Id front next opening day of trumps trial in between trump and what will be a star witness . Michael cohen this is the first witness is starting to testify. The david helped trumps case, plus russias new it girl, stink television. Now fawning over Marjorie Taylor greene even though she tried but failed to sink american aid to ukraine. Here what they are saying tonight about quoteunquote moscow, marjorie, and Melania Trump now selling more jewelry. Is it to help her husband pay his legal fees . Lets go out front and good evening. Im Erin Burnett Outfront tonight. We begin with trumps trials spilling out of the courtroom on a day when the prosecution and defense laid out their cases for the first time to 12 jurors and the six alternates in the room. And its on this momentous day, the former President Trump and his former fixer, Michael Cohen, are now in a free for all know, it did actually start in the courtroom. It was during Opening Statements, trump was watching as his lawyers were te
Former Tabloid Publisher david well be back with wolf blitzer in situation breaking news tonight, The Trump Trial Testimony Begins and the official transcript was just released for the next hour. Well take you inside the courtroom from gavel to gavel. As this historic hush money criminal case unfolds the prosecutions first key witness takes the stand after both sides start to lay out their cases in Opening Statements are reporters and experts are standing by to break down all of todays most important developments and look ahead to whats next. Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and arnd the world. Im wolf blitzer with a Special Report in this Room Trump Trial today lets get right to the breaking news on the Opening Statements and testimony in the first criminal trial of a former president of the United States, donald trump. At the Defense Table as prosecutors and his lawyers began cutting to the heart of the hushmoney case against him cnns Kara Scannell is joining us live
the justice department isn t the only group that lobbied the court about steve bannon today mr. speaker, i understand there might be a change in position regarding the house and their stance on the january 6th committee, and it might be regarding steve bannon, and it may have a big impact on his contempt case. tell me what s going on. yeah, we re working on filing on amicus brief in his appellate work there in his case today speaker of the house mike johnson and several other republican members of the house voted to make the formal position of the u.s. house of representatives, the formal position that the january 6th committee did not have the authority to do the work that it did, and that therefore steve bannon should not have to go t to step back here for some context, remember that the reason steve bannon is headed to prison in the first place is because he refused to comply with the subpoena from the january 6th committee. that s despite clearly knowing a lot about
former president trump was a steamroller in the white house, and it landed an insurrection on the steps of the capitol. if we can t shake our addiction to strongmen, to those utterly convinced of their own greatness, there will be many more like spitzer in positions of power posing even bigger threats to our fragile democracy crusaders wanting their portraits on the walls of history. every governor of new york has the chance to be immortalized in a painting that hangs in the new york state capitol, a self-directed monument to his or her own illustrious legacy. all of them are there all but two. the first served in the early 19th century and left no likenesses behind. the second.is eliot spitzer. there was testimony from a haley bind biden. she s her name is haley biden because she was married to hunter biden s brother sadly died. beau biden and then and then hunter went out with her. so she s the ex ex-girlfriend and the widow and i know she just she testified that whe
attached with that, if so, how you could accept that and that person as your nominee. i think, you know, look, you know me, you know me well, neil. you ve known how much i care about law and order and right and wrong and telling the truth. so that would be an impossible task. neil: so let me ask a little bit, donald trump seems to single you out in his missives on his social media site doesn t he. neil: he had said that you contributed to mitt romney s has. he s raised this a number of times, that you were star struck by barack obama during the whole sandy storm incident [laughter] which you worked with the former president to get new jersey expect northeast back in shape. when you hear that are and it keeps coming up and this is the latest, what do you think of that? well, one, it lets me know that i am inside his head in a big way, ask and he is very worried about standing up on