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good morning, it is 11:00 a.m. eastern, i m josé diaz-balart. we begin in new york city where tensions are flaring inside the courtroom as former president donald trump has taken the stand in the $250 million civil trial that threatens his sprawling business empire. the case centered around accusations that trump along with his two adult sons inflated various trump assets to get more favorable rates from banks and insurers. trump and his children have denied any wrongdoing, and while trump just took the stand about an hour ago, the judge already accused the former president of treating this appearance like a political rally. the judge has urged trump s lawyers a number of times to control their client. let s go right to nbc s vaughn hillyard outside the courthouse. vaughn. reporter: good morning, jose. donald trump just leaving here the courtroom for a morning break after a contentious first 90 minutes of donald trump on the stand and under oath, facing questions from the
hello, i m wolf blitzer, alongside dana bash. we re here in washington. moments from now, donald trump will be back under oath after a historic and heated day in the new york civil fraud trial against him, after two impeachments and multiple lawsuits and depositions, the former president is defending himself on the stand for the first time. within minutes, trump was accused of making speeches, and later he insulted the new york attorney general and he publicly criticized the judge in this case. the judge has already found that trump and his eldest sons committed what were described as, quote, persistent and repeated fraud, by inflating certain property values to acquire loans and insurance benefits. now judge arthur engoron is trying to figure out what damages the trumps should pay. he spent much of the morning admonishing trump for, quote, long-winded answers and not answering the questions being asked to him, even telling trump s attorney at one point to, quote, i beseech
congress and in moments he will sign it into law. this as vaccines are being delivered to americans with the goal of having enough vaccines for all adults by the end of may. nearly 1500 americans are still dying on average each day to a disease that didn t have a name just 15 months ago. i m going to turn now to chief cnn white house correspondent kaitlan collins. kaitlan, before you get into the details of the president s speech tonight, tell us what you know about this signing event. reporter: well, so this was a bit of a change. we were not expecting president biden to actually sign this bill until tomorrow when they were going to have a signing ceremony at the white house with all the lawmakers. but now the president says they got this bill last night earlier than going through those procedural motions up on capitol hill, so he wants to sign this as quickly as possible so it can go into effect. you ll see this in about 30 minutes or so. we re going into the oval office
Courts been in session, julia . Reporter so court is just Getting Started behind me, hallie. They had a little bit of a delay this morning but right now were seamana for thes Defense Attorney come up to the front. Hes ready to ask rick gates more questions. On the way into court downey said they were feeling good and confident today that they are doing well in this case, especially because he is now continuing that crossexamination. It was pretty ruthless yesterday. They found gates to be someone who had a secret life. They had him detail this private flat london that he used to have an affair. Talked about stealing hundred of thousands of dollars from paul man for the. They also started asking him about like to the fbi and for some reason gates was a little squirrely on that issue. He wouldnt come out and said he did it even though thats what he pled guilty to just months ago. Theyre trying to paint someone that the jury would not believe as credible, which is key to their defense str