today >> hey, i'm zachary cohn and washington and this is cnn hello, and welcome to have you as joining us here in the united states and all around the world. i'm taking k, this is seen and users coming up opening statements will begin this morning in the historic criminal trial of donald trump. what to expect is the case against the former us president is put before a new york jury usaid package for ukraine is expected to get final passage in the senate. this weight. and ukraine's president says there is no time to spam plus concerns for the safety of jewish students at new york's columbia university. y rabbis calling for them to return home. as passive, it draws me up live from atlanta this is cnn news room with linda kinky we adjust hours away from opening statements in the first ever criminal trial of a former us president, donald trump has pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts because alleged role in a hush money scheme to conceal an affair with adult film star stormy daniels each count is punishable by up to four years in prison and a source tells cnn and the prosecution's first witness will likely be david. the former publisher of the national enquirer, who was said to be a key player in the hush money plot. seen as moshe cohen gives us a closer look at several of the potential witnesses what's finally here, opening statements are expected to begin monday morning in new york city, in former president donald trump's hush money criminal trial. >> this is, of course, the very first time in american history that a former president is standing trial for alleged crimes. this is all about a cover up in 2016, donald trump paid $130,000 too. stormy daniels, the adult film star, to prevent her from going public with allegations of an affair. he denies the affair. the alleged crime. the prosecutors theory of this case is all about the falsification of business records at the trump organization how trump org paid back michael cohen, trump's attorney at the time, paid him back for that hush money payment. according to the prosecutor's the trump organization and donald trump at the head falsified business records falsely suggesting that those were routine legal retainers and legal services when really it was a hush money payment intended to prevent the voters from learning about stormy daniels allegations? >> it's a novel legal theory that will be tested and under the microscope for perhaps the next six weeks. >> that's how long were expecting things to go. >> so opening statements are monday and eventually we will get into witness testimony and there is a big cast of characters that are expected to swear to tell the truth in front of the jury. >> michael cohen himself, in many ways is the star witness of this case his credibility will be crucial. there's also stormy daniels. she is expected to tell her side of the story. there's also hope hicks, a trump 2016 campaign official, karen mcdougal, who is a another woman who alleged and affair with donald trump. and then there's also david he was involved with the national enquirer or the tabloid that is central to this alleged scheme, according to the indictment. and cohen and trump met shortly after trump announced his campaign in 2015, and they all all agreed according to the prosecutor's, that they would quote unquote, catch and kill negative stories about trump. basically paying people off, buying their silence agreeing to purchase the rights to their story and burying it so that the voters would never learn of those allegations. and the voters did did not actually learn about the alleged stormy daniels affair until after the election after trump had made his way to the white house. so that's what we're expecting from opening statements. the prosecutors will be telling the jury their side of the story for the very first time. and of course, trump's defense attorneys have their own opportunity as well it all starts new york city monday morning marshall cohen, cnn, washington nauta via lunar as a criminal defense attorney and film in new york prosecutors, she joins us now from london. good to have you with us. >> thank you. >> so the first day of a criminal trial of a former us president trump, of course, challenged with three, felony counts of falsifying business records we know the opening statements will happen monday, both sides trying to lay out their case for the jury and preview any evidence what can we expect? >> so today it's gonna be very energizing day. i'm sure that both sides on pins and needles because they know that all eyes are walking them. but what we can expect today is the opening statements. and again, i say statement because it's not arguments. so the prosecution is going to be very limited in terms of what they said so the prosecution's going to lay out, set a preview of what they expect the evidence to show, tried to give a preview to this jury layout of how they're going to present the evidence, and then they'll remind the jury that they'll come back at the end of the case during closing arguments to argue how they prove the case beyond a couple doubt, the prosecution would go first, the defense will then have the option to give an opening statement by new york law. they're not required to give an opening statement, but assume in this case, of course, that they are