Score. Do i mean at time. Com . Cnn this morning with kasie hunt next its monday, april 22, right now . Now on cnn this morning, Opening Statements set to begin in Donald Trumps Hush Money Trial. New cnn reporting on who prosecutors plan to call as their first witness. A foreign aid bill passed by the house, leaving hard right republicans and hamas infuriated. And a crisis on campus jewish students at Columbia University urged to stay home for their own safety all right 5 00 a. M. Hearing washington, but this is a live look at New York City on this Monday Morning where openings statements are set to begin in the donald trump trial. Good morning, everyone. Im casey hunt. Its wonderful to have you with us Opening Statements in the historic Criminal Hush Money Case against donald trump set to begin just a few hours from now, cnn has learned that david, the former chairman of the national enquirer, is Parent Company company is expected to be the first witness called by the manhattan das of
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History cnn has learned that the prosecutions first witness will likely be david. He is the former publisher of the national enquirer, joining me now is former federal Prosecutor Andrei Tarkovsky andrew. Good morning. Thank you so much for being here. This is a real cast of characters that we are expecting to come through this courtroom. Why start with well, he is the one who essentially initiated the payments to Stormy Daniels. And that is an important factor in all of this. The payment to Stormy Daniels is the initiation of what they say is Donald Trumps effort to effectively interfere with the election by making a payment to a hush Money Payment that was not reported in any sort of Campaign Finance books and was part of his overall scheme to interfere with that election. Now, the prosecutors have to prove several layers of Donald Trump from specific intent and it all goes to the question of whether he was making that