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and the third, of course, with stormy daniels, who is the basis for the charges in the case. and david is the key figure in all three of these who basically controlled the money, or at least for two of them he controlled the money for how these stories we're going to be suppressed. and that, that's what that's what colangelo's talked about in the opening statements, and that's what cracker began to testify in his testimony today. and qarrah white is the suppression of these stories matter? >> because at the time hi and what they were trying to do in the opening statement and what they're going to try to do through the witnesses is take the jury back to 2015 and 2016 when none of this information was out in the open and the access hollywood tape had just come out and the campaign very much did not want these negative stories. trump was not the candidate that he is today with the popularity that he has now, he was sort of a candidate that, that was a long shot candidate and he was trying to suppress these stories. it was very important to his candidacy to suppress these negativ
and the third, of course, with stormy daniels, who is the basis for the charges in the case. and david is the key figure in all three of these who basically controlled the money, or at least for two of them he controlled the money for how these stories we're going to be suppressed. and that, that's what that's what colangelo's talked about in the opening statements, and that's what cracker began to testify in his testimony today. and qarrah white is the suppression of these stories matter?...
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stormy daniels is a public figure, but these jurors are not public figures. and private information is already leaking out about these people. and i think the judge quite properly is going to be very concerned about making sure these people can stay to the end. and not just throw their hands up and say, i'm not i'm not going to be part of this cr everyone. >> thanks, karen mentioned judge merchan, we want to bring in john e. jones, the form, the third, the former chief judge for the us middle district of pennsylvania, joe jones. appreciate you being back with us. what was your biggest takeaway from opening statements well, it's interesting. >> i think the opening statements we're not unexpected but there's a lot that the prosecution didn't say and i'm curious about that i think they're kind of playing hide the ball, not inappropriately with some witnesses. i agree with your panelists had hope hicks is going to be a very interesting and maybe a pivotal witness to tie the former president or not to what happened from the defense's standpoint. i was curious abou
stormy daniels is a public figure, but these jurors are not public figures. and private information is already leaking out about these people. and i think the judge quite properly is going to be very concerned about making sure these people can stay to the end. and not just throw their hands up and say, i'm not i'm not going to be part of this cr everyone. >> thanks, karen mentioned judge merchan, we want to bring in john e. jones, the form, the third, the former chief judge for the us...
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before the election, trump has denied having an affair with daniels prosecutor said trump did not want to write the check himself. so cohen put up the money, colangelo's argued trump, cohen and former trump organization cfo allen weisselberg agreed cohen would be paid back in monthly installments through fake invoices to the trump organization in a nod to cohen's past credibility issues, prosecutor said key witnesses like cohen have made mistakes in the past and encourage the jury to keep an open mind and carefully evaluate all of the evidence that corroborates michael cohen's testimony, then it was trump's attorneys turn blanche said the da's office should never have brought this case he said the prosecution story is not true, and the jury will find plenty of reasonable doubt. he pivoted to paint trump as a husband and father, saying he's a person just like you and just like me, trump's team suggested the payments trump made to cohen. we're not a payback for funds paid to stormy daniels, but instead payments to his personal attorney trump defended himself against these charges after c
before the election, trump has denied having an affair with daniels prosecutor said trump did not want to write the check himself. so cohen put up the money, colangelo's argued trump, cohen and former trump organization cfo allen weisselberg agreed cohen would be paid back in monthly installments through fake invoices to the trump organization in a nod to cohen's past credibility issues, prosecutor said key witnesses like cohen have made mistakes in the past and encourage the jury to keep an...
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according to the statement of facts filed by prosecutors when trump was indicted in the stormy daniels hush money case. pecker learned in the fall of 2015 that the doorman was trying to sell information regarding a child that trump had allegedly fathered out of wedlock at pecker's direction. the prosecutor said ami negotiated and signed an agreement to pay the doorman $30,000 for exclusive rights to the story not to publish it, but to bury it. the doorman's story about the so-called loved child turned out to be false, just a rumor. in fact, the still unnamed woman at the center of it denied it all to the api in 2018, saying this is all fake. ronan farrow also wrote in a new yorker piece that the housekeepers father said, the doorman's claim was completed lately, false and ridiculous. after those reports in april 2018 and after he'd been freed from his agreement with ami, the doorman gave a statement to cnn. he stood by his story despite the fact there was no evidence to prove it. i can confirm that i was instructed not to criticize president trump's former housekeeper due to a prior re
according to the statement of facts filed by prosecutors when trump was indicted in the stormy daniels hush money case. pecker learned in the fall of 2015 that the doorman was trying to sell information regarding a child that trump had allegedly fathered out of wedlock at pecker's direction. the prosecutor said ami negotiated and signed an agreement to pay the doorman $30,000 for exclusive rights to the story not to publish it, but to bury it. the doorman's story about the so-called loved child...
