goal, the 700 credit score. don't me at time.com, i'm kevin lift, ttac at the white house. and this is cnn welcome to the lead. >> i'm jake tapper this hour, one of the biggest competition shows in the world, rocked by protests over the israel-hamas war, demonstrations outside as in israeli singer in the final round is facing pressure from fellow contestants and critics are calling for a boycott because she exists plus the high-stakes report looming over president biden on whether israel violated international laws and its war with hamas in gaza. and leading this hour, the man once known as trump's fixer, michael cohen, could soon be the closer in the new york hush money cover up case. prosecutors say plan to call trump's former lawyer on

monday and they're saying that they may be able to rest their case by next week's events, brin jin grass is outside the courthouse following all of it for us and brynn today today's proceedings late. a lot of the important groundwork for the big witness monday, michael cohen, what can we expect on monday yes. >> equaliser. this is the guy that said he would take a bullet for his boss and he might be who helps the prosecution sink donald trump. so we'll have to see, of course, he's the person who can bring jurors into that room, into the hello. office in february 2017, when prosecutors say they hatched this plan to make these reimbursement payments ahead of the 2016 election. they alleged that he conspired with other trump org members to figure out how these reimbursements will work. he's expected to be on the stand for a couple of days now, when the defense gets their turn to ask the questions, of course, they're going to attack his credibility. like we have seen them do with other witnesses in this case about michael cohen and they're basically going to continue to basically try to pull out the lies that they

say. he is sort of spreading. so we'll see how that goes. it doesn't help though jake, that listen, michael cohen earlier this week when on tiktok and posted a video and whilele in that video, he's wearing a t-shirt that has an image of donald trump behind bars in an orange jumpsuit today at the end of court the process or rather the defense asked the judge to put a gag order on michael cohen based off that video that was denied, but there was a strong warning against michael cohen or against really for the prosecution didn't make this warning. and basically the judge says, listen, this comes from the bench. you need him to stop talking about donald trump in this trial and brynn today, judge marsha can also suggested that the former organization cfo, the trump organization, cfo allen weisselberg that he could be brought in to testify. >> i think he's in prison right now. how would that work yeah. >> look, allen weisselberg's name has come up a bunch in

this trial from other witnesses. prosecutors allege she's a part of this conspiracy, right. so they need it's a close the loop on why jurors are not hearing test him, testify, and they essentially want to bring forward an argument and this is something that they made without the jurors in the room to the judge basically, a severance agreement that weisselberg has with the trump organization. now, the defendant said what that is highly prejudicial should not be allowed, but before the just said, he'll make because decision, he says, listen to the prosecution even asked about one weisselberg wants to. that's to buy. and the prosecution said no. so essentially, the judge said, well, let's bring them in without the jurors here. let's see if he wants to testify or withheld bleed. the fifth. and based on that, then i'll make a decision on whether or not that agreement can be put forth. two jurors. so we'll see where that lands. but that was certainly asked again, quick note, jake, we are expecting according the prosecution to possibly have them wrap up their case by the end of next week all right. >> but then of course, the defense gets their turn. beringia and gras in new york. thank you so much joining us

now, attorney michael vanderveer's from the great city of philadelphia. he was one of trump's lawyers in the second in impeachment trial. i think so much for being here. so let me ask you how do you think the prosecution can convince the jury that michael cohen is a credible witness? i understand all the ways of defense can can make them into a non credible one. it's going to be really hard, jake, but what they've done from the beginning of the trial is just that they had a couple options here. they could have started with cohen and then put all the underpinnings around him. but what they did, i think as you saw, incredible is they built a frame around him all the points to him, and then they're finishing up with them so that when is credibility is attacked, the jury 40 has in their mind the other factors that they've heard that cooperate the prosecution's theory of the case, what is what is your reaction to judge merchan today telling prosecutors his order for his order for cohen to stay quiet

