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york city very early on this friday morning, the morning, everyone i'm kasie hunt. wonderful to have you with us developing story right now in houston, texas this hurricane force winds cutting a deadly path through the area, leaving at least four people dead and nearly 1 million people across the region without power wow, those wins taking down power, leinz tris, and residences in the city. downtown houston hit hard. so you here the wells fargo plaza where debris and remnants of buildings are still swirling. we're going to get much more coverage from our weather team coming up in just a few minutes, but stay safe out there this morning. if you are in the houston area all right let's turn now to law

and politics because there was a pivotal de, for donald trump, and it might have honestly been his best day yet in the course of his hush money trial the prosecution's star witness, michael cohen faltering on the witness. >> and as trump's attorney todd blanche needled him over inconsistencies in his previous testimony earlier this week, cohen testified to an october 2016 phone call with trump on his bodyguards phone in which cohen said they discussed the hush money payments to stormy daniels on thursday however, defense lawyer revealed text messages that cohen had sent to trump's bodyguard, keith schiller immediately before the call. those texts asking for help with a teenager who had been prank calling cohen blanche then asked cohen, quote, on tuesday when you were under oath and testifying, you were certain it was accurate, you had a phone call to president trump but now you're saying you're not certain it was accurate. cohen responding i believe i also spoke to mr.

mr. president trump and told him everything regarding the stormy daniels matter was being worked on. and it's going to be resolved blanche firing back. we're not asking for your belief. this jury doesn't want to hear what you think happened outside the courtroom. trump was joined once again by a crew of republican allies, eager to defend him. >> this is a crooked sham trial to try to hurt the nominee who's going to be the president united states, whether or not they like it. >> this is a scam. it is a sham, it is a show. and we are here to expose every bit of it. mr. president, we stand with you. >> we're here of our own volition because there are things we can say that president trump is unjustly not allowed to say okay, joining me now, axios politics reporter steph. >> steph. >> good morning to you. thank you so much for being here this really in some ways feels like it could have been a turning

point yesterday in this trial as we were watching this unfold in real time. here in the studio yesterday. it, it really did. i think show potentially that cohen may not have been consistent in this moment, right. the prosecution went out of their way to say yes, he has lied before. he has lied to all of these different aldi's to congress to other places. but they were saying to the jury he is telling you the truth now, and todd blanche does seem to have exposed michael cohen here. how important do you think this is gonna be? >> yeah, i mean, it goes to show how risky it is when you are resting most of your case on someone like michael cohen when someone who has a history of lying under oath and the jury is going to take that into account. and what we saw yesterday was a very aggressive effort by trump's attorneys to bring into question cohen's credibility and poke holes in this anterior point and actually raise real questions about whether what he's saying

whether what he's saying about trump being involved in knowing about these hush money payments is actually true. and again, this is so reliant on cohen's testimony. everything about this, he is the one person connecting trump to the other evidence we've seen laid out so far in this trial and so to have any kind of questioning about his credibility could be a huge moment for trump moving forward. yeah. i mean, it's it seems like if they're going to plant reasonable doubt, they only need one juror to potentially have this end in a hung jury so let's talk about the politics of this. we showed those freedom caucus members who were the ones we showed calling this a sham trial they said that they went up their of their own volition. that was matt gaetz is phrase. >> they were not the trump campaign didn't pay for them to be there, which we have seen in other instances, they have the trump campaign has brought people in. they did not do that. in this case. >> what, what do you think this

particular crew doing? >> this says and isn't any sort of statement that the trump campaign didn't ask for these guys to go, that they just kinda showed up. >> i mean, i think this particular group of members is not surprising. these are some of trump's loudest advocates and have been for a long time. these are also many of the same members who are part of the oversight committee who have made attacking the justice system, attacking the department of justice central focus of their efforts on that committee and so even the fact that they were in new york yesterday delayed so a hearing and a vote on holding and content attorney the attorney general, over these over biden's classified documents case. so this particular group of people isn't surprising, but it is notable that we have now seen so many republicans make this move. we saw rick scott, we've seen other senators kind of make the voyage to show their salt, their solidarity with trump. this is clearly becoming a theme and something that republicans feel like they need to do to kind show that they're on the former president's side. and this is all within the

