Special coverage of the donald trump Hush Money Trial until then. Thanks very much. Thanks for watching. Erin Burnett Outfront starts, right now outfront next two Crucial Court hearings for former President Trump in manhattan, former Tabloid Executive testifying today about working with trump to kill stories that could hurt the campaign. And the Supreme Court. Tonights signaling a good further delay. Trumps january 6 case. After the arguments today exactly what trump wants their im from the white house lawyer ty cobb is here, plus violent clashes on College Campuses before its a tasers and tear gas used on propalestinian protesters. As a Major University cancels its main graduation. Lets go out front and good evening. Im erin Burnett Outfront tonight. Aid Breathtaking De and the trump trials two hugely consequential moments happening in two separate court rooms, two separate cities at the very same time crossexamined amination beginning for the first key witness in trumps criminal trial here in manhattan and in washington, the Supreme Court hearing trumps Immunity Claim happened as well. The former president is spending his de, that manhattan courtroom as hes required to do. And on his way out, he noted the significance today were breathtaking. In this room. What went on was breathtaking well, now, maybe he felt breathtaking good for him. There was plenty of breathtaking moments, munge them. Trumps former close friend, david pecker, testifying for about five hours today. Because this third day on the stand the photo of the twominute the white house, which actually shown in an exhibit at court, this picture that youre looking at here, they use this to show the depth of their relationship, but continued at the white house where pecker said trump brought him as a thank you dinner for helping him in the campaign. Pecker providing salacious details on trumps alleged affairs to prosecutors today dwell and then ending the day under crossexamination from trumps attorney as trump sat and watched with his arms folded across his body and at the same time in washington, they were three hours of arguments at the Supreme Court over whether trumps claim hes immune from prosecution for acts he committed while president can stop jacks smiths case against him. The court there appears poised to give trump what he wants, which is another delay in that trial. Were gonna have more on that Breaking News coming up with the former Trump White House attorney ty cobb. But first kara scannell, outside the courthouse in manhattan, and kara, you and i spent a lot of time together today in Lower Manhattan. What do you expect when packer good . Its back on the stand tomorrow under crossexamination trumps lawyers had about one hour of crossexamination with david pecker. And in that time, david pecker acknowledged that it was Standard Operating Procedure for Media Companies to work with politicians but he also testified that he was at the heart of these deals and that he was involved with them and had many conversations with Michael Cohen, david pecker, serving as a narrator for the prosecution, taking the jury inside three of these catchandkill deals and testifying repeatedly that he was involved with them and help broker them to help Donald Trumps camp payne new details on the hush money payout to adult film star Stormy Daniels from an exTabloid Executive back on the stand. Were counting how he brokered a deal at the center of the case against former President Donald Trump david pecker was questioned by the prosecution about the catchandkill scheme to quiet daniel story of an alleged affair with trump weeks before the 2016 election. Pecker, the former publisher of the National Enquirer, testified he found out from his editor in chief that daniels was trying to sell a story that she had a sexual relationship with donald trump, and it would cost 120,000 to kill it. Pecker said he told trumps Attorney Michael Cohen about the story which he called very damaging. He recalled explaining to cohen that he was not going to pay daniel saying his Company Already purchased two other negative stories for trump totaling almost 200,000 colors. He said he told cohen, i am not purchasing this story. Im not going to be involved with a Porn Star Cohen he recalled said the boss would be Furious Trump denies having an affair with daniels. Pecker also discussed in earlier scheme involving former playboy model Karen Mcdougal. She alleged having a nearly year long relationship with trump, which the former president denies. Pecker told the jury he would not have entered into the deal with mcdougal if it wasnt going to benefit Trumps Campaign saying, we didnt want the story to embarrass mr. Trump or embarrassed or hurt the campaign. Trumps attorney, emil beauvais, used his time crossexamining pecker to show how the mutually ben relationship between him and trump went back almost two decades before the 2016 election. He confirmed with pecker that he had been giving trump a headsup about negative stories during that time, bove as pecker if it was Standard Operating Procedure for media to work with politicians, including sometimes to win elections pecker replied, yes. Today was breathtaking. This room. He went on, he was breathtaking and amazing testimony. Before court, trump commented on peckers testimony at a stop at a midtown construction site. Prosecutors cited his words to the judge on thursday as one of many violations of his gag order not to discuss witnesses in the case. How are you a lot of David Testimony so far been very nice and hes been david been very nice and nice guy now the judge has set