and stop things like wearing a shirt with donald trump in prison in a jumpsuit that this comes from the bench and could colin face repercussions a little a little little to little a little too late. i mean, that should have been done before the trial started, and it's interesting and i think strategic that defense in asked for that. they never asked shut shut cohen up, shut the other witnesses up. they just didn't want to be shut up themselves. they could have asked that as well. and the judge could have issued that order, right in the beginning of the trial, looking at charles started juries and paneled, we're not going to have anybody on their social media attacking him and he's not going to be attacking them. let's let this case come in pure and simple, but cohen's been going nuts in to a certain extent. i think that's going to affect his credibility as well. >> so you think that the prosecution i'm sorry? do you think that the defense did not do that purposefully because it certainly gives them ample evidence of like, look, this is how much you hate donald trump i think i think that's probably a consider a thought process. >> they had their the defense

team are good lawyers. they're very thorough. their strategic and thinking. they've been planning this thing for darn near a year. and i think that obviously if they wanted to shut cohen up, they would have brought the motion and they didn't that wasn't an oversight. i think that was strategic. >> let me bring a piece from a piece of testimony today because earlier today, the jury heard more about how trump would sign things without reviewing them first, we just got the official transcript. here's how trump attorney susan nicholas pressed former white house assistant madeleine westerhout on this issue. full screen here we go. necklace and there were times with all of these, would you say it was hundreds of documents that he was signing westerhout? not every day, but sometimes. uh-huh. >> necklace. and this was in-between other things that he was doing, right? westerhout? oh, yes. uh-huh. necklace. and so would you see him signing things without reviewing them yes. said westerhout necklace. and would you see him signing

checks without reviewing them? westerhout? yes. necklace. and you would see him signing checks while he was on the phone? oh, right. westerhout? yes necklace. would you see them sometimes signing checks when he was meeting with people westerhout? yes how strong was that? >> do you think for the defense, i lived that was very strong. you know, you have to also put it in perspective of the corporation that there are any no, they're up at the top at trump tower and those offices are we're very busy. >> well, this was was he was in the white house though. >> oh, when he is not white house, i haven't been in the white house with them, but it's very typical of him. >> he's a busy guy, he thinks of a lot of stuff all the time. he'll do ten things at once in as my indigo from one place to another. and frankly, i don't know anybody but he wasn't really successful. who is an operating in the same way i'll be starting things and talking on the phone and doing everything else. and most everybody else i know busy are prone to do that kind of thing. you trust the people that are putting the things in front of

you to be signed. so there was a piece of yesterday's testimony that's relevant to what we did as discussed. the prosecution ask stormy daniel's a better 2018 joint filing by donald trump and michael cohen when they were together admitting that mr. trump reimburse michael cohen for $130,000 of hush money and pursuant to the dna or the answer or the nda, the non-disclosure agreement. is that a big the ldl? to think i mean, him acknowledging donald trump in a different chord, acknowledging yeah, i reimbursed michael cohen for that. >> absolutely. i mean, that could even be considered a smoking gun because the defense is contrary to that. now and to go and shift like that both times in a court of law, i think it's very very going to be very difficult. get over very quickly. stormy daniels, donald trump, donald trump wanted going to be let out as gad or gag order so he could respond to stormy daniels testimony judge merchan said no, stormy daniels tweeted, quote, real men respond to testimony by being sworn in and taking the stand in court. oh,

wait. never mind. >> your fellow philadelphia attorney, bill brennan said that that tweet could be grounds for a mistrial well you know, i don't want to contradict a great legal minded bill brennan, but that's outside of court. the jury is not supposed to be looking at social media or anything of that nature. and she's not alone lawyers in the case. you know, she's really just a witness in the case. if a lawyer were to bring up this fifth amendment right to remain silent that would be a real problem. an absolutely a mistrial at that time. >> all right. michael van der been good to see you. thank you so much pleasure. you fill every single day. donald trump comes out to the cameras in that courthouse hallway and rants about this case. but what's he saying behind the scenes, i guess coming up as new insight into that. but first some breaking news, the high stakes report anticipated from the biden administration is now out of gauging whether or not in their view, israel and its defense forces violated international law in its war with hamas. will, we're back in

