are not 75 years later but just 7 and a half months later and people are already.
Forgetting are already forgetting that Hamas Unleashed this Terror that was Hamas that brutalized Israelis it was Hamas who took and continues the whole hostages I have not forgotten nor have you and we will not forget and as Jews around the world still cope with the atrocities and Trauma of that.
Day and its aftermath we've seen a ferocious surge of anti-Semitism in America and around the world vicious propaganda on social media Jews forced to keep their hid or keep us on baseball hats tuck their Jewish Stars into their.
Shirts on college campuses Jewish students blocked harassed attacked while walking to class anti-Semitism anti-semitic posters slogans calling for the annihilation of Israel the world's only Jewish State too many people denying downplaying rationalizing.
Ignoring the horrors of the Holocaust and October 7th including hamas's appalling use of sexual violence to torture and terrorize Jews it's absolutely despicable and it must stop silence silence and denial can hide much but it can erase nothing some adjus are.
So heinous so horrific so Grievous they cannot be married buried no matter how hard people try in my view a major lesson to Holocaust is as mentioned earlier is not was not inevitable we know hate never goes away it only hides and given a little oxygen comes out from under the.
Rocks we also know what stops hate one thing all of us the late Rabbi Jonathan sax described anti-Semitism as a virus that survived and mutated over time together we cannot continue to let that happen we have to remember our basic principles as a nation we have an obligation we have an.
Obligation to learn the lessons of History so we don't surrender our future to the horrors of the past we must give hate no Safe Harbor against against anyone anyone from the very founding our very founding Jewish Americans represent of only about 2% of the US population have helped lead the cause of freedom for.
Everyone in our nation from that experience we know scapegoating and demonizing any minority is a threat to every minority and the Very Foundation of our democracy so moments like this we have to put these principles that we talking about into action I understand people have strong.
Beliefs and deep convictions about the world in America we respect and protect the fundamental right to free speech to debate and disagree to protest peacefully and make our voices heard I understand that's America but there is no place on any campus in America any place inica America for.
Anti-Semitism or hate speech or threats of violence of any kind whether against Jews or anyone else violence attacks destroying property is not peaceful protest it's against the law and we are not a lawless country we're a civil society we hold the rule of law and no one should have to hide or be brave just to be.
Themselves to the Jewish Community want you to know I see your fear your hurt your pain let me reassure you as your president you're not alone you belong you always have and you always will and my commitment to the safety of the Jewish people the security of Israel and its right to exist as an independent.
Jey state is Ironclad even when we disagree my Administration is working around the clock to free remaining hostages just as we have freed hostages already and will not rest until we bring them all home my Administration with our second gentleman's leadership has launched our nation's first national SEC strategy to.
Counter anti-Semitism that's mobilizing the full force of the federal government to protect Jewish Community but but we know this is not the work of government alone or Jews alone that's why I'm calling on all Americans to Stand United against anti-Semitism and hate in all its forms my dear friend and he became a.
Friend the late Ellie wiisel said quote one person of Integrity can make a difference we have to remember that now more than ever here in emancipation Hall the US capital among the Towering statute the history history is a bronze bust of Ro Wallenberg born in Sweden as a Lutheran he was a businessman and a diplomat.
While stationed in Hungary during World War II he used diplomatic cover to hide and rescue about 100,000 Jews over a six-month period among them was a 16-year-old Jewish boy who escaped a Nazi labor camp after the war ended that boy received a scholarship from the hell Foundation to study in.
America he came to New York City penous but determined to turn his pain into purpose along with his wife also a holocaust Survivor he became a renowned Economist and foreign policy thinker eventually making his way to this very capital on the staff of a first-term senator that Jewish Refugee was Tom.
Lantos and that Senator was me Tom and his wife andette and their family became dear friends to me and my family Tom would go on to become the only Holocaust Survivor ever elected to congress where became a leading voice on civil rights and human rights around the world Tom never met Raul who was taken.
Prisoner by the Soviets never to be heard from again but through Tom's efforts rolls bust is here in the capital he was also given honorary US citizenship only the second person ever after Winston Churchill the Holocaust muum here in Washington is located in a ro a road in.
R's name the story of the power of a single person to put aside our differences to see our common Humanity to stand up to hate and its ancient story of resilience from immense pain persecution to find Hope purpose and meaning in life we try to live and share with one another that story.
Endures let me close with this I know these days of remembrance fall on difficult times we all do well to remember these days also fall during the month we celebrate Jewish American Heritage a Heritage that stretches from our earliest days to enrich every single part of American Life.
Today Great American great Jewish America named Tom Lantos used the phrase the veneer of civilization is paper thin we are its Guardians and we can never rest my fellow Americans we must we must be the those Guardians we must never rest.
Must Rise Against hate meet across the Divide see our common humanity and God bless the victims and survivors of showa May the resilient Hearts the courageous Spirit and the Eternal Flame of faith of the Jewish people forever shine their light on America and around the world pray God thank you all you've been listening to President.
Biden in at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum's annual day of remembrance talking about the need to heed the lessons in one of the darkest chapters of human history to revitalize the responsibility we have to ensure it never happens again now this ceremony comes in mid weeks of protests on college campuses across the country.
Against Israel's war in Gaza ABC's J O'Brien joins me from Capitol Hill as well as ABC News senior White House correspondent Selena Wang Selena we heard the president here talking about hamas's attack on Israel on October 7th saying that you know 7 and a half months later people are already forgetting that it was Hamas that brutalized Israelis.
And who took and continued to hold hostages what stands out to you to you about his comments today given the timing here yeah Diane I think you really hit the nail on the head this was really about weaving the past together What's Happening Here in the present and reminding the world to not forget the horrors and evil that happened during.
The Holocaust and also talking about the horrors and evil that happened in October 7th it was a very strong forceful condemnation of the rise in anti-Semitism in the US and around the world but to say that this comes out a tricky political time for the president would be an understatement as you say you've got these Pro Palestinian.
Protests erupting across campuses in America and Democrats are fearful that the more Progressive of the wing of their party as well as young voters could be turned away from President Biden because of his handling of the war in Gaza then on the other side you have Republicans that are see in this political moment using it as a chance to.
Slam President Biden saying he's not done enough to combat anti-Semitism and blaming him for what they are calling Chaos on college campuses so the president there he's been trying to strike this balance ever since the beginning of this war which is support for Israel condemnation of anti-Semitism but also bringing out and condemning the.
Devastation and death and destruction that's happened in Gaza and J the president's again riding a line here he's using the the speech to remind people of of how we got here and what happened on October 7th and how that is what started this this war but we also know behind the scenes he's been trying to encourage Benjamin Netanyahu not to.
Invade Rafa and to try to broker a peace deal and we heard today house Speaker Mike Johnson and House minority leader Hakeem Jeff speaking before the president uh had this address what did you make of what they noted in their speech today cuz there was some news there too well their remarks Diane were very similar to the presidents in terms.
Of condemning anti-Semitism but what you watched for in those remarks from the Democratic and Republican leaders here in Congress isn't necessarily what they said at that Podium but what they said prior to going up there particularly what Mike Johnson said Mike Johnson was asked by reporters prior to this event what do you want to hear out of the.
President and that's because House Republicans have been incredibly critical of President Biden saying that he's not doing enough to counter anti-Semitism on college campuses what Mike Johnson said is he wants the president to say what is right is right and what is wrong is wrong he wants a more forceful condemnation of what he.
Says his rampant anti-Semitism on college campuses more than what he's heard out of the president what so far and what he got out of the president just moments ago was President Biden saying I'll quote him directly no there is no place in America for anti semitism or hate speech or violence of any kind whether against Jews or anyone else it's.
Unclear if that's going to be enough to Plate House Republicans who have mounted a series of Investigations and other kind of congressional mechanisms into this administration's handling of anti-Semitism on college campuses into those universities and colleges handling of this as well but certainly House Republicans are pushing this white house.
To do what they say can be more Diane Jay the he also accused the house Speaker also accused the president of reportedly halting ammunition shipments to Israel what do we know about that well it's interesting because these are reactions remember as you just noted to reports and those reports that this could possibly be happening that came.
Out in media Outlets they were enough earlier today to inflame Republicans we had a letter from Republican Senators that was sent to the White House and then at a Podium at a press conference before this event house Speaker Mike Johnson the number one Republican in the house obviously and the number two Republican in that chamber Steve scalise.
Were angry they said about the possibility that this could be happening what Mike Johnson said is he accused the president if this is true and again I'll quote him directly of if it's true trying to quote plate the pramas elements of his party and he said that doing this again if it's true would be contrary to the will of Congress because.
Congress pass remember that massive uh $95 billion foreign aid package that included in it military assist assistance for Israel as well as assistance for Ukraine and the list goes on so certainly that is expected to be a point of contention now going forward between Republicans here in Congress and the White House as they try to track.
Down the various facts that have gone into these reports all right ABC's J O'Brien ABC News senior White House correspondent Selena Wang thank you and after the break we will bring you up to speed on the hush money trial against former president Trump as porn star Stormy Daniels is on the stand as we speak with.
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Affair at the heart of the hush money payment in this case Daniels has been detailing her meeting with former president Trump in 2006 in late Tahoe where she says they had a sexual encounter the former president denies that along with the charges in this case prosecutors argue that Trump orchestrated a last minute.
$130,000 payment to Daniels ahead of the 2016 election in exchange for her Silence about that alleged Affair that again Trump denies ABC's executive editorial producer John San joins me now along with senior counsel at Coen oconor Law Firm Jerry goldfeder uh John what's the latest from the courtroom so Daniels is still on the stand um we've moved out.
Of the sexual encounter that happened in 2006 which just to remind our viewers that is the first time that Donald Trump and Stormy Daniels met it was at that Lake Tahoe golf retreat they met earlier in the day and eventually later that day is when they had sex and we know from all of the conversations that you and I had earlier Brian buckmire a lot of.
Detail came out throughout that testimony about being in that hotel room talking for two hours until eventually the encounter happened now where the testimony has moved is that post 2006 moving into 2007 conversations and dialogue Stormy Daniels continue to have with Donald Trump um they said apparently spoke multiple times she.
Would call him he would call her uh referring to the porn star as honey bunch a nickname that he used for her and also now Daniels say detailed um a January 2007 encounter Diane where she was at an event celebrating the launch of trump vodka we know the former president though he doesn't drink um launched a lot of products while he was.
Of course hosting The Apprentice on NBC vodka Trump Stakes Trump water Trump wine Etc and it's interesting she says that this January 2007 event in Hollywood where the Trump vodka line was launched she met another woman named Karen and it turned out to be Karen McDougall who also as We Know of course her story was caught and killed via.
David pcker but nevertheless with the same goal that they had for Stormy Daniels to buy both women's silence Jerry Daniel says that she told scores of people about Trump inviting her to his suite but very few people about actually having sex with Trump uh what do you expect the defense to do with that part of her testimony I'm not sure.
What the defense can do here because really the central uh fact is that he paid her off to keep quiet they're going to try to make her into a liar but the level of detail to which she is testified demonstrates uh that uh this actually happened the way she's describing it at least that's the way it sounds from.
Where I'm sitting it'll be of course interesting to to uh to see what how the jury responds but the the the way she described the room the way she described the conversations the the fact of what he was wearing what he said what she said it seems very credible and it appears that she told people at that time uh all.
These details so it's going to be very difficult for the defense to uh uh puncture that balloon I believe John how is the jury reaction what are you hearing from our people in court about what the jury is doing during all this testimony not looking away from Stormy Daniels I mean this is a jury that I've observed myself some of them come in.
With legal pads many with taking notes throughout the proceedings up until today it seems like for much of the day according to our team it's watching it all they are focused on Stormy Daniels they are not looking anywhere else and Daniels you know actually returning that Focus to the jury according to our team that she is very intently engaging.
Looking at the jury one thing it seems the jurors for the most part are not doing and certainly Stormy Daniels is not doing is looking at Donald Trump I think that also the reporting from our team about Donald Trump's body language throughout today has been remarkable I think it's two things that stand out to me one how far Donald Trump has turned.
His body his head his eyes away from the stand not looking at Stormy Daniels at all but one thing Donald Trump has done repeatedly he has been you know nudging his attorney Susan necklace who's running this part of you know the cross- examination when it's their turn nudging her repeatedly to object especially earlier in the last hour or so when.
Daniels was really getting into very very very graphic details about their sexual encounter Diane and we're also hearing some of these te witness testimonies now cross paths where you have uh Stormy Daniels showing the jury her contacts one of which is D Trump Rona Rona graph we already heard testimony from her talking about how she.
Knew that if she needed to get a hold of Donald Trump that she could get a hold of Rona and that was kind of the easiest way to do that and we heard Rona testify about seeing Stormy Daniels at Trump Tower one day and now stormy is talking about that meeting saying that it was very rushed that he seemed very busy and the prosecutor asked her did it seem.
Like he was embarrassed like that he was worried about someone would see you there and she said oh no he introduced me to everyone he just seemed really busy what you make of that so I I can tell you the first time I met Donald Trump when I covered him in 2015 I was brought up to that floor that's his way right it's a small floor.
There's not a lot of offices up there he introduces everybody I've spoken to many people that have gotten that encounter with Donald Trump it goes something like this come around meet everybody say hi to everybody oh go look out the windows That's The Plaza Hotel I used to own it there's Walman rank I still run it I saved it did I tell you that story okay.
Bye it's super quick Donald Trump is always giving off that Persona of I'm so super busy I have tons going on so that doesn't surprise me too much what is interesting though that our petar Albus has just reported that Daniel's just testified that since that inperson encounter in Trump Tower that you just asked me about Daniel says she got a few.
More phone calls from Trump who told her that she could not go on The Apprentice of course the show Donald Trump was the host of for over a decade on NBC and it was during one of their last calls that Daniel said that Trump apologized after another porn star appeared on The Apprentice Daniel's telling the court that she did not care now she's she's.
Also detailing the last time that she saw former president Trump or that she says she saw him and she's saying this happened during a meeting in Hollywood California she says he kept trying to make sexual advances that he was scooting closer to her paying her compliments she says she told him she was on her period to try to stop those.
Sexual advances and that as as she left Trump told her I want to get together again I miss you you know the usual Jerry what do you make of the of the timeline here and what the prosecution is doing and trying to paint this full story from you know Stormy Daniels as a teenager how she met you know how she made her career how she met uh the.
Former president the alleged Affair that she says happened between them and how eventually they ended up at the last time they ever saw each other well I think what the prosecution is trying to show is that she's a real person she's a real person who had this experience or set of experiences with Trump and that she's believable I think that's the.
Heart of what they're attempting to show and it's it's a shame actually that we don't have TV in the courtroom because uh the rest of the world uh would like to see her and hear her and uh have their own opinion of her not just uh uh the jury or not just hearing from us or reading reading about it and actually that's one of the reasons why we don't.
Allow uh TV in the courtroom so people don't play to the cameras but it appears that she seems that she's uh being quite real on the stand from what John is saying from what others are reporting so the the the the fact that we don't have cameras means the rest of us has have to hear it from uh third hand uh but it appears that the people.
Who are in the courtroom feel that she is quite believable and that's really the heart and soul of what the prosecution is trying to to show to the jury Jerry she also just testified that Trump never told her to keep their encounter confidential again going back to the Trump Tower question about whether he.
Was maybe embarrassed someone would see her she said he introduced her to everybody what is it do she's saying that at no time did he seem concerned about getting caught by his wife for example so what does that do to the defenses argument that he paid her this hush money payment in order to protect his wife and his family and keep them.
From finding out well it explodes their uh defense it shows that it really is is not really what what happened and what really happened uh uh through the testimony of everyone else and we'll hear a testimony from Michael con as well is that he was in the middle of the campaign Access Hollywood tape uh became public at that point he really cared.
About what she might say and what she might not say prior to that prior to her being a prior to his being a candidate he didn't care he lived his life he he thought he was above it all um and he wasn't afraid of anyone his his wife his ex-wife and so on that's just the way he lived his life but once he was involved in the campaign then it be became.
Important to essentially shut her up now John that encounter uh that meeting between them happened in 2006 and the alleged Affair happened in 2006 y now the prosecution starting to fast forward what happened after that and of course we have to get to 2016 before we get to the actual hush money payment what are you listening for.
As they now lay out that part of the story what happened after well I think with the part that we're waiting for here is where Stormy Daniels decides to start you know spilling her story right because we know from Keith Davidson's testimony that he had started to reach out and put fers out there to sell her story leading up to the 2016 election so.
We've got 10 years to go quite honestly so I think they're trying to you know build a picture of what her life was like you know how was she successful you know did she need this Etc um but we're going to very quickly fast forward then then and I think that you know as Aaron spoke about earlier Daniels doesn't know too much of the nitty-gritty details of.
You know the Michael Cohen of things if you will she's come to learn it since but in real time she knew she just wanted to sell her story make money and eventually that's what happened all right John santui Jerry goldfeder thank you both we are going to take a very quick break we will keep following this trial all day long as we hear more.
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Know I love that hi I'm diano today on ABC News live first it is a dramatic day in former president Trump's criminal hush money case as Stormy Daniels is on the stand testifying as a key witness Daniels has been detailing her first meeting meeting with former president Trump the sexual.
Encounter she says they had including revealing testimony about the days and years after that alleged sexual encounter as well prosecutors argu Trump orchestrated a $130,000 payment to the adult film actress ahead of the 2016 election in exchange for her Silence about that alleged Affair and then falsified.
Documents to cover up those payments former president Trump denies the affair and the charges I want to bring in ABC's senior investigative correspondent Erin C outside that Courthouse along with ABC's executive editorial producer John santui and Senior council at Keno Conor Law Firm Jerry Law Firm Jerry gold Fetter Erin what's the latest from court.
And what do you make of Stormy Daniel's testimony so far it has captured the attention of everyone in that courtroom even if Donald Trump himself and his son Eric who's sitting in the gallery behind him are doing their best to look disinterested and look away from Stormy Daniels the jury is certainly captivated.
By her description of what she says was a sexual encounter between her and Donald Trump back in 2006 in a large hotel suite at Harris in Lake Tahoe California stormy Daniel said that she had been there as part of an adult film production company sponsoring a hole at a golf tournament and she described in in Vivid detail almost too much detail.
For the judge at times who asked prosecutors to move it along how she was in the sweet she remembered being in the bathroom and seeing a leather toiletry case she remembered Old Spice and per plus and then when she walked out of the bathroom she said she remembered seeing Donald Trump there on the bed were you threatened prosecutor Susan hoffinger.
Asked her she said well there was a power imbalance and he was sort of blocking the way but she said she didn't feel threatened eventually the two had sex she said but as she began to describe that encounter the sexual encounter that's when the defense objected and the judge sustained the.
Objection jery stormy Danos has gone into a lot of detail here as Aaron explained not only about what happened uh that day uh on the golf course that night at the hotel room and also what happened thereafter how is the defense going to cross-examine her on this and try to challenge her well they're going to try to make her into a liar but I.
Don't know how they're going to succeed the level of detail is uh it's Exquisite detail um and it sounds very believable I'm not in the courtroom but from all the reports it seems as if she uh described their encounter with such vivid detail that it it has to be uh believable the room the conversations what he was wearing what he wasn't.
Wearing uh it seems to me that the defense has a very difficult job but look the heart of the matter is is that at a certain point when he was running for president he decided that he could not have her tell uh tell her story it was right after the Access Hollywood tape when they were crazed about making sure that American voters would not hear.
About this torgy affair and the if the defense wants to take the tack of trying to disprove what she's saying good luck to them and John we're also hearing some interesting testimony again Daniel is on the stand as we speak she said after this whole encounter that her life was amazing in her words she got a raise she.
Directed more films she broke into mstream films she had a kid but she's saying it was actually in 2011 that she F first had another interaction related to Trump where someone told her to stop talking about yeah so we've heard this story before but not obviously on a stand in a courtroom so what Stormy Daniels is now speaking about Diane is.
That in 2011 she gave an interview to InTouch Magazine where she talked about her encounter her relationship with Donald Trump her interaction didn't go much further than that kept it very 30,000 feet however she's talking about an incident now in June of 2011 in Las Vegas she was in a parking lot apparently coming out of a mommy and me.
Class with her child and she says a man approached her and threatened her to not continue telling her story about her encounter with Donald Trump the man allegedly said according to Daniel's quote he told me not to say anything at all and I was scared now according to our team stormmy Daniels apparently getting emotional on the stand while.
We're counting this notice she's been wearing glasses according to our team raising them up not to get them foggy as she's becoming you know pretty emotionally upset and now it's also interesting that jurors heard about a blog post during the Tes me of Keith Davidson who sent a ceas and assist letter to the blog getting the post.
Removed about that exchange about that sexual encounter with Trump so again that's 2011 so let's just you know bring the timeline up to everybody here 2006 the sexual encounter 2007 last time Donald Trump and Stormy Daniels see each other 2011 the magazine interview this encounter with a man approaching her in.
A parking lot basically saying stop talking about Donald Trump we are building closer and closer to the crescendo if you will of 2016 Keith Davidson Michael Cohen catching and killing her story and Jerry up until now the the judge has warned wared the prosecution particularly when talking about the sexual encounter that we don't.
Need all the details here right to to sort of slow down in that respect how important are the details to this part of the story what happened after and now as she starts to try to tell her story and when she says she was first told to keep her mouth shut well these details uh uh uh present A texture uh for the for the jury to have a feel of uh her.
Truthtellah uh uh recollection of all all of her encounters with Donald Trump so that's the reason why she's being asked about all these details but the the judge really doesn't want to go over a line that uh where the details become so prejudicial that it's unfair to the defendant and it's not a bright line so.
The judge has to uh make a determination when when there's an objection that there's a little too much detail uh in in her stories but there's certainly enough uh in her testimony to demonstrate that uh she's not making this up on the stand and it appears that she never made this up at all that uh the her recollection of all these.
