Harris at this moment, former President Trumps criminal trial, the defense has wrapped up its Opening Statements to the jury. The nations 45th president , his lead attorney told jurors the former president is innocent. He claims trump committed no crimes and alvin bragg should never have brought this trial. On the other side, prosecutors called this Election Fraud and fullblown election conspiracy. These are all biden products. Everybody knows it. Im here instead of being able to be in pennsylvania and georgia and lots of other places campaigning. Its very unprepared. This is a witch hunt. It comes out of Washington In Coordination With washington, everything including the d. A. s office. Its in coordination with washington. I want people to understand that. This is done for purposes of hurting the opponent of the worst president in the history of our country. Harris youre watching outnumbered here with my cohost of Emily Compagno and kayleigh mcenany. Fox news contributor and the federalist editor and chief mollie hemingway. Fox news contributor and retired u. S. Marine bomb tech, joey jones. Lets go straight to our correspondent who is outside the u. S. Supreme court. A big day for trump in court. A lot to catch us up on, eric. This morning at new york state supreme court, the defense was blonde. Michael cohen who has no criminal they said. Michael cohen wants to see President Trump go to prison. The prosecution said it was former President Trump who broke the law. The defendant sat quietly at that events table at times, former President Trump shook his head and objection to what he was hearing. Prosecutor told the hushed courtroom that trump orchestrated an illegal plan to corrupt the 2016 president ial election, this case is about a criminal conspiracy in the coverup. It was Election Fraud, pure and simple. He said david packer, the former publisher of the National Enquirer who is expected to be the first witness will detail how the illegal scheme worked. And what he and trump talk ab about. He will detail how trump desperately wanted to hide his affair with her which is why the tabloid paid for Mcdougall Story but never ran it. As for stormy daniels, trump reimbursed his lawyer to pay her money and promise the jury they will hear a tape of trump talking about paying cash. He said the three men, trump, conspired to suppress negative news that could hurt trumps president ial campaign. Then trumps lawyer todd blanche responding to what he had by saying the story you just hired, you will learn is not true. He told the jury President Trump is innocent. President trump did not commit any crimes. The men hadnt Attorneys Office should never have brought this trial. You will find he is not guilty. He also said that checks the former president signed where to pay for his legal fees. Following his client a frugal businessman saying this was not a payback. He said trump side of the checks he was trying to protect his family and reputation and his brand. We likely going to hear some of david packers testimony and the next few moments. All the trial will break early today and a half hour from now because one of the alternate jurors as they go to the dentist but certainly we will hear we believe david explain all of this tomorrow as this first trial, criminal trial of a former president has now begun. Harris thank you very much. Emily, i come to you on this. Theres a lot to unpack today. One of the big Breaking News Points just a few minutes ago and the Election Fraud case within 175 million bond that was put up, Letitia James got her plate handed to her. The judge upheld that bond. I want to talk about when trump has a victory, what does it mean for all these other cases . It seems that people are watching and they will poke the bear in one case. Does it seem that way or is it that way . Emily what the American Public how they feel and accept and process and synthesize all of these events and decisions and hearing outcomes. At the end of the day, the jury is prevented from seeing all of that. The reality in terms of how it impacts a potential conviction depends on what the jury itself i want to focus for a moment on the defenses statements today. Super important, they came out swinging. They said President Trump is innocent. They said the manhattan district Attorneys Office never should have brought this trial. They went on to say, the 34 counts are 34 pieces of paper. They went through exactly what the d. A. He is arguing, flipped it over and said why would a frugal businessman pay 420,000 on 130,000 debt . This is President Trumps name on it. It was cohen and jarchow the lever. They debunked and went through exactly the allegations. They said hush money is not illegal. They spent a serious amount of time, totally impugning cohen for the serial perjurer that he is. They poked so many holes in his credibility. It remains to be seen what happens next. Harris we have some Breaking News and we went to go to that. Walk us through this a little bit. David pecker is our first witness today. He is taking the stand right now. We arent going to show it, but we do not have producers in the stands. Dropping out of that, forgive me. I started listening to this. By that matters is the last hour, what i learned from a former federal prosecutor is that youve got a couple of liars that are witnesses in this case. Michael cohen being one, david pecker according to my guest also one of