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israel, in their view, has violated international humanitarian law during its war in gaza against hamas. >> this report has been the subject i've intense debate for months across and inside the biden administration has already led to deep divisions just inside the us state department. cnn's kylie atwood is following the story from the state department. kylie, what does the report find? >> well, less than this report finds that it would be reasonable to assess in the words of this court that israel has violated international humanitarian law since october 7, but it doesn't definitively make the determination that they have actually violated law, saying that those assessments, those individual assessments of those specific is really strikes are still ongoing. and this report, again that's into the complexity of making these assessments take saying that particularly because of how hamas hides and population centers hide in infrastructure that is used by civilians. it's really

challenging to make an assessment here as to whether or not israel undertook all of the necessary actions shins to prevent it from breaking international humanitarian law as it continues to go after hamas in this war. the other thing that i want to note, the report states is that israel does have the experience. they do have the capability to drive down the death of civilians, but this report says that there are standard oil questions as to if israel is using those capabilities effectively. that's something that the state department will continue to look at. the upper part of this is that the us and israel have been going back and forth as the state department has been working on this report, a senior state department official described this as a useful tool to push israel to try and make changes to drive down those civilian death tolls that we have seen throughout the course of this war to try and make changes to the way that it delivers humanitarian aid into gaza. >> but they also said that as

they are probing these incidents, these specific incidents that could be violations of international humanitarian law. >> israel has provided some information to them, but they are still gaps in terms of what israel has provided to them. so this will be an ongoing process right now, the state department not saying there's a timeline by which they expect to get that information from israel to make definitive conclusions. jake what thank you so much. >> let's bring in cnn military analysts with retired air force colonel cedric leighton kernel what's your initial reaction to this assessment? and what type of weapons do you think this report might be referencing? >> jake? i think the big good referencing here is to the 2000 pound bombs in particular, any type of weapon that the israelis are using that has had an impact on the civilians in gaza. and that would include not only those 2000 pound bombs, which are usually delivered by air as well as 500 pound bombs. and then artillery shells. so all of these weapons

are the ones that have been used against the hamas targets. that israel is doing after. and those would be legitimate targets, but they've also had the effect of impacting collateral. civilian targets. and that, of course brings about the issue of collateral damage which is precisely what this report is talking about. so my initial assessment here is that in essence, what's going on is the us is saying that israel probably violated international humanitarian law, but they don't have all of the evidence yet to make a definitive conclusion that that's the case the question of course is how do you think prime minister netanyahu was going to respond to this finding especially given the political realities that netanyahu is completely dependent on these far, far right-wing religious zealot cabinet ministers, ben-gvir and smoke trich to survive as prime minister what do you think is going to do? >> just reject it he might just

do that. >> jake, one of the key problems that he has as you point out, is that he's really dealing with this far right element within his government he can't really rely on other but parties within israel such as let's say the labour party or other more centrist parties to get him out of his political mess at this particular point in time. and as a result of that, he may very well rejected these kinds of findings. it is possible though that he may try to accommodate or have his military accommodate some of the us questions when it comes to use of weapons, especially us supplied weapons in the war in gaza and so in essence, trying to reach, you may have to, to a fine line here, but i think he's going to go for a much more severe response aimed in essence, be like a cornered animal go after any target that he possibly can more brutally and more viciously than he has up until this point.

