Fox news alert. We begin with continuing moment by moment coverage of day eight of former President Trumps New York Criminal Trial. This is the faulkner focus. Hello. Happy friday. We have a lot of news packed in for you this hour. Court got underway last hour. A loss hat gone on so far. David pecker ends how he started on the witness stand. Right now trumps Team Continues their Cross Examination. Pecker to remind you is the former ceo of american media. His testimony this week mostly focusing on a quote, catch and kill scheme to buy stories about his then friend donald trump without publishing them effectively keeping them hidden. Atactic he used for other celebrities, too. Separately braggs team accused former President Trump of violating his gag order four more times. Thats in addition to the ten claims already made, by the way. Prosecutors meantime want the judge to fine trump and hold him in contempt for every one of those. A hearing on the gag order is set for thursday, may two,
Court is back in session as the leadoff Witness For The Prosecution returns to the stand in the new york criminal case against former president donald trump. Welcome to a new hour of americas newsroom, bill hemmer is off today but shannon is my partner in crime and down at the courthouse. Shannon good to be with you. Im Shannon Bream. Right now the Trump Defense is continuing its Cross Examination questioning that former publisher of the National Enquirer. The major update out of the trial since court began 30 minutes ago, the judge began todays session by pushing back next weeks Gag Order Hearing from wednesday afternoon. It is now going to be thursday morning at 9 30 eastern. Well have you covered on that. As Cross Examination began a member of the prosecution began the questioning yesterday was unclear when he was referencing federal and state prosecutors. Dana on his way to court he said he should be on the campaign trail, not new york city. Yesterday went very well in this courtho