Its now 4 00 in new york. This Morning A Key chapter until the first ever criminal trial of an american expresident came to a close. The Testimony Phase of the people of the great state of new york vermont vs. Donald trump is over after the defense rested its case and trump in the end did not testify. Although just a few weeks ago, he said this, quote, im testifying. I tell the truth. Whatever that means. Happening right now in court, prosecutors and trumps Defense Attorneys are discussing the instructions that the judge will give to the jury. Its incredibly important. Where donald trump faces 34 Felony Charges for falsifying Business Records in order to conceal another crime. Well keep you posted on all of the updates out of those proceedings. We turn to the dramatic events this morning in court. Team trump resting its case, one was a paralegal and the other was the attorney robert cost tell la lo. Whatever credibility he had left after his outburst in court, the ones that resulted in
they say they will continue to investigate to enshire the data inappropriately accessed has been delete and is in no longer in possession of the sanders campaign. for their part, the sanders campaign says the dnc capitulated and reversed the decision. we have cnn reporter steven collington, wreaked those two statements, are we to believe this is over? i don t think it s over him i think as you say an unacy truce has been reached. hours before the next democratic debate. this would have oversha deed that debate. it allows parties to move onto the issues him i think this dispute was very interesting, it showed us something that has been boiling for a long time. there are a lot of resentment toward the leadership of the democratic national committee. they believe the committee has
marco rubio 11%, ben carson, 9%. more gop campaign events kick off soon in iowa, new hampshire, south carolina, georgia and alabama. i want to bring in cnn politics senior reporter, steven cullenson. first off, the rest of the republican field, steven, is stuck in the low single digits, all with 3% support or less. do you think that any of these candidates have a shot at catching up to trump s numbers, especially jeb bush coming off that pretty strong performance as he seemed to be the only person willing to take on donald trump? yeah, it s going to be very difficult. the way the election works, of course, it s not a national poll. it s state by state primaries and caucuses. that means the candidate can do well in a state and then sort of project themselves back into the national race. that s what jeb bush is hoping for. he s got four events today in new hampshire over a 12-hour period. really heating it up in his
get any old team in there. what s up? my producer said it besting bowl games are becoming the participation trophy of college football. it s supposed to be an exciting time, i don t know how i feel. there are 40 bowl games. that s a record. that means 80 teams. it s tough to find teams, in college, it was an honor, a fight to go to a bowl game. now there are three teams this year with losing records, nebraska, minnesota and san jose state. they re 5 and 7. they re playing tonight, that s in orlando. so it s another one of these balls that popped up this year t. questions i have is the sanctity of the bowl system ruined and are there too many bowl games? tweet us. use the hashtag new day cnn.
positives. he met with the terror victims in san bernardino. we ll talk to one of those members about the president s message. this is cnn breaking news. good morning, everyone, i m amara walker. i m victor blackwell. this deal that has been reached between bernie sanders and the dnc over access to a crucial voter database. this comes after tensions, we saw them, on live television friday, it started when dnc cut off sanders. saying they wrongly accessed information belonging to rival hillary clinton him they filed a lawsuit. early this morning, the two sides come to an agreement. this is an uneasy one the dnc says the sanders campaign met their demand, but in a statement