context of 2024 elections. >> yeah, it's worth noting that matt gaetz tweeted this photo of himself behind the president and he says, standing back and standing by mr. president, let's not lose sight of the fact that that is a reference to the proud boys and all of the white nationalist themes that go with that stuff kite for us this morning, happy friday hi thank you. very much for being here. >> all right. just ahead here at least four people are dead as severe storms slam the houston area also developing this morning, police grants say they took down an armed man who was trying to attack a synagogue. >> we'll have more details ahead. >> and arizona prosecutors are trying to indict rudy giuliani in their 20 in 20 fake electors case what they can't because they say they can't find him more than $500 million there's an art stolen. they saw what turned out to be the biggest archives in history. you can't

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went ashore in gaza. cnn's max foster joins us now, live from london at max. good morning to you at this pure, a step in the direction that palestinians need, but still so that invasion of rafah is seems to be ongoing. if not escalating. >> yeah. so you've got thousands and thousands of people leaving rafah going to wherever they can find really. and there aren't many places to find where they can settled down. so it's getting the keeping up with them, getting the aid to them but all the aid workers are suffering from the same problems of course as well because they're having to move around. the big issue currently is i'll see that the rafah crossing is closed and that's where much of the aid was coming through. that's not possible, which is why this is seen a such a lifeline then just thinking about what you said that casey about. no us boots actually touching the beach there. they don't want to be seen to be going in or being involved in this

invasion, but they've managed to build a 300 here in stormy seas and actually get it connected to the land without actually touching the land. so all credit to the us forces involved here and they're hoping to get 90 trucks a day into gaza. it's not enough and they're going to struggle to get out to the people. but it's positive news for palestinians, at least yeah, what i want an engineering project, those pictures are just absolutely remarkable, nice to have a little bit of good news on that front that that is underway. >> max, i also have to ask you, we get the new edition of the economists lins on our desks on fridays and they ask, in this issue is america dictator proof and you and i have spent some time talking about this and the view from europe, especially on the possibility that donald trump may be reelected. >> and what that is going to mean? for the world and they write this. the answer is if americans believed their constitutional loan can safeguard the republic from caesar on the potomac than they are to sanguine, preserving

democracy depends today as it always has, on the courage and convictions of countless people all across america especially those charged with writing and upholding its laws. this just really struck me, especially as we've watched images of people who are charged with writing the law's going and criticizing standing behind donald trump criticizing the proceedings that are in theory is supposed to be up holding them yes. >> there's that big debate in america. i mean, what we're seeing this side is how a lot of those ideas really are translating into other countries. you've seen in georgia, people in a lead is being accused of being dictators and also in other countries as well around the area, had this assassination didn't we? as well? this assassination attempt, there's this idea that to be a strong leader, to be in inspired by donald trump, you have to be autocratic i'm not i'm not trying to imply anything on donald trump here, but there's lehman that he's inspiring is

seen by many protesters, at least to be undermining democracy the scene as undemocratic and dictator like i'm not sure that's how it intends it. i'm not sure that's how you wants to be, but that's how it's being interpreted in parts over here. >> yeah. i mean, look, it's clear his affinity for strong leaders is something that is a central piece of how donald trump led when he was president in united states and how he interacted with vladimir putin. she his affinity for viktor orban in hungary in particular, or ban traveling here to a major conservative conference. it is all connected as you say, max foster for us in london, max, thank you very much. have a great weekend. >> all right, still ahead here hurricane-force winds leave four dead and a path of destruction in houston plus the corruption trial of senator bob menendez off to an explosive start. shady characters and a defense strategy that blames his cancer stricken wife ga the