>> president biden told cnn's erin burnett this week that he has a red line of sorts when it comes to providing weapons to israel, certain weapons if israel goes forward with launching a major invasion on the southern gaza as a town of, of rafah biden says that that's when he would halt some specific weapons shipments if there is a major involvement, israel is already on the ground in rafah, of course, and biden didn't say emphatically that we would all to all military aid to israel, just some of it, if there's a major, major engagement and rafah so i don't know how much of a red line that really is despite all of the hue and cry about, or do you disagree i'm not necessarily because we know that israel has over be moved its forces along the border with egypt. >> so rough of which is right on that border. i is basically cut off from that particular area right now. we also know that the israeli saps parts of eastern rafah so they have the means to take you. basically

care of each element of the operations that they've planned for the eastern part of rafah right now. so they really don't need additional weapons from the us quest to do that part of the mission. the other parts that were if they were to go after other elements in gaza especially in the western part of rafah and perhaps other parts of gaza that could then present a bit of a problem because they may not have as many weapons of the type that we're talking about in their inventory, two we really finished that part of the mission, so in essence, what we're looking at is the ability of the israelis to partially complete their mission and to do it in a way that's most efficient for them at this particular point without help, additional us health in this case. >> all right. girl cedric leighton. thank you so much. attorney. back to our coverage donald trump's criminal hush money. trial. one of the main takeaways from this week is the salacious testimony by porn star in director stormy daniels. she gave some excruciating details about her

alleged sexual encounter with trump. trump denies any of it ever happened but some say this trial might be getting to trump joining standard discuss former federal prosecutor, senior writer for politico magazine, ankush, khardori. of course, thanks so much for being with us. so this week you've been speaking with some of the most deeply entrenched reporters and analysts that you work with that politico. and they say that this is personally grueling for trump. i have to say i was in court yesterday and he really did look not upbeat, not confident, downtrodden i've seen him looking much more robust is this is, this whatever he's going through, how difficult this is on him, and no one's asking for pity for him were just reporting this is that still solely because of stormy daniels testimony? i don't think it's solely because of stormy daniels testimony, but i think that probably has had a lot to do it if they didn't recent days, but you're right. i mean, my colleague, meredith

mcgraw, who has been following the trump campaign, my other colleagues who've been in the courtroom, they've detected visibly the same thing and you know what meredith was saying is like, this looks to be taking visible toll on him. it's quite grueling and your other politics reporters have noted, for instance, this is taking him not off the campaign trail, he doesn't spend much time on the campaign trail, but it's taking them away from things like donor calls and the sorts of like touches he has with friends and allies that sort of give him his required ego busari, throughout the day. and i do think you can see it at the end of the day and i don't think it's entirely just exhaustion on maybe that's part of it, despite his claim to be very vigorous, it seems to be taking a toll on him every day that he's sort of down and just not altogether with it. >> so when talking with your colleagues, you said quotes smart criminal defenses, do something times concede unpleasant facts in order to get the jury to focus on the material ones that might actually get the defendant off. so just to recap and translate that for our viewers, you're

legal ease in a way it's not against the law, it's certainly not nevada law where this allegedly happened for donald trump to have done whatever happened in that hotel room assuming that she even was there because he says she wasn't. but whatever it was assuming that everything she said is true happen, right? none of that's against the law. >> paying her hush money. >> none of that's against the law. >> the crime is just about whether or not he he he falsified business records to keep this out of the public side during the election year suggesting that maybe. >> it would've been better if they just stipulated. okay. if something happened in that thing and we paid her hush money. >> yes, that is exactly what i'm suggesting i think that actually would have been a fairly conventional defense strategy in this circumstance because they frankly, they just walked right into stormy daniels testimony and they forced the record precocity prosecutors evening but they were not going to put her on to put her on. trump has been denying this account for her account for years. and crucially, trump's lead

attorney repeated that denial in his opening statement. so if you're the prosecutors, that's the start of this story maybe they weren't inclined to put the whole thing out there, but now they were forced to put it out in detail because her credibility was attacked and what they've managed to do this week, if you believe stormy daniels is count, which i do. i don't think there's any real serious question that the two had a sexual relationship of some sort that's my own view. but if you believe her account, then the prosecutor has managed to demonstrate that trump's essential plank of trump's defense is a lie and also that trump's lead attorney was willing to relay that lie to the jury in his opening statement, thereby undercutting his credibility with them too. so i don't think this was a good week for them. i think that they could have substantially mitigated if perhaps even preempted her testimony. but trump seems to be determined to continue denying this. >> so in a different court case in california, it's already stipulated that he gave he paid that money they paid money and

