The former president. Speaking after day one of the trial, mr trump sought to cast doubt over the legitimacy of the court. Its a scam trial. If you read all of the legal comments, from all of the legal scholars today, theres not one that i see that said that this is a case that should be brought to trial. Its a scam. Its a political witchhunt. It continues for ever and we are not going to be given a fair trial and it is a very, very sad thing. Live now to new york to speak to our correspondent john sudworth. John, bring us up to date with what happened today . When Donald Trumps motorcade left the precinct here in a man well used to breaking the norms of political life hit another milestone, this time a legal one, becoming the first us president to face a criminal trial. When it did get under way, as is often the case, the business was pretty humdrum, procedural discussion, the defence raising a number of issues and discussions over the timing. Donald trump suggesting he needed a day o
Out here in New York City. Joining millions of americans witnessing this extraordinary sight. If you were not excited about this this morning when you watch this actually happening it is a phenomenal site and one that we will not say and might not see to this extent because all the conditions are exactly right for some super super viewing of this today in the next one is not for another 20 years so a short time from now we will be under maximum coverage here in New York City. We are going to get around 90 of the sun blocked by the moon and it is a beautiful spring day. We havent had too many like this but weve got great visibility here in new york. So when it comes over new york were going to get 90 as i said. So the Total Eclipse past that we are watching sweep across the country is about 115 miles wide and 4000 miles long and it has more than 33 Million People who are under that. The last one was about Something Like two minutes. This one is twice as long it will get darker so i thin
good evening. next for joining us. we begin tonight with breaking news. new federal charges against the president s son hunter biden. they have not yet been made public. we learned of their existence just before air time and do not know the details, only that in addition to being the second set of charges he is facing, anything to do with the president s son is potentially significant, all the more so during a presidential campaign. hear with the latest cnn legal affairs correspondent paula reid. pa paula, what do you know about these charges? good evening, anderson. our colleague evan perez breaking the news that the justice department has filed a new criminal case against hunter biden. we don t know the specific charges because the court documents are not yet public. just a few weeks ago, we broke the news that the special counsel appointed to investigate the president s son david weiss has been using a los angeles-based grand jury to gather evidence about hunter biden s
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