Doh spicer. All right, so, the white house used to claim that the president s tweets are not just idle opinionating, theyre official statements with the power of the white house behind him. How many times have people working for the president said the president s tweet speaks for itself or words to that effect . Except for todays tweet. That apparently doesnt speak for itself. That needs a spokesperson and a tv lawyer speaking for it, sweeping up after it, quietly trying to wipe it off the bottom of their shoes. When the president of the United States says that one of his subordinates should do something and do it now, how is that just one guys opinion . It all smacks of another effort that was made recently to suggest that the president didnt really say what everyone heard him say. And a key sentence in my remarks, i said the word would instead of wouldnt. The sentence should have been, i dont see any reason why i wouldnt, or why it wouldnt be russia. Sort of a double negative. That a
some of those text messages to get her to knowledge that a lot of the text messages that the prosecution has are for months before and after the purchase of the gun, meaning that on the day that he went to the to buy that gun in 2018, prosecution doesn t really have any evidence to show that he was on drugs that deck and that s the key part of the defense argument today. we re going to hear from hunter biden s ex-wife, catherine bill. we expect her to make her first appearance i later this morning, jon and i think that s one of the three x s that we re going to hear from again, driving home, the point about his struggle with addiction alright, this will be something to see today. evan perez. thank you so much for that. were forced and joining us now, a cnn legal analyst and former federal prosecutor, jennifer rodgers, jen i i liked how you framed it as yesterday, wrapped in terms of the opening statements, you say it s an
Minds that he did this. They presented it as both as a serious case and an open and shut case. I say that, the Platonic Ideal of every argument. The Defense Side was much more baroque, a digression from Todd Blanche about how youll hear us describe him as president trump. That was a title he earned. He was running the country. He kept going back to things like that. After the judge instructed the jurors that the defense does not have to prove the innocence of donald trump, they just need to make sure the prosecution doesnt prove without a reasonable doubt that he did it, blanche, in fact, advanced a whole counterfactual. Those invoices from Michael Cohen were really about a legal retainer for his legal services, and there was no sexual
women, and their opinions of the former president barry, it was interesting to see again, this is a very high profile case with a very high defendants can everybody knows who donald trump is. you had some people saying they didn t like his persona. they thought that he was a selfish person. you d other people saying they thought it was interesting that they had read part of the deal. so again, how all of this plays out will be very interesting, particularly given who the defendant is and the fact that this is the first criminal trial of a former president in us history, john. and they re also use this issue of what donald trump continues to say and post while not in the courtroom itself. and the judge keeps saying, we re going to bring this up in a hearing now that hearing is moved earlier, what s exactly going on here this is all about that gag order and what we have heard donald trump s say time and time again. and really, this goes to the fact that the prosecution doesn t have t
are part of the conspiracy do you see or hear any pressure on all or some of these people to make a deal, to get a more lenient sentence? griff: an enormous amount of pressure. i m not a lawyer but covered a lot of cases. it s very routine that the prosecution doesn t same the co-conspirator in hopes they know who they are and then they contact them and say how, do you want to testify and then become part of it. that s standard thing that we see a lot, so it is very likely that some of these co-conspirators that we believe we know who they are, may be given an opportunity to cooperate in the prosecution of trump and then there s people that are not on the list of the co-conspirators we think we know who might also be cooperating, so a lot of things in play here. howie: according to the indictment, on the morning of january 6, co-conspirator joined co-conspirator two and told the crowd that mike pence said no, no, no, should block the electoral results. do you know who those two are?