Contentious day in court Stormy Daniels begin are detailing or alleged sexual encounter with donald trump and the Hush Money Payment to buy her silence Defense Attorneys please do note time hitting back during a very combative crossexaminatio n, Attacking Daniels credibility and prompting her to testify under oath that she hates trump and wants to see him held accountable for the next hour, well take you inside the courtroom from gavel to gavel will break down all of todays most Important Development and look ahead to whats next welcome to our viewers in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer with a Special Report in Situation Room the trump trial today our coverage begins tonight in new york, where the trump Hush Money Trial, just wrap for the day after the prosecution put one of its star witnesses on the stand, Stormy Daniels the alleged affair, the Hush Money Payments, and daniels credibility, all very much under the microscope for the jury first, lets go to see as
it out in the overflow room. it was definitely not cold, contrary to what donald trump likes to tell people that it s a, quote, icebox, i actually think we were all profusely sweating. but it could have been because there s just so much at stake. alex, malcolm, one of the brightest, brightest stars in pennsylvania. i m a huge fan. i m glad you got a chance to talk with him. he s a star. he s available in the 10:00 p.m. hour too, no, he s not, heist ours. he can hang out in our a block if you would like. we re not doing that tonight, my friend, but bless you for the suggestion. have a wonderful show.. thanks, alex. and today it s 421 days since donald trump was indicted on charges of falsifying business records to pay off porn star stormy daniels in an attempt to hide their affair in the final days of the 2016 election. and a 12-person jury of new york citizens began a historic process, deliberations to determine whether to convict a former u.s. president of any of
stormy daniels in an attempt to hide their affair in the final days of the 2016 election. and they began a historic process. deliberations to determine whether to convict a former u.s. president of any of the 34 felony counts. trump was at the courthouse today where he has been every day in his trial and where he must remain every day the jury deliberates his fate. here is how one court reporter captured trump after the jury left the courtroom. todd blanche appeared to gently shake trump awake. nudging his shoulder as the six alternated filed out of the the courtroom and he was the only person still sitting down. judge juan merchan handed the case over to the seven men and five women jurors with this charge. quote. it is not my responsibility to judge the evidence here. it is yours. you are the judges of the facts and you are responsible for deciding whether the defendant is guilty or not guilty. these 12 jurors are the quote judges of the facts. only they have the power to d
no reasonable probability of the jury reaching a unanimous decision in this case. therefore, i find that the jury is hopelessly deadlocked, and the court declares a mistrial. it turns out that the verdict was that there was no verdict, and, in fact, it was a hung jury. it was disheartening that it was a hung jury. everybody wants to see an ending to a good story, and there was no ending to this story. how deadlocked were they? how deadlocked do you have to be? when i first heard the jury hung, i believed not necessarily that they bought into the theory of abuse, but that they were unsure. and you know what? if they were unsure, they should have hung. let s just all thank our lucky stars they didn t acquit outright. one of the most interesting facts of the jury deliberations is that all of the women jurors, in both juries in the first
second accuser, deborah ramirez. he says she was totally inebriated, she s all messed up. he tried to destroy her credibility. i think it really comes down to the frog and the scorpion. it s his nature. i mean, this is what he does. you know, and the one thing about donald trump is that, you know, he never departs from who he is. i think dana makes an interesting point. that you never know exactly how this is going to play out. you know, i didn t prosecute sex crimes myself. but i knew a lot of prosecutors. and they said that women jurors were often very tough on women complainants. women jurors would often say, why did she go to the hotel room? or why did she drink too much? stuff that men were actually in certain circumstances reluctant to say. now, i don t pretend to know that that s how this will play out politically. but i think the simple calculus of, you know, women taking the accuser s side, it may not be