Minute, people the state of new york versus donald j. Trump started The Main Event Opening Statement hey, miss, youre looking at my picture in downtown new york. The courthouse and you hadnt soon the judge will gavel in and cmt the jury for the first ever prosecution of a former United States president. Minutes ago, we watched trump walk into court after his motorcade arrived at 100 centre street. We expect him to stop for the cameras and talk before heading inside get up in the judge and the jury prosecutors will chart a roadmap of what they intend to prove, how they say the former president helm, the scheme to buried the details of a sexual encounter with adult film actress. In the final month, the 2016 campaign remainders cooper, new york, youre watching Cnn Special Live Coverage of donald trump Hush Money Trial. And im jake tapper in washington today, a Courtroom Collision Filled with history shattering precedent, and a Stock Possibility that one of the two major candidates for pre
Going to do is theyre going to have to as we say, pull the staying, theyre gonna have to say look, folks, youve heard, you will hear that hes pled guilty to perjury and other crimes, but the prosecution will argue now hes come clean. Now you can bank on him. We also expect the prosecution to look forward to who its other key witnesses will be to introduce those to the jury, including david, who we expect to be the first witness today, just to be clear, im pointing out here karen mcdougal, who is somebody who was allegedly paid 150,000 by david. But She Hurricanes was not a criminal charge foundation. Its about Stormy Daniels payment. Thats an issue here. Exactly. Right. And the evidence that mcdougal will be introduced by the prosecutors to show that this is a pattern. One more key theme well hear from the prosecutors. They will say that everything you hear of importance for Michael Cohen or everyone else is corroborated. Prosecutors love that word. Corroboration. It is backed up by do