Details that the prosecution has elicited from her uh uh is truthful and that being the case that's really what the takeaway is uh by the jury um if the jury does decide that they do believe her then it becomes important um in terms of the cash and kill the catch and kill uh scheme but even if they don't believe all the details the catch and.
Kill scheme uh that Trump and David pecker and the others conspired to um uh uh have so that her her story won't become public whether they whether the jury believes that or not um they did do that and they did pay her and essentially that's really the the most important fact that uh uh that the jury needs to take away in terms of what the.
Prosecution is trying to prove and Brian excuse me and Ain she's uh talking a little more now about trying to get her story out walk us through the latest from this testimony and how Stormy Daniels is des describing all of this this is all the the aftermath of of the the sexual encounter that she spoke.
About with Donald Trump and how she is trying to uh own her own narrative here against what she described as this pressure to to stay quiet even before the the 2016 election sort of a Prelude I wonder if some of the details uh how some of those details especially of the the the alleged sexual encounter are playing with the jury the way stormmy.
Daniels spoke and the way Susan hoffinger the prosecutor elicited some of the details about what went on in that hotel room in 2006 it almost made it sound like you were listening to a a victim of a of a sex crime testify in court and that's nowhere near the allegation here but but that's what it sounded like to me when I was listening.
Uh and and I wonder how that ultimately does play with the jury I expect the defense on cross-examination when it comes to home in on that uh to to reiterate that that this was a a willing encounter and that Stormy Daniels knows nothing about the hush payment other than she received it she doesn't know anything about how it was booked in the.
General ledger of the Trump organization as a legal expense and why or why not that may be pertinent and John now she's she's talking a little bit more about how we went from that encounter in the parking lot after the InTouch Magazine interview to when she started shopping her story around yeah so what daniels's just testified on the stand Dian is that.
She authorized her agent at the time to shop around her story this was in 2016 Daniels just testified quote my motivation wasn't money it was to get the story out she goes on to say it was motivated out of fear not money um Susan hoffinger of course the lead prosecutor in the case asking her why didn't you ask for more money um as opposed to 100.
$30,000 which Cohen offered and she responded because I didn't care about the money now as Aaron just noted I think the reality of it is that Stormy Daniels knowledge and information in real time is starting to come you know to a close if you will right because the end of the day she just wanted to get the story out there that didn't happen.
She took the money and was silenced for a period of time eventually obviously the story did come out there and we know Daniels very famously gave a very big interview to 60 minutes where she did detail all well after the 2016 election to be clear well now she's detailing it on the stand Jerry what do prosecutors ultimately need to prove with this.
Witness what are the key points that they are going to try to hit on and make sure to hit on with Stormy Daniels that she was paid $130,000 to keep quiet period end of story the the the reason why she wanted to uh get the story out is kind of irrelevant uh all the uh the the relationship she described with uh Trump.
Uh that uh um included this uh trist um is kind of irrelevant the the fact that uh he took her up to uh uh Trump Tower and uh uh introduced her to everyone uh because he was comfortable with her that's also irrelevant the only thing that really matters is that this real live person who seems to have a pretty good recollection of all the details of.
That encounter that this real life person wanted to tell the story for whatever reason and they paid her to shut up and that was the triggering point for the payment for the coverup and then the prosecution needs to move on to demonstrate that the reason that Trump did this his intent was to to commit or conceal another crime which is.
To influence the election by unlawful means and that's really the heart of uh of the testimony all this other uh detail that we have uh that the prosecution has elicited from her is just to demonstrate that she's a real live person who's telling the truth that being said she was paid to be quiet and what are the reason she was what are the.
What was the main reason she was paid to be quiet it had to do with the election that's the goal of the prosecution that's what the jury needs to believe uh in order to convict Donald Trump and Daron how is Donald Trump reacting to all of this he has to sit in that courtroom and listen to all of this and sit there face to face with Stormy.
Daniels what's his demeanor like as she goes through this whole story it looks like Aaron can't hear me John what are you hearing from Court just in terms of the Dynamics the jury former president Trump and his son in the courtroom today as well everyone is is just sitting there I I mean I'd hate to use the word but almost like stupified.
By it all I think just taking it all in I think the jury has consistently done one thing today which is not take their eyes off Stormy Daniels as Donald Trump has done the exact opposite not look at stormmy Daniels at all we know that in the front row um of this courtroom right behind Donald Trump Eric Trump is sitting there and like father like son.
Both have not looked at Stormy Daniels according to our team both have repeatedly looked down Donald Trump's body turned every which way possible to not look at her I do think that's why we saw the sketch of the courtroom earlier um you know that's one thing that you know you have to be a little careful of with some of these sketches you know.
Everything in that photo clearly accurate right stormy on the stand Susan hoffinger question them we see the sketch right there of Donald Trump and Stormy Daniels in that now Infamous photo of the two together in 2006 right before the sexual encounter happened at that Golf Club in Lake Tahoe but here's the only thing wrong with that picture.
Donald Trump's eyes at Stormy Daniels in that picture not what's happening in reality he is doing everything he can Diane to not look at Stormy Daniels right now and I think we have Aaron back Ain what do you make of how the testimony is being received there's a lot of detail here stormmy at times apparently is addressing the jury.
Directly the defense is expected to go after her credibility does it seem so far like she's being received as a credible witness so far the jury seems to be paying wrapped attention to what Stormy Daniels is saying yesterday it was all about documents 34 allegedly falsified uh ledgers and checks and and and.
Invoices it was rather tedious testimony this is about sex and money and how the two interacted before the6 16 campaign and the jury seems utterly fascinated I think everyone in the courtroom is is fascinated because even though we have heard many of the details from Stormy Daniels herself in various forums she's doing it now in a criminal trial with.
Donald Trump 10 20 ft away from her so just the Dynamics of how the room is are fairly interesting and and what she is saying and how she is unwavering there are very few of any gaps in her memory she speaks quickly there's no hesitation this is a story that she says has been consistent because as she likes to say it's.
True and John you say Eric Trump just tweeted yeah this is interesting so I mean Eric Trump is obviously sitting in the courtroom he just tweeted I assume from this courtroom stamp 12:45 p.m. pure in all caps extortion with a bunch of exclamation points I mean we have to remember Donald Trump's children are not part of the gag order right they could.
Talk about the case all they want you know he they're not you know sitting at the defense table here like other cases that have involved the former president but it's interesting that you know person that's physically in the courtroom with Donald Trump you know this is now the second time he's tweeted from the courtroom it's interesting and.
I wonder if this actually gets any attention from prosecutors and Jon talk big impact here because what we're hearing in court today salacious details about a sexual encounter uh details about what happened after a conversation where stormy Daniel says Donald Trump said oh yeah don't worry about my wife wife volano we sleep in separate rooms.
Yeah what does testimony like that do I mean we know he's a defendant but to the man Donald Trump and the candidate Donald Trump hurts Donald Trump at his core I mean at the end of the day we know that Donald Trump you know is a private person you know he obviously has had a lot of accusations many of which he has claimed repeatedly never happened.
Didn't exist you know think of e Carrol and the fact that two trials happened in that case one of which resulted in Trump having to pay EEG Carol nearly $100 million Diane for defamation um I I I think that what is just remarkable about all of this is how much detail how much of the dialogue how much of the visuals stormy Daniel painted despite the fact.
That judge Maran had told prosecutors before they began and during the testimony to cool it to not get that colorful in detail but Stormy Daniels you know she's the one answering the question so she can determine how far she goes or doesn't go she leaned head first into this conversation with prosecutors revealing far more detail.
And I think you know one of the things we know is that Donald Trump's legal team and others had prepared him that this was going to be a very very difficult day thus warning him early this morning that you know once they got the phone called she'd be the witness like hey this is this is what's coming we knew this would be hard for Donald.
Trump I don't think anybody could have predicted this and I will tell you Diane while I've been sitting on the set with you here my phone has literally been imploding with people close to Donald Trump stunned by this detail knowing this is a very very difficult day for the former president and we're looking live outside the courtroom now because.
The jury has just been excused for the lunch break uh Daniel's testimony scheduled to resume at 2: p.m and we could see the former president walking out of the courtroom now but before that testimon ended aarin we heard about the contract that stormy Daniel signed to the story and this goes to the documents at the heart of the case and there's the.
Former president walking out just put his fist in the air similar to what we saw after the Break um Erin how crucial is this part of things maybe a drier portion of the testimony but getting to the heart of the allegations in this case talking about the contract and Stormy Daniels saying that her understanding with that was that things.
Were going from Trump to Cohen Cohen to Davidson her her attorney and then of course to stormmy Daniels herself and the jury has seen that paper trail they've seen the essential Consulting shell company that Michael Cohen opened up at the First Republic Bank branch across the street from Trump Tower they saw how he funded that account with a.
Home equity line of credit they saw the wire transfer for $130,000 to Keith Davidson Stormy Daniels lawyer at the time and then just yesterday they saw how the Trump organization reimbursed Co in 12 monthly installments of $35,000 even the back of the napkin math uh handwritten notes from the the financial Executives at the.
Trump organization Jeff mcconnie and Alan weiselberg to work out how Michael Cohen was going to be repaid so these are the documents that the the jury has seen that were allegedly falsified in part and now Stormy Daniels is going to to be filling out that picture and that's where her testimony is likely to end and where cross-exam ation will pick.
Up the judge said that Daniels could come on for the limited purpose of explaining the whole situation showing the predicate for the hush payment and that's it so Jerry where do you expect the defense to go when they get a chance to cross-examine Daniels well I think they're going to drill down on some of the details that.
She testified about and and and I think what John has said is really important in terms of uh Trump's reaction the the danger for the prosecution is that the jury starts thinking about Trump as a victim here maybe there was extortion maybe she treated him badly maybe he she treated him like a child in some of the uh details that she testified to if they.
Have a feeling that somehow he was a victim here or if they start feeling sympathy for him in and of itself as a legal matter it shouldn't it shouldn't matter because the facts are what the facts are in terms of the payment and the reason for the payment and so on but a jury of they are human beings and if they have some.
Sympathy for him if she goes overboard if the prosecution drills down too much then the jury might kind of feel that they don't really want to find him guilty for these crimes irrespective of the facts so I think we need to watch to see what the uh what the prosecution continues to do with her and what the cross-examination elicits from her in.
Terms of how the jury might feel about Trump uh in in this play and John what are you watching for in terms of reaction to everything we just heard in court today I I I mean I think look at the body language as everybody emerged from Court as you were talking to Aaron and I was staring at Donald Trump his lawyers his child Eric.
Trump there none of them looked at that camera when they came out of court even Donald Trump just doing the fist in the air as we see it right there um just watch nobody turns around nobody pivots everybody looks straight ahead they can't even bring themselves and I think you're about to see Eric Trump in 10 seconds right there on this footage look.
How much he's turned I mean this is a horrible day for them I mean this is a really tough day to have to sit there and take it all in the fact that Eric Trump is tweeting from the courtroom saying extortion I mean that really gets to the heart of what they all feel right now and I do think again coming back into this that we knew there were going.
To be very difficult days as part of this trial it's been several weeks and we got more weeks to go according to prosecutors we know Michael Cohen is yet to come but forget that we still have Stormy Daniels to return to the stand later this afternoon more direct examination they we're really going to get into more of what happened post 2016.
And then after so Erin let's talk about that part what comes next the cross-examination will begin sometime after lunch we think that that uh the the prosecutors are are nearing the end of their direct examination whether it begins today tomorrow but I I would expect uh that the defense will home in on Stormy Daniels credibility.
Undoubtedly point out that she denied the whole story that she just laid out for the jury on multiple occasions when she was asked about it in 2016 before she finally ended up saying that it was true and then uh they're going to to ask her I would imagine whether she knows anything about the books and records of the Trump organization which.
Really are are at the heart of the matter and she's going to to say know because she doesn't know and can't speak to those details uh and and perhaps try to leave the jury with the idea that yes you just heard about all this todrey Behavior Uh but what you didn't hear was any evidence of a crime all right Aaron kki John santui Jerry.
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Take you to T this hour and good afternoon everyone I'm Kira Phillips our top story this hour from the paper trail to the porn star things are getting a lot hotter in a Manhattan courthouse today the woman at the center of Donald Trump's historic criminal case Stormy Daniels taking the stand and laying out every cringy detail.
Of an alleged sexual relationship that she had with the former president Trump banned from lashing out at her like he has in the past but that didn't stop him from trying to go after her once again in an early morning social media post that's now been deleted Daniel's appearing on an episode of The Views saying she was ready for this.
Moment I don't need someone to speak for me and I would I relish the day that I get to face him and and speak my truth we've got team coverage leading us off ABC News senior investigative correspondent Aaron kerki he's outside the courthouse we also have executive editorial producer John S Tui and legal contributor and trial attorney Brian.
Buckmire so Aaron talk about some salacious testimony fill us in on what stormmy Daniels has been telling the jury at least what you're comfortable repeating a Spellbound Jury has listened to Stormy Daniels to tail meeting Donald Trump back in 2006 and then entering his giant hotel suite that she said was three times the size of her apartment in.
Lake Tahoe California she remembered walking into the room and Donald Trump wearing pajamas and she teased him why are you wearing what Hugh Hefner wears and then making him change into a shirt and pants she remembered going into the bathroom and seeing in a leather or leather like toiletry bag a bottle of per plus and Old Spice all of these.
Details kept the jury's attention but for the judge they were a bit much he asked prosecutors to move it along but Stormy Daniels was right there to show what happened when she exited the bathroom there was Donald Trump on the bed did you feel threatened prosecutor Susan hoffinger asked and she said there was a power imbalance and he was sort of.
Blocking the way but she said she didn't feel threatened she described or started to describe how the two had sex the judge had enough the defense objected he substained the objection when she tried to describe the sexual encounter but the the jury had already heard it and this is the predicate Kira that prosecutors said uh laid the ground work for the.
$130,000 hush payment that Donald Trump is accused of falsifying many years later all right I feel like I need to go take a shower now Brian the judge asked prosecutors to actually speed up Daniel's testimony saying that the degree of the detail is just unnecessary what do you think um did the juicy details serve a purpose in the.
Prosecution case so I answer kind of in a jaded way in the sense of the prosecution is supposed to not be getting the salacious information for anything else other than to establish that there was very bad information out there and that the Trump organization and Donald Trump himself wanted to ensure that this information.
Didn't get out before the election however there's also another aspect to it as well it it kind of Damages Donald Trump's credibility both in the courtroom and outside and again maybe it's the jaded former public defender of almost a decade in me who's practiced in New York City and in Brooklyn um yeah I think the prosecution wanted to.
Accomplish both and they did so but I will kind of tip my hat to judge Maran as to trying to limit that exposure as much as possible both in saying to speed up the process and sustaining the objections as to getting the more salacious information in so John the state did call Stormy Daniels uh by her stage name stormmy Daniels instead of.
Her birth named Stephanie Clifford what does that tell you I think that look at so much of what her testimony began with with Donald Trump asking Stormy Daniels early on into their first encounter for nearly two hours about the porn industry STDs I mean it it's really remarkable Kira I mean as you said you know this is just crazy testimony but even begin at.
That moment if you will I I mean the fact that a former president of United States is sitting there were hearing that level of detail and to think that he could be a future president of United States I mean I almost blacked out when I heard her say she spanked Donald Trump in a newspaper before the sexual encounter because he was asking so many.
Questions about her and her personal life and her career but then obviously just that excruciating detail I mean Donald Trump's body according to our team was twisted so far away from Stormy Daniels he could barely bring herself to look at her throughout any of it only at the beginning when she entered that courtroom but as our team saw in real.
Time Kira Donald Trump not looking his son Eric Trump seated just a few feet away from his father looking down for much of the time this was an incredibly tough day for Donald Trump and even more so than I think his team prepared him for so eron I mean tell us about the mood uh in the courtroom as as all I mean everybody in there including the.
President sat through this testimony and listened to I mean not only just the cringy salacious type of details but just even the specifics like what was in his toiletry bag the the contrast first of all was astonishing prosecutor Susan hoffinger led the questioning she's the the daughter of a preeminent White Collar.
Attorney brought up on the upper west side of Manhattan talking to a a porn actress who grew up with a single mother in Baton Rouge Louisiana and described them moving to Florida splitting custody of her kid uh it wasn't an easy life shoveling manure before she discovered exotic dancing could pay more on a weekend than a week's worth of doing.
That at a barn and and the detail uh was was specific at times though Kira and I wonder how the jury took this in it was almost as if you were listening to the victim of a sexual assault describe a a a grooming encounter with an abuser and and that is far a field from what former president Trump is charged with here and and I believe that on cross-examination.
The defense may try to to clarify that a little bit uh but after the the encounter the sexual encounter Stormy Daniels went on to describe seeing Donald Trump on additional uh occasions the last time was in the summer of 2007 at a hotel Bungalow in Hollywood California there was a launch party for the Trump vodka brand Donald Trump made.
Sexual advance as she said but Stormy Daniels wanted no part of it she said she told him she was on her period the jury's listening to all of this and she left about 2 hours later Donald Trump tried calling her a few times dangling an appearance on The Apprentice before he finally told her that she couldn't come on because people objected to.
Having a porn actress on TV I mean I still can't even believe we're talking about a former president of the United States here it's just it's um my stomach is turning Brian um Daniel's said at no point uh during any of their encounters did Trump seem worried about getting caught or even his wife finding out about this sexual.
Encounter or and attempts at others so how significant do you see this um you know in the prosecution's case so the prosecution throughout this case we've seen Kira has played both offense and defense and I think in this regard they're playing defense because they're already preempting this question of stormmy Daniels expecting the defense.
To try to find a different answer in their cross-examination of her again trying to paint the picture of he being Donald Trump the former president wanted to hide this information from his family from his wife his children his his loved ones rather than trying to make this about the election and the campaign and so I think the prosecution is playing a.
Little defense there all right let's answer this question inir examination before the defense has the opportunity to bring it up and trying to uh kind of dictate how that information comes in or how it presents to the jury aarin John briyan thank you very much coming up tornado outbreak the path of Destruction Left Behind across Six.
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Severe storms also Slam in the city of Bartlesville Oklahoma several people rescued from there after being trapped inside a hotel emergency crews now urging people to stay off the roads and at least 16 reported tornadoes touching down in Six States the threat isn't over yet either our meteorologist Samara Theodore joins us now with more so.
Samara uh you're there in Oklahoma uh describe just the neighborhood that you're in so right now Kier I'm in Bartonville and this is just about 20 minutes up the road from barnesdale now the hotel that you just referenced where people are running out of this is it here look at the the uh the wall you can see the.
Projectile launched into there these are 2×4 pieces of wood that's a stairwell on the other side and what I'm standing on right now is actually the roof from a building not too far over the Oklahoma heat is hitting it you can smell the tar in the air and this this is a tornado siren meant to warn folks but unfortunately it.
Took a hit during the storm I actually spoke with the family earlier who stayed at this hotel my car was actually right here and so we all jumped in my car and we just headed south we actually saw um you know obviously it was dark but in the lightning flashes we actually could see you know the clouds coming down or.
Whatever behind us so yeah it was pretty intense terrifying and uh that that same storm system is now marching Eastward so let's go ahead and take a look at this now what you're looking at is video and Cincinnati where they've got the lightning The Heavy Rain the strong winds they have a severe thunderstorm in play right now winds could hit 60 MPH.
With large Hil and as we see this storm continue to move Eastward we're anticipating those supercells to really start firing up around 700 p.m. uh throughout parts of the Ohio Valley by midnight moving through the Tennessee Valley this includes Bowling Green Louisville right on up into Columbus the largest threat for the highest threat.
Should I say for tornadoes is in this orange Zone today from Fort Wayne down to Louisville now tomorrow there is another threat for severe weather and that includes cities like Little Rock uh St Louis right on into Nashville they have a tornado threat but we could also see very large Hill and damaging winds Kira well Samara just tell us about the.
New threat of severe weather uh where everything is headed across the country yeah so pretty much this like I said this same storm system marching its way Eastward so right now we have the Ohio Valley the Tennessee Valley in the bullseye and then tomorrow that secondary threat hitting places like Little Rock in Nashville got it all.
Right thank so much appreciate it Samara so Israel confirms its troops have taken control of part of the Rafa border now crossing right into Southern Gaza as of this moment the IDF says it's killed about 20 people calling them terrorists in the area Israel calling.
This a counter offensive oper counterterrorism operation rather that may be a Prelude to a larger ground incursion into the area that's Sheltering more than a million displaced Palestinians Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says that a ground invasion of Rafa must happen in order to bring home hostages and get rid of Hamas.
Well the troop movement came right after Hamas had accepted a ceasefire proposal from Egypt and cutter a proposal that Israel now refuses saying that it isn't what they talked about previously our Marcus Moore is in Tel Aviv along with our national security analyst Mick mroy so Marcus the the white house now says that Israel's operation in southern Gaza.
Is is not uh what Biden had actually warned against so what exactly is going on with this operation in Rafa well one of the things uh Kira that we know and and from the very beginning of this operation was uh it seemed pretty clear that this was not going to be a massive uh all-encompassing ground operation focusing on the entire city of.
Rafa and and really the main signals for that were the fact that less than 24 hours before the operation started you'll recall Israel delivered or or dropped Flyers uh in the eastern part of the city urging a 100,000 people to to evacuate of the eastern part of the city and so that in of itself gives you a sense of uh what Israel was trying to.
Say that this is a a limited um operation in its scope and that it's a precise operation what everyone outside of Israel number of countries and Aid groups have been worried about uh is what a larger operation would look like not only in terms of the devastation that it would cause but of course the more than a million Palestinians who.
Have gone to Rafa uh where would they go so uh when we talk about the differences um in the operations that is that's what we are are looking at and that is what we have seen Kira and that operation continues as we speak so Mick Israel's defense minister vowing to continue the operation Rafa until the hostages are returned let's just talk about how this.
Could impact any potential sea ceasefire deal and does this fly in the face of what President Biden asked Israel not to do so K obviously we had some false hope uh yesterday when Hamas was saying they accepted an agreement but they didn't accept the agreement that Israel offered and I think that was the confusion right now we can clearly see that the United.
States would like to see a limited operation intelligence and reconnaissance driven that finds enemy in this case for battalions of Hamas militants and then focuses the mass effort on them Vice essentially a mass effort where they go Street by Street which could cause significant damage in civilian casualties right now we see.
This I think early Preparatory action by Israel does not necessarily indicate which direction they're going to go they probably are trying to seal off uh militants escaping into Egypt and of course other uh Munitions uh coming in and I think that's what we're seeing right now whether this will be a full attack or a limited attack is yet to be.
Seen so Mick one more three us officials now telling ABC news that the US is actually going to pause deliveries of ammunition to Israel uh what more do you know about that is that a good strategy uh so it has to do with how the Munitions is used obviously there is a significant threat of Iran they wouldn't want to stop the Munitions and weapon.
Systems that are used to defend Israel but the question is essentially the large diameter bombs the 2,000 pound J dams those are the specific weapons uh that we are hearing are being paused because they cause so much distruction when used in urban areas generally something we would not do I think that is where the the issue lies I don't.
Think they'll cut off all supplies of weapons and Munitions for use in Gaza but the specific ones that I think the US government finds problematic and that is the large diameter bombs and the ground penetrating Munitions which are effective on tunnels but can cause significant destruction to the buildings uh around where the point of impact is.
All right Marcus more in Israel for us and also mcore I appreciate it commencement cancellations calls for resignations and more cops on campus police continue to tighten security at colleges and universities across the country now as protesters try to take back those encampments president President Biden also speaking at a.
Holocaust remembrance event today saying that there has been a furious surge of anti-Semitism in the US and around the world in America we respect and protect the fundamental right to free speech to debate and disagree to protest peacefully and make our voices heard but there is no place on any campus in America any place in.
America for anti-semitism hate speech or threats of violence of any kind in Massachusetts protesters at MIT broke through barricades to retake an encampment after being ordered to leave campus and in Illinois police entered an encampment there at the University of Chicago confronting protesters and taking down tents and signs Stephanie.
Wade of our ABC station in Chicago is there hi Kira well the raid was Swift campus police came in and dismantle the pro Palestinian encampment set up by the University of Chicago students shortly before 5:00 this morning take a look at some of this video officers dressed in riot gear piled into the Palestinian encampment Crews came in with trucks and.
Removed the dozens of tents and cardboard signs that have decorated the UFC quad for 9 days now the student protesters who were staying there removed by campus police and ushered outside the quad while Crews worked tensions Rose at times as protesters came face to face with police officers physically pushing students further back.
With yellow barriers and students ripped up a final notice warning given by campus police saying they'd be placed on an immediate leave of absence if they did not leave then around 8:00 a.m. students were allowed back into the quad after the removal process was complete the University of Chicago President says safety concerns have mounted over the.
Last few days and risks were increasing too rapidly saying there have been no arrests and where appropriate disciplinary action will proceed now it's worth mentioning the mayor's office expressed to us that they did speak with the university the university according to the mayor's office asked for help from the Chicago Police Department in.
Carrying out these plans but CPD was unwilling to assist and as we saw this morning they moved forward with those plans Kira back to all right appreciate it Stephanie thanks so much and coming up congresswoman Marjorie Taylor green meeting with speaker Johnson right now in this moment will she still try to oust him as.
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so behind closed doors house Speaker Mike Johnson and congresswoman margorie Taylor green meeting right now amid Green's looming threat to try and House Johnson from his position position of house Speaker they actually met privately yesterday for two hours inside the speaker's office Johnson telling.
Reporters he understands Green's frustrations but stated that there are political realities that must be acknowledged here I just want to say and I told them and I've said this repeatedly that um I understand the frustration I share it I I would really FL to advance much more of our conservative policy on a daily basis.
Here but um the reality is we are working with the smallest majority in US history with a one vote margin well let's bring in our j o brri he's up there on the hill following all the latest developments um boy to be a fly on the wall what do we know Jay well and and that meeting is actually happening not far from me here I'm.
Looking over to my shoulder to see if marger tayl green walks out because we expect that meeting to wrap up somewhat soon uh they've been meeting for just about an hour now Kira and margerie Taylor green has laid out what she says are her demands of Mike Johnson and if he acquiesces to these demands she says she won't trigger a vote to oust him.
They are to return to something that's called the hter rule which is that every piece of legislation has to get a majority of the majority meaning a majority of Republicans would have to support it she also wants no more funding for Ukraine to pass through this Congress she wants significant spending cuts to be leveled When government.
Funding and expires in September of this year and also her last point which politically is perhaps the most difficult to get across the a or to get pass rather uh is she wants to defund special counsel Jack Smith is currently investigating former president Trump and has brought those two Federal prosecutions against the former.
President one in the classified documents case and the other for alleged attempts to overturn the 20120 election that's going to be difficult because moderate Republicans would have to buy into that certainly every single Democrat would oppose that and Mike Johnson as you heard him say there is in a politically precarious situation where.
Republicans have a razor thin majority in control of the house certainly Mike Johnson has by the way said Kira that some of these are points that he might politically agree with but he has said that these conversations he's having with marjerie Taylor green are quote not a negotiation Kira well we're learning now that former.
President Trump is actually privately urging green to drop her push to Al Johnson what more do we know about this and do you think she'll listen well it's unclear if that's going to be 100% effective but certainly that goes a long way and we've seen former president Trump say that he is in support of Mike Johnson they've had press conferences.
Together they were at that fundraiser together over the weekend so the former president has thrown his support behind the speaker Marie Taylor green is still somewhat going against the former president's wishes by even keeping this issue alive but it cannot be stated the kind of impact that that has not just on her but other Hardline Republicans here.
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Donald Trump's historic criminal case that's Stormy Daniels she is back on the stand and she's been laying out every cringey detail of that alleged sexual relationship she had with the former president let bring executive executive uh producer uh John zuchi uh also Brian buckmire will be joining our discussion from a legal uh P perspective in just a.
Moment but John just looking through all the testimony look she she laid out a lot of salacious details from her perspective in her book is there anything else besides what the former president apparently has in his leather doop kit um that she said that we really didn't know about Kira as one email blast just came out from another media.
Outlet this court room just became NSFW not safe for work and that's exactly right the level of detail she went into though some of which we've heard before it's still the fact of where it was said how it was said who it was said by and who had to sit there and hear all of it being Donald Trump it's just remarkable Kira how much detail Stormy Daniels went.
Into after Trump's defense team earlier in the day had said to judge Juan Maran you got to limit the scope of this you know the night that it happened if you will is not really the Crux of the crime here the allegations anyway of course that being the 34 counts of falsifying business records so that warning began the morning midday during stormy.
Daniel's testimony prosecutors were again warned by judge Juan Maran to you know take your foot off the gas a little bit we don't need to go into that much detail here but of course at the end of the day prosecutors ask the question the witness takes it as far as they want to or not and we saw repeatedly Trump's defense team objecting because Donald.
Trump was pushing his defense team our team observed Susan necklace his attorney at one point being pushed by Donald Trump like shoved a little bit like are you going to do something here object it wasn't until Stormy Daniels got really graphic that eventually they did and judge Maran agreed sustaining those objection from prose from the.
Defense team Kira but really just remarkable remarkable testimony that went on and it's only going to continue once they get back from lunch so Brian you know this is at the end of the day about falsifying business records so why keep pushing all the details all the lurid details of a sexual encounter when at the end of the day this is just about.
Falsifying business records so from a legal standpoint the prosecution would argue that they need to get into these details to one corroborate and strengthen the credibility of Stormy Daniels but also to help the jury understand how bad this could have been not just the details of a sexual encounter but also some of the.
Details that we're learning about today that Stormy Daniels is revealing uh more in depth for the very first time in this way um they didn't want this out and I think the prosecution will argue they need to get into how salacious it is they can't just say it's bad trust us because the defense would cross-examine and say there's no evidence there's no.
There there so they're saying they have to tell the story they have to go this deep to explain why individual falsify this information in order to interfere with an election that's their argument so Brian Daniel's credibility is expected of course to be a central part of the testimony as well so how do you think she's doing so far and um you know.
How nasty could this get so I think so far she's doing well but I do expect the defense to bring up every time that she's told the story we know she has a book called full disclosure she's had interviews at various Networks and if there's any difference between how she told uh that that that story of that night uh on any.
One of those mediums she's going to be impeached and cross-examined about it but if I was to take her testimony just as it is now it seems to be corroborated with photos that she did in fact meet Donald Trump it seems to be corroborated with the detail of information that she's giving when she's when appears to be looking back on an event that.
Actually happened in her life and explaining it personalty here and I think she's credible in the fact of how far she's going in talking about how this sexual encounter occurred but also pulling back in being like I didn't feel forced I didn't feel like I was threatened she sounds reasonable in the way she's telling the.
Story so John before the break when talking about shopping her story around to the med to the media Daniel's actually testified that my motivation wasn't money it was to get the story out which you know begs the question then why shop around the story if she didn't care about the money yeah she allegedly says that it was fear she wanted the.
Story to get out there leading up to the 2016 election uh it seems as though to expose Donald Trump for what she believed he really was because prior to getting into that part of the story Kira she talked about in 2011 she gave an interview to InTouch Magazine where she talked about you know an encounter with Donald Trump didn't say what it was.
Didn't get into the details but told the courtroom a story about thereafter in June of 2011 she was exiting a mommy and me class with her child at the time and was approached by a man who basically threatened her and in her words said stop talking about Trump stop talking about the Trump story so that again though the years the separation I think.
Is going to raise some eyebrows and obviously you know that after direct examination concludes and cross-examination begins that's exactly where the defense team is going to focus any way that they can knock stormy Daniel's credibility and tear her down as someone that was just seeking to buy a to get a buck so Brian the first.
Witness on the stand was a book publisher where prosecutors used quotes from Trump's books against him like always question invoices and always look at the numbers yourself so let's just talk about the impact of that and and how that worked for the prosecutors you think yeah so for the prosecution you got to realize they don't know if Donald.
Trump is going to take the stand and testify or not and so airing on the idea that he won't testify and they need to or they want to uh provide his own words when it comes to how he deals with checks accountings ledgers the bottom line when it comes to his business and I think that was this was that opportunity their ability to bring in a custodial.
Witness who understands and knows this book and can read these these exerts of what Donald Trump is so famous for in terms of being a businessman and I think it went well towards the to pushing back on the narrative that the fense has been trying to argue that oh he's a multitasker he might have been signing something and not really known it and.
This whole elaborate scheme he was too separated from it because Michael Coen was doing it on his own I think his words say otherwise so John for the 10th time now Trump has been held in criminal contempt and slapped with a fine for violating the gag order the judge has threatened to send him to jail but is that just all.
A sideshow here no it's actually really a big part of this because think about it Donald Trump being thrown in jail would obviously ly you know politically you could split the baby right half of it could be look see what they're doing to me they're putting me in jail the other half of it I mean look all of this has been humiliating for Donald Trump.
But to think that there's a world a former and a potential future president is in a jail cell I mean we talk about historic Herer right we talk about how many times you never thought you'd see this hear this and in my case earlier say certain words on the air repeating what was said in the courtroom I I I think all of this is just simply Remar.
Remarkable and if that actually does happen that's really going to be a real pivotal moment in this case and look we have seen time and time again Donald Trump cannot help himself how many people have we both spoken to over the years Kira of covering Donald Trump in the White House that have said oh you know I've got him under control now he.
He's going to listen to me he's going to stay within the lines it never happened this time though is different this time is consequences it's monetary he's up to $10,000 to the state of New York in this case got a lot of other money to do in other cases as you well know but if it's actually jail I would think he pulls back but I know at daylight today I've.
Been talking to multiple sources close to the former president this day has been a lot John S Tui Brian buckmire thanks guys all right coming up tornado outbreak the path of Destruction Left Behind across Six States now we'll update you.
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Listen the power went out large tornado tornado on the ground that violent twister touching down near Tulsa at least one person is killed several others hurt the town of Barnes doall hit especially hard a lot of homes there just reduced to Rubble severe storms also slamming the city of Bartlesville Oklahoma several people.
Rescued from there after being trapped inside a hotel emergency crews now urging people to stay off the roads and at least 16 reported tornadoes touching down in Six States the threat isn't over yet either our meteorologist Samara Theodore joins us now with more so Samara uh you're there in Oklahoma uh describe just the neighborhood that.
You're in so right now K I'm in Bartonville and this is just about 20 minutes up the road from barnesdale now the hotel that you just referenced where people were running out of this is it here look at the the uh the wall you can see the project tiles launched into there these are 2×4 pieces of wood that's a.
Stairwell on the other side and what I'm standing on right now is actually the roof from a building not too far over the Oklahoma heat is hitting it you can smell the tar in the air and this this is a tornado siren meant to warn folks but unfortunately it took a hit during the storm I actually spoke with the family earlier who stayed at this.
Hotel my car was actually right here and so we all jumped in my car and we just headed south we actually saw um you know obviously it was dark but in the lightning flashes we actually could see you know the clouds coming down or whatever behind us so yeah it was pretty intense terrifying and uh that that same storm.
System is now marching Eastward so let's go ahead and take a look at this now what you're looking at is video in Cincinnati where they've got the lightning The Heavy Rain the strong winds they have a severe thunderstorm in play right now winds could hit 60 miles per hour with large hail and as we see this storm continue to move Eastward.
We're anticipating those supercells to really start firing up around 700 p.m. uh throughout parts of the Ohio Valley by midnight moving through the Tennessee Valley this includes Bowling Green Louisville right on up into Columbus the largest threat for the highest threat should I say for tornadoes is in this orange Zone today from Fort Wayne down.
To Louisville now tomorrow there is another threat for severe weather and that includes cities like Little Rock uh St Louis right on into Nashville they have a tornado threat but we could also see very large haill and damaging winds Kira well Samara just tell us about the new threat of severe weather uh where everything is headed across the country.
Yeah so pretty much this like I said this same storm system marching its way Eastward so right now we have the Ohio Valley the Tennessee Valley in the bullseye and then tomorrow that secondary threat hitting places like Little Rock in Nashville got it all right thanks so much appreciate it.
Samara so Israel confirms its troops have taken control of part of the Rafa border now crossing right into Southern Gaza as of this moment the IDF says it's killed about 20 people calling them terrorists in the area Israel calling this a counter offensive oper.
Counterterrorism operation rather that may be a Prelude to a larger ground incursion into the area that's Sheltering more than a million displaced Palestinians Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says that a ground invasion of Rafa must happen in order to bring home hostages and get rid of Hamas well the troop movement came right after.
Hamas had accepted a ceasefire proposal from Egypt and cutter a proposal that Israel now refuses saying that it isn't what they talked about previously our Marcus Moore is in Tel Aviv along with our national security analyst Mick mroy so Marcus the the white house now says that Israel's operation in southern Gaza is is not uh what Biden had actually.
Warned against so what exactly is going on with this operation in Rafa well one of the things things uh Kira that we know and from the very beginning of this operation was uh it seemed pretty clear that this was not going to be a massive uh all-encompassing ground operation focusing on the entire city of Rafa and.
And really the main signals for that were the fact that less than 24 hours before the operation started you'll recall Israel delivered or or dropped Flyers um in the eastern part of the city urging 100,000 people to to evacuate of the eastern part of the city and so that in of itself gives you a sense of what Israel was trying to say.
That this is a a limited um operation in its scope and that it's a precise operation what everyone outside of Israel a number of countries and Aid groups have been worried about uh is what a larger operation would look like not only in terms of the devastation that it would cause but of course the more than a million Palestinians who.
Have gone to Rafa where would they go so uh when we talk about the differences um in the operations that is that's what we are are looking at and that is what we have seen Kira and that operation continues as we speak so Mick Israel's defense minister vowing to continue the operation Rafa until the hostages are returned let's just talk about how this.
Could impact any potential sea ceasefire deal and does this fly in the face of what President Biden asked Israel not to do so car obviously we had some false hope yesterday when Hamas was saying they accepted an agreement but they didn't accept the agreement that Israel offered and I think that was the confusion right now we can clearly see.
That the United States would like to see a limited operation intelligence and reconnaissance driven that finds the enemy in this case for battalions of Hamas militants and then focuses the mass effort on them Vice essentially a mass effort where they go Street by Street which could cause significant damage in civilian casualties.
Right now we see this I think early Preparatory action by Israel does not necessarily indicate which direction they're going to go they probably are trying to seal off uh militants escaping into Egypt and of course other uh Munitions uh coming in and I think that's what we're seeing right now whether this will be a full attack or a.
Limited attack is yet to be seen so Mick one more three us officials now telling ABC news that the US is actually going to pause deliveries of ammunition to Israel uh what more do you know about that is that a good strategy uh so it has to do with how the ammunitions is used obviously there is a significant threat of Iran they wouldn't.
Want to uh stop the Munitions uh and weapon systems that are used to defend Israel but the question is uh essentially the large uh diameter bombs the 2,000lb J dams those are the specific weapons uh that we are hearing are are being paused because they cause so much destruction when used in urban areas generally something we would not.
Do I think that is where the the issue lies I don't think they'll cut off all supplies of weapons and Munitions for use in Gaza but the specific ones that I think the US government finds problematic and that is the large diameter bombs and the ground penetrating Munitions which are effective on tunnels but can cause.
Significant destruction to the buildings uh around where the point of impact is all right Markus more in Israel for us and also MCM I appreciate it commencement cancellations calls for resignations and more cops on campus police continue to tighten security at colleges and universities across the country now as protesters try.
To take back those encampments President Biden also speaking at a holocaust remembrance event today saying that there has been a furious surge of anti-Semitism in the US and around the world in America we respect and protect the fundamental right to free speech to debate and disagree to protest peacefully and make.
Our voices heard but there is no place on any campus in America any place in America for anti-Semitism or hate speech or threats of violence of any kind in Massachusetts protesters at MIT broke through barricades to retake an encampment after being ordered to leave campus and in Illinois police entered an.
Encampment there at the University of Chicago confronting protesters and taking down tents and signs Stephanie Wade of our ABC station in Chicago is there hi Kira well the raid was Swift campus police came in and dismantled the prop Palestinian encampment set up by the University of Chicago students shortly before 5:00 this morning take a.
Look at some of this video officers dressed in ride gear piled into the Palestinian encampment Crews came in with trucks and removed the Dozen of tents and cardboard signs that have decorated the UFC quad for nine days now the student protesters who were staying there removed by campus police and ushered outside the quad while Crews.
Worked tensions Rose at times as protesters came face to face with police officers physically pushing students further back with yellow barriers and students ripped up a final notice warning given by campus police saying they'd be placed on an immediate leave of absence if they did not leave then around 8:00 a.m. students were allowed.
Back into the quad after the removal process was complete the University of Chicago President says safety concerns have mounted over the last few days and risks were increasing too rapidly saying there have been no arrests and where appropriate disciplinary action will proceed now it's worth mentioning the mayor's office expressed to us that they.
Did speak with the university the University according to the mayor's office asked for help from the Chicago Police Department in carrying out these plans but CPD was unwilling to assist and as we saw this morning they moved forward with those plans KIRO back to you and coming up congresswoman Marjorie Taylor green meeting with speaker.
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Acknowledged here I just want to say and I told them and I've said this repeatedly that um I understand the frustration I share it I I would really like to advance much more of our conservative policy on a daily basis here but um the reality is we are working with the smallest majority in US history with.
A one vote margin let bring in our Jay O'Brien he's up there on the hill following all the latest developments um boy to be a fly on the wall what do we know Jay well and and that meeting is actually happening not far from me here I'm looking over to my shoulder to see if marger Tay green walks out because we expect that meeting.
To wrap up somewhat soon uh they've been meeting for just about an hour now Kira and margerie Taylor Green is laid out which she says are her demands of Mike Johnson and if he acques to these demands she says she won't trigger a vote to OU him they are to return to something that's called the hter rule which is that every piece of legislation.
Has to get a majority of the majority meaning a majority of Republicans would have to support it she also wants no more funding for Ukraine to pass through this Congress she wants significant spending cuts to be leveled When government funding expires in September of this year and also her last point which politically is perhaps the most.
Difficult to get across the aisle or to get past rather uh is she wants to defund special Council Jack Smith is currently investigating former president Trump and has brought those two Federal prosecutions against the former president one in the classified documents case and the other for alleged attempts to overturn the 2020 election.
That's going to be difficult because moderate Republicans would have to buy into that certainly every single Democrat would oppose that and Mike Johnson as you heard him say there is in a politically precarious situation where Republicans have a razor thin majority in control of the house certainly Mike Johnson is by the way said Kira that.
Some of these are points that he might politically agree with but he has said that these conversations he's having with marjerie Taylor green are quote not a negotiation Kira well we're learning now that former president Trump is actually privately urging green to drop her push to Al Johnson what more do we know about this.
And do you think she'll listen well it's unclear if that's going to be 100% effective but certainly that goes a long way and we've seen former president Trump say that he is in support of Mike Johnson they've had press conferences together they were at that fundraiser together over the weekend so the former president has thrown his support behind.
The speaker Mary Taylor green is still somewhat going against the former president's wishes by even keeping this issue alive but it cannot be understated the kind of impact that that has not just on her but other Hardline Republic here Kira all right J Brand up in the hill for us keep us updated Jay thank you and.
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Good afternoon everyone I'm Kira Phillips our top story this hour from the paper trail to the porn star things are getting a lot hotter in a Manhattan cour cour house today the woman at the center of Trump's historic criminal case Stormy Daniels taking the stand laying out every cringy detail in that alleged sexual relationship with the former.
