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Joining us, msnbcs Yasmin Vossoughian outside the courthouse. Temidayo agangawilliams, a former prosecuor and Defense Attorney caroline pull lisi. Yasmin, Jury Instrekss under way right now. Whats going on . Jury instructions under way ahead of Opening Statements, jose and ana. 45 minutes for the prosecution, 25 minutes for the defense. Theyre doing that because theres going to be a lot of details, much of a timeline, a lot of dates and they dont want to overwhelm the jury in the Opening Stateme...

Specifically, i want to read you a quote from Todd Blanche on behalf of his client, Donald Trump, to the jury, quote, hes also a man. Hes a husband. Hes a father just like me. For Todd Blanche presenting his defendant in a much more sympathetic light here. I want to read some other quotes from inside the courtroom. Quote, hes in some ways larger than life but hes also here in this Courtroom Doing what any of us would do, defend himself, and he said that we will call him President Trump out of re...

Asking one of the attorneys to tell todd blanche something. Blanche is the one who is giving the statement, the Opening Statement for the Defense Team right now. So maya, it sounds like a lot of this is very sort of Off Script as to how Opening Statements go. First question, why would there have been an objection. They are trying to paint this sinister, it is a crime, entering into a Nondisclosure Agreement is perfectly legal as something that the prosecution had objected to. I cant get in the m...

And we understand that the prosecutor has wrapped their Opening Statement . Reporter the prosecution after 45 minutes and 30 seconds has wrapped up their Opening Statements to this jury here, making it clear, quote, Donald Trump is guilty of 34 counts of falsifying Business Records in the first degree. The prosecutor telling the jury, tune out the noise, focus on the facts. Focus on the logical inference that follows from those facts. Focus on the evidence, listen to that testimony. At that poin...

Argue that the defendant failed to produce evidence or failed to call witnesses or fail to introduce documents. The defendant has an absolute Fifth Amendment right not to testify and has an absolute right not to put on a case in the defense. So what mr. Blanch is doing here, mr. Trumps lawyer, is essentially what you would expect from any good defense lawyer. Telling the jury dont believe what you just heard from the government by telling them that no crime was committed, trying to humanize mr. ...

On. Lets take it away from The Jury and have that discussion. It could be something thats happening as far as body lang, which well see. Sometimes what happens is it might be the former President Exhaling or hes been doing something else that the judge might be saying this is getting a little out of hand. Merchan sustained this last objection. So there have been at least two objections, as far as we know, one was overruled. This one was sustained. Asks for the past comments to be stricken from t...

The story you just heard you will learn is not true. He is suggesting that invoices, the ones that Donald Trump even signed, those personal reimbursement checks in 2017 to Michael Cohen, they went through a process that ultimately just required the signature of Donald Trump himself, and that he thought that he was doing legal services that Michael Cohen was doing legal services on behalf of him suggesting that Michael Cohen was his longtime lawyer and that well in the white house, despite the ob...

And vaughn, there was an objection just now, right . Reporter yeah, there was an objection after Todd Blanche spoke the words, paint this as sinister, but this is a crime, you will hear it is not. At that point Todd Blanche said entering into a Nondisclosure Agreement is perfectly legal. That is when the objection was made. The objection was overruled, though. We assume here at this point in time gets to the heart of the extent to which the Defense Team is going to try to make the case that ever...