Friday, April 5, 2024
The 7
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🗓️ 5 April 2024
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Friday briefing: Trump’s classified documents case; Biden’s warning to Israel; airport security breaches; Final Four games; and more
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| 0:00.0 | President Biden had tough words for Israel's leader. |
| 0:05.0 | Hundreds of people breached airport security in the past year, |
| 0:09.0 | and this is a huge weekend in college basketball. |
| 0:12.0 | That's some of what we'll get to on the |
| 0:14.5 | seven from the Washington Post. I'm Hannah Jewel. It's Friday, April 5th. |
| 0:18.6 | Let's get you caught up with today's seven stories. |
| 0:32.0 | Number one, a judge rejected Donald Trump's bid to dismiss his classified documents case. Trump's legal team had claimed that he shouldn't be prosecuted for |
| 0:36.4 | mishandling classified documents. |
| 0:39.0 | They argued that he was protected by a federal records law. But yesterday a federal judge in Florida shot down that |
| 0:45.3 | argument. She also defended her controversial handling of the issue and she hit |
| 0:50.4 | back at the case's prosecutor who had criticized her this week. |
| 0:54.4 | So the case will go ahead. |
| 0:56.1 | There's no set trial date yet, but we'll let you know when there is. |
| 0:59.7 | This is one of four ongoing criminal cases against Trump, who is running for president again. |
| 1:04.8 | If you want some help keeping up with this critical election, sign up for the campaign moment newsletter |
| 1:09.3 | from the post. |
| 1:10.7 | And check out the Friday podcast version from Post Reports. |
| 1:14.0 | Number two, President Biden warned Israel that U.S support for its war in Gaza hinges on protecting civilians. |
| 1:26.1 | Biden spoke on the phone with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday. |
| 1:30.7 | The call came after Israel's deadly strike on aid workers with the nonprofit World Central |
| 1:35.2 | Kitchen this week. |
| 1:37.0 | Yesterday, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken explained what the President told Netanyahu on that call. |
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