Does take the stand, prosecutors want to bring up his past legal issues, including the $355 million civil fraud judgment against him the e jean carroll defamation case. it s costing him what, 91 million and a lawsuit trump filed against hillary clinton that was dismissed for being frivolous and in bad faith, which they want to use to what they call impeach his credibility. and the judge says a hill, announce his decision whether any or all or even more of that might come in on monday. that s all happening as the prosecution today offered to provide the name of monday s first witness to trump s legal team? but not until sunday morning, quote. if that should be tweeted, that will be the last time we provide a courtesy i want to bring in, cnn senior legal analyst and former assistant us attorney for the southern district of new york, elie
The judge, with a some of the attorneys excuse those jurors. uh, but now that we have the full set of alternatives and the 12 jurors that were selected yesterday, the judge told all the jurists before and i see them today to be ready to go on monday and then we ll have opening statements in this case. so certainly a historic moment having the full panel of jurors now seated two here former president trump s first criminal trial related to the falsified documents this afternoon after the lunch break, the judge is going to take up what s known as the sandoval hearing and that is the hearing where they will discuss the scope of the cross-examination if donald trump does choose to testify, and that means whether the prosecution can ask them about certain pass legal acts that includes a number of these verdicts and judgments against trump, including the e jean carroll defamation case and the civil fraud judgment. that way as handed down earlier this year, that will all be discussed this aft
Involvement in the legal system. i think the judge would want a cabin that to some degree alayna, as you know, trump has said, he is more than ready to testify in this upcoming trial, but he said that in the past that he is willing to testify before various forums, but he never did what do you think they ll say? well, he did testify a couple of times, very briefly, once in his civil fraud case that care was just breaking down as well as very briefly in the e jean carroll defamation trial, both times he really gave his political lines saying that this is a witch-hunt kind of campaign from the stand. but you re totally right whilst that a lot of times he says he wants to testify and then just, you know, he he doesn t end up doing so because his lawyers tell him that might not really be a good idea. i think they re telling him that in this case as well, especially now that they re seeing what prosecutors may want to ask him, and i think look from donald trump s standpoint and just hav
Wants to be able to get up there, defend himself, say that this is a sham trial which is exactly what he s been saying when he goes in and out of the courts to the cameras, however, there are a lot of potential landmines he could step on if he does take the stand and i know that those are things that his team is telling him particularly with this gag order in place. it says, well, and so we ll see whether or not he ultimately ends up doing so. if he does, i imagined only be very breached as he will testify. let s see if he actually does audie. what do you what think you think he will? i think reporters so far have been describing a very different trump inside the court versus the one who comes out and speaks to everybody and tries to it s been the de also to your point and that e jean carroll defamation case, i think he was on the stand for something like three minutes and managed to be chastised like every 32, seconds. i don t know if his lawyers will want to go through that same pr
Of iran so preserving israel s right to exist as something that a majority of democrats do support. i understand there s a divide in our party on this but i don t think it s the case that the democratic party is all against israel. we are in favor of getting to a ceasefire and in favor of getting more humanitarian assistance in and a long-term solution that ultimately gives palestinians self-governance and a future. but that s not the same as abandoning israel to the murder preseason. what iran and hezbollah would choose to do to them. yeah, president biden keeps saying us support for israel and security is ironclad. he keeps using that word iron clad on that point. congressmen, that prime minister netanyahu said today that israel alone will decide how it responds to iran s weekend attack with crews, with cruise missiles, with drones. you ve warned that israeli retaliation would be a mistake. so how should the