Here in new york day 13. And the trump hush money criminal trial. Now history, including the former president today facing the woman he denies having an a fair width and is buying her silence and tonight looking its Company Books to cover it up. Stormy daniels who testified in great detail today, so much of the defense move for a mistrial, which the judge, though displeased by some of it, did not grant, meaning the defense got their first chance to crossexamine her this afternoon managing and points to raise questions about her credibility, which in the end will be up to the jury to decide theres going to be more Cross Examination On Thursday at one point, judge merchan also ordered defense attorney todd blanche to speak to his client, donald trump, who he said was Audibly Cursing at points during Stormy Daniels testimony behavior, the judge called contemptuous. As for daniel, shell be back on the stand when the trial resumes thursday back with the panel right now, joining us cnn, lega
Afternoon, managing and points to raise questions about her credibility, which in the end it will be up to the jury to decide theres going to be more Cross Examination On Thursday at one point, judge, merchan also ordered Defense Attorney todd blanche to speak to his client, donald trump, who he said was Audibly Cursing at points during Stormy Daniels testimony behavior, the judge called contemptuous as for daniel, shell be back on the stand when the trial resumes thursday back with the panel right now, jonny, seen in legal Alice Elie Honig Normalising who served as special counsel, the House Democrats der, the first trump impeachment and is the author of trying trump, a guide to his first election interference criminal trial. So youve been writing courtroom diaries. Norm, what stood out to you . Today . Were the biggest takeaways from her testimony Stormy Daniels is not a critical witness to the prosecution unlike Michael Cohen, whos coming up, shes principally a corroboration witness
wiped clean from this led don t want to go and take that gun and wrap you with it what we talked enough that american drawing to a close, the jury now deliberating as the defendant is waiting, americans will soon see if a former and possibly future president could become a convicted felon. plus new cnn reporting on how a cyber attack on a hospital is putting patients lives in danger nurses at several hospitals are now speaking out about a threat and a decision by major league baseball gives several league players stars the recognition that they we re denied for decades to watershed moment for america s pastime and american history we re following these major developing stories and many more all coming in, right? get here to cnn news central waiting on a verdict, i m boris sanchez alongside briana keeler and the nation s capital and right now the 12 person jury and former president trump s hush money trial continues let s to deliberate going on more than 3.5 hours now, three h
perino. good to be here with you. another hour. bill: i m bill hemmer. things got serious it feels like. dana: it does. there has been a tone shift. bill: the president is in the room. the photographers are in taking their daily pictures and we ll share those with you when they become available. we ll hear from the judge in a matter of minutes giving the jury the instructions. defense and prosecution have spoken and made their cases and right now the judge will have the final word before they go behind closed doors, before they begin deliberations in the criminal trial from president donald trump and try to reach a verdict. maybe emphasis on try. we ll see. eric shawn begins a new hour outside the courthouse. good morning. good morning, bill and dana. well, the hour has arrived. the former president of the united states, a felony criminal defendant, waiting to find out his fate that is now in the hands or will be soon, of 12 ordinary americans. as you just said, the
typically, jurors just start a free-flowing discussion about the case. it doesn t necessarily follow the verdict questions that they re supposed to answer because if you think about it, after not being able to speak about the case for so long, finally, they get to take a deep breath and there s a lot to talk about. so, what will probably initially happen, before they get into the verdict questions and into the meat of it all, there will be some perspectives offered, people will weigh in a little bit, and then slowly but surely factions will emerge, and pretty quickly, it will be evident what the split is in the jury, if there is a split, as time goes on, you ll see or the jury will see who s on what side and who s arguing on behalf for an acquittal, who s arguing on behalf of guilty verdict. all that gets thrown in and that leads the way for more of a focused discussion on the verdict questions. joey, i want to play for you one of the things that the prosecutor said today about how