President Trump banned from lashing out at her like he has in the past but that didn't stop him from trying to go after her once again in an early morning social media post that's now interestingly enough been deleted we've got team coverage leading us off our ABC News investigative reporter Olivia Rubin just outside the courthouse along with.
Executive editorial produc John santui and also criminal defense attorney and former prosecutor Bernarda viona so Olivia you have been inside that courtroom today um you know in light of everything that has been heard and told in detail even making the judge somewhat uncomfortable asking if it was all necessary what stood out to.
You well it was remarkable Kieran I will say I've been going into courtrooms with Donald Trump for about a year now and it there has not been a day like this where we have seen that a witness essentially brought jurors into the bedroom with her and the former president describing like you said in such detail that I will say it did feel almost like you could.
Picture it that's how graphic she got with the testimony down to the color of the floor tiles in Donald Trump's hotel suite where he invited her back and as she is walking through uh these events one after another being in his room uh she described seeing him in pajam she said they were silk or satin that is how she recounted it to the jury she left no.
Details spared you could see occasionally the surprise on some of the jurors face specifically when Daniels recounted that uh she came out of the bathroom to Donald Trump allegedly waiting for her partially undressed on the bed you could see the eyebrows of one of the jurors sort of raised because they were following along with her and.
The way Kira that she was telling this story to the jury she was speaking so confidently and so passionately and so quickly without any hesitation in what she was saying she came across as quite credible really like a Storyteller on the stand and that is what also appeared to sort of agitate Donald Trump when Stormy Daniels first came into the.
Courtroom remember these are two people that have not been in the same room with each other spoken to each other seen each other for years now she is going to testify against him she did not look at him she did not look back at him when she took the witness and though he did appear to look at her before remaining Stone Face sort of looking away but.
Again as that testimony went on the graphic detail you could see him getting agitated he would repeatedly tap his attorney sort of to prompt an objection and one of the uh most sort of significant objections I would say is when Miss Daniels actually uh told the jury the uh sexual position that her and Donald Trump were in prompting a major.
Objection from his attorney and the judge ordered it to be stricken from the record but it raises the question can anything be unheard and what she just laid out for the jury essentially tells them exactly why Donald Trump likely as prosecutors say did not want any of this ever coming out especially while I will know one of his sons was seated just.
Behind him in the front row so apparently Bernard a Trump's attorneys uh right now in the courtroom said based on stormy Daniel's uh testimony uh they're asking for a mistrial now saying you just can't unring that Bell what are your thoughts could we see a mistrial it's quite possible but highly.
Unlikely that judge Maran would Grant a mistrial I think it was kind of testy for the prosecution to go into so much detail especially after they were warned early this morning before Stormy Daniels took the stand that they are not to go into detail but the problem is is that when you're trying to get credibility factors out there credibility is.
Determined by sometimes by giving the details because how would you know the details if a transaction had not taken place judge Maran is not going to Grant a mistrial but will give a warning to the prosecution and also give a warning in terms of to help the jury that they are not to take this into consideration for whatever whatever they decide to.
Tailor that instruction to be but the problem with that is then you're highlighting that there may be an issue so it's a lose loose situation but what we do know is that if there is a conviction the defense has preserved their appell it right and John your thoughts no I think K let's just talk about this for a.
Second because it's extremely important here this is exactly what the defense team said at the beginning of the day that they wanted to make sure these guard rails were something that the judge was mindful of and we know from our team's reporting throughout the questioning of stormmy Daniels that judge Maran said at one point to.
Prosecutors after morning recess to lighten up a little bit to not get so far into the details it's because of how much detail Stormy Daniels went into on the stand that now this motion has been made by Todd blanch Donald Trump's lead attorney calling for a mistrial um blanch has argued according to ABC's Peter haral lomus argu the testimony.
About being blacked out and P power Dynamic Prejudice the jury according to blanch and and from our team blanch judge said in court quote aside from Pure embarrassment the testimony was given to inflame the jury blanch goes on to say all this has nothing to do with the case on that point he is right the case is not about the night of or what.
Happened in that hotel room it's what happened in 2016 the payment of $130,000 to silence stormmy Daniels leading up to the 2016 presidential election so we are going to have to see now what judge Maran does to note just to be clear for our viewers this is all happening without the jury or Stormy Daniels back in the room this is all a.
Return from lunch that you know this was a lot of speculation as we went into the lunch break this was possible the defense team could make this motion and now we're going to have to see what judge Juan Muran does here Cara so Bernardo I know as an attorney you've seen a lot but it's not every day that we hear the intimate details of former.
President's uh alleged sex life what do you make of just the line of questioning and all the details that we have heard is it necessary it's not and the irony of it is that Donald Trump allegedly was trying to conceal this from ever coming to public and here we have it coming to public during a trial quite honestly in.
Terms for the prosecution stormmy Daniel's testimony is not legally necessary to meet any of the elements of the crime yes it gives us a bigger picture it gives us some background it gives us as to why what what was happening and what needed to be concealed but it doesn't move the ball in the sense of proving falsifying.
Business records I will say this one thing that her testimony does give the prosecution is that if they determine Stormy Daniels to be credible and that this sexual relationship sexual entanglement did take place then it does discredit Donald Trump without him testifying because it discredits him in the sense that he's been saying all.
Along and there's video clips and also social media Post in evidence that he doesn't know these women and he didn't have any sexual interactions with these women but if they find stormy D to be credible they're going to be like wait you were lying then you're probably lying about this and you're also capable of committing.
Fraud so Olivia you know before the break when talking about you know shopping her story around to the media that's that's you know what Daniels testified that her motivation wasn't about money it was to get the story out which of course has us all asking then why shop around the story if you didn't care about.
Money well that's what she said she did sort of changed her story on that a little bit at first she said that she just wanted her story out there and she did not care about the money and then later on she said it had come to the point where she was fearful and she just wanted to make sure that she the story did not come out and she got money and.
She said that the arrangement with Donald Trump and Michael Cohen sort of was the best case scenario for her because she would get the money and would not have to tell her story which is something that we heard uh regarding Karen McDougall as well who it was testified to she did not want to tell her story so these sort ort of deals.
Were appealing to them but I do just want to Pivot back a little bit to uh the mistrial motion that's underway which is something that Todd blanch is talking about which is really key here he's bringing up portions of stormmy Daniel's testimony where she spoke about the consent of the interaction or about the danger of the interaction or about.
Feeling pressured and he seems to be hitting on what was sort of an undertone of her testimony uh which is that essentially while she never said no and she never said that she didn't want to do it and she never went down that road she did speak about you know the imbalance of power and it seems that Todd blanch is saying that is something.
That the jury is not going to be able to unhear all right and let's just talk about Daniels in the courtroom John apparently got emotional choked up at one point during testimony what was all that about well that was about an incident she says occurred in 2011 after she gave an interview to InTouch Magazine Kira where she claims that she.
Was approached in a parking Garage in June of 2011 and was told by somebody to stop talking about Donald Trump now I do think it's important here to say that you know obviously after that she didn't say anything until 2016 um because of course that was leading up to the election where she said she felt she wanted to get her.
Story out there because she was scared about it Kira I do want to Pivot back though to what Olivia and you were just talking about this mistrial conversation because according to our team in the courtroom ABC's Peter haralam Susan hoffinger the lead attorney for the case is pushed back obviously on the request for a mistrial arguing Daniel's.
Testimony was consistent and permissible according to our team the DA's office just said quote this story her account is highly probative of Donald Trump's intent this is not new this is not a new account and I do think Kira one of the things that we have been paying very close attention to is that stormmy Daniels has told her story before she.
Gave a very lengthy interview as you'll recall to 60 minutes once Donald Trump had already won the White House in which she told so many of these details before she's written a book which obviously um has come up at many points leading up to this trial we know that she also did a documentary leading up to this trial and has gone out there on multiple.
Interviews including ABC's the view telling she was looking forward to speaking her truth now so much of that truth her truth if you will has been things that she has said already but I do think being in front of a jury is different and that is where this is becoming an issue in this courtroom right now Kira all right Olivia John.
Bernardo thank you all so much coming up path of destruction and up close look at the tornado damage in Oklahoma we've got it next whenever news breaks we are here in Israel a nation at war after that brutal surprise attack by Hamas on the ground in Ukraine reporting from Leon Maine the.
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Killed several others were hurt the town of barnesdale head especially hard a lot of homes there just reduced to Rubble severe storms also slamming the city of Bartlesville Oklahoma several people rescued after being trapped inside a hotel and then emergency crews are urging people to stay off the roads at least 16 reported tornadoes touching.
Down in Six States now and the threat isn't over yet our meteorologist the over remains in barville Oklahoma there tell us more Samara Cara so we're about 20 minutes up the road from Barnes and cleanup Crews have just arrived at that hotel you were talking about but if you take a look you can see here this is actually the roof.
From a neighboring building completely crushed and if you look over there you can see on the side of this hotel that we have 2x4s that became missiles completely projected into the wall on the other side of that a stairwell now I spoke with a family earlier Josh and Jenny who came here from Barnesville to escape that tornado only to end up in.
Its path right here at this hotel my car was actually right here and so we all jumped in my car and we just headed south we actually saw um you know obviously it was dark but in the lightning flashes we actually could see you know the clouds coming down or whatever behind us so yeah it was pretty.
Intense and you know hearing them recount that story it's devastating it's terrifying but I think the general sentiment they had was that of gratitude I think there's a lot of people uh having gratitude right now uh that we just able to hold on to the littlest things Samara now we've got this threat of more severe uh weather.
Where are you tracking it so this line of storms the same line of storms is now pushing Eastward it's moved through Cincinnati now headed through parts of the Ohio Valley sweeping across the state of Indiana at the moment in fact Chicago they will likely be under a tornado watch the Chicago region could be under a tornado.
Watch pretty soon here issued by the National Weather Service now let's go ahead and time this out as you can see by 7 P.M these supercells really starting to take form pop up we could see very strong tornadoes possible by midnight they're sweeping through the state of Ohio and Tennessee headed for areas like Louisville Bowling Green in.
The tornado zone where we have the highest risk sit Fort Wayne Columbus Cincinnati and that's today large Hill damaging winds and then tomorrow a secondary threat there we have the highest tornado threat including Little Rock Memphis and Nashville this is Wednesday I'll also say that the National Weather Service here on the.
Ground in Oklahoma has been doing surveys and they went down a little bit farther Southwest of barnesdale in OS County County and they're starting to see that hey this could potentially be an ef3 they're at least seeing ef3 damage Cara all right Samar theore appreciate all the work that you're doing for us so Israel confirms its.
Troops have indeed taken control of part of the Rafa border Al there in southern Gaza the IDF says it's killed about 20 people that they are calling terrorists operating in that area Israel is calling this a counterterrorism operation and actually a Prelude to a larger ground incursion into the area where more than a million people a million displaced.
Palestinians are still Sheltering in place Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says that a ground invasion of Rafa has to happen in order to bring the hostages home and get rid of Hamas the troop movement came right after Hamas said it accepted a ceasefire proposal from Egypt and cutter a proposal that Israel now refuses saying it's not the.
Same deal President Biden warning Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu also against a full ground Invasion stressing that it would only worsen the humanitarian crisis in Gaza let's bring in our senior White House correspondent Selena Wang for more so Selena us officials are telling us here at ABC news that the Biden Administration is.
Actually is actually delaying ammunition deliveries now to Israel so what more do we know about what the president has been telling the Prime Minister and how it's going to impact support here militarily yeah Kira so we've learned from one Us official that specifically the White House National Security Council had asked.
Uh these delayment of ammunitions delivery specifically from do Air Force Base but kir at the White House they've been pressed on this multiple times they refuse to confirm these reports but this does of course come as the Biden Administration has been trying to pressure Netanyahu to delay a fullscale invasion of Rafa now the White House.
Says that what we've seen so far does not amount to that fullscale invasion in densely populated areas what we're seeing so far is more targeted but they say they are concerned they're watching very closely For What could come next they've been highly critical of Netanyahu what he's done with the Rafa border crossing and halting Aid.
Shipments from getting through remember it wasn't so long ago when President Biden in a phone call with Netanyahu threatened to change US policy if Netanyahu does not do more to get Aid into Gaza now of course that threat is still on the table the White House has reiterated that but again they're not going to confirm the specifics of the.
Delayment of this ammunition shipment all right Selena Wang at the White House Forest Selena thanks so much well commencement cancellations calls for resignations and more cops on campus police continue to tighten security at colleges and universities Across the Nation in Massachusetts prostitute or protesters rather at MIT broke through.
Barricades there to retake an encampment after being ordered to leave the campus and then in Illinois police entered an encampment at the University of Chicago actually confronting protesters and taking down tents and signs our Perry russom has been following all the latest details so Perry even the education secretary was on the hill today talking.
About all these protests what did he say well it's interesting to see how widespread and how serious these protests have become today at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence in rhod Island students took over a building there so we are seeing another instance where students are taking over a building 22 students are inside an.
Administrative building they're asking the school to divest we are seeing reports that some of the administrators are trying to negotiate with the students in side but as you mentioned the education secretary on the hill today he said since October 7th when Hamas attacked Israel there have been 145 open cases of anti-Semitism on.
College campuses only two have been closed so far here's what he had to say that we have common ground when it comes to our horror at the appalling anti-Semitism we are seeing on some college campuses as president said last week there should be no place on any campus no place in America for anti-Semitism or.
Threats of violence against Jewish students there is no place for hate speech or violence of any kind and we are now seeing some of these protests on college campuses in in the US now move overseas Germany the Netherlands Australia just to name a few are seeing protests as well so some of these protests have started in the US.
Are now moving overseas Kira right and we're seeing commencement ceremonies uh cancelled as well the first one uh Columbia University USC also I mean do you think this is going to continue to have a domino effect well the Emer University as well in Atlanta they are now moving their commencement program off campus but.
There was a a student at Columbia University who spoke to reporters yesterday remember this is the covid generation that student telling reporters that he did not have a high school graduation because of covid now he did not have a college graduation because of the protest here so he is missing out on both of those he says he.
Is angry and upset but some of these universities are going to have to decide what they want to do because some of these schools are continuing with commencements they are continuing with some of the programs there and they are seeing some disruptions from protesters so we'll see where they have to go from here all right yeah it's a big bummer um.
Perry thank you so much well if you rely on Social Security to keep on going you're going to want to see this next story whenever news breaks we are here in Israel a nation at war in Rolling for this tornado tore through this town from Leon main the scene of a horrific mass.
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News first because the trustees Who oversee these entitlement programs Social Security and Medicare say that they will actually remain solvent for a little bit longer than we first thought so first with Social Security we're expecting it to remain solvent until 2035 that's a year more than originally thought for Medicare it will be solving.
Through 2036 5 years longer than first thought but once we hit these uh so-called go broke dates Social Security will only be able to pay out 83% of benefits and Medicare will only be able to pay out 89% of benefits so when we say they're going broke it doesn't mean your check will go away poof overnight it just means that the amount that.
You'll be getting would be reduced if nothing happens on the part of Congress Kira all right so let's talk about a possible resolution here is there a fix I mean can't the government just print more money and fund these programs or do they need Congress to step in at this point if only it were that easy we saw what happened when we printed money.
During covid in 2022 and started giving people lots of checks uh in a word it's inflationary so uh that would be the last resort and not something that Congress would likely sign off on but there are a wide range of potential Solutions here that have been proposed one of them of course would be increasing the full retirement age which.
Right now is at 67 depending on the year that you were born um they could also raise uh taxes which we've seen happen before and also reduce benefits for high lifetime earners those are all possible solutions we don't have anything on the table yet from Congress okay well do you have any advice for anyone using these programs.
Right now and and just kind of how worried they should be in the moment well I think in the moment there's nothing to worry about those checks will be on time and will be the amount that you're expecting them to be but I think this is incentive for folks to just save as much as you can as early as you can for retirement because some of these.
Entitlement programs we just don't know where they're going to be at when it comes time for you to start you know collecting these these uh programs so you know wherever you can find uh tax advantaged retirement uh places to to put your money all the better for you and of course we're looking to see what President Biden does this is going to be.
A big topic here in a presidential uh year and both both Donald Trump and Biden have said they want to fix this but they have not given us actual um you know programs as to how they're planning to do that yet Kira all right Alexis thank you well some other top headlines that were following this hour police in Toronto say a security guard was shot.
Outside Drake's Mansion authorities say the guard was standing outside the rapper's home about 2 a.m. when someone opened fire and ran off it's unclear if Drake was actually home at the time but that shooting does come amid an ongoing beef with fellow rap Superstar Kendrick Lamar Chinese company bite dance has filed a lawsuit aimed at blocking a.
Federal law that would force the sale of its social media app Tik Tock the company argues the new law violates the Constitution Congress already passed bipartisan legislation that requires the company to sell or shut down by next year soccer Legend Diego maradona's golden ball trophy from the 1986 World Cup will now be auctioned off off next.
Month he earned the award after leading Argentina to its second title a French newspaper first reported that the award was stolen but it turned up during a private auction back in 2016 the prize is expected to bring in millions of dollars thanks for streaming with us I'm Kira Phillips the news never stops neither do we we'll be right back more.
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Criminal case right now Daniels taking the stand laying out every cringy detail of that alleged sexual relationship she had with the presumptive Republican nominee and the subsequent hush money that prosecutors say she was paid in exchange for her silence this comes as the judge is shutting down a move by Trump's team for a mistrial attorneys.
Arguing that Daniel's salacious testimony today had nothing to do with the case but the judge ruled otherwise let's bring in our investigative reporter Olivia Rubin also our executive editorial producer John sanui and our criminal defense attorney and former prosecutor Bernardo viona Bernardo are we really surprised that the judge said.
No we're not having a mistrial here J no I'm not surprised because he has to look at the what what the problem was and in terms of the problem did really Prejudice the the defendant so in terms of what was said as the stormy Daniel's testimony yes it bordered on giving too much detail that put Donald Trump at in a bad light but it's.
Something that was expected is something that the prosecution had informed Donald Trump and Donald Trump was aware of which he is capable of Tes ify in the end they preserve their right to appeal if there's a conviction the Pell courts will look at it and see whether based on that era if it is an error whether the jury made a determination as to his.
Guilt because that error was allowed to happen and Olivia didn't take very long for the judge judge Maran here to just shut down uh this request for a mistrial he also well didn't take him long either to say can we stop all these salacious details I've kind of enough had enough here is this really necessary to tell me every sorted uh lurid um detail in this.
Uh sexual encounter that you describe correct and Maran as the hearing got underway sort of offered a scolding to each of the sides because remember he had put guard rails on stormy Daniel's testimony that she was not supposed to go into these specific details of the sexual encounter itself he said it was not necessary and yet she.
Did go into many details about that encounter so before Stormy Daniels took the stand again which she is back on the stand right now he told the prosecutor specifically Susan hoffinger who has been questioning her all morning to please speak to her and make sure that she is going to answer the question and only the question and not offer uh.
Unnecessary information and before Stormy Daniels took the stand again Susan hoffinger confirmed to the judge that she did speak with Stormy Daniels and give her that warning but judge Maran also taking issue with Donald Trump's team when they tried to bring up this mistrial he actually said to them I was surprised that you all didn't raise.
More objections throughout the hearing which we were a bit surprised as well there were times when they were not objecting and the testimony was continuing uninterrupted and meran said that there were times I even interjected the court had to step in and he did he looked at Stormy Daniels often without any you know prompting and just said.
Please stick to the the question asked and do not add unnecessary details so there was sort of a warning for each side on how a window into perhaps how this may have gone so off the rails in the amount of graphic detail that Miss Daniels was able to say in front of the jury all right well she's back on the stand there's no.
Mistrial that's been granted so John uh where does she go from here Stormy Daniels so so far Susan hoffinger who's the lead prosecutor in the case cure is taking Stormy Daniels specific specifically to October 2016 that is when the dialogue began between Keith Davidson who was a lawyer for stormmy Daniels at the time and Michael Cohen.
Obviously then Donald Trump's onetime attorney and fixer so I think we're going to start getting into the real nitty-gritty if you will of details of this payment of this money how they got to this number and one of the things that's come up so far is that when she agreed to sell the rights to her of the story that you know something in the.
Line of that you know how long was the payment going to be delayed for because you know she didn't get the money right there on the spot so how quickly did she what was the process thereof and I think it's going to get a little bit also you know into relaying of how Michael Cohen eventually was reimbursed Stormy Daniels can't speak to that but we know that as.
We look as how prosecutors are building this case that's a lot of what we heard on the stand yesterday from Jeff mccan the former com troller of the Trump organization those checks that were sent to the White House that Donald Trump personally signed to re reimburse Michael Cohen so as we've seen throughout these proceedings prosecutors.
Are doing all they can to stitch everybody's story together all right so Bernardo before Daniels took the stand Trump did disser in a social media post that was quickly taken down does this violate his gag order and and to add to that apparently uh New York mayor um Adams Eric Adams is now speaking out because he was asked at a at a news.
Conference today um if uh New York City is ready or prepared and it's prison Riker New York's biggest prison uh to take Trump in if he is ordered to jail for violating this gag order and apparently the mayor said Riker's Island is always prepared if Trump is sentenced to jail we will be prepared we don't want to deal with a hypothetical but.
They're professionals and they will be ready so what do we think could we see the former president just pushing the judge so hard that that's it well what's interesting is that yesterday Donald Trump at the at the conclusion of Court he gave another press conference and in that press conference he was almost daring judge.
Maran like put me in jail I'm ready to do it I'm ready to go to jail in order to exercise My First Amendment right so it's almost like you're daring judge Maran and this is exactly what you want judge Maran to do now in terms of whether judge Maran will find find that they there was uh a problem with what was said by Donald Trump it's going to.
