Front next opening day of trumps trial. And its getting ugly fast name calling, insults, flying between trump and what will be a star witness . Michael cohen. This is the first witness is starting to testify with david how trumps case plus russias new It Girl State Television now fawning over Marjorie Taylor greene, even though she tried but failed to sink america i can aid to ukraine. Here what they are saying tonight about quote on quote moscow, marjorie and Melania Trump now selling more jewelry. Is it to help her husband . Okay. His legal fees. Lets go out front and good evening. Im Erin Burnett Outfront tonight. We begin with trumps trials spilling out of the courtroom on a day when the prosecution and defense laid out their cases for the first time to 12 jurors and the six alternates its in the room and its on this momentous day, the former President Trump and his former fixer, Michael Cohen, are now in a free for all know, it did actually start in the courtroom. It was during Op
Livelihood depends on President Trumps destruction referring to cohen so that was all well in the courtroom. But then after court, when trump walked out and you could speak to the public, he said this about cohen what are they going to look at all the lives that gone . Good in the last row . He that joint line so he got caught lying pure lime well, im Insider Cohen firing back hey, Von Expletive in pants, your attacks of me, stink of desperation. We are all hoping that you take the stand in your defense. Lets public spat between a key witness and the defendant is remarkable in a court. And trump, of course, is under a gag order forbidden to speak about any witnesses in the trial. But this public brawl breaking out just hours before trump is back in court facetoface with the judge, juan merchan for hearing on gag order violations. He faces fines and of course, violations could ultimately put them in jail. So this is really serious stuff. And it comes as witnesses are already taking the
Id front next opening day of trumps trial in between trump and what will be a star witness . Michael cohen this is the first witness is starting to testify. The david helped trumps case, plus russias new it girl, stink television. Now fawning over Marjorie Taylor greene even though she tried but failed to sink american aid to ukraine. Here what they are saying tonight about quoteunquote moscow, marjorie, and Melania Trump now selling more jewelry. Is it to help her husband pay his legal fees . Lets go out front and good evening. Im Erin Burnett Outfront tonight. We begin with trumps trials spilling out of the courtroom on a day when the prosecution and defense laid out their cases for the first time to 12 jurors and the six alternates in the room. And its on this momentous day, the former President Trump and his former fixer, Michael Cohen, are now in a free for all know, it did actually start in the courtroom. It was during Opening Statements, trump was watching as his lawyers were te
Announce that additional emails had been found. people argue that helped former president trump get elected. so to find ourselves here, i d be curious to know what she thinks. a lot of unprecedented. right? we are awaiting the special counsel making a statement here in about 25 minutes. that is the expectation here. but also just when we re talking about the sheer amount of documents, we ve touched upon this a little bit. but this period of time from may 23rd to june 2nd, it says in sum before trump attorney one s, evan corcoran s review of trump s boxes in the storage room, which we know is a review of incomplete, hugely incomplete amount of documents, nauta, his valet, at trump s direction, moved approximately 64 boxes from the storage room to trump s residence and brought to the storage room only approximately 30 boxes. there s a lot of missing boxes there. and neither trump nor nauta informed evan corcoran of this
Mar-a-lago is not a fortress. it s a hotel. this is also a place a target for foreign adversaries. and we have seen that certainly in the past. but john and dana, particularly when you look at these statements from the former president memorialized by his then-attorney, it s him pressing in sort of graduating way. at first it s the i don t want anyone looking through my boxes. well, what if we just don t respond? well, what if we don t have anything here? what if there are no documents? clearly things he is asking his attorney to do that he should not be doing. we have memorialized here something that had been reported but now it s written in paper, in the document, the president granting that he no longer had the power to declassify. reading on page 16, trump, as president i could have declassified it, staffer, yeah, laughter. trump, now i can t, you know, but this is still a secret. staffer, yeah, laughter. now we have a problem. trump, isn t that interesting?