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south without today welcome back to our special coverage of donald trump s manhattan hush money trial. it is the first criminal trial el of a former president i m erin burnett outside the courthouse in new york and wolf blitzer, of course is with me from our nation s capital today. so far the judge i just heard heated arguments over evidence and trump s social media posts as the former president was seated with his defense attorneys, he s been in the room all morning. trump facing 34 felony counts of falsifying business records stemming from payments that were made to adult film star stormy daniels payments allegedly made to stop her from speaking publicly about their alleged affair prosecutors say the six-figure sum was part of an illegal scheme to hide damaging information from voters in 2016, it is the motive and that reason that is at the heart of this case trump leads not guilty. and in moments, courts will, the court will reconvene. there s been a lunch brea ....