go to class is unacceptable. same with actually i believe supporting hamas, which is a foreign terrorist organization, which still has americans hostage as you know, five living americans still killed 44 americans sees america as they're number one and the west is their number. one enemy. and i think hopefully today the president will make clear that hamas, a terrorist organization, is no friend of the united states. obviously is no friend of israel and continues to have american since hostage. today. >> we know that ceasefire in hostage release talks are resuming after what was really complicated and confusing yesterday over hamas saying they agreed to a deal, but they had changed the agreement. israel saying they're not agreeing to what they changed but they're back at the negotiating table, so we hear today, do you cast yourself as optimistic about this round of ceasefire talks wells and i'm going to turn an optimist, so i will be optimistic. >> it's tough, right? i mean,

hamas yesterday it was just a big hamas pr stunt. they have felt as we've seen them say publicly embolden by these protests on college campus in the violence on college campuses where people are screaming and support of hamas, right? we are hamas. a lot of these kids are screaming out in support of these terrorists. and i think we need to make sure we level set here and make it clear that in total hamas freeze the hostile judges, including the americans, right, stops firing missiles as they did just again, this morning at the crossing where humanitarian aid is coming over in gaza until they actually stopped doing that and back down on attacking americans and other proxies, attacking americans until that happens, it's very hard to see this moving forward. i'm hopeful and optimistic let's tick that this will be different today, but the bottom line is hamas keeps walking away from the negotiating table and that's incredibly frustrating congressman josh god homer, thank you for coming in today. >> thank you. a new our i'm going to add new central starts now cnn breaking news all

right. i'm john berman, live outside the manhattan courthouse and we do have breaking news, big breaking news. we just got word that stormy day daniel's is expected to testify today. this could be one of the marquee moments and the criminal case against donald trump. he is charged with falsifying documents and came to interfere with the 2016 election. it all stems from $130,000 in payments to daniel's and adult fill maxouris to keep her quiet? get about allegations that she had a sexual encounter with trump years ago again, we are expecting her to testify today, perhaps as soon as the small morning let's get right to the courthouse itself, scene as brynn gingras is live outside the building. this is one of the moments brynn, that people have been waiting for yeah john really what a day in court it is going to be a couple of

things. >> i think our court reporters are really going to be looking out for when stormy daniels does take that witness stand, is whether or not there because any sort of eye contact that is made with donald trump as she enters the courtroom. and also, what will donald trump's sort of posture be, you know, in the beginning of this trial, he sits back with his eyes closed king in the testimony yesterday when there were trump organization employees on the stand, he was a little bit more turned in his body toward those witnesses, listening to their testimony. it's important to also note that when the witnesses are on the standard, reporters tell us that they can actually see the former president at the defense table there block are there their view is blocked by the way. the courtroom is set up and also how jurors going to react it as of course, there is gonna be some really interesting to say the least testimony becoming out of storming daniel's for the prosecution. so will they be as engaged? i imagine so as we have certainly seen them be for the whole entire trial, taking notes and such. but yeah, this is going to be a big

witness. this is the beginning of those big witnesses that we have been expecting and we do expect for the next couple of weeks as the prosecution continues, its k's important to know you just yesterday was a very important day in court. there's a lot of documents that got put into evidence, and those documents, of course, are the bones for this prosecution's case. they are trying to lay out those 30 five falsifying business records that the charges are against donald trump and jurors saw a lot of that from those witnesses, one from a former trump org employee in one who is currently get trump org employee, how michael coleman was reimbursed at through the checks that were caught, the ones that were signed by dymola trump, how that was all taken, of course, when the defense had its turn tried to distance donald trump from all of that evidence, so we'll see how they work both the prosecution and the defense was stormy daniels, but like you said, we are expecting her to take the stand at some point today and we'll be here for john yeah, it seems unlikely that this would be a day that donald

trump falls asleep in courts safe to say that brynn gingras. >> thank you very much with us now, seeing a legal analyst and criminal defense attorney, joe jackson also with the cnn legal analysts, former federal prosecutor, jennifer rodgers. we have a lot to discuss today. geoff, for to you from a legal standpoint, just the law just the case here, where does stormy daniels fit in this case for the prosecution? >> well, john, she's going to corroborate some of what we've heard from keith davidson among others, the deal from her perspective, the timing, what she wanted, what she was prepared to do if she didn't get what she wanted when the payment came through, how they were concerned that the election would delay payment. ultimately, they wouldn't pay her afterwards. those sorts of things, those pieces of corroboration for keith davidson. but more importantly, of course for michael cohen are going to come from stormy daniels. and then i think the other thing is listen, donald trump and his team had made very clear there position is that this affair did not happen she's going to testify that it

