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she's known judge merchan for more than 15 years. >> are you surprised, judge, that merchan has not already ruled on the gag order? no. i'm not i'll tell you why originally when we first had these alleged violations, i thought it would be one and done and we'll be finished. >> but and while this is pending and he does a hearing to which the defendant is entitled. there was no summary summary violation here when the defendant persists and continues to decide he's seen seemingly violating the order what's the point? what's the point of doing it to rush it, think about it for a minute. >> the goal, judge merchan's goal here is to make sure both sides get a fair trial and to get a verdict and to do that without with as little incident and as much grace as possible. >> this hearing and these get this gag order violations bins are to a great extent a sideshow. and there are plenty of people out there, maybe some of this table who want to get trump no matter what, right? they want to see him in jail, or they want to see him held responsible for this, they want his blood. >> i get that judge machin
she's known judge merchan for more than 15 years. >> are you surprised, judge, that merchan has not already ruled on the gag order? no. i'm not i'll tell you why originally when we first had these alleged violations, i thought it would be one and done and we'll be finished. >> but and while this is pending and he does a hearing to which the defendant is entitled. there was no summary summary violation here when the defendant persists and continues to decide he's seen seemingly...
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judge kaplan, judging goren, judge merchan, about the district attorney. he did not say a word about the witnesses. >> he's remove the offending posts and posts and i expect he'll pay the fines. so it'll be interesting to see what happens thursday morning, but i don't think judge marchand will be pushed to the wall on this interesting on trump's remarks after the trial today, i want to play a brief extra of what he said. listen to this order is not only munich, it's totally constitution totally unconstitutionally says, how do you respond to that? >> well first of all even the even a gag order that is unlawful is not to be contested by violating it you can appeal it. you can do all kinds of things which the defense attorneys already have. and the gag order has been upheld not only that, i'm confident that it would be upheld in the future, it's really quite limited as you can see, mr. trump is able to carry on about all kinds of things about the case about the gag order, about the judge, and all of that. and that's well within his rights. so his complaint ab
judge kaplan, judging goren, judge merchan, about the district attorney. he did not say a word about the witnesses. >> he's remove the offending posts and posts and i expect he'll pay the fines. so it'll be interesting to see what happens thursday morning, but i don't think judge marchand will be pushed to the wall on this interesting on trump's remarks after the trial today, i want to play a brief extra of what he said. listen to this order is not only munich, it's totally constitution...
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debated judge juan merchan said he would not allow the infamous access hollywood tape to be shown or video of trump's deposition in the e jean carroll lawsuit that found him liable for defamation. karen mcdougal, a model who says she had an affair with trump in 2006 and was paid $150,000 to keep quiet about it. will be alleged how to testify. attorneys also argued about how much the jury can be told about michael cohen's crimes. >> i did it at the direction of in concert with and for the benefit of donald j. trump, the credibility of trump's former fixer, who admitted he orchestrated the hush money payment to stormy daniels will be one of the most bad over elements of the case. prosecutors also ask the judge to find trump for social media posts attacking witnesses involved in the case, saying he violated a gag order. the judge scheduled a hearing for next week to settle that matter. the trial is expected to last six to eight weeks. it may be the only case against trump to face a jury before the 2024 section. the presumptive republican nominee, complaining about the judge as he walked
debated judge juan merchan said he would not allow the infamous access hollywood tape to be shown or video of trump's deposition in the e jean carroll lawsuit that found him liable for defamation. karen mcdougal, a model who says she had an affair with trump in 2006 and was paid $150,000 to keep quiet about it. will be alleged how to testify. attorneys also argued about how much the jury can be told about michael cohen's crimes. >> i did it at the direction of in concert with and for the...
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i think it is typical of judge merchan to take his time and be thoughtful about the process and that ties and that is across ties and get it right. i've said on this show before, i think that the gag order is a challenge for the judge because he does want to get through the process. and of course, finding donald trump a few thousand dollars doesn't mean that much jailing him. well, he could he has that is within his rights. do that for 30 days. the legislature hasn't given him a whole lot a whole lot of tools. but at the end of the de, it appears that donald trump is baiting this judge. and perhaps once that so that his his constituents will be appalled and up in arms and he loves that riotous communists you'd about the moment in court today, were the judge told todd blanche that he's losing credibility with the court i mean, you've been on the ventral long time. what how did you read that moment? >> that moment was i think judge merchan telling him your argument is just not making any sense, and i'm hearing you. i'm listening and give me a good argument, helped me through this, but
i think it is typical of judge merchan to take his time and be thoughtful about the process and that ties and that is across ties and get it right. i've said on this show before, i think that the gag order is a challenge for the judge because he does want to get through the process. and of course, finding donald trump a few thousand dollars doesn't mean that much jailing him. well, he could he has that is within his rights. do that for 30 days. the legislature hasn't given him a whole lot a...
