Source tonight, Donald Trumps first criminal trial resumes in hours, and we just got hold of new ammo dropped by the prosecution what could be coming at the former president if he ends up taking the stand and Impeachment Trial ends just hours after it began. Yes. A Biden Cabinet member now keeps his job while the speaker of the house is clinging onto his after teeing up a vote. Its only expanding a rightwing revolt and a new blow to boeing as a whistleblower testifies the the asian giant. This knowingly putting out defective planes that could break apart during flight are source tonight as an engineer looking at the safety of boeing who also lost his sister in a deadly plane crash. Im john king and for kaitlan collins, this is the source a shot across the bow to trump arguments not yet underway in the former president s first criminal trial. But the prosecution just revealed what it wants to use against him if big if he ends up testifying in his own defense, that is a giant f despite t
There will be a hearing eventually on whether all of that is fair fodder, but it does begs the question whether prosecutors are hoping to discourage trump from testifying by showing him all of he would face if he takes the stand, the trial resumes tomorrow with jury selection continuing. seven jurors he did yesterday, five more needed plus alternates, six of those most likely on this off day, trump s on another one of his trademark fact-free tears carping today about not being allowed, quote, unlimited strikes, meaning disqualification when picking the jury, ranting because he says his sayyed can t veto any prospective juror. they want each side only gets ten strikes. that s new york state law. and his lawyers certainly know that we ve got legal sources from all perspectives tonight, from the prosecution table or cnn legal analysts, former assistant us attorney elie honig from the defense side, veteran new york attorney, author i dala, whose past high profile clients have ranged from h
Just reposted it without comment. he has done that a couple of times and i think i called it out on the show earlier. i said da s office needs to stop that because it s essentially him making the statement, but they have not done that and now trump s taking it to the next level where he s retyping something that a media figures said and then sending that out. i think that violates the gag order. and here s the thing. the most sensitive group of people here that people who need to be protected most, or the juror. so if i m the judge, i have the least tolerance for anything that might interfere with the jury what does the judge do he knows what he has here as a political case, it s a legal case, but it s a political case and he s tried to give trump s some elasticity and sort of stretch maybe where the line is, how far can you let him go and maintain order in his courtroom? i think he s given an amazing amount of leeway and in that sense, we hear trump talking about him being treated
Big if he ends up testifying in his own defense, that is a giant f despite the former president s claims which is my absolute, it s a scam. it s a scam that s not a trial testifying. i tell the truth. i mean, all i can do is tell the truth and the truth is that there s no case they have no case. and again, you have to read the scholars read all of the legal scholars. i haven t seen one legal scholar that said this is the case prosecutors begged to differ. they re now unveiling some of their ammunition, what they would bring up all potentially cross-examining trump to discredit him to the jury. it s a long list. we don t have time for all of it, but prosecutors say they would ask the former president about the recent verdicts against him. how, for example, he was found liable for business fraud order to pay tens of millions of dollars to e. jean carroll for defamation and prosecutors say they would bring up how he was fine for violating a court order by publicly attacking a judge s la
That they may have. what about the defense perspective? you happy. first of all, it s with the head jokes you talk about guys with their hair on fire, the tool you over there i just the opposite right. so there are jurors who are going to lie on both sides really to get on the trial because it s a great trial of beyond and they may have underlying feelings when we pick the harvey weinstein trial, jurors, we add jurors swearing they could be fair and impartial, and then they would dismiss and we follow them on social media and they were bragging oh, i was almost on the trial to bring this piece of garbage down. so it s it s what, what we re talking about here is making sure that the people who don t have any ulterior motives, what i want is a juror. i want a conductor on the subway. i want a bus driver. i want someone who died who deals with regular people all the time. and when i asked him ready get your news from they say i don t watch the news. i take care of my family, i mow