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i'm ali vitali in forthan lemaire. jury selection wrapped up more quickly than we thought it would on friday. it's made up of seven men and five women along with six alternates. according to "the new york times," the prosecution plans to frame trump's actions quiet about an alleged affair. that's going to be election interference. the defense, meanwhile, will seize on three apparent weak points, witness credibility, the president's culpability, and the case's legal complexity. one of the potential first witnesses expected to testify is david pecker who bought and buried damaging stories about trump. he's alleged to have worked with trump and his former attorney michael cohen to bury the stormy daniels story. other witnesses expected to testify include a who's who in
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showing that america will be there. message sent across the world on saturday. can't overstate it. >> we'll have much more with david ignatius on this in a moment. our other huge story this morning starts today. opening statements set to begin this morning in former president donald trump's criminal hush money trial. after jury selection wrapped up on friday, the 12-person jury is made up of seven men and five women, along with six alternates. later this morning, both the prosecution and the defense are expected to lay out their cases during opening statements. according to "the new york times," the prosecution plans to frame trump's actions of payments to keep adult film actress stormy daniels quiet about an alleged affair as election interference. the defense, meanwhile, will seize on three apparent weak points. witness credibility, the
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>> however, we do know what the prosecution plans to do if he does, they said so in a court filing yesterday outlining their plan to highlight his past legal run-ins to try to discredit him with the jury among them what they claim is false testimony he gave in his recent civil fraud trial, randi kaye has more in that this judge is a lunatic and if you've ever watched him and the attorney general may be worse, maybe where she ever watcher. i will get donald trump. that's just one of many comments in many lawsuits that may come back to ponte donald trump. he said it in february as his civil fraud trial in new york city came to a close in that case. judge arthur engoron found trump and his company liable for fraud by inflating the values of his assets to get better loan rates. trump was ordered to pay $355 million in fines and garan also fined trump twice for violating a gag order in the case goren has done a terrible disservice to the state of new york.
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question. could a state prosecutor charge him? this would be a federal crime, though, because he would be lying to federal investigators, fbi agents. >> so the sdny is considered -- >> sdny is federal as well. >> federal as well. okay. that means that -- >> it's all under barr's umbrella. >> okay. gotcha. shimon, the prosecution plans to call on steve bannon, as you mentioned, and rick gates. prosecutors say that in the summer of 2016, while wikileaks started to release the hacked data, stone emailed bannon, writing, quote, trump can still win, but time is running out. i know how to win, but it ain't pretty. i mean that is pretty damning. can you help us connect the dots? what does the prosecution want out of bannon? >> yeah, and bannon's response was, let's talk asap. bannon was interested in what roger stone was doing here, and so he's going to talk about how roger stone was offering help, offering wikileaks help, claiming that he had an intermediary, someone who was working as a middle man to get to julian assange in the embassy in london, at the ecuadorian embassy.
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that means that -- >> it's all under barr's umbrella. >> okay. gotcha. shimon, the prosecution plans to call on steve bannon, as you mentioned, and rick gates. prosecutors say that in the summer of 2016, while wikileaks started to release the hacked data, stone emailed bannon, writing, quote, trump can still win, but time is running out. i know how to win, but it ain't pretty. i mean that is pretty damning. can you help us connect the dots? what does the prosecution want out of bannon? >> yeah, and bannon's response was, let's talk asap. bannon was interested in what roger stone was doing here, and so he's going to talk about how roger stone was offering help, offering wikileaks help, claiming that he had an intermediary, someone who was working as a middle man to get to julian assange in the embassy in london, at the ecuadorian embassy. there was a lot of talk of that today, about how roger stone was
Steve-bannonRick-gatesWikileaksProsecutorsShimon-prokupeczGotchaProsecution-plansSummerUnder-barrs-umbrella2016TrumpDotsthe first trial in the special counsel probe kicks off with paul manafort. he's accused of hiding $30 million he made before his days with trump as an unregistered foreign lobbyist for ukraine and it's former pro russian president. the prosecution plans to call 35 witnesses including agents from the fbi, treasury department and irs to show how manafort allegedly stashed his wealth in overseas banks to avoid paying u.s. taxes. joining us now, washington bureau chief susan page and former assistant u.s. attorney in the southern district of new york. good morning. what should we be looking for? give us a preview of the
TrialSpecial-counsel-probeTrumpPresidentRussianPaul-manafortLobbyistProsecution-plansUkraine30-million350-millionwith jury selection for paul manafort. the president's former campaign chair is accused of hiding at least $30 million that he made before his days with trump as an unregistered foreign lobbyist for ukraine, and its former pro-russian president. told the prosecution plans to call 35 witnesses including agents from the fbi, treasury department and irs to show how he stashed his wealth in overseas banks to avoid paying u.s. taxes. last week a member of robert mueller's team said he does not anticipate a government witness will "utter the word russia" during the trial. but if manafort is convicted, they could use it as leverage for him to talk about anything he knows pertaining to the trump campaign and russia. the trial is expected to last about three weeks. manafort face as similar trial in washington in september. >> richard -- >> a long haul for him.
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