a man who leads by 30 points in polls. donald trump and the jury did this at the urging of a man called alvin bragg. he s the manhattan district attorney who has been famous so far by making the city much more dangerous by refusing to enforce laws against crimes like robbery and . now, we don t know at this hour what the indictment says. we don t know specifically what the charges are. but previous news reports suggest they will emanate from an alleged payment. seven years ago, a payment that federal regulators said violated no law, but that alvin bragg apparently believes is a crime, either way, the net result is donald trump is the first former president of the united states ever to be indicted. so what happens next? we can be certain there is no coming back from this moment. there could be retaliation from red states. the governor of florida has already said ron desantis already issued a statement saying that he will not participate in any extradition of donald trump to
Lower manhattan. Michael cohen back on stand for what will be his final day of Cross Examinationened Re in Donald Trumps criminal trial. Now the prosecution is gearing up to redirect questioning of its star witness just one more time. Welcome to a new hour of americas newsroom, im dana perino. That first hour went by like that. Bill im bill hemmer. Good morning. We were talking about the Sports Analogies we could draw. Well get to that. Dana i use batters box and see if i used it correctly. I was kind of there. We have more. Bill we did a little hockey, too. Dana more to come. Bill thats coming your way. The fireworks not over yet. Former president unleashing on the whole process before he entered the courtroom a short time ago. One hour and 15 minutes ago. Watch. I dont think there is one person that says that this trial is legitimate. And everybody is talking about the judge. The judge shouldnt be doing this trial. He is totally conflicted. He is the most conflicted judge possibly in
Epic because it hinges on the testimony of one dirty lawyer who lies so often he went to prison for it. A brandnew hour of a day in court which is inching us closer to a conclusion in the case of former President Donald Trump versus new york. The prosecutions star witness Michael Cohen on the stand, day three of withering Cross Examination by trumps defense team. He was trumps attorney and fixer, Michael Cohen. Now the lawyers for trump are pounding cohens credibility. And when his testimony ends, i will have one question, can the Prosecution Fix the fixer . Im Harris Faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. We were anticipating this week to be the final stretch in trumps new york criminal trial. His attorneys say they expect to wrap up their questioning today. Could be at any time. Then the prosecution can choose to ask cohen a second round of questions. He is their final witness. After that, if they choose to do that, the defense then presents its case. Former commanderinchief tal
that s apparently scheduled for next week. as you can probably tell, we re not certain of the full outlines of the story, but we know this moment is a historic one . we want to set tonight in facts. those that we have so far going to do that, as we always do with the help of fox to trace gallagher, who is with us tonight on set. and we re going to have more of desantis coming up on this. but it s important to remember, tucker, that manhattan district attorney ivan bragge has chosen to pursue a case that was investigated and rejected by two previous sets of prosecutors because, one , the case is politically explosive, as we all know, and to it requires using largely untested legal theory. in fact, even alvin bragg himself initially decided against prosecuting trump. the case, as tucker was saying ,is centered around a one hundred thirty thousand dollar payment to star stormy daniels, who claims she had an affair with trump the day. alvin bragg could not charge this case as a misdeme