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To cnn news central right now in florida, a trumpappointed judge will consider whether to dismiss charges against the two codefendants in the classified Documents Case facing the former president the trump employees, in their Obstruction Charges should be dropped partly because they did not know the boxes they moved from maralago contained classified materials. But the Special Counsel says they were conspiring to help trump hide those documents from investigators Cnns Katelyn Polantz is here. Caitlin, what can we expect as we watch this all play out well, we will be seeing the discussion of these Obstruction Charges. There purchase that donald trump faces, as well as his two codefendants, walt nauta and carlos de oliviera. They and their attorneys work with trump and his attorneys. Theyre not so its these two codefendants. And it really does boil down to legal arguments that the judge is going to be hearing that say that he didnt no. Enough in this issue that this was something in this case where these codefendants, they just werent aware of the benefit of moving boxes. They didnt know what was in them. And their lawyers are going to be arguing that allegedly they werent acting with any corruption ten and so they shouldnt be charged. So well see what the judge does. Were not expecting ruling today, but every time theres a hearing before judge Aileen Cannon in florida, its important and of course, half dimension still no trial date in this maralago Documents Case. We will wait and see if she has anything to say about that today. A big x factor still out there weve also learned that a key trump lawyer, whose own notes and memos actually gave the doj really a roadmap for this indictment is no longer representing the former president. What does that mean . Well, its a Long Time Coming for Evan Corcoran. Hes been distancing himself for the from the legal team of donald trump because he hes had to a judge compelled him to provide information in the investigation iran classified documents, where he became a key witness in that case. He had been taking notes of his conversations with donald trump and became trump attorney one in the indictment, a key person of the witnesses who is talking or who was talking to trump around these alleged Obstruction Charges. So in this situation with Evan Corcoran, the thing that he had heard from trump and wrote down in his notes that makes him such a key witness. He witnessed trump saying to him, okay, why dont you take documents that having corcoran had found that were classified to your hotel room. And if theres anything really bad in there, you know, pluck it out and Evan Corcoran says trump made a plucking motion. All those documents were supposed to be given back to the justice department. Not all of the documents at maralago were but Evan Corcoran was trying to do his part. This is the final motion in his split from the trump team, and he really was the only remaining lawyer who had shepherded trump through early parts of that federal investigation and the january 6 case, all right. Kaelyn, poland to always has all the details for us. Thank you so much for that update. And lets bring in a legal analyst and former federal prosecutor, Jennifer Rodgers now, a jennifer great cu how do you expect judge cannon to rule on this . Katelyn just laid it all out for us. There well, jessica, this actually is a very easy one at this stage of the proceedings. The motion to dismiss stage. You have to assume that all of the factual allegations in the indictment are proven our true. So the judges only question really is, if the indictment is if they prove what is said in the indictment, is there a legal reason why that doesnt constitute the violation of the statute at issue and the indictment alleges that they had reason to know there was an investigation going on, that they moved these boxes at trumps behest and that that was with the intent of obstructing or in some way impeding this investigation that they knew was going on. Evan corcoran was about to search through these box is looking for responsive documents to a subpoena. So theres really know where to go for Judge Cannon Other than to deny this motion what im watching for is whether she does it swiftly or whether she delays. Thats been an ongoing thing with judge cannon to delay delay, delay, and not set a trial date as you were speaking to caitlin about so im looking really not so much for the answer but for how long it takes to get there, what the timeframe is, right . Then on this Evan Corcoran development, hes no longer part of trumps legal team, likely going to be a key doj witness. How big of a blow is this to trump well im actually surprised that this break didnt happen earlier. I mean, as soon as it became clear that he had had to turn over his nodes and was going to be a witness. I expected that he would exit from team trump. Im surprised he didnt do away back then. So it is a blow, certainly his testimony always was going to be a blow once we learned about it, especially his extensive notetaking because even though testimony is damaging contemporaneous notes taken at the time really emphasize that so the timing im surprised it took so long, but yes, its going to be a very powerful Witness For The Prosecution in the case. All right. Jennifer rodgers for us great to have you on. Thanks so much. Briana monday will be an unprecedented and historic de in American History as the first criminal trial of a former sitting president gets underway, the road to this trial is salacious and it spans almost 20 years. And we should warn you that some of the deal details are definitely for adults only. Former manhattan de a cyrus vance first began investigating alleged Hush Money Payments, then trump lawyer Michael Cohen made to stephanie clifford, known in the adult Film Industry is Stormy Daniels. In the days leading up to the 2016 election, but it wasnt until the Wall Street Journal published this bomb im Michelle Story on january 12, 2018 about cohen paying daniels 130,000 for her silence. That news of the alleged 2006 affair and a potentially illegal cover up broke wide initially, daniels denied the affair, fearful of legal action by trump, though she managed to say a lot even without saying much at all when she went on jimmy kimmel a few weeks later did you sign this letter that was released today i dont know that. Wait a minute. That you can say. Like my signature does, it doesnt look like your signature, so youre saying perhaps this letter was written and released without your approval . My March Clifford spoke more openly about her allegations during an interview with Anderson Cooper on 60 minutes after you had sex, what happened . He said that it was great. He had a great evening and it was nothing like he expected that i really surprised him that a lot of people must underestimate me that he hoped that i would be willing to see him again and that we would discuss the things that weve talked about earlier in the Evening Branches right trump denied in a fair a month later giving this now infamous response to a reporters question 30 payments wt, wave ask miael hen, mhas My