Is made this morning in a new york courthouse. Donald trump will be the first former president and presumptive president ial nominee to face a criminal trial arriving just minutes ago for the start of Jury Selection in the new york hush money cases. He faces 34 Felony Counts of falsifying Business Records to cover up a Hush Money Payment to Adult Film Actress Stormy Daniels in the runup to the 2016 president election. The focus of the trial today, choosing the men and women who will decide this case from a pool of thousands. We have a team inside the courthouse watching it all as it unfolds. We have a team as well with us right now to talk you through it. Nbcs Vaughn Hillyard is standing by outside the courthouse. Also with us chuck rosenberg, former u. S. Attorney and senior fib official. Maya wiley a former u. S. District attorney. Williams who is a former prosecutor. Thank you all for being part of our coverage. Vaughn, lets start there at the courthouse. Walk us through what we can
Is made this morning in a new york courthouse. Donald trump will be the first former president and presumptive president ial nominee to face a criminal trial arriving just minutes ago for the start of Jury Selection in the new york hush money cases. He faces 34 Felony Counts of falsifying Business Records to cover up a Hush Money Payment to Adult Film Actress Stormy Daniels in the runup to the 2016 president election. The focus of the trial today, choosing the men and women who will decide this case from a pool of thousands. We have a team inside the courthouse watching it all as it unfolds. We have a team as well with us right now to talk you through it. Nbcs Vaughn Hillyard is standing by outside the courthouse. Also with us chuck rosenberg, former u. S. Attorney and senior fib official. Maya wiley a former u. S. District attorney. Williams who is a former prosecutor. Thank you all for being part of our coverage. Vaughn, lets start there at the courthouse. Walk us through what we can
candidate. it seems that will never happen. the best i can tell. they re going to go back to the old playbook. they will support trump no matter what. i ll know it is elise stefanik that will replace liz cheney in house leadership. to, as we ve been walking with the january six investigation into former president trump being convened here. what about trump s other losses. particularly in the e. jean carroll hush money cases. are there any possibilities of further appeals there? where does donald trump just have to live with these rulings? there are always possibilities of further rulings if you are donald trump but no appellate court is going to order a new trial in this case. the opinion judge fountain road is really dwelled them. and it is really throw. it is also inflammatory i
president trump being convened here. what about trump s other losses. particularly in the e. jean carroll hush money cases. are there any possibilities of further appeals there? where does donald trump just have to live with these rulings? there are always possibilities of further rulings if you are donald trump but no appellate court is going to order a new trial in this case. the opinion judge fountain road is really dwelled them. and it is really throw. it is also inflammatory i suppose if you are the former president. because it clarifies that in the judges view, this jury found definitively that e. jean carroll was sexually assaulted and raped as we commonly understand. the use of that term by donald trump. he declined to give any sort of
see him sitting there. i never thought i d see the da that donald trump would be hel accountable for all of these really unlawful things tha he s done, but to see him si standing there, it was a reall surreal moment i can imagine you saw his demeanor, what d you think was going through hi mind or officers led him through th fingerprinting process i think he was livid, the whole time i was watching, donald would get reall frustrated in very, very angry whether he couldn t contro every situation. certainly, this was a situatio that was well beyond his control. certainly, that moment when th officers walking through and doesn t hold the door for hi any steps back where, i thin that was a smack in the face t snap him back into reality now, in custody. pretty sobering for sure. this indictment, as you know it referenced three hush money cases, you are in trump s orbi and at least some of the years of these events played out from the very first payment to a dorm in, the payment then to