Minute, people the state of new york versus donald j. Trump started The Main Event Opening Statement hey, miss, youre looking at my picture in downtown new york. The courthouse and you hadnt soon the judge will gavel in and cmt the jury for the first ever prosecution of a former United States president. Minutes ago, we watched trump walk into court after his motorcade arrived at 100 centre street. We expect him to stop for the cameras and talk before heading inside get up in the judge and the jury prosecutors will chart a roadmap of what they intend to prove, how they say the former president helm, the scheme to buried the details of a sexual encounter with adult film actress. In the final month, the 2016 campaign remainders cooper, new york, youre watching Cnn Special Live Coverage of donald trump Hush Money Trial. And im jake tapper in washington today, a Courtroom Collision Filled with history shattering precedent, and a Stock Possibility that one of the two major candidates for pre
Then thats the end of it. We all live with just kind of visor. Thanks so much. Appreciate you. Take back to you. Thanks. Andrew sin, cnns Kristen Holmes is outside the Manhattan Courthouse for us. She has been closely tracking whats happening inside the former president s political orbit. Kristen yeah, jake look, theyre trying to utilize every aspect of this to try to make it like a campaign stop. As you just saw donald trump heading to the cameras, they really believe see that this Trial De was never going to happen, that eventually all of these delays would pay off and there would be no trial before the November Election obviously, they are now resigned two the fact that this is where we are, he is going to be in this courtroom four days a week, and hes going to take advantage of going to the cameras, but im telling you when im talking to the senior advisers, they are just unsure that thats going to be enough. They are trying to figure out ways to keep him on the campaign trail, keep
major city. the largest jurisdiction in the country to use rank voting. on election night, you saw that eric adams was out front. he s been out front the entire time. the difference there in terms of his first choice, he won the most first choice votes. 75,000 votes. in the end, he ends up winning by only a percentage points. it is interesting to see how much the gap has closed when you begin eliminating the candidates, whereby each candidate is eliminated and there are two that remain. he came out on top having run on the issue have public safety, rising crime being really important to a lot of voters. putting together a coalition of working class voters. voters of color. voters in the outer burroughs. katherine garcia who came in second did the best in manhattan. but eric adams put together a wide coalition, the same up with that helped electricity joe
that. don t do it. i said, dad, i got to go into manhattan. i got to build those big buildings. i got to do it, dad. i got to do it. it s an only in america kind of story. a guy from the outer burroughs from queens. makes up his mind to scale power and prestige in manhattan. the eyes on the bridge. how am i going to cross that bridge. i want to go to new york. donald trump was john travolta in saturday night fever. i used to go to parties in new york that he threw, and it was every c grade, semi sleazy pseudo celebrity.
it s an only in america kind of story. a guy from the outer burroughs from queens. i wanted to go to new york. donald trump was john travolta in saturday night fever. i used to go to parties in new york that he threw, and it was every c grade, semi sleazy pseudo celebrity. i was in a party in the 80s and trump looked at the crowd that was there. he looked at me and said, not indicted, not invited. no matter how much he tried,