Is your job and thank you all so much for joining us. This is seen under central as johnson said its metal coverage of the trump trial starts right now, this was Cnn News Central us federal a live view of the criminal courthouse here in manhattan, where we are told doctors legal team will be on a mission today, zeroing in on Michael Cohens admitted and allege lies before president and all it is on his way to the courthouse right now is the defenses preparing to up where it left off, grilling trumps longtime fixer. You can see them there waving to the cameras as he gets into his motorcade. Over the last 24 hours, trumps legal team its been preparing for this moment for colins returned to the Witness Stand. Im told and plotting their strategy to undermine the prosecutions star witness. The question is whether they can the jury, but also their client im Kaitlan Collins here in new york. Object. Saverin, washington dc. Youre watching special seen in live coverage of former president Donald
politics. so the first part of your statement i would agree with. the finish, i would disagree with, and here s why. so the fisa process is unique. it s not like any other court hearing. it s not like each side advocates for themselves. in the fisa process, it s just the government going to the court, asking them if there is probable cause to believe that the target of the application is an agent of a foreign power. the court has only the fbi s information to rely upon. so it is incumbent upon us to provide all of the derogatory information that would basically argue that the person but they didn t. and mitigating information. so if we have mitigating information that cuts against the argument, we re supposed to provide that as well. in this case we didn t, and shame on us. that was a mistake. he doesn t get to that in here. he says the answers he was offered were unsatisfying, but they re all admitted, admitted, admitt admitted. cia, says this guy, we find him to be credible
was up to because she links to something else? what have they used the rational for not releasing them. they say it is not specific enough and there is a debate over whether the new information that came to light about the rule making and if lois lerner wrote the proposed rules, it is very damaging. she took the fifth and now they say the rules in effect and admitt admitted wrongdoing. and all of the pieces of legislation that are voted on this week including today all relate back to lois lerner. the idea is how involved is she? who are they protecting and what information are they protecting and what is the interest of the irs other than just getting it out there. obviously we ll follow the story and see what develops this