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i think it is typical of judge merchan to take his time and be thoughtful about out the process. and that ties and that is across ties and get it right. i've said on this show before, i think that the gag order is a challenge for the judge because he does want to get through the process. and of course, finding donald trump a few thousand dollars doesn't mean that much jailing him well he could he has that is within his rights. do that for 30 days. the legislature hasn't given him a whole lot a whole lot of tools. but at the end of the day, it appears that donald trump is baiting this judge and perhaps wants that. so that is his constituents will be appalled and up in arms and he loves that riotous congress you'd divide the moment in court today. judge toal todd blanche, that he's losing credibility with the court i mean, you've been on the ventral long time. what how did you read that moment? >> that moment was i think judge merchan telling him your argument is just not making any sense and i'm hearing you. i'm listening and give me a good argument, helped me through this, but yo
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you know, these players take us inside this case from the perspective of a judge, how is judge merchan approaching this jury selection process? >> well jury selection is a difficult phase of a trial, particularly when it's so high profile, that's why he's used are written questionnaire with so many probing questions that helps to move the word deer. that is the questioning of the jurors along because you can read those answers. but in this court, the lawyers are allowed to question each juror individually and really try to tease out the biases that they may have. so it's not going to be a fast process are the challenges of seating and impartial jury, judge, greater in this case, can trump actually wind up getting a fair trial >> i believe he can get a fair trial, but it's not an easy job to read out those who are biased against him as even he has pointed out, this is manhattan. this is a district that when 25% for biden in the election. so he has a right to really question each juror are carefully and be sure that people who are eventually ceded really can be fair and impartial. look,
you know, these players take us inside this case from the perspective of a judge, how is judge merchan approaching this jury selection process? >> well jury selection is a difficult phase of a trial, particularly when it's so high profile, that's why he's used are written questionnaire with so many probing questions that helps to move the word deer. that is the questioning of the jurors along because you can read those answers. but in this court, the lawyers are allowed to question each...
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let your tuner attorneys do their job, miss the were you surprised, judge merchan hasn't rendered an immediate decision on the gag order violations. yeah. >> i wasn't surprised because he's got to go through each individual instance, the prosecution is alleging and make a determination about whether or not that violates at an also think about what's the penalty going to be to send a message but not go too far. so i think we're having decision was what i would've expected. >> all right. misty marris, jeremy saland. thank you. so both you pecker described the tactics of quote, checkbook journalism and catch and kill. just how often that's used and why it's so specific to this case, that's next what is it about the titanic? >> why are we so obsessed with this ship every piece of evidence tells a story 50 years later? it's still leading people to her death. >> this special, to our titanic premier. >> how would really happen sunday at nine what cnn imagine a future where plastic is not wasted. >> but instead remade over and over into the things that keep our food fresher our family safer.
let your tuner attorneys do their job, miss the were you surprised, judge merchan hasn't rendered an immediate decision on the gag order violations. yeah. >> i wasn't surprised because he's got to go through each individual instance, the prosecution is alleging and make a determination about whether or not that violates at an also think about what's the penalty going to be to send a message but not go too far. so i think we're having decision was what i would've expected. >> all...
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the trial will begin in judge merchan is off the bench. court breaks for the day. >> in any case. so keith davidson is the lawyer. he's trying to get money for stormy daniels and one of the things that's interesting is he keeps telling he doesn't he has doubts in michael cohen's integrity. i think it's fair so breaking news at one point, they're trying to get this money and david pecker and dylan howard and all the fine folks from the national enquirer, tabloid kingdom are not going to pay it because they've already paid it to karen mcdougal. >> they thought they were going to get repaid. they were not repaid. they're like, okay, michael cohen, you're on your own here and what's interesting is cohen towels. here comes donald trump so we'll just listen in and then we'll pick up the conversation on the backside here. >> okay. thank you very much. this gag order is not only can you it's totally constitution i'm the republican candidate for president indicted states i received this honore in record time. nobody's ever gotten faster it's never that nobody's ever got the numbers that we
the trial will begin in judge merchan is off the bench. court breaks for the day. >> in any case. so keith davidson is the lawyer. he's trying to get money for stormy daniels and one of the things that's interesting is he keeps telling he doesn't he has doubts in michael cohen's integrity. i think it's fair so breaking news at one point, they're trying to get this money and david pecker and dylan howard and all the fine folks from the national enquirer, tabloid kingdom are not going to...
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were you surprised that judge merchan didn't dismiss her? would you have done so in his shoes? >> i probably would have dismissed or i think there was a fair challenge for cause there and there were so many more jurors available to be questioned that i wouldn't i wouldn't have kept this particular one. what's the point if she really has these preconceived views of the defendant? not not necessarily his conduct, but of him, then she's predisposed against him. and i don't think that's fair, so i think he would have been wiser to grant the challenge for cause and voir dire some other jurors, there were hundreds and waiting good point that going into the opening statements next week, we think they're going to take place on monday. >> how does judgment don balanced treating trump like a normal criminal defendant with the extraordinary circumstances of this case well, i don't know quite what you mean by normal. >> he's a defendant in a criminal trial. he's not going to be making an opening statement. his lawyers have to be making opening statements. and i'm sure the judge has asked t
were you surprised that judge merchan didn't dismiss her? would you have done so in his shoes? >> i probably would have dismissed or i think there was a fair challenge for cause there and there were so many more jurors available to be questioned that i wouldn't i wouldn't have kept this particular one. what's the point if she really has these preconceived views of the defendant? not not necessarily his conduct, but of him, then she's predisposed against him. and i don't think that's fair,...
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>> that moment was i think judge merchan telling him your argument is just not making any sense, and i'm hearing you. i'm listening and give me a good argument, helped me through this, but you're not doing that. you're losing credibility council it is remarkable because it was the prosecutors had gone through each of where they said these violations happened, and essentially, we're saying this post, this post, this comment, and the judge was asking todd blanche will if you're saying that he's just defending himself, point to that moment. and i read that the transcript, todd blanche never points to a specific moment and that really is seemed or thing thanks. kinda careened off the rails for todd blanche, there are hearings as a lawyer that go well, and there's hearings that are so sow and there's hearings that are bad. this was a debacle for todd blanche. i mean, it was embarrassing for him. and two here, the judge openly say you're costing yourself credibility when here's how bad it got. this is the quote that i remember at one point. so remember donald trump reposted this quote from
>> that moment was i think judge merchan telling him your argument is just not making any sense, and i'm hearing you. i'm listening and give me a good argument, helped me through this, but you're not doing that. you're losing credibility council it is remarkable because it was the prosecutors had gone through each of where they said these violations happened, and essentially, we're saying this post, this post, this comment, and the judge was asking todd blanche will if you're saying that...