a hearing for wednesday to hear additional arguments over whether donald trump did violate that gag order tomorrow. David pecker will be back on the stand. Trumps lawyers will continue to crossexamine him. That could he could be on the stand for an additional several hours. All wrapping up this historic first week in this trial, erin kara. Thank you very much. Outside that courthouse in Lower Manhattan in or out front experts are now with us, so stews, achim, you worked for many years with david pecker . And you heard donald trump praising him today. Now if you said hes attacked everybody else involved in the case, he praises pecker, high praise, still friends. So what do you think is going on here . Well, i think that trump as we know, is very smart with people pecker has so much on him that we havent even scratched the surface on. If he went after pecker the way hes gone after his other enemies, theres a very good Chance Pecker who does not like to be cornered would strike back and say, well, you say this to me. Im going to go out with this and so by being nice to him, hes trying to put that fire out before it even starts so jeremy, when youre in the courtroom and you were there and watched all of this pecker testifying and you watch both under direct and cross and donald trump bridging those two sets of questioners to david pecker. You also were watching the greater all of this. How captivated war they, how intently were they focused on pecker you know, its interesting. I made a point to make sure i was looking at the jury today when i was in the courtroom and and several points, im just seeing pretty much every time i looked over there, they were interested, they were watching it. You describe it as a tennis match where you could see their faces go towards pecker, Toward Steinglass but towards above a kind of going back and forth between the person doing the questioning and the person answering the questioning. A lot of them, they had notepads there were taking notes. And so they certainly i think were into this testimony now, we should note this is the first witness. This is one of probably the more exciting witnesses that were going to see, you know, their testimony about porn stars and hush money deals and being inside the the white house and tablet matter heads turning for each berries. I mean, that is, that is deeply engaged. Yeah. No, they were they were certainly certainly paying attention and police for the most part, and keeping track of the action. All right. So jeremy, what do you make of that . And also obviously in the context we were former defense attorney, as well as now youre defensive, but a former prosecutor in this so youve been in these rooms what did you make of what we saw today i thought it was relatively a decent day for the defense. Why is that . Because you have david pecker, who is aid the foundation that ties everyone together saying this isnt the first time we have these catch and kill. Events. Even if thats the first term i used it or heard of it in this matter. We had schwarzenegger, we had we had rahm emanuel. You had some holes that he couldnt remember some dates and time, so maybe theres a little bit issue of his memory. So he was actually helpful to a certain extent for the defense, not as bad as, for example, Michael Cohen will probably bombastic and obviously i have an agenda. He is someone who is not as cereal, but can really help not just the prosecution, but also give some polls that holds and poking for the baby thats probably the reason trump felt optimistic because he saw that part of it. Why eliminate that person . Now, karen, that was one thing that david pecker said, say there were a lot of things that were very ensued, but i know once stood out to you when we were sitting outside listening to all of this, watching it go across our screen david pecker pecker testifies that at first trumps focus on negative stories which as been pointed out, that there had been this catch and kill scheme in place, had been about his wife, his daughter, how he would be perceived, in his family, but then pecker says, after the campaign started, it shifted and quote, it was basically what the impact would be to the campaign in the election in Black And White, the motive right there. How significant is that one line i think its very significant because people thought that this case was going to rest on credibility of Michael Cohen and Stormy Daniels who have their own issues. Really what david pecker provided though, was this overall context that this was a about the campaign. This was all about helping the campaign and he said over and over again during his testimony, they knew that that would be a campaign a federal election violation. It would be an inkind contribution that theyd have to declare. And he knew they were committing a crime and there was a discussion of a text message that theyre trying to get into evidence where david peckers number two was saying, well, if trump wins, hell pardon us because weve committed a federal electrons for federal election. Yeah, because they knew that they knew that this was a crime, right. And that text they very much the prosecution wants and evidence and is dispute as to whether it will be entered into evidence. Jeremys do though mentioned as possibly something that could help the defense that one thing that pecker laid out today was that hes done similar catch and kill deals for other politicians including Arnold Schwarzenegger. You worked for packer when schwarzenegger ran for governor and when it became governor. Okay . So tell us what, what you know and how that fits