those lawyers on the stand. We are going to watch a person who was accused of doing that catch and kill where you get a negative story during your campaign and you pay somebody some money to speak about it, and you never publish that st story. Kayleigh potentially hearing from Michael Menotti who has a less than sterling reputation is a 12year sentence. A lot of characters. As im watching this report, it occurred to me, the democrats thought this would in meyer trumpian negative coverage, a salacious story that people could grab onto. We are hearing what david pecker said via a reporter. We will hear what any of these witnesses say. Who do we hear from . We hear from donald trump. He looked strong. He is out there. He is confident. His opponent is sending in a basement somewhere. Metaphorical basement. Trump is driving the narrative on this. I should be in North Carolina and south carolina, et cetera. I wonder if democrats are having a moment where they are reflecting and wondering if this was the wrong way to go. Gavin newsom said when we are focusing on trump, i worry electorally as a slight advantage for and im worried the overindulgence about this day today. I think this could backfire. Get one disruptor on the jury, thats a Tail Wind Trump politically. Speak to what i was thinking about as we have been reporting all day to make kayleighs point even further, emily said this, too. The cauldron of politics is outside the courtroom. That is the place where biden wants to win back. I dont know if he is really keeping up so much with these cases. He wants to say, look at me. Im in pennsylvania for the fifth day. Hes making the rounds yet talking about trump mollys doing that. Trump is talking about himself. All the networks, trump, trump, trump, trump. Just spell my name right. Joey part of the problem is trump doesnt get to talk about this. People can hear about what david pecker has to say about they cant hear what trump has to say about their testimony. They cant hear about what trump has to say about the truth in his eyes on this case where that is the biggest action they are taking against him. They know that hes going to win the war of p. R. If he has a chance to talk. Is not because he is never done anything wrong. Its not because hes never done anything untowards that he needs someone to sign an nda for. All of those things are baked into who he is back in 2015 when people and made the decision the first time. Most people arent changing their minds because you are relitigating something that happened in that long ago and trying to find a place where he could have maybe been illegal and maybe you can convince a jury from manhattan to believe that. If we look at their president ial politics of it, i dont think it hurts him at all. The problem is, does it get a hung jury . Does he have to go back for another six weeks . That he cant go and raise money. I think he can get the votes. He can keep the votes are around in the support. He has to be able to raise money to have a staff that i can have a campaign. If they can keep him away from that, thats the bigger issue. Harris we witnesses merrily see that play out before november. Mollie, there is a maybe for the former president from his perspective a silver lining. He doesnt get to talk about these cases. It is a gag order after gag order on trump on the cases. He does get to talk about what the American People are facing. Its kind of ironic. We see more of biden in pennsylvania. We dont see trump. Purely see trump talking about what affects people in pennsylvania and across the country. Mollie he is out there talking about issues. Hes figuring out a way to campaign despite the fact that his travel and limited. I dont think that we should overlook how serious the situation is and how awful it is just because he and his campaign are handling it well. This is a show trial. Its one of a series of show trials being brought by completely partisan actors. Its in front of a judge he really should have recused himself. It is with a jury that is picked from manhattan. 90 democrat down. The whole point is to secure a quick and easy conviction. When these charges were filed, everybody agreed that they were totally ridiculous. Here we are going through this. Its a cost of money and time. It really does show the effectiveness of what democrats are doing. Closely connected to biden. The one who made the Opening Statement today. That is how closely connected it is to the biden administration. This is part of a large campaign. I think americans even if they are thankful that maybe the American People arent falling for it, they should understand how serious this is to what it means to be in this country and not to deal with our political opponents in this manner. Harris i didnt think i would never quote espns stephen a. Smith on this. Are you doing this because you cant take a man on based on the merits of a job i am paraphrasing. The answer is yes which is the point he made in his youtube video. An outspoken jewish professor at columbia is going after the school for not keeping jewish students at passover safe. It is sundown by the way. He has now been refused entry to the main campus. Hes asking to provide protection for jews on campus. It is a high holy day. They kick him off. More next. T job in the navy is a navy wife. And if youve made the deployments and youve been the wife at home, or youve been the spouse at home, you understand what im talking about. Your spouse has earned the right to apply for a va home loan. The newday 100 loan allows you to borrow up to 100 of your homes value. So if youre in a situation where you need some help financially, give us a call. Every day, more dog people, and more vets are deciding its time for a fresh approach to pet food. Theyre quitting the kibble. And kicking the cans. And feeding their dogs dog food thats actually well, food. Developed with vets. Made from real meat and veggies. Portioned for your dog. 