The jury is deciding Trump’s fate in the New York hush money cover up trial and Trump is invoking Mother Teresa. The jury is now deliberating on whether Donald Trump is guilty and will be the first president to be convicted of a crime. After receiving instructions from the judge today, the jury deliberated for more than four hours before sending back two notes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
May 30, 2024•43 min
Donald Trump’s fate will soon be decided by a jury of his peers in his New York hush money cover up trial. The prosecution wrapped up late tonight following the defense earlier this morning. Both sides tried to condense five weeks of testimony into their closing arguments in their last and final chance to present their case to the jury before 12 New Yorkers decide whether to let Donald Trump walk or make him the first president with a criminal conviction. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit ...
May 29, 2024•46 min
As Trump courts voters in New York, potential Trump vice presidential contender Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) joins to discuss the racial wealth gap in regards to debt in higher education and if the government should help Black borrowers catch up. Also, a look at the growing controversy surrounding the Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
May 24, 2024•46 min
The benefit of the doubt is shrinking for Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito after the New York Times uncovers four different photos taken on four different days where a second insurrection-sympathizing flag was hoisted. Plus, a new reversal from Nikki Haley as she now says she will vote for Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
May 23, 2024•40 min
The final countdown to closing arguments in Trump’s hush money are on. Summations are set for next Tuesday, then the judge will hand the case off to the jury. But, outside of the courtroom, Trump has given the country new evidence of what he plans to do if he captures the Oval Office. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
May 22, 2024•43 min
Tensions and chaos erupt inside the courtroom in the New York hush money cover up trial. The Trump team made a game time decision to call a witness, Robert Costello, a former legal adviser to Michael Cohen. About fourteen minutes into his testimony, Costello vividly demonstrated why he may have caught Trump’s attention. But, the presiding judge was not amused. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
May 21, 2024•45 min
Video exclusively obtained by CNN offers a direct contradiction to Sean “Diddy” Combs’ claims that he did nothing wrong. The rap mogul insisted back in December that people were assassinating his character, destroying his reputation with sickening allegations for a quick payday. Turns out, he did exactly what his ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura alleged in a lawsuit she has since settled. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
May 18, 2024•43 min
A game of risk the prosecution may have just lost. The Trump defense team’s strategy to paint Michael Cohen, former Trump attorney and fixer, as a liar intent on revenge may have worked. But, if anything may derail the government’s case against Donald Trump it might be what happened today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
May 17, 2024•45 min
The side by side comparison that Americans desperately need is set to occur on June 27th when President Biden and former President Trump will debate live on CNN. There will be no audience, no opportunity for the crowd to make the venue home field for either Trump or Biden. It will happen inside CNN’s Atlanta studios where Jake Tapper and Dana Bash will moderate. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
May 16, 2024•42 min
Donald Trump’s lawyers tried to discredit Michael Cohen on the witness stand today in perhaps the most important testimony so far in the New York hush money cover up trial. We break down the latest testimony transcripts and all the important developments in the trial. Plus, with the 2024 presidential election drawing closer, both candidates are making false claims about a pivotal issue: the economy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
May 15, 2024•46 min
In the New York hush money cover up trial, Michale Cohen testified for five hours and eight minutes as the government led him through a deliberate testimony which outlined how Trump ordered him to make the hush money payment to Stormy Daniels. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
May 14, 2024•46 min
A series of solar flares and coronal mass ejections have created dazzling auroras that may be seen as far south as Alabama and Northern California — but could also disrupt communications on Earth tonight and over the weekend. The ongoing geomagnetic storm is now "extreme," or level 5 out of 5, the Space Weather Prediction Center said Friday night. This is the first G5-level storm since October 2003. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
May 11, 2024•44 min
On day 14 of the New York hush money cover up trail Stormy Daniels took the stand, yet again, under cross-examination. Donald Trump's defense spent a whole lot of time asking questions about what they originally objected to: the details of her alleged tryst with the former president of the United States. Trump's attorney heavy handedly asserting that the adult film actress had made it all up. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
May 10, 2024•41 min
The president of the United States is drawing a red line in Israel's war in Gaza. In a CNN exclusive interview, Joe Biden is sending a message that will echo across the globe and rattle the normal order of things inside of the Middle East. The commander in chief admitted that American military might has been used to kill civilians in Gaza. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
May 09, 2024•42 min
A look at two Trump legal strategies and the evidence that one is working while the other might be working against the former president of the United States. The first is deny, deny, deny. In minutes, the eight year history of Trump’s repeated denials about Stormy Daniels and insisted a picture is all there is to the story. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
May 08, 2024•46 min
The judge in Donald Trump’s New York hush money cover up trial has issued a damned if he does and if he doesn't the to former president over his repeated breaking of a gag order by threatening to send Trump to jail. The jury got a crash course in the nitty-gritty details of the Trump Organization. It was a day of show and tell that included multiple checks and financial disclosures bearing the signature of Donald J. Trump. That is a critical piece of evidence that the prosecutors need to show th...
