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Minute, people the state of new york versus donald j. Trump started The Main Event Opening Statement hey, miss, youre looking at my picture in downtown new york. The courthouse and you hadnt soon the judge will gavel in and cmt the jury for the first ever prosecution of a former United States president. Minutes ago, we watched trump walk into court after his motorcade arrived at 100 centre street. We expect him to stop for the cameras and talk before heading inside get up in the judge and the ju...

Then thats the end of it. We all live with just kind of visor. Thanks so much. Appreciate you. Take back to you. Thanks. Andrew sin, cnns Kristen Holmes is outside the Manhattan Courthouse for us. She has been closely tracking whats happening inside the former president s political orbit. Kristen yeah, jake look, theyre trying to utilize every aspect of this to try to make it like a campaign stop. As you just saw donald trump heading to the cameras, they really believe see that this Trial De was...

Major city. the largest jurisdiction in the country to use rank voting. on election night, you saw that eric adams was out front. hes been out front the entire time. the difference there in terms of his first choice, he won the most first choice votes. 75,000 votes. in the end, he ends up winning by only a percentage points. it is interesting to see how much the gap has closed when you begin eliminating the candidates, whereby each candidate is eliminated and there are two that remain. he came o...

That. dont do it. ♪ >> i said, dad, i got to go into manhattan. i got to build those big buildings. i got to do it, dad. i got to do it. >> its an only in america kind of story. a guy from the outer burroughs from queens. makes up his mind to scale power and prestige in manhattan. >> the eyes on the bridge. how am i going to cross that bridge. i want to go to new york. donald trump was john travolta in "saturday night fever." ♪ >> i used to go to parties in new york that he threw, and it was...

>> its an only in america kind of story. a guy from the outer burroughs from queens. >> i wanted to go to new york. donald trump was john travolta in "saturday night fever." ♪ >> i used to go to parties in new york that he threw, and it was every c grade, semi sleazy pseudo celebrity. i was in a party in the 80s and trump looked at the crowd that was there. he looked at me and said, not indicted, not invited. >> no matter how much he tried,

Going to need congress. one of the things that i think is very appealing about all this its a unified republican government but it -- there is a lot of division within the republicans and the republicans on the hill are not going to write a blank check to donald trump. so many of them dont trust him. i think that return of the separation of powers and the balance of powers is a very good thing for america and i think that well have some very unusual and interesting and productive fights on capit...

Let manhattan become bel air, california. build whatever they want, let the developers do whatever they want and make money and you tax it an achieve all the goals you want to in the outer burroughs? do you believe that people have a right or you want to subsidize their preference to live in manhattan? do you agree with what im saying? >> i want to respond and frame it a little differently. to me its not a question are we trying to ignore market realities and say manhattan is an easy place for l...

Could be saving. >> absolutely. thats just the commissions staff. what we save in terms of the projects themselves, another council member who introduced the bill that im co-sponsor of to eliminate the commission pointed out in his district, he wanted to design a parks bocce court to put a roof on it. $75,000 is what they estimate would call, prefab unit so the old guys could play it in the court. after the design commission came back $750,000. >> you want to get rid of it. it is redundant. ther...

Suicide. he wasnt a terrorist this was not part of a largest terror plot that was the scare of course but this man confessed to police and convinced them he was actually trying kill himself not to cause any problems for anybody else. of course he was brought into custody. now were told he will not be charged but some very tense moments about 5:30 this morning on a subway tunnel leading from manhattan out into the outer burroughs here in new york city. back up to you guys. patti ann: all right ri...

Outside of new york city, its a cleatly different scene. new yorkers are age rip and theyre taking aim at the mayor. in the burroughs outside of manhattan, streets are still blanketed with snow, leaving new yorkers in brooklyn on edge. >> years -- years and years and years ive lived here and never have i seen it like this. >> emergency crews like the fire truck in manhattan face challenging conditions. hundreds of buses were still stuck and stranded by tuesday morning. and there was this video...