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$464 million. that was a move that many legal experts say suggests appellate judges may be sympathetic to trump's appeal on this case on the merits. scheduling today's hearing on this bond issue is judge orther en groan. if this bond is voided, the a.g.'s office wants to give trump seven days to file a new one. if he couldn't or didn't, then his assets would become vulnerable all once again. dana and martha, back to you. >> dana: thank you so much. joining us now criminal defense attorney -- the key players in the trial. let's pull it up for everybody to see. the prosecutor is alvin bragg. donald trump at the center of everything as always. michael cohen is a star witness and they begin with david pