This is the story we are waiting to see former President Trump make comments as john just mentioned it is our understanding he will have a friday afternoon statement to make when he comes out as they get ready to head to the weekend after a very packed week at trial here in New York City right now the former assistant who has been with the Trump Organization for decades walked into the room took the stand moments ago as the former president as you know has been charged with faking Business Records to cover up a payment to porn star Stormy Daniels heading into the 26 elections, says he did nothing wrong and that he calls this the Clinical Trial to keep him off the Campaign Trail also making him late for another big event watch this. I want to start by wishing my wife molly a very happy birthday i wish to be with her but im in a Courthouse For Rig Trial To rig trial will be going there this evening after this case finishes up this horrible unconstitutional case. Martha we will have more
benefit, good point. looking ahead to monday. can you put yourself in the prosecutors shoes and tell us how you would craft opening statements? yes. so i think an opening statement is very powerful and important moment in the trial. in some ways, it s the most important moment at the trial. they ve obviously had some exposure to the jury pool because there was a volunteer process but it s the opening statement where the prosecution gets to set forth the basics of the case and the evidence that they re going to show and i think they want to resist being overly dramatic. they want to resist being histrionic. they want to be plain and simple. here. the fact here s what the evidence will show. and they also need to be careful not to over-promise they have some interesting witnesses that have been mentioned on your show in the last hour, including michael cohen it s unclear.& i probably believe in the minds of the prosecutors, it s unclear how smoothly that will go, both on direct exami
reporter: while she never mentioned depp, he asserts it got him booted from disney s pirates of the caribbean series. the defense implied there was abuse by depp in the marriage, playing this audio after an alleged fight. i was using the words that ms. heard was using. okay. but there was not an intentional head-butt. depp denied he ever struck any woman. and the cross-examination will continue on monday of johnny depp. he is still on the stand. but then his attorney should be able to have the chance to rehabilitate him in redirect examination. this is a six-week trial, attorneys said that the jury in court. it is the finishing of the
rittenhouse, it was pointed at him, and then rittenhouse, that is when he opened fire. you could start to sense that things were shifting in this case almost immediately after that. because even when the prosecution tried to rehabilitate him and did a redirect examination and were asking him about that, he admitted that he had the gun. and then the other issue was that the defense made a big issue is that he who had a handgun, did not have a license, a concealed license to carry a weapon. he was never charged. so there were all of these problems with the different witnesses that the prosecution brought into the case from, you know, the main person that was shot here was the first person that was shot, he was a problem for the prosecution because the defense did such a job of showing all of the chaos that night and the video certainly helped them point that out. shimon prokupecz, thank you very much. our thanks to sarah and adrianne as well. we ll check back with them.
0 18-year-old man. and we ve also seen protesters. but not a lot. a number of people who are there with signs, who were perhaps hoping for a different outcome here. but the jurors, they looked at the law, they looked at jury instructions, they reviewed several pieces of evidence as they were deliberating over the course of four days, 25 hours. not guilty on all charges. the end of the kyle rittenhouse trial. the news continues right now with alisyn camerota. hello, everyone, i m alisyn camerota. welcome to newsroom. victor is off. we do have breaking news. minutes ago a jury acquitted kyle rittenhouse on all counts. rittenhouse was 17 years old when he fatally shot two men and wounded a third with an ar-15 style rifle that he brought to racial justice protests in august of 2020. he was charged with homicide and reckless endangerment. he could have gotten a life sentence but will walk free today. rittenhouse took the stand during trial, testifying that he acted in self-defense. the