with what we heard today. So there was a lot of noise made that for some arnold was Executive Editor before he became governor of two of the muscle books that pecker published, muslim fitness and flex. How involved the was who knows, but it was originally launched by george reader, who brought tier from austria, first place. And arent always gave back beliefs in that you do it inside letter like most editors do. And the first page heres whats in the issue and all that but they thought it was a conflict of interests for arnold to be actively involved in the position, so he resigned his position very publicly at this event, and arnault holds every year in columbus so ill the arnold classic, which is a bodybuilding event which in itself is a trip walking through that and pecker comes on stage. I introduce pecker and pecker comes on stage and hes a showman. Hes a real showman. And then it brings out arnold crowd goes while and then he says, are and were going to the end. Congratulations on being governor and all that were so thrilled youre still going to be connected, but with the magazines because we know so much a party you and as this competition shows that your life but you wont. Were not hes not going to pay an arnold says, im going to donate my salary to charity so the Los Angeles Times does a deep dive into this relationship because ami, even though they werent publicly traded stock, they were publicly traded bonds. So they had to do the same kind of reporting. And they found that a Shell Company and traced it back. And lets schwarzenegger. So he gets the money and then became obviously a major bone of contention in this piece to show the arnold was trying to make money off of being governor. The same way Trump Made Money Being president. So there was getting the goods on that was important. And so some of this came up, i mean, jeremy, you know, when when you were in there watching trump david pecker actually got a smile out of trump, at one specific point when theyre talking about this meeting in trump tower kind of an unbelievable meaning to imagine happening. He got david pecker, james comey, and donald trump together at a table. I mean, its the beginning of some kind of a punchline. So tell us about the moment yeah, this really does hit home. Just how much david pecker was able to bring us into this world and how he was involved in Donald Trumps road. So he says, meeting happened after the election when trump was president elect. He went, but david pecker should have going to trump tower. Theyre being all this security there. Jared kushner finds him on the street so men, and he comes in to Trumps Office and there is fbi director james comey rentz, previous his chief of staff, mike pompeo, his soon to be cia director, and their briefing him on a serious issue on a shooting. But david pecker walks in and he says that Donald Trump Tells a joke, hey, this is david pecker. Hes the chairman of the National Enquirer, and he probably knows more than all of you in here. What got the laugh was then pecker said the other gentlemen, other and they didnt find it funny that nobody but trumps, but trump from smiled and the jurors and the court, those are in the court and the courtroom, how to laugh as well. So it was a funny moment. It was really the only time today that donald trump actually reacted to the testimony. I think weve seen throughout peckers testimony, he really has tried not to react. He has been very controlled if hes not allegedly nodding off. Yes. Thats what thats what here. But ill also say what came out today, which was important is not just that this was done allegedly for other people, but that there was a relationship with the enquirer, david pecker is about far back as 1990 hs. Well call it fixing these stories far before for donald trump was the political icon. So theres, theres a history here. But to be clear, just because some other person does it an another and got away with it, for example, rahm emanuel was never prosecuted, does not mean that donald trump should not be just because one person stole, doesnt mean they got away with it, doesnt mean another person can do so. So it holds some water, but it doesnt it doesnt mean youre not guilty or theres not proof beyond a reasonable doubt better stated, of course, trump says though, karen, that this is proof just that people are purposely looking to find to get him. Well, he also tried to cover it up through falsifying business records, right . Well, thats the charge here. Hes charged with falsifying records, ultimately, the Cover Up Part of it yeah. All right. Well, thank you all very much. 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Abdul dual axon fights paying two ways advil targets pain call 187786 68555 the white house Correspondents Dinner lives saturday at seven eastern khan, cnn breaking tonight, the special counsel, jack smiths case against trump in major jeopardy. The Supreme Courts signaling it will help trump delay his Election Subversion Trial even further. After todays crucial arguments on president ial immunity, the justices signaled, signaled they would ruled, yet they signal that they want the lower court to sort through one by one, which of trumps actions were considered official president ial duties and which were private before making it decision on immunity, they wanted a specific as possible, and this possible delay being signaled by the court coming is it appears justices will ultimately reject trumps attempt to throw out this case on the basis of absolute immunity my question is whether the very robust form of immunity that youre advocating is