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Were following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right to Cnn News central right now, we are are awaiting a Judges Decision on a potentially historic move that could make for a september surprise, unlike anything weve seen before in Politics Judge Juan marchan is deciding whether to postpone his Sentencing Date in the hush Money Case against former President Donald Trump. His own team is admitting that this could in Theory Lead to the quote, immediate incarceration of the former president but thats not the only legal battle were following today. Trump was in Court Fighting A different case today. Cnns Kara Scannell has been following this all in New York. So Kara Walkers through what transpired earlier today in court in the e. Jean Carroll Case Yeah Boris so Donald Trump appeared today. The whole session was less than 30 minutes and he was not required to attend, but he chose to show up for this oral argument. This was him appealing the verdict where the jury awarded e. Jean carroll 5 Million and found that trumps sexually abused its her and then defamed her when he denied that she that he raped her, said he didnt know her, and suggested that she made up the whole story to sell copies of a book. So he walked into the courtroom today. Its a small courtroom, pretty narrow, walked right past e. Jean carroll sitting in the front seat of a table. There was a seat across the aisle that was empty at trumps table here chose not to sit there and want to the other end to take the Seat Furthest from e. Jean carroll at no point that i see any Eye Contact between the two the focus though was on the attorneys in this relatively quick Court Hearing. Now, his lawyer, john sauer, began by telling the judges that this was a quintessential case of he said, she said, and that this was funded by trumps political enemies. One of the Appeals Cour and said, this case is about your arguments here about the evidence. So lets focus on those arguments. And he also reminded trumps lawyer that it is very difficult to overturn a Jurys Verdict and asking him to really focus in on that. And What Trumps lawyers argued is that the testimony from two other women who both Accused Trump in the past of sexual assault, should not have gone before the jury arguing that it wasnt even a crime when one of these women testified but in the 1970s trump groped her on an airplane. He said that wasnt even illegal, then it shouldnt have come in in this trial to last year. Now, carrolls attorneys he got up and said, in fact, it was a crime to Assault Anybody on an airplane even if it wasnt a sexual assault. So that was one of the technical legal arguments theyve they were making. And another one was that they said that Access Hollywood Tape should not have come in. That was trumps lawyers say that he shouldnt have been able to play that before that jury Carrolls Lawyer said it was essentially a country fashion. When trump said on that tape caught on that mic about how he would just grab women because hes a celebrity. He said they let him do it, that no decision today. Trump left without answering questions from reporters. Of course, he went then to Trump Tower and spoke a lot about this Court Hearing today and what he thinks of the trial and allegations by Carroll Boris and kara. We also at any moment could get this decision from Judge Juan Marchan. This is in the hush Money Case and it has to do with the timing of trumps sentencing. What are you expecting to see you, boris, were standing by waiting for this decision to come down. Judge marshawn has informed both trump and the manhattan das office he would issue this decision today. Were more than halfway through the court day, so were expecting this decision any moment trumps lawyers asked for the sentencing, which is currently set for september 18, to be delayed until after the November Election. One argument that they made is they said that this was election interference. If it were to go before the election, they all so are saying that the judge has to rule on their claims that trump should not have this trial. This verdict should have been thrown out because of president ial immunity. The judge said he will issue that decision and on the 16th, trumps lawyers say they need more than two days in order to go to the Appeals Court. If theyre going to appeal that. Now the das office, they have not oppose delaying the sentencing. Instead, that theyre leaving it to the judge and were waiting to see what he sat scores. Kara scannell outside the courthouse in manhattan, please standby for that decision. Thanks so much. Carolyn brown former President Trump, wasting no time after attending the Appeals Hearing in the e. Jean Carroll Defamation case, speaking from Trump Tower in New York, cnns Alayna Treene was there. Alayna, what did he say . Well, first of all, i just want to note brianna, that this was dubbed as a Press Conference following his attending that hearing this morning, but he did not take questions questions from the press, something i know left many reporters, including myself pretty frustrated, but love this was Donald Trump coming in and trying to defend himself. We know that in many of these legal battles, Donald Trump always sees himself as his own best defender and he took to the Podium Today to really air some of his grievances specifically about the herrell case, but he also went into a litany of other cases against him as well. And one notable thing is that he actually went into explicit detail about some of the allegations against and made by multiple women about sexual misconduct, not just e. Jean carroll, but other people as well. He called them all scams. And of course we heard many of the