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the objection. >> why would merchan why would the prosecutor object? >> and why would i can sustain the objection yeah. >> i'm not quite sure i wanted to give an idea well my guess is that what they're trying to do? the defense team is trying to suggest that the political and the personal were kind of kept segregated. the prosecutors are trying to show that in trump-world everything was all blended together. and so i think that that's what that line of questioning was aimed to get at. but i think what the judge did here is actually very interesting. in that to the point about not creating a pellet issues the judge is paying attention, listening to the questioning, and making these on the judgment calls about questions that are permissible and questions that are impermissible precisely to ensure that you don't have that kind of harvey weinstein problem where the judge allows the prosecutors or the defense to start opening doors that shouldn't be opened before the jury. >> yeah. mean, the thing that's catching my eye here is that anytime you have a defen
the objection. >> why would merchan why would the prosecutor object? >> and why would i can sustain the objection yeah. >> i'm not quite sure i wanted to give an idea well my guess is that what they're trying to do? the defense team is trying to suggest that the political and the personal were kind of kept segregated. the prosecutors are trying to show that in trump-world everything was all blended together. and so i think that that's what that line of questioning was aimed to...
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and it's going to put judge merchan in a very difficult position of trying to maintain control in order of his courtroom. the prosecutors will keep pushing for sanctions i think, that he may he may sort of draw a line in the sand now and say, i'm not going to penalize you for what went before, but going forward, there will be financial sanctions and there is the possibility of incarceration if you don't toe the line. so i think it's a tough position for the defense team in a tough position for the judge i think that donald trump knows how to push those buttons very well out of your former assistant district attorney with the manhattan district attorney's office, judge merchan. typically were told as a quiet demeanor, but he was clearly annoyed even exasperated by that whole exchange in the gag order hearing, according to our reporters in the courtroom could that have a broader impact on the trial itself i don't think so. >> i mean, look, you sit through a trial, parties get annoyed with one another. judges get annoyed with the parties. all of that happened out of the presence of the jur
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it's a paradox. >> trump later posted a clip from fox talking about judge merchan's daughter. and fox referring to her as a political activist for kamala harris does posting that clip violate the gag order >> so that's a really interesting and i think difficult question. and this could be the next frontier in the battle here. clearly, if donald trump himself makes comments about the judge's daughter that violates the gag order and the gag order says trump cannot order orange struct some other person to make comments that would violate the gag order. but then there's this open question. well, what if somebody in the media says something on their own and then trump re, tweets it or re truce it is that the same thing as him saying it? i think there's a decent argument that if you recirculate something without comment, that's pretty close to saying it yourself. but now the da's got to decide, do they go? what are the judge and say, hey, late your order. if the da does not do that, you can bet trump will continue to use this sort of loophole. >> let's talk about some of the possibl
it's a paradox. >> trump later posted a clip from fox talking about judge merchan's daughter. and fox referring to her as a political activist for kamala harris does posting that clip violate the gag order >> so that's a really interesting and i think difficult question. and this could be the next frontier in the battle here. clearly, if donald trump himself makes comments about the judge's daughter that violates the gag order and the gag order says trump cannot order orange struct...
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one thing that they have tried repeatedly to do is going after the judge himself by asking judge juan merchan to recuse himself something. they've already tried last year, but they are now trying again and we are told by our reporters and sayyed the room that is the first order of business that the judge is taking up here and we have heard from many legal experts following kristen. and as we've been looking at this, you know, it has been this effort to get him or herself, but that seems virtually like it's not going to happen >> no, that seems highly unlikely. and as jake noted, the are no cameras in the courtroom, so relying on our colleagues and sayyed for updates and they have announced that judge juan merchan, he is in the courtroom and the trial is now underway. you want to know someone else who is also in the courtroom i'm not if the district attorney, alvin bragg, this is a big test for hip >> is a democrat >> and the elected district attorney and he campaigned on a promise to prosecute trump. he could be the first prosecutor to overseeing and perhaps the only ive he's reelected to ove
one thing that they have tried repeatedly to do is going after the judge himself by asking judge juan merchan to recuse himself something. they've already tried last year, but they are now trying again and we are told by our reporters and sayyed the room that is the first order of business that the judge is taking up here and we have heard from many legal experts following kristen. and as we've been looking at this, you know, it has been this effort to get him or herself, but that seems...
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judge jones, how do you think judge merchan is handling? the trial? so far and the fact that the jury, aside from seven more alternates, has already several more alternatives that have already been seated i think he's doing a good job. >> anderson these are hard cases at the beginning because the lawyers tend to spar and there's a lot of kind of combat at the beginning and laurie here's tend to be two clinical at times in what they do and jury selection. and then after a while it's sort of collapses of its own weight. you may have seen that today and i have to say if they get the whole jury pick tamara than he's done a great job. job of getting it done this week. >> the two jurors were dismissed today as we've talked about one, because concerns her identity had figured out, the judge has the media to refrain from describing jurors by physical descriptions, not disclosed. their current and past employers what happens? do you worry that details will leak out? i mean, as jeff was saying, you know, it is very easy for some unscrupulous person to put infor
judge jones, how do you think judge merchan is handling? the trial? so far and the fact that the jury, aside from seven more alternates, has already several more alternatives that have already been seated i think he's doing a good job. >> anderson these are hard cases at the beginning because the lawyers tend to spar and there's a lot of kind of combat at the beginning and laurie here's tend to be two clinical at times in what they do and jury selection. and then after a while it's sort...