that was introduced in trial testimony, $30,000 to kill a story that wasn't true about some kid he's allegedly had that wasn't true why not to stipulate at the beginning, could you actually stipulate? we're not going to stipulate that anything happened, but we're going to stipulate that that she had a story that we didn't want out there. we're not going to say whether or not it's true. it's not material. we did pay that money. >> yeah. i don't first of all, to stipulate the prosecutors who have had to agree. i don't think they would have this would have needed to be a sort of preemptive concession in the trial. right. and then you use that concession as the prosecution is calling additional instance, they will we don't need to hear from this person or we can cabinet testimony to this or that but i don't think it would've worked with them. just say the stories were not taking position because the details can go let's directly to his motive for wanting to kill the story. all right. thank crush kadoorie. thank you so much. really interesting stuff. donald trump plans to use his weekend break from the husband and trial to hold a rally in a state that leans heavily blue.

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before go to harrys.com slash shave to claim your $7 trial i'm eva mckend in washington and this is cnn our politics lead. >> now former president and current defendants, donald trump, exited court today, airing a long list of grievances after his criminal trial wrapped early today. >> what's going on today? >> and this court is a very dark day for new york city, new york state. >> and it's a very dark day for our nation. and in the meantime, i can't be anything but now the court is out for the weekend. >> toronto, donald trump can be out campaigning from the trial to the trail. so where's he's added? well, not the battleground states of north carolina georgia, or arizona, michigan, and wisconsin, instead oddly he's going to the jersey shore holding a rally tomorrow on the beach in wild would new jersey i've been

there. they've got a boardwalk and such here now is a group of political voices to weighing in alaina why do jersey is very, very blue, like even if donald trump has a really good election day and sweeps every state plus a couple that we didn't expect. new jersey is not going to be among them. yeah. no, it's definitely not a critical battleground state luck i'll give you two answers. >> what the campaign is trying to say is that and what they're putting out there as luck, this is, you can get some of the philly suburbs, some of the pennsylvania media. pennsylvania is a critical battleground or get some of that there. and i will argue wild would new jersey where this will be at the jersey shore literally on the beach. i'll be standing in the san tomorrow it is a very red districts. kate, may district where wild would is and he has had a rally there in the past. he went there in january 2020 and he had a really enthusiastic crowd there. it is a small, friendlier district two republicans, however, i

think the real answer and from what i've been hearing from other people's like, he doesn't want to travel that far. it's close as bedminster golf cup, he's obviously coming right off a week of very explosive and embarrassing testimony. and that's part of this as well. so he's still campaigning, but he's doing in an estate, as you said, that isn't a battleground and no hate on jersey. i'm from there. i love new jersey, but it doesn't really make a lot of sense for someone unlike donald trump, i'm from philly, so i have my thoughts on jersey, but i'll keep them to myself. trump is looking to capitalize on the fallout from comments over biden's warnings to israel. >> what happened today about their assessment about possible human rights abuses of a warning about if you go and do a major operation in rafah, we're not going to provide some serious weapons and republicans have really been going after biden even some democrats have been criticizing the decision in a string of videos posted on truth, social. >> mr. trump had to say this the fact is that crooked joe hates israel and he hates the jewish people. there's no question about that. and if

jewish people are going to vote for joe biden they have to have their head examined. he's a disaster for israel the problem is that he hates the palestinians also, an even more so, and he just doesn't know what to do. he's a confused man in that same video, mr. trump called that white nationalist rally in charlottesville, virginia, quote, a peanut compared to the anti-israel protests taking place on college campuses, we should note that heather higher was killed at that were unite the right rally charlottesville . >> and none of these protests while that some of them have been violent, nobody has been killed in any of them. alice, what's your take? >> i don't think there's a comparison between what happened in charlottesville in these protests on college campuses. but i will say this, these protests on college campuses are a problem for the biden administration because this is a very visible optics of people in his party, the democratic party, that are disappointed with his way of

