Tapper starts right down a split second. This courthouse went from the scene of a highprofile trial to a highprofile security seen elites starts right now hey horrific scene outside this courthouse after man lit himself on fire. Inside the courthouse, theres a major developing and then in the Hush Money Case against former President Donald Trump, a full jury plus alternates. Now, all seated, setting the stage for Opening Statements. This hour, were gonna go all in on this okay. Its dissecting the next steps. How long can the prosecution hold out and keep its witness list out of the hands of donald trump and his defense team also this hour, in an extreme jordan, berry moves from 100 House Democrats came to the aid of republican speaker mike johnson, drawing the ire of hardline republicans in putting johnson even close closer to potentially losing his job welcome to lead on mattingly in today for jake tapper and we are live outside the new york courthouse where the former president s Cri
money case. this is a falsifying business records case. we re going to break it down to its essential elements. we re not going to make it something that it s not, we re nogoing to allow and we re going to print donald trump and his team for taking this on, on a sideways that it shouldn t go. i m overwhelmingly confident that josh and chris and those guys who are overlapped with are ready to go. they ve been ready yesterday the week before and they re not gonna get distracted no matter what happens outside that courtroom, they are staying the course. these are morgan thought guys who ve gone for morgan thaw the dance now to brag, they ve been around the block. chris was in the homicide investigations unit as achieved this is a team the team trump does not want to mess with. they still have the burden to prove beyond a reasonable doubt, but to do their. thing it sticks are certainly hi stacy, jeremy, thanks so much. very grateful for you guys hanging with us the entire hour much more