Supreme Court to Hear Ghost Gun Case, Opening Statements in Trump Case, Antisemitism Protests Erupt on College Campuses | April 22

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TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: Opening statements are delivered in former President Donald Trump’s alleged hush money case out of Manhattan. The House has passed a four-bill $95 billion foreign aid package, including $60 billion for Ukraine. The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments for a case involving ghost gun kits. At Columbia University, there were anti-Israel protests over the weekend and into Monday. Relevant Links Listen to other podcasts from The Daily Signal: https://www.dailysignal.com/podcasts/ Get daily conservative news you can trust from our Morning Bell newsletter: DailySignal.com/morningbellsubscription Listen to more Heritage podcasts: https://www.heritage.org/podcasts Sign up for The Agenda newsletter — the lowdown on top issues conservatives need to know about each week: https://www.heritage.org/agenda Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Virginia Allen and this is the Daily Signal Top News for Monday, April 22nd.
0:08.0	Here are today's headlines. Today was a big day for former President Donald Trump's alleged
0:25.0	hush money case out of Manhattan. Opening arguments were held today. A
0:29.3	former Biden Justice Department lawyer delivered the opening arguments in the Manhattan
0:34.8	court case. Attorney Matthew Colangelo is senior counsel to Manhattan District
0:40.0	Attorney Alvin Bragg and he told the jury this case is about a criminal
0:44.4	conspiracy and a cover-up. The case revolves around alleged hush money payments
0:50.2	that Trump was involved in making to porn start Stormy Daniels.
0:54.0	But the case is now also being tied to election interference because those payments
1:00.0	to Stormy Daniels were made before the 2016 election, allegedly to keep
1:05.8	Daniels quiet about her relationship with Trump. The attorney arguing against
1:10.7	Trump said that Trump orchestrated a criminal scheme to corrupt the 2016 presidential election.
1:18.0	And the attorney added that then he covered up that conspiracy in his business records by lying over and over and over again.
1:26.0	Critics of the prosecution point to Colangelo's ties to the Biden administration.
1:31.0	For his part, Trump has accused the Biden administration of
1:34.2	pushing the case as he spoke to the press after his opening statements per
1:39.2	Fox News.
1:40.2	Everyone knows going to that trial. I nothing wrong and over here I did nothing
1:45.5	wrong also this is a Biden witch hunter. This case is expected to last about six to
1:52.4	eight weeks.
1:54.0	The House passed a four-bill 95 billion dollar for an aid package.
2:01.0	The bill includes 60 billion in additional aid for Ukraine,
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