Ask Michl Com but by may the dam was breaking and trumps personal lawyer, rudy giuliani, was going over it in a barrel, as he said, trump had cohen had given Michael Cohen the money he paid to daniels i was talking about 230,000 payment. Settlement payment, which is a very regular thing for lawyers to do. The question there was the only possible violation there would be was it a Campaign Finance violations which usually would result in a fine by the way, not this big storm storm troopers coming in and breaking down as a part hartman and breaking down his office that was money that was paid by by his lawyer. The way i would do out of his Law Firm Funds or whatever finds doesnt matter. A present reimbursed that over august 2018, Michael Cohen in pleaded guilty to crinal charges in Federal Court, including yes. Campaign finance violations over the Hush Money Payments. He testified that trump repaid him and it cohen was directed to make the payments for the principal purpose of influencing the election by october, Stormy Daniels nose was out with a new book, full disclosure, and disclose. She did what has changed . Why are you now allowed to say things . I have left beeps to give, so he did not have a condom . No what supposedly hes a german is weird, right . He was not a dermer foe. He was not at all yeah and you made love whats wrong with you i mean, laid there and prayed for death why did he if you were so grossed out by them, why did you have sex with them . I still dont know a couple of months later in december 2018, trump changed his tune calling the Hush Money Payments, a simple private transaction done correctly by a lawyer. He said that on twitter, those shortly after that lawyer said it indeed was not done correctly under oath before congress did the president call you to coordinate on public messaging about the payments to ms clifford in or around February 2018 . Yes. What did the president asks or suggests that you say about the payments are reimbursements he was not knowledgeable of these reimbursements and he wasnt knowledgeable of my actions. He asked you to say that yes, maam. Are you telling us mr. Cohen . That the president Directed Transport actions in conspiracy with Allen Weisselberg and his son, donald trump jr. As part of a civil criminal as part of a criminal conspiracy of financial fraud. Is that your testimony today . Yes trump responded to that testimony. He tweeted that cohen was lying in order to reduce his prison time in summer 2019, then District Attorney cyrus vance subpoenaed the Trump Organization for records of Hush Money Payments, ultimately, as prosecutors debated whether a successful prosecution was a longshot, the ants decided not to pursue charges, but in 2021, it was out with vance and in with alvin bragg if former New York State and federal prosecutor as the new manhattan de after more than a yearandahalf in january 2023, Braggs Office went to a grand jury with evidence its about trumps alleged role in the 2016 Hush Money Payments to Stormy Daniels by march of last year, the historic criminal indictment of a former president , followed by trump pleading not guilty to 34 felony Criminal Charges of falsifying business records. This couldnt be the only criminal case against trump did actually flee, goes to trial before the president ial election. Trumps lawyers have called it politically motivated. Theyve denied any wrongdoing on his part bragg had campaigned for manhattan da on his experience taking on trump as chief deputy aag, he had supervised the 2017 investigation into the trump foundation, a case that would lead to the charities closure and on primary de in june 2021, bragg tweeted as chief Deputy Attorney general of New York State. I didnt just sud donald trump and the trump foundation. I1 trumps lawyers Accused Bragg of revivim a socalled zombie case to interfere with trumps chances this to retake the white house. Bragg has denied that the core of its not money for sex. We would save the bot conspiring to corrupt a president ial election. And then youll lying in new York Business records to cover it up. And all along in this process, the trump team has filed motion after motion in an effort to quash or delay this trial last july. A motion to move the case to Federal Court denied last august, a motion for the judge in this case, juan merchan, to recuse himself because his daughter is a Democratic Political consultant denied though my sean did expanded Gag Order On Trump as he ramped up criticism of the judges daughter. And this year, trumps team filed a motion to dismiss the case entirely. It too, was denied. And then here in just the last four days, three attempts by trump to delay his hush money trial. All denied. Jessica and here we are. Extraordinary measures being taken ahead of the hush money trial. It will require an incredible level of security and unprecedented and strategic choreography between Law Enforcement and the secret service. Cnns Brynn Jin Grass got an inside look at how the nypd is preparing. Brynn, would you learn yeah, it does. Again, they call this a robust Security Package. Now, we know this is the first criminal trial of a former president , but this is not the first time as we know also that donald trump has been in court. And so Law Enforcement has really been looking so thats Civil Fraud Trial here in new york to the E Jean CarrollDefamation Case trial here in new york to kinda take lessons, have discussions about it for the last couple of months and put this Security Package in place and its going to have all the toys is what Law Enforcement told me basically that includes bomb sniffing dogs, barricades to set up frozen zones around that courthouse theres lots of security cameras, more personnel outside the courthouse and inside the courthouse. Now, they have a lot to look at right . Protest or supporters expected to be there the crush of the media. Were talking about protecting also a former president lot of that also includes threats that they continue to see online or made ever since this case even was brought about. Heres what the nypd how they responded to, how theyll handle those were gonna be looking at the threat picture on a constant basis. Social media, scrubbing just listening to people making calls are making threats online. How do you handle that . We wanted find the basis of the threat. Is it real . Is it an online warrior . Is it what kind of extra Security Preparations do we have to take inside that court has at 100 Center 15th Floors where this trial is going to take place. Jessica, that entire floor is going to be shut down to the general public. It all kicks off as you guys been talking about on monday. All right. Brand thanks so much. And silicon Vice PresidentKamala Harris will visit the new epicenter of the Abortion Rights battle. Shes looking to galvanize voters after the Arizona Supreme CourtRevivim A 160 yearold law, banning most abortions plus the us military is moving more firepower to the middle east as fears grow over, a retaliatory attack from iran or their proxy forces within that region. And a little bit later, the former interpreter for Super Salt Superstar baseball player Shohei Ohtani, just surr