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I did not stop him from using his voice. Here he is outside Columbia University earlier today. Terrorism is an ideology. When you push that ideology, you become a terrorist. Students pushing the ideology are becoming terrorists. All americans, this is happening in every u. S. University. Jews are not safe anywhere on College Campuses. This is happening to all nonjewish students who believe that terrorism is not okay. Right now, there are three u. S. Hostages that are being held by hamas in gaza. The student at columbia and rutgers and at yale, and at stanford, they are cheering on hamas who are holding u. S. Citizens. Kayleigh emily, we can get to the jewish process. The jewish supports of terrorism being yelled out. Emily the fact that why are these essentially Terrorists Improvisers why havent they risen to the level of a Terrorist Facsimile . Pretty close if they are yelling i am hamas. I point out a post on x. If donald trump has to answer for charlottesville, why doesnt joe biden have to answer for Columbia University and all campuses . Its all over the country. Visibly jewish students are physically attacked because of the visual nature of that, because of their identification. How is that acceptable . I dont understand why this administration has not pulled all mock come out close to. We have seen harassments and calls for violence against. It is reprehensible and dangerous. No place on College Campuses or anywhere and our country. Maybe some on camera remarks will go a long way. Mollie that statement i think came from a Press Secretary at the white house. To the point that emily just made, during the trump administration, everybody would constantly demand in every republican, chief among them donald trump announce anything that happens no matter how friends. When he did, they would say you didnt say at the right way. They would do it over and over and over again, month after month. Here you have two different groups part of the democrat base of support that are in conflict with each other. Obviously, it would be very helpful for prominent democrats, not just John Fetterman to come out and Say Something about it. You are not only not getting people saying it, you not getting the demands for it. Speak what you you have that professor that cant get to the jewish protests. Last week feeling that the october 7th attacked awesome. The president of columbia say he was given a stern talking to. He gets a stern talking to and the jewish professor cant even get to the rally. Harris he is also calling Something Else out. There used to be a time in this country where we cared when americans were in harms way. Not only did he journal that number down with such certainty, something that all of us in the latter media have been working to do, there are 3 americans that we know of, not the original higher number. He knew all their names. We should know their names. We should say them. It shouldnt just be on the faulkner focus. I made that point when we picked up the mantle again. Im serious about that. We use to care. Under this president , he walks away from americans in afghanistan. I dont care what continent we are on. We are not as popular as others do him. But we learn from the nypd press or just a little while ago, the News Conference was really important. On the deputy commissioner. Very much want to start with this key point which is Columbia University is private property. The nature of police action, when we can do and what we can do is very, very different on private property than it is on a public street. You know what the University City has asked them to do . Keep the perimeter. When things go south on the campus, they can move in. Why do they keep that bad actors on the campus . Why do they keep them there . Is it some sort of flex to the rest of the world that everybody is welcome . Because jews arent welcome. It jews arent welcome, other people are not going to be welcome. They marched with blacks in the 60s. Who protects them when something goes wrong . Police are really put in a terrible position right now. They will be on the perimeter and when they need to be next to the potential criminals. Emily said it. They are telling us. They are telling us they want to kill. They say they are hamas. Believe them when they show you who the yard. Kayleigh the 1yearold is still in the hands of hamas. His brother maybe they have sold him off. His dad taken on october 7th. One of the lines we heard in the protest of new york, oct october 7th will not happen one more time, not 1,010,000,000 times. October 7th. Literally threatening Terrorist Activity or encouraging it and cheering for it. The New York TimesHeadline Juxtaposed against that is desperate at columbia, the protests continued with with dancing and pizza. That is the mainstream News Organizations headline about what we are seeing.