Russia is doing in terms of influence efforts in the United States trying to sow division that are already apparent in the us evidence that they tried to influence and maybe interfere in the elections. Terrific to have you here, kylie. Thank you so much for sharing this breaking news reporting. Weve got major new developments. Lets get right to them developing news for you this morning, donald trump just arrived at court, were watching that hallway for you to see if hes got anything to say today before critical testimony gets back underway . In historic Hush Money Trial this hour, the former publisher of the enquirer, david pecker, back on the stand under crossexamination as the defense tries to know formalized conversations, pecker told the jury about that involve trump, Stormy Daniels, and efforts to catch their stories and kill them because they were unflattering to donald trump cnns beringia and grasses live outside of court. As we wait to see if donald trump has anything to say. H
Im not sure that anybody has ever seen anything like this before. Day two of testimony in trumps hush money election interference trial. And the judge has already had it with trump and his legal team. Meanwhile, i was in the courtroom as the first witness, david pecker, gave riveting testimony about his interactions with trump. I will tell you what i saw and heard. And that is where we begin tonight. With the historic first ever trial of a former american president , as donald trump spent a second day in court before a attan jury. It was a day that i can say i witnessed personally as i took my turn to be at the courthouse, and has been the case so far, there were no throngs of Trump Supporters outside raising hell on his behalf. We notice this one guy who had a crucifix and rang a loud bell while wearing a tshirt declaring the three greatest u. S. President s were george washington, john f. Kennedy, and donald trump. Other than that, for all the giant barricades erected downtown, the l
isn t really a newscast. and concern the white house would want to one day get rid of kind of the live press briefings in front of the white house press corps. any feels this might in a way be a replacement for that or a message towards that in any way? not directly, but the latest example of president trump and his allies presenting an alternative media universe. what i mean why that is, create, supporting and nurturingened a and creating a rosy view of this presidency. if you re on facebook, if you re watching certain shows on fox news and living to certain right-wing talk show hosts all you re going to hear is the best possible news about the president. that might be a nice feeling. it might be something people like to do, were ut it s not a whole portrait of what s going on. it causes journalists to step up their game further and make sure we re giving the full picture. good and bad, what ses going on