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>> and we understand that the prosecutor has wrapped their opening statement? >> reporter: the prosecution after 45 minutes and 30 seconds has wrapped up their opening statements to this jury here, making it clear, quote, donald trump is guilty of 34 counts of falsifying business records in the first degree. the prosecutor telling the jury, tune out the noise, focus on the facts. focus on the logical inference that follows from those facts. focus on the evidence, listen to that testimony. at that point, todd blanche, donald trump's lead attorney then stood up and has now just begun to make the opening statements. i want to read you the beginning here. good morning, your honor, president trump did not commit any crimes. the manhattan d.a.'s office should have never brought this case. he is just beginning these opening statements so i want to make sense of them here before we go further. we should make it clear here that todd blanche indicated he was prepared to deliver about 20 minutes of opening statements here. he intends to make forward to
with this story, having had sex with donald trump in 2006, which the former president denies, how they paid her $130,000. they'll talk about koog and the catch and kill. and the defense, talking about how michael cohen and stormy daniels have an axe to grind and how donald trump paid his attorney, that's all he did. that's what we're looking to today, guys, as a very big day in this nation's history. >> yasmin, you did a great job laying everything out as far as looking ahead to the opening statements. stand by with us as we bring in our legal analysts. maya, what did you make of the list of the scope that the prosecution could hit with donald trump if he were to take the stand, everything from the civil fraud trial outcome to the e. jean carroll cases to the gag order viegss that have been found in the case of the civil fraud trial. does all of this sound fair game? what does that tell you about how when the judge is viewing this as well as the decision the
not a choir boy, right? he's not an angel, but that doesn't make him a criminal. the hook here is that trump is the client here. i don't know that trump is going to actually allow todd blanche to say anything negative about trump or even, you know, admit to potential infidelities in his marriage or having these types of affairs, things like that. i'll be interested to see just how far blanche goes in acknowledging some of these unsavory, you know, we call them awful but lawful things that trump did in the lead up to this election. i'll be really interested to see how far trump -- >> we should mention that trump has denied having had any affair. he's admitted to paying cohen, but he's denied that underlying allegation related to an affair. so vaughn, as the opening statements continue from todd blanche, donald trump's attorney, what else is he saying? >> reporter: to that point
that i put up. the point here is that the judge had no idea what was happening. this is the same judge that two months ago, they had a ruling that shook the world. it shook the world. everyone knows according to that trial, i did nothing wrong. over here, i did nothing wrong also. this is a biden witch hunt to keep me off the campaign trail. so far, it's not working, because my poll numbers are higher they have ever been through the public understands that it was a witch end. >> mr. trump, what was it like about the "access hollywood" tape? speak to the president laying it out much like an attorney would. making his point about this c case. you know, kayleigh, the entire time we were watching, everybody wants, like, yeah, we get this. >> kayleigh: he is on message.
prove the case beyond all possible doubt. the proof must be beyond reasonable doubt. unbelievable to think what the jury in this courtroom, guys, is going to hear over the next four to six weeks. we're getting word -- we don't have confirmation in our own reporting on this, but "the new york times" reporting that david pecker is going to be the first witness to take the stand after opening statements. the timing of that we don't know considering it's going to be a short day. david pecker, as you well know, stood over the head of ami for over two-plus decades. he had a meeting with michael cohen back in 2016 talking about the possibility of stormy daniels coming forward. he then visited the white house in 2017 as well. he had a longstanding relationship with the former president. so certainly his testimony is going to be integral to the prosecution's case, guys. >> keep us posted, yasmin. i want to bring in chuck rosenberg, former u.s. attorney
saying that that sent donald trump's campaign into damage control mode. they felt on the heels of that tape, it could have been devastating for his campaign to have any further extramarital affairs, particularly one with a former porn star being made public. this is where we are at, prosecutors outlining their case. we will hear from donald trump's lawyers, they say they will need 25 minutes to layout their case to the jury. need 25 minutes to layout their case to the 'u . . ~' ,, need 25 minutes to layout their case tothe'u. ., ~ . to the jury. thank you so much. keein: to the jury. thank you so much. keeping across _ to the jury. thank you so much. keeping across events - to the jury. thank you so much. keeping across events in - to the jury. thank you so much. keeping across events in new. to the jury. thank you so much. - keeping across events in new york. we have a team inside the courtroom as well. i want to speak and get analysis to the former us attorney. thank you for coming on the programme. what do you make of what we have heard from the prosecution in the last half an hour? it is clearthis — in the last half an hour? it is clear this case _ in the last half an hour? it is clear this case is _ in the last half an hour? it is clear this case is a _ in the last half an hour? it is
background a little more later but here is some of what he said today in his opening argument. he said cohen's job, michael cohen who was an attorney and worked closely at one point with the president trump, cohen's job before as president was to take care of problems for the defendant. pecker would act as eyes and ears for the campaign. tell me your assessment of that through the opening argument and also of what may or may not have been legal or illegal about either one of those points? >> neither of those things are state crimes and that's not what alleged in the indictment. this is an indictment about business records, and all of the evidence is going to show that the business records and question were not made by president trump and were not in any way or shape or form fraudulent. michael cohen has we stated repeatedly in court pleadings has been found liable for perjury for a number of previous
>> martha: today was the day we got the opening statements and a little bit of testimony as the trial for former president trump criminal case kicked off any quote orchestrated a criminal scheme to the 2016 federal election. he said he did nothing of this sort in the trial itself is a form of election interference because he is obviously the nominee for the gop and should be in the middle of a campaign right now. a fox news legal and former counselor to attorney general bill barr. always to have you with us and thank you for being here today. it is very interesting the prosecution on this case because they went back her forth. alvin bragg almost took the other case which was a fraud case in new york. but decided to pursue this one. and when he did, an interesting attorney came onboard late in this whole process.
middle eastern studies department said they may be the reason why the students may not know the answer to the questions that you asked them. they haven't been taught both sides of the story in the middle east. thank you very much. good to have both of you with us. so solidarity protests against israel go national. attorney and iranian american activist with a message to those who defend iran in these situations and their role in all of this next. >> we had to watch over the past 24 hours people clambering on the internet to explain that iran has the right to defend itself. in what capacity have you distorted the story to make the islamic republic the victim?
story with martha starts right now. >> martha: good afternoon everybody i am martha mccallum and this is the story today. we watch live is the protest play out on college campuses across the country. where is all of this heading? it doesn't appear to be dying down anytime soon so where are we going with all of this? columbia university telling students don't talk -- come to campus. essentially it's not safe and they went fully remote. is this giving in? is this letting the protesters win? i will speak with an iranian and american activist and attorney who has increasing presence on these issues and a message for those who would defend iran on these campuses and their proxies. >> when we were screaming that they were killing iranian women for not wearing a hit job where were you? but all of a sudden everybody has graduated from instagram's law to say this is a violation