Depend on the extent what's the aggravation of what was actually said was it a threat in order for him to decide that jail is an appropriate sentence of penalty in this case but one thing is for sure is that the moment that judge Maran says I'm going to put you in jail there's no coming back from that if there's some more uh there's.
Some more violations of this gag order then what are you going to do jail on top of jail you're just going to extend that sentence but I'm not going to say that judge Maran is going to go right after and say 30 days it can be just a matter of hours and if it's just a matter of hours it's going to be right there in the.
Courthouse all right Olivia John Bernardo thanks so much we'll continue to follow of course uh every detail as court is now resumed and um we'll be in touch coming up we're also talking about that path of Destruction an up close look at the tornado damage in Oklahoma we'll have that for you.
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Of barnesdale hit especially hard a lot of homes there just reduced to Rubble severe storms also slamming the city of Bartlesville Oklahoma several people rescued after being trapped inside a hotel and then emergency crews are urging people to stay off the roads at least 16 reported tornadoes touching down in Six States now and the threat.
Isn't over yet our meteorologist Samar Theodor remains in barville Oklahoma there tell us more Samara Cara so we're about 20 minutes up the road from Barnes and cleanup Crews have just arrived at that hotel you were talking about but if you take a look you can see here this is actually the roof from a neighboring building completely.
Crushed and if you look over there you can see on the side of this hotel that we have 2x4s that became missiles completely projected into the wall on the other side of that a stairwell now I spoke with the family earlier Josh and Jenny who came here from Barnesville to escape that tornado only to end up in its path right here at this hotel.
My car was actually right here and so we all jumped in my car and we just headed south we actually saw um you know obviously it was dark but in the lightning flashes we actually could see you know the clouds coming down or whatever behind us so yeah it was pretty intense and you know hearing them.
Recount that story it's devastating it's terrifying but I think the general sentiment they had was that of gratitude I think there's a lot of people uh having gratitude right now uh that we're just able to hold on to the littlest things Samara now we've got this threat of more severe uh weather where are you tracking.
It so this line of storms the same line of storms is now pushing Eastward it's moved through Cincinnati now headed through parts of the Ohio Valley sweeping across the state of Indiana at the moment in fact Chicago they will likely be under a tornado watch the Chicago region could be under a tornado watch pretty soon here issued by the.
National Weather Service now let's go ahead and time this out as you can see by 7 P.M these supercells really starting to take form pop up we could see very strong tornadoes possible by midnight they're sweeping through the state of Ohio and Tennessee headed for areas like Louisville Bowling Green in the tornado zone where we have the.
Highest risk sit Fort Wayne Columbus Cincinnati and that's today large Hill damaging winds and then tomorrow a secondary threat there we have the highest tornado threat including Little Rock Memphis and Nashville this is Wednesday I'll also say that the National Weather Service here on the ground in Oklahoma has been doing.
Surveys and they went down a little bit farther Southwest of barnesdale in O County and they're starting to see that hey this could potentially be an ef3 they're at least seeing ef3 damage Kira all right Samar theore appreciate all the work that you're doing for us so Israel confirms its troops have indeed taken control of part of the off a.
Border now there in southern Gaza the IDF says it's killed about 20 people that they are calling terrorists operating in that area Israel is calling this a counterterrorism operation and actually a Prelude to a larger ground incursion into the area where more than a million people a million displaced Palestinians are still Sheltering in.
Place Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says that a ground invasion of Rafa has to happen in order to bring the hostages home and get rid of Hamas troop movement came right after Hamas said it accepted a ceasefire proposal from Egypt in Cutter a proposal that Israel now refuses saying it's not the same deal President Biden warning Israeli Prime.
Minister Netanyahu also against a full ground Invasion stressing that it would only worsen the humanitarian crisis in Gaza speaking in our senior White House correspondent Selena Wang for more so Selena uh us officials are telling us here at ABC news that the Biden Administration is actually is actually delaying ammunition deliveries now to.
Israel so what more do we know about what the president has been telling the Prime Minister and how it's going to impact support here militarily yeah Kira so we've learned from one Us official that specifically the White House National Security Council had asked uh these delayment of ammunitions delivery specifically from.
Do Air Force Base but kir at the White House they've been pressed on this multiple times they refuse to confirm these reports but this does of course come as the Biden Administration has been trying to pressure n and Yahoo to delay a fullscale invasion of Rafa now the White House says that what we've seen so far does not amount to that.
Full-scale invasion in densely populated areas what we're seeing so far is more targeted but they say they are concerned they're watching very closely for what could come next they've been highly critical of Netanyahu what he's done with the Rafa border crossing and halting Aid shipments from getting through remember it wasn't so long ago.
When President Biden in a phone call with Netanyahu threatened to change you policy if netan who does not do more to get Aid into Gaza now of course that threat is still on the table the White House has reiterated that but again they're not going to confirm the specifics of the delayment of this ammunition.
Shipment all right Selena Wang at the White House Forest Selena thanks so much well commencement cancellations calls for resignations and more cops on campus police continue to tighten security at colleges and universities Across the Nation in Massachusetts prostitute protest rather at MIT broke through barricades there to retake an encampment.
After being ordered to leave the campus and then in elois police entered an encampment at the University of Chicago actually confronting protesters and taking down tents and signs our Perry Russ has been following all the latest details so Perry even the education secretary was on the hill today talking about all these protests what did he say.
Well it's interesting to see how widespread and how serious these protests have become today at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence in Rhode Island students took over a building there so we are seeing another instance where students are taking over a building 22 students are inside an administrative building.
They're asking the school to divest we are seeing reports that some of the administrators are trying to negotiate with the students inside but as you mentioned the education secretary on the hill today he said since October 7th when Hamas attacked Israel there have been 1045 open cases of anti-Semitism on.
College campuses only two have been closed so far far here's what you had to say that we have common ground when it comes to our horror at the appalling anti-Semitism we are seeing on some college campuses as president said last week there should be no place on any campus no place in America for anti-Semitism or.
Threats of violence against Jewish students there is no place for hate speech or violence of any kind and we are now seeing some of the protests on college campuses in the in the US now move overseas Germany the Netherlands Australia just to name a few are seeing protests as well so some of these protests that started in the US.
Are now moving overseas Kira right and we're seeing commencement ceremonies uh cancelled as well the first one uh Colombia University USC also I mean do you think this is going to continue to have a domino effect well the Emer University as well in Atlanta they are now moving their commencement program off campus but there was a a.
Student at Columbia University spoke to reporters yesterday remember this is the covid generation that student telling reporters that he did not have a high school graduation because of covid now he did not have a college graduation because of the protest here so he is missing out on both of those he says he is angry and upset but some of these.
Universities are going to have to decide what they want to do because some of these schools are continuing with commencements they are continuing with some of the programs there and they are seeing some disruptions from protest so we'll see where they have to go from here all right it's a big bummer um Perry thank you so much well if you rely.
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Running into red ink a new report from the government warning that both Social Security and Medicare could actually go broke in just over a decade our business correspondent Alexis christopherus on how soon it could actually happen how do we get here Alexis oh my gosh it has been decades in the making cure and the thing is the government knew the day.
Would come I want to start with a little bit a good news first because the trustees Who oversee these entitlement programs Social Security and Medicare say that they will actually remain solvent for a little bit longer than we first thought so first with Social Security we're expecting it to remain solvent until 2035 that's a year more.
Than originally thought for Medicare it will be solving through 2036 5 years longer than first thought but once we hit these uh so-called go broke dates Social Security will only be able to pay out 8 % of benefits and Medicare will only be able to pay out 89% of benefits so when we say they're going broke it doesn't mean your check will go away.
Poof overnight it just means that the amount that you'll be getting would be reduced if nothing happens on the part of Congress Cara all right so let's talk about a possible resolution here is there a fix I mean can't the government just print more money and fund these programs or do they need Congress to step in at this point if only it were.
That easy we saw what happened when we printed money during Co in 2022 and started giving people lots of checks uh in a word it's inflationary so uh that would be the last resort and not something that Congress would likely sign off on but there are a wide range of potential Solutions here that have been proposed one of them of course.
Would be increasing the full retirement age which right now is at 67 depending on the year that you were born um they could also raise uh taxes which we've seen happen before and also reduce benefits for high lifetime earners those are all possible solutions we don't have anything on the table yet from Congress okay well do you have any.
Advice for anyone using these programs right now and and just kind of how worried they should be in the moment well I think in the moment there's nothing to worry about those checks will be on time and will be the amount that you're expecting them to be but I think this is incentive for folks to just save as much as you can as early as you can.
For retirement because some of these entitlement programs we just don't know where they're going to be at when it comes time for you to start you know collecting these these uh programs so you know wherever you can find uh tax advantaged retirement uh places to to put your money all the better for you and of course we're looking to see what.
President Biden does this is going to be a big topic here in a presidential uh year and both both Donald Trump and Biden have said they want to fix this but they have not given us actual um you know programs as to how they're planning to do that yet Kira all right Alexis thank you well some other top headlines that we're following this hour police in.
Toronto say a security guard was shot outside Drake's Mansion authorities say the guard was standing outside the rapper's home about 2 a.m. when someone opened fire and ran off it's unclear if Drake was actually home at the time but that shooting does come amid an ongoing beef with fellow rap Superstar Kendrick Lamar Chinese company bite dance has.
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Cup will now be auctioned off next month he earned the award after leading Argentina to its second title a French newspaper first reported that the award was stolen but it turned up during a private auction back in 2016 the prize is expected to bring in millions of dollars thanks for streaming with us I'm Kira Phillips the news never stops.
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Him in the job good afternoon everyone I'm Kiera Phillips and I'm Terry Moran and our top story at this hour from the paper trail and now to the porn star things are getting hotter in a Manhattan courthouse today former president Donald Trump coming face to face once again with adult film actress Stormy Daniels the woman who is at the center of this.
Criminal case Daniels took the stand and she described in detail the alleged sexual relationship with the presumptive Republican nominee for president and the subsequent hush money that prosecutors say she was paid in exchange for her silence this comes as the judge is shutting down a move by Trump's team for a mistrial attorneys arguing that.
Daniel's salacious testimony today had nothing to do with this case but the judge ruling otherwise let's bring in our investigative reporter Olivia Rubin just outside Court along with ABC News executive editorial producer John santui also our Deputy political director Avery Harper and former Manhattan prosecutor Jeremy salon so Olivia fill us in on.
What's happened in court this far prosecutors have now moved well beyond the explicit details of the sexual encounter that Stormy Daniels has alleged and they are now speaking to something that is a bit more closely tied to the charges at hand here they're talking about the agreement that stormmy Daniels signed to keep quiet about her.
Story in exchange for $130,000 and the Fallout that ensued after the jury looked at the contract that Stormy Daniels signed she affirmed that she signed it and then she spoke about uh years later when information about the uh agreement essentially broke and she issued this denial something that the jury has seen previously but is a key.
Piece of evidence because it it sort of changes stormy Daniel's story because there is a statement out there from 2018 where she is completely denying that any sort of sexual interaction happened and how it was explained to the jury was that they were trying to follow the agreement and keep the story quiet so they issued this denial written by her.
Attorney to sort of keep in line with the NDA that is how it was explained to the jury and she moved forward talking about how she eventually wanted out of the NDA saying Donald Trump could talk about her story but she could not all right Olivia thank you John I want to go to you on stormy Daniel's testimony this is testimony that Donald Trump has.
Dreaded you know for a long long time and and it may be you know we're going to get to that with Jeremy in a minute it may be a mistake by the judge to let it get as explicit and salacious and dirty up to defend it as much as it did but that said I just want to ask about Trump you know him so well watching Stormy Daniels on the witness stand well.
He was doing the exact opposite he was not watching Stormy Daniels on the witness stand he was looking down around as our team said his body was turned in all different contortions none of which was towards the witness stand here Terry and the reminder that this was going to be a bad day for Donald Trump horrible is the word that I would use devastating.
Is what some people have said now not so much for the you know the case itself because this is not really about the case at this part it's not about the ACT it's about the money and the 34 counts of falsifying business records but to have to sit there and hear so much in graphic details about that night with your son sitting right behind you.
Obviously your wife and others across the country following along he just not good for Donald Trump the man right and we know that how often Donald Trump protects and you know brags about a certain image all of which to have somebody sit there talk about it in front of a couple of dozens of people including a jury is just not a place.
Donald Trump even imagined he would be but what I think is remarkable right now is as we're getting further and further into stormy Daniel's testimony is what's happened since 2016 a lot of what I'm seeing right now from our team in court as they talk about different lawsuits that were filed in 2018 which touched on with Olivia is I think preparing Stormy.
Daniels for what's about to come right they've also talked about payments she received for a documentary she did on P peacock talking about her life after Trump her career in the porn film ex porn industry Etc that so much of it I think is bracing for what you know is going to be which is Donald Trump famously says he is a counter puncher we.
Know from our team in court repeatedly Donald Trump was poking his attorneys to object to attack to fire back at Stormy Daniels they're about to have their turn when it's cross-examination so Avery I mean Trump is here clearly instead of the campaign Trail how many months away are we from the November election now I'm counting.
In my I looked at Terry thank you you know we're getting into some pretty lurid and embarrassing details so much about his personal life and and this relationship and these allegations with stormy Daniel they've already been out there for a number of years laid out in her book Etc and it hasn't seemed to impact him so far the fact that it's.
Back in the news uh like this so close to the November election is it is he going to take a hit here well like you said it's still months and months away from uh when folks are going to head out to the polls and vote and so I think the hope uh on the part of the Trump team has to be that folks will forget about some of this uh testimony as it gets.
Closer to uh election day uh but look as you mentioned he is not out on the campaign Trail the longer he is in court is the longer that he cannot be out on the campaign Trail uh this week on Wednesday Wednesday when uh court is out uh we are not going to see former president Trump out on the campaign Trail so not even taking advantage of.
The free time that they have uh this week to be able to head out to Battleground States but look I I think that the Trump team is going to continue to try and take advantage where they can of opportunities to meld uh both the courtroom and the campaign Trail we saw former president Trump come out and speak to cameras earlier uh today uh we.
Know that the Trump team has been apt to try and fund raise off of developments that happened in court all right so Jeremy I want to go to you on the law here the judge himself expressed discomfort with the level of salacious detail that Stormy Daniels was gleefully offering apparently to the jury and I just want to ask about you know we've.
Just seen Harvey Weinstein's conviction overturned and a long history of efforts by American courts to protect defendants from prosecutors and even judges who dirty them up with sex testimony that isn't directly relevant to the charges at hand these are charges of falsifying business records and campaign violations campaign law violations what do you.
Think of the move for mistra which the judge denied and so they pre preserve this on appeal is this the kind of thing that an appeals court might take a close look at and saying that's just not fair well certainly they're going to take a close look at it whether it's fair or not it's a separate question this isn't Harvey Weinstein I understand because.
It's so fresh while one would think that there's a relation here but this isn't bringing in additional women who are not part of a case to to have testimony about other sexual exploits and attacks what you have here is frankly defense Council that should have objected if you are as a defense attorney hear testimony that's coming in that is not favorable.
And not just not favorable prejudicial what do you do you don't send their mum like you do outside the courtroom when Donald Trump tells his stories about how he's being mistreated you say I object objection and then you get up and say objection and guess what a third time you say objection and eventually the judge gets involved and says this needs.
To stop but the judge is right to say this is a little bit too much and was right to say to the prosecution to control Stormy Daniels but the big failure here and the big piece that's missing here is that offence has to object and exercise their right to stop and halt that testimony and it didn't appear that that happened or at least to.
The extent needed to to do so fair enough so Olivia what was this point in which Daniels got emotional and choked up on the stand what was that all about she was speaking at that moment of about an alleged threat that she received back in 2011 while she was in a parking lot with her young daughter uh and she got choked up talking about it.
Talking about how she didn't feel comfortable telling her boyfriend at the time who was dealing with mental health issues you know she picked up her glasses off of her head perhaps so they wouldn't get foggy and she took a mo moment to sort of compose herself so we will see how Trump's attorneys sort of work with that event on cross-.
Examination which is going on now but to the point we just heard about Donald Trump's attorneys being more perhaps aggressive it's going to be very interesting to see what sort of approach they take with Stormy Daniels on cross- examination right now the attorney who is going to be doing the questioning Susan necklace has not been up yet in.
This case really she was the one objecting earlier but so far it has been led by Todd blanch and Amil Bo and Bo is the one who has been far more aggressive in his questioning of witnesses so we will be looking to see how she handles stormmy and if she tries to sort of go through again some of what uh stormy has already put into the record about those.
Explicit details try to walk them back a little bit because the judge did say you can try to walk it back on Cross examination so will they try to do that right now and thank you Olivia and and Jeremy we talked about the effect of this testimony perhaps on the law and the courts around the case but how about the.
Jury look I mean so sometimes jurries they aren't dumb as you well know and they'll if they sense that the prosecutors just bringing this stuff in or the Stormy Daniels has personal animus and she's just spilling all this in order to distract them from the job that they have sworn to do might that harm the prosecution it certainly has a.
Possibility did this happen here was there enough to get to that point I don't think so uh I think in fact what the prosecution tried to do was humanize Stormy Daniels she's not just a porn star she's a you know she had a single mother she did extremely well in school she's an equestrian she's you know had her own business she's had had some.
Struggles in life but they've tried to build her up and again she's just a piece of evidence they're not resting solely on her shoulders what the pro pardon me what the defense is going to try to do I presume is make her out to be some extorter blackmailer with an agenda allaha Michael Cohen all beat a little bit differently who's also.
Changed her story a little bit but the prosecution did a good job there too to try to elicit some of the issues they might have for cross on Direct so they can take some of those winds out of the sales so overall I think it seemed to go fairly well I I think the the def is certainly doing their job to make this seem bigger than it is but it's not as.
As egregious as they're making it out to be little more color from the cross examination Olivia well I think what's going to be so fascinating to watch and it's such an important point to make while we're talking about what are they going to do with Stormy Daniels reel her in in front of the witness we also have to remember.
That Donald Trump's attorneys are performing for their client and just being in the courtroom for the past few weeks it is so clear how closely Donald Trump watches his attorneys when they are conducting their cross-examination he turns his chair and his laser focused on everything they are doing as we said he Pats them to try to get them to.
Object he appears to react when he thinks that they are doing a good job or when he thinks that they are not recently during a gag order hearing you could feel and see Donald Trump's displeasure when his attorney Todd blanch agreed with judge Juan meran on a certain point so I think especially after Susan necklace his attorne.
Attorney was sort of scolded by judge Maran saying that you weren't Tough Enough which is something Donald Trump likes in his ATT in his attorneys it's going to be very interesting to see how they work with Donald Trump not just the witness to get their point across in this case here okay and John this is a this is a difficult cross-examination.
This is the in some ways I guess not necessarily once again in terms of the law but in terms of the drama The crucial cross-examination Trump's lawyers against stormmy Daniels what's your sense of how that's going and N pretty hot and heavy already I mean just moments into this testimony here's where we are Susan necklace has asked Stormy.
Daniels am I correct that you hate president Trump stormy Daniel's responding yes necklace then follows up and you want him to go to jail Daniel's responding I want him to be held responsible and look you know this is not surprising right I mean Stormy Daniels so much of what she has said on the stand Terry and Kira for much of the.
Day is all detail she's previously put out she did an extensive interview with 16 minutes she wrote a book she just did a documentary she's done a ton of other interviews including with ABC News so what we're seeing though now is a a real moment in American history the fact that she is on the stand talking about Donald Trump a former president potentially a.
Future President should he be successful this November I I I think all of that is really just something that you could not have predicted if you tried and I think seeing as Olivia rightfully pointed out seeing Susan necklace get up there and say to Stormy Daniels you know you did a bunch of prep sessions with prosecutors Daniel's firing back and saying well.
This is my testimony this is what I'm I'm speaking you know of course it's that's the process of things that doesn't matter too much right but again it's playing for the audience of one and I think one of the things that I heard today from Judge Juan Maran when they came back from the lunch break saying to Trump's defense lawyers gee I'm.
Surprised you didn't object more I just said oh God help those lawyers when Court's over because Donald Trump is going to absolutely lose his mind all right John santui Olivia Rubin Jeremy sand thanks very and Avery Harper thanks very much and coming up the path of Destruction we've got an up close look at the tornado damage in Oklahoma.
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Tornadoes the power went out large tornado tornado on the ground heard that a lot yesterday in the middle of the country a violent Twister There touching down near Tulsa yesterday at least one person was killed and several others hurt the town of barnesdale hit especially hard many homes there have been reduced to Rubble.
Severe storms also slamming the city of Bartlesville Oklahoma several people rescued there after being trapped inside a hotel emergency crews now urging people to stay off the roads at least 16 reported tornadoes touched down in Six States and the threat isn't over yet ABC News meteorologist Samar Theodore is in Bartlesville Oklahoma right in the.
Middle of the path of this storm over the past few days what's the situation like where you are Terry Kira well that same hotel that's where I'm standing right now and power Cruise cleanup Cruise they're well underway getting this town back on its feet but it was a different story last night folks were terrified and.
Rightfully so I even spoke with one couple who had brought their kids here from Barnes they were trying to escape the tornado there they ended up trying to seek Refuge here at this hotel my car was actually right here and so we all jumped in my car and we just headed sou we actually saw um you know obviously it was dark.
But in the lightning flashes we actually could see you know the clouds coming down or whatever behind us so yeah it was pretty intense yeah pretty scary stuff there uh and you know the latest update with the National Weather Service out of Tulsa they've been doing survey damage to the southwest of barnesdale and they've seen.
That there could be ef3 damage or equivalent ef3 damage on the ground of course that's subject to change as they continue to do the survey throughout the evening all right right so I know you've been following all the threats out there with regard to severe weather across the country not just where you are what can you tell us.