did happen. and while the affair isn't one of the elements of the crime, the jury thinks, yeah, we think it did happen and funneled trump's a liar. they may think he's a liar in a fraud and other ways to so joey how do you handle this if you are the prosecutor on direct, how do you approach stormy daniels? >> everyone knows about the electricity surrounding this moment? >> yeah. without question, john, i think the prosecutors are going to lay out the case right now. we know the case of course, because we've heard about the case, we've heard about catching kill. we've heard about her attorney negotiating the deal, right. not only for stormy daniels, but with karen mcdougal. however, as it relates to what prosecutors will do, they are going to elicit the information. they are going to elicit. number one, her relationship with donald trump when it began and what was the nature of that relationship? number two, pivoting to the issue of the payment. when did that come about? how did it come about? why you shopping a

story. tell us about when that occurred. did you retain mr. davidson to do that? was he your lawyer? what, if anything, do you understand with respect to those negotiations, what were you looking for? did there come a time? he received the payment? what was specifically that payment that you receive what was that all about? right. what what did you understand that so i thank john and answer to your question, prosecutor because it'll tell their story through stormy daniels. it's already been told. but to have her there confirm it, confirming corroborating and supporting what we already no. is huge with respect to the affair, with respect to the payment and with respect to the impetus to get the payment done based upon the election such as such that the voters would not here, presumably, what the story would be. they're going to hear a lot today listen, there are no cameras in the courtroom, i think which is a shame. >> with the new york state law here in this case that is preventing us from all seeing it. but this is one of the

moments jeh, that i think from a political standpoint, the trump campaign is thrilled. there are no cameras. this is one of the pictures, i think from a political standpoint that they would dread the most if you are the defense team advising your client, donald trump today in what may be the most uncomfortable day of testimony? one from a personal standpoint for donald trump. what do you tell him? how do you tell them to react? how do you tell him to behave today poker face jonny, it's the poker face today. >> you know, you don't want to be angry, you don't want to roll your eyes and hyrum fit the table. you want to try to be just sitting their eyes down. you can look at her, but try to keep the reactions to a minimum. that's hard heard with trump, although actually has done a decent job added this trial so far, that would be my advice for sure and jeh and just one other thing joey said you may vary very well, ask direct questions about what happened the relationship as it were, and i put that word in quotations. >> what's the risk here for the prosecution and how much of

the salacious stuff do they want to get in and how much might be dangerous for their case? >> i don't, think they're going to ask a lot about salacious details. >> i think they will elicit that there was a sexual encounter and then kind of what stemmed from that. and, you know, it'll be was it one night, was it more than that, that sort of thing? but i they're not going to ask any gruesome details about exactly what happened, who did what, et cetera. i think that it's no one wants to hear about that. all they really need to elicit is what happened in broad strokes i think that's all they'll do it on cross-examination. joey, donald trump's lawyers look, trunk complained on social media this morning. he just found out the witness would be i have to believe the stormy daniels is one of two or three witnesses at trump's lawyers have been most prepared to deal with for months. >> at this point, what points will they want to make? yeah. i mean, at the end of the day, you can talk about in a fair et cetera. that's not illegal. you can talk about a payment that right. catch and kill that's not illegal. but what

is trump's team or bint attempting to do to distance the former president with regard to any illegality, right? you don't know ms daniel's with respect to or with regard to, you where these monies went, how it was booked in the organization, what the accounting principles were, what mr. trump knew, what interaction he had, if any, with michael when he certainly didn't have any interaction with your lawyer. you have no sense or knowledge with regard to mr. trump and anything that he might have done with regard to ledgers voices bookkeeping. do you write so that's the crux of the issue we're here to talk about falsifying business records and to the extent that she brings nothing, right to the table as it relates to that trump's team will remind that jury that she adds no value with respect to any alleged criminality of which he is charged. and i think that's the way they go at them. john, her what about the rhythm of this case jen rogers, i mean, yesterday was documents, bank