May 07, 2024•46 min
Reunited from a distance and under subpoena, the former president of the United States and the aide who was by his side as he ascended the political ladder sat mere feet apart today. Hope Hicks was inside the Manhattan courtroom against her will. The woman who spent years answering questions for Trump was now answering questions from the prosecution. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
May 04, 2024•45 min
Sex, lies, and that audio tape. Donald Trump's hush money trial has taken a detour into the seedy underbelly of Hollywood. The lawyer who played the go-between, between the Trump-led effort to buy Stormy Daniels’ silence gave the jury some critical facts about the painful process to get this deal done. That lawyer also got a dose of hardball from Trump's lawyers. Now, did it poison his credibility with the jury? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
May 03, 2024•43 min
Protests sweeping campuses across the country are putting President Biden between a rock and hard place. Why is President Biden on the sidelines when it comes to these nationwide protests? And, is it hurting him politically? Plus, Donald Trump is taking aim at the judge in his current hush money trial, the very same judge who has threatened Trump with jail if he continues to violate his gag order. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
May 02, 2024•43 min
American universities are losing control of their campuses with arrests, tear gas, and suspensions. Schools across the map are cracking down now on pro-Palestinian protests. But, should they? Or, by doing so, are the setting a precedent that undercuts a fundamental American tradition and an American right? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Apr 30, 2024•46 min
The banker, the gatekeeper, the publisher. The second week of Donald Trump's trial was all about the witnesses who can put the former president at the very center of a criminal conspiracy to defraud the American people. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Apr 27, 2024•46 min
Arizona adds itself the list of states alleging that Donald Trump and his allies broke the law. A grand jury handed an indictment outlining how 11 Republican supporters of the former president lied to Congress, allegedly acting as part of the conspiracy to commit fraud and forgery. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Apr 26, 2024•46 min
Judge Merchan issued a gag order before the hush money trial began, limiting Trump from publicly discussing witnesses, the jury or the district attorney’s staff. Merchan expanded the order, which Trump has appealed, to cover his own family after Trump attacked his daughter. He has not yet ruled on the district attorney’s motion to sanction Trump for allegedly violating the gag order. Also, David Pecker, who ran American Media Inc. during the 2016 election, testified for around two-and-a-half hou...
Apr 24, 2024•46 min
Today, the country heard the beginnings of a story about Donald Trump, but this time, he no longer controls that narrative. Instead it's New York prosecutors who are painting a picture of an alleged hush money cover up scheme where the victims were the American public. Now, in Trump's own version of events, he says he's innocent, a victim of Michael Cohen's vendetta and Stormy Daniels' opportunism. But he's not in control of that narrative either. Trump, who believes he is his own best spokesman...
Apr 23, 2024•49 min
Will the pressure make the Trump jury crack? Week one of Donald Trump’s historic first criminal trial is now etched into the history books and it ends with a full jury box. Week two will start with opening statements. The jurors come from all parts of New York City, West Harlem, Hells Kitchen, Chelsea, Upper West and Upper East Sides. They all say they can be fair despite what they read or said about Trump in the past. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Apr 22, 2024•45 min
House Speaker Mike Johnson defended his decision to put forward a massive foreign aid package that pairs billions for Israel with billions for Ukraine and billions for Taiwan earning him praise from the Democratic president and scorn from Republicans. Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi joins to discuss Speaker Johnson’s decision and to question Netanyahu’s desire for peace amid war. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Apr 18, 2024•43 min
