trump testify. i'm michael smerconish in philadelphia. opening statements come monday morning. in the first ever criminal prosecution of an american president, donald trump has said multiple times that he will take the stand a week ago, friday at mar-a-lago, he was asked by reporters there's whether he would testify testifying. i tell the truth. i mean, all i can do is tell the truth and the truth is that there's no case they have no case he repeated that plan yesterday outside the new york city courthouse where he's being tried. of course, just because he says he will testify, doesn't make it. so it's not required to testify in his civil fraud trial last year. he said the same thing before he was scheduled to take the stand for a second time, only to cancel the day before yesterday at his so-called sandoval hearing, trump was put on notice of the prosecution's desire to cross-examine him. if he does testify on several specific matters, including the