Khasawneh. Com. Im kevin lip ttac at the white house. And this is cnn it is just fast, 9 00 p. M. Here in new york dramatic day 11 of the trump hush money trial. Now in the books, former trump adviser, communications director, onetime close confidant, hope hicks, reunited with the foreign president by a Prosecution Subpoena for testimony establishing his awareness after he became president of how much he politically benefited by paying for Stormy Daniels silence before the 2016 election, whether her tears which followed were related to her answer on that or just came from the accumulated intention of being on the stand the emotion of the moment is impossible. Say whether the de was a significant dramatic end to week three of this historic trial. That is hard to deny. Joining the panel for this. Our cnn senior legal analyst, elie honig. Elie, we havent heard from you what stood out to you today. Well, here we are at roughly what iss to be about the mid point of this trial. Were about ha
Heading into the end, though, donald trump, look at this, the foundation of trump support, white voters without a college degree, a whopping 30point lead on that question. One of the arenreasons this is a total blowout nationally. We didnt just ask voters who theyre voting for, we asked them why. A fivepoint national lead, not a total blowout. One of the reasons its not bigger than that, who would best handle the economy . Donald trump wins on that. The other big issues, Hillary Clinton a little bit on terrorism, a bit on immigration. What has her campaign been about, saying hes erratic, unfit, temperamentally not fit to be president of the United States. The voters agree, nearly 30 points she wince on the question of which candidate has the best temperament to be president , also wins by 15 points when voters are asked which of these two do you trust to be Commander In Chief . Shes winning on the qualification for the job, if you will, even though she trails on the economy. The bigges
requests. asked for all of the testimony of the four women accusers. they ve asked for things like sticky notes and a whiteboard. asked for other testimony to be reread. asked for a clarification of the definition of the word enticement central to one of the counts. so they re trying to in many ways put this whole thing back together again. remember, they had a they deliberated a short period then a four-day break during the holiday and now they re back. unusual. also not sequestered. for a lot of different variables this could go on for a long sometime and ven, of course, could walk out and say we have a verdict. for the most part boils down to whether the jury believes the four yun women making accusations against maxwell or whether they believe the defense attorneys, saying they are making up the stories and out for money. that s what this all boils down
inconsistencies in the women s stories about what happened. they insist the defense does that these women were in relationships, long-term relationships in some cases that perhaps didn t turn out the way they wanted and now they re trying to cash in and that s basically what their argument is and going through case-by-case, allegation-by-allegation. as many as 11 women accusers came forward during the testimony. the case it built around a half dozen but 11 accusers took the stand. you re right. he faces potentially decades in prison if convicted of this racketeering charge, an umbrella charge basically saying he ran a criminal enterprise like a mob boss about not just his music career but about also finding, recruiting women, employing his staff, his drivers, security people, to do that for his own sexual gratification. that this went on for 20
the goal for the prosecution was to draw a pattern and show color of a lot of these accusers had very similar stories, also in covering harvey weinstein s trial that of course was another high-profile trial during the hashtag me to movement. bring in women accusers who had very similar stories of what they say happened to them, and of course that is going to convince a jury of what the person is saying is not one act alone, but convince them that there is more data. there is more evidence. this is not just one a fluke accident. or not to be one moment in time that might ve been misconstrued. but really showing that this person and defendant personality, their character, and what they might be like when the camera is off and when they are behind closed doors. shannon: alex, thank you for letting us pick your brain, i m sure that we will do this throughout the day. thank you so much. thanks, shannon.