Opening statements that trump and the trump hush money criminal trial. Ill be at the courthouse and 9 00 a. M. With the team and my colleagues proceedings begin at 9 30. The news continues. The source starts now, i have a great weekend straight from the source tonight, full steam ahead. The states now set for Opening Statements the store at first criminal trial of donald trump with a full jury is seated in just four days for the great dismay of the criminal defendant, who openly wants it all to just slow down. Ill see you in a more ranks for trump, new yorks Attorney General now asking the judge to throw out the hundred and 75 million bond, trump posted at his Civil Fraud Case. Could the former president since assets now be at risk again, that chord here and get this set for monday morning. While trump is in criminal court, just down the street. And the Republican House speaker in even more jeopardy tonight as a third number of Mike Johnsons conference signs on to the effort to oust him, meaning he could need democrats to step in and save his job. Im john king in for Kaitlan Collins. This is the source Donald Trumps first criminal well trial is about to get real much more intense, but no Opening Statements now set for monday. At the heart of it, a Hush Money Payment to a former porn star just before the 2016 election that trump in the white house phase one. Now in the history books 12, jurors, six alternates are in place. That full jury empaneled after a fourday process that yeah. Yes. Had a few bumps in the road, but overall, things did move quickly. Something the former president does not sound very happy about trials. Jackson which is lovely for a lot of people. The judge wants to go as fast as possible. Reasons not for my eraser and this is really a concerted which are simply Everything Urine so which by numerous judges democrat judge juan merchan on does seem to want to move things along, but thats how it works. There is no proof, zero proof of a witchhunt. Day for also included a heated debate over what the former president could be asked about if he chooses to testify, how much, for example his past legal issues can be brought up during crossexamination, like the E Jean Carroll case, his civil fraud verdict, trumps lawyers objecting to all of it. The judge said hed rule on that by monday yes sir. Yes. But testifying would be extremely risky for the former president. So well see, well see in the days ahead if that actually happens, the judge also gave the Trump Defense team a stern warning today. Stop filing motions. He said to try to relitigate decisions already made, the judge saying, quote, that has to end. Except my rulings. Lets get straight to my legal sources tonight with me. Just talk this over criminal defense attorneys. Cnn legal analyst joey jackson from a federal prosecutor, david kelly, who served as the us attorney for the Southern District of new york in two veteran new york Rucker Attorneys for not us to beall, author i dala. Lets get straight to the question. Gioia, monday, it starts this process was important and well talk a little bit more about the jury Selection Process and what we learn. But on monday, its starts. So what is happening right now . Do you see each side spends the weekend thing, First Impression matter. You want to win the jury on day one without question, john, and it doesnt start this week began certainly it started months ago, right . Because monday is about your narrative. And so i think we know what the narrative of the prosecution will be. Weve heard it. Its been laid out in the statement of facts that the prosecutor has already indicated. I expect monday for them to go at it and really lay out to the jury what is their theory to talk to them about what the scheme was all about . I talked to them about the players involved in the scheme to talk to them about the evidence they have to substantiate it. And i also, john do believe that theyre going to talk about the issue of corroboration. We know theyll go after tax. Michael cohen and hes alive. Hes a perjury that wont happen to monday, but i think through their testimony in Jury Selection, theyve conditioned the jury to having unsaved three witnesses. And i think theyll talk about dont only rely upon our witnesses, rely upon the Text Messages, the emails, what the last point and that is a defense. Would be curious to me is to know how much theyre going to commit. Will we see a defense or will we say its not about donald trump . Keep an open mind. They have to establish it to reasonable doubt this has nothing to do with politics. I want to know whether they lay out a defense that is the defense team or whether they keep it generic and general. Well, lets break it down more sharply. Lets start with the prosecution, your prosecutor . No prosecutor has done whats going to happen monday morning. Prosecutors stand up and ask the jury to convict a former president of the United States. How important is to come Out Of The Box . Fox and frame the case. Very important. I mean, theres the opportunity for the prosecutors to kinda laid out lay out a roadmap for the case. And part of this case really is not so challenging