This is CNN breaking news.

Welcome to the lead. I'm Jake Tapper and we are following breaking news out of New York of course

where today in Donald Trump's hushmoney trial, the defense rested right now in court there is a meeting to

determine what the judge will tell the jury next week before the jury begins

deliberating what will no doubt be a monumental verdict one way or the other in the very first

ever criminal trial of a former president.

Trump himself is at this court meeting and we'll bring you all the updates coming up.

But leading this hour, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu joins us live from Jerusalem,

a day after the historic decision by the International Criminal Court in the Hague to seek arrest

warrants, not only for the three top leaders of the terrorist group Hamas, but

for Prime Minister Netanyahu and his defense minister Joav Galant over what the top ICC

prosecutor calls war crimes in Gaza.

According to the ICC, the charges against Netanyahu

include, quote, causing extermination,

causing starvation as a method of warfare,

including the denial of humanitarian relief and supplies and deliberately

targeting civilians in conflict and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu

joins us right now.

Prime Minister Netanyahu, thank you so much for joining us a central part of the ICC's charges

against you and galant is quote starvation of civilians as a method of

warfare now I know that Israel repeatedly claims that enough aid is getting in and there is not

a purposeful starvation and those claiming otherwise are misinformed are lying.

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