language that Donald Trump likes to use when hes talking about his legal cases, he attacked the judges. He attacked and demeaned the women who have made these allegations. He argued that the Job Justice Department was behind these cases. Of course, we know that the e. Jean Carroll Case has nothing to do with the Justice Department is a civil case, but he made that claim anyway and he really haley went on to just argue that all of these were false and that they were election interference. But one very notable moment that i took away from this brianna was when he was sitting standing up there, he had many of his legal attorneys and legal advisers behind him, and he noted that hes actually very disappointed with them. I want you to take a listen to what he said i feel sad that i have to come up here and explain it. I have all this legal talent but legal talent cannot overcome rig judges, they cant overcome a Fourt Percent republican area and im disappointed in my legal talent. Ill be honest with you. Now. Brianna i think one big question that many people have is why does Donald Trump do these type of events . I can tell you that again apart. From, him thinking that he is his own best defender and him wanting to get up there and air his grievances he also believes there is a political benefit, of course, we are closer to the election now then when we went through a lot of his legal battles in the past few months. But part of this is because he recognized that many people could fund fundraise for him, donate to his campaign in any can energize some of them when they hear him talk about these cases. So that was a big motivation for this as well today, brianna. All right. Alayna treene. Thank you for that. Lets talk more about this now. How with former Trump Campaign Adviser David Urban and former biden white House Director of Message Planning meghan hays, david, i do wonder what you think about that is he looks sometimes obviously to capitalize on this and hes really able to do that in the past, he said, look, my Poll Numbers go up and its worked for him. Do you think that is . True for this phase of the election where he is looking to win over some of the later breaking undecided voters yeah. So brianna, im not quite sure of the president s motivation here other than he is just very angry. Hes angry that hes got to be facing these his opinion bogus charges. Hes hes angry that the court is kind of feel that he stacked the judges are stacked against him. The charges are stacked against him. The from Alvin Bragg on the way through and partly, you know, youre partly correct there and that as you may recall, if we pressed the Way Way back machine Donald Trump was struggling way before Alvin Bragg filed those first charges. And when bragg file the charges against trump, but kind of galvanized Republican Party against him. Saying like, wow, this is really lawfare many commentators, someone this network and others said if his name wasnt Donald Trump with charges, wouldnt have been brought. And so these Cases Wouldnt have been tried and so i think hes just reminding people that, but im not quite sure thats exactly his motivation for doing it today, other than that hes hes very angry. He feels his own best defense megan, im curious about how democrats approach this. You could argue that using trumps legal woes against him, its kind of already baked into the equation, especially with undecided voters. I dont think theres many people that dont realize hes facing a lot of legal issues but we havent really seen democrats even before today really go after him for this. President Biden Sort of stayed away from an Kamala Harris seems to stay away from it as well. Yeah. I think Thats Woe is me act that Donald Trump keeps playing. I dont think thats helping him with undecided voters in these battlegrounds. States, which is where the collection is going to be one. So i think this is great for him to go out and galvanize his base and to raise money and to use these sort of moments of raising money and drawing attention to that. Sorry. To interrupt you, meghan, lets go. We have some Breaking News. We want to bring in Kara Scannell on this. Kara, give us the latest here in this legal Breaking News i guess right. Branches. So, judge, Juan Marshawn has ruled on trumps request to delay the sentencing and he says that he will in Fact Delay it until November 26, and we also said hes going to delay his Decision Decision on president ial immunity. Thats trumps challenge to this whole case after the Supreme Court said that certain evidence of official acts could not come in before a trial that decision was expected on sunday remember, 16th, the judge saying that he will now do that also in november and not sentence former President Donald Trump until November 26. So now this whole question of whether this verdict stands where trump was convicted of 34 counts of falsifying Business Records in connection with that hush Money Scheme and whether he will be sentenced. And if so to have a time in prison or to not time in prison. That is all now pushed off till after the election. So that is now off the table. The former president will not be sentenced before for the election. His sentencing will now come just around thanksgiving, November 26, brianna Kara Scannell, please Stand By. I want to bring in cnns Chief Legal Affairs korea responding. Paula reid. Paula, this is obviously something that had been debated for a bid after trumps conviction when the sentencing would come. Now we know it wont be until after novembers election. This is a big win for the trump legal team. They have been really focused on this for the past few months, trying pretty much every legal avenue to try to get this delayed almost daily appeals