show powering progress i'm sunlen serfaty in washington in this is cnn welcome to the lead on jake tapper. >> this our new blame for all the divisions and in congress these days, senate minority leader mitch mcconnell was pointing the finger at this specific political commentator. who is it will tell you, plus a new settlements in what may be the biggest scandal in the

history of athletics the us justice department is saying about its deal to try to close the books on its investigation into the larry nassar's sexual abuse case against girls and women in gymnasts next, we're going to get reaction from the attorney representing the gymnast survivors of larry nassar's abuse, and leaning this our a-major de and the new york city pasha funny cover-up case. a key witness for the prosecutors was back on the stand. his name? david pecker, the former tabloid publisher, and he detailed how he says donald trump used the national so enquirer tabloid to help his 2016 presidential campaign cnn's paula reid has a look now at today's task testimony as former tablet executive pecker went from killing damaging stories about trump to spilling all on the witness stand. >> former national enquirer publisher, david pecker, back on the witness stand today, where he shared details of his decades-long friendship with donald trump and how he eventually used his position to

help trump in the 2016 election under questioning from prosecutors, pecker described a meeting he had with trump and his former attorney, michael cohen in 2015. where they asked, what can i do and what my magazine could do to help the campaign pecker testified that he responded saying what i would do is i would run or publish positive stories about mr. trump and i would publish negative stories about his opponents. i said i would be your eyes and ears. he told the jury he saw the agreement as mutually beneficial. it would help his campaign and it would also help me pecker said he began meeting with colin a minimum of every week. and if there was an issue, could be daily. he said he would go directly to cohen when confronted with a negative story about trump the prosecution question pecker in detail about a doormat who tried to sell a story about trump allegedly fathering a child with another woman as trump sat in court and shook his head. pecker said he

directed the editor of the enquirer to negotiate a number a price to buy the story and take it off the market. the door man it's paid $30,000 for the story, even though it later proved to be false, pecker told the court if the story got out to another publication or another media outlet, it would've been very embarrassing to the campaign. pecker claimed that the story were true. it would probably be the biggest sale of the national enquirer since the death of elvis let's presley, but then admitted if it were true, he wouldn't have published the story until after the election, but before pecker even took the stand, the proceedings of began with a heated hearing on the gag order imposed on trump in this case, the prosecution asked the judge to order trump to remove specific posts. they allege violate the gag order and fine him $1,000 for each of the alleged violations and remind him that incarceration is an option. should it be necessary? but defense attorney todd

blanche argue that trump did not willfully violate the gag order and claim trump believes re-posting others assertions or content is not a violation, but the hearing became heated at one point with the judge telling blanche, you're losing all credibility with the court and there was no decision from the judge on that gag order. but portably back in session on thursday, pecker will be back on the stand, likely facing more questions about karen mcdougal, the woman who allegedly had about a year-long affair with trump, the national enquirer bought her story and then never published it. that is likely prosecutors will move on to press pecker on how he came to learn that a woman named stormy daniels was also shopping person sorry jake. >> all paula reid and manhattan for us. thanks so much. let's discuss with their legal panel and elliott, let's take a look at this important exchange as the prosecution questioned tabloid magnate david pecker today, the prosecutor said, quote, prior to the august 2015 meeting, had you ever purchased

a story to not print it about mystery? for trump and pecker replied, no, the prosecutor asked, did that part help the national enquirer at all then not publishing the story that you've paid for. becker said, no, that didn't help. so pecker has confirming here that positive stories about trump or a mutual benefit or even potentially, i guess theoretically negative ones would be a benefit for the national enquirer. but stopping stories from being printed about donald trump would only benefit trump. it would not help the national enquirer how important is that? nothing illegal about it, right? nothing stops national enquirer from running positive stories about whoever they want to run stories about. now at the center of this case is this catch and kill scheme& falsifying records to cover up some of the details and some of these articles, you have to establish that there was a pattern of suppressing stories that were unfavorable to trump and pumping up stories that were favorable to him in order to get to the point where you're talking about you're