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carolina yeah >> i don't envy judge merchan's position. he is he's really in an untenable position with just a very unique defendant here absolutely. there are sort of escalating measures you can take we've. seen with the gag order, obviously how he's going to go down that path. the most severe consequence of which for violation would be throwing him in jail. that's never going to happen. no judge wants to be the judge that throws a former president in jail and logistically, it would be a nightmare. but in terms of during the trial, he does let's have the option of putting growing him out of the courtroom, which i think president former president trump might not menn mind actually mille, your thoughts karolina zolan money. i my caygle is we're old it's like switching hats >> president trump was the most powerful man in the >> world for four years. he's out former president trump, judge bar john runs that roman i'll run it. it'll run it very serious demeanor if he feels that anybody is violated the rules, fill take action, but i don't think
carolina yeah >> i don't envy judge merchan's position. he is he's really in an untenable position with just a very unique defendant here absolutely. there are sort of escalating measures you can take we've. seen with the gag order, obviously how he's going to go down that path. the most severe consequence of which for violation would be throwing him in jail. that's never going to happen. no judge wants to be the judge that throws a former president in jail and logistically, it would be a...
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judge merchan saying, at one point, mr. blanche, you are losing all credibility here are some of the posts that prosecutors flagged as violations. this one on april 10th from trump on truth, social writing. look, what was just found with the fake news. will the fake news report it it was above a photo of a 2018 statement from stormy daniels denying her relationship with trump. another three days later, trashing michael cohen, the witness, asking, quote has disgraced attorney and felon michael cohen been prosecuted for lying and four days after that, a repost of a foxhole slamming perspective. jurors allegedly undercover liberal active, alleging, i should say, undercover liberal activists are quote, lying to the judge in order to get on the trunk jury the prosecution also brought up this remark from the former president sayyed the courtroom just yesterday what are they going to look at all the lives that last line in the last trial. so he got caught lying pure lime. >> and what are they going to look at that? >> prosecutors
judge merchan saying, at one point, mr. blanche, you are losing all credibility here are some of the posts that prosecutors flagged as violations. this one on april 10th from trump on truth, social writing. look, what was just found with the fake news. will the fake news report it it was above a photo of a 2018 statement from stormy daniels denying her relationship with trump. another three days later, trashing michael cohen, the witness, asking, quote has disgraced attorney and felon michael...
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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, judge jones, appreciate you've been back with us. what was your biggest takeaway from opening statements? >> well, it's interesting. >> i think the opening statements we're not unexpected there's a lot that the prosecution didn't say and i'm curious about that. >> i think they're they're kinda playing hide the ball, not inappropriately with some witnesses. i agree with your panelists had hope hicks is it's 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 about todd blanche is statement that it is not illegal to influence an election. i'm not sure where he's going with that at because i why he raised that is a little unclear to me. but those are the first takeaway is i had from the from the opening statements, i was surprised that judge merchan ended cord early because an alternate juror
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, judge jones, appreciate you've been back with us. what was your biggest takeaway from opening statements? >> well, it's interesting. >> i think the opening statements we're not unexpected there's a lot that the prosecution didn't say and i'm curious about that. >> i think they're they're kinda playing hide the ball, not...
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judge merchan says that the issue right now is moot. so what does that translate? that rescue essentially because they're going to not continue this line of questioning. there's no need for the judge to actually run this trick. the objection, trying not to go down a particular rabbit hole undertaking a break right now is trump is actually leaving the courtroom. but the idea here, they do not want to go down a rabbit hole and remember, a jury though they're not listening to the sidebar conversations and hush years are on. they are tuned in and watching every minute detail that's happened. they're wanting to wondered if figure out is there an issue. why do they want to talk about steve bannon? it might make people think are what's the issue here if that's what you don't want to the jury to be distracted from the testimony you're already hearing about a catch and kill about a path i don't know if behavior about this trying to influence an election that's where you want this jury focus for this witness. i believe there'll be plenty of time to talk about a steve bannon
judge merchan says that the issue right now is moot. so what does that translate? that rescue essentially because they're going to not continue this line of questioning. there's no need for the judge to actually run this trick. the objection, trying not to go down a particular rabbit hole undertaking a break right now is trump is actually leaving the courtroom. but the idea here, they do not want to go down a rabbit hole and remember, a jury though they're not listening to the sidebar...
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how do you think, judge merchan could address this latest attack against him? in the other cases, prosecutors flag that they say violated the gag order in the upcoming hearing on that issue well, i think the best thing he could do is not respond at all. >> that's the wisest way to deal with attacks like that say nothing. it's a mistake for a judge to get drawn into it. >> also today in this so-called sandoval hearing, judge merchan said he'll decide by monday whether prosecutors can bring up trump's past legal cases. how do you expect him to rule? >> well, you know, the sandoval rule is that it has the questioning has to go to credibility, honesty, and veracity. and so many of the items that the people want to put in go directly to veracity, credibility and honesty. but the judge's job is just to weigh the probative value of that testimony against the prejudice. so it's always prejudicial to a defendant to have bad prior bad acts mentioned on the other hand, the probative value is high on some of these things so the prior finding that his testimony was not hone
how do you think, judge merchan could address this latest attack against him? in the other cases, prosecutors flag that they say violated the gag order in the upcoming hearing on that issue well, i think the best thing he could do is not respond at all. >> that's the wisest way to deal with attacks like that say nothing. it's a mistake for a judge to get drawn into it. >> also today in this so-called sandoval hearing, judge merchan said he'll decide by monday whether prosecutors can...