and filings in an effort to either get this state or delayed. And this is the second time that judge Juan Marshawn, the judge who oversaw that Sevenweek Trial in New York earlier this year, the second time hes delayed the sentencing. The sentencing was originally scheduled for july 11. It was then pushed back to september 18, so that the court could consider the supreme room courts historic ruling on president ial immunity and how that factored into this case now, it has been delayed again, and this is this could have gone either way, but it is somewhat surprising because over the course of this entire case, Judge Marshawn has not always been sympathetic to many of the arguments that the trump legal team has made about how a certain aspect of this case could impact the election. But here this is an enormous wind again, for the trump legal team this is something they were trying. Everything imaginable to avoid. They did not want to have this sentencing before the election. And now, once again, they have been successful while he was obviously convicted in this case. This is just another example of how the Trump Team has overall been very successful in delaying legal consequences. For their client. Yeah, certainly. And paula, if you can Stand By for us as were following this Breaking News, the judge delaying his hush Money Sentencing until late into november after the election i do want to go back to Kara Scannell. Kara, you have more of the decision that you can share with us yeah, brianna, thats right. So this is a Fourpage Decision issued by the judge. He made thanks. Great pains to explain in this decision that he is has any other defendant he says that this case hes well, you know, its first of all, that the prosecution does not oppose delaying the sentencing and notes in here that careful suggests that they are in favor of delaying the center. Im going to interrupt you. We are having some problems with your audio, so were going to have to fix your mic on that and well come back to you. I do want to bring in Harry Litman and to talk with us a little bit more. Harry, your reaction to this sentencing being delayed until November 26 politics actually, right . Its a momentous victory for trump who has tried everything possible and has cited the reputational harm that he would absorb if he were sentenced before. And notice this is the exact opposite of what Judge Tanya Chutkan did yesterday when his lawyer made a similar Argument And Judge chutkan said, im not thinking about the election. Im thinking about a fourcount indictment. Hes wanted hes tried every possible maneuver. There were probably a few left. He was going to try to keep the sentencing from happening and recall when the conviction itself happened. There was a downtick in Trumps Poll numbers. So i think they were very worried about the impact of any sentence. This is merchant and its also paul, as paula says, a mild surprise the normal thing would have been to just go with the flow and not be affected by the election. I think its very great telling that merrick can essentially says, this is what the prosecution wanted. Reading between the lines, have they had the prosecution come out and said sentence him now, it might have been a different ruling yeah, really interesting. All right. Harry, if you can stay with us, we do want to go back to Paula Reid because paula the Trump Team is reacting thats right. Im in touch with the Trump Team and we actually have a statement from a trump spokesman, stephen chung. He wrote, quote there should be no sentencing in the manhattan das election interference, witch hunt, as mandated by the united states Supreme Court. This case, along with all the other Harris Biden Hoax this should be dismissed. Now, lets unpack that a little bit. Of course. They have tried to frame all of the criminal cases, all four of them that the former president has faced as part of some larger for conspiracy and here they are also adding in his new opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, her name has not previously over the past few years, ive been appearing in these statements, but now they are trying to tie her to what they argue are politically good motivated prosecutions. But of course, in this case, the former president was convicted by a jury of his peers on these 34 counts now, there, there is sort of a more eloquent explanation shan all of their case and the argument that they were making that they made in a filing. And i want to i want to read this because this is what the Trump Team argued to a different judge about why they he believed that this sentencing should be stayed. They said quote, or should be delayed. They said this is to prevent irreparable harm to President Trump course former President Trump voters across the country the integrity of the imminent president ial election because the potential impact on the election includes continued infringement on President Trumps political advocacy and the publics were people cool, right . To receive an engaged with without advocacy and damages it includes irreparable first amendment violations. So what they were trying to argue over the past few months as they tried to get this delayed, is that this was a violation of trumps rights. They said that after the supreme Courts Decision in july on president ial immunity, that they have but the right to litigate exactly how that case could potentially impact the verdict in the New York criminal hush Money Case. And they said that they were not being given a fair opportunity to allow those appeals to play out before sentencing him in this case. And this is actually similar to the argument that they made throughout this case. They were constantly my arguing that this was politically moti