hiding business records to cover up what they're doing. so really what they're doing is laying the groundwork for what should come out if the prosecutors get the testimony they want, which is that these business records were falsified in order to protect the president and help the campaign and added that the prosecution establish that the national enquirer's catch and kill tactic buying negative get up stories and just so as to not run them to protect trump. that. and it was used for the stormy daniels story was first employed in other stories, the prosecutor steinglass asked david pecker why the national enquirer in two, that's 15 paid for one particular story that was not true. pecker replied that if the story got out to another publication or another media outlet, it would have been very embarrassing to the campaign not oh boy, that sucks because we would have lost a scoop to a rival publication, but that it would have been embarrassing to the campaign. what's your response? >> so to me, one of the key things we have have to focus on is not that what the enquirer was doing with the catch and

kill when you get down to the grapheme in the center of the crime, it's about the payment for it and the use of funds and whether that's a campaign violation, that's what makes this transforms this from a misdemeanor to a felony and so the catch and kill, the idea that a newspaper would cover certain stories, not cover other stories as elliott said, that's fine. not a crime what we're, what we have to focus on, and this is all the groundwork we have to focus on the business records and whether there were false entries in the business records. and then as the next deb did those payments constitute a campaign violation of federal campaign violation that they were covering up. it's not to say election interference, election interference. it's sort of not quite accurate for what the case is truly about, which is the payments, the payment mints were illegal and they've been in the records were falsified to cover that up, right. >> i mean, there's nothing

illegal about this sleazy relationship. they had such as when the national enquirer to help trump falsely accused ted cruz is father of having somehow been mixed up in the kennedy assassination. and let's, let's run this clip. this is trump calling into fox and friends back in may 2016. now, just to remind people, it's basically at this point, it's basically between ted cruz and donald trump for the republican presidential nomination. shen and trump calls into fox and friends to bring their attention to this national enquirer story. lissa father was with lee harvey oswald prior to oswald was being get me. >> the only thing is ridiculous. what, what is this right prior to his being shot? and nobody even brings it up. i mean, they don't even talk about that that was reported nobody talks about it, but i think it's horrible again not illegal for the national enquirer to do that or vor

donald trump to call into fox and friends, or for fox and friends does to sit there and let them do it, right? >> elliott? >> yeah, absolutely. and what you're seeing here is a pattern of conduct where the national enquirer word would number one, suppressed bad stories about the former president number to push stories that were critical of his opponents, ted cruz and hillary clinton. again, not impermissible, but the prosecutors here are attempting to establish a pattern of conduct that ultimately leads to exactly what adam was talking about. once you start getting into the financial transactions to cover it all up this morning's hearing on whether trump violated his gag order. the order is to not in salt or attack publicly, witnesses or the jury that hearing got heated. the attorney for donald trump was trying to defend a trump's social media post about the jury and trump's team was like just trying to pretend it was just to re-posting something that somebody on fox, jessie water said, but the judge pushed back and trump's team had to acknowledge that it wasn't simply a re-posting

because trump had added words to it and judge merchan then told trump's team, quote, you're losing all credibility with the court. what do you think would have been a better way for trump's? team to defend their client from what seems that pretty cut and dry example of him violating the gag order. >> i mean, words that as the attorney in the courtroom, you never want to hear the judge say to you, you're losing all credibility with me. so that's painful i think i think that a probably i would probably argue along first amendment grounds that it's protected speech, that it didn't directly attack anyone, that it wasn't his words, but i think for the defense team, it's a very tough situation because you have a client who has his own sort of pull political agenda, who's feels the need to speak out. he's running for the highest office and it's going to be really hard for them to

control him. and it's going to put judge merchan in a very difficult position of trying to maintain control in order of his courtroom. the prosecutors will keep pushing for sanctions i think, that he may he may sort of draw a line in the sand now and say, i'm not going to penalize you for what went before, but going forward, there will be financial sanctions and there is the possibility of incarceration if you don't toe the line. so i think it's a tough position for the defense team in a tough position for the judge i think that donald trump knows how to push those buttons very well out of your former assistant district attorney with the manhattan district attorney's office, judge merchan. typically were told as a quiet demeanor, but he was clearly annoyed even exasperated by that whole exchange in the gag order hearing, according to our reporters in the courtroom could that have a broader impact on the trial itself i don't think so. >> i mean, look, you sit through a trial, parties get annoyed with one another.

