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Com slash wire. I'm daily wire editor and chief John Bickley with guest host

Bhatia Ungar Sargon opinion editor at Newsweek it's May 9th, and this is your morning

wire afternoon update. Donald Trump's legal team resumed their cross-examination

today of former adult film actress Stormy Daniels in the former president's hush money trial.

Trump's lawyer Susan Necklace had also planned to invoke testimony about Daniels

being accused of assault by her ex-husband which did not result in a conviction but Judge

Juan Mershawn told necklace that the arrest and allegation would not be allowed

in evidence. Meanwhile legal experts have said much of Daniel's testimony is irrelevant to the case.

Here's Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz to that regard.

The issue of what actually happened is utterly irrelevant and then we get to the details the silk

pajamas the kind of lotion he was wearing I can't imagine how the court of

appeals in New York that reversed the Harvey Weinstein

conviction which was a harder case to reverse wouldn't reverse this

conviction if it got up there I would certainly recommend to the prosecutors in

this case that they study the Weinstein case

very carefully because it gives a roadmap to what you can't do.

Trump's lawyer also made the point that Daniel's testimony has nothing to do with the crux of the case,

which is how payment business records were filed.

Israel and a bipartisan group of US lawmakers are reacting with concern to the Biden administration's

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