Hydration could boost your skins barrier for quenched, dewy skin. Thats full of life Neutrogena Hydro boost this ola alvarez at the white house and this is cnn an important day inside 100 centre seat, the judge is now off the bench after Opening Statements and testimony from the first witness in the house much money trial of donald j. Trump minutes ago, the former president walked out of court trying to put some distance between himself and his former lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen. Im jake tapper in washington and im anderson cooper, new york. Youve been watching a scene and special live coverage of the people of the state of new york versus dollars while j. Trump, defense promising to puncture the prosecutions theory of the hush money coverup case, trumps lawyers painted cohen as a liar and Stormy Daniels as an operator. For tunis, the prosecution arguing that trumps alleged scheme to keep an adult actress quiet is Election InterferencePure And Simple in those words, i want to turn to paula reid and kaitlan collins, who are covering this along with me here in new york about what we expected from the Opening Statements, both by the prosecution and by the defense, we only heard a little bit from david, but well have a lot more of him tomorrow. Hes really an essential start off for this framing entire nature of the deal. Thats exactly right. And i think he could take up most of the rest of the week. So i want to remind people to scheduling here. Its really unique for this case. That tomorrow is the judge is going to hear arguments about a Gag Order On Whether Trump violated its of course, not even going to start until after 11 i didnt know goes until two. Theres no court on wednesday, then hopefully back in session on thursday and friday, but i would be surprised if it gets any other witnesses besides david this week, hes a great one to start off with. Not only is he a colorful new york character, but he helps the prosecution frame their argument that this was not just a oneoff time when someone came think for money to keep quiet about an affair. This is they allege part of a pattern and effort to suppress negative stories about then Candidate Trump to help his chances in the 2016 election. And david can frame his efforts, his meetings with trump, even though he was not directly involved in paying Stormy Daniels, he can set the stage for the credit the timing of the meeting that he and Michael Cohen had with donald trump at trump tower ahead of the election is important. Its not as if there was a preexist though they had a friendship for a long time and a mutually beneficial Business Relationship its not as if they had made a deal previously to catch and kill stories that we know about for donald trump. It was only in the runup to the election after david held this meeting that well learn about more. A 1d is on the Witness Stand essentially saying, how can i help you . Dont trump become the next president . Yeah, ill be your eyes and your ears if someone alleges you have a kid out of wedlock will buy a story and will kill it if someone alleges they had an affair with you, referring to Karen Mcdougal, not Stormy Daniels. Look how well by her story and will suppress it he was clearly trying to help trump get elected to the white house. They werent having this meeting because donald trump was concerned. His family would find out information he was concerned about impacts on the election, according well, thats what theyre going to leave the david role testified thats what theyre going to ask david because trumps team is basically arguing opposite of that. And the question is, can david speak to trumps mindset and what exactly trump was saying in that meeting. Obviously, we will hear from david when court resumes tomorrow at 11 00 a. M. But before that, is the judge going to hold this Gag Order Violation Hearing where he is going to hear from the prosecution, the district attorney, alvin bragg has made clear many times they believe that trump is violated his gag order time and time again, that has been in place for several weeks and then was amended when trump continued attacking the judges his daughter here, something that even drove trumps team crazy that he continued to do that and would not stop. And thats notable because you just heard trump talked about nine minutes outside of court and he was talking about Michael Cohen. He invoked him specifically by name, not just talking about what trumps version of his role in this whole process was. But also calling him a liar and going after im done asking why they dont talk about his credibility or lack thereof. I think that that only adds fuel to the fire of what the prosecution is going to argue tomorrow. And it is a major test for the judge here of how hes going to handle this and what he decides to do. Does he find trump desi threaten something further . Trump continues to violate this, given a 3,000 fine, isnt doesnt greatly affect donald trump. Thats a big question for tomorrow morning. He sort of, if he does if he doesnt mean if he if he does try to make the gag order stronger or penalize him in some sense, it plays into what the former president will say about how hes being treated in of course, i would argue the most significant part of this gag order has to do with the jury. Of course, when we were concerned about the safety of everyone. Right. There was expanded to include Family Members of prosecutors and the judge were certainly concerned about them, but the added complication is when it comes so the jury, anything, for example, trump had at least one social media post where he was quoting a fox host, suggesting that theres been liberal activists planted in the jury pool or Something Like that. You know, that its going to draw negative attention on the jury and the concern there is that if the identities these jurors are revealed, a Critical Mass of them no longer want to participate. There could be a mistrial. So i think when it comes to this gag order, it is all significant. The judge has to find a way to enforce it. But the most significant thing for the integrity of this trial is protecting those jurors and their identities which is not an easy thing to do. And weve already seen there was a juror today who had some concerns that was addressed in the judges chambers, and that alternate juror stayed on. Well, and trumps team was saying there at the end, once they were once david had left the Witness Stand, that they didnt learn until yesterday, they said about 3 00 p. M. Day david was going to be the first witness who was called to come and testify. And obviously, as we know, the prosecution has made very clear that theyve been concerned about witness intimidation, your witness harassment of what that is going to look like. And so the question is whether they didnt find out until later because of that very concerned that the prosecution has and