judges get annoyed with the parties. all of that happened out of the presence of the jury, which is appropriate and a judge might lose his temper, but i don't think he's going to lose his overall judicial disposition i've known judge merchan for a long time. he's a pretty even keeled guy. and i think he may get annoyed and may express that and may get frustrated. but all in all, i think he's going to stick to the rules and the playbook and make sure that everything is done barely to give a fair trial. >> all right. adam kaufmann, elliott williams. thanks so much. appreciated the big day in the hush money cover up trial comes as voters in a key battleground state or commonwealth are voting & republican presidential primary, how trump maybe trying to use that to his advantage.& the sayyed i comment today from republican senator mitt romney, who gave his $0.02 on trump's trial so far this of the

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fredericks just to illustrate how friendly this chat was here's how the host help trump talk about the criminal trial. >> just listening let's get to this scam communist soviet matter trial. that's going on in new york city you're being politically persecuted. are justices is now perverted and weaponized. how does this play out, mr. mr. president? >> well, it is this is all biden, so we can we can move on from there. but first of all, i want to take this moment to show you somebody who was actually a victim of a scam. russian judicial system today, a moscow court denied a wall street journal journalist evan gershkovich, latest appeal against his unjust attention then on charges us government says are bogus and politically motivated. that's somebody who's actually a victim of soviet repressive court. >> but donald trump wants to reframe what's going on as a

politicized trial and gloria, let me start with you. >> do you think that there's an audience? let's for this beyond his base. >> look, i think it's going to get old really quickly and today, you know, they had the hearing on the gag order and he's going to try and flip that on its head and say, i'm being gagged, i can't talk about this. the judge's unfair. they won't let me and he'll continue to do it day in and day out. i don't know what impact that's going to have with voters beyond his base. because when you look at the topics of this trial and how tawdry it is. let's talk about suburban women. let's talk about independent voters. let's see how well that plays. you know, he's, he's got an opportunity to talk about other things. he's got an audience when he comes out a court, but all he does is complain and deny, didn't you say last time you were here that trump should take these opportunities of these televised little press conferences. was that not you? there was not me. okay. it was another one why is it was it's a wise point? look, i think

it's good that of all the trials for the president to start with, this is probably the best one for him for it because it's politically, politically because it's the weakest. i think it's, you're taking misdemeanors. the statue of limitations run out, you get a creative de in manhattan, turns it into a one. it just becomes this tawdry to use your words case, that he could use against all the other cases, some of which might have more real bearing on the election than this one. so this is a good place for him to start. i think, and he will use the gag order to benefit totally. >> what do you think? >> i mean, look, i think that donald trump in many republicans confuse the word persecution with prosecution he is not being persecuted by a stretch. he's being prosecuted for the crimes he committed. i do actually agree. i don't know if we need to sound buzzer or whatever. i do agree with you that this is actually the weakest pay me is the weakest case of the four. but here we are talking about a man who has

five kids by three baby momoh's. he's charged with 90 felony counts are 908888. yeah. i'm rounding up. sorry volatile. >> well, three of them were dismissed anyway so at eight now and he's in he's in four different jurisdictions and he's literally the standard bearer for the republican party and he's beating joe biden and polls well, how do you account for that? >> so slowdown i think donald trump has what we say is a, a very low ceiling and a high floor. >> and i don't think these trials are going to help him to glorious point. i think a lot of people are desensitized to donald trump is kinda baked in, but there is enough around the fringes in the outskirts of detroit or the suburbs of philadelphia or clark county or tempe or georgia jaw raleigh, durham where this election will be one. and i think college-educated white women are going to have a problem with you sleeping with stormy daniels while your wife is pregnant? well, so convicted show that people would be less like sizable number of people

would be less likely clay to vote for a convicted felon period. so there, mitt romney was asked about it today, senator mitt romney, republican from utah and here's what he had to say i'm not getting into the trial trial underway and the jury will make their decision that somebody would say about his character. i think everybody has made their own assessment president trump's character and so far as i know, you don't pay someone $130,000 not to have sex with you i mean, i know about as much as may romney does, but it does seem to make sense. you don't pay $130,000 to somebody to not have sex with you? >> or to a fair statement mourning. >> keep quiet about something that didn't happen necessarily you know, it's interesting about marco rubio was asked earlier today about what's going on. and he basically said he belittled the report from the national enquirer said something isn't that the same publication? that says national enquirer? that's the same publication that said elvis was alive and living in curacao.

