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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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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
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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
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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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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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. >> 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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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
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...
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stacy, you have worked with both trump and judge merchan. trump has already recently called the judge crooked. how do you expect this will all play out in the coming weeks as those to sit in the same courtroom >> i think judge marie, sean and thank you for having me, jake. i think judge marie sean it has complete control of his courtroom he is known to have control of his courtroom and a very interesting thing about him is that on the wednesdays when this case will not be heard, that's the one day they have a break judge, mug shot and actually runs the mental health felony part of manhattan courthouse so if there's any judge that's used to an outburst in court who can handle that perfectly with that would be judged mug shots. so i think trump is going to control himself a lot more than he did in his civil trial. in the other courthouses where he showed up in manhattan what do you see stacy as donald trump's best defenses and biggest weaknesses in this specific case. >> okay. well, the da is really engaging in a novel prosecution here. they'v
stacy, you have worked with both trump and judge merchan. trump has already recently called the judge crooked. how do you expect this will all play out in the coming weeks as those to sit in the same courtroom >> i think judge marie, sean and thank you for having me, jake. i think judge marie sean it has complete control of his courtroom he is known to have control of his courtroom and a very interesting thing about him is that on the wednesdays when this case will not be heard, that's...
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also worked with manhattan district attorney alvin bragg's office and has appeared before judge juan merchan stacy, that when leaving the courtroom, mr. trump, the defense and in claimed that this is an unfair trial. he complained about how cold the courtroom is that he's not able to hit the campaign trail. he said that president biden's behind the prosecution. there's no evidence of that. you were a contestant on the apprentice. does any of this behavior surprise you? >> no, not at all. first of all, trump is great. thinking on his feet about what he wants to say to the media. >> he planned this one out though, obviously because he had that stack of news stories or op-ed opinions that this is not a valid prosecution and the de doesn't have evidence but that kind of rhetoric is going to fade away as this trial gets underway because of the particular indictment that was filed against him. >> this is a case solely about falsifying business records and the de has cited in the indictment actual physical evidence that they claim to have checkbooks checks, checks, stubs, receipts, entries into bus
also worked with manhattan district attorney alvin bragg's office and has appeared before judge juan merchan stacy, that when leaving the courtroom, mr. trump, the defense and in claimed that this is an unfair trial. he complained about how cold the courtroom is that he's not able to hit the campaign trail. he said that president biden's behind the prosecution. there's no evidence of that. you were a contestant on the apprentice. does any of this behavior surprise you? >> no, not at all....
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he would monastery was admonished by judge merchan for muttering while one of them was being questioned judge merchan said, i won't have jurors of potential jurors intimidated what what did you make of that and did it did you have flashbacks about how difficult it was to tell donald trump what to do? >> making eye contact with jurors is not a bad thing. it's certainly something that i do. it's something that if you do you do it like with your eyes wide open, you're all being sympathetic, unlikeable. it sounds like it was there was some glorying going on that's certainly does sound like that. and also, what did he mater? that can be problematic. >> yeah. yeah. whatever he muttered, but i think that the judge certainly cut it off. and as i understand it, that juror was not seated anyway, tim parlatore. >> thank you so much. always good to have you on a deadly civil war. millions displaced and starving up next, the brutal conflict that is not getting enough of the world's attention stay with us how long have you been tracking the value of our car? >> should we sell it? we hold our low mile
he would monastery was admonished by judge merchan for muttering while one of them was being questioned judge merchan said, i won't have jurors of potential jurors intimidated what what did you make of that and did it did you have flashbacks about how difficult it was to tell donald trump what to do? >> making eye contact with jurors is not a bad thing. it's certainly something that i do. it's something that if you do you do it like with your eyes wide open, you're all being sympathetic,...
