a, opening day begins thursday. dana: we ll see what happens. thank you, william. fox news alert. former president donald trump entering a new york city court just moments ago. we saw it as it happened as he same day in the same city. one threatening his family business, the other his freedom. here he was moments ago. thank you very much, everybody. this is a witch hunt, it s a hoax. thank you. dana: he said nothing more. he said it was a witch hunt and hoax. welcome to a new hour of america s newsroom, i m dana perino. bill: headlines on a monday, don t we? dana: like that. bill: bill hemmer. good morning. a judge considering a possible start date for this new york criminal case against the former president. he faces 34 counts of falsifying business records connected to these hush money payments going back eight years. it is also deadline day for trump to post a bond in another case. a bond that s reaching nearly half a billion dollars or face the possibility o
i don t know how you can have a trial. that s going on right the middle of an election. not fair. not fair? well today was certainly a blow to team trump s at time trusted legal strategy of attack and delay. the judge in the case really laying into trump s attorneys for making what he called incredibly an unbelievably serious allegations without the evidence to back them up saying, quote you re literally accusing them and hadn t da s office and the people assigned to this case, of engaging in prosecutorial misconduct and i m trying to make me complicit in it and you don t have a single site. so support that position the judge clearly familiar with trump s tactics and also ready to get this case started. and it may be the only criminal trial donald trump face it says before the election here are the other three at play right now there is, of course, a classified documents case in florida which was supposed to begin in may, but the judge has said she s now considering
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judge was definitive. this will be the first criminal trial of a former playing before a jury. the jury selection began april 15th everyone was in court today because trump had made claims that the manhattan district attorney s office prosecutors had obstructed their ability to get information from federal prosecutors who in 2018 prosecuted michael cohen, the judge went back and forth peppering both sides was questions. but finally saying he didn t even know why we were here saying to trump s attorneys, you are literally accusing the manhattan da his office, and the people assigned to this case, a prosecutorial misconduct and of trying to make me complicit in it, and you don t have a single site to support that position, saying that trump s team had written was reading the facts differently than the judge saying that this was a pattern that he d noticed. and so after the judge took a 45-minute break in a surprise highs ruling from the bench. he said that there was no evidence
could put his pride and joy, his real estate empire in the cross hairs. estates, hotels, golf courses, the iconic trump tower all properties valued by the trump org as a much higher level than appraisers valued them. and all of them, fair game for new york attorney general tish james to seize if trump fails to meet his financial obligation by the deadline. with time running out. nbc news is reporting the former president has grown, quote, frustrated and has now resorted to, quote, hitting up high dollar donors, not just for campaign cash but also to see whether they might guarantee his bond. the ex-president is huddled up with advisers, quote, gaming out options, including ways trump could appeal judge engoron s ruling without having to put the bond up, and what would happen if they can t secure the required sum. and trump s team believes that quote, seizing trump s assets or liquidating them could prove to be rocket fuel for his campaign. there does appear to be one clear wa