Outlined in carefully choreographed testimony today how he boosted donald trump in his tabloids, how his entire apparatus blasted trumps rivals blatantly bogus stories and how he struck and off the books packed with trump to bury stories to bolster his 2016 election chances by Bamboozling American voters. The former trump friends, but two plus hours on the stand today as the former president was there glaring, as you can see here in this court sketch from across the room. And what marx, a no doubt about it betrayal for the politician who most prizes loyalty and new tonight, donald trump is again testing the limits of what he can say and how far he can push the judge who is presiding over this trial before he is actually punished. Now in a new interview, trump is committing what looks like and sounds like a pretty clear cut violence relation of that gag order that restricts what he can say about some of the main characters. In this case, who witnesses such as former fixer, Michael Cohen
Straight from the source denied. That was fast seven jurors have been chosen in all trumps first criminal trial on day two, a sharp warning to the former president from the judge. Dont even think about intimidating potential jurors after the judge Saw Trump Muttering and gesturing in close proximity to a potential juror, and what is it like to be in that jury pool . But the former president turned defendant . Watching your every move as you are being considered to decide his fate. My source tonight will tell us all about it. Im sarah sidner in for Kaitlan Collins tonight. And this is the source an immigrant from ireland and Oncology Nurse corporate lawyer, a grandfather from puerto rico, a young english teacher, a recent college grad and civil litigator seven strangers who have at least two things now in common, they all live in new york city, borough of manhattan. And theyre all seated on the jury. That will decide if donald trump should be a convicted felon. Thats more than half of t
later, we get a second request. we re going to hear the instructions potentially all over again. a lot to process the leader, jake tapper starts right now cnn breaking news and welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we do have some breaking news for you and just over four hours to deliberate creation. the jury has now requested to here read back of four parts of testimony, and just now, they send a second node another node, a second one. he s, 12 people will decide the fate of former president trump in his criminal hush money cover-up problem. we re going to bring you all the updates a moment. the verdict comes down, which could be in seconds or days if you ask down trump s allies this is they believed that every minute the jury continues to deliberate as a good sign for trump. the truth is, we have no idea. this morning, judge juan were shown instructed the jury on how they should reach their verdict. this included a directive to check any personal trump views at the do
there. people, the know the bigger the support can be for this bill thank you both thank you so much for joining us. see you in a news night with abby phillip starts now donald trump tries to set expectations for both debate possibilities. that s tonight on these good evening. i m abby phillip in washington. great expectations or not so great expectations tonight. new sound from donald trump shows that the care that he s putting into a soft landing should joe biden put them on the canvas at next week, cnn presidential debate? trump thinks that he will do well and the biden is in cognitive decline. there s no evidence for that, of course, but trump also says, the biden is a worthy debater. just listen all i could change this. i watched him with paul ryan and he destroyed paul ryan boride with the water he was chugging water at a left and right. i didn t think a human being would be able to drink so much water at one time and he d be paul ryan. i m not underestimating him.
that was major vote in the senate where republicans blocked a bill that would guarantee access to ivf in vitro fertilization and ob-gyn watching impact of all of this it s in her own hospitals is going to join us ahead, plus new comments today from fani willis, the georgia prosecutor, with a criminal case against donald trump that seems to be on hold one day after a cnn interview with nathan wade, her former staffer and romantic partner was interrupted just as kaitlan collins started asking about the timing of the romantic relationship with district attorney willis and leading this hour, what house and senate republicans are saying about their back-to-back meetings today with former president donald trump in that handshake with senate minority leader mitch mcconnell let s get straight to cnn s manu raju on capitol hill. manu, what are you hearing from the republican lawmakers after their closed-door meetings? well, a lot of the republicans were very positive coming out of t