but he was asked about the tactics of negative stories about him being planted in the national enquirer to help trump during the republican primaries. and he said, i know people i ran against for president in 2016 that use mainstream publication yes. to print stuff like that. that wasn't true yes. but marco marco rubio has the backbone of a squeegee, like, i don't understand why he is afraid to stand up for himself. stand up for the people he ran with, like literally they sabotage you in your learning about it. now you're learning how it was done, but he still afraid to call it so ted cruz was probably the worst example. yeah, you know, and and taking on ted cruz, taking on his father, taking on his wife, taking on crews personally, and now there's no distance between ted cruz and donald trump book. >> they all knew marco rubio, ted cruz all knew about these stories in real time and no new who was planting them. so this isn't a surprise to any of them, but this one is fairly

typical camp, but there are, when you're running a campaign you know, the publications that are going to be friendly to you and you know those that you go to to, to give opposition research and other information that are gonna be detrimental to your shirt moment. but sometimes that is the mainstream media absolutely often as a republican, i will say we believe it's the mansouri mean, well, it works absolutely. democrats do it and absolutely republicans do it and campaigns do it. and certainly there were lots of publications that were dropped against marco rubio in the 2015, 2016 period in which on in conservative publications accusing him of being soft when it came to light, for instance, immigration, right? stephen miller didn't like marco rubio, wouldn't see even miller was a senate aide and marco rubio was working on immigration reform, right? but i'm saying yeah, yeah. but that's not the same thing as accusing donald. accusing marco rubio of having a child from outside his marriage. i mean, that's what the national enquirer did. are these wild parties, these foam parties? we don't have to get into, but those were the stories in the

enquirer. >> but if i remember correctly, in 2000 tonight with mccain, there was there were there were cadre stories prior to donald trump's. so i mean, i guess the point i'm trying to make is this is not atypical for a presidential campaign. i could go back to grover cleveland, but i'll stop with, that. may not be a typical for the national enquirer hi error, but it is a typical in terms of real journalism, i would have to say, and i would like to point out that there's a difference between what the national enquirer does and what real journalists like dr. taking up the benjamin harrison mantle here on the panel stick around and coming up next the head turner comment from just a few hours ago from senate minority leader mitch mcconnell. he singled out one specific person on one of the most divisive issues right now in his republican party stay with us riyad say's new album is breaking records ook in t

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leader going after a conservative commentator like that. yeah, and mitch mcconnell has been on the forefront pushing ukraine aid amid a loud opposition within his party, particularly what he called the isolation is movement's something he believes is part of his legacy. and last chapter here as republican leader to try to push back against those elements within the gop, he believes today's vote dance, this massive $95 billion aid package to overcome a filibuster which was proved at 19, breaking that filibuster 30 republicans voted to break that filibuster. that is up from 22 republicans who voted for a separate senate package on foreign aid including aid ukraine, that passed the senate about two months ago. he believes in his words, they have quote, turn the tide against that isolation is strain within in the gop. but mcconnell, i asked him if he was concerned about speaker johnson's handling of this plans as it passed in the house on saturday, more than two months after the sentence proposal, he said, ultimately the house is playing. jake is a

lot like the senate plan that was approved about two months ago yesterday, mr. trump said that he thinks speaker johnson has a quote, very good person does this mean the end of the threat from the maga wing in the house to oust speaker johnson. >> it might mean jake that there's just simply not enough support to do that. although there are still a handful of republicans who well, it's still pushing their way and if democrats were to vote to oust speaker johnson, they would have enough votes to kick them out of the speakership. but democrats are still not decided. the leadership level if they'll come to his defense. now, i put the question to some senate republicans about the threat to oust speaker johnson, and they pushed back against those like marjorie taylor greene, who are calling only for johnson's ouster what do you make of people like marjorie taylor greene going after mike johnson tried to push them out from the speakership because this decision, you know, there's some folks who try and get themselves as many tweets, as many followers as they can a lot of sound and fury signifying nothing i say turn