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you. we're also seeing windows blown out and skyscrapers. these scenes are just intense it's, it's incredible what we have seen overnight in houston. >> i mean, you can see the damage lining the streets of the city, their traffic lights that are toppled over holes in skyscrapers were windows have been blown out. we also have video of customers and costco totally losing power. look at them in the dark as those storms blew through we had wins upwards of 84 miles per hour at the airport in new orleans at two miles per hour at a different airport, a couple of wind gusts already over 75 at tenure, 80 miles prover over parts of texas will need to survey the damage in houston to figure out what those wins speeds were there. this is the storm system as it continues to progress, ease, it does have a weakening trend here this morning, though it does pack a lot of lightning just south there, panama city and some heavy rain as well right now, no watches in effect. but we'll continue with the severe threat along the gulf coast as we go

through the day today, here's that level two out of five slight risks there. you can see in the yellow from new orleans to mobile up towards montgomery damaging winds, large hail, additional tornadoes all still on the table as these storms can continue to fire up and progress eastward, an additional line of storms as we go into saturday morning as well for hard hit new orleans areas. and then along the florida panhandle, all of this coming with excessive heavy rain, we have that moderate level three out of four risk for heavy rain and a lot of this area is already so saturated the ground simply cannot take any casey all right. at least a wrap up for us on this friday, at lisa. >> thank you very much. >> all right. 23 minutes past the hour. here's your morning roundup. former trump attorney john eastman said to be arraigned in an area arizona court later this morning for charges he is facing related to the 2020 fake electors case rudy giuliani, also due to appear in court, except prosecutors have not been able to locate him in order to serve

him in texas. daniel perry is now a free man. governor greg abbott pardoned the man convicted of murdering a black lives matter protester in 2020. perry shot and killed 28 year-old air force veteran garrett foster after driving into a crowd of demonstrators in austin the secretary of state, antony blinken, said to meet with palestinian and arab leaders this evening, the biden ministration has been trying to reach out to aerobe american voters good rising tensions over the israel-hamas war are just ahead here. prank phone calls, a porn star and a revenge podcasts. just another day with michael cohen cohen on the stand in new york how do you top that? >> how about these middle school insults in a house committee hearing oh girl baby girl. oh, really don't even play baby girl. i don't think you're going to move and we're

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testimony and trump seemed quite pleased after that day in court i think there's a very interesting day fascinating and it shows scam herself thing earlier this week, cohen testified about a 2016 phone call that he said was between himself and the former president using trump bodyguard keith schiller's phone. cohen had said it was to quote, discuss the stormy daniels matter and quote, this became in essential piece of evidence in yesterday's cross-examinati on when trump attorney todd blanche revealed text messages for minutes before that phone calls or place in those texts, cohen complains about a teenager who has been prank calling him. schiller responding quote, call me trump's lawyers then pressed cohen saying, quote, when you testified on tuesday that that that you had specific recollection that you called keith schiller and he passed the phone to president trump. you finalize the deal with stormy daniel's and you said

we're going to move forward and he said yes because you kept him informed all the time. that was your testimony, right? cohen said that's correct. >> blanche then responded that was a lie. you were actually talking to mr. schiller about the fact that you were getting harassing phone calls from a 14-year-old, correct? to which cohen replied, part of it was the 14 year-old joining me now for federal prosecutor, gene rossi. gene. good morning. thank you so much for being here. >> thanks for having me so how much does this matter? >> i think it's a left hook to the jaw, but i don't think it's a knockout and here's why i represented keith davidson. so i'm very familiar with the timeline. yeah. and on october 24, there was discussions between keith davidson and michael cohen that a deal may be imminent but to deal was enclosed. so go into this october 24 call around 8:00 p.m. i blame the prosecutors on this one they should a fronted they should abroad out into direct exam.

hey michael mr. cohen, you have all these texts when you were calling schiller, trying to reach trump? were you talking about just the kid who was harassing you or you also throw it in. the stormy daniels status. he could easily have said, you know what, i remember calling him schiller and i may have talked about the deal with mr. trump that would neutralize the cross. so i blame the prosecutors why i only call it a left jab, who are left hook is there are calls on october 26, 27, and 28 where are you can tell that cohen is calling trump directly, maybe through schiller because that's when the deal was closed that's when he had the document signed. and that's when the money was going. what i don't understand is the defense is trying to say that trump didn't know about this at all that don is not going to khan. a jury is going to believe that cohen was keeping him a prized and a jury will believe that trump nude at