going to give an opening statement. and they're going to be confined as the any arguments that they can make as well. >> of course, both sides have different narratives and it's the tail of who gives the best narrative for this jury. >> what i'm curious to see, who will be the first to witnesses that the prosecution calls because today it may be the right after opening statements that they call it first witness. >> and of course, as the list of witnesses, the list of players in this case is really trigging, say the late, so you have the former president and presidential candidate, a porn star, a playbook a former playboy model the national enquirer is former publisher. and of course, trump's former lawyer and fixer, who went to jail over the hush money payments. how soon do you think the first witness will be called? and who do you consider to be the style? and as for the prosecution well, the first witnesses today, given any delays that may occur, highly doubt that it will be able to delay till tomorrow. >> sorry, in terms of who's gonna be the star witness? yes. people say is michael cohen? yes. people stay is stormy daniels, but really the witness is going to be the documents. those are going to be the most important pieces of evidence. and the witness in this case against donald trump. and of course, michael cohen because michael cohen is going to lay out given narration as to why these documents are important, why the other witnesses are important and technically, at the end, all other witnesses are going to be corroborating what michael cohen says and eventually at closing arguments, the prosecutor is going to be able to argue, look, michael cohen, he said what he said. yes, he has his baggage, but he can be believed why? because six corroboration to show that he can be believed& will ask this jury to find a form. us president guilty of these 35, 34 counts of falsifying business records. >> we were just showing some of those people that who who could testify and we have heard reports that the former publisher of the national enquirer, david could be the first to testify and according to prosecutors, he's already admitted to running this, so called catch and kill scheme to help trump and include a paying sources not to tell negative stories and we do know that he has been granted immunity in exchange for his testimony what does that mean for his testimony? >> so in terms of david david was granted a non-prosecution agreement, so he came forward and gave information as to what happened between donald trump. i mean, so well, as what happened with michael cohen in that the reason why prosecutors do that is try to get essential information. prosecutors knew that in order to get to the bottom of this crime, they needed information from david. now that non-prosecution agreement that immunity agreement is going to allow david to get the full story of what actually happened without any repercussions of him possible we facing jail time, but instead he'll be able to lay everything out for the prosecution. still a concern for the defense because the defense is going to try to discredit him and argue to the jury later on that the reason that he's making a few slop is because he given a non-prosecution agreement until an order what are to avoid any kind of jail sentence as well. >> okay. to have you on the program, but nada via luna, thanks so much free time we can watch cnn's special coverage of the trump hush money trial monday at 9:00 a.m. in york. that's 2:00 p.m. in london republican congresswoman marjorie taylor greene is calling for us house speaker mike johnson's resignation after the house passed a $95 billion foreign aid package on saturday, greene says johnson has betrayed republican voters voters, and is threatening to call a vote for his ouster if he doesn't step down the georgia hardliner is one of at least three republicans who say they will support a move to oust johnson well then you aid package, which is expected to be approved by the us senate this week, includes $61 for ukraine. the ukrainian president is litinsky, is urging the us to move quickly to send weapons to the front lines as soon as possible. he says the country's preparing for a potential major russian offensive in the coming months. we're joining us now is cnn's clare sebastian alive from london. good to see you class. so ukraine has been waiting for this aid for six months. it's now expected to be approved by the senate here on tuesday, then send to the president's desk. but there is no time to spare really, what is ukraine's president saying well, linda, he's been saying really for most of this war that it's not just about the type of aid that's delivered. >> it's about the speed that it can get to the front lines. you'll remember last year he did partially blame delays in western weapons deliveries for the russia was able to dig in on those southern and eastern front lines eventually thwarting ukraine's attempted counter offensive. but right now, we see a mixture of very fulsome praise for the us and gratitude for having this vote having passed through the house with these calls for increased speed, i don't nbc's meet the press on sunday. he also had this to say this aid will strengthen ukraine and sand when is the permanent powerful signal that it will not be the second