Today hey, im zachary cohn and washington and this is cnn hello, and welcome to have you as joining us here in the United States and all around the world. Im taking k, this is seen and users coming up Opening Statements will begin this morning in the historic criminal trial of donald trump. What to expect is the case against the former us president is put before a new york jury usaid package for ukraine is expected to get final passage in the senate. This weight. And ukraines president says there is no time to spam plus concerns for the safety of jewish students at new yorks Columbia University. Y rabbis calling for them to return home. As passive, it draws me up live from atlanta this is cnn news room with linda kinky we adjust hours away from Opening Statements in the first ever criminal trial of a former us president , donald trump has pleaded not guilty to 34 Felony Counts because alleged role in a Hush Money Scheme to conceal an affair with Adult Film Star Stormy Daniels each coun
Doubt that it will be able to delay till tomorrow. Sorry, in terms of whos gonna be the Star Witness . Yes. People say is Michael Cohen . Yes. People stay is stormy daniels, but really the witness is going to be the documents. Those are going to be the most important pieces of evidence. And the witness in this case against donald trump. And of course, Michael Cohen because Michael Cohen is going to lay out given narration as to why these documents are important, why the other witnesses are important and technically, at the end, all other witnesses are going to be corroborating what Michael Cohen says and eventually at closing arguments, the prosecutor is going to be able to argue, look, Michael Cohen, he said what he said. Yes, he has his baggage, but he can be believed why . Because six corroboration to show that he can be believed will ask this jury to find a form. Us president guilty of these 35, 34 counts of falsifying business records. We were just showing some of those people tha