Everyone. Thank you so much for joining me. Im fredricka whitfield. All right. Were less than 24 hours away now from witness singh history tomorrow, Opening Statements began and the trial of defendant donald trump, the first former president ever to be on trial. For criminal charges. Trump well, Walk Into A Manhattan courtroom tomorrow morning, where he will hear the states case against him. He is facing dozens of charges related to an alleged Hush Money Payment to Adult Film Actress Stormy Daniels made before the 2016 election this is the first of four criminal cases against trump to go to trial. 12 jurors and six alternates will decide trumps fate. Heres cnns brian todd ready to empaneled jurors have been excused from former president trumps Hush Money Trial, underscoring just how crucial the six alternate jurors are, whove just been seated in a case of this length in a highprofile case, the alternates are as significant as the regular jury panel, because theres a very high likelihoo
president has faced legal jeopardy over an alleged fair cnn s jessica dean has more donald trump claims the prosecution against him in the hush money trial is unprecedented issues. nothing like this has ever happened before. been anything like it while it is true, trump is the first former president does and trial against criminal charges another well-known politician had a similar story play out in the past. john edwards obviously was prosecuted for the same thing. and justice department failed acquitted on one a miss trial and the others, but they decided not to proceed in 2011, then failed democratic presidential candidate john edwards faced as six count indictment four hi julie accepting and using campaign contributions to cover up an extramarital affair and hide his mistress and their child from the public while edwards ran for president, while i do not believe i did anything illegal or ever
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the answer and then do a follow up question and say, well, then why didn t a , b or c happen? whaty did she feel that she had to be the special pleader for all things left, leftt? persona i mean.ll well, personally, i think it is her or her own super bowl.loe i mean, look h, caitlin s beenee doing this a long time. i ve done interviews with her on that network. and i think that this was hert n time in the spotlight being opposite the numbe r one guy ini think our party being donald trump . so i think that s part of it. number two , it was clear that cnn position was to do anything they could to keep bringing up all of the old stuff, all of the narratives that they continue to push and to ignore the realities of what sgn happening in america today. and so credit president trump for, frankly, keeping his composure with this onslaughtono from her and being focused on the things that matter to the o voters of our country and not to the political class . and not to the punditry that, frankl