It today, go to pretty litter, im Zachary Cohen in washington. And this is cnn welcome to cnn Special Coverage on big tapper and youre looking live inside the Manhattan Courthouse right now, lets bring up those pictures where the judge has just entered the courtroom and donald trump is about to make history. The first former president in the United States to ever face a criminal trial. Any second, can we expect Jury Selection to start . Whats called void here . And we just got our first look at the former president s inside that courtroom is still photograph cameras are not allowed in general. There he is facing 34 counts of fall falsifying Business Records allegedly part of a scheme to keep Adult Film Star and director Stormy Daniels from speaking out about their alleged Sexual Interlude ahead of the 2016 election, Cnns Kaitlan Collins and paula reid are outside the courthouse for us right now, caitlyn, at the prosecution and the defense are about to start this process of choosing 12
nicolle wallace. we have a lot of developments out of the middle east right now including a last minute deal bringing a temporary reprieve to millions of people in the middle east. extending a truce that has led to the release of d of hostages and palestinian prisoners. at this hour 11 hostages have been freed, they are now in israel. this has just happened moments ago. this footage from al jazeera shows them being handed over to the red cross. the group, the israeli group includes three french citizens, six argentinians and two germness. you can see two of the hostages here, two boys, seen in yellow sweaters in exchange for the release of these hostages israel has released 30 minors and three women who were being held in israeli prisons. there will be more exchanges in the days to come. the humanitarian truce between israel and hamas that was put in place on friday has now been extended for two more days under the same terms, meaning more hostages released in exchange for a
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felony counts. this is the first time in american an american president has been convicted of a crime the only thing trump is gilding guilty of is beating hilary. the former president was expressionless as the verdict was read moments later he walked to the cameras and reacted. this was a disgrace. i rigged a trial by a conflicted judge who was corrupt. a rig to trial, a disgrace. on a very innocent man. on fighting for our country, i m fighting for our constitution. our country is being rigged right now. we will fight until the end and we will win because our country has gone to hell. we don t have the same country anymore. we have a divided mess. we are a nation in serious decline. millions of people pouring into our country right now from prisons and from mental institutions. terrorists, they are taking over our country. we have a country that is in big trouble. this is a rigged decision right from day one with a conflicted judge who should have never been allowed to
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