Good morning and welcome to the final day of the third week of Donald Trumps criminal hush money trial, where the former president just reentered the courthouse here in manhattan. Were you all again go before the prosecution as they are going to bring a witness back on the stand, a witness that we saw yesterday . Should i stillman that older testimony when court ended, soon again, trump will be part of that captive audience that is going to be listening to the prosecutions version of a trump tale, a sexual when counter with the Adult Film Star that the former president allegedly tried to keep hidden. From american voters. Yesterday for the first time, the jury actually got two hear trumps boys and thats secretly recorded audio tape. Good morning. Im Kaitlan Collins here in new york thank caitlin. Im John Mccarthy austin here in washington. And you are watching cnn Special Coverage of Donald Trumps hush money cover up, trial in minutes from now, testimony, resumes and zeros in on trumps
are on verdict watch in the criminal hello. case against donald trump. but tete watch delayed a little bit because the jury has asked for key pieces of testimony. why one side might like that? get more. my wife is fond of flying flags. i am not supreme court justice samuel alito refuses to recuse himself in january this case is despite the controversial flags that trump s supporters have adopted seen at two of his homes had just when you thought that zooms staff who s were so 2020 meet demand, caught driving, driving during a virtual court hearing after being charged for dr we begin with a suspended license i m john berman with kate bolduan. sara is out today and this is cnn news central this morning, prosecutors, defense lawyers, legal hello. so around the world, trying to figure out what the jury is thinking it is. verdict watch and the criminal case against donald trump, the jury has the case. they have been deliberating for four hours, but they asked to be red key
actions the attorney general merrick garland oversaw actions that were taken by jack smith, the special counsel. she wanted to know, for instance, whether the attorney general, specifically on personally approved the indictment. this indictment against donald trump and a couple of other people who worked for him here in fort pierce. and she also questioned trump s attorneys when trump s attorneys emil bove beauvais, said that he believed that jack smith was essentially a shadow government the argument that they were making here today will, was that jack smith was illegally appointed by the attorney general because he came from outside the government. he s not someone who has been approved by the senate. this is a long-shot request, but it is one that the judge for some reason decided needed to be heard, needed to have have an entire hearing. and she also allowed outside parties are groups that had nothing to do with this case, to actually spend a couple of hours making argume