your ankle toward the real adversary real political opponents. >> and it's certainly not mike johnson. i mean, my gosh, if he's not good enough, no one's gonna be good enough. they need therapy the therapy of a beat in some cases but i certainly don't think that they'll prevail and pushing the mountain if they do, he will have lost his job over a very noble decision that he made i think for a guy like mike johnson who's convictions are deeper than political party you know, he'll be fine with that and jaguar johnson's political problems may not be coming to an end. >> this saga over this foreign aid package that includes $61 billion in aid to ukraine is expected to come i'm to an end tonight, the senate is expected to pass this bill, senate to the president's desk, ending months and months of acrimony within the gop, potentially leading to another effort to oust the speaker of the house on a battle over border security that donald trump ultimately build a package and bipartisan deal in the senate.

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department and reached nearly 139 million settlement with more than 100 of nassar's victims. >> this is after the fbi initially failed to investigate reported claims of abuse which allowed nasser to continue his twisted assaults. in a statement, the acting associate attorney general said these allegations should have been taken seriously from the outset while these settlements won't undo the harm nasser inflicted, our hope is that they will help give the victims of his crimes some of the critical support they need. to continue healing unquote joining us now as john mann lee's and attorney represents some of the survivors of nassar's abuse john, first of all, what is the reaction to the settlement among your clients and other survivors of nassar's abuse? >> well, it's relief. i mean, this has been an eight-year saga. jake it's at some level feeling victorious, but also at some level, just profound

sadness knowing that had the fbi acted when this was reported by aly raises men and maggie nicholls in 2015, that over 100 children would not have been molested by an larry nassar and those families would not have been lied to by the fbi in an effort to cover it up. it brings the end to one of the darkest chapters, if not the darkest chapter in american sports history of not world history yeah. and there's another piece to it which is jim comey the head of the fbi at the time, has never commented on this. i can tell you. i speak for many, many families when i say that they want to know what mr. comey knew about this. and when he knew it and why it wasn't stopped earlier so ali raise vin is obviously a hero. are as are so many of these women and girls for voicing their, their

truth, the horrors that they endured why were these women and girls their claims? >> why were they ignored? by so many people for so long. let's start with the fbi what, what's there explanation as to why they didn't take this seriously enough well, i think the best explanation comes from the department of justice, inspector general's report which is that the special agent in charge of the indianapolis office where it was reported? >> was actively negotiating a job with steve benny, who was the head of usa gymnastics. four ahead of olympic security there was not just that agent, that office where kyi was head of and he was a combi appointee. but it was the los angeles office and the detroit office the fbi was going as far as clearing press releases and helping usa gymnastics and penny with press responses when we filed our first lawsuit i've never seen anything like it. it was a conspiracy and if i told people in 2015 that the usa

gymnastics the us olympic and paralympic committee and the michigan state university and the fbi were going to conspire together to conceal this. no one would have believed me, but that's what happened as a result of the case and the horrors we now know that nassar committed have there been changes to how coaches and doctors and trainers and people with usa gymnastics and the olympic committee have they made any changes how about with how trainers and doctors interact with athletes or how abuse is reported, how it's investigated, it has anything systemically changed? >> i think i think what's changed is this case brought awareness around the world that this can actually happen with a doctor or a trusted adult and i and it has brought changes because policies adopted, et cetera. >> but i think more than anything else, having simone biles and little girls and their families who are abused by dr. nasser raise their hand