in the sense that you have to prove the falsified records and so forth. You have to prove the criminal intent of the the defendant. But i think most important you have to prove the so what thats not a legal requirements really a factual requirement. Why should we care . Why is it such a big deal . So thats the one that i think thats one of the biggest hurdles here. Second thing is i go into the opening statement, what im gonna do is someone you said, which is two, i want to bait thin and a little bit get him to say more than he needs to say because defendants dont have to say much of anything the burdens not on them, but you want them to try to commit to something that you were pretty sure he can prevent them from accomplishing at the end of the trial. And so what about the Defense Perspective . Im going to stand right up by a laser. Jonah, the jury, you know what the evidence didnt show the evidence going to show that Stormy Daniels try to shake down blackmail donald trump. You the evidence going to show shes the criminal and the courtroom. Shes the one who shook them. Oh, and just in case you want to know the other criminals in the courtroom. All the main witnesses. Heres the guy who did time a gel will hear about oldest ville willy about where he slept and what the meals that he eight when he was a gym as he was in jail thats who they want you to rely upon to put the president of the United States in jail and theyre going to fail miserably. How much does this matter . The tension weve seen between the judge and the defense team. Its in the pretrial phase. Its in the Jury Selection phase. But if it carries over into the trial, it can get interesting. This is judgment for sean today, talking about you. He keeps issuing rulings and the trump team essentially moves the semicolon around, it appeals again, and they filed again and they challenge it again, the judge saying that has to end. There comes a point where you accept my rulings. Ive entertained your motions. Ive entertained your arguments and good faith at some point, you need to accept my emotions. Trump was glaring at the judges that went through does that matter does it matter . I mean, it doesnt matter. You dont want to be in the courtroom and the jury getting the impression that the judges against you. So people have to be careful, you dont want to be angering the judge, but on the other hand, you cant stop people from doing their job. You cant stop people from filing motions. They have to make a record. They may have to make an appeal here. So theyre just stealing their job. But we heard his one word answer yes. When the former president was asked to testify, weve had this conversation before, but if he testifies now, we still the judge still has to make his decision on the socalled sandoval rule. What can the prosecution bring it crossexamination, but but the among the potential things, the E Jean Carroll case, a lawsuit that was ruled frivolous. The trump brought against Hillary Clinton but 450 million Civil Fraud Judgment october 23, gag order violation of that case so you dont think hes ever going to get on the stand, right . Now, but let me just say it from a legal perspective because its very timely and it is a little personal any minute, were expecting the new York State Court of appeals to hand down a ruling in the case of peoples state of new york versus havi one feinstein, which by firm tried and argued. And that its on sandoval. Its on that exact issue. And that Court Of Appeals ruling is going to tell everyone in the state what you how much you can put in and what you cannot put in. So tuesday is actually a possibility when that ruling could come down and it could cause because this trial judge to adjust his ruling depending on what the highest court in the state said. But i think theres a Distinction Author from the excellent representation that you provided for him and i think that there without question, known author for a long time except penal lawyer. The reality though is that in your case, there were just so much that was lead in with respect to prior bad acts of Sexual Conduct when the case was about Sexual Conduct here, theyre going after trump yes. On a fraud issues as it relates to business records. But theres so much more the violation of orders, sir. You know what orders are and you continue to violate them. Why isnt that fair game issues relating to defamation and issues related to e. Jean carroll. So i think theres a distinction between the numerous sexual allegations lead in in your case and what could be let in in this and we have seen including in the courtroom today, when e. Jean carroll came up, trump is shaking his head. You saw the energy, but in the public sphere, weve seen even worse so weve seen the language, weve seen just the caustic things, the hostel, the horrible things he says about her. Would that be a gift to prosecutors if he actually took the stand . Yeah. Look, i think we can all focus on crossexamination what they live and what they dont let in. But i think from prosecutors can put take that all the way. I dont even really care what they let me crossexamined about because its given his history