really necessary. Im trying to understand what the disincentive is from turning the oval office into the seat of Criminal Activity in this country thats pretty much did not put an immunity clause into the constitution, they knew how to wasnt the whole point that the president was not a monarch. The president was not supposed to be above the law so theyre not buying Immunity Argument, but theyre not looking like theyre gonna move on it quickly and make a ruling and move this january 6 case for either evan perez is out front, so evan, i guess thats the confusing thing. It appears clear how they view it, but in this in the specifics of this case, they want to they want to be very narrow and specific. So if they in this Immunity Issue back to a lower court what does that happen . What does it do . The timeline the timeline is still very, very complicated. Theres very, very little room for judge Tanya Chutkan to maneuver era. And because were looking at a ruling likely at the end of this term for the Supreme Court, which ends typically at the end of june, it is possible they go into the first week of july, but heres the deal. It once they rule and if they ask the judge to go back and review the specific acts to determine which is an official act which is not, then there might be more Legal Proceedings for her to oversee. There is also a possibility that donald trump will try to go back and try to appeal some of those decisions. Now, it is very, very possible still in the realm of possibility the that judge chutkan could decide that there is that the acts that are at issue here are official acts. And but but you know, that theres still subject to this to this prosecution and that she wants to get a trial, get going by august late august or Early September again, that possibility remains. And so we will have to wait to see the way the justices right there order to know exactly how much room john judge chutkan has to try to get this trial going very quickly before the election. Erin. All right. Evan. Thank you very much. Outside the Supreme Court now ty cobb, former Trump White House lawyer he argued against trumps claim of immunity and amicus brief filed before this went to the Supreme Court. So tie just to put this into simple simple terms that we all can understand todays hearing win or loss for trump so i think its it benefits trump in the sense that its almost certain that in this case will not get tried before the election, in my view so it benefits him in that regard. On the other hand nothing that the justices are going to do is going to benefit his case other than the delay substantively, they will not by the absolute Immunity Argument, they certainly dont by the Impeachment Judgment Clause argument. In fact, i think sours whole argument today to the extent is reflected in the ultimate opinion will only be reflected to the extent that he made the concessions that the bulk of the conduct alleged in the indictment is actually private but acks yes, private akre. All right. So there was a key moment for you, The Trump AppointedJustice Amy Coney barrett was in a backandforth with the former president s attorney and basically talking about this issue, got him to admit that a lot of the actions after the 2020 election, were not official president ial duties, so this is the moment where some of this played out. Let me play it i want to know if you agree or disagree about the characterization of these acts is private. Petitioner turn to a private attorney was willing to spread knowingly false claims of Election Fraud to spearhead is challenges to the election results. Private shining, we dispute the allegation by the sounds private jet sounds private petitioner conspired with another private attorney who caused the filing court of a verification signed by petitioner that contain false allegations to support a challenge. So sounds private. Three private actors to attorneys, including those mentioned above and a political consultant helped implement a plan to submit fraudulent slates its a president ial electors to obstruct the Certification Proceeding and petitioner and a Coconspirator Attorney directed that effort you really quickly. I believe dr. It then later he says trumps phone call with the infamous one with the georgia Secretary Of State brad raffensperger, where he says, you know, find 11,708 votes. I just need one more. Was not an official act. How big of a concession is all of this . Those are all huge concessions and to the extent that this does get ultimately remanded to judge chutkan for Additional Findings that will fill her hand in terms of variability to move the case forward. I dont think the Supreme Court is focused so much on the actual Trump Indictment as they are concerned about hamstringing for future present since in terms of restraints on their ability to act officially without without fear of retribution by their successors. It sounds like, you know what youre saying is, you know, where theyre going to come out on this. It may be more specifically defined, but where theyre going to come out on it is very different. Now may delay it, but its very different than how trump has defined this, right . Which is a very Black And White issue of oh, if you are going to hold a president foreign president account accountable for anything he did while in office. Nobody will want the office. Itll be completely robbed of all its power because therell be afraid of being charged. Heres how he makes that argument. If you dont have immunity, youre not gonna do anything youre going to become a ceremonial president because otherwise youre going to be