handling this israel situation. and back to the recent policy announcement he made this week with aaron about israel saying that if they continue into rafah, that he was going to withhold certain american military might republicans we're extremely frustrated with this because israel is our greatest ally in the region. they have been supportive of us and we need to continue to be supportive of them. you have congressmen like cory mills of florida saying, we shouldn't be doing this quid pro quo, withholding military information or might an exchange for policy and also look, our enemy not israel here this hamas, hamas is the one putting palestinians in the crosshairs and as lindsey graham said, this has asked backwards to try and withhold our aid to them with regard to how they're handling the policy. so i think trump is using trump way to highlight some real inconsistencies with this administration. israel, i let me just let me just say this idea. >> the jewish people vote for joe biden. they're going to have to have their heads examined. jews, vote for democrats, roughly 75, 80% to

say that 75 or 80% of the jewish people need to get their heads examined is pretty offensive empirically. removing that from it, talking about the israel policy, what do you think about what else does said? well, look, i surprise, surprise. donald trump goes to hateful offensive language and talking about an issue that is incredibly emotional and passionate and complicated for people. so to me that right there isn't indicator of what a flawed messenger donald trump is, period but going back to the politics on this for biden, i mean, look, i think what joe biden is doing is putting action two words. i mean, we know that president biden and his team have been working directly with israeli leadership for the last few months, trying to push them to a more tactical plan in rafah, trying to limit civilian deaths. they've been very clear. we've seen a lot of reporting that they've been very clear and very direct, you know, president biden has been direct with netanyahu this was going to be where he was going to need to be publicly if they did not adjust course. so i

think what joe biden is doing is showing that they're the words of an american president matter. and then the action you put behind it matters does not mean he's walking away hey, from supporting israel. we saw invasive iranian attacks a couple of weeks ago, the united states was there defending israel. biden has been very clear. we will continue to defend israel, but he's also saying it's important for an american president to essentially put their money where their mouth is. and i think that's what he's doing and i think that's what he's hoping that americans are going to respond to and what he, what he had to say turning to something less complicated rfk juniors said in a deposition years ago that brain eight part of a worm, a part of his brain and then died in his head despite that, trump appears to still see rfk juniors independent run for the presidency is a real threat to his campaign and he released this video on truth, social attacking both rfk jr. and rfk juniors of vice presidential pick nicole shanahan. take a listen a lot of people think that junior is a conservative.

>> he's not, he's more liberal than anybody running in the democratic side. and as she funder is the vp candidate that nobody ever heard of except directs husband who has been stripped of a big chunk of his cash and he knows exactly what she's all about. cheese, even more liberal than rfk jr. i even take biden over junior i mean, i think what's most interesting about this is he's obviously really, really worried about rfk jr. you're taking his votes. next, you want me reporting coming out on this right now, but like when i talked to donald trump's team, one of his senior advisers made it very clear. they say he's a problem. we recognize it. they think he could be more so a problem on a state-by-state basis. they mentioned that pennsylvania is one of the critical battlegrounds where they could actually see rfk jr. being a problem. and it's interesting because the trump team had actually laid out a playbook months ago back when he announced he was running as an independent over how to attack and which is essentially what we're seeing play out now, attack him as a liberal and conservative clothing. they

keep doing that. trump himself though, has actually, in recent interviews said that he's a nice guy. he's not sure if he hurts biden more than than him. and then we've spent starting to see in recent days these more very pointed attacks. and i think that just shows that they're telling him no, he is a threat you needed to find very interesting, thanks to all sorry. >> i did want to get your thoughts on brain worms, but maybe that affects i've the epidemic of it got going on in washington. what we'll revisit brain worms up next the uproar at one of the biggest competition shows in the world after an israeli singer made it to the final round, the pressure coming from fellow contestants and pro-palestinian mobs calling for a boycott of the show. stay with us businesses. good but what if you still can't stay ahead of your bills bus to credit helps you stay on top of your expenses keep the cushion you need to succeed you have what it takes is due credit helps you get the funding unique. sure. i'm a paid actor. this isn't a real company, but there's no way to fake upwork