130,000 or money was going to her. so is it a knockout? know does it make cohen look bad? of course but it's not the whole case. the case is still good so how if you are the prisma, how the prosecutors just miss the existence of these texts. >> eye been gazi, i hide venue where you have your witnesses like cohen, i had 100 cohen's and the defense find some innocuous document and a take a lemon and they make lemonades and they do your dramatic raise your voice walk around. >> so he did a great job making a relatively and my my view relatively minor point that did show he may be lying but you've got the cause later that override that. i want to say this in a four-hour cross there were several things that todd blanche, where he stepped in,

you know what? one is when cohen lied to congress and said, in june of 2017, that the moscow deal was no big deal. >> yeah, he lied who told him to lie, who gave him the talking points to lie on cross, it came out it was trump's legal advisor so that's supporting perjury. >> second thing is it came out in cross that meloni really wasn't thought about by trump. he didn't care about karen mcdougal. he thought it actually in a sick way would help him and end. the third thing is in cross blanche brought out that trump reimbursed cohen when you pay for legal services. that's not reimbursement, right? right. yeah. no we've definitely look into that. so on on the on re-examine are redirects rather? yes. >> how do the prosecutors how should they try to dispense with what we saw?

>> that is a fantastic point whenever i had a moment like that on cross, my redirect saved the day. so this break actually helps the prosecution more than a defense on redirect. i would go back to the october 24 call. i would put up those text messages and have cohen looked at jury in the eye? and say, you know what, i did talk about that. but i also talked about the deal that may be coming. so i forgot to mention that, and i apologize. just have them own it. and also, i would go back to his statement before congress and reaffirm that trump's legal advisors told him to lie to congress that's devastating. i'm sorry. that really makes trump look bad. >> interesting all right. jean rousey for us this morning, jane. thank you all right. >> a pair of republican house committees voting yesterday to move forward with contempt proceedings against attorney general merrick garland after

he refused to turn over audio recordings of president biden's interview with special counsel robert hur that is the doj interview that led to hur's report that states the president retained a number of classified documents because he was quote, a well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory. >> the president claimed executive privilege over those tapes and news outlets including cnn, are suing the department of justice for their release in the hours before the committee moved forward with those contempt proceedings we heard from merrick garland himself in a pretty unusual moment for someone who doesn't speak out this way very often, watch there have been a series of unprecedented and frankly, unfounded attacks on the justice department this west, this effort to use contempt as a method of obtaining are sensitive law enforcement files is just the most recent the effort to threatened, to defund our investigations at the way

in which there are contributions to an atmosphere that puts our agents and r prime prosecutors at risk. these are wrong all right, jordi me not to discuss is grace panetta. >> she's political reporter for the 19th grades. good morning. wonderful to see you. >> let's dig into this hearing around or first the big picture question, then we're going to show you a little bit what actually happened at the hearing. it's just here then what this might suggest. this is about tapes, audio recordings that republicans want of president biden talking about his classified documents case. >> they argue it's transparency and as we noted, news organizations want to hear them as well. >> however, it's clear that the white house, the biden campaign believes that these would be weaponized for political purposes. and that's the point of getting them out there. >> where does this contempt go next? >> and what more is behind it? >> absolutely great to be with you, casey, i think the contempt motion, it's unclear

how far it's going to go if it'll leave and make it to the house floor, republicans have a very narrow majority of that vote could put a lot of swing district republicans in a tough spot. >> and of course the department of justice is not going to prosecute the attorney general. >> so this is really about the politics of it, and it's about house republicans blinken's broader effort to make the biden administration look shady, potentially corrupt will also making biden look weaken in decline the house oversight chairman james comer said as much they said the white house doesn't want this tape release because it would show that biden isn't, quote, unquote mental decline, which is really a statement more about really, i think the campaign, then the heart of it there investigation. so it's really more of a political gambit at this point yeah, i mean, this is, of course the central theme that republicans want to use against president biden. >> now, in the election, one that that our poll show voters are focused on, for sure. so let's watch a little bit of what actually played out at this contempt hearing because let's just say kind of showed the level of contempt that some of these members of the house

