Be back on the stand and we have the dramatic highlights from Keith Davidsons testimony so far. Plus, Breaking News and traumatic images on the campus of ucla as police move in to disband a Protest Encampment. Well take you there live. It is 10 00 eastern, im Ana Cabrera Reporting from new york. Lets get right to that Breaking News at a courthouse in manhattan, Donald Trumps Hush Money Trial resuming just minutes ago and up first this morning, a hearing on four new alleged Gag Order Violations by the former president , and soon were expecting Keith Davidson, former lawyer for Stormy Daniels and Karen Mcdougal to return to the stand. Our Yasmin Vossoughian is outside the courthouse and here with me, msnbcs katie phang, Criminal Defense Attorney and former manhattan prosecutor jeremy salan and former Assistant Attorney General for new york, tristan snell, the author of the book taking down trump. Yasmin, whats happening so far with this Gag Order Hearing . Reporter so were looking at fou
Mcdougals story would have been National Enquirer gold, and his decision not to run it was purely to help donald trump. Joining me now, nbcs Vaughn Hillyard outside the courthouse, former federal prosecutor paul butler is back with me. Former assistant new York Attorney general Tristan Snell is in studio, and Jeremy Soland, criminal Defense Attorney and former manhattan prosecutor. Im going to start with you because youre a Defense Attorney and youre new to this table. Its a challenge, right, no matter how many times the defense keeps going back and back and back to david pecker, trying to show this wasnt about the campaign, which is what you did, this is standard operating procedure, they said that over and over and over again yesterday. Let me give you one of the later pieces of back and forth, and this is steinglass trying to, again, disprove that bove had just done, the Defense Attorney. How many, meaning of these stories, did you coordinate with a president ial candidate for the b
president biden just leaving white house, and did he say anything about the new tax charges against his son hunter? prosecutors are saying that he had the money to pay the taxes, but chose instead to spend lavish amounts on escorts, pornography and cars. happening now, we are hearing the wrenching statements from the parents of children killed in a mass shooting. a sentencing hearing is under way. an important legal precedent could be set here. and the backlash over how the president of the university of pennsylvania answered a question about genocide, and now a major donor is threatening to withdraw millions of dollars as calls for her to resign intensify. i m fredricka whitfield with john berman. kate and sara are off today, and this is cnn news central. all right. president biden just left the white house a short time ago facing shouted questions about his son, hunter biden. we will get the video in, in just moment, and hunter is accused of a four-year tax evasion
half an hour and they have been taking breaks? that is true. they have been brief breaks, but as we have seen in the past week, they have been taking a length of a break between 11:00 and 11:30, but we don t know the motivation of this break yet. over to kaitlan collins on the courthouse steps. kaitlan? i think that this is going as poorly as it could potentially go. no one thought that it would go well with donald trump on the stand, but the fact that they have taken a break, and they are less than an hour into the testimony and the judge has repeatedly admonished trump and just threatened to remove him from the witness stand and said that he would draw every negative inference that he could, that is not good. that is essentially trump not appearing or taking the fifth, because the judge s discretion here is quite high in making the determination, and the highest actually in making the determination of what these damages are going to look like, because at the heart of
this is cnn breaking news. welcome back to the special live coverage. you are looking right now at inside of the courtroom. donald trump sitting down with his attorneys as you are getting just consider it like a pool spray. we have seen it in other moments and the cameras are allowed in for a moment to kind of scene set each day in the courtroom. this is donald trump moments before he is set to take the stand and be under oath to take questioning from the judge in this civil fraud trial in new york. as he was entering court a moment ago, he spoke to the reporters and cameras in the hallway, and he attacked the case, he attacked the judge and he attacked attorney general and then made a campaign speech. now, what happens next could decide him as a businessman and business empire, and also impact his presidential aspirations, and the other criminal cases where he is a defendant. yeah, and again, those pictures that you are looking at, and what is different this time, he is