Good to have you with us today, may. Thanks, martha. Dana fox news alert. Opening statements in the Hush Money Trial against former President Trump are underway in New York City. Moments ago the judge read his decision on what prosecutors can bring up from trumps Previous Court cases if he testifies in his own defense at the trial. Welcome to a new hour of americas newsroom, im dana perino. Bill hemmer is off and thankfully i have martha with me here today. Martha great to be with you. Im martha maccallum. For the first time in history prosecutors are set to present the firstever criminal case against a former United States president and the Manhattan District Attorney has accused the former President Trump of illegally hiding payments, Hush Money Payments theyve been called in this case, and he claims that those payments, which trump says were legal expenses, were done in order to effect the outcome of the 2016 election. Dana we have this just in from our reporter that are there. We d
Realize that your peers have joined the nazi party. Martha stunning and very personal for you. It is i feel for you and we are glad your eye is okay. I know your mother had her eye injured in iran in a not dissimilar situation. Thank you for your bravery and thank you for coming to talk to us. God bless you. Dana The Trump Criminal Trial underway and we have news out of there. The prosecutor delivering opening statements for the d. A. s office and says this case is about a criminal conspiracy and a coverup. The judge offering a lot more things including juror instructions. The jurors do appear to be Listening Attentively to merchan. There is also information about how the judge told the jury that indictment is not evidence. Then explains the whole evidence process. The defense is not required to
we re in the process of or doing our evidence process of it as well. we re validating them and have all boots on the ground. i ve mobilized my department. other law enforcement agencies in the community as well are mobilizing. we re zero tolerance for the small percentage of people who are responsible for the violence that we re seeing in our community, which is very similar to what we re seeing around the country. it s got to stop. the processing of this suv that was discovered, has that led to evidence that will lead you to these shooters, to suspects? it s still in the process right now. i don t have that information, but we re hopeful for that information as well as information we re receiving from the community. and just our detectives are doing hard work in the streets. we know you don t know where these shooters are, but are you getting closer to know who they are? we ve been using gender, nonspecific pronouns. do you know if you re looking
together actual criminal cases here? it s a lot of work. a lot of investigative detail will go into this, a lot of evidence process will go into this. it s a lot of officers feet on the ground and doing lots of interviews backgrounds interrogations, evidence processing. it will be a long drawn out process. can you tell the citizens of waco that they are safe as of this hour tonight? i mean do you worry about further recriminations any further retribution from any of the gangs that they re associated with this event on sunday? yeah, and we ve talked about that. i think as early as last night, i was assuring our citizens you ve got a very strong police force in the waco area and that includes not only us, it includes keep the, state and federal officers that are here, as well. we have enough officers to handle whatever we need to handle.