get robin has gold and make your cash or and 5% apy joined today and get your burst 30 days free. i m more in liebermann at the pentagon. and this cnn welcome to the lead on jake tapper. this hour, the combative cross-examination of michael cohen has donald trump s legal team picks apart his testimony in the new york city hush money cover up case. who will the defense call if anyone will, trump himself. take the stand. the former president has evolved on that question, plus israel s deadly strikes in gaza, local hospitals reporting at least 40 people killed. israel says they were targeting hamas war room imbedded in gaza. here, what winning? this is told cnn about the attack and a reversal from president biden announcing new tariffs on chinese goods, but didn t he knock trump for that when he was candidate biden will roll the tape let s start the hour with the hush money cover up case, though. cnn s paula reid, is that the court but in manhattan, paula, today the
sarah, it s the first thing i thought of because we re covering trump gavel to gavel keep in mind, we just heard a sandoval hearing in donald trump s case. there s two things that this is directly impactful to donald trump s case. first prior bad acts evidence coming into the courtroom. the second, the appellate courts finding that harvey weinstein basically could not testify because so much was going to be allowed in on cross-examination the same type of argument would apply to donald trump at the sandoval hearing. that s where prosecutors are told by the judge what can come in if donald trump were to testify, they opened up the gates. the judge to the e jean carroll case, to the new york state attorney general, civil fraud case because of that, donald trump will have a similar argument that he s hamstrung. he couldn t possibly testify because of everything that s going to come in on cross-examination. it s directly related to the appellate division decision that we just h
joining us, msnbc s yasmin vossoughian outside the courthouse. temidayo aganga-williams, a former prosecuor and defense attorney caroline pull lisi. yasmin, jury instrekss under way right now. what s going on? jury instructions under way ahead of opening statements, jose and ana. 45 minutes for the prosecution, 25 minutes for the defense. they re doing that because there s going to be a lot of details, much of a timeline, a lot of dates and they don t 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
good afternoon, so good to be with you. i m jose diaz-balart in for katy tur. this is just the beginning. it has been a historic day inside the manhattan courthouse. both sides completed their opening statements in donald trump s criminal hush money trial. the prosecution, zeroing in on donald trump s alleged attempts to interfere with the 2016 election saying they have receipts that prove the former president, quote, covered up a criminal experience by lying in his new york business records over and over and over again. now, the defense meanwhile says that former president simply didn t do anything wrong. quote, there s nothing wrong with trying to influence an election, todd blanche told jurors, it s called democracy. we heard from our first witness in the trial. trump s long time friend and former ceo of the national enquirer, david pecker, a man at the center of the alleged scheme to bury claims from women who say they had affairs with donald trump. we ll tell you what
the united states, donald trump. the prosecution s main message that donald trump and his allies were involved in a criminal conspiracy and cover up. cnn s paula reid is outside the courthouse paula, how did the prosecution and the defense leg out their cases today before the jury? we ll dig we heard doing interpretations of events roughly eight years ago. prosecutors said, look, this is election interference, plain and simple they alleged that these payments to stormy daniels were part of a conspiracy to influence the 2016 election then they walked through step-by-step, how they allege trump cohen and then publisher the national enquirer, david worked to suppress negative stories. and then in the opening statement, they briefly referenced the paper trail that will be at the heart of this case. but when it was time for defense attorneys to get up, they insisted their client is innocent. they said, look, there is no crime here because trump wasn t involved in this kind o