we start this hour of cnn news center with a touch of drama. the donald trump s civil fraud trial today in new york. his expert witness going after a lawyer for the new york attorney general. telling him, quote, you ought to be ashamed of yourself. some fireworks here. trump attending these proceedings to take a. a lot of attention on these. he is expected to take the stand next week as the final defense witness. cnn s kara scannell live for us outside of the court. tell us, kara, who is this expert witness for the defense? why did he get so upset? reporter: boris, breonna, this is an expert witness, the final expert witness that the trump team called on his defense. and accounting professor from new york university. professor eli bartov. he was asked questions, he had been testifying all morning on this. the lawyer for the attorney generals office subjected to one of the lines of questioning saying the accounting professor is not a banker, so he is not qualified to answe
Trying to set a stage, and visual actors to invade ukraine. gotten some pushback including from this man, mat leigh from the state department. what action are you talking about? one, the action i just pointed to. what action? the one you made an allegation that they might do that. have they actually done it? what we know, matt, is what we what i have just said, that they have engaged in this opportunity. hold on, please. let me let me let me this is like crisis actors? this is like alex jones territory. where is it? where is the classified information? i just delivered it. no, you made a series of allegations. would you like us to print out the topper? you will see a transcript of this believing that you can prinld out. that s not evidence, matt.
If you really want to dislike your government, you can look it up for yourself online. we can tell you ned price gets more nauseating as it goes on. it does make you wonder about the cia. where did they find them? the georgetown school, of course. we will play just one more portion of this exchange in which he flips the usual script and accuses him of sounding like a crazed conspiracy not. it s beautiful. watch. this is like crisis actors. this is like alex jones territory. what evidence do you have to support the idea that there is some propaganda in the making? this is derived from information known to the u.s. government, intelligence information that we have declassified. where is it? where is this information? where is the declassified information?
laura: finally someone in the press is getting tired of fentanyl press machine. longtime reporter matt finn exposed how flimsy the entire russian story is.ma listen closely. you can hear the states spokesman crying mommy. he told you a few weeks ago that we have information and russia has also proved operatives to a false flag eastern ukraine. this is like alex jones territory. what evidence do you have to p support the idea that there is some propaganda film in the