good day, i m chris jansing, along with my colleague, katy tur. what a day it has been with tremendous legal and political consequences, two hearings, both with huge consequences, in fact, for donald trump and the november election. one of them s pretty cut and try. the basic question was when can we get this thing started? in new york, the judge was straightforward, no more delays. the former president s hush money trial set to go forward a mere 40 days from now. chris, the other one, which is happening as we speak in fulton county is not so cut and dry, very much the opposite. it s getting messy, playing out you could say like a tv drama or even a soap opera. the hearing will start again any moment now, and it s already been pretty contentious, some would say borderline salacious. we are waiting for dramatic testimony to continue from special prosecutor nathan wade. he was forced to testify about his relationship with d.a. fani willis. before this break, wade was grille
good afternoon. welcome to cnn news central. i m boris sanchez alongside brianna keilar here in the nation s capital. today, dual legal hearings focus just on former president donald trump in new york. trump is campaigning from the courtroom and capitalizing on the moment the former president directly facing the judge oversee seeing his hush money payment case that judge delivering a major blow to trump s strategy of dragging out as legal challenges, ruling that the republican front runner will face his first criminal trial in just 39 days really in the heat of the presidential election. but rather than focusing on the cases, legal merits a trump once again used the moment to spew baseless conspiracy theories falsely claiming that president biden is running the prosecution. that s right. and in georgia, a key hearing happening as we speak, it s threatening to derail the election subversion case. there against former president trump. and a number of codefendants. this is a