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judge juan merchan john, jen before we get to everything that happened today, it was a lot. there's a comment from trump just now where he was talking about the jury in an interview, this is what he had to say. >> that's yogi was pick so fast, 95% democrats. the areas mostly all democrat. you think of it as just a purely democrat area. it's a very unfair situation that i can tell you one, what do you make of him commenting on the jury like that outside of court and to his legal team seem to think that they did pretty well and figuring out the jury here yeah. >> i think it is another violation of the gag order. the judge put certain strictures on different pieces of the gag order, like if you could only not talk about what this is, if it had to do with their participation in the case even more strictures on when it was a violation. if you talked about personnel and so on. but the juror is the judge basically said, you may not make public statements that relate to the jurors, period, full stop. so i think any talking about the jurors is violation of the gag order, which i thin
judge juan merchan john, jen before we get to everything that happened today, it was a lot. there's a comment from trump just now where he was talking about the jury in an interview, this is what he had to say. >> that's yogi was pick so fast, 95% democrats. the areas mostly all democrat. you think of it as just a purely democrat area. it's a very unfair situation that i can tell you one, what do you make of him commenting on the jury like that outside of court and to his legal team seem...
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i commend judge merchan for getting the jury picked this week. i don't see that that creates a problem at all. perception may be that it's going too fast. this is typical of a trial. when, you know, you're gonna be seated for maybe a month or month-and-a-half. you need to get busy. i mean, you're taking time out of people's lives and it only makes sense to get started jill, we heard about potential jurors crying, getting emotional, talking about a lot of people talking about stress and anxiety. can you just talk about the stress i mean, anybody might feel on a jury, but particularly this. >> yeah. and there's a lot of reasons people don't want to be on juries, but i don't want to add another one, but it is stressful. is stressful in any case ace think of cases like where there's a horrific crime involved in the jurors are gonna be exposed to horrific photos and scenes and things like that. it can be very, very stressful here. the jurors know that all eyes are on this all eyes are watching they walk into court. there's donald trump, a president. t
i commend judge merchan for getting the jury picked this week. i don't see that that creates a problem at all. perception may be that it's going too fast. this is typical of a trial. when, you know, you're gonna be seated for maybe a month or month-and-a-half. you need to get busy. i mean, you're taking time out of people's lives and it only makes sense to get started jill, we heard about potential jurors crying, getting emotional, talking about a lot of people talking about stress and anxiety....
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it might be slow but it is progress. >> and what what judge merchan did was interesting and somewhat different from the way other judges operate. other judges sometimes ask don't let people excuse themselves by saying they, they have strong feelings he, he's just letting everyone go. he does he has enough of a pool. he has hundreds of people waiting. he is not going to quarrel with people who say they can't be fair >> that's good. that means this process will move along 40 people making it through essentially half a day because the the morning was personally taken up with legal arguments. this is good progress. i mean, they are going to have a jury in a week or two here >> jeff i'm wondering what you make it the different evidence that the judge has ruled in miscible. karen mcdougal, the former playboy play man, foreign president, allegedly had an affair with, will be allowed to testify and other hand, the access hollywood it would tape which everybody knows about cant be played for the jury. >> i thought those were very reasonable conclusions by the judge the karen mcdougal story is
it might be slow but it is progress. >> and what what judge merchan did was interesting and somewhat different from the way other judges operate. other judges sometimes ask don't let people excuse themselves by saying they, they have strong feelings he, he's just letting everyone go. he does he has enough of a pool. he has hundreds of people waiting. he is not going to quarrel with people who say they can't be fair >> that's good. that means this process will move along 40 people...
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but before jury selection even began, prosecutors were already asking judge juan merchan to find donald trump. they were accusing him of violating his gag order with three social media posts he made about the case, including one at 9:12 eastern in this morning, possibly while actually inside court trump in one post referred to two key witnesses as sleaze bags. those were his former attorney, michael cohen, and his former alleged paramour, adult film star and directors stormy daniels. remember, donald trump is being charged with 34 counts of falsifying business records to cover for up the alleged role in a hush money scheme to buy daniels silence and that of another alleged mistress before the 2016 election. here's a stormy daniels herself described it in 2018 was it hush money to stay silent? >> yes >> all right. wow >> trump denied of course, knowing anything about it 30 >> he said he did not know anything about hush money payments to stormy daniels. but then in 2019 michael cohen testified before congress and he said something else. i am >> ashamed that i chose to take part in conceal
but before jury selection even began, prosecutors were already asking judge juan merchan to find donald trump. they were accusing him of violating his gag order with three social media posts he made about the case, including one at 9:12 eastern in this morning, possibly while actually inside court trump in one post referred to two key witnesses as sleaze bags. those were his former attorney, michael cohen, and his former alleged paramour, adult film star and directors stormy daniels. remember,...
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and i think judge merchan is just looking to get to the finish line. so he probably is holding the specter of a penalty over the former president had said, and hoping he doesn't have to impose anything serious. but then also he's got a graduated scale. you can start with the fine. he can ramp it up, but he if he can run this out to the case is over. it's almost a moot point and he can deal with it. he can certainly deal with the contempt decision after the trial. if he can run it out, that law yeah. >> i'm here also with paula reid adam kaufmann, polo. they're taking a short break right now how much longer do we expect pecker to be on the stand for? >> so defense team says they have half an hour of additional questioning and then prosecutors will have a chance to do what it's called, redirect, so they can go back at the witness. it's unclear how long that's going to take, but it certainly possible that pecker could wrap up today. >> adam, i'm do you think anything there been any headlines out of today so for it's the first day, it's the first de in a l
and i think judge merchan is just looking to get to the finish line. so he probably is holding the specter of a penalty over the former president had said, and hoping he doesn't have to impose anything serious. but then also he's got a graduated scale. you can start with the fine. he can ramp it up, but he if he can run this out to the case is over. it's almost a moot point and he can deal with it. he can certainly deal with the contempt decision after the trial. if he can run it out, that law...