afghanistan's, the united states will stay with ukraine, will protect the cranium and they will protect the double attack democracy in the world won't become a second afghanistan, i don't think that is a throwaway comment. >> i think that was designed to get the attention of both the us and russia, given of course, how the us withdrawal or from afghanistan unfolded, the criticism that arose around the leadership role in the world. all of that, of course, just six months before russia invaded ukraine. interesting as well to note that the foreign ministry, the russian foreign ministry spokeswoman maria zakharova, also brought up the afghanistan issue in a press conference on sunday, suggesting the opposite, saying that the us, what she called hybrid war against russia will turn into the same loud and humiliating fiasco. she said, as it did in vietnam, and afghanistan. but when it comes to president zelenskyy, this was really a call to action. he's calling for long-range artillery. he's saying that the f-16s that were promised a year ago still haven't sterilized on the us. side, they are saying that speed is possible. the pentagon last week before this vote, saying that they can be ready to move within days. and senator mark warner, the head of the senate intelligence committee saying, on sunday on cbs that he hopes that ukraine, he said, we'll get atacms, those long-range missiles by the end of the week he's hoping for their sake. let's sebastian for us in london. thanks so much we'll lay this out. we'll have more on the impact is a could have in ukraine, you'll hear from the head of the human rights organization center for civil liberties, which won the nobel peace prize in 2022 let's do it a common scene in new his room america's top diplomat speaks with israel's defense minister about tensions in the region and the situation in gaza. that conversation coming up, as well as the potential israeli ground operation in rafah looming will have all the details and a live report i was born to live in the limelight, a psoriasis kept me in the shadows until i got cleaver skin with himself. >> most people got 100% clear skin i'm after the first dose serious side effects including suicidal thoughts and behavior infections, and lowered ability to fight them, liver 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minister and underscore the importance of de-escalating tensions in the region. the two also discussed efforts to protect israel's security, the need to boost aid to civilians in gaza and enable hostage negotiations. the fate of those hostages remain captive in gaza was the focus of a meeting of the israeli war cabinet sunday brian minister benjamin netanyahu is vowing to increase military pressure on hamas and land, quote additional and painful blows in an effort to free the hostages, still being held on this night, our hostages in hamas captivity stand before our eyes. their suffering and the suffering of their families break our hearts and only strengthen our determination to return them as israel prepares for its next moves in the war against hamas, palestinians in central gaza are digging through rubble and debris days after israeli forces ended military operations in the area of one refugee camp many there are and searching for personal belongings and mementos of their life before the war began. >> cnn's nic robertson reports like so many layers of paper, palestinian homes pancaked nuseirat, refugee neighborhood in central gaza demolished during a week long idf raid i add a layer which is this war threatened. >> see israeli army wedding dress store owner mohammad azra asks for something that this was his store before the attack. he says he opened it a year ago label stuff. i've put all my blood, sweat, and tears and money it's a building this business he says, now there is nothing this is an indescribable feeling. the push one button. and they ended our lives, i guess a value the idf destruction here as iran attacked israel, but the world worried about regional escalation israel's war in gaza though not missing an ugly beat this mother hauling her children's school books from the rubble, clinging to memories bravely, bitter about those the israeli military claims to target. >> how hamas's a wellness. >> i hate her mass first and foremost, she says don't cut my words, keep rolling they brought this on us. this is not jihad. this is not resistance. go resist at the border resist between the buildings and the people that destroying the people judgment of your denounced meanwhile, in raffa, where the idf says hamas brigades are still hiding strikes continue and despite us pressure, still no publicize plan of how to protect the 1.2 million palestinians living there ahead of an expected israeli assault at a rafah morgue wrapped in a single large body bag, an uncle brings the remains of several children who were among 12 of his relatives killed if a knight let's show buckets are thought they were children who had him. jama says, the youngest, three, four years old. when they got take revenge for them on israel, bombed hospital alone in milwaukee. >> the law alina, no one cares the suzan abu touha says, the israel is committing massacres while the world watches, look at what they've done. >> we can't find whole bodies, only bits of them won. more than 34,000 