Out recovering for a few weeks. I leave you in the most capable hands. Capable, and carrying youve got kate bolduan here, john berman, and if they act up, dm me we wanted no matter what, and we cannot wait for you to get back better than ever. Thank you. I think you. Thank you so much for being with us today. This is cnn new central, cnn Special Coverage Of The Trump Trial starts now moments ago, donald trump, as you could see, theyre leaving trump tower to the head here where we are outside of the courthouse in minutes, the likely final hold Defense Witness for donald trump will be under oath and on the Witness Stand yet again, well see if it goes better than it did the last time. Robert costello provoked a dressing down hello, from the judge over his courtroom behavior after just minutes on the stand yesterday, he has now been warned not to roll his eyes, say, jeez, after a ruling not, to stare down the judge, all helpful tips. I was in that room when all that happened yesterday is t
correct? yes, he continued to fight with him. you never deployed your taser then? no. another incident in 2016, someone was not complying with commands to place them under arrest, right? i don t know what event you are talking about. in this case, there was an individual who was struggling, a female individual. she didn t want to get handcuffed and one of the officers took her down to the ground by force. you pointed your taser but did not deploy it? if that s what the document say. i don t recall the incident. you have drawn your taser and not fired it in your 26 year career? yes. all right. i want to talk more about april 11th. you were serving as an fto.
after the meeting. even if you take their story at face value, this meeting got set up, eight people go in there, the president s son, his son-in-law, the campaign chair, and told to be a torlt bust where they prattled on about adoption. what? no e-mail? that is the biggest unanswered question about that meeting. i think there are two big unanswered questions really. one, natalia, the russian lawyer, leaves a document behind. she said publicly that she did. that will be a big question. if she left a document, what did the document say and what did don jr. do with it. the other big question is, what did he talk to his father about. did he tell his father, did the eventual president of the united states know about this meeting either in advance or did he know about it afterwards, what kind of information did he have about what they discussed. that is a huge question. the reason that s so huge, nick, is that s where you get the intersection on what happened on the collusion front,
she said publicly that she did. that will be a big question. if she left a document, what did the document say and what did don jr. do with it. the other big question is, what did he talk to his father about. did he tell his father, did the eventual president of the united states know about this meeting either in advance or did he know about it afterwards, what kind of information did he have about what they discussed. that is a huge question. the reason that s so huge, nick, is that s where you get the intersection on what happened on the collusion front, and mueller question. they seem to be focusing on the president s role in writing that wildly misleading statement by his son about the meeting. yeah. and on top of it all you ve got the whole question about the e-mails that were hacked out of hillary clinton s campaign. what happened to those? it s no coincidence that two weeks after that meeting, these e-mails start turning up on the internet. the dnc e-mails. the dnc e-mai
things are going well. things are clearly not going well. this documents embraces that and acknowledges that in a forthright way. bill: apparently there is a deadline in this, too. it s around mid-march two months from now, and the document say, quote, if the problems aren tific bid then them result in financial harm to the government. jay carney was asked about this and he pretty much sidestepped it. said i have not seen the document. does he now? i would expect he would get more questions about this in the briefings in the next couple days. this is a pretty big deal. the obama administration has been telling the public and democratic lawmakers in private meeting that things are going well and all the criticism is overblown. there are bumps in the road, there are small problems easily manageable.