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for free, visit otter.ai ai or download the app this is cnn, the world's news network. in our world lead anti israel protests, gripping sweden, the site of this year is eurovision song contest. one of the most-watched events around the globe. demonstrators are upset that israeli singer eden golan has made it into tomorrow's final competition. and they are calling on your revision two eliminate her from the contest because she is israeli and she doesn't like what they don't

like, what the government of israel is doing in gaza israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu and a good luck message to her, noted her success while quote, contending with an ugly wave of antisemitism john, on drastic of five for fighting posted on twitter, eden golan, our fellow artists can not leave her hotel room in fear for her life because she is jewish i call on every artist to join me and condemning publicly this despicable act of hate unquote eden golan is under extra security to get her between her hotel and the competition venue. she's also been rehearsing with the sounds of booing in case that happens during the live show tomorrow. cnn's ana stewart has more song is about facing down a hurricane and israel's you revision entry this year certainly finds herself at the center of a storm through to

saturday's final, the music contest. but while eating golan enjoyed a rapturous response from the studio audience on thursday nights, semifinal the crowd outside the venue in malmo, sweden struck a wholly different thousands gathered to protest against israel's inclusion in the event, saying it should be bought by the european we will costing union because of its military campaign in gaza, the eu has slowed israel to participate in your vision button, but not russia. and i think that's just the it's wrong climate activist greta thunberg, amongst the crowds who winning for further demonstrations against israel. i think they should be everywhere at once again, young people our aren't eating the wave israeli singer galan's seemingly not deterred by the outrage on the streets. of course, there's like stress and nerves and excitement and many, many, many things around

and thoughts. but at the end of the day, i'm very focused the atmosphere has been tense around the eurovision song contest venue i one of the largest security operations, malmo ever seen, according to swedish police your revision has always proclaimed to be a political organizers already intervened earlier in the year when israel's initial entry title october rain, was deemed to too closely referenced the hamas-led attacks of october 7 purchase open in malmo you have to coincide with saturday's final have promised to draw bigger crowds than the venue audience itself. >> eurovision slogan united by music, facing perhaps its biggest challenge yet i'm stewart cnn, london i don't know. >> thanks, dan is due or for that report. >> we're debuting a very brand new series here on the lead. >> it's called wtf will explain why we think you'll

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bit hrm. and if that's not enough controversy, kristi noem's book also contained a bizarre i'm really highly unlikely claimed that she somehow met north korean kim, north korean dictator kim jong un, and stared him down. now when pressed on that claim, a spokesperson said that that was included in a list of world leaders and shouldn't have been saying that the story would be removed from future editions of the book still, kristinoem will not straight up acknowledge that she never met with kim jong on she seems to be leaning into this pretense that she'd learned of this excerpt when staff brought it to her attention, despite the fact that governor noem herself narrated the audio your book. so here's just some snippets of her disastrous media tour if you asked me a month ago, who's at the top of the list to run with donald trump? >> i would have said your name. if you asked me that same question this morning. i don't even think you're on the list

really. so my question for you, yes, really. and it's because of things that have come out in this book like your claim james, that you met kim jong un and then over the last weeks, i should not have put that anecdote in the book i'm not going to talk about case that it happened adult stories noem assertion. >> you talk to president trump all the time to bring up. and now stewart to give us the interview as rediculously, which we're doing right now when you recorded your own audio book, you didn't notice i'm not just about my meetings with world leaders. i'm not asking you to i'm asking you about recording the audio. do you want to talk about something else today? >> i mean, all perfectly legitimate questions. >> on sunday, governor noem took the even more curious step you're not going to believe me when i tell you this, if you miss this, but typically even more curious step of suggesting that president joe biden's dog, commander should be shot because of multiple incidents of his biting secret service members to how many people is enough people to be attacked and dangerously hurt. before you make a decision on a dog and what he's not living at the white house. that's the

