The United States, donald trump. The prosecutions main message that donald trump and his allies were involved in a criminal conspiracy and cover up. Cnns paula reid is outside the courthouse paula, how did the prosecution and the defense leg out their cases today before the jury . Well dig we heard doing interpretations of events roughly eight years ago. Prosecutors said, look, this is Election Interference, plain and simple they alleged that these payments to Stormy Daniels were part of a conspiracy to influence the 2016 election then they walked through stepbystep, how they allege trump cohen and then publisher the National Enquirer, david worked to suppress negative stories. And then in the Opening Statement, they briefly referenced the paper trail that will be at the heart of this case. But when it was time for Defense Attorneys to get up, they insisted their client is innocent. They said, look, there is no crime here because trump wasnt involved in this kind of paperwork. He is no
Former Tabloid Publisher david well be back with wolf blitzer in situation breaking news tonight, The Trump Trial Testimony Begins and the official transcript was just released for the next hour. Well take you inside the courtroom from gavel to gavel. As this historic hush money criminal case unfolds the prosecutions first key witness takes the stand after both sides start to lay out their cases in Opening Statements are reporters and experts are standing by to break down all of todays most important developments and look ahead to whats next. Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and arnd the world. Im wolf blitzer with a Special Report in this Room Trump Trial today lets get right to the breaking news on the Opening Statements and testimony in the first criminal trial of a former president of the United States, donald trump. At the Defense Table as prosecutors and his lawyers began cutting to the heart of the hushmoney case against him cnns Kara Scannell is joining us live