Samara okay so the latest update coming in is this tornado watch that's been issued so what you're looking at right now is Chicago Illinois Chicago get ready you have a tornado watch in effect until 900 p.m. and it's not just there it includes cities like Indianapolis uh Springfield southb Bloomington as we head through the evening and that's.
Because the same line of storms that hit Oklahoma has now made its way farther Eastward as it continues its March supercells will be popping up 700 p.m. from Indiana down into parts of uh Tennessee and we're going to see the threat for storms continuing overnight in the Ohio and Tennessee Valley just around midnight now the biggest threat.
Tonight for tornadoes is in this little orange Zone you're seeing here that stretches from Fort Wayne to Columbus Cincinnati Louisville and then tomorrow we have another threat that includes Little Rock Nashville and Louisville Kira take all right Samara Theodore thank you very much for your reporting and your.
Explanation of what's going on with this wild weather out there Samara thank you so police are continuing to tighten security at colleges and campuses across the country today as protesters are continuing to try to take back those encampments President Biden spoke at a holocaust remembrance event today and he said there's been a furious surge of.
Anti-Semitism in the United States and around the world and America where we respect and protect the fundamental right to free speech to debate and disagree to protest peacefully and make our voices heard but there is no place on any campus in America any place in America for anti-Semitism or hate speech.
Or threats of violence of any kind that from the president meanwhile back on campus in Massachusetts protesters at MIT broke through barricades to retake an encampment after they had been ordered to leave campus in California dozens of protesters were detained at UCLA yesterday and classes were held remotely the LAPD is also.
Joining the school in an investigation into an attack on protesters last week let's bring in our jacqulyn Lee she's been following the story uh from our La Bureau so Jacqueline let's just talk about the latest on the LAPD the UCLA working together on this investigation and what more we know about this attack on the protesters.
That's right K look so the UCLA Chancellor sent out a note saying that the university is going to be partnering not only with the LAPD but also the FBI and also the LA District Attorney's office to charge those who were part of the violent protest that we saw last week now what happened is if you remember UCLA came under Fire because.
For more than an hour violence broke out on campus and nothing was done the LAPD actually sent out a message saying that they could not respond because UCLA has their own uh police force and so now UCLA drew a lot of criticism because of that so the chancellor is saying not only are they working to hold those responsible who caused all of that.
Violence but they're also looking into their own uh campus safety response team and why it reacted the way it did and what they can do to fix that moving forward guys a lot of lessons to be learned there for sure Jacqueline now I guess there are new protests popping up at colleges in Southern California today as this this movement which once again.
Represents still a pretty small minority of colleges University across the country but it's very passionate very determined very organized well what's the latest on what's happening in Southern California that's right Terry this happened at Pomona College so we have dozens of pro Palestinian protesters who took to the commencement.
Stage they've set up camp as you can see there and they said they are not leaving until the college divest from Israeli companies they say that these companies are funding the genocide in Gaza pomot College will have their commencement later this week um the university has responded they said that students certainly have a right to free speech.
And that college leaders are willing to meet with these protesters and continue to do so but at a certain point I mean safety is the number one priority so ultimately we'll see what ends up happening this is why you've seen a series of of colleges and universities across the country cancel their overall University graduation ceremonies because.
They are concerned about safety guys yeah that 18yearold 18-year Journey that that students or 22-year- old Journey that students and their families take at a lot of places it won't be commemorated or celebrated because of this uh that's the cost of these protests Jaclyn Lee thanks very.
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Conversation speaker Mike Johnson and congresswoman margorie Taylor green meeting for 90 minutes today you know Green continues to make that threat that she wants to oust Johnson from his speakership and one vote can do it and the house can make that proposal at today's meeting Congressman green congresswoman green issued her List of.
Demands that speaker of the house Johnson must meet her must meet her demands in order to vote on her motion to vacate that is what they call this effort to OU the speaker these are not unreasonable requests these are the right things to do these are the right things to do for our conference and our Republican.
Speaker who ran through the Democrat agenda should be able to get it done J O'Brien's on Capital following all the latest developments at says he does so Jay speaker Mike Johnson representative Marie Taylor green they had their second meeting today tell us about what's going on there well they met yesterday for about 2 hours today.
They met for 90 minutes and and they're no closer to any kind of agreement although Congressman green said the meeting was productive but she also looks no closer guys to calling for an actual vote on whether or not Mike Johnson should be outed a speaker she promised to call a vote this week but now they're in these ongoing talks which.
Frankly weren't expected to really come about this week and now it's unclear if there's ever going to be a vote on Johnson's future so green has issued her List of Demands for Johnson what are they and is he even listening to her well she's got four demands one is to return to something called the H Ru rule which.
Means a majority of majority has to support every piece of legislation a majority of Republican she also wants no more funding for Ukraine to come out of this Congress she wants severe spending cuts when government funding expires in September and she wants to defund the special counsel Jack Smith is Prosecuting former president Trump so.
Those demands though guys they are somewhat new she only released that List of Demands publicly today and she's been working for months she says to try to oust Mike Johnson I think it's important to remember the timeline forgive me bear with me because it is long but it's important she started this effort in late March of this year after Johnson.
Partnered with Democrat rats to pass Government funding she files this motion to vacate Johnson but she doesn't call for a vote to oust him she in says she instead holds that possibility of a vote over his head and then fisa comes up that foreign warrantless surveillance act it comes up for reauthorization green opposes that reauthorizing that.
Passes but green still doesn't call a vote she to Al Johnson she still holds that vote over his head then Ukraine Aid passes green opposes that but she still doesn't call a vote instead she says she's going to let the house go out on vacation and when everybody comes back she might call a vote then then they all come back and she still doesn't call a.
Vote she then holds a press conference this is last week in which she said she's going to call a vote this week on Johnson's future and she still looks no closer guys to calling that vote this week yeah it sounds like the congressman CED wolf a little bit and it's one thing to play whacka speaker uh when it's not an election year like she did like she.
In the other but but this is an election year ABC News can confirm that Donald Trump does not want her to do this and has been in contact with us that may be the reason for putting on the breaks there J O'Brien thank you for that Crystal Clear description as always thanks for streaming with us I'm Kira Phillips and I'm Terry Moran the news.
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Actress stormmy Daniels the woman uh whose encounter with him is at the center of this criminal case Daniels took the stand and described in detail the alleged sexual relationship between the presump of Republican nomin nominee and herself and the subsequent hush money that prosecutors say she was paid in exchange.
For her silence this comes as the judge is shutting down a move by Trump's team for a mistrial attorneys arguing that Daniel's explicit testimony today having nothing to do with this case but the judge ruling otherwise so let's bring in ABS news investigative reporter Olivia Rubin just outside the court along with executive editorial producer John sanui.
And former Manhattan prosecutor Jeremy Salan so Olivia the defenses cross-examination already off to a combative start we hear what's happening combative is exactly the word I was going to use Terry and I think to no one's surprise after the mour that we saw in the courtroom Trump's attorney Susan necklace is starting to Pepper.
Stormy Daniels with questions often getting into a bit of an argument with her and the judge having to step in to please remind her to allow the witness to answer the question before she jumps back in and a subject that she has recently laser focused in on is a lawsuit that stormmy Dan Daniels filed against Donald Trump a failed lawsuit.
One that she lost and was ordered to pay Donald Trump's attorney's fees and has not done so and Trump's attorney has shown tweets to the jury of Stormy Daniels saying that she would rather go to jail than pay Donald Trump a dime so she is playing up on that hatred that stormmy Daniels has repeatedly shown that she has for Donald Trump and has.
Even said on the witness stand that she has for Donald Trump and trying to poke holes in her uh her testimony apparently as someone that has an ax to grind and potentially as someone that would say whatever they need to hopefully in her mind get Donald Trump convicted of a crime so what exactly is the former president's demeanor been like in in.
Court John I mean just reading the last uh comment read aloud by Trump's attorney where Daniels tweets out calling him can't even believe that I'm saying this an orange turd so I guess it's not all tension in the courtroom I mean this is just getting ridiculous it's one word for it it's getting insane would be my word for it I I think all of.
This is just cannot make up right the fact that those are the questions those are the words I mean I didn't get to have as much fun with the two of you today I got to use all different words with Meo earlier in the day but it's all just something that you can't make up that you would think that we're talking about STDs and you know what it's like.
To work in the porn industry and then all the other details that I can't say otherwise my mother will find me and put some soap in my mouth but it's really something that to think it's Donald Trump a guy that ran the Free World and wants to do it again that we're having all these words and conversations in a courtroom just makes it all the more.
Remarkable um look for as far as Trump and Eric Trump because he's in the courtroom too supporting his father today their demeanor is like father like son they're not looking their heads are down they're they're turning their bodies every which way earlier in their proceedings before lunch Eric Trump was tweeting out writing in all caps at one.
Point extortion I mean he's not part of the gag order that may have to change but I do think that Donald Trump was prepared for many moments of this trial right he was prepared for many of his longtime employees at his company the Trump organization to take the stand and knew that many of it would be hard for him to hear because Donald Trump as we.
All know values loyalty above anything else so any person speaking out against him including employees that worked for him for decades was going to be a hard day Michael Cohen was the guy that would fix a mess like this for Donald Trump he's the one that brought Donald Trump to this mess so that will be a very hard day for him but Stormy Daniels he.
Doesn't know too well right I mean they had a very Infamous interaction now but not somebody that he was around a lot he hasn't seen Stormy Daniels in many years the last time that two saw each other she said it earlier in testimony was 2007 so to think that this is where they meet again and this is the conversation and there's absolutely nothing Donald.
Trump can do about it he can't get up he can't take a bathroom break where he is and how he is is all dictated by judge Juan Maran right now and that is to sit in that courtroom and hear every excruciating detail of this all yeah what a moment thank you for that John uh and Jeremy I want to go to you and and I want to make you Donald Trump's lawyer.
For a second and I warn you based on the track record it's going to be a miserable experience and you're not going to get paid I'm going to get five and you're get f up getting but seriously what is the defense's goal in cross-examining stormmy Daniels here and how how would you how how do you think.
They should go about it I'm asking for that expertise so it's all about credibility and honesty they asked her about whether she thinks this is funny whether she's going to make money off of this uh the fact that she had a lawsuit where she owes him $100,000 dollar she hasn't paid it uh we heard about the $125,000 tell all or whatever it may be.
With peacock so there's an agenda here agenda agenda agenda it's kind of like object object object this is their theme but you also can be too aggressive and if you're too aggressive and you over speak and you over talk the witness you make yourself become the center of attention and that's not what you want you want the.
Jury to like you as the attorney and not like the person you're cross examining to see that agenda to see that goal and that reason why they're there is not for the truth it's for because they want to see accountability even if that accountability is wrong so I think that they need to slow it down and they need to take the PA and really work.
Methodically through and there's a lot of material there because they no doubt scoured the internet and got all the material they could in terms of her background and what she's done but they need to be very methodical and slow about it not overp speaking her do not become the center of attention and move this forward and I think they can but.
There's a lot of moving pieces here because remember last but not least it's not Stormy Daniels is kind of somewhat of the story but kind of a side show because she's not the falsification of business records she's not the crime she's maybe the catalyst but she's not the crime yeah that's the point that the defense was trying to make in trying to.
Keep her off the witness stand that was really helpful Jeremy I appreciate then so let's go to Olivia about the jury a as they're hearing this cross-examination growing so combative growing this extraordinary testimony what are we hearing and what have you observed about the jury the jury pretty fascinatingly Terry.
Does not actually show that much reaction I spoke earlier about the one time where Stormy Daniels talked about the moment that she emerged from the bathroom in Donald Trump's hotel room and saw him nearly all undressed on the bed and you saw Wonder sort of raise their eyebrows apparently in surprise but they don't actually show that much.
But what they do show is just how carefully they are listening to the testimony that has been unfolding they look right at Stormy Daniels they look back at the prosecutor at times if you can imagine someone watching a tennis match looking from side to side that is often how closely they follow along with the exchanges going on between the.
Witness and the prosecutor or the defense attorney questioning them and they laser focus into the little monitors that they have in front of them which shows them the evidence whether it's Donald Trump's apology video a stormy Daniel's tweet they are always looking at it and they have been paying very close attention throughout this.
Entire trial which is something I I think likely prosecutors and Donald Trump's team have both been taking notice of yeah a lot of people taking notice of all the details stormmy even talking about the former president's do kit apparently he's an Old Spice Guy okay yeah remember perk shampoo from the 70s the but Old Spice from the 70s as.
Well updated yeah he's a little you know he's a little vintage when it comes to how he travels appar you like you stick with it um so John what more can we expect from cross- examination well I can expect to tell you that I also like Old Spice but anyway moving on look I think that it's going to be a little U you know ending right now because as.
We've all noted so much of Stormy Daniel's timeline in this as far as the details of the center of the cases we were just speaking about a couple moments ago um is rather limited so I think that we're coming down there as far as you know the nitty-gritty of it I think there will be some things now about Michael avanatti we know that.
That's something that prosecutors probably brought up preemptively to get ahead of because they know they have a Michael avanati problem here that being the onetime attorney for Stormy Daniels who very famously tried to fire back at Donald Trump until he literally self-employed and he's currently you know not practicing law anywhere um so I.
Think that that's probably where we're going but I would think after today I would expect we don't see Stormy Daniels back in this courtroom Cara oh but it was so interesting Olivia John Jeremy thank you all very much really appreciate it and coming up we're going to turn the page to the serious weather across the country the path of.
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Middle of the country a violent Twister There touching down near Tulsa yesterday at least one person was killed and several others hurt the town of barnesdale hit especially hard many homes there have been reduced to Rubble severe storms also slamming the city of Bartlesville Oklahoma several people rescued there after being trapped inside.
A hotel emergency crews now urging people to stay off the roads at least 16 reported tornadoes touched down in Six States and the threat isn't over yet ABC News meteorologist Samara Theodore is in Bartlesville Oklahoma right in the middle of the path of this storm over the past few days what's the situation like where you.
Are Terry Kira well that same hotel that's where I'm standing right now and power Crews cleanup Crews they're well underway getting this town back on its feet but it was a different story last night folks were terrified and rightfully so I even spoke with one couple who had brought their kids here from Barn they were trying to escape the.
Tornado there they ended up trying to seek Refuge here at this hotel my car was actually right here and so we all jumped in my car and we just headed south we actually saw um you know obviously it was dark but in the lightning flashes we actually could see you know the clouds coming down or whatever behind us so yeah it was pretty.
Intense yeah pretty scary stuff there uh and you know the latest update with the National Weather Service out of Tulsa they've been doing survey damage to the South west of barnesdale and they've seen that there could be ef3 damage or equivalent ef3 damage on the ground of course that subject to change as they continue to do the survey throughout the.
Evening all right so I know you've been following all the threats out there with regard to severe weather across the country not just where you are what can you tell us Samara okay so the latest update coming in is this tornado watch that's been issued so what you're looking at right now is Chicago Illinois Chicago get.
Ready you have a torn watch in effect until 9:00 p.m. and it's not just there it includes cities like Indianapolis uh Springfield Southbend Bloomington as we head through the evening and that's because the same line of storms that hit Oklahoma has now made its way farther Eastward as it continues its March supercells will be popping up 700 p.m.
From Indiana down into parts of uh Tennessee and we're going to see the threat for storms continuing overnight in the Ohio and Tennessee Valley just around midnight now the biggest threat tonight for tornadoes is in this little orange Zone you're seeing here that stretches from Fort Wayne to Columbus Cincinnati louville and then tomorrow we.
Have another threat that includes Little Rock Nashville and Louisville Kira Terry all right Samar Theodore thank you very much for your reporting and your explanation of what's going on with this wild weather out there Samara thank you so police are continuing to tighten security at colleges and campuses across the country today as protesters are.
Continuing to try to take back those in ments President Biden spoke at a holocaust remembrance event today and he said there's been a furious surge of anti-Semitism in the United States and around the world in America we respect and protect the fundamental right to free speech to debate and.
Disagree to protest peacefully and make our voices heard but there is no place on any campus in America any place in America for anti-Semitism or hate speech or threats of violence of any kind that from the president meanwhile back on campus in Massachusetts protesters at MIT broke through.
Barricades to retake an encampment after they had been ordered to leave campus in California dozens of protesters were detained at UCLA yesterday and classes were held remotely the LAPD is also joining the school in an investigation into an attack on protesters last week let's bring in our Jaclyn Lee she's been following the story uh from our La.
Bureau so Jacqueline let's just talk about the latest on the LAPD the UCLA working together on this investigation and what more we know about this attack on the protesters that's right K look so the UCLA Chancellor sent out a note saying that the university is going to be partnering not only with the LAPD but.
Also the FBI and also the LA District Attorney's office to charge those who were part of the violent protest that we saw last week now what happened is if you remember UCLA came under Fire because for more than an hour violence broke out on campus and nothing was done the LAPD actually sent out a message saying that they could not respond.
Because UCLA has their own uh police force and so now UCLA drew a lot of criticism because of that so the chancellor is saying not only are they working to hold those responsible who caused all of that violence but they're also looking into their own uh campus safety response team and why it reacted the way it did and what they can do to.
Fix that moving forward guys lot of lessons to be learned there for sure Jacqueline now I guess there are new protests popping up at colleges in Southern California today as this this movement which once again represents still a pretty small minority of colleges and University across the country but it's very passionate very.
Determined very organized well what's the latest on what's happening in Southern California that's right Terry this happened at Pomona College so we have dozens of pro Palestinian protesters ERS who took to the commencement stage they've set up camp as you can see there and they said they are not leaving until the college divest.
From Israeli companies they say that these companies are funding the genocide in Gaza pomot College will have their commencement later this week um the university has responded they said that students certainly have a right to free speech and that college leaders are willing to meet with these protesters and continue to do so but at a certain.
Point I mean safety is the number one priority so ultimately we'll see what ends up happening this is why you've seen a series of of colleges and universities across the country cancel their overall University graduation ceremonies because they are concerned about safety guys yeah that 18yearold 18year Journey that that.
Students or 22y old Journey that students and their families take at a lot of places it won't be commemorated or celebrated because of this uh that's the cost of these protest Jaclyn Lee thanks very much coming up behind closed doors congressman margerie Taylor green and speaker Mike Johnson meet for 90 minutes.
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Love to be a fly on the wall for this conversation the speaker Mike Johnson and congresswoman margorie Taylor green meeting for 90 minutes today you know Green continues to make that threat that she wants to oust Johnson from his speakership and one vote can do it and the house can make that proposal at today's meeting Congressman green.
Congresswoman green issued her List of Demands that speaker of the house Johnson must meet her must meet her demands in order to vote on her motion to vacate that is what they call this effort to OU the speaker these are not unreasonable requests these are the right things to do these are the right things to do for.
Our conference and our Republican speaker who ran through the Democrat agenda should be able to get it done uh Jo O'Brien's on Capital Hill following all the latest developments as he does so J speaker Mike Johnson representative Margarie Taylor green the had their second meeting today tell us about what's going on there well they.
Met yesterday for about 2 hours today they met for 90 minutes and and they're no closer to any kind of agreement although congresswoman green said the meeting was productive but she also looks no closer guys to calling for an actual vote on whether or not Mike Johnson should be outed a speaker she promised to call a vote this week but.
Now they're in these ongoing talks which frankly weren't expected to really come about this week and now it's unclear if there's ever going to be a vote on Johnson's future so green has issued her List of Demands for Johnson what are they and is he even listening to her well she's got four demands one is to return to.
Something called the hter rule rule which means a majority of the majority has to support every piece of legislation a majority of Republicans she also wants no more funding for Ukraine to come out of this Congress she wants severe spending cuts When government funding expires in September and she wants to defund the special.
Counsel Jack Smith is Prosecuting former president Trump so those demands though guys they are somewhat new she only released that List of Demands publicly today and she's been working for months she says to try to oust Mike Johnson I think it's important to remember the timeline forgive me bear with me because it is long but it's important she.
Started this effort in late March of this year after Johnson partnered with Democrats to pass Government funding she files this motion to vacate Johnson but she doesn't call for a vote to oust him she in says hold she instead holds that possibility of a vote over his head and then fisa comes up that foreign warrantless surveillance act it comes up.
For reauthorization green opposes that reauthorizing that passes but green still doesn't call a vote she to Al Johnson she still holds that vote over his head then Ukraine Aid passes green opposes that but she still doesn't call a vote instead she says she's going to let the house go out on vacation and when everybody comes back she might call.
A vote then then they all come back back and she still doesn't call a vote she then holds a press conference this is last week in which she said she's going to call a vote this week on Johnson's future and she still looks no closer guys to calling that vote this week yeah it sounds like the congressman cried wolf a little bit and it's one thing to.
Play wacka speaker uh when it's not an election year like she did like she in the other but but this is an election year ABC News can confirm that Donald Trump does not want her to do this and has been in contact with that may be the reason for putting on breaks there J O'Brien thank you for that Crystal Clear description as always thanks for.
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Alleged encounter with Trump triggered this case Daniels took the stand and described in detail the alleged sexual relationship she says she had with the presumptive Republican nominee and the subsequent hush money that prosecutors say she was paid in exchange for her Silence about that encounter earlier the judge shut down a move by Trump's team.
For mistrial after attorneys tried to argue that Daniel's explicit and prejudicial testimony today has quote nothing to do with this case Ukrainian counter intelligence officials say they foiled a Russian plot to assassinate Ukrainian president vomir zalinski and other top military and political figures the plot was alleged to have Tak place.
Before the inauguration of Russian President Vladimir Putin into his fifth term on Tuesday two Ukrainian Colonels were arrested on suspicion of treason a charge that carries a life sentence in Ukraine and Toronto police are investigating a shooting that took place outside hipop artist Drake's mansion in Toronto earlier this morning the.
