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
counts of falsifying business records to conceal payments made to hide an alleged affair with an adult film star and influence the 2016 election. trump denies the affair and has pleaded not guilty, but trump s former attorney, michael cohen, swore under oath that he made the payments in order to affect the outcome of the election cohen, though, was convicted of perjury in a separate case. the edwards case had its own star witness, a close aide to the former senator who testified to helping edwards keep that a fair secret, but prosecutors do not prove their claim. the cover-up was about the election. the woman with whom edwards had the affair, real hunter told cnn, edwards did not want the truth to hurt his wife the issues for internal family issues, trying to hide it from elizabeth, try not to hurt anybody. he didn t want to hurt elizabeth. or his family. a key difference could be the timing of the alleged affairs and subsequent payoffs which might help spell out the
thought i was doing anything illegal. i did an awful, awful lot that was wrong. the jury acquitted edwards on one charge and split on the other five in. the justice department to ultimately dropped the case. well, the election interference and it s got to stop. it s a third world country. trump is charged with 34 counts of falsifying business records to conceal payments made to hide an alleged affair with an adult film star and influence the 26th seen election, trump denies the affair and has pleaded not guilty, but trump s former attorney, michael cohen, swore under oath that he made the payments in order to affect the outcome of the election cohen though, was convicted of perjury in a separate case. the edwards case had its own star witness, a close aide to the former senator who testified to helping edwards keep that a fair secret, but prosecutors do not prove their claim. the cover-up was about the election. the woman with whom edwards had the affair, real hunter told cnn,
trial, today his defense teams goes after one of the prosecution s star witnesses, grilling the wife of a former aide, asking what the couple was seeking, seeking to gain by helping edwards cover up an affair with his pregnant mistress. jonathan serrie is live in greens borough, north carolina, the defense team has been going off the couple s bank statements and tax returns. what are they hoping to show here, jonathan? reporter: hi bill, they re trying to establish that cheri and andrew young kept most of the donor money in question for themselves, bank records suggest the young s obtained $1.2 million from two wealthy donors during 2007 and 2008, but forms filed with the irs during that time list less than $200,000 in so-called conduit money the young s transferred from the donors to edwards mistress, rielle hunter. yesterday, edwards lawyer, alan duncan, asked cheri young, do you think he would have asked you to do something that was illegal.
meltdown by helping edwards cover cup his infidelity. he would call me but elizabeth was going to listen in on a second line and he said, look if i call you, if there is anything strange going on, just act like you know just know elizabeth is on the other end of the phone. megyn: that was young on fox and friends here on fox. can he really be claimed legally for the breakdown of that marriage? let s ask our panel. kimberly guilfoyle and janice filbore. in north carolina she can. one of seven states that you should mind your ps and qs. she can go after them. she has to prove a few things. they are happily married. it doesn t have to be wedded