have for each other why don't we start with which one should i pick let's start with aoc and marjorie taylor greene and it starts with jasmine crockett. it's it's a dispute over fake eyelashes. watch do you know we're here for? >> we're here for well, you don't want it's talking about i think your fake eyelashes or messing up order. >> i do have a point of order and i would like to move to take down ms green's words. that is absolutely unacceptable. how dare you some another person are your feelings, her words down? oh, oh, girl, baby, girl. >> oh, really don't even play baby girl. >> i don't think you're going to move and we're going to take your words down i don't know to say. i don't know what to say,

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over its own markup. >> and that really casts doubt on his ability to advance these kind of contempt motions. for example, against attorney general garland and to really make this broader case he's trying to make about the white house in the biden administration. >> yeah. let's calmer. did try to defend himself, which i mean, it clearly he felt he needed to after all of this, watch what he said i don't know if you've noticed that i have two hearing aids very deaf. i'm not understanding everybody's yelling. i'm doing the best i can. can we not recognize ms green and lenders? >> not because of the rules of the committee. mr. chair okay. >> so basically he's saying i couldn't hear it. i couldn't hear it so at here, senator bob man and as his legal team blaming his wife for his corruption charges, plus supreme court justice samuel alito, under scrutiny for reportedly flying an american flag upside down. it was

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criminal defense attorney lexi rigged and lexi. a good morning to you what is up with this legal strategy well, chivalry is dead. >> he's blaming his wife he he's basically saying it was her. she had these longstanding relationships with the co-defendants. she knew them predating her marriage to him, and that anything that she did, he didn't know about. he was just the innocent husband and the dark and there's gonna be an issue here with whether he was willfully ignorant as to what she was doing because there's a difference between not knowing and choosing not to know and sort of keeping yourself in the dark, which he can't do in terms of escaping consequences, then this prosecution. >> yeah. i think we should also note that this is not the first time and then does has faced questions about his conduct. >> he has not been in the past. it's basically gotten off. but this is a recent are more recent marriage how does something like this, how does this like this play with a

jury? do they take into account the the sort of you called it chivalry i like how are they not going to like dig him for that well, i think he's playing the only card that he has. >> he needs to distance himself from all of the things found in his house. i mean, this is hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash that was found both in his personal life items in the house and also in her closet. the gold bars. and so this is like the best shot that he has also, he was very careful to not necessarily talk to these co-defendants directly. he usually went through his wife and that's what the prosecution wants everyone to believe. obviously, that's the allegation is that he used his wife is a conduit, so he's playing the card that he has here, which is essentially lynge her. now, i find the revelation of her health issues to be kind of curious because you would think that that would actually garner some sympathy. >> i mean, hopefully nobody

wants these jurors to necessarily hear that, but because they need to stay impartial, but you would think that that revelation, which wasn't necessarily she needed to have been made, would actually garner some sympathy with the jurors with regard to her status. >> but again, i think that this is his best play in addition to the arguments that are being made by all of these co-defendants saying this wasn't a crime, it's not a crime to have friends, it's not a crime for brands to give you gifts. i wish i had friends that would give me gifts that would anywhere close to that. unfortunately, i don't. but it's going to be up to the jury to decide whether those gifts were actually bribes or not. and it's i think it's pretty hard to justify having hundreds of thousands of dollars in your house. i mean, that's just not that's not typical for normal people and there was actually an expert who was going to testify the defense wanted a psychiatrist to testify about his childhood trauma growing up in cuba, which is why he was hoarding large amounts of cash in his

