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weekend weekend, every embracing for what s gonna happen this week. you ready for this week? we are expecting a very busy one. so let s get started with five things to know for this monday, april 3rd 2023 donald trump. set to arrive in new york today ahead of his arraignment tomorrow. trump facing more than 30 counts related to business fraud. also former arkansas governor asa hutchinson says he is now running for president. the former governor says that he has already also calling on trump to step out of the race. meanwhile, oil prices spiking overnight after opec plus announced a surprise cut in production. by the administration, slamming the move in their response. also this morning, nasa set to announce the astronauts chosen for it are two mission. it will be the first manned space flight around the moon in 50 years and go so tigers g e a u x the way we spell it in louisiana, by the way, all shoes women s basketball team as we say, lady tigers, if you re from louisi ....
welcome to a special edition of cnn news central. i m brianna keilar with boris sanchez. we are tracking donald trump s historic and chaotic testimony in his new york civil fraud trial. right now the former president testifying in his own defense in the face of a massive broad case. he s been under oath for more than three hours today, and he s spent much of that time railing against the judge. and that is remarkable, because the fate of trump s company is in that judge s hands. there s no jury in this case. and judge arthur engoron already found trump liable for fraud so this determines the penalties, what the fraud will cost trump. that could mean the judge will strip the trump organization of its certificate. let s take you live outside the courthouse with cnn s paula reid. what is the latest coming out of the courtroom? reporter: in past few moments the assistant attorney general questioning trump has focused on questions about his net worth. at the heart of t ....
Perspective on what s happening, especially here in new york city and senior legal analyst and former assistant u. s attorney for the southern district of new york. mr elie honig joins us now and we should point out that he also knows manhattan, d. alvin bragg. personally here, so we just want to disclose that l a good morning to you. let s start with new york indictment. what we re going to see this week. what are we learning about the charges that he might be facing basically what s in the indictment? right so we have not seen the indictment yet, but we re getting really important indicators that give us a sense of what could be in their first of all, don. on friday, the judge in this case issued the first official order in the case. basically just saying alvin bragg, the d a. can disclose that there s an indictment. it will be unsealed on tuesday. but this was really important moment because we saw for the first time. the case caption. people of the state of new york against donald ....
Think during his confirmation hearings to be chief justice he promised judicial restraint, judicial humility, trying to see things as accurately and apolitical as possible and those that worked for him saw that in him and took a lot of heat, frankly, from the left when we said good things about him, and low and behold, i think that s what you have here. i don t want to say, you know, you could view this decision in lots of different ways, but the one really important thing about the decision is it s really an apolitical decision, i mean, the chief justice did what i always teach my law students (- ur which is pretend the parties are reversed and think like a lawyer and say, you know, who should win this case regardless of who the party is, who s on what side of the v in the case caption, and that s what he did here, it s a good model to be celebrated. in terms of the, i guess, political view of the court and ....
Things as accurately and apolitical as possible and those that worked for him saw that in him and took a lot of heat, frankly, from the left when we said good things about him, and low and behold, i think that s what you have here. i don t want to say, you know, you could view this decision in lots of different ways, but the one really important thing about the decision is it s really an apolitical decision, i mean, the chief justice did what i always teach my law students to do, which is pretend the parties are reversed and think like a lawyer and say, you know, who should win this case regardless of who the party is, who s on what side of the v in the case caption, and that s what he did here, it s a good model to be celebrated. in terms of the, i guess, political view of the court and the heat that flies from left to right and right to left around decisions like this, the right is going nuts today denouncing justice roberts as a traitor and worse. i just wonder if there is you ....