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Tuesday we do have some medical headlines to talk about specifically there is a option for people trying to quit vaping or cigarettes talk to us about what this option is so this is an interesting medication um and the results of this clinical trial just published in jamama Internal Medicine this is a drug called cytosine that's.
What it's known as it's in phase three clinical trials now it's a plant-based um natural medication clinical trials um most recently reported put this drug up against uh Placebo in a 12we clinical trial um they looked at about 131 adults who Vaped daily and want wanted to quit and what they found is that taking this.
Medication doubled their odds of quitting side effects were mild nausea abdominal pain um or discomfort and insomnia or some disruption of their sleep pattern um but I think the take-home Point here is that for people who are addicted to smoking whether that's combustible cigarettes or eigs there are medications that can help them.
Quit and as you guys have probably heard me say before the average person who quits tries seven times so do not give up that was my next question so what are some of the ways that we can stop using you know ecigarettes and vaping you know everyone's different sometimes they rely on pharmacologic medication uh to manage it sometimes they do a you know a mind.
Kind of meditation uh hypnosis but trial and error support groups work um setting a date holding yourself accountable but the key is do not give up do not give up y all right doc thank you very much all right Morgan nor W is in the house always good to see you my friend with a look at the headlines exactly so good to.
See you guys all right we got a lot to get to and we do begin with that dangerous weather on the move our Ginger Z is in hard hit Oklahoma here on the site of the Barnes doll Oklahoma tornado just one of the homes destroyed all of the contents of the home here sh throughout the trees you can see that truck is crushed.
Another home over there people are really just starting to take it in and we have a whole another day here this afternoon we'll erupt in parts of the Ohio River Valley it includes IND Indianapolis and Lexington Columbus too but that huge area keeps going on Wednesday a new storm comes in Little Rock in Memphis at the center of it but.
A lot of people are going to be involved for a very destructive week ahead yeah and for round two Ginger thank you other headlines to get to ABC confirms a second American has just been arrested in Russia that is an addition to us staff sergeant Gordon black who was brought into custody last week now officials say black had traveled to.
Eastern Russia without permission it was then arrested there his mother says that he was visiting woman that he met at a bar while stationed in South Korea all Americans have been advised to avoid travel in Russia and here at home in a New York City courtroom adult film actress Stormy Daniels is taking the stand today in the hush money criminal.
Trial of former president Donald Trump trump has until Friday to pay a tenth fine for gag order violations the judge saying Trump May Face Time behind bars if he continues to break the rules by making public comments about the jury and Witnesses Trump has denied all wrongdoing and let's talk the clashes Pro Palestinian demonstrators at the.
University of Chicago they are squaring off with police today at an encampment at Hyde Park other colleges facing new confrontations as more universities shift commencement plans in the light of rising tensions and a new government report is kicking up concerns about the possible future of Social Security and Medicare the Social Security trust fund.
Said to be on track to be depleted you heard that right about 11 years from now if shortfalls are not addressed former president Trump he said that he's open to Cuts in the programs that 70 million Americans have paid into and also rely on as they age meanwhile President Biden has said that he would not allow that all right guys let's talk sports say.
Hello to the new NBA Rookie of the Year San Antonio spray Victor wean Yama joining the ranks of legendary Talent making their mark on hardwood history that award has been given to a new player on the rise every year since way back to 1952 5 three season and the trophies could still keep coming in for him he's up for defensive player of the.
Year that's set to be announced today so the hype is real guys it is real I hear he's a gentle giant with a gentle soul he has definitely lived up to the hype in every way Morgan thank you thank you well there's much more right here on gma3 what we're now learning about the new possible progress toward a ceasefire in Gaza our team is on the ground in.
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Fabulous when it comes down to the way she treated us it was tough love you have trouble saying her name yeah I feel like I have trouble just talking about it in general we went through some severe drama together and we survived it people love drama and they love to see conflict and Abby was great at that do you think that you would take back some.
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City of Rafa the IDF now taking control of the critical Rafa Crossing and carrying out air strikes now the capture happening seven months after the deadly attacks that ignited Israel's war against Hamas and joining us now from Tel Aviv is our friend foreign correspondent Marcus Moore Marcus always good to see you and we'll start with.
This so what's the latest on the military operation there and what's the end goal for the Israeli offensive DeMarco this operation got underway overnight and and it included air strikes tanks and Soldiers on the ground they took control of the rougher Crossing as you just mentioned which is a key route for Aid going into Gaza and.
We saw a remarkable image this morning uh Israeli Flags now flying on the Palestinian side of the border the IDF though emphasizing that this operation is precise and it's also limited so it's not a widespread operation on the entire city and of course it's coming in the midst of increased International pressure from.
Governments and also a group groups that have been imploring Israel to ensure that innocent civilians are protected now this operation no doubt affects the much needed influx of Aid going into Gaza and today some are suggesting that the Rafa operation may also be a tool to put pressure on Hamas uh during those critical hostage negotiations that.
Continue this morning let's talk about that humanitarian issue thousands of Palestinians who are in Rafa they have nowhere to go what does all of this mean for the humanity Arian crisis that we've been hearing about well Eva it's still unfolding in a very real way uh we do know that Israel less than 24 hours before the ground.
Operation started they did drop flyers in eastern Rafa urging people to evacuate to an expanded humanitarian Zone and they also told Aid groups to to move away from that area as well um now this is a part of an effort on the part of Israeli officials as well to facilitate uh the work to set up field hospitals and Tents and also to repair.
Water supply uh to part of that area uh but but Eva there's so much concern about the the innocent families that have been caught in the middle of this many of them who went to Rafa because of the fighting in the central part of Gaza into the North and now many of them are having to move all over again and speaking of concern how does this impact.
Ceasefire talks and also hostage negotiations yeah well DeMarco it's important to to point out at this point that the negotiations are are continuing and uh even with the Rafa operation that that is underway but there is some concern that perhaps uh this could um have an impact on on the negotiations which by the way just to give you some.
Background on what Hamas has agreed to they have agreed to a deal that includes three phases the first one starting with a sixe ceasefire and then the release of Palestinian prisoners in exchange for 33 hostages but this morning the the exact details how many hostages uh and when and where um there's that's where some distance uh is between all the sides and.
And Hamas is also asking for the IDF to pull its troops uh back towards the the Gaza border allowing displaced Palestinians to travel freely from south to North uh and just some of the other major sticking points are are really about the end of this war Hamas has been calling for a permanent end to Israel's bombardment uh that is something that.
Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said they will not agree to so there's been a lot of back and forth on this uh and Israel has said that the the counter proposal from Hamas uh does not meet Israel's core demands and the world is watching Marcus yeah thank thank you forign correspondent Marcus Moore for that report and just ahead here on gma3.
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Blake newbie Blake always good to see you looking lovely yourself I showed up on theme I figured it was only appropriate for for today at least no of course we should let our viewers know that this dress comes with a brush as well it does we've been brushing the dress all the springe it's been it's been giving us a.
Time this morning making it work we are making do so this year's theme was the Garden of Time how did we get to the Garden so last night there two things cuz I think people are a little confused so last night was actually in celebration of the costume institute's new exhibition which is entitled Sleeping Beauties Reawakening f fion the.
The dress code for last night kind of followed that so that's how we got to the Garden of time it's inspired by JG Ballard's 1962 short story and it was interpreted many ways some were literal and some celebrities really took some creative license but let's talk about that interpretation us through some of the looks so some of our favorites from.
Last night of course we have to talk about the co-chair zindaa who gave us not one but two looks her first look was Meson Marella it was absolutely fabulous definitely a darker take I think Garden at night her second look was xoni with a fabulous Alexander McQueen hat okay let's talk about the fellas if we can I loved coin.
Domingo Tom Fort never misses but he didn't have on Tom Fort last night Usher did well as well he did he so everybody looked fabulous and what the men did was it they kind of added flowers to their tuxes particularly we saw it on the lapel so Coleman Domingo he definitely went bigger there was a fabulous black tulip you know Tom Ford he kind of.
Adorned the lapel with you know a bunch of different pins but overall the men really took it last night I really feel like the guys have been stepping up their game at these red carpets oh absolutely and I really feel like you cannot talk about men's fashion these days without talking about like the colemans and and things like that okay.
We got to talk about the other women though cuz there were lots of pretty dresses we do sorry we do I know we have to go back to the ladies 30 seconds in so of course we have to talk about Gigi Hadid who was a vision in Tom Brown of course I love the front but to me the best part was when she turned around there was this corset detailing that was.
Absolutely to die for we have to talk about Lana Del re who is in archive Alexander McQueen her interpretation again was more the trees the branches so not as much the flowers which we absolutely loved Taylor Russell of course as Le's Global brand ambassador was in Lev her bodice was made to imitate wood and that is really what.
Everyone was talking about of course the skirt was fabulous but it was that bodice that really did it what did you think about cardi B oh she looked fabulous incredible it was definitely nighttime dark Rose like it very much you know her and Tiana Taylor kind of leaned into the rose Tiana Taylor from Harlem leaned into her album A Rose from.
Harlem so the girls really leaned into roses and last but certainly not least was Tyler who leaned into the sands of time love she was in custom balmont and had to be carried up the steps because she could not move in the dress uh so she was carried up all the way to the top there are a lot of steps it it there were a lot of steps but it looked like.
There were four or five gentlemen that made sure that she she made it up where she needed to go your best who were your best dress for the night so my best dress I have to say Demi Moore and Harris Reed was absolutely fantastic definitely a literal interpretation but I think of resounding from my group chats to Instagram to Twitter it looks.
Like Demi Moore was the winner but on the men's side it was bad bunny in marel he was incredible yeah bun absolutely incredible and what I also loved about B bunny was he did all of his interviews last night in Spanish even to those English show it was such a vision last night I love that love to see it and we love you too you know I love you all yes.
Who your best dress my best dress was Deborah Roberts Deborah Roberts yeah she looked good flowers on this dress Y and if you follow her on Instagram you followed the whole like evening with her yes also you know how much she loves and respects the art that that's fashion it's a long day it's a long the long long we only see the beauty of it BL.
Again thank you very much we appreciate it for still ahead on gma3 a little chair yoga with Dr Jen Ashton we're going to talk about the surprising health benefits what a major voice in the Latino Community Lis a Miranda Jr reflects on a lifetime of political activism when we come.
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Killed four students and wounded others there's a myth that the shooter just snaps it's just not true there are always signs he was crying for help and being ignored he had pictures of a Target on his bedroom wall shell casings on his nightstand the very toxic turbulent relationship those people are yikes the.
Life they lived was just crazy the sex sting and the really terrible things they' video of their sexual acts they purchased that gun for him with his money and bragged about it they're being told by a school counselor that he thinks their son's going to kill himself and they do nothing as soon as I heard they were called to the school.
That day the messages about lol don't get caught those were very very concerning to me that's the moment that no juror is going to think well haven't we all been there here's what it is I got it they do not seem shocked about him having the gun there was no shock zero zero School Distributors aren't created they're made and it's made over.
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To visit Elmo and Sesame Street tomorrow on Good Morning America you heard Elmo back now with Dr Jen and we are talking about missusa choosing to step down citing that she has some mental health issues she needs to yeah I and I think when this story hit the headlines the first thing I thought of we will never really understand or or.
Probably appreciate the positive effect and impact that this had on so many people of all ages of all backgrounds who hear this story and think wow this is someone who achieved her dream um it's a one-year term am I right you know and and felt that she could not continue that one year because of mental health issues and what it looks like to.
Prioritize your own health and well-being above anything else when mental illness gets in the way of someone's ability to go about not just their day-to-day activities but to actually do their job it is as life-threatening and as severe as untreated diabetes uncontrolled high blood.
Pressure and and could be potentially like that life-threatening so whether it's a professional athlete or someone in a public position or someone who's not in a public position who just says I have to step back and take care of myself um that is called being a role model and it and it's I mean of course I'm sorry to hear that she was going.
Through this but she is truly living up to her title in leading by example and she's not alone we've seen it happen on on a global stage noi osaki and also Simone biles why is it important real quick for us to take a break I I I think when you feel that you can't do your job um whatever that job is because you are suffering hour to hour minute to minute.
Day to day that that's a medical emergency and we have to take it as such so this is a great example emergency that's the key word there doc thank you we're back in a moment why do so many people start their day here from ABC News this is start here to be in the know and get a.
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Your daily first listen now that's a part of the story I bet you didn't see coming wherever you get your podcasts start here hello I'm Terry Moran and you're watching ABC News live former president Donald Trump today came face to face with adult film actress stormmy Daniels.
The woman who's alleged sexual encounter with Trump and his alleged efforts to keep it secret triggered this case court has just wrapped up for the day adjourned for the day and on cross-examination Trump's defense lawyer suggested that Stormy Daniels profited from this alleged encounter uh she even asked her if she was trying to extort.
Money from Donald Trump so it was a contentious day big day in court let's bringing AB news investigative reporter Olivia Rubin outside the courthouse along with legal contributor and law professor Kimberly wayy who often joins us for this case so Olivia where do things stand in court right now you just hit on the point that.
Trump's attorneys hit on at the end of the day Terry which is trying to frame Donald Trump as the victim of extortion it is not the first time that we have heard them bring this up they essentially did the same to stormy daniels's attorney who brokered that deal for her so they are clearly trying to paint Donald Trump as the victim here.
Not someone that wanted to pay this off but someone who was extorted for $130,000 but Terry the bigger picture of the cross-examination today really was the attempt to make stormmy Daniels seem as least credible as they possibly could they tried to make it seem like she was extorting Trump like she hated Donald Trump like she wanted to see him in.
Prison and poking holes in much of her Story related to their interactions throughout the years and I see we have Donald Trump coming out right now looks like he's coming to camera so we'll see what he says if he talks about Stormy Daniels at all revealing today as you see their Cas is totally falling apart they have.
Nothing on books and records and even something that should bear very little relationship to the case uh it's just a disaster for the DA for the Soros da it's a disaster this whole case is just a disaster if you read the legal Scholars you'll see because they're writing about it they've never seen anything quite like it and.
Neither have I I should be out campaigning right now we're leading in all the polls I'd like to be campaigning we be leading by a lot more but I just want to appreciate I appreciate the job you're doing it's not easy standing there all day waiting but you're hearing the same things that we're hearing uh on another matter as you know it's Bon.
Uh backers that seem to be funding the what's going on with the Palestinians the probably not Palestinians they uh agitators bad agitators really bad and I think our government ought to find out who they are where they're from and treat them the same way as they do the j6 hostages uh you got to treat them the same way these are agitators they're.
Really hurting our country it's happening all over the country and cities so what happened last night at the Metropolitan Museum these are agitators and in some of the colleges I think it's about 20% student and 80% others so this is a big problem but they better nip it on the butt and it's a problem from the left not from the right.
This is a problem from the left and uh I hope you could have stress that uh the economy is not doing well you see inflation is through the roof they're not going to be able to lower interest rates if they do it's purely political but it'll be very bad if they do from the standpoint of getting rid of inflation you have to get rid of the.
Inflation inflation as you probably have heard me say it's a country Buster it busts countries and it has for a thousand years you go back and you look at all right there's uh pres former president Donald Trump uh taking advantage of the cameras here to to make some political points on the unrest on college campuses and on the inflation as.
Is right of course he's running for president on the Republican ticket this year you also heard him speak very briefly about what happened in court today saying uh that it the testimony today particularly of adult film actress Stormy Daniels who alleged sexual encounter with Trump and his alleged effort to keep it secret are really at.
The heart of this case he said that uh that this was an unwarranted basically uh part of the testimony that it didn't matter and I want to turn to law professor Kim wayy on that question which came up in a for mistrial today after the direct examination of stormmy Daniels Trump's lawyers said you know this is irrelevant to the crimes alleged.
Which are falsifying business records and uh campaign Finance violations the acts Daniel Daniels described gleefully in salacious detail I might add uh are happened before Trump uh before the acts alleged in the indictment and that their relationship is pretty tenuous and I just want to show you the the the US the New York state court that just tossed.
Out the uh conviction of Harvey Weinstein the Hollywood producer uh based on testimony from women that they believe he also behav miss poorly with them the the court says under our system of justice the accused has a right to be held to account only for the crime charged and thus allegations of Prior bad acts may not be admitted against.
Them for the sole purpose of establishing a propensity of for criminality or just to damage their reputation now the prosecution has a reason to bring this stuff in but is there a point that the defense has that really there's a mountain of case law in every state in the federal uh courts that you can't really just throw in sex.
To dirty up a defendant well lots to unpack there Terry uh definitely a distinction between the Harvey Weinstein case and this one in that as you indicated in the Harvey Weinstein case the issue was that they uh had women testifying as to their sexual encounters with Harvey Weinstein to demonstrate that this was a pattern.
In practice of abusing women here Stormy Daniels is testifying to the encounter that the prosecution alleges was so bad that Trump and his campaign wanted to keep it away from the voters so it is establishing that the reason behind the falsification of business record so in that regard it straight up does go to the part of the case I think the problem.
Is that the testimony went into some detail where she talked about um being invited to dinner there was no dinner uh that he you know he blocked the door when she tried to leave that he was in his underwear things like that that um there were the judge even suggested there could have been more defense objections made that it was crossing the.
Line between uh the the sexual encounter according to her that could have harmed the camp according to the prosecution and you know a different kind of story that really looks very bad for the former president if it it crosses a boundary between consent and non not consent I don't think this is mistrial uh you know area the judge.
Could and as indicated could just give the jury a limiting instruction but it definitely gives the the defense a an issue for appeal and they did preserve that by moving for mistrial yeah that was thank you that was very uh clearly explained and I do I do think we're likely to see some part of stormmy Daniel's testimony today.
Raised on appeal if there is is a conviction Kim thank you let's go to Olivia now about Trump look this is this is a testimony that he has dreaded now since this indictment came down how did he handle it in court well he seemed to be growing more agitated as the testimony went on for there was a long part of the testimony.
In the beginning where he did not even seem like he was looking at Stormy Daniels something we saw earlier with the testimony of Hope pick that Donald Trump perhaps something is going on where he cannot even bear to look at the witness or the jury and take in the testimony that is happening before him but of course as that testim testimony.
Grew more and more graphic Donald Trump was hitting his attorneys asking for those objections which of course we heard from the judge they were few and far between so clearly something he would not be happy with and I will say just having you know been in the courtroom for that when Donald Trump because you know he comes and goes with.
His Entourage throughout the breaks and the lunches and when they first got up for that break at in the morning session and as well as the lunch some of them looked as if they had seen a ghost Harry it was so intense it was so damning inside of that courtroom many people could not believe what they were even hearing about a former president who was.
In the courtroom with his family and some campaign staff hearing about a sexual encounter and I think something that we saw also when Donald Trump just went to the cameras at the end of the day there he seemed quite uh deflated almost because remember he is not allowed to talk about Stormy Daniels he is the subject of the gag order and she.
Is protected so knowing Donald Trump you'd have to think that all he wants to do after sitting inside of that courtroom for you know 8 hours y'all let people do the math is come out and and defend himself on what he claims to be lies yet he is unable to do that Terry yeah that was a great description Olivia that I want to take that back to Kim so.
Kim what she described about the jury and about people almost white-faced hearing you know not just details about there's no dinner but the position that the two were in during the ACT irrelevant to anything in this business records campaign Finance case and one does wonder if that's the kind of thing that an appeals court if there is a.
Conviction and an appeal in this case would say that just is too prejudicial that the the no matter who the defendant is the defendants do have a right of protection from the court for just essentially being indicted for being bad human beings or being convicted of being bad human beings yeah again I I that is a great.
Articulation I think of what if if he's convicted the defense might argue on appeal or argue uh in in a post- trial motion or to the jury um but you know sometimes Witnesses can't be controlled and that is a word that judge marchan used uh with respect to Stormy Daniels herself today some of the testimony got heated on.
Cross-examination and she told her story in her own words and I think an Appel Court understands uh that you cannot script Witnesses you can prep Witnesses I know she was cross-examined uh on the question of whether she was prepped and good lawyers always ask witnesses to walk through their story story and in advance they don't tell them what to say.
Uh but they give them some rehearsal so you know it is a high-profile case Terry and um and you know Donald Trump has excellent lawyers but again I think it's the the idea that it's so prejudicial that the entire trial needs to be thrown out that's unlikely but we're still a you know a few weeks out there's a lot more that can that can happen between.
Now and the end and an appeal if he's convicted is going to include all of the alleged transgressions by the prosecution and and by the judge if the judge's rulings according to the defendant are not consistent with his constitutional rights that's a great point in relationship to in relation to the trial itself but I think also in.
Relation as we all have understood since he came down that escalator there's a lot that can happen between now and the end whenever that is Olivia Rubin and Kimberly wayy thank you very much and thank you for streaming with us I'm Terry Moran the news never stops and we'll be right back.
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Competition to date and she's joed us now to show us how to make a special dish in honor of Asian-American native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month please welcome Chef Esther Choy congratulations you've had a baby since the last oh gosh yes I did have a baby and did a 24-hour cooking.
Competition show that's a thing Cong Mama Super Mom love to see it so what are we making today so we are making kimchi Mac and beef so kimchi Mac and beef this is kind of like my to my Korean ameran upbringing so a classic American dish kind of like mac and beef um like Hamburger Helper you will you know something that I grew up eating but.
Adding you know a Korean flare and it gives like a different dimension to the dish and it's awesome let's get to it let's get to it okay so we have some oil and it's a really easy dish you know uh it's comes together in like 15 20 minutes kids love it and that's how you get your kids to eat Kim you know like like I love to say um you want to add.
Some onion and some yeah just throw it in there all those sorry not trying to I cook a lot some onion and then garlic a whole of it or just a little yeah just all I like garlic you know I like to add a lot of it like for people CL around to eat the garlic as well of course and so is this something quick.