prosecuted after you leave office so that was just today ahead of the hearing. Now, in the Hearing Justices gorsuch kavanaugh, and roberts each said something that made me some have interpreted to potentially be supportive of what trump said. Let me just play them all and then get your take on it. What would happen if it president s were under fear, fear that their successors would criminally prosecute them for their acts in office, conspiracy and fraud. The United States can be used against all what of president ial activities historically, with creative prosecutor who wants to go after a president , you know, how easy it is in many cases for a prosecutor to get a grand jury to bring an indictment but you do not interpret those three statements as supporting trumps Immunity Argument . Not at all. I think and i think theyre overstated. I mean, yes, they were are Parade Of Horribles that people can imagine, but theyre obligated to deal with whats in front of them and you cant for example, the indict a ham sandwich. Theres the government proceedings are usually entitled to the Presumption Of Regularity and in this case, that would extend a grand juries and honorable elected officials. Yes, there are possibilities that people will be corrupt in the 250 approximately 250 years our nation, this has never happened and happened before. Trump is, trump is the issue, not, not what could happen and to the extent trumps committed these crimes are alleged to have committed these crimes that that is not going to thats not going to be way laid by what they do so you were when predicting the Supreme Court or your track record is pretty good, 90 was was your bet for the colorado ballot case how do you see this going and essentially, when are we going to find out so they will absolutely not find absolute immunity for trump. And in fact, theyll, theyll find that while immunity may be constrained in connection with article two duties and some collateral, discretionary acts that theres a factfinding process required to determine the distinction between official acts and whatever the allegations are that would support an indictment. I think they will lay out that line and then remanded to the District Court for findings consistent with their guidance. I think you what you saw today was a lot of frustration with the dc circuit opinion, which sort of said, yeah, this is all reprehensible, no immunity, but it did didnt draw a sharp distinction that the Supreme Court clearly intends to do in terms of where is the line between official acts and how much can the criminal law impose upon the freedoms given to the president under article two . So is there any chance this goes to trial before the election . Not in my view. No. Next year. If that if trump wins, this case is dead, there will be like it never happened. If he loses. Itll go next year. All right. Ty cobb. Thank you very much. My pleasure. Next Harvey Weinsteins rape conviction just overturned by a new york appeals court, the top court in the state of new york. 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Lifeworld run. are those who can ive had to go montgomery and tokyo and this is cnn tonight former President Trump, once again, repeating a blatant lie about his Hush Money Trial that every legal scholar thinks the case is bogus mike rights have been taken away from me but every single expert, every legal scholar in every respected scholar, has said this is no okay, so there is no case here its just trumps latest claim about the case that is baseless or outright false tom foreman is out front day after day going in coming out, donald trump is making big claims about his trials among the latest security is Keeping Thousands of his fans blocks away because they dont want any supporters here they dont want maga here. They dont want anybody hey, in this thing is locked down. Thats false with no evidence of such crowds anywhere near the court. Still, the former president , does had something to say in person or online every time court has been in session almost always denying the truth in this judge, real problem with things having to do with this drought from the getgo, he insisted his legal troubles were flowing from the current president. This is all coming from the biden white house. Thats false. Manhattan District Attorney alvin bragg is a locally elected official who does not report to the fence, but trump has steamed ahead, posting that the das so busy Persecuting Trump has led Violent Crime in new york flourish at levels never seen before. And thats false too. Violent crime is nowhere near its highest level. There were more than 500 murders alone in manhattan in 1990 last year, just 73. I am ashamed that i chose to take part in concealing mr. Trumps elicit acts trumps former attorney, Michael Cohen, is expected to testify. That his onetime boss directed him to pay hush money to a porn star to hide an affair, which trump denies and to illegally conceal the payment and falsified records. The gist of the whole case. Cohen went to prison for helping make that happen. But trumps take juggling went to jail. This had nothing to do with trump has said, the judge wont let him attend his sons graduation when no decision has been made and the judge seems sympathetic to trumps request ahead of jury selection, trump said, every legal scholar called the case against him absurd when that is flatly untrue. And he insist that the gag order makes it impossible for him to defend himself repayment. So my butt perhaps it is true that he cant say everything that is on his mind. But the gag order only restricts a few very