Livelihood depends on President Trumps destruction referring to cohen so that was all well in the courtroom. But then after court, when trump walked out and you could speak to the public, he said this about cohen what are they going to look at all the lives that gone . Good in the last row . He that joint line so he got caught lying pure lime well, im Insider Cohen firing back hey, Von Expletive in pants, your attacks of me, stink of desperation. We are all hoping that you take the stand in your defense. Lets public spat between a key witness and the defendant is remarkable in a court. And trump, of course, is under a gag order forbidden to speak about any witnesses in the trial. But this public brawl breaking out just hours before trump is back in court facetoface with the judge, juan merchan for hearing on gag order violations. He faces fines and of course, violations could ultimately put them in jail. So this is really serious stuff. And it comes as witnesses are already taking the
Antiisrael protestors upending some of americas elite university. Columbia has switched all of its main Campus Classes to what are called hybrid learning. For the rest of the semester. These hatefilled protests are spreading like wildfire. The fear among jewish students is growing as well. Im Harris Faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. This is america where you can say what is protected speech. This is america where you cannot threaten to kill people and get away with it. And threaten to put people in spaces where they cant have their freedom. That is not free speech. Antiisrael demonstrations and encampments have expanded to schools across america. This scene in reaction to arrests at New York University just last night. [shouting and chanting] harris there they are hating. Hating israel, and some of them chanting they stand with hamas. The blood thirsty raping, killers on october 7th on our streets in America Armed with flares and waving palestinian flags descending On Nypd He
Good day, everyone. Im Andrea Mitchell in new york along with my colleague and friend, Chris Jansing, as history is being made in that Lower Manhattan courtroom. Donald trump is the first former president of the United States to stand as a defendant in a criminal trial. At any moment, could be facing the first witness to testify against him. Thats expected to be former National Enquirer publisher, david pecker. Hes likely to be pressed about alleged efforts to bury damaging stories about donald trump during the 2016 election. Earlier this morning, prosecutors gave their open statement, accusing mr. Trump of a criminal conspiracy to hide embarrassing relationships by preventing them from getting into the press, thus influencing the outcome of the 2016 election then covering it all up. The defense followed saying that mr. Trump did not commit any crimes, describing him as not just the republican nominee, but as the frugal business man, also a husband and a father. Defense lawyer todd bla
Harris at this moment, former President Trumps criminal trial, the defense has wrapped up its Opening Statements to the jury. The nations 45th president , his lead attorney told jurors the former president is innocent. He claims trump committed no crimes and alvin bragg should never have brought this trial. On the other side, prosecutors called this Election Fraud and fullblown election conspiracy. These are all biden products. Everybody knows it. Im here instead of being able to be in pennsylvania and georgia and lots of other places campaigning. Its very unprepared. This is a witch hunt. It comes out of Washington In Coordination With washington, everything including the d. A. s office. Its in coordination with washington. I want people to understand that. This is done for purposes of hurting the opponent of the worst president in the history of our country. Harris youre watching outnumbered here with my cohost of Emily Compagno and kayleigh mcenany. Fox news contributor and the fede
I think it went very well. You heard it yourself, this is a case nobody wanted to bring. Looking back, it goes back many years, 2013 and before that. It is a case as to bookkeeping which is a very minor thing in terms of all the crime going on outside as we speak, right outside as we speak. This is a case where you pay a lawyer and they call it a Legal Expense. That is the exact term they use, Legal Expense, in the books. Another thing that was not even said is they never deducted it as a tax deduction. Most people want to deduct everything. [indiscernible] they call a payment to a lawyer a Legal Expense in the books. They called it a payment to a lawyer. He is a law your. Represented a lot of people over the years. I am not the only one. Was not very good in a lot of ways in terms of his representation pretty represented a lot of people. He puts in an invoice or whatever, a bill, and they pay it. They call it a Legal Expense. Nobody had been able to say what you are supposed to call i