question that the president should be held countable. two, you're saying he should be shot, the president should be accountable to silly president biden decided to find a more suitable home for commander instead of grabbing the white house, lueger and showing that met who the real commander is with damage control spiraling out of control. governor known then canceled an interview last minute with cnn's dana bash and another one with gregg gut felt that fox i don't believe it. >> i just think it's a little late to keep her on a short leash i hope she'd reconsider, but i'm not going to sit up and bag governor now appears to have underestimated the fact that america is love for dogs transcends politics. here are my dogs, baer and moose, and climate time. >> here are all the dogs. the lead team loves and has love ginger and lucky and louis in gypsy and sienna, ilo winston, phoebe, charlie, so many more so our very first wtf stories that flew by way too fast as

governor noem writing herself oft, the trump vp shortlist. here's meghan kelly this week suggesting that dog won't hunt he likes her because she's been in his camp since very early on and 16. and he likes that. but trump say what you will about him is not dumb. and he knows she's a loser and she will hurt his ticket out if there's anything that governor noem got right in her book, it is the title because for kristi noem, they're truly may be no going back starting new images to show you of a severe solar storm happening right now, such a unique event cnn is hosting an entire special about it in just a few hours. >> what's all the hype about will tell you next? >> today. at america's beverage companies are models might still look the same, but they can be remal hold new way thanks to you we're getting bottles back and we've developed a way to make new ones from 100% recycled plastic

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shrinks just a teeny bit and that motion which has less than a human hair, is what we measure with the tree tag all right, so i'm gonna go ahead and put these to treat tags so this is row 21, tree nine trees are the lungs the planet with the plan, our mission is to help keep the world's trees healthy. think of us as a connector for the tree universe to the cloud to ai from being people on a planet to being actually the caretakers of the planet something that i feel really passionately about what does it mean to be outfront? >> it's going there. we are just about three miles from the gaza border. its context and

curiosity. >> so you can be outfront two. let's go out front erin burnett, outfront week nights, its seven on cnn. >> i learned box on capitol hill. and this our last leads. now, this begins with a very brief health update on catherine princess of wales, during a public appearance today, her husband, prince william said, quote she is doing well. >> that's all he said. >> but it's more than the royals are buckingham palace officials have said since catherine disclosed back in march that she'd been diagnosed with some form of cancer and was in the early stages of treatment in our tech lead, apple is apologizing for this ad, which provoked a lot of mockery and criticism. the ad shows lots of really cool need expensive, creative stuff, musical germans, paint cans, artworks, book, stereo equipment, all getting crushed, ending up in a very, very thin new ipad. in a statement to adage magazine and apple official admits, quote we missed the mark with this video and we're sorry. >> yeah. you did you don't have to live near the north pole to see the northern lights this week speaking, that's thanks to the massive solar flares that

have prompted the us to issue its first severe geomagnetic storm watch nearly two decades. auroras have popped up in countries where nighttime has already passed. you're looking at stunning pictures from new zealand right now here in the awards, maybe visible as far south as alabama starting tonight and for a couple more days, even if you don't see anything heads up that the solar store might disrupt communications and even cause some power outages cnn's going to have special coverage of the severe solar storm tonight who's night with abby phillip at 10:00 eastern. she's going to take viewers through this spectacle of the northern lights and the risks posed by the solar storm here on earth. coming up sunday on state of the union, republican senator jd vance of ohio, democratic senator chris murphy of connecticut. but sunday morning at nine eastern and again at noon, only here on cnn up next the new york hush money cover up case and a retired judge who's been inside the courtroom to watch throughout the trial. he's going to join my friend wolf blitzer next in the situation room. i'll see you back here on the lead monday and before that, we will have trial coverage on monday