and what hes done before. I dont know that he can stand up and even on direct appear to be credible in the face of all the other evidence. And yet, ive been saying this all week. Im a contrarian on this issue to a degree. The guy got 77 million votes. He doesnt have to convince that many people, the jury box i go you its three because its legally its one. Right. Is a hung jury. But three, you could like you cant get bullied by the other ones and you stay strong. And yet, we know we have that one juror on that, who she already says, i dont like trump. I dont like the way he treats people. I think hes selfish. So im not even looking for an acquittal. Im looking for, you has the most star power of anybody in that courtroom by four and some of these jurors, if they have mixed feelings or if they like them, they might be totally star struck by him and might be anticipating him to testify. So theyll disregard the evidence. I mean, the reality is starstruck or not, it comes down to the okay. You take as a juror and that allows requires that you follow the law. And there are multiple counts here. So are they going to say with respect to every count theres nothing to see here that ledgers fine. That invoice is fine. I just dont know there are 34 counts, but theres only one lie. Right . Its just the same lie repeated over and over again. But we know that jurors decide cases based often on emotion and then they back into the logic. So he good do himself a favor by tested. So then how does the Defense Team Work this out . Then i assume despite what their client says, that there they start this thinking wed like to keep them off the stand how do you make that calculation as you go, if you think youre losing, you say, okay lets roll the dice, lets put the politician in there. And when a vote is that how you doing wave its going well for them of cross examination, they will these guys are smithereens. Youre turning around and telling your client no way do you get on that stent . Now, obviously this is a difficult trial client to control and ultimately, whether or not to testify as a clients decision, not the lawyers decision. So its anybodys guess how this is going to help me with the Opening Statements calculation. Its been a long time, but i sit in courtrooms and sometimes the prosecution gives this long laundry list instead, its all my might all be great. It might all be substantive. They might have a great case, but they lose the jury. They just put them since the auc other case are they just come and say we have a lot to talk about over the next six weeks here are the five or six things you need to know today. Boom, boom, boom, boom. Move on. What do you do here . I would do that because what you really want to give them is an overall attempt thousand foot view. And you want to give them, you want let me give them a roadmap. You want to give them kind of Inflection Points just two points of reference. So they know whats going on as it happens to go into the details and given the whole longwinded story without any context, not going to work, you got to go my cousin vinny, i stand up and say what he just said is bs i know. I think youre getting up there forcefully, passionately and with joe jackson mentioned last night, i think when were on is about Jury Nullification sometimes you can in a case like this, with passion and reason, you could say they prove their case. What came out of here, you determine what justices. And so then helped me with the second level. Hes helped making the opening argument for the defense. He did the prosecution. Youre the lawyer at the table . What are you doing . You watch him, you watching the jury trying to figure out whos doing what im watching both, but im not a big believer in watching Body Language or facial expressions because weve all had the experience, a jordan nods at you throughout the entire island, you lose. So its something that doesnt really work. You know, its funny because youll sometime be watching majority of the whole trial it could be months long and you think i got this juror at the end of the day thats the one you did everybody hear not that i think they keep it thematic. Right. I think thats how you captivate your audience. You keep it really generic, just giving them a sense of what youll do. But im looking for what the defense will do at the end of the day quickly you can talk about Michael Cohen being a perjurer. You can talk about Stormy Daniels being unsavory. Do you have corroboration was a Shell Company established are not are there Text Messages indicating that this was a game plan or not . Are there emails . Is there other other things that show that what youre saying is unsavory as you are listen, its true because there are other things to establish that thats going to be significant thing. We throw around historic and unprecedented. We use those words too often. This is truly historic and unprecedented. Well see you on monday, gentlemen. Appreciate all your time tonight. Thank you so much. It was a dramatic and emotional day in court. If for some of the prospective jurors to two broke down in tears. 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