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we're still waiting on judge merchan to issue his ruling on whether or not trump violated the gag order. how long could this be left unresolved? well, it's up to him, but he's got to move fast. >> i mean, how much more evidence could he need them? this as the order is pending, donald trump is going out and revivim waiting and revitalizing. it would you think he did it? oh, i think you've all ten those are all tentative, i think. yes, i think the judge the judge has tended to split the baby as we say, he may peel off a couple of them and say, this one's a little bit ambiguous. the judge is going to find that he violated the vast majority of those ten or i think it's 11 now and maybe more pending. >> i if i had to guess, i would guess we'll get a ruling tomorrow earlier before the court de so tabloid to magnate david pecker, that's a nice version for what he has sleaze merchant former publisher of the national enquirer, testified for about two-and-a-half hours yesterday. >> he's been granted in immunity deal, an exchange for his testimony with what we know of his testimony so far, what he
we're still waiting on judge merchan to issue his ruling on whether or not trump violated the gag order. how long could this be left unresolved? well, it's up to him, but he's got to move fast. >> i mean, how much more evidence could he need them? this as the order is pending, donald trump is going out and revivim waiting and revitalizing. it would you think he did it? oh, i think you've all ten those are all tentative, i think. yes, i think the judge the judge has tended to split the...
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that karen if court is not in session today, does it make it doesn't make it more likely that judge merchan is it's going to issue this ruling on trump's possible gag order violations. and if not, then when judge for sean has what's called a calendar day, all his other cases are on the calendar today, so he's dealing with those matters. he certainly could issue a ruling in this case today, or he could wait till tomorrow when court is back in session and the parties are there, you might render his decision in front of them or he could issue he could just drop a written decision anytime so gene michael cohen, he got some public heat after after he after he referred to donald trump disparagingly on twitter or x calling him something like von poops and pants, but a little cruder. >> today, he just posted and he says, quote, despite not being the gag, the defendant out of respect for judge merchan and the prosecutors, i will seize posting anything about donald on my x formerly twitter account or on the mayor culpa podcast. that's his podcast until after my trial testimony. see you all in a month
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judge merchan says, we will call it a week and as giving the jury instructions, this is exactly jim trusty, what you said, you would do if you were the prosecutor, establish some of these little facts, don't let the defense have a moment ago, adam. >> yeah. i mean, that's and look, there's nothing sinister about that. there's an element of theater to trial, and i think they're been in north carolina four 4.4 corner defense. right. it's not that before corner it's not four to 2.5 times that bad. but this is essential. my point is not that it's not important evidence. they're looking for stuff that's not controversial. they want, don't want to leave with their chin and have these moments of really getting sidetracked long before cohen gets on the stand if you're the defense, the fight is not whether or not there was a relationship with stormy. it's not whether or not there was an nda. i mean, that's really not it ultimately what you're focusing on is cone and you're looking at the ledger and you're saying is the difference between a crime and a not crime that you didn't say four nda after le
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you say this ruling could come back to haunt trump's judge juan merchan in trump's trial, explain well, it illuminates a shared legal issue that is at the heart of both of these cases of course, for activists and for survivors of harvey weinstein's alleged crimes it's an anguished moment, to hear that one of his conviction was overturned on essentially a question of legal technicality, the way the case was built. >> but for legal spectators, it's less surprising because this was always a case where prosecutors overextended a bit in the context of the new york rules of evidence on what you can lead into a case he was being charged on three pledged assaults and they let other women with other accounts of unrelated assaults come in and testify. and i have a new piece out in the new yorker detailing what exactly the rules are and why that always seemed like a bit of an overextension. now, this doesn't matter that much for harvey weinstein's immediate future. his lawyers in california where he asked to serve us separate 16 year sentence. that's essentially going to put them away for much of
you say this ruling could come back to haunt trump's judge juan merchan in trump's trial, explain well, it illuminates a shared legal issue that is at the heart of both of these cases of course, for activists and for survivors of harvey weinstein's alleged crimes it's an anguished moment, to hear that one of his conviction was overturned on essentially a question of legal technicality, the way the case was built. >> but for legal spectators, it's less surprising because this was always a...
