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Elahe Izadi talks with Aaron Blake and Liz Goodwin about Week 1 of Trump's first criminal trial, how Israel is dividing Democrats in Congress, and whether GOP House Speaker Mike Johnson's strategy to approve aid to Ukraine could cost him his job.
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 Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast / Getty Donald Trump's antics are finally catching up with him.
That is, of course, true in the New York criminal trial as a whole, where Trump may be found guilty of past misconduct. But Trump's antics are also catching up with him in a narrower, but quite meaningful way.
In the New York case, the prosecutors said Thursday that they would not be providing to Trump's legal team the names of the first three witnesses that the prosecutors would be calling to testify. Trump's lawyers objected. Judge Juan Merchan sided with the prosecution, saying that he couldn't fault the prosecutors for refusing to identify the witnesses, given Trump's history of criticizing and potentially intimidating witnesses.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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 Paul Morigi/Getty Images for Care Can't Wait ActionRep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) went off on House Republicans on Thursday, mincing no words as she decried the group for preventing the swift delivery of aid to Ukraine.
During a debate on foreign aid on Thursday, DeLauro told the House Rules Committee that she remembered when certain GOP members said they would approve sending additional aid to Ukraine, if they could achieve a bipartisan agreement to boost border security.
"We accomplished bipartisan border security," she said, referencing the, now-dead Senate bill which tied aid to tighter border restrictions. "And you know what? It was Donald Trump who said: Don't. Give. Biden. A Win."
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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