continues. cnn primetime special inside the trump investigation starts now. a surreal moment. history made former president trump arrested and arraign cannot and will not normalized serious criminal conduct. 34 felony counts tied to alleged hush money payments felony crimes in new york state no matter who you are tonight, fact checking the former president s grievances. only crime that i have committed is to fearlessly defend our nation from those who seek to destroy it, comparing his charges to another infamous campaign finance case and answer the biggest questions. what s next for the manhattan case? this case is going to fall on its merits. well, before we get to a jury. what role does politics play in this prosecution as a nominee? would be much more difficult for a prosecutor to then go to trial and convict him and which of the other probes could imperil the former president? next this is the least of the legal troubles. we re seeing the special counsel making real strid
Martha good afternoon. This is Martha Maccallum and this is definitely the st story today, Huge Blockbuster News coming out of the courtroom in Downtown Manhattan Connor Mcdavid everybody has been waiting for. It is day 13 a former President Trumps Criminal Trial and this has become incredibly intense in their because Stormy Daniels is basically spilled everything she wanted to say after the trump team had asked to have her testimony limited. s another the trump request is in for a mistrial because they are seeing theres all this prejudicial information that the jury has heard and we can put that back in the genies bottle can recall it absolutely prejudicial saying that and that what that means is that it was designed not to serve the acclimation of the charges but simply to inflame the jury against the defendant. Prosecutors have spent most of the day focus on the 2006 Sexual Encounter that Stormy Daniels claimed happened in this case, the encounter and wander trump denies and a lot o