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Im not sure that anybody has ever seen anything like this before. Day two of testimony in trumps hush money election interference trial. And the judge has already had it with trump and his legal team. Meanwhile, i was in the courtroom as the first witness, david pecker, gave riveting testimony about his interactions with trump. I will tell you what i saw and heard. And that is where we begin tonight. With the historic first ever trial of a former american president , as donald trump spent a second day in court before a attan jury. It was a day that i can say i witnessed personally as i took my turn to be at the courthouse, and has been the case so far, there were no throngs of Trump Supporters outside raising hell on his behalf. We notice this one guy who had a crucifix and rang a loud bell while wearing a tshirt declaring the three greatest u. S. President s were george washington, john f. Kennedy, and donald trump. Other than that, for all the giant barricades erected downtown, the l
Katie fang in for ari melber. Another big day for Donald Trumps criminal collection trial, starting out with both sides butting heads. The prosecution asking the court for donald trump to be held in contempt of court, and Donald Trumps lawyers spinning those attacks as political. The judge frustrated, admonishing trumps attorney saying youre losing all credibility with this court, the judge adding, youve presented nothing. Well, well have more on that later in the show. But first, the prosecutions first witness back on the stand, former National Enquirer publisher david pecker, returning to detail to the jury his involvement in the multiple catch and kill plots to bury negative stories about donald trump. Pecker detailing his decades long relationship with trump, and his frequent communications with Michael Cohen. Testifying that in that now infamous 2015 meeting, pecker agreed to publish only positive stories about trump, promising to be trumps eyes and ears. Pecker going on to say ho
Spectroscope and that, that energy field, i would be very interested in hearing what she has to say. To me, it was completely indiscernible. Standby, mary trump has the y answer. Thank you, rachel. For the jury filed into the courtroom today to hear testimony in the case of the people of the state of new york versus Donald J Trump, judge merchan issued his ruling to the lawyers of what would actually happen to donald trump if he were to testify in his own defense in this trial. No, of course, before the judge issued his ruling about what evidence the prosecution would be allowed to use to attack Donald Trumps credibility as ad witness, there was absolutely no reason to believe donald so trump was going to actually testify in his own defense. Donald trump is incapable of telling the truth and that would become quickly obvious to the jury, who would probably ju find themselves watching donald trump commit perjury and probably concluding that they were watching him committing perjury. So,
Events at issue in this case i asked her what trump is going through right now, look, it just really sucks to be in court to be a defendant. It is just one of the stressful things you could possibly go through and of course trump being who he is, everything takes on an extraordinary nature. But for anyone to be in that seat, its one of the worst things you can go through and your entire life david, i think really importantly, we should note here for people who may say, why is this guy testifying and revealing all this information . He has an Immunity Agreement prevent exactly with the government. So hes been involved, if interestingly, going back to about approximately 2017 he has been involved in these investigations into whether this was criminal conduct, these Hush Money Payments. This was first something that was primarily investigated at the federal level or the manhattan district attorney, the state investigation took took a little bit of backseat as they often do when youre deal