palestinians killed in gaza. now according to the health ministry, irrespective of who they blame, all here, feeling helpless to hold back the seemingly inevitable idf offensive and raffa over the past week, the idf calling up to reserve brigades for operational activities in raffa, and on thursday to senior israeli officials briefed president biden's national security adviser on that planning, which until now at least has not satisfied the white house. but civilians will be safe nic robertson cnn jerusalem well, for more seen as not a bashir is filling developments and joins us live from london, gadaffi with this, not as a as if the assault of gaza wasn't painful enough. >> israel's prime minister has promised more painful blows plus an increase in political and military pressure. what does that mean? and what does it mean for the population there that has already saying the death toll rises to over 34,000 people people of course dying, not just from attacks, but also now disease and starvation i mean, the destruction is hard to put into words and the idea that we could see an intensification is certainly concerning to say the least. >> now of course, for weeks now, the israeli government has been warning of an operation, a ground operation in rafah important to remember, of course, that more than 1 million people now concentrated in this southern border city, which has proven to be a crucial gateway to allow aid into the gaza strip. and of course, there has been widespread condemnation and warnings from members of the international community against such an operation. and we heard last week from g7 leaders issuing a joint statement condemning plans for a ground operation in rafah that has been the message from the united nations and multiple other aid organizations. and of course, there has been concern expressed by the biden administration question, on last week, us national security adviser jake sullivan convened a meeting of both israeli and us officials. and while the biden administration has said, it stands with israel in its intention and objective to rid the southern cities, including rafat of hamas militants. they cannot stand by if there our risks being posted. some videos that they have raised concerns and according to a statement from biden administration, israeli officials have agreed to consider those concerns. and of course, as we've heard multiple times in the past, either biden administration has said it will not be able to support a ground operation until it has received credible plans for the safety protection of civilians in an offer, we know of course that israeli officials in the israeli military have suggested pans to evacuate civilians from rafah that's certainly hasn't taken place yet, at least on an official level, and we certainly haven't seen any credible plans for how the more than 1 million civilians in this southern city would be protected what we are seeing now is civilians taking it upon themselves to fleet are five because of the fear of an impending ground operation. again, important to underscore, we are talking about a ground operation here. what we have continued to see now for months, now is airstrikes on areas of rafah, civilians being killed as a result of these air strikes according to parsing officials on the ground. so this would be an intensification of the situation in the southern city and many civilians fearing that intensification have began to flee to parts of central and northern gaza. >> these are areas in gaza which have been almost entirely destroyed, returning to areas where there is still heavy airstrikes, heavy clashes on the ground, and where their homes have been turned to rubble. >> and as we know getting aid into gaza as a whole has proven extremely difficult, but particularly in these parts of central and northern gaza where now some civilians are attempting to flee. when of course, someone 0.7 million palestinians are displaced. and what we've been hearing from the un's humanitarian office is that not only are they struggling to get aid in, are only are they still facing obstructions? and the various land border crossings to get aid in. but it is still proving it almost impossible to get aid to some parts of northern and central gaza, where of course, as we know, more than 1 million people are facing acute levels of starvation not a shift first joining us from london. thanks very much when you developments out of jerusalem, this outlet where police say three people were mildly injured in what they're calling a ramming terror attack. and just hours ago is really police say a vehicle ran through a straight hitting three pedestrians one of those injured is set to be a 15-year-old boy. police say to people emerged from the car holding weapons, but got rid of them and fled the scene on foot. so to come president biden is denouncing antisemitism on college campuses. details of his message out of the passive, a holiday plus 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peaceful. we follow the footsteps of the civil rights and anti-war movements in our quest for liberation meantime, columbia university is tightening security for passover pro-palestinian protests continue, their, the university says police will be present during passover celebrations monday and the campus public safety department