When he was called up by the bronx bombers, he replaced a 19 year old mickey mantle, who was optioned for aaa and he became roommates with yogi berra. Hows that for friday ticker. Thanks to our panel. Tnks to you for joining us. Im kasie hunt, Cnn News Central starts right now f is four friday and breaking this morning, damage control, Donald Trumps lawyers try to mitigate the dramatic, tawdry testimony from the first witness in the criminal hush money is it possible adult film star Stormy Daniels takes the stand today protests and golfing College Campuses, College Professors getting arrested and now one university is canceling their main Graduation Ceremony at tiktok fights back the wildly social media app does. It will not be sold out through a law that could lead to a nationwide ban. Real that bad happened. Im sorry, sided with john berman and kate bolduan. This is Cnn News Central this morning. How much damage was done, how much can be undone . A critical moment in the falsified do
Up witness david pecker who is at times combative, and jurors largely avoiding looking at trump, but according to those inside the room, giving pecker their rapt attention. For a day filled with details and inside baseball legalese, no small feat. We have a panel of experts standing by to explain it all. Plus, nothing matters more than how the jury is interpreting the Witness Testimony weve seen so far. How are attorneys on both sides analyzing what jurors are taking away from the questioning. Well ask a Jury Consultant. And for the political stakes of this trial, the campaign. The former president announcing new Campaign Events when hes not in the courtroom while President Biden just made a promise that could have a major impact on novembers race. So a lot to get to. We begin with that Redirect Questioning of key witness david pecker, which began just a short time ago. Prosecutors jumping straight into rebutting some key threats from the defense. One key, for example, steinglass, is t
Im period in question. I thought in many what we did a concession at all was Michael Dreeben essentially admitting the attorney for the special counsels office, essentially admitting that these facts were so inextricably intertwined in a colloquy with justice barrett, that it would be very difficult to separate them out on remand. Thats how i interpret for his statements at least. Well, and to translate that for people watching, that means that basically, if it wasnt official act, they would not be able to use that potentially at trial. He was arguing they should be able to use it to paint a bigger picture. But trump has argued, total immunity. He has not said, well, some of these are private x this would mean the case could at least in part go forward and go to trial. We believe that without the official acts charged in the indictment, there is no case. Weve been very consistent in our position from the start, starting with the District Court proceeding through the circuit. Now at the
Concession at all. Was Michael Dreeben essentially admitting the attorney for the special counsels office, essentially admitting that these facts were so strikingly intertwined in a colloquy with Justice Barrett that it would be very difficult to separate them out on remand. Thats how i interpreted his statements, at least. Well, and to translate that for people watching, that means that basically, if it wasnt official act, they would not be able to use that potentially at trial. He was arguing they should be able to use it to paint a bigger picture. But trump has argued, total immunity. He has not said, well, some of these are private x. This would mean the case could at least in part go forward and go to trial. We believe that without the official acts charged in the indictment, there is no case. Weve been very consistent in our position from the start, starting with the District Court proceeding through the circuit. Now at the the us Supreme Court, that what were talking about is ab
Sarah, its the first thing i thought of because were covering trump gavel to gavel keep in mind, we just heard a Sandoval Hearing in Donald Trumps case. Theres two things that this is directly impactful to Donald Trumps case. First prior bad acts evidence coming into the courtroom. The second, the Appellate Courts finding that Harvey Weinstein basically could not testify because so much was going to be allowed in on crossexamination the same type of argument would apply to donald trump at the Sandoval Hearing. Thats where prosecutors are told by the judge what can come in if donald trump were to testify, they opened up the gates. The judge to the E Jean Carroll case, to the new York State Attorney general, Civil Fraud Case because of that, donald trump will have a similar argument that hes hamstrung. He couldnt possibly testify because of everything thats going to come in on crossexamination. Its directly related to the Appellate Division decision that we just heard today. Did not see