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. >> wolf is under that gag order was ordered by a judge, merchan not to comment by any witnesses in the trial just a fact check. >> what trump said in that sound bite. cohen served time in federal prison after pleading guilty to breaking federal campaign laws when he facilitated the payment to stormy daniels which is directly linked to the charges right now against trump. that's where the taxi medallions that trump reference cohen was also sentenced for tax evasion related to a taxi medallion enterprise and lying to a bank in relation to a home loan aaron, thanks very much for joining me for our special coverage. always good to be with you and don't forget to our viewers, erin will be back 7:00 p.m. eastern for aaron burr burnett out front. i'll be back 6:00 p.m. eastern in the situation room. the lead with jake tapper starts right now the first witness has taken the stand and donald trump's hush money cover up, try all the leads, starts right now former publisher, david, first to testify today about what prosecutors are alleging was a criminal conspiracy and cover up of donald trum
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arguments and whether they have any chance of succeeding so while donald trump is now asking judge juan merchan for a second time to recuse himself to remove himself from the case and trump's team points to two things first of all, they note that in the summer of 2020, judge more shawn made a donation, a very small donation $35 to a democratic political group that's stated purpose was to put joe biden the white house and to defeat donald trump. second, trump's team notes that the judge's daughter works for a democratic consulting organization that does work for several democratic candidates. now, trump originally made this motion last summer, judge more sean consulted with an ethics group that told him you do not have to recuse and hence, judge merchan rejected that motion. now trump is reopening this motion and he's arguing that the circumstances have changed because last summer he says he was one of several republican candidates, and now he's essentially the presumptive nominee. well, if i think this one has close to a 0% chance of success because if judge machine was going to recuse himself,
arguments and whether they have any chance of succeeding so while donald trump is now asking judge juan merchan for a second time to recuse himself to remove himself from the case and trump's team points to two things first of all, they note that in the summer of 2020, judge more shawn made a donation, a very small donation $35 to a democratic political group that's stated purpose was to put joe biden the white house and to defeat donald trump. second, trump's team notes that the judge's...
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judge merchan sustained the objections. i guess karen, you were suggesting that you found you were founding it argumentative bit what they were saying. and i get it sounds like judge merchan agrees exactly. save it for your summation. save it. looks see if the evidence does show these things right. because because there are rules about what he's supposed to happen in the opening argument. the opening is just supposed to be a preview of what they expect the evidence to show. you're not supposed to make arguments and traditionally, lawyers don't typically object during openings are summations. you kind of sit back and let them make their argument unless something is really egregious. so the fact that we've seen a bunch of a bunch of nih think worth three objections so far from the da's office in a 20 minute opening. that's a lot. you could see tensions are already high in that courtroom. >> damage is done by the way. the jury is hearing parts of these statements that are being made. and of course, you can have the objections
judge merchan sustained the objections. i guess karen, you were suggesting that you found you were founding it argumentative bit what they were saying. and i get it sounds like judge merchan agrees exactly. save it for your summation. save it. looks see if the evidence does show these things right. because because there are rules about what he's supposed to happen in the opening argument. the opening is just supposed to be a preview of what they expect the evidence to show. you're not supposed...
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his team trying yet again to kick judge juan merchan off the case and while trump is trying every single trick in the book to get the hush money case delayed in new york. he is also daring the judge to call them out for violating a gag order. today, trump fired up a whole number of posts online, including one which was a response to the disgraced attorney, michael avinatan, who formerly represented stormy daniels avinatan road about michael cohen and stormy daniels, two likely witnesses in trump's case and trump responded to that by saying, thank you to mychal avinatan for revealing the truth about to sleaze bags, who have with their lives and misrepresentations cost our country dearly lai's this and sleaze bags according to outfront legal analyst ryan goodman, who is with me in just a moment. this is a clear violation of trump's gag order, which prohibits him from quote making or directing others to make public statements about known or reasonably foreseeable witnesses concerning their potential participation in the investigation or in this criminal proceeding now, both of the individua
his team trying yet again to kick judge juan merchan off the case and while trump is trying every single trick in the book to get the hush money case delayed in new york. he is also daring the judge to call them out for violating a gag order. today, trump fired up a whole number of posts online, including one which was a response to the disgraced attorney, michael avinatan, who formerly represented stormy daniels avinatan road about michael cohen and stormy daniels, two likely witnesses in...
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but opening statements could take place as soon as monday, judge merchan optimistic taking that timeline, but first, you have to complete jury selection. >> once again, this is the first time in american history, a former president of the united states has actually gone to a criminal trial. so we'll watch it all unfold history in the making right now. is that cohen? thank you very, very much. meanwhile, columbia university's president is testifying up on capitol hill right now about anti-semitism on campus. speak to the ceo of the anti-defamation league about that. and the soaring number of incidents anti-semitic incidents happening across the country right now nick paton walsh report on the growing turf war between humans and lanka feels bizarre to see this frontline mentality out here are these giant and invasive species, or are they fighting for their own survival the whole story with anderson cooper, sunday at eight on cnn, all these games on directv and no satellite on the roof thick about this blue jays cardinals orioles. >> what's missing? the andean condor know, while brain pigeo
but opening statements could take place as soon as monday, judge merchan optimistic taking that timeline, but first, you have to complete jury selection. >> once again, this is the first time in american history, a former president of the united states has actually gone to a criminal trial. so we'll watch it all unfold history in the making right now. is that cohen? thank you very, very much. meanwhile, columbia university's president is testifying up on capitol hill right now about...
