This is CNN breaking news.

Welcome to the Lean. I'm Jake Tapper back in Washington, D.C.

A busy afternoon as we come on the air this afternoon and historic and frankly contentious day in court.

Has just come to a close moments ago we saw Donald Trump leave the courthouse in New York

followed by the New York State Attorney General with Tisha James who brought this civil fraud case

against Mr. Trump and his family business.

The former president himself spent the day on the stand

repeatedly clashing with the judge, the very person who will decide how much the trumps must pay after he

already found them liable for fraud. We're going to go to the courthouse in a

moment where this case could put

Trump at risk of losing his entire business operation in New York where he's

accused of inflating financial statements. Also had an astounding number coming out of Gaza, the Palestinian Ministry of

Health, which we should note is controlled by the terrorist group, Hamas.

The Palestinian Ministry is claiming that more than 10,000 Palestinian deaths in Gaza have taken place

which they claim are by Israeli airstrikes in response to the initial Hamas

attack on October 7th.

Now the Biden White House says one should consider the source.

They do not trust the numbers of the Palestinian Ministry of Health,

though without question thousands of innocence have been killed in Gaza.

Also today, Israel's military says it is advancing toward Gaza City after a brief

evacuation window for civilians.

We are going to go live to that region ahead, but we start this hour in New York

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