how they handle this going forward, because trumps team made clear today, they think that Stormy Daniels is certainly going to testify. They do have the expectation from what ive heard that hope hicks is going to testify. So there are people that obviously wants four once close personal confidence people around trump, that could be called to that witness stance. So well see what that looks like obviously, as well as how it does affect the dearth. Its not just the jurors soldiers, its prosecutions team. Hes gone after the prosecutor who is making opening argument today multiple times paulo, thanks very much, jake, back to you. All right. Anderson. Thanks so much. A fascinating de, in this first day of the trial of the people of the state of new york versus donald j. Trump laura coates. Lets talk about some of the key arguments made in the Opening Statements by both the problem prosecution, the district attorney, and the defense, what are some of the key statements that you think about lets walk through it. If one of them is from the prosecution saying this case is about a criminal conspiracy and a coverup. Now, the word conspiracy might strike you because theres not actually a charge of conspiracy case. Its about fraudulent document and falsified Business Records to the jury might be felt in your head a little bit as to why, but the coverup portion of it is going to be really key here. Its about why he did it. Was it for his familys benefit, was it for his brand or was it because he wanted people not to be not vote for him . Also, it was Election FraudPure And Simple. Here is where theyre talking about the underlying crime that he was trying fine to avoid are trying to cover up the actually committing also here as a what have we done right now, we have ended testimony today so far with david who of course was they had an ami who oversaw National Enquirer. He and another person allegedly corresponded with 100 to say that what had we done now their whole job is about missing called a catch and kill where you find Karen Mcdougal android angles now for the defense team, of course a little bit different here. There are key arguments that he was trying to protect his Family Reputation and his brand. Thats not a crime notice, but you dont have there anything about politics, anything about the campaign. But to go to that very moment, he had this to say, theres nothing wrong with trying to fluence and election. Its called democracy. Well, that would be nice. So that was just a bare bones rating. I would bet in fact, if youre trying to crop or crime or trying to engage in Election Interference, that in fact is not democratic finally, use your common sense, where new yorkers, why were here. This is where the jury section becomes so important. Who is on this jury . Its going to be vital to trying to figure out how to make your best statements and cant and your actual arguments, what they want you to look at and say, what trump had to say in front of the courthouse earlier, which was listen, this comes down to this very barebones notion, a payment to a lawyer. Ive noted as Legal Expense. Thats all this is and for that i got indicted they want you to think about it this way. All right, fascinating stuff out. Lets turn to william brennan. Hes a Criminal Defense Attorney who used to represent Donald Trumps payroll corporation. Mr. Brennan, always good to see you what are your thoughts on the decision by the prosecution to call david the medium . The Tabloid Media Magnate as the very first witness. And to do it right before court recess for the day, there was only about half an hour left well, good to see you, jake my thoughts having been in that courtroom 15 with judge merchan is he runs a tight ship and when the openings were finished, he wanted a witness on the stand that jake, its all about sources in this particular instance. I believe the publication this man is referring to he owns a represents is the National Enquirer with an a. They made their business on ufos and elvis sightings. So i think you argue that to the jury and then we have mr. Cohen. Youve got a polluted source. So i think the defense will take a lot of time stressing that to the jury, and i agree with laurie, you dont leave it as a joke. For you dont leave your common sense at the door. And were not talking about the atlantic or National Review here. Were talking about the National Enquirer you know, its its a shaky paper to begin with. And this is how they make their money. So if you can shift the focus here a little bit, and then when his former lawyer gets on the stand, when you go through his list of convictions and show what a polluted source he is. I think the defense can make a lot of hay with that. So the the defense and their Opening Statement definitely was trying to make a lot of hay out of Michael Cohens reputation and proclivity for truth they said his entire career is based on attacking donald trump. They also went after Stormy Daniels suggesting that shes an opportunist that the rendezvous she has talked about and written about in her book with donald trump never happened. How aggressively would you suggest . You think that theyre going to go after the defense is going to go after david the publisher of the National Enquirer well, i would probably be more clinical with the enquirer fellow mr. On on the the the lawyer or the former lawyer, i believe hes no longer practicing. I think jake you said is entire career was based on attacking donald trump actually, most of his career was a sycophant to donald trump hitching his star to trumps wagon and then when things didnt work out for them he turned on the former president and hes now making a second career out of attacking donald trump. But i think that gives the defense a lot of fodder, the crossexamine him. All right. Bill daniels, i would probably be very businesslike, but brown brown and im going to see as always, thanks so much. It has been an historic day in the people of the state of ny york versus Donald John Trump are going to have all the Courtroom Highlights next the Stanley Cup Playoffs on tnt at tbs eulers covers continues wednesday and fin on tbs when youre the leader is as the cleanup and restoration, how do you make like an every then happened happened brand whatever comes your way . As a pro for that serve crow . Like never even happened to me. Harlem is all but home is also your body. 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David acre, the publisher of the National Enquirer, will be back on the stand today the prosecution and the defense, were presenting two very different narratives. They plan to tell the jury about what exactly happened and on the Trump Campaign in the final stretch of the 2016 election, lets get right to cnns kara scannell, who was one of the cnn reporters inside court. All morning, sending us these updates that weve been poring over qarrah, give us a sense of