Trial against donald trump wrapping up, what went down. Welcome everyone, im sandra smith in for neil cavuto and this is your world. Opening statements first witness today the jury saw Andy Mccarthy and john yoo on what we can glean from it in just a moment. First made for outside the courthouse with the very latest on what went down. Hi nate. Hi, Sandra Perron during Opening Statements the das office argued that trent criminal conspiracy and coverup leading up to the 2016 president ial election by suppressing negative stories about his personal life whereas trumps lawyers argued the former president is innocent but Todd Blanche The President s lawyer and there is nothing illegal about trying to influence an election, he called that democracy. After court today, trump criticized matt mda alvin bragg, trump reference how federal prosecutors declined to bring a case against him on the same allegations and he says alvin braggs not interfere with this years president ial election. Mr. Trump this has never happened before when the straight price to enter its all in federal elections. Nobodys ever seen it. But you know needs that essentially nothing was done wrong. Sandra, here is the states first witness, David Packard former ceo and president of American Media which publishes the National Enquirer. Prosecutors say trump worked with parker and his former lawyer, Michael Cohen, was abreast of those damaging stories about his personal life including allegations of an affair that trent trump denies with a gold from oz trump is accused of Mispronouncing Every but Trump Lawyers said in court today that all Payments Due Cohen represented legitimate legal expenses. Blanche argues cohen received 420,000 from trump that is over three times more than what o p daniels. Blanche also said cohan is obsessed with trump and reminded the jury of cohens history of lying under oath. Tomorrow sandra before David Packard and if he did what any potential punishment would be. Are sent back to you speak to nate for a live outside the courthouse here in manhattan, thank you. The prosecution labeling this is a criminal conspiracy. Where you are next guess he was going . Formulas Andy Mccarthy is here and former Deputy AssistantAttorney General john yoo. Rate have both of you. Thank you for joining us. First eu, and the word you see you going next equities he was going next you met. Obviously we are going to start with david pecker will be the first witness. I think him and Michael Cohen are being offered basically to fill a big hole in alvin braggs case. Bragg, is theory in the prosecution is that trump store the 2016 election. But you hasnt actually charged him in the conspiracy to do that nor is trying to implement an election are suppress negative information in crime and what bragg has charged our 34 book entries that didnt occur until 2017. So hes in the irrational position of trying to say that 26 and election was stolen by activity that took place the following year. You need to try to persuade the jury that there is some kind of nefarious scheme that leads up to the 2016 election and what pecker and cohen are for is to outline the discussions that they had about this catch and kill scheme to purchase the disclosure rights of the stories and bury them which may be unsavory, exactly the things that underlying the stories were unsavory, but thats not a crime. Sandra interesting. John calvin former president and his team are spending a lot of time as he steps out of the court room, you know, just ripping in to the credibility of this case. Well this is former Attorney General bill barr, i can say is not exactly a Big Trump Fun at the moment, here he is ripping the hush money trial. Listen. Even convicted in the in new york about thing is a travesty. You will ultimately be overturned that will come after the election. But him in opinion there is no crime there at all. Sandra surrender the prosecution go with this . Heres the problem for the prosecution, its at as andy said, theyre probably the back because they dont have the law on their side. This is one of those cases were actually trump has the latah county Attorney General because the job of the Da In Manhattan is not do Police Federal elections. Its not the job of the va to say im going to enforce federal election law and im going to punish donald trump for things he might have been for a nationwide election. That is up to the u. S. Justice department, is up to the federal elections commission. That is why i think as andy suggests that you will see the prosecution go over an excruciating detail all distorted facts of this because they dont want the jury to ask why is it that we are sitting in a New York City courtroom, talking about federal election fraud, if that existed . This is not the right place and this is not the right form so i think trump and i think have a really good case on appeal. To get this overturned although it will take after the election. Sandra and the governor former president s part, when he stepped courtroom, what we continued from him is i should be campaigning. This is huge detriment to his campaign not to be out on the trail while his, you know, the current president , joe biden, is. s continued claimed that this is just not fair, you have to start to think that will resonate as people see the prosecution week weaker and weaker in this case . You and no one wants to be indicted obviously but these are the limits hes got and he started to limits you got any strange attorney to dominate. s Got A Prepublished at the end i think he has a very powerful message that we have a twotiered justice system. Its inconceivable that anyone other than donald trump, im tempted to say even any republican other than donald trump that would have been prosecuted in this case and bragg waited five years to bring it so water be time for trial in the middle of the 2024 campaign. Sandra bring this home for us, this resumes tomorrow morning. Would be another big day. What happens . Youre going to see the prosecution continued to bring on the National Enquirer, public publisher david pecker. The effort is to try to show trump and Hope Phishing Head of the National Enquirer and Michael Cohen engage in this conspiracy to violate the election laws. People should be taking a step back and asking why is this case as andy said being brought on frivolous grounds, being its being brought because its targeting not just a former president , but a current candidate of the Republican Party for the November 2024 were there in the lead. Sandra and and being people should be asking why theyre doing that. Sandra and they are, and at the final word from your that conducts one more thing that the president s warning about this calendar president s that the sets. To john points johns point about how limited braggs the relation is, Hillary Clinton who one the 2016 election in new york but substantially and she wanted man at manhattan by about 80 points so you have to ask if this da is undertaking to enforce federal law on whose behalf is he doing that . Because he only represents manhattan, is not supposed to be bringing a case on behalf of all progressives across america who are disappointed that hillary did not win the election. Sandra and the john appreciate the discussion. Thank you to both of you for joining us. Sandra as martha mentioned as the markets were closing recovered. A quick look at wall street after the closing the immaculate kickoff the week with games, the s p 500 and nasdaq snapped a sixday losing streak. 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Sandra former President Donald Trump fired up over not being on the Campaign Trail. What will be the political fallout from all of this . Joining us now is the hills Julia Minister and u. S. A. Todays front desk at chambers, with both of you. Julia do you first. Isnt he missing out . I mean you got president by it all over three stops in pennsylvania last week and a former president is having to sit in a courtroom . That is a really good point, sandra. If you go back to last week that was definitely an interesting comparison to see donald trump stuck in a courtroom in manhattan while joe biden is talking about the economy in the critical swing state of pennsylvania, hes in virginia today and going to be in florida later this week so we are seeing joe biden really getting around but donald trump is continuing to rely on these courthouse appearances, which is getting quite a bit of Media Attention attention, national and local attention. No one cup was during his rally in North Carolina are what was was to be his rally in North Carolina that was canceled due to weather so that was another Loss Opportunity for the former president to address supporters and we campaign. That will obviously be rescheduled but it really shows the fine line he is walking with campaigning. Sandra francesca that this give the current president , joe biden, the edge since you can be out campaigning . Well when you talk about North Carolina in particular, its a state that democrats now see as a potential Pickup Opportunity for them. And florida as well. And some might say that potentially stretched based on recent boarding history but democrats feeling that based on Abortion Rights and Abortion Rights to literally being unbalanced when it comes to florida for instance in the reason why President Biden will be the tomorrow is to one, sure that this is an issue that he cares about not just the Vice President. But two, because the campaign that theyre taking advantage of opportunities right now likely abortion band going into six week to be able to make their message. Sandra interesting you mentioned that. We can pull up some of the most recent fox news pulling on the georgia president ial preference right now. Biden at 45, hes gone down from the 2020 vote trumps 51. Michigan 46 , biden 49 . Donald trump, pennsylvania you can put that up on the screen, neck and neck, 4848. Wisconsin right now the same, 48 President Biden, 48 former president donald tr trump. So i dont know, francesca, please do reactor that is seems that the former president s is nurturing some of those margins in some of the key states. Ins weber suburban woman is an error that the Training Campaign says that it will be targeting to try to boost its numbers in those states on the issue of Abortion Rights but you also heard President Biden i think shook his messaging a little bit on the economy right now. Focusing more on tangible things that you would do he would do including a second term versus making as many comparisons with things like a Written Infrastructure for you, heres all the ways that i think im better than donald trump on the economy because voters just sort of feeling those things so now hes focusing on more things like affordable childcare, what he used the money for if he raises taxes on millionaires. Sandra well dig more in to the innocent second on the issue of abortion but first, julia, to you on this, this is a former Attorney General bill barr, we just heard from a moment ago, but also this over the weekend he had to say he had this to say on his decision to this support former President Donald Trump. Watch. Neil for all your problems with your former boss and other issues that he raised in office and all the damage you argue he had done, you are still supporting him over joe biden. That surprise you go in and surprise me. I know you had that before you would support their public and to get and you are but he is heading that ticket for all those words and problems you cited. Why . Im not happy with it the choice, i think its a terrible choice for the country but it is a choice at the end of the way we are to select between two different individuals and ive started all along, i think my duty to pick the person i think will do the least harm to the country and i think that that to me that is clearly trump and Republican Administration which i think is important. Sandra julia kreuz your action to that. Not happy with the choice but hell also support former President Donald Trump. You know, i think he is saying how a lot of voters feel. Whether they would support trump or biden. This is not a popular choice for, you know, much of america. Its not an enthusiastic choice. You see the basis of both parties really, you know, obviously resoundingly electing trump and trying to do with their standardbearers in but we see that a lot of the country is quite frankly find this choice not palatable going into november. Little want a 2020 round two, you know, there was really a 120 b. Some new blood. But we saw that the new labels obviously did not work. Now there is a third choice after choice seems to be our okay junior or he is a choice and you can certainly stand to be its boiler. I think a lot of it and we dont really know who he would pull from a Conventional Wyndham says he migh