Have Jonathan Turley on the story, antisemitism shutting down our elite universities, and did you know it is earth day. Nobody care, well talk about it with breitbarts john carney. Bidens Green New Deal, climate bank atm, with north dakota governor. And alaska senator. About the end of anwar as we know it. But first, fox business lydia hu is the latest from the trump trial. What can you tell us. Reporter very busy here in lower manhattan. The criminal trial got started today with opening arguments brought by District Attorney alvin bragg, prosecutor accuse trump of engaging in a criminal conspiracy with Michael Cohen and david pecker, former ceo of American Media which published the national enquirer, saying they engaged coverup. Prior to 2016 election, trump and his lawyers say that trump is innocent. This is a biden witchhunt to keep me off of the campaign trail. So far it is not working, my poll numbers are higher than they have been, the public understands that it is a witchhunt. R
Thank you for joining us tonight. The conspiracy of dunces. Thats the focus of tonights angle. You know its bad for the trump Hush Money Prosecution when the New York Times feels compelled to publish a piece calling out the cases weakness. Jed sugarman a Law Professor at Boston University called alvin braggs case an historic Mistake Writing their vegas allegation about a criminal scheme to corrupt the 201 president ial election has him more concerned than ever about their unprecedented use of state law and their persistent avoidance of specifying an election crime or about area of fraud. Thats all. Now, beyond that he rightly notes that it is legal for a candidate to pay a nondisclosure agreement. Pay for a nondisclosure agreement, hush money is unseemly but it is legal. All right. Bottom line here. As honest objective legal minds have concluded, the underlying conduct alleged, in figure, is a violation of federal Campaign Finance rules. But, one little problem with that. The fec looke
There were members of the African American community that inspired us to dream and to serve, and Cecil Williams was at the top of that list. Cecil mentored generations of San Francisco leaders, many of us emerging from the most difficult circumstances. As a young girl, i would have never dreamed id grow up to work with him. We all benefited from his guidance, his support, and his moral compass. We would not be who we are as a city and a people without the legendary Cecil Williams, a loss felt not only here in the bay area, but around the world. Glide leaders say that his family is on their way to San Francisco if theyre not already here. Julie. Mike. Yeah. His kindness, his love, truly bringing everyone together, always opening that door at glide for everyone out there on the streets to come in. True, san franciscan lost today. Crystal thank you. Thanks, crystal. Well, we have spoken with Cecil Williams many times over the years in our coverage of glide events. Ktvu Jana Katsuyama spok
Good day, everyone. Im Andrea Mitchell in new york along with my colleague and friend, Chris Jansing, as history is being made in that Lower Manhattan courtroom. Donald trump is the first former president of the United States to stand as a defendant in a criminal trial. At any moment, could be facing the first witness to testify against him. Thats expected to be former National Enquirer publisher, david pecker. Hes likely to be pressed about alleged efforts to bury damaging stories about donald trump during the 2016 election. Earlier this morning, prosecutors gave their open statement, accusing mr. Trump of a criminal conspiracy to hide embarrassing relationships by preventing them from getting into the press, thus influencing the outcome of the 2016 election then covering it all up. The defense followed saying that mr. Trump did not commit any crimes, describing him as not just the republican nominee, but as the frugal business man, also a husband and a father. Defense lawyer todd bla
Joining us, msnbcs Yasmin Vossoughian outside the courthouse. Temidayo agangawilliams, a former prosecuor and Defense Attorney caroline pull lisi. Yasmin, Jury Instrekss under way right now. Whats going on . Jury instructions under way ahead of Opening Statements, jose and ana. 45 minutes for the prosecution, 25 minutes for the defense. Theyre doing that because theres going to be a lot of details, much of a timeline, a lot of dates and they dont want to overwhelm the jury in the Opening Statements process. Judgments made from the bench that i want to talk about with you quickly, first, when it comes to the evidence if, in fact, the former president decides to testify, judge juan merchan is allowing six various cases to be decided if donald trump it was. Talking about the trump payroll judgment, the trump civil fraud gag orders as well along with e. Jean carol assault case and the defamation case. A couple more things happening in court this morning. The former president spoke about ho