Support more victories for veterans go to dab. Org im Elizabeth Wagmeister in los angeles. In this is cnn its monday, may 13, right now on cnn this morning in just a few hours, the man who wants describe it itself as trumps thug, expected to take the stand ahead, how Michael Cohen could make or break the former president s hush money case. A shakeup but the highest levels of russias military. Vladimir putin choosing a civilian as whos new Defense Minister and both republicans and democrats in congress pushing back on cousin biden for threatening to withhold some Weapons Shipments to israel all right, by the young here in washington, live, look at capitol hill on this Monday Morning. Good morning, everyone. Happy a wonderful mother theres day weekend and kasie hunt, its wonderful to have you with us in just a few hours. The star witness in Donald Trumps Hush Money Trial will take the stand. Former Trump Attorney and fixer, Michael Cohen. You may recall, cohen once said he would take a b
decide how much or how little to weigh their testimony and how do you think the jury selection is going so far, i think there are some folks who thought, oh gosh, this was taking while and then all the sudden they seated what, seven jurors it sounds like they re making decent progress what s your assessment i agree. i think it s going much quicker than i would ve anticipated. both sides have what they call ten peremptory challenges, meaning that they can challenge jurors for any reason. and then of course any der that has up of issue has to be removed for cause that is ultimately up to the judge here. so it seems like they have been able to seek people in a lot quicker manner then i think a lot of people did expect and certainly it seems that they re on track to do opening statements on monday, which is what the judge had telegraphed if they were to while to get through the rest of this at the end of this week here yeah. and katie, where do you land on this whole question? i m sure y
open to the prosecutor we shouldn t in that case. and again, with trump, these topics are pretty well-known. of course some of these jurors have indicated they don t have as much knowledge about his past as others, but you re going to be hard-pressed to find people that don t have some general knowledge about these issues. anyway. so it probably isn t too big of a risk here. yeah. could the prosecutors go to the judge and say, i mean, if you listen to that sound, we just played a few moments ago, trump said, yes, he s going to testify and yes, he will tell the truth. i mean, can the prosecution bring that in and say, okay, this is what the defendant said? of course. i mean, it s obviously expected and required that you are telling the truth when you re under oath and the credibility of any witness, including the defendant, is up to the jury to weigh. so, even if people are attacks, other credibility as of course, michael cohen will be and stormy daniels with regard to their own p
been seated so far. five more needs to be selected to fill out the 12th person panel plus six alternates in a filing yesterday, prosecutors for the manhattan da s office indicated they plan to question trump about his past run-ins with the law. did discredit him if he chooses to testify, prosecutors intend to ask the former president about the reason civil fraud trial that landed him a fine of more than 350 million, as well as the e jean carroll defamation and civil sexual abuse civil cases. trump owes her nearly $90 last week, trump said he intended to testify in the criminal hush money trial testifying requiring yeah, i would testify. absolutely. it s a scam testifying. i tell the truth. i mean, all i can do is tell the truth and joining me to discuss former federal prosecutor, katie szarkowski. katie, good morning. thanks for being up so early with us what do you think about this
jury out there that could be fair and impartial when it comes to donald trump, everybody has an opinion about donald trump. what do you think about all that i think it s very difficult with somebody as known as donald trump to find people that don t have an opinion one way or the other that could lead to some sort of bias. but i ultimately do believe in the jury system. i believe that there are people even in manhattan that could be fair, neutral, impartial and judge. the case based only on the evidence that s presented in court and what the judge instructs them on. so i don t think it s impossible. again, many people have said he only needs one juror, and that s not a nullification argument necessarily. it s just that you just need one person to believe that there s reasonable doubt in a criminal case and many other jurors might agree with them at that point as well. i certainly don t think that s off the table here i do believe in the system yeah. and katie, what did you make t