donald trump s lawyer arranging $130,000 payment to a former adult film star. he reportedly did so in october, 2016. one month before the election. s story breaking news here in new york city. a grand jury has voted to indict former president trump. former commander-in-chief, now a criminal defendant. these are felony crimes in new york state, no matter who you are. we have officially begun the first criminal trial of a former president in the united states. i am not going to be getting a fair trial. it is a very sad thing. he seems old and tired and mad. the first witness in this criminal trial is now taking the stand. echo was right there beginning of trump s plan to keep his relationship with stormy daniels a secret. hope hicks on the stand. she just started crying. tissues came out. stormy daniels testified in vivid detail about their alleged sexual encounter. lawyers have argued she is lying. michael cullen was called to the witness stand to t
donald trump s lawyer arranging $130,000 payment to a former adult film star. he reportedly did settle in october 20 16th 2016. these are felony crimes in new york state, no matter who you are. we have officially begun the first criminal trial of the former president of the united states. he seems old and tired and mad. the first witness in this criminal trial is now taking the stand. ecker was right there in the beginning of the plan to keep his relationship with stormy daniels secret. just started crying. stormy daniels testified in vivid detail about their alleged sexual encounter. michael cohen was formally called to the witness stand to testify against his former boss. both sides made their final pleas to the jury. verdict has been reached in former president trump s new york criminal trial. found guilty on all 34 felony counts. we did our job. the american principle that no one is above the law was reaffirmed. good evening. once again, i
Thought well, that trial date has to get pushed out. and then it didn t. and it went forward. what do you think this moment means? do you think it only confirms people s political views? i sort of don t really care about the politics of it right now. i think the ramifications of this, there is a sentencing coming up, there is an election, there are debates, there are so many moments between now and november. but something john said earlier about mueller didn t go there, the impeachments didn t go there. i think that is a really important thing to land on, because bob mueller assembled a devastating information about donald trump, but he chose not to propagate in the courtroom. he left that up to the u.s. attorney s office in new york and congress to look at the evidence and do something with it. they chose not to do anything with it. and almost no one read his multi-hundred page report. we did, and are member talking to you about it. and congress impeached him twice. the house
what do you think this moment means? do you think it only confirms people s political views? i sort of don t care about the politics of it right now. i think there is a sense of coming up, there s an election, debates, so many other moments between now and november but something john said earlier about mueller didn t go there, the impeachments didn t go there, i think that s an important thing to land on because bob mueller assembled a devastating amount of information about donald trump but chose not to prosecute him in the courtroom. he left that up to the u.s. attorney s office to look at his evidence and do something with it. and, almost no one read his multi-hundred page report. yes, we did. i don t remember talking to you about it but then congress impeached him twice. the house impeached him twice. the senate chose not to take it to trial. donald trump is turning 78 years old this month, and for about five of those decades, he has gotten away with lying, exaggerating, un