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notably michael cohen, his former lawyer and fixer, who made the payments to stormy daniels, which his boss allegedly hd through misleading business records. the defendants meant some of his day today lashing out at the gag order. he's accused of violating, calling it unconstitutional and complaining that quote, the conflicted judges, friends and party members can say whatever they want about me. but i'm not allowed to respond on top of the trial tomorrow. the supreme court also hears oral arguments on his claim of presidential immunity in the federal january 6 case. here to help break it all down, former house january 6 committee senior investigative counsel, temidayo aganga-williams, cnn's kara scannell, bestselling author and former federal prosecutor, jeopardy thuban and cnn legal analyst, karen friedman, agnifilo so caroline, start with you. what do we expect more on the court? >> so david pecker will be back on the stand on tuesday. he introduced the jury to the catch and kill scheme, brought them into a meeting at trump tower in 2015. now he began by introducing them to karen mc
notably michael cohen, his former lawyer and fixer, who made the payments to stormy daniels, which his boss allegedly hd through misleading business records. the defendants meant some of his day today lashing out at the gag order. he's accused of violating, calling it unconstitutional and complaining that quote, the conflicted judges, friends and party members can say whatever they want about me. but i'm not allowed to respond on top of the trial tomorrow. the supreme court also hears oral...
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he did not talk about stormy daniels that was not public at that point? but and he has not been prosecuted. so that's another thing that the defense is going to point out is that if you were a coconspirator, how come you're walking free and how come donald trump is defendant here now there may be answers to all these things, but i think the idea that the prosecution in his criminalizing behavior that is simply not a crime is going to be a big theme took care and don't prosecutors make deals with disreputable people who have committed crimes who might be charged. otherwise, if they didn't have information to turn on somebody else on a bigger fish. >> well, as we always say, as prosecutors, we wish that crimes were committed in front of a bus full of nuns, right. >> but when you're dealing with people who commit crimes, you're surrounded by the people who they commit crimes with. >> and so you take your eyewitnesses as they come and that's what the prosecution will say, which is donald trump picked michael cohen, donald trump picked david pecker. those were
he did not talk about stormy daniels that was not public at that point? but and he has not been prosecuted. so that's another thing that the defense is going to point out is that if you were a coconspirator, how come you're walking free and how come donald trump is defendant here now there may be answers to all these things, but i think the idea that the prosecution in his criminalizing behavior that is simply not a crime is going to be a big theme took care and don't prosecutors make deals...
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they're paying these payments to stormy daniels. there's work that david pecker is doing and bringing in, coordinating all of this together. and that's sort of the misdemeanor part. there's also the tax fraud issue that is also been pointed to, hasn't been brought up. and david pecker's testimony, i think it will come out later on thursday, but the idea that donald trump had to gross up michael cohen in order to make him whole for the payments because he was actually reimbursing him for what was being classified as payments for legal services, even though there had been no legal services rendered. so that's the given multi here. and i think what the prosecution is trying to show them, there's a lot of discussion of donald trump's hands and all of this is that he's very much a micro manager. he is taking really close looks at what the money is where the money's going to whom it is going. and this is just david pecker and michael cohen doing his bidding, but he is the mastermind, essentially the puppet master, and they are simply the
they're paying these payments to stormy daniels. there's work that david pecker is doing and bringing in, coordinating all of this together. and that's sort of the misdemeanor part. there's also the tax fraud issue that is also been pointed to, hasn't been brought up. and david pecker's testimony, i think it will come out later on thursday, but the idea that donald trump had to gross up michael cohen in order to make him whole for the payments because he was actually reimbursing him for what...
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they paid this money to stormy daniels to hush her for the election and the allegations they falsified the payments they may try to make it look like an attorney's legal fees retainer and the argument is there's the falsification and you have to tie that to donald trump, which is not gonna be easy. and then the back half of it is you have to show that the motivation was political, not 100%, but that is substantial portion of the motivation was published. >> and this is where i think that the nature of david packers relationship with donald trump changing in 2015 is going to be the critical information for the jury. they were friends for a very long time. they were in this cdd york world, donald trump was, you know, as someone put it, a friend of pecker's they had that close relationship, but it wasn't until 2015 that suddenly david pecker was talking to michael cohen every single day, almost trying to give them advice about where the story bad stories are. >> there. the nature of the relationship changed when trump started running for president, which suggests that the motivation was t
they paid this money to stormy daniels to hush her for the election and the allegations they falsified the payments they may try to make it look like an attorney's legal fees retainer and the argument is there's the falsification and you have to tie that to donald trump, which is not gonna be easy. and then the back half of it is you have to show that the motivation was political, not 100%, but that is substantial portion of the motivation was published. >> and this is where i think that...