major companies involved. any opening statements could begin today and then witnesses, including high profile witnesses faces that people know who are we talking about that we could see soon? very high profile witnesses. john and i just want to say and set the stage for you out here. obviously as you can imagine, there are a lot of media members out here all covering this trial from all over the world. but the interesting thing is while this is the main entrance of the courthouse, there is actually a back entrance of the courthouse where sometimes sensitive or high profile witnesses do have the option of going through. we were able to get some shots of that yesterday and that may be in use for some of the witnesses that we potentially could see over the course of the next few weeks testifying at this trial that could include murdoch, of course. the chairman of the fox corporation, lachlan murdoch, his son, suzanne scott, the current president of fox news, and, of course, the highest pr
about seven years ago. this has been under investigation for fin recent months this investigation has heated up. once again, we ve seen a parade of high profile witnesses. close associates, other former president going before the grand jury to testify and there was anticipation that this investigation was finally coming to an end. and sarah and john just reported appears the grand jury has voted to indict. now the district attorney has been under some pressure. he has been criticized for by some for not pursuing this more aggressively. and then when this investigation heated up again, some people questioned whether he should go ahead with this, arguing that this was not one of the more significant investigations the former president would face. clearly today, they moved forward with the grand jury to get an indictment as it has been explained to us by the da s office. what will happen next is that is expected to be filed under seal, and then they will have to negotiate a self surrender
might be called to testify and dominion voting systems right now. $1.6 billion lawsuit against fox news over their coverage of the 2020 election and what they said about dominion. there is some overlap both sides would actually like to hear from, including hosts like sean hannity took her carlson maria bartiromo. if the trial goes ahead, that s a big if it would begin soon. april 13th joining us now is cnn senior media reporter oliver darcy. obviously a big question about what they would hope to get out of these high profile witnesses. and you know the likelihood that they actually will be taking the stand. yeah. i mean, this is this is going to be it s shaping up to be a very high profile trial. you have some of the biggest stars over at fox news who dominion voting systems wants to call to the stand, and fox news has said they want to put on the stand, and those people include fox news ceo suzanne scott, the president of the network, jay wallace, and then a host, like sean hannity, t
same day that your former fixer shows up to talk to the grand jury. this is bad. again, the question for prosecutors is where they can believe they can prove these were improperly reimbursed to michael cohen. he facilitated the payment to stormy daniels. she s a key witness to talk about the hush money. was this done to help the campaign? then it can be charged differently. there are a lot of questions, poppy. this has been investigated for five years. and just in the past few weeks, we ve seen this parade of high profile witnesses. there were eight or nine witnesses. listen, his defense on television as we know him as the tv lawyer. you know this is all about politics, right? is he s talking about the politics and whether it will effect 2024. i this i a prosecutor would say, you know sh he s a very
involved. i think at some point, through this investigation, as we begin to speak to higher profile witnesses, i think some of the combativeness that we experienced meant that the da s team, as well, kind of started to pick our battles. and and when someone, for example, goes before the january 6th committee and says, they plead the fifth 200 times, do you really expect them to come before you and say something different? you know what i mean? so, it became a battle we did not need to fight when we could fight other battles and make way with those. did you personally want to hear from the former president? i wanted to hear from the former president, but honestly, i kind of wanted to subpoena the former president because i got to swear everybody in.