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jury selection began on thursday with judge juan merchan scolding press for reporting some information contained in the juror questionnaire including specific employers that could potentially identify juror first the judge's remarks come after one juror, a female oncology nurse was excused after saying aspects of her identity were made public saying she could no longer be impartial. she tells the judge yesterday alone, i had friends, colleagues, and family push things to my phone, questioning my identity as a juror. i don't believe at this point that i can be fair and unbiased. the second juror dismissed is an older man from puerto rico who says he finds trump fascinating and mysterious. he was dismissed after prosecutors questioned if his answer about whether he had ever been accused of a crime was accurate, they identified someone with the same name who was arrested in the 1990s for tearing during down political posters. the exact reason for the jurists dismissal though, is not known nearly 100 new perspective jurors came through the freezing courtroom for questioning, at least half
jury selection began on thursday with judge juan merchan scolding press for reporting some information contained in the juror questionnaire including specific employers that could potentially identify juror first the judge's remarks come after one juror, a female oncology nurse was excused after saying aspects of her identity were made public saying she could no longer be impartial. she tells the judge yesterday alone, i had friends, colleagues, and family push things to my phone, questioning...
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how do you expect judge merchan to rule and would anything deter trump two good questions. >> i would expect him initially to impose fines. i don't think he's going to go right to incarceration. i don't think any judge would do that. he's going to impose fines and he's going to give them a stern warning saying, now, look i have fine. you and i can find you again. but if you don't stop this, i have the power to incarcerate you and that's what's going to happen if you violate my court orders. i think he's going to give him a stern talking to and i think he's going to impose these fairly minimal fines of $1,000 per violation for trump. that's what i would expect that much money for trump. judge. shetland, cnn is just learning now that the us secret service court officers and even the new york city department of corrections have been quietly discussing what to do if trump does end up being jailed jailed for contempt of court. if you are presiding over this case, at what point would you be prepared to actually jail the former president of the united states? >> i wouldn't be anxious to do t
how do you expect judge merchan to rule and would anything deter trump two good questions. >> i would expect him initially to impose fines. i don't think he's going to go right to incarceration. i don't think any judge would do that. he's going to impose fines and he's going to give them a stern warning saying, now, look i have fine. you and i can find you again. but if you don't stop this, i have the power to incarcerate you and that's what's going to happen if you violate my court...
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but judge merchan, who was a very smart and capable a judge and he ran a tight ship. peaceable that way too. a minute. he said, if i told you what the law was, and instructed you on the law, could you put those feelings aside and deliver a fair verdict? and she said yes, and it's been my experience and i suspect it was your experience when you're actively practicing law? when a prospective juror is in the courtroom and there's the pomp and circumstance and the judges in his or her black robe, most people do say yes so he kept her for the next round, which really meant it was going to keep her and we came up with a different strategy. she had a parental health issue. she was dealing with and we got her out that way, but michael, the problem was not that perspective juror, it was like rows of shark teeth once she went there were 50 more behind her. so we got rid of a preamble. he yes. but there are different are you >> more are you are you more? surround in voir dire when it's a trump affiliated corporation or as it will be monday with the man himself. are you more conc
but judge merchan, who was a very smart and capable a judge and he ran a tight ship. peaceable that way too. a minute. he said, if i told you what the law was, and instructed you on the law, could you put those feelings aside and deliver a fair verdict? and she said yes, and it's been my experience and i suspect it was your experience when you're actively practicing law? when a prospective juror is in the courtroom and there's the pomp and circumstance and the judges in his or her black robe,...
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. >> that announcement from judge juan merchan after jury selection concluded 18 manhattan nights, 12 jurors and six alternates. now seated. going to go down. so this is going on in the week, and this will go on they filled the remaining five alternate seats. >> moments after the full jury was picked, a bizarre and tragic moment outside court as a man set himself on fire. authorities say he was previously known to the police. and while they are searching for for any domestic terror connections, that is not believed to have been the motivation in court. a handful of perspective jurors became emotional one was excused after she told the judge she had anxiety and was worried as the trial goes on, more people could know she's part of the jury saying, i might not be able to be completely fair and not emotional. so that concerns me. another was dismissed after she began crying, saying, i'm sorry, i thought i could do this. i wouldn't want someone who feels this way to judge my case either. i don't want you to feel i've wasted anyone's time. this is so much more stressful than i thought. a t
. >> that announcement from judge juan merchan after jury selection concluded 18 manhattan nights, 12 jurors and six alternates. now seated. going to go down. so this is going on in the week, and this will go on they filled the remaining five alternate seats. >> moments after the full jury was picked, a bizarre and tragic moment outside court as a man set himself on fire. authorities say he was previously known to the police. and while they are searching for for any domestic terror...
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part of what judge merchan wrote because i think there's some frustration be in here. he said the fact that the defendant waited until amir 17 days prior to the scheduled trial date of march 25, the file a motion raises real questions about the sincerity and actual purpose of the motion, the circumstances viewed as a whole test this court's credulity meow. i mean, that is pretty harsh language from a judge in any context, but he's got a point, john, and just look at the opportunity. he's that the former president's team probably had to raise these motions. they could have done so back in february when the supreme court took the case back in october, when they briefed the issue for the first time and then or back in may 2023, the first time it came up when they tried to remove the case to federal court. this issue of immunity has been out there for for nearly a year at this point, yet it's only on the eve of trial of the trump team chose to move forward. so it's fair for the judge to say, i think you're trying to okey-dokey me with the timeline here and we're just not g
part of what judge merchan wrote because i think there's some frustration be in here. he said the fact that the defendant waited until amir 17 days prior to the scheduled trial date of march 25, the file a motion raises real questions about the sincerity and actual purpose of the motion, the circumstances viewed as a whole test this court's credulity meow. i mean, that is pretty harsh language from a judge in any context, but he's got a point, john, and just look at the opportunity. he's that...