That we can put together together especially for parents who have small kids I would say so 15 20 minutes as soon as your pasta is cooked the sauce should be ready we add kimchi and kimchi gives this amazing delicious depth of flavor and that's sort of like my secret ingredient when I cook I love to add kimchi to different dishes that is not.
Only Korean but a lot of my American dishes like my pasta instead of adding onion I if I don't have an onion kimchi I have he was even tapping she's like okay and then after the onions kind of get soft you then come to the protein and you can add beef uh which I love to do but you can also add ground chicken ground turkey whatever yeah exactly any.
Any ground meat you want and of course bacon bacon cuz you know bacon makes everything Koreans love some pork man I know we love we do love our pork and I feel like the bacon is just you know giv that Smoky flavor it adds a lot of richness um that when you're making like quick sauces like this that's the way to go you want to Ed as much help as.
Possible fat is always good yes so that's going and then when that is kind of brown and sauteed you'll add the tomatoes as well okay so Tomatoes mix it all in there yes mix it all in there and then when it's kind of all cooked and ground up what it looks like this aming I mean this in itself with like a bowl of rice would be delicious right I mean.
For me anything with rice same um but kids love pasta maybe a little egg there you go little egg exactly um so from from here we're going to add a little bit of chicken stock okay and this is also another secret ingredient of mine sesame oil fish sauce oh fish sauce fish sauce fish sauce is kind of like that Umami MSG that adds like that like.
Flavor that you're like hm what is that it's fish sauce and then smoked paprika just a little bit just a little bit um if you like it spicy you can add a little more um and that's pretty much it you can you can add some salt and pepper I love that K that's the only thing I can say and then from here we're.
Just going to add our cooked pasta oh so you don't pour it over it you just mix it all in no you mix it all in because you do this because when you add the cheese you want everything to sort of like melt together so good the cheese makes it like this creamy like mac and cheese feel Che and kimchi I must tell you is the best it's a beautiful.
Marriage isn't it I asked you when you came up here I was like this makes me think of like the thy with the cheese yeah exactly and real quick tell us about the competition so it's 24 hours so 24 chefs 24 competitions and 24 hours so literally the chefs are cooking for 24 hours.
Straight without the co clock stopping at all oh wow a chance to win $50,000 in a trip to Hawaii $50,000 trip to Hawaii and then the coveted title of last Chef standing this is amazing this is so good is it good we we have to try the dish I will I will I definitely will try it so the finale is this Sunday at 8:00 p.m. on the Food Network and it's the last.
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If they like me or not they're fabulous when it comes down to the way she treated us it was tough love you have trouble saying her name yeah I feel like I have trouble just talking about it in general I'm not the bad guy I was the guy that made it happen do you think that you would take back some of the harshness when you look back Dance Moms.
Behind the curtain this is impact by night line now screaming on Hulu every Friday the hottest Trends Styles and must have it's time to buy the right stuff and save big time too the right Stu Fridays on GMA you're going to love it a box that would it would allow a person to travel across the multiple realities of quantum.
Physics and what if he used that box to travel to my world nice wow his American accent is good welcome back that was a clip from the highly anticipated Apple TV series dark matter it's a sci-fi thriller based on a best-selling novel by the same name and our next guest plays a professor who gets abducted into the alternate version.
Of his life please welcome Golden Globe nominated actor Joel ederton good to see you so tell us about Dark Matter What can we expect oh well yeah I mean just as you said it's it's it's about a it's it's essentially about a guy being kidnapped into a parallel universe I describe it as kind of a you know.
Multi- uh parallel universe version of a story that doesn't have superheroes it's more for the average family and what what it really is exploring is this question of you know is there something else that you could have been doing based on the choices you've made up until this point what else could you have.
And we get to see that that's an interesting question now my got my wheels going a little bit so the novel written by Blake Crouch uh who was also the showrunner the executive producer created this you were an executive producer I was an executive producer I I helped Blake um in the process of of turning the book into a.
Series uh which was wonderful to be there at the very beginning of that process I think Blake did everything and I think if Blake was a decent actor then I you'd be sitting here talking to him and I wouldn't I wouldn't be involved in a parallel universe and had you worked with him before no I hadn't worked with him I'd read the book I I'm a big.
Science fiction fan and I've been in a couple of Science Fiction things as an actor but not many but this one really grabbed me because of the real human questions that it asks and and there's a real opulence and Thriller aspect to the show but it's also got some really you know deep inner questions to it um I have a two-year-old and I know you have.
Little people as well I have two three almost three-year-olds so I have to ask you about blue yes we just had blue here um but you were a part of blue this is like a this was a big thing what was that like what did your almost three-year-olds think well when I when I went into it I was doing it cuz my niece was a huge fan and.
Then I had kids and then now I'm a small you know character on on Bluey you don't understand my kids half day I refer to them as Bingo and blue they dress just so hello hello um so but weirdly they don't they don't put the voice together with me they like that's Daddy I'm like short that right see they're already.
Not that's you know get get away from the TV you also got a big birthday coming up I do yeah 30 turning 30 30 yeah what are your plans man uh I'm going to have a big dinner and then uh I'll wait probably until I get back to Australia to have a big party cuz um that's where most of my close people are but yeah I I don't really celebrate.
Birthdays weirdly I think it's cuz I know my brother has a cache of terrible video and photos of me and I I didn't want to have a 21st cuz I knew he was going to pull it out and embarrass me and I think that's been a running theme in my life like don't celebrate birthdays this one was a big one you had to do something for this one.
Though I will I will I'll have a big dinner but I'll be with the people that are close to me and I might stretch it out you know one of those love that series of events sure why not so that you can be surrounded by the people that you like longer yeah in various continents I love that idea yeah we're available if you have some extra seats.
At the part three tickets B you're you're in you're well thank you so much for stopping by really lovely to meet you thank you thank um and dark matter premier globally tomorrow on Apple TV plus with new episodes streaming every Wednesday that is what you need to know for today I'm evil I'm DeMarco Morgan and I'm Dr Jen Ashton for all of us here.
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I'm Selena wanging in Washington right now on ABC News live the graphic testimony from Stormy Daniels taking the stand in Donald Trump's hush money trial what the adult film actress told the court going into Stark detail about her alleged affair with Trump and why his legal team says it's grounds for a.
Mistrial and the new severe weather threat after a deadly tornado outbreak cared a path of Destruction across several States we on the ground in Oklahoma with the latest time and track and Tik Tock fighting back against that potential ban in the US with the app and its parent company are claiming in a new lawsuit but we first begin with one of.
The most dramatic days of testimony yet wrapping up a short time ago in Donald Trump's hush money trial Trump leaving Court blasting the criminal case against him saying he should be up on the campaign Trail and inside the courtroom the former president coming face to face again with adult film actress storby Daniels the woman at the center of the.
Trial taking the stand sharing celicious details of alleged sexual encounter with Trump in a hotel room in 2006 Daniel's testifying she talked with Trump for about 2 hours then went to the bathroom and emerged to find him on the bed in boxer shorts and a t-shirt Trump denies the affair and Daniel's testimony prompting his defense team to file a.
Motion for a mistrial the judge denying the request joining me for more is ABC News investigative reporter Olivia Rubin live outside Court and ABC News legal contributor and law professor Kim wayy So Olivia just walk us through the key Revelations from Daniel's testimony and how did Trump's legal team try to attack her claims during the cross-.
Examination well you mentioned it Selena in your opening there about how she emerged from the bathroom to find former president Donald Trump almost entirely undressed on the bed and I believe that what Donald Trump's team what the prosecutors what the judge and the jury were not expecting to here was just how far she was going to go in describing.
What occurred next she quite literally detailed positions that her and the former president were in uh where she was looking during their alleged sexual encounter she truly spared no detail despite the fact that the judge had previously said that those details were not going to be relevant to the case and Donald Trump appeared uh increasingly.
Frustrated as she went through those details at times the jury appearing surprised but late in in to every single thing she told them down to a remarking conversation she had with Donald Trump after the encounter where he called her honey bunches she literally included every single detail that she could remember and as you said so much so that.
It prompted the mistrial request from Donald Trump's attorney specifically Selena because Stormy Daniels is recounting of that encounter did sort of have undertones of some sort of lack of con sent with the allegations which is a far cry from what she has previously said before of course that that request was denied uh and so she will continue.
With her testimony yet again on Thursday and Olivia critically what did we learn from Daniels testifying about that deal to keep her silent about the alleged Affair that she took it she walked through the contract with the jury she showed them her signature she said that ultimately by the time she took the deal that she wanted the money and that her.
Story would not have to come out and that is what she told the jury and she also corroborated earlier testimony that Donald Trump and Michael Cohen missed the deadline to pay her that $130,000 uh payment something that her attorney previously told the jury led him to believe that Michael Cohen the attorney for Donald Trump really was not.
In charge here it was Donald Trump that needed to authorize the funds putting him right there in the middle of that scheme and Kim we just heard Olivia there talking about some of the very graphic and unexpected salacious details here now Trump's lawyers arguing all of that was unnecessary and that this case is really about an accounting issue so.
Just how damaging was Daniel's testimony for Trump well we'll have to see how the jury constru it it was also uh reported in Olivia noses that the the the defense lawyers did not object um as vociferously as one might expect so whether that is preserved for appeal um assuming if you know if he's convicted.
Is a question on the other hand the defense was in a difficult position because they don't want to seem like they're trying to hide something uh so how damaging it it does go to the very the question of whether this occurred therefore there was a reason to try to cover it up for in in the leadup to the election so that timeline is extremely.
Important but as Olivia indicated there's a there's a space between telling the story for purposes of the falsification of business records which is really what the crime is here and uh and something that's prejudicial um but her testifying that he he delayed the payment arguably goes to the government's case that Donald Trump was.
Holding out until after the election that it really that was the critical timeline that distinguishes this payment to Stormy Daniels from the caran McDougall payment that happened back uh in the August of that year August of 2016 remember Access Hollywood tape was November October 7th this came right after that Olivia and Kim thank you both.
And now to the deadly weather outbreak in the Heartland at least 19 tornadoes were reported in seven states within the last 24 hours including Iowa Nebraska Kansas Missouri Tennessee and South Dakota but the most destructed storm appeared to have been in Oklahoma north of Tulsa where major damage has been reported and at least one person was.
Killed that video was taken by someone staying at a hotel in Oklahoma showing the moment of impact from one of those tornadoes ABC News meteorologist Samara Theodor joins me now from hard hit Bartlesville Oklahoma so Samara what are you seeing on the ground there just how badly was that area.
Hit well Kaa I'm actually standing in front of that hotel you were speaking about and if you can look around me you can hear the power Crews the cleanup Crews they're here doing their best to get this area back on the ground but yesterday last night a different story we still have those 2x4s lodged in the side of the wall they projected because.
Of the tornado there and I actually spoke with a family they talked about how they left Barn uh barnsdale in order to come up here to escape the tornado just to seek refuge in this hotel hit hard my car was actually right here and so we all jumped in my car and we just headed south we actually saw um you know obviously it was dark.
But in the lightning flashes we actually could see you know the clouds coming down or whatever behind us so yeah it was pretty intense and after speaking with Josh and Jenny it was apparent that they were really overcome with emotion understandably so but one sentiment they really had was that of gratitude happy.
Just to be alive with their kids and Samar we can see that the heartland's already seen that extreme weather but where is this storm system heading next well Selena this storm system has already begun its March Eastward take a look at this map the latest is we have a tornado watch that is now expanded so it includes cities like Chicago now Toledo.
Ohio we're already seeing tornado warnings on the ground just north of South Ben and Bloomington uh there this is until 11: p.m. by about 7 p.m. tonight these storms are really firing up the atmosphere is Juiced and we could see some strong tornadoes possibly popping for some of these thunderstorms supercells developing then by about.
Midnight this makes its way through the Ohio Valley Crossing parts of Kentucky as well and down into Tennessee as far as the threat zone if you look at the area in Orange from Fort Wayne to louville that's where we have the highest risk for tornadoes today but there's also a threat for storms tomorrow the severe weather threat.
Tomorrow sits in Little Rock St Louis Louisville right on into Nashville but we could also see large hail and damaging winds as far south as Huntsville Alabama Selena Samara thank you for that and now to the Middle East where tensions are growing after Israel's military entered Eastern Rafa overnight.
In what it calls a precise operation Israel Defense Forces today saying it is targeting Hamas in a counterterrorism mission including air strikes and on the ground troops Israeli tanks also taking operational control of the Gaza side of the Rafer border crossing with Egypt military officials accusing Kamas of using the crossing for quote terrorist.
Purposes but the crossing is a main entry point for Aid to the more than 1 million displaced Palestinians living in tents and overcrowded Apartments caught in the middle of the war and left with nowhere to go this is happening a day after Hamas said it accepted a proposal for a ceasefire deal but Israel saying that it was not the same proposal that.
Was under discussion and that significant gaps remain Israeli Minister Benny gance today saying that negotiators will work to get a deal done ABC News forign correspondent Marcus Moore is in Tel Aviv with the latest Selena the operation in Rafa is is ongoing Israel carrying out air strikes and going into Eastern Rafa with.
Tanks they took control of the key Rafa Crossing and we have seen images of Israeli Flags waving on the Palestinian side of the border Israel has has described this operation as limited and precise but for the first time Israeli officials are tying the operation to the hostage negotiations Israel's defense minister said today that the operation.
In Rafa will not stop until the elimination of Hamas in the area or the Return of the first abductee to Israel and he added that we are ready to make compromises he said in order to bring back the hostages but if this option is not available we will go go in and deepen the operation throughout the strip and Selena this may be the.
Clearest sign yet that Israel is ready to seriously negotiate with Hamas as this crisis continues to unfold here in the Middle East Selena Marcus thank you for that and I now want to take this conversation to Republican senator Joanie Ern joining me live from Capitol Hill Senator thank you so much for joining us I first want to ask you about.
Your reaction to Israel Moving it to Eastern Rafa and how does this impact ceasefire negotiations yeah thank you Selena very much and I was able to be with the prime minister in Israel over the weekend and we discussed the actions in Rafa number one we have to get the hostages back we still have eight American hostages that.
Are being held three of them are deceased as we know but five We Believe are still living um Israel feels that this is the only opportunity they have to take out Hamas uh this is the leverage they have to get those hostages back and when they feel that America and other allies have abandoned them they have to figure out what works best for.
Them Joe Biden has been signaling to the administration in Israel that we do not have the Ironclad stance to stand by them that Joe Biden proclaims um he has stated that he will withhold ammunition from Israel and that is very unfortunate it truly caught us off guard as we were visiting in Israel with the Prime Minister but again they need leverage to.
Work against Hamas we cannot forget that it was Hamas that perpetrated those crimes on October 7th and Senator on that point you you actually penned a letter to President Biden with your colleague about uh saying that the White House failed to notify Congress about ammunition being withheld from Israel so the White House they will not confirm.
That to us they have not confirmed that now have you received any confirmation that the Biden Administration did in fact hold back ammunition from Israel we have not received confirmation yet and you would think that a letter penned by two senators as they are sitting in Israel hearing these reports would receive a respon resp and yet we have.
Not heard from the administration so it's very concerning when President Joe Biden was pushing so heavily on the supplemental package just a few weeks ago urging us to get this done because the issue was urgent so we did pass the supplemental including dollars for Ukraine for Taiwan for our own industrial base and of course for Israel.
And again President Joe Biden he is the one that said our support to Israel is iron clad and yet here he is waffling on support to Israel we should not be bending we should make sure that Israel is able to defeat the terrorist threat um and especially at a time when they are being targeted directly by Iran as well we should be stepping up and.
Helping our partner and only Democratic Ally in the Middle East Israel but Senator does it concern you at all that Israel did not provide the Pentagon or the white house with a credible plan on how its military is going to keep civilians safe before its troops started moving into Eastern Rafa Rafa is where more than a million civilians are.
Sheltering well I don't know that that is true because certainly as uh Senator Ted bud and I were visiting with the Prime Minister uh they were able to outline to us everything that they had done to warn the civilians in Rafa to ask them to move to the north and this was done days ahead of any action at Rafa um so they are giving plent PL of.
Warning to those uh innocent civilians that might be gathered in the south at Rafa um so I think we need to be careful with our messaging understanding that Israel is very concerned about innocent civilian life they are also very concerned about the hostages that are still being held by Hamas um and yet Hamas is using the civilians they are.
Using the hostages as human Shields so let's not forget who the enemy is the enemy is Hamas the enemy is Iran the enemy is Hezbollah um I uh Israel has been warning us they've warned the civilians they have told us of what their plans are I think if we knew what the plans are certainly those civilians knew what the plans were Senator based.
On the meetings that you just had in the region do you believe that what we're seeing is just the beginning of a broader ground invasion in Rafa or do you think this is going to stay targeted as the Biden Administration wants and has been pushing for well it certainly could be the beginning of a broader action but then that is up to Hamas as.
Well are they willing to negotiate and release those hostages we need those hostages back home with their families both those that are living and those that are deceased they need to be brought home now Hamas they can also surrender they can lay down their arms they can turn themselves over to the IDF that certainly is an option but you.
Don't see that happening and you don't see our president pressuring Hamas to do that we certainly don't see Egypt and cutter uh working with Hamas telling them to lay down their arms Egypt and cutter have got to do better they've got to step up and as far as gazan refugees in the United States again something I disagree with even Egypt has not allowed.
Refugees to come into Egypt because why they can't vet that they are not Hamas so I think that we need to be very wary of what President Biden is proposing whether it is withholding ammunition from Israel or whether it is aiding and abetting Hamas um in the Gaza Strip we've got to put an end to it we need to make clear that Israel is our friend and.
Ally Hamas is not now President Biden also signed an executive order in February that requires the state and defense departments to send a report to Congress stating whether isra has violated any us or International laws with its conduct in Gaza so the deadline for that report is tomorrow are you expecting to get that on time and what.
Do you expect to be in that report well I do hope to see it and what I expect is that as I explained earlier that Israel has most certainly tried to work around the civilian populations but when again Hamas is using their hospitals uh using other school houses when they are using innocent civilians in uh the Gaza Strip as human shields uh we know that there.
Will be civilian casualties the point would be that Israel has been able to warn those civilian populations to exit those areas and provide for safe zones in other areas of the Gaza Strip I believe that they have done that but we certainly uh will look expectantly towards that report to make sure that they are following international law um.
But again we need to stand firmly by Israel and I am afraid that President Joe Biden is sending the wrong signal by waffling about his support for Israel we need to stand true and again once again remember that Hamas perpetrated the attacks they killed innocent civilians they raped women they burnt babies alive they drugg elderly Israelis into Gaza.
And they still hold those hostages Senator Joanie erns thank you for your time in the president president of course did bring that up in his speech today uh to Mark the Holocaust Remembrance Day now coming up Tik Tok taking their fight to the courts why the Chinese owned social media platform is touting the First Amendment to stop a.
Potential Nationwide Bann over the popular app that's after the break you're watching America's number one streaming news ABC News live breaking news exclusives live live reporting across the globe keep streaming with ABC News live this is not about parents who just let their kid watch violent movies or.
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Snaps it's just not true there are always signs he was crying for help and being ignored he had pictures of a Target on his bedroom wall shell casings on his nightstand a very toxic turbulent relationship those people are yikes the life they lived was just crazy the sex sting and the really terrible things.
They' video of their sexual acts they purchased that gun for him with his money and bragged about it they're being told by a school counselor that he thinks their son's going to kill himself and they do nothing as soon as I heard they were called to the school that day the messages about lol don't get caught those were very very.
Concerning to me that's the moment that no juror is going to think well haven't we all been there here's what it is I got it they do not seem shocked about him having the gun there was no shock zero zero School stre leers aren't created they're made and it's made over time you don't get to walk away from that you just.
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Pending the resolution of outstanding pre-trial legal matters including disagreements about how the classified information would be used during the trial this case has already faced multiple delays and this latest one makes it all but certain the trial will not begin before the presidential election special Council Jack Smith so.
Far declining to comment and Tik Tok is now suing the US government over a potential Nationwide ban parent company bite dance claims the newly signed law violates users First Amendment rights President Biden signed the law in April giving the Chinese own platform bite dance 9 months to sell the app and a possible three-month extension if a sale.
Is in progress a new ABC News IPOs poll shows more support of a sale of Tik Tok among frequent users and young adults 51% agree that the US should force a sale of the popular app and 46% say it should not and actually 53% support a ban on the social media platform if it is not sold to a non-chinese company with only 44% opposing one let's bring.
In ABC News Jay O'Brien on Capitol Hill so Jay we were expecting this lawsuit Tik Tok vowed to fight this in court but do we know where this goes from here and could this impact that 12 month deadline it certainly impacts that deadline or at least it is likely to Selena because now it makes it more likely that Tik Tock will try to delay this law from going.
Into effect do that through legal motion and say that pause the law while the broader Place CS out meaning to enjoin the law they still have got to win that argument with a judge but because they filed it makes it incredibly likely that they're going to try to make that argument to a judge try to put this on pause while this broader case winds its.
Way through and Jay there are just so many hurdles here and even if the ban did go through it wouldn't happen until after the election so what are the political implications here for President Biden well certainly as you saw in our poll while a majority of Americans said they were in support of this law still younger Americans that we.
Pulled said that they were in favor for keeping Tik Tock as is and that is certainly a demographic that President Biden wants to make some significant gains with now again as you and I have reported in the past there likely wouldn't be changes with Tik Tock during this year they've got that year to sell plus any extensions on that deadline.
That this lawsuit would create so users are not going to see the impa of this law in the near future as Tik Tock fights this out in court etc etc but certainly this is now in the political bloodstream it is something that younger Americans know that the president supported and know that he joined with frankly republicans in Congress to.
Support and that may have an impact on him trying to make Headway with that demographic yeah Jay thank you for that we know you'll be following this very long and complicated Saga and coming up why the winner of this year's n a rookie of the year is no stretch of the imagination that's up.
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