show powering progress this is cnn the world s news we re back with more on the former president s hush money trial back with me, stacy schneider, a manhattan criminal defense attorney, and jeremy saland, a former prosecutor in the manhattan district attorney s office. our guys, looking ahead to monday this weekend, stacy, if you re on the former president s defense team what are you doing to prepare well, i know what my defense is if i m on the president s defense team and the defense is that i have to point out to the jury that michael cohen is convicted felon. that s trump s former attorney who s pled guilty in federal court. and served a three-year jail sentence involving this alleged scheme so i m going to open up probably on michael cohen who the elephant in the room. and give the jury an opinion about how awful he is. the next thing i m going to do is open up and
this day forever. i want to focus in here about the violence. that s trump s enthusiasm for the people who are beating some of these officers to death, violence described by combat veterans as worse than anything they saw in combat. you ve also got the jeffrey clark note about the insurrection, and you ve got a reference to john eastman s indifference to violence. he was the one that directed at mike pence the pre-january 6th, pre-coup sort of ideological match. what do you think trump s appetite is around the violence here? one more piece that s definitely new because it clearly was coming from people who were not able to speak to or they could have spoken to but were not speaking to the january 6th committee, which was just
prosecuted in us history. a man who tore up the rulebook now faces the rulebook being thrown at him. he sat in court as the 37judges were read out at him. he sat in court as the 37 judges were read out full of it is alleged he kept us government secrets in a shower, bathroom, ballroom, and bedroom of his mar a lago estate. he pleaded not guilty. of his mar-a-lago estate. he pleaded not guilty. pleaded not guilty. donald] trump- pleaded not guilty. donald] trump. outside pleaded not guilty. donald] trump. outside court, - pleaded not guilty. donald] trump. outside court, hisj trump. outside court, his la er trump. outside court, his lawyer repeated trump. outside court, his lawyer repeated from s - trump. outside court, his lawyer repeated from s lies| lawyer repeated from s lies that this was a political witch hunt. that this was a political witch-hunt. that this was a political witch-hunt. ~ . , , ., witch-hunt. what is being done to the president witch-hunt. what is being
to another trump-appointed judge, and the question is how much does she want to be humiliated? chuck asked the right question. has she learned? we will see. any bad ruling will be reversed by the 11th circuit. the only thing here, let s just say that somebody wanted to drag this case out to benefit donald trump, that is one thing completely in her power. that s what donald trump wants. yeah, jack smith filed this case in south florida, and in part because he wanted it to be expedited. he wanted to eliminate trump s arguments it s the wrong venue and tried to avoid the delays. he got judge cannon, and yes, she could grant the extensions and delays, and that s trump s strategy. i m not worried she will dismiss the case. the 11th circuit has shown they will not only reverse her, but they are quick to act.
filing with 11 people and i was like that scans in a nation with 30 million people. i think the rest of the folks are like i don t need to go through every book in my kid s library. please make me less involved. enough e-mails. that s for another show. thank you, chris, as always. and thanks to you at home for joining us this evening. today for only the second time in american history a former president appeared in court as a criminal defendant. now, the first time was last month when donald trump was arraigned on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the manhattan district attorney s case against him. and now today mr. trump appeared in that courtroom again virtually by videoconference from mar-a-lago. the reason for this hearing was that the judge in this case needed to explain to former president trump why he is not allowed to post any of the evidence from this case on social media. which seems like it was probably quite necessary because donald