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do you think well judge merchan also though, kind of rein them in a bit, as i recall reading about the sandoval hearing that they can talk about verdicts. >> they can't talk about amounts of amounts of vertex which could make a difference so it's, it's hard to know, but i think trump he strikes me as somebody who's pretty fearless about those kinds of things and doesn't fear you having to answer questions about it i want to talk for a second about juror number nine, who called the court on friday with concerns understandable ones, frank equally over the media attention this case is getting. >> she met with the judge and lawyers today. she she's staying on the jury, but could this be an issue with other jurors going forward? and what happens if they decide they want out because it's just not worth the frankly, the threats to them. >> this dress yeah. >> with the stress. sure. >> but also, i mean, there are bad actors out there who might be prone to out jurors who don't want to be ousted if they ultimately come down with a verdict that they don't like yeah. >> agreed. and we already saw
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judge merchan did grant a couple of those cause challenges and for the other jurors that they didn't like, and they didn't get cause challenges than they use the predatory challenges on those jurors joel huntley, taylor. thank you. kara scannell, geoff toobin as well. we spent some time at the start of the trial on the catch and kill scheme at the center of it. all they were focusing on the one woman, one of two, who silence candidate trump allegedly tried to buy stormy daniels. her story before that moment. and since from our randy k stormy, daniels don't know who i am. i suggest you don't do that to you get long before she was stormy daniels? she was stephanie gregory, born in baton rouge, louisiana. she reportedly had dreams of becoming a veterinarian or a journalist. she was the editor of the school newspaper and president of the four h club. beneath her 1997 high school yearbook photo, a caption that reads, we will all get along just fine as soon as you realize that i am when by the time she was 17, she was dancing and strip clubs across the south, stripping was her entry into p
judge merchan did grant a couple of those cause challenges and for the other jurors that they didn't like, and they didn't get cause challenges than they use the predatory challenges on those jurors joel huntley, taylor. thank you. kara scannell, geoff toobin as well. we spent some time at the start of the trial on the catch and kill scheme at the center of it. all they were focusing on the one woman, one of two, who silence candidate trump allegedly tried to buy stormy daniels. her story...
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and now receives money from the biden campaign a lot of it a merchan's daughter has been employed by a company that did work for democratic political candidates. it is unclear what role she played out front now, ryan goodman are legal analysts, basil, michael, former executive director of the new york state democratic party, and david urban trump's 2020 senior campaign adviser. all right. thanks to all of you survive. let me just start with you because you've had a chance to go through the exact allegations that are being made by trump as to why juan merchan should be recused because of his daughter >> what do you make of it? >> i think the motion is on a road to nowhere part of the reason is that the core of the motion is the idea that it's not achieved directly financially benefits, or even unrelated to a party to the case, but rather per company's clients sent out solicitations for money that refer to the case. so not even her company, but their clients companies >> client? >> correct. just to make state the obvious, >> that's something her company does not control what they do. >
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kevin liptak at the white house. >> and this is cnn we're currently waiting for judge merchan to decide whether or not donald trump actually violated his gag orders in multiple posts online and seeing that legal analyst, joey jackson is joining us with more on that and what the judges actual options are joey so this is what trump cannot do pursuant to the gag order. what does that? let's talk about it. speak publicly about witnesses. why witness intimidation. and of course, they are public safety, speaking publicly about publicly about prosecutors and staff members cannot do that bragg's office. bragg is fair game. he's the district attorney. however, his court staff and family members, they are off limits as well and let's not forget speaking publicly about jurors. these are all the things they gag order forbids. now with respect to what trump is done, let us take a look at all of his post on truth social. those posts relating to a variety of alleged violations of the gag order which prosecutions wants to hold him accountable for. the prosecutor said that's a no-no. they went a hearing
kevin liptak at the white house. >> and this is cnn we're currently waiting for judge merchan to decide whether or not donald trump actually violated his gag orders in multiple posts online and seeing that legal analyst, joey jackson is joining us with more on that and what the judges actual options are joey so this is what trump cannot do pursuant to the gag order. what does that? let's talk about it. speak publicly about witnesses. why witness intimidation. and of course, they are...
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merchan moves along. i think the problem is that the as elie points out, the gag order really has no teeth. there's not a lot that he can do. the jail a possibility is really fraught with problems because of this particular defendant, but i wanted to just say one thing casey's point. i don't think it's mutually exclusive. that cohen could have gone rogue and still tried to act not at the behest of, but on behalf of trump because cohen, like willie chichi and godfather to column provides a buffer you remember that seems families got a lot of buffers. senator collins is a buffer and that was a great question that blanche elicited response from a pharaoh that you never talked to trump. he never saw trump. >> you know, you talked to deal with term ball. >> you you talked that cohen and i think if because you must remember, there's a vitriol between these two guys now, but at that point in time, cohen made the statement odd, take a bullet for you, mr. trump this guy was a sycophant, a suck up, and he'd do anyt
merchan moves along. i think the problem is that the as elie points out, the gag order really has no teeth. there's not a lot that he can do. the jail a possibility is really fraught with problems because of this particular defendant, but i wanted to just say one thing casey's point. i don't think it's mutually exclusive. that cohen could have gone rogue and still tried to act not at the behest of, but on behalf of trump because cohen, like willie chichi and godfather to column provides a...