will provide walking escorts a rabbi associated with the college is urging jewish students to return home and the university has announced that students can attend classes virtually starting monday new york governor kathy hochul posted on x that threatening jewish students with violence is antisemitism here's what some jewish students are saying i consider myself a very brave person. >> well, but i won't deny that i've been physically intimidated and harassed and so i want to say like safe is a mindset. i feel safe when i'm around my jewish peers who create a safe space. but in general, the campus feels extremely hostile you'll reasonably safe. >> they have since october 7 i do think that protests could very easily escalate i've felt why this is not a welcoming environment. >> i think it's very difficult time for a lot of jewish students will seen as polo sandoval has been following the developments at columbia university and has the details all weekend long. >> we have seen demonstrations supporting the palestinian people, both on and off the columbia university campus here in manhattan behind me, the one that's actually off-campus. students able to only make their way up to the fence as the campus itself remains restricted with access only allowed for students and staff because of these ongoing demonstrations on campus, there is still what's referred to as the gaza solidarity encampment that continues to grow should have people that have been gathering on the campus south lawn. would that unified message with those protesters on the outside of the campus calling on columbia university to divest from companies with israeli connections. the question now though, is exactly how long those protesters will be allowed to remain on the columbia university given that it was just a few days ago that university officials called on the nypd to make their way onto campus to clear out that in cabinet which resulted in well over 100 but arrests and some students suspensions question is, are we bound to see that yet again, over the weekend, i had an opportunity visit that in cabinet and things were peaceful as security looked on and really university officials, not really intervening at this point up, but also over the weekend, a separate vein in which certain now growing concerns among jewish students at some jewish students attending columbia being university. many of them saying that they feel unsafe coming to school because of these ongoing pro-palestinian protests. so much so that rabbi elie buechler with columbia university's orthodox union jewish learning initiative reached out on sunday morning to well-over 300 jewish students saying that it is best they simply stay home until the cullum university of ipd do more to make sure that they feel safe now, the university for its part, released a statement over the weekend saying that they are acting team on these concerns and they also added that students do have the right to protest on campus, so long as those some australians do not interfere with campus operations. and also so that they do not intimidate any of their fellow students polo sandoval, cnn, new york the us house of representatives passed a crucial $95 billion foreign aid package saturday. >> it's now headed to the senate and is expected to be approved this week. the bill includes 61 billion in dollars for ukraine and ukrainian president zelenskyy is urging the us to send weapons to the front lines as soon as possible. he says it will help make ukrainians have some gains on the battlefield, which of course has been dominated by russia for months what joining us now is alexandra mosfet yolk. she heads the human rights organizations center of his civil liberties, which won the nobel peace prize in 2022, alexandra, thanks for joining us thank you for invitation. you want an honest speaking to her across the us, lobbying for these aid for ukraine. what was your reaction when you heard the house and voted on these 61 billion in aid for ukraine i heard two public lectures, public discussions, meeting with people in different parts of the country. and i always face a variable unwelcome. or when the ray to bring your own story for freedom and for human dignity is very understandable for people in united states. and this reflect the sociological polls majority of people in united states support ukraine and of course that amounts $61 billion is almost as much as what the us has given ukraine in aids since this war began what does it mean to ukraine in real terms on the battlefield? it means that this support of united states will save sows and cells in south and thousands of lives. it also means that we will be able to stop a russian offensive. and this means for me as a human rights lawyer, that we will have less war crimes which russia committed in occupied territories there of course, for plenty of lawmakers, mostly far right republicans who did not want to sell more aid to ukraine what case did you have to make it to get those lawmakers and lobbyists to support this i'm not very familiar with american politics rights lawyer, but speaker johnson have to fulfill the avail of people if united states of america, he had just two did his job and of course you work with the santa fe civil liberties& that work has meant documenting human rights abuses amid