the united states, donald trump. the prosecution s main message that donald trump and his allies were involved in a criminal conspiracy and cover up. cnn s paula reid is outside the courthouse paula, how did the prosecution and the defense leg out their cases today before the jury? we ll dig we heard doing interpretations of events roughly eight years ago. prosecutors said, look, this is election interference, plain and simple they alleged that these payments to stormy daniels were part of a conspiracy to influence the 2016 election then they walked through step-by-step, how they allege trump cohen and then publisher the national enquirer, david worked to suppress negative stories. and then in the opening statement, they briefly referenced the paper trail that will be at the heart of this case. but when it was time for defense attorneys to get up, they insisted their client is innocent. they said, look, there is no crime here because trump wasn t involved in this kind o