home. but that that expert was barred. so the jury is not going to be able to hear that justification for why there was so much cash in the home? >> yeah. i was going to ask you about that actually. >> is that a typical type of thing to ask for something like that? it sounded i it sounded unusual to me well, you know, he has money to obviously throw at this hopefully not that money was not the way that was confiscated, but he's got money to throw it the best defense that he can get. i mean, he is a skilled lawyer who has a lot of experience. and so if you have a litigation budget in order to present whatever evidence and testimony that you can then his lawyers were smart to try to get an expert to try to explain this type of conduct. i mean, a lot of people, they don't have a litigation budget to hire experts and everything along those lines. but if you do, it was a smart move to try to contextualize why he had so much money because this is just not, this is not typical. i mean, this is certainly not typical of people in the united states. we have a pretty good

banking system. i mean, this isn't cuba. so anything to contextualize why he had literally, i think it was over $500,000 in cash in the home. and so the fact that the defense can't present that i think is a blow to his case yeah. >> i mean, how many mattresses does it take to hide hidden in his clothes, in jacket pocket to meet it. >> if his wife rod, or apparati enter closet. so there was money everywhere in this house all right. >> lexi reagan for us this morning. lexi regretful you for your time. thanks very much for being here thank you all right. time now for sports, the timberwolves blow out the defending nba champion nuggets to force a winner take all game seven. >> carolyn man who has this morning's bleach report, carolyn good morning. >> good morning. casey. well, this series has been a roller coaster all the way, so it's only fitting that this one will go the distance, but nobody expected just how last night's game six is going to play out after looking out match for the past three games, minnesota

roaring back to life, they lead by 17 at the end of the first quarter and never looked back in this game going on to win one 15 to 70 the 45 point when the second largest by any team facing elimination in league history, denver shot in a bismol 30% from the floor. they became the first team to score 70 or fewer points in the playoffs since the grizzlies back in 2016, and anthony edwards has been it's such a superstar yet a game-high 27 points flashing seven fingers to the roaring crowd as he walked up for a fourth-quarter time-out game seven set for sunday in denver you really tell the locker room staffer in denver you are going to be best for you. yeah. >> day nobody. i was in there. yeah. i told him i said i see you game seven in this daily get playoffs arrangers look like they were headed to a game, said that it gets the carolina hurricane zoo york down by two goals heading into the final period. >> then chris kreider, single-handedly flipping the

script, he scored three goals capping off the natural hat-trick for the eventual winner. we've four 19 left in the game, so he joins wayne gretzky and marc messy as the only rangers to notch three goals in a period during a playoff game, new york winning 5-3, punching, their ticket to the eastern conference finals and check out this great moment after the game to kreider scathing off the ice, handing his stick to a young fan. before heading to the dressing room. how sweet is that? anytime the conducts have the euler's on the brink of elimination and they're all canadian series with the game tied to vancouver's jt miller find in the back of the net, which is 33 seconds remaining, that conducts when it three to two, they take a 3-2 series lead as well. game six scheduled for tomorrow night. it edmonton in that series at a sold-out crowd on hand at the indiana fever first home opener for caitlin clark. she's still getting adjusted until life as a wnba rookie, the number one pick in the draft, managing 9.7 rebounds, six assists in a lopsided 10266 loss to the new york liberty, the league's

reigning mvp brand is seward though putting on a show she is a wily veteran in the league 31 points, ten rebounds, bounds four assists, three steals for her, but for caitlin clark or ability to balance scoring and play making still a work in progress here she continues to get more exposure to the program i mean it's, a process and she's she's gonna be fudge. she's she's figured it out she just needs to get a little bit of confidence right now. i think she's taking some shots that she normally would not down there making it really hard on her. we've got to do a better job of finding ways to get her some easier. okay. more open looks and lastly, for you this morning, gulf war xander schauffele had a round for the record books of the pga championship and louisville yesterday, the world number three made nine birdies and zero bogeys and route to a 62 that dies a single round scoring record at a men's major championship. >> and it comes almost 11 months the day after he and rickie fowler broke the us record with opening round 60 2s. and you take a look at the leaderboard shockley's

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