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live next monday at one justin to cnn manhattan district attorney alvin bragg is now asking judge juan merchan, who is overseeing donald trump's >> hush money trial tomend a gag order in that case, two clue family members of those involved in trump's trial. now, this comes after trump's stepped up his verbal attacks against the judge and also singled out the judge's own daughter. those comments about merchant and his family were part of a flurry of posts from the former president over the weekend, cnn's kristen holmes is over in frigid, wisconsin where donald trump is about to bring his rhetoric back to the campaign trail >> donald trump is set to return to the campaign trail tuesday with visits to the critical battleground states of michigan and wisconsin. but his focus appears to be on his impending criminal trial in new york. >> this is all about election >> interference, pumping his combative rhetoric, trump spent the easter holiday attacking perceived enemies in a series of social media posts writing, quote, happy easter to all including crooked and corrupt prosecutors and judges, and goi
live next monday at one justin to cnn manhattan district attorney alvin bragg is now asking judge juan merchan, who is overseeing donald trump's >> hush money trial tomend a gag order in that case, two clue family members of those involved in trump's trial. now, this comes after trump's stepped up his verbal attacks against the judge and also singled out the judge's own daughter. those comments about merchant and his family were part of a flurry of posts from the former president over the...
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judge merchan minus donald trump at one point, what happened >> yeah, this was in that problem a question about their social media and trump >> had a, what we're being told is visible and somewhat audible reaction to this person's answer once that prospective juror left the courtroom, the judge immediately told trump's attorneys to basically keep control of him. he said, quote, i will not have german jurors intimidated in my courtroom. so certainly got a scolding their for the most part, though, jake trump has been very much involved at sometime and he's sitting back, leaning back and listening, but he has been corresponding with his defense attorneys throughout this entire process. >> all right. brian, thanks so much. appreciate it. let's discuss it all with former federal prosecutor, jean rossi. he's the former assistant us attorney in the eastern district of the great commonwealth of virginia. so genes six jurors have been seated. the trump team has frustrated one juror was dismissed today for having a pro trump bias there. they're upset about that because there already afraid that the
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>> after the jury selection actually started here i think that judge merchan just wants to get this moving forward because you delay you have this hearing. >> it's going to delay the jury selection some process, and the more time you get stuck with that, i think that's bad for the case. but understand there's two different types or we'll call it two different types of contempt or are violations of that gag order? one would be, for example, if it was in front of the judge and he could summarily say you have violated my the conditions of whatever i set forth and i can make a decision now. and then the 2nd, we're seeing here is it's not in his presence. and then we have that hearing and donald trump has a right to protect himself and respond to them and it has to be proven beyond a reasonable doubt. it can be a civil or it could be a criminal. here it would likely be criminal because it would be to punish him for his actions as opposed to making someone hold, for example, up to $1,000, up to 30 days in jail. i think the judge is delaying it, not because he doesn't think it's important, but i
>> after the jury selection actually started here i think that judge merchan just wants to get this moving forward because you delay you have this hearing. >> it's going to delay the jury selection some process, and the more time you get stuck with that, i think that's bad for the case. but understand there's two different types or we'll call it two different types of contempt or are violations of that gag order? one would be, for example, if it was in front of the judge and he...
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it's a judge juan merchan, who is presiding over the hush money case. he's ultimately going to get to decide if prosecutors can bring up any of these past legal issues. and again, this isn't the prosecution being jerks. this is if they're ever going to break going up, anything, if trump testifies and they want to impeach his credibility and they're going to bring up previous legal acts. they have to file this so the prosecution is just doing this as required by law. that said, let's, dive in the first item on their list is trump's recent civil fraud trial from the new york attorney general where the judge found that trump did falsify business records ally about the value of his assets, and the judge ordered him to pay $355 million. do you think prosecutors should be allowed to ask trump? about this case? it doesn't involve hush money yes. >> so look, when when somebody testifies at trial, whether it's a defendant or a witness, any time there's somebody on trial are testifying. i should say credibility is an issue. and so if you've lied in documents and
it's a judge juan merchan, who is presiding over the hush money case. he's ultimately going to get to decide if prosecutors can bring up any of these past legal issues. and again, this isn't the prosecution being jerks. this is if they're ever going to break going up, anything, if trump testifies and they want to impeach his credibility and they're going to bring up previous legal acts. they have to file this so the prosecution is just doing this as required by law. that said, let's, dive in...