Everyone. Thank you so much for joining me. Im fredricka whitfield. All right. Were less than 24 hours away now from witness singh history tomorrow, Opening Statements began and the trial of defendant donald trump, the first former president ever to be on trial. For criminal charges. Trump well, Walk Into A Manhattan courtroom tomorrow morning, where he will hear the states case against him. He is facing dozens of charges related to an alleged Hush Money Payment to Adult Film Actress Stormy Daniels made before the 2016 election this is the first of four criminal cases against trump to go to trial. 12 jurors and six alternates will decide trumps fate. Heres cnns brian todd ready to empaneled jurors have been excused from former president trumps Hush Money Trial, underscoring just how crucial the six alternate jurors are, whove just been seated in a case of this length in a highprofile case, the alternates are as significant as the regular jury panel, because theres a very high likelihoo
violations that are alleged by the prosecutor. and this is criminal contempt not civil contempt. civil contempt basically is, you have not comply with an order because you just haven t done something and usually comes up and divorce cases where one spouse highs the assets of another and the judge has produced the money and the person says, no, the judge locks up the person until the person says this is where i put the money. so basically in civil contempt, the person has the key holds the key to the jail cell. all they have to do is give up the information criminal is different. the act has been done. so the allegation here and criminal is that he has violated the gag order ten times by posting on social media and posting on his website. so this is out of the hearing of the jury. it is a criminal proceeding. the prosecutor has to prove each violation beyond a reasonable doubt, and actually, if the defendant also has a