records today, former adult film actress how do you think the prosecution has sort of set up the pace of this case? >> i think they're doing a great job. listen, you got to keep it interesting. those documents yesterday were crucial. i was actually so little surprised it took so long to get to them. that's the underlying point of the case. right. >> but then you want to kinda intersperse those boring parts with the exciting stuff to keep everybody but he awake, especially the jury. so i think they're doing a good job of pacing it out, keeping people interested, doing it more or less in chronological order, which makes sense. since from the jury's perspective, as they start to work through this in the jury room afterwards. so yeah, i think it's a good job and also the organizing feature of all of this structure, john, of course, is michael hello, and they need to put him in the right place so that they can corroborate him as much as possible before he gets gets up there, but not have him be last. so i expect to see him three-quarters of the way through or so. so i think they're doing a really good

job so far with the pace on the structure right? >> jennifer rodgers, joe jackson, a big day down here at the courthouse and uncomfortable good for donald trump, the breaking news, stormy daniels is expecting to testify much more on this straight ahead, sarah. >> all right. i know you'll be there for all of the details. now, here ahead, airstrikes and tanks. now in eastern raffa, it's really special forces now saying they have taken control of a critical aid crossing in gaza, hamas has agreed to a ceasefire. so where did it go? chasten stand this morning when you're, the leader is disaster cleanup and restoration. >> how do you make like it never even happened, happened sir for, like ever even happens okay.

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israel says the raffa crossing and gaza under israeli military control. overnight, idf tanks storm the critical entry point there you're seeing video of a tank going through capturing it from palestinian control, border officials and our fear humanitarian aid, however, will stop moving into gaza potentially altogether, new airstrikes this morning also inflaming tensions as fragile cease-fire talks take place in cairo, several deaths and injuries and raffa are now being reported this morning after the idf warned more than 100,000 gausian to evacuate eastern rough up protesters in israel. they are demanding a huge protests. prime minister benjamin netanyahu, except a ceasefire deal. now to bring the hostages home, we know hamas has agreed to one version of the deal so far that is a no-go for israel seen an anchor and chief national security analyst, jim ch2o joining me now, first of all, when you look at this, just to get

people an idea of where things are the rafah crossing right here with egypt, right here. >> and this is important, right? because it's not just for food coming in, which is already a crisis there you have un officials talking about nir famine or perhaps even famine conditions, some part in gaza but it's also a key point for the wounded to get in and out and get the hospitals in egypt. so when you close this crossing, you are closing a lifeline to gaza. and when you think of this in the context of the ongoing ceasefire talks it's frankly difficult to see how you come to a ceasefire agreement when israel is not just closing this, but moving into raffa for operation that well, as you know, us officials have been cautioning for some time, they don't see how you carry that out without significant civilian casualties. >> we heard they're already casually this morning. i do want to give some sense of the evacuation zone and where they've told people to evacuate. these are the two areas in eastern rafah where they had told people 100,000 people to move the issue always is, where do they go? that safe? no question. i mean, listen some of the designated

areas in gaza which israel says are the safe, goal zones for them, right? or when you talk to others, eight groups, et cetera. that they first of all, they say there's no real safe place gaza, but they say those zones barely livable as it is. and there's 100,000 figure is one set by israel. but speaking to us officially they're not particularly confident that only 100,000 people are needing to leave or will want to leave. because if you see your neighbors going fleeing the violence, others may follow. and they fear a bigger exodus, which of course creates a whole nother issue here with already limited and impacted resources president biden is under pressure. >> he has also said to netanyahu on multiple occasions do not do a major ground offensive here. how close is this to defying outright defying president biden? >> i would say it's pretty darn close, right? and israel calls this a limited operation, but limited is in the eyes of the beholder, right? i mean, if you're closing a major

crossing here we've already seen some civilian casualties. we've already seen some of the explosions and airstrikes overnight, limited in the description of israeli officials i'm not sure. it's limited in the view of us officials and listen, this has been an ongoing battle between us and israeli officials for months, relieving going back to when you and i were there in october, november, you had us officials military officials cautioning israel about the consequences of extensive military action in gaza and that action has gone forward. us officials will say that they've had some impact with that influence. they delayed the raffa operation. they've limited other activity, bot raffa has been i don't wanna say red line, but what ralph is certainly has been appointed and if contention& it looks like netanyahu is pushing forward, and that's where these 1.4 or so million civilians have been pushed into.& now moving out in different ways. jim shadow, thank you so much for now. these are really appreciate it. take the minutes from now. court is back in session for donald trump's

