Joining us, msnbcs Yasmin Vossoughian outside the courthouse. Temidayo agangawilliams, a former prosecuor and Defense Attorney caroline pull lisi. Yasmin, Jury Instrekss under way right now. Whats going on . Jury instructions under way ahead of Opening Statements, jose and ana. 45 minutes for the prosecution, 25 minutes for the defense. Theyre doing that because theres going to be a lot of details, much of a timeline, a lot of dates and they dont want to overwhelm the jury in the Opening Statements process. Judgments made from the bench that i want to talk about with you quickly, first, when it comes to the evidence if, in fact, the former president decides to testify, judge juan merchan is allowing six various cases to be decided if donald trump it was. Talking about the trump payroll judgment, the trump civil fraud gag orders as well along with e. Jean carol assault case and the defamation case. A couple more things happening in court this morning. The former president spoke about ho
And Donald Trump with the prosecutors are looking to outline to The Jury is that he was made aware from Michael Cohen and the editor in chief of the National Enquirer that an additional woman, Stormy Daniels had a story that she wanted to be published and sell, and the National Enquirer was in discussions with Stormy Daniels about potentially being the one to buy her story. But in the intervening days, the prosecution says, that Michael Cohen was put in touch via the national inquirer with Stormy Daniels and her attorney, and that is when the 130,000 payment was arranged. We want to be very clear what is significant in the last two minutes about this is is that the prosecution is explicitly telling The Jury they will present to them in the upcoming weeks that Donald Trump was intimately aware of the stormy Daniels Story in October Of 2016 and the payment to silence her from having that story go public. Vaughn hillyard, thank you very much