specific things that he cant attack or harass witnesses are jurors, are Court Employees beyond that, he can talk about his case. He can talk about his presumed innocence. He could talk about almost anything he wants, and he is doing it. Aaron even as he keeps saying hes muzzled and he cant say anything. Hes doing it, hes talking all the time. Aaron all right. Tom, thank you. Youre welcome and out front. Now, ronan farrow, contributing writer at the new yorker, hes done extensive reporting on david pecker, ami and the Karen Mcdougal catch and kill deal. Hes also the author of the book catch and kill lies, spies, and conspiracy to protect predators and also a lawyer deeply sourced in all of what were seeing right now. So runing when youre watching all this, i mean, you know, as well better than anybody how david pecker operated and how he operated to protect trumps specifically, which is whats at hand now, have you learned anything from his testimony . Well, its a strange experience for many of the reporters who advanced the story at the time, because one of the things pecker is now speaking to is that ami at the time the name of the owner of the National Enquirer did just lie when this was all coming to light. And he said in court today, ive lied to protect myself and my company and to protect donald trump so what were getting isnt new revelations about how this scheme worked, how there was this apparent conspiracy to subvert the election by concealing information from voters what we are getting is additional detail and confirmation after a whole lot of concealment. All right. So what are your sources . In this trial and the prosecution . What are they . What are they telling you right now well, certainly theres a feeling that pecker has been a strong witness theres also a lot of apprehension about some of the witnesses to come. Michael cohen is at some point going to have to take the stand. And prosecutors are looking at positioning that midway through next month as of current conversations. And theres a mounting sense of anxiety particularly over the course of this week about how noisy Michael Cohen is and what a loose cannon Michael Cohen can be and i have had plenty of contact with Michael Cohen over the years. I think that i understand and empathize with all the reasons he is in a difficult, stressful position right now to his credit, he did at a certain point this week after a lot of tense conversations between prosecutors and his legal team. Finally announced, im going to stop going on tv and talking about this. Im going to stop going on my podcast and talking about their because he was just sort of spouting vulgarities all the time about trump he had started a fundraising campaign. These were all things that made prosecutors nervous about positioning him as a meaningful witness in this case. So as we obviously weight that testimony, there was a ruling today that i know you think could matter for trump, and this was the New York State top Court Overruling the Harvey Weinstein convictions. State of new york. I mean, it was a bombshell. Just went hit this morning. People saying, wow. All right. Now you want to pull it serve for your work you exposed so many of these allegations, stories at women had shared with you about what Harvey Weinstein did to them. But the new York Top Court today basically said that the lower Court Judgment is serious mistake by allowing a lot of these women to testify when they werent the ones actually, as part of the trial so they built a record of Harvey Weinsteins alleged behavior as if it were fact without proving it all in accord the sort that you published a new piece right here. I hope everyone will read it new piece in the new yorker what Harvey Weinsteins overturn conviction means for Donald Trumps trial, what does it mean . Well, a couple of things to understand. First of all, Harvey Weinstein is not going to be a free man anytime soon. He is serving a separate long sentence due to a conviction in california for a rape thats not going to change anytime soon now, the fate of his trial in new york, this overturning and any potential subsequent retrial affects him less because of that, then it affects the case law going forward, right . About sex crimes in general, there was a descent to this decision today from one for the judges that was a sort of hue and cry where she said, this is going to let people guilty of sex crimes off the hook right . Now. It is also consequential, really sexually exploit their power over women will the benefit of exactly right . So there is a strong dissenting opinion on that now its also going to matter not only for sex crimes cases going forward, but for this ongoing donald trump hush payments trial, because theres a commonality of the legal theories being applied in both cases, prosecutors argued for and judges allowed in evidence of crimes through than the ones being charged in the trump case. That means all of these ami payments, donald trump is being charged for a payment from Michael Cohen to Stormy Daniels, right . That was allegedly conceal where hearing that a lot of other payment exact mcdougal well, right. So the payment from an my to Karen Mcdougal and the payment from ami to adore man who was in possession of a rumor of a trump love child. Those are not actions that donald trump is being charged for in this case. But the judge has led in all this testimony from david pecker and others about those transactions to establish the intent the alleged conspiracy here. And those are stated exceptions in new york case law to the general rule that you not let in evidence of uncharged crimes nevertheless, i think that the Weinstein Verdict being overturned because of the letting in of that kind of more attenuated evidence, just illustrates how fraught it is anytime mccord, lets that in and certainly donald trump is going to capitalize on every opportunity he has to say, hey, this was a prejudice prosecution. They let in too much. They were overbroad for a grounds for appeal in overturning all right. Ronen. Thank you very much. Great to see you. Great to be here. All right. 