russia's invasion of ukraine what do you want the world to know about what you've found? >> just recently, led demille putin once again, repeat his genocidal claimed in interview to tucker carlson that ukrainians are not exist, that there is no ukrainian nation, there is no ukrainian language, there is no ukrainian culture and a week for ten years documenting of this words transferred in the horrible practice in the ground when russian troops deliberately liquidate active local people, destroyed ukrainian cultural heritage, forcibly deported ukrainian children to russia in order to bring them up as russians so we have no other chance if the stop fighting they will be normal. us and of course, we heard from the cia director last week who, who won that without this aid, ukraine could lose the water. >> russia this year. what's your reaction to that assessment and what else is needed to turn the tide of this war? >> i think so too. we have to define issues properly because if ukraine will not be able to stop putin in ukraine, which and we'll go further. so this is not a question about ukraine this is a question about security of europe, and this is a question also whether or not united states will be obliged to send their people to fight here in this region and to pay the highest price, which we can just imagine, the price of human lives i like sandra might virtue ago. we appreciate your time today thanks so much for joining us as part of that wide-ranging aid package for ukraine. a bill that could ban tiktok has also headed to the senate for approval the nouvelle gives tiktok nine months out from a previous six to separate from its current chinese parent company bytedance. the social media app is seen as a national security risk by many in congress. so if the senate approves the and president joe biden signs it, tiktok could be forced to find a new owner or be banned entirely from the us seen as max2, it is following the developments and joins us from beijing. good to see you mark. so there's been so much scrutiny of tiktokker here in the united states. the company saying that any bank would trample free speech. is there any indication from the chinese government about what they would like to see happen next? >> as a question, linda. and at this point, there has been no direct response to this latest action by us lawmakers from beijing in the last hour or so, i china's ministry of foreign affairs held its daily briefing. the tiktok question is not one that came up, but what i can tell you that based off of past responses, china does not look kindly on the idea of being told by american lawmakers about what to do with a chinese platform. now, tiktok, according to its ceo, is not owned or controlled by the chinese government but it's parent company, bytedance is required by law to have a committee of communist party members within its organization. and there are meeting. so there's no question that the government has some kind of influence and in the past the government has expressed reservations about this required sale one phrase that has come up in the past is this idea of exporting technology. and what is meant by that is tiktoks al algorithm, which is seen as extremely valuable and an algorithm is is a way of getting insight into what people may be thinking and what they want just see it's this technical tool that has become so important in social media. so if this is a deal that goes through at least by lawmakers, proposing a sale you know, it's it's it's something that will likely be met with a lot of reservation from china. so we'll have to see what happens could be a very long legal rohde already we have heard expressions that there would be some kind of blockade to take place so that's something we're going to have to see. this particular moment. beijing is not giving any direct response, at least just geoff we'll have to see what happens. linda in the days ahead as this moves through the congressional process? >> yeah, exactly. it's interesting some say 10:00 a.m. get a taste of its own medicine given that for such a long time, it's banned american opposite. it's country. so what makes this development notable? >> right? it's interesting living here in china. >> popular apps that that americans use every day, like google, like instagram, like facebook, like ex, even youtube are all blocked.& so there is this juxtaposition, this contrast that is being in a thrown back and forth. >> i mean, i think one question that needs to that needs to be answered is china willing to part ways with the american market? it already has a similar app. bytedance has a similar app in china, not named tiktok but basically the same principle. and of course this is a market with one good point billion people so the question is, is china is the government, is this company willing to part ways with its american presence? that's something we're going to have to see. >> interesting mike stuart first invasion, good to have you with us. thank you. well, i want to update you now in a story we reported earlier, south korea's joint chiefs of staff now say north korea fired multiple short range missiles, less than two hours ago reports some south korea and japan. so the missiles were fired into the waters off the east coast of the 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