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Manhattan criminal defense attorney Stacy Schneider and CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin discuss the decision by Donald Trump's defense team to press Stormy Daniels about her alleged sexual encounter with Trump during the former president's hush money trial.

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Day 14 of Donald Trump's first criminal trial (of 4) was an day of paradoxes. Starting with the porn star being portrayed as a "nut and a slut" and ending with Trump's long time former personal assistant, Madeleine Westerhout. Stormy Daniels was slut shamed for hours, repeatedly attacked for her line of work and made to justify every decision she made about her body, her career and her sex life.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday that Israel was strong enough to fight alone as the United States warned that it could cut military aid to the country, the Washington Post reports. Said Netanyahu: “If we have to stand alone, we will stand alone.”

The problem, as one might guess, is that motorcycles offer almost zero protection compared to armoured personnel carriers. The Russians count on the element of surprise coupled with the speed of the bikes. Sent in under heavy artillery bombardment, sometimes they do get through, although at least anecdotally this is the exception rather than the rule.

Someone let known sex pest Grandpa Sundowner near an open mic, and he bizarrely said that the Republican Party was the party of fertilization, and then added this explanation: “We want to help the women because they were going to end fertilization, which is where, when the IVF, where women go to the clinics and they get help in having a baby, and that’s a good thing, not a bad thing.