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This is trump and his lawyers and, what they were doing when prosecutors made the case to admit text message mixed messages plural into evidence related to the Karen Mcdougal hush money payment including one from National Enquirer editor dylan howard. So this text message gets, puts out there it was in 2016, and the text message from this editor to a an immediate family member, quote, at least if he wins, ill be pardoned four Election Fraud. Im trump and his team are visibly upset by this text. One of trumps lawyers shouted, whoa up front now is with williams a Sketch Artist who is in the courtroom with trump today. And of course has bent throughout this trial. Okay so i just want to emphasize that tax conversation. The judge has not decided whether to admit that text or into evidence. The jury was not in the room and this put put out there. But you are their lawyers, were there, trump was there what happened . Well, the the contrast because trump has been pretty stayed throughout this trial. He has been head straight facing forwards or slightly to the witness that information came out the all the three of them trump in his two lawyers, they all sit back, they start immediately conferring amongst one another like, i mean, it was a visible difference because throughout most of the testimony this morning, i think trump expects and he sort of knows whats coming those were totally unexpected. And he really reacted. He was talking to blanche and then he was talking to Beauvais Packet Blanche again at blanche and then the three of them. I mean, i cant draw motion, but there was a lot of that which is fascinating. And again, we dont know whether that text is going to be admitted into evidence for the jury and the jury de jury doesnt know about it. Theyve been told not to watch the media. So following up theyre not going to about it unless its admitted. All right. So theres another sketch when you talk about how trumps demeanor has been sort of stayed, was the word you just used . Right . Okay. So heres trump watching and listening as peckers on the witness stand today. And so thats what youre capturing. You see judge merchan, of course, as well. So what stood out to you the most about peckers tests . Well first of all, this is the crossexamination of his attorney of pecker, and theyre now talking about the election the Arnold SchwarzeneggerNational Enquirer, right there trying to draw a parallel that arnold did it. And so its all the same saying that this happens and donald trump is very interested in this. And he starts turning around like ive never seen him he turns around any choice to put his arm and the back of the chair looks certainly in the direction of the jury. I mean, i was looking i was just so it looks there. And your picture thats the trial three there. And then he didnt keep his arm there long enough for me. Drawn, but he definitely wanted to see if the jury is listening. Are they going to react or what did they think this is important . Because it was finally some testimony that favored him and his case so he was very interested in that i havent seen him do that since the beginning in style. And by the way, i had i havent seen didnt seem have that kind of Body Language during E Jean Carrolls case either he was he thought that he really it seemed to me by his Body Language, youve thought he scored one 30 square when we shall see and thank you so much. Always good to see you. My capturing these moments. Well, next propalestinian protests continuing to rock College Campuses, Congresswoman Ilhan omar visiting columbia just days after her daughters arrest there for participating another School Professors arrested. Tell you its out the whole myth has to be reimagined you didnt know whether you were next they were both tied up . Yeah. Yeah. 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Nick watt is out front comparables fired and a lot of muscles deploy against protesters at emory in atlanta this morning it was an overwhelming amount of force against a group of College Students two professors, among those arrested European Administration blames trespassers for the tents and the unrest. These individuals are not members of our community. They are activists attempting to disrupt, our university emory does not tolerate vandalism or other Criminal Activity on campus this movement is mushrooming a brand new protest and princeton Popular University for gaza we are making history three this morning. A Protest Encampment popped up at ucla after yesterdays violence and standoff across town at usc that led to nearly 100 arrests. 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I think they learned from what happened at usc yesterday when security d and the police came in pretty heavy today, almost zero police or security visible presence. Whats a bit odd is that even if youre a student here at ucla, right . Now, you cannot walk across your campus because the protesters have put up a barricade and they wont let you through unless you register and wear a mask. They also werent lead us in or let us