and say this happened to me and testify publicly has brought so much attention to it. i don't think nasser could have gotten away with it today i often say to these women, you will never meet the little girl's. you've saved from this. but they exist absolutely. >> and how are your clients doing and will this settlement help them at all with their healing process i think what helps with it is not just the money, but it's the symbolism that it brings. >> it's very, very difficult to sue the federal government, if not impossible. and when the federal government pays $1,003,838 million, essentially $1 million at case case it's an admission of liability and the federal government here, the department of justice is not the komi regime. it's a different group of people and director ray apologize to the family directly the attorney general is apologized but on

the other hand, the agents involved, none of them went to jail they lied to the justice department if an ordinary american lives to a federal agent, you go to jail for five years they're walking free and that's not justice. so it's an imperfect result, but it's one i'm very proud of and i think our clients are proud of. and it was the result of a massive struggle and to defeat one of the major universities in the world, the most powerful olympic organization on the world and the fbi and cte speaks volumes about their story and their believability and the power they were able to yeah. >> to put forth as a result of their speaking, their truth? yeah. >> very powerful and impressive young women, john manly. thank you so much for your time today, coming up next the controversial weighing of the israel defense forces that the us wants to sanction. cnn is investigating some of its aggressive acts that are alleged to be human rights abuses stay with us every piece

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old when idf soldiers from the ultra religious netzah yehuda battalion detained him then witnesses say they left him to die that was more than two years ago his younger brother is still struggling with the families loss he was a father to me than just the brother he was on happiness. he was are having the troops were internally investigated criticised by idf commanders for a moral failure two officers were reprimanded, but not prosecuted. they said they thought omar acid was alive when they left only george george. >> we call for taiwan. yeah. >> abu mohammed was also detain that bitter january night high in the occupied west bank mountain top village of judge julia, hopefully ago here

they're pushing you down yolo you can up the red led question. >> he shows me how he says the troops rough handled him, pushed him into the yard where o'mara lay on the freezing ground this photo taken that night, published in an israeli newspaper abu mohammad says shows him next. they're o'mara assets prone body. neither were accused of or had committed a crime the idf says they were stopped for vehicle inspections abu mohammad clearly remembers the moment he discovered omar acid was dead. >> how player do her knowledge? >> soldier put his hand on his neck to check for a pulse. abu mohammed says, then left in a hurry when we show they were gone, i checked him. he had no pulse and ascent for dr. someone knocked the door and chell thing, dr. doctor, we need hell. it was 3:00 a.m. dr.

tara here says he rushed to help, tried cpr, but it says omar acid overweight with a heart condition was already dead, no vital signs was on the bill this he says, he has seen the autopsy determining omar acid died from eight stress induced heart attack and shows me his own report of his actions that night. his conclusion is shocking. the soldiers could have saved omar acid. britt says, he lost consciousness for which she israeli army. escape from the sayyed and left him without giving him any decal how pfd given him help. >> could uh, you have win, yeah. >> mostly, yeah. >> the killing of o'mara, is just one case that netzah few that was involved in yehuda shoal is an army veteran, has tracked the unit for years, says their reputation for violence precedes them this video that caught them beating

to palestinians in the occupied west bank two years ago, quickly went viral the idf discharge the soldiers involved netzah yehuda battalion was originally designed to allow the ultra orthodox to join the army. but shaw says, it's become home for ultra nationalists who underpinned prime minister benjamin netanyahu's right-wing government they of took over the unit and it became very aggressive after us secretary of state, antony blinken said determinations were being made about cutting all us weapons and funding from the netzah yehuda battalion over alleged human rights violations leaked several days ago net yahoo and his ministers have been hitting back that america for sure. >> and many others here who worry about the idf's apparent impunity the sanctions should

be a pivotal moment of reckoning what we need to do is to start to behave and start to behave morally, and start to have serious mechanisms of accountability in the idf now i went on to say sadly, israel doesn't have those methods of accountability for the idf. the idf says this unit is now currently serving professionally in the war in gaza the prime minister called this potential action by the united states the height of absurdity. the defense minister also saying no one can teach us lessons about morality. it seems if these sanctions do come, if lessons are learned, it doesn't seem to be as going to be in the short-term jake all right. >> nic robertson in jerusalem. thank you so much for that report just what 2024 needs. >> how about another twist in the saga of disgraced expelled congressman george santos? stay stay with us businesses, go

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