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finger at donald trump but their witnesses all have deep credibility issues. the defense is no doubt going to hammer that all morning through their opening statement and throughout the rest of this trial. credibility will be the most important thing throughout this trial and whether or not donald trump testifies, the defense and prosecution are going to have to deal with each one of these witness's credibility along the way and the prosecution has to prove it beyond a reasonable doubt. even the journey thinks it might have or probably can't if they can't get to the proof beyond a reasonable doubt and why the defense should be looking for a win. that's what they are going into on this monday morning. >> harris: you think they have a fairly good case based on those witnesses alone. if you have a bevy of liars, i don't think that's worse than circumstantial evidence. it sounds like it is cut and dried but it won't be where trump is concerned. i want to jump to the next case

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booking.com booking.yeah >> martha: opening statements are underway. the seating of this jury and the issues they had to get to this morning with the judge have gone very quickly and now starting opening statements. as soon as we get some information out of the courtroom we'll bring that to you as well. >> dana: happening this morning as well ton morning before passover begins at columbia university they are holding classes virtually. anti-israel protests put the campus further on edge. now you can see on the left hand side a pro-israel demonstration starting to take shape there as jewish leaders including the rabbi at the university warned that safety is not a given and passover begins at sundown. the rabbi called for students that are jewish to return home ahead of the holiday. we spoke to one of them last hour. >> we're witnessing the

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making when you look at polling you ask americans which of these two men was a better president, and the answer is donald trump. >> harris: i have to stop there. the nypd with all the protesting at university of columbia right now is speaking. let's watch. >> commissioner, deputy commissioner for legal matters and deputy commissioner for operations, and we are joined by a deputy mayor of communications. all right, so mike, want to step up? >> sure. okay. good morning, everyone. i want to address a few of the issues coming up over the past few days regarding what's happening at columbia and around columbia. first of all i want to start with the key point which is columbia university is private property. so the police action, what we can do and can't do is very, very different on private property than it is on a public

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versus blue. what this is, is sane versus insane. moral versus evil. >> martha: your take on that? >> she is exactly right. by trying to have it both ways the biden administration isn't just winking and nodding but lying and saying that women can still have their sports but the biden administration has gone into court and said that title ix, the law, demands that women give up their spots for men. so that's what the biden administration is telling federal courts what title ix means. they can't come out and say women can continue to have their sports. part of the big issues is the privacy in the locker room. from riley's stories and paula's story, a lot of other women have experienced men having to be exposed to male genitalia in the locker room. >> martha: thank you very much.

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cancer charity. he was referring to the idea that he is engaged in legal payments and that's what the prosecution has to prove beyond a reasonable doubt is fraud. i don't think that they did a very good job from the notes i've seen so far to convince the jury on the onset that it is a fraud. >> harris: the defense has a couple of things to work with. what you just handed them and also if the prosecution cares that much about lies, why in the world do they call as one of their lead witnesses michael cohen, a professional liar, a convicted liar in this case? is it just to dial up the salaciousness of it all? >> it seems every witness of the prosecution has issues with lies. not only michael cohen, stormy daniels, even the editor of the "national enquirer" seems to have taken a plea deal essentially, immunity deal to get out of his own prosecution. the prosecutors are pointing the

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every year on energy costs. >> president biden: happy earth day. the work we must do to protect our future generations and continue the historic progress we're making. and today for the first time, americans can apply to join my american climate corp so everyone has a pathway to a clean energy career. >> now poll finds only 5% of voters out of 100 think climate change is the most important issue facing the country now. the democratic allies are hoping he keeps using climate events to get young people more interested in november's election. >> the president gets back by doing what he is doing, showing up, talking about his record, addressing things like climate change, which are incredibly important issues for young voters along with many others obviously. making sure that young people feel included in the conversation, not just as a vote, but as part of the governing coalition going

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their choices, i cannot call that a campaign expense. >> dana: nbc poll from the weekend. on all of these particular issues handling of crisis, strong record as president, competent and effective. necessary mental and physical health and president trump is up over biden on all of those. yet here are the democrats debating whether biden should debate trump. >> whenever i look at donald trump's debating style he lies and lies and lies and so hard to respond to that in the middle of a debate. i also think that joe biden is a terrific debater. >> it is hard to take donald trump seriously on the issues on debates. he didn't debate once in the republican primary. >> dana: neither did biden, right? r.f.k., jr. was saying debate me. i don't know if that argument holds water. president biden is the first

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Trump on Trial New York v. Donald Trump

illegal or legal on whether or not he's convicted by a jury. they made a calculated effort to seek to hide information so they could win the election so it wouldn't come out. that is i'm sure what the calculus was. >> robert, just wondering your thoughts, the very few political candidates are 100% pure without any kind of issues, very few. but in this case, robert, there was a lot to the catch and kill plan. especially after the access hollywood tape. what do you think this would have influenced? >> well, i think matthew hit it on the head. i mean, look, every campaign starts knowing that you've got vulnerabilities, and you have a research department that documents those vulnerabilities. they may be bad votes. they may be bad loans. you may look at your opponent and say, oh, they found out they

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defense will have to make? >> it's certainly fair game if donald trump chooses to take the witness stand that we would expect him to say if he were to take the stand like, you know, i just didn't want my wife to know or i didn't do it, i don't have affairs, whatever opens the door, as we say, to the ability of the prosecution to come in and bring the evidence that shows, well, actually you have a pattern of behavior, and actually here is what supports our case. this is exactly why so many of us have said very hard to imagine a scenario -- it can happen. but very hard to imagine a scenario where anybody on donald trump's legal team wants him on that witness stand. there's just too much to attack him with including a whole bunch of things he's said inconsistently over the years. >> caroline, is that unusual for folks that don't have the experience that you all do, for example, on what a trial normally looks like -- is it unusual for the judge to say, if the defendant chooses to take the stand, these are six issues

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underscore, this is crazy. you know, the idea that we would give this man access to classified documents again, after the way that he handled classified documents, refused to give them back, i mean, there's just so many things about what we have seen from his behavior since he has been president. i'm not talking about even the person we saw who was president, but what we know about him since he left office that absolutely is disqualifying. i think because there is a numbness to voters, because you have two functional incumbents running against each other, people are depressed by sort of seeing a rerun of 2020, you do have to start showing people just how crazy this is. we'll have to have new ways to wake people up to the insanity of all this. >> sarah, it's donny. i think the ad is fantastic. the work you've been doing is fantastic. you're doing, as you mentioned, a lot of focus groups with republican voters. what seems to be the key button issue or issues that's

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