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well be the woman at the heart of the criminal case against the former president of the united states. good morning. i'm anderson cooper in new york, and i'd jake tapper in washington dc. you're watching cnn special live coverage follow the facts, follow the testimony follows cnn. or if that name does not sound familiar to you for professional name? well, it's stormy daniels and she is the adult film star and director who is alleging that she had a tryst with mr. trump. today. she gets to tell her story. she gets her turn to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, sorts familiar with prosecution's plan says that the government plans to call stormy daniels. it's unclear if she's gonna be the first witness today it will be daniel's alleged encounter with trunk that has put the country on this path towards this very moment for the former president on trial, for the first time in the history of the republic, accused of trying to silence daniel's in the closing stretch of 2016 election prosecutors spent monday questioning trump organization insiders, using

them to explain the inner workings of the trump business. the point was to have documents to back up the words of other witnesses, such as stormy daniels, such as michael cohen, the former trump leuser and fixer who says that he orchestrated the payoff, the stormy daniels. we're going to start our coverage in new york with anderson cooper. anderson jake, thanks very much. i'm here with my colleague junk berman and also siemens polar regions we've been covering this every day what do we anticipate from stormy daniels if in fact she has called so she is called, she is of course, a household name. she's a colorful witness. she was at the center of this hush money payments but i want to be realistic in terms of what she offers the prosecution, she will be able to talk to them about this affair which trump has denied should be able to talk about renewed interest in her story in late october 2016, after the access hollywood tape she can help bolster the prosecution's argument that suppressing her story was done to help trump win the white house. but what she can't help is the actual charges at the heart of this case, which are

34 counts of falsifying business records. unless there's something that they're going as far as this with today. she doesn't really have any knowledge of how michael cohen was it's reimbursed by the trump organization. so this is certainly a blockbuster day just in terms of the historical significance. but stormy daniels is unlikely to be able to make or break the prosecution's case had they not called her, that the prosecution not calder jurors might have wondered, well, what are they hiding or why? why isn't she here this person who seems to be at the center? i can get is exactly right. we look at the transcripts anderson every night, her name was all over every day's worth of transcripts from this case and for her not to be here would have been a glaring omission. the prosecution would have had to have explained the defence certainly would have seized on in their summation. another thing look stormy daniels is not a bank record here. we had a full day of bank reference essential to this case, but this is certainly much more colorful also, it provides another person for the prosecution and say, you know

what, she's telling her story here, which is different ultimately than donald trump story. if you think donald trump is less truthful than stormy daniel's less truthful than david pecker. thank keep davidson everyone else up here who may or may not be on the senior side of our society. that's an issue they may look at the defendant differently as they head into the jury. >> don't from continues to insist that there was no sexual relationship with stormy daniel perhaps eleia jurors might believe if if don't, trump is leyen about that, he's lying about other things. eleia, the magic ball stormy daniels. now of course, stormy daniels alleges that she had sex with donald trump when he was married in 2006. it's really important to understand the timeline leading up to the 2016 election because this is what's relevant to the prosecution's case. on october 7 of 2016, about a month before the election, that infamous access hollywood tape dropped where donald trump has caught on a hot mic many years before talking about how you can do

whatever you want to women if you're famous, they let you, et cetera. now, just a week or so later, donald trump's team learns about the allegations that stormy daniels is making about her alleged sexual tryst with donald trump. now, just a couple of weeks after that, she receives a $130,000 hush money payments from michael cohen. and then of course, november 8 is the election. so the prosecution's theory is, when the access hollywood tape shop, they had extra incentive to try to silence stormy daniels before the election. also important to understand exactly how that pay off worth michael cohen first paid stormy daniels $130,000 before the election and later. and this is really where the crime leinz, as paulo was saying, don't trump and the trump organization reimbursed michael cohen $420,000. now stormy daniels will know about that one 30 she's probably not going to know anything about the internal accounting behind the reimbursement. now, stormy daniels has given us a bit o