Joining us, msnbcs Yasmin Vossoughian outside the courthouse. Temidayo agangawilliams, a former prosecuor and Defense Attorney caroline pull lisi. Yasmin, Jury Instrekss under way right now. Whats going on . Jury instructions under way ahead of Opening Statements, jose and ana. 45 minutes for the prosecution, 25 minutes for the defense. Theyre doing that because theres going to be a lot of details, much of a timeline, a lot of dates and they dont want to overwhelm the jury in the Opening Statements process. Judgments made from the bench that i want to talk about with you quickly, first, when it comes to the evidence if, in fact, the former president decides to testify, judge juan merchan is allowing six various cases to be decided if donald trump it was. Talking about the trump payroll judgment, the trump civil fraud gag orders as well along with e. Jean carol assault case and the defamation case. A couple more things happening in court this morning. The former president spoke about ho
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Reporter again, there are a lot of big question marks, exactly what the prosecution was going to try to argue about Donald Trumps knowledge ahead of the 2016 election about the payment to Stormy Daniels, and we can tell you now based off of Prosecutor Matthew Ka Lang low opening statements inside of the courtroom literally in the last 60 seconds, he directly says that Michael Cohen had discussed with trump the Stormy Daniels story, in October Of 2016 and that those conversations led to Donald Trump being frustrated and acknowledging that he did not want the story to come out, that it would be devastating to his campaign. For timing purposes, this was just days after the Access Hollywood Tape came out in 2016 when of course there were republican allies, the rnc that were concerned about Donald Trump going on to be the nominee over the course of that month
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