So what we could expect from the prosecution as they continue their questioning of daniels is why ultimately there in those closing weeks of october 2016 she decided to go, number one, with the 130,000 payment. An agreement to sign this nda with trump and cohen versus say going to an outside publication and having her story going public there in the closing days of the 2016 election. But then we could also likely hear the prosecution ask her about her further understanding between her conversations with Keith Davidson, who was her attorney at the time, about what she understood that this agreement entailed. And what led over the course of 2017 into 2018 to her ultimately going public with her story after it was first reported about in the Wall Street Journal and sitting down for an interview with 60 minutes in which she detailed her allegations. Donald trump, we know from testimony from david pecker, previously last week, had suggested that donald trump was irate when she went public a
hill he s facing a grilling from republican about the origins of covid-19. also today for the first time in history, the son of the sitting president of the united states is on trial. jury hey, selection now underway in hunter biden s federal gun case and history is being made. mexico elected its first female president claudia sheinbaum. we ll have a live report. hello, i m wolf blitzer in washington and urine the cnn newsroom happening. now up, i m capitol hill republican lawmakers are turning up the heat on the man who led the us government s response to the covid pandemic dr. anthony fauci faces more questions on that response and the origins of the virus that killed nearly 1.2 million americans. dr. fauci will also face questions about email exchanges involving one of his top advisers a subpoena from the republican-led committee turned up emails were dr. david borons appears appears to be trying to avoid public record laws cnn s lauren foxes up on capitol hill for us,
all that bad. he pretty much followed line and judge juan merchan has seen a lot more active defendants in his criminal courts over the years. then what we ve seen here with respect to the criminal contempt findings. i don t think they re going to weigh in to the decision of the sentence eight because he s already been punished for the criminal contempt finding. he was fined $1,000 per vial relation that the court found him guilty of. after hearing, it wouldn t be appropriate, nor do i think judge merchan would be allowed to consider that in giving a sentence, there are specific factors to be considered during sentencing, and that isn t one of them. you re not going to double punish them for it. if you were still his lawyer, would you advise him to at least show some remorse as he awaits sentencing i really wouldn t mind my advice to him and would be very clearly