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12 PM ET: Jury deliberating in Trump trial, US' Israel policy, WNBA rookie records & more

CNN 5 Things

CNN

Daily News, News

3.71.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2024

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

The jury is now deliberating former President Donald Trump's legal fate in his criminal hush money trial. The US says it won't change its policy towards Israel after the country carried out a deadly airstrike in Rafah over the weekend. Texas storms leave hundreds of thousands without power. Young adults push for laws protecting and compensating kids whose parents have overshared about them on social media. And, Caitlin Clark sets WNBA rookie records, while her team continues to struggle. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey there from CNN. I'm Chris de Beau with the five things you need to know for

0:05.0

Wednesday, May 29th. Seven men and five women are deliberating whether

0:10.3

former President Donald Trump is guilty of 34 counts of falsifying business records related to an alleged illegal scheme over a hush money payment.

0:19.0

If the jury decides he is, Trump could face up to 20 years in prison and will become the first

0:24.7

former president in US history to be convicted of a crime. If they decide he

0:29.0

isn't, he'll be cleared of all

0:34.4

34 counts Trump is facing and what exactly the law says.

0:38.4

The judge said the jurors can disregard witness testimony that they think was

0:42.0

intentionally false and that they can't rely on Star witness testimony

0:43.1

and that they can't rely on Star witness Michael Cohen's testimony alone to find

0:47.5

Trump guilty because he was an accomplice.

0:49.9

But the judge also said that if the jury finds a crime has been committed, they also must find that Trump committed a crime.

0:57.0

Global outrage over Israel's air strike on a camp for displaced Palestinians on Sunday has intensified.

1:04.0

But White House National Security Official John Kirby says the US won't change its policy

1:09.0

towards Israel over the incident, and the attack did not cross a red line that would affect US support.

1:15.0

We still don't believe that a major ground operation in RFA is warranted.

1:19.4

We still don't want to see the Israelis, as we say, smash into Rafa with large units over large

1:25.2

pieces of territory. We still believe that and we haven't seen that at this point.

1:30.0

More than 45 people have been killed in the strike, which Israel says targeted Hamas militants,

1:35.8

although many of the victims were women and children.

1:38.5

A new CNN analysis of video from the scene and a review by explosive weapons experts finds U.S. made munitions

1:45.4

were used to carry out the attack.

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