Ance to hello and welcome. To have you as joining us here in the United States and around the world. Im indicating k good to have you with us just ahead Opening Statements begin in a few hours in Donald Trumps historic Hush Money Trial. We now know who the first witness will likely be plus us aid package for ukraine is expected to clear the senate after passing in the house. For the ukrainian president worries time is not on their sayyed, they need weapons now and today is earth day de the support Environmental Protection efforts and raise awareness. Cnn speaks with a young up and coming meteorologist about what Climate Crisis could mean for her generation life from atlanta this is cnn newsroom with Lynda Kinkade we adjust hours away from Opening Statements in the first ever criminal trial of a former us President Donald Trump has pleaded not guilty to 34 Felony Counts because alleged role in a hushmoney scheme to conceal an affair with Adult Film Style Stormy Daniels trump has been ou
Today hey, im zachary cohn and washington and this is cnn hello, and welcome to have you as joining us here in the United States and all around the world. Im taking k, this is seen and users coming up Opening Statements will begin this morning in the historic criminal trial of donald trump. What to expect is the case against the former us president is put before a new york jury usaid package for ukraine is expected to get final passage in the senate. This weight. And ukraines president says there is no time to spam plus concerns for the safety of jewish students at new yorks Columbia University. Y rabbis calling for them to return home. As passive, it draws me up live from atlanta this is cnn news room with linda kinky we adjust hours away from Opening Statements in the first ever criminal trial of a former us president , donald trump has pleaded not guilty to 34 Felony Counts because alleged role in a Hush Money Scheme to conceal an affair with Adult Film Star Stormy Daniels each coun
Violated that order seven times, seen as Marshall Cohen hello, and joins me now so marshall, what can we expect . What are we going to be learning over the course the next few days as the historic trial gets underway. Yeah, heavy dose of history in new york city. This has this is an Election Interference case going back to 2016. Their indictment frames this as a scheme to falsify Business Records that Hush Money Payment to Stormy Daniels routed through Michael Cohen reimburse through the Trump Organization according to the prosecutors, they say that trump and his company basically cooked the books to hide this payment in violation of new york state law. A lot of legal experts are saying its a terrible idea for donald trump to take the stand that he would only hurt himself in doing so. But who else could we expect to see up there . Hes been sort of playing with some fire here in the last few days saying that he wants to do it. He did testify in some of those civil trials earlier this ye
Set. So marshall, this is a big day for the country, a big day in history. A lot of it, it was this wall be happening Behind Closed Doors with no cameras in the courtroom. But what can we expect . We wont see anything. We wont hear anything will be totally reliant on our colleagues in the room. They can provide realtime updates in writing and sketches. Of course, look, its been a long time coming. Here we are. Donald trump faces 34 felony counts. These are state charges. He cant pardon himself. If he is ultimately convicted. And the theory of the case is falsification of Business Records all about that. Hush money payment to Stormy Daniels how they use the ledger of the Trump Organization to funnel that money to Michael Cohen after the fact and the prosecutor say that it was essentially a cover up, cooking the books so a lot of the names, a lot of the people who are involved in this trial are quite familiar to anybody whos been following trumps travails for the past few years, who are
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