trump. the jury did this at the urging of a man called alvin bragg, the district attorney who have been famous by making the city much more dangerous by refusing to enforce laws against crimes like robbery or rape. we don t know what the indictment says or what the charges are, but previous news reports suggest they ll imminent from an alleged payment seven years ago, alvin bragg apparently believes it is a crime. the net results is donald trump is the first former president trump of the united states ever to be indicted. so, no matter what happens next we can be certain there is no coming back from this moment. there could be retaliations from red states. desantis issued a statement saying he ll not participate in any extradition of donald trump to new york, that s apparently scheduled by next week. we are not certain of the full outlines of this story but we know this moment is a historic one. we want to set tonight in fact, those that we have so far, we ll do that as we al
Another text from howard a few days later. I really cant say yet, sorry. Davidson reply. The prosecution asked him if he said that because he didnt know or because he wasnt ready to discuss the details yet. He said it was because i was not prepared to discuss the details at that point. A few weeks later, dylan tells davidson, quote, get me a price on mcdougal. All in. Consulting gig programs as a Fitness Expert thrown into the mix. As davidson said Karen Mcdougal was torn between a deal with ami or abc, howard texted quote, we are going to lay it on thick for her. Davidson responded, good, throw in an ambassadorship for me. Im thinking aisle of man. So what does this testimony on top of the other testimony weve already heard prove . And what does donald trump have to say . Judge merchan warned him this morning he is on thin ice, warning him not the say much. Holding him in contempt and fining him 9,000 for violating the gag order and cautioning while under the circumstances, the court
course. opening statements are under way as we speak in central pennsylvania. let s get straight to susan candiotti on the ground at the courthouse in pennsylvania. now, you were just in court, susan. what did you see and hear just now? reporter: hala, the prosecutors just wrapped up their opening statements, and clearly the most powerful moment we have seen and heard so far involved them showing individual photographs of eight of the ten alleged victims in this case. single shots of each one of them. smiling as young boys who were, as the state alleges, as young as 8 years old when this alleged abuse occurred. all of them smiling. and in each case, jerry sandusky looked up at the photographs, and looked back down as the prosecutors introduced each one. and for the first time, we heard the first names of the victim it s, which we at cnn will not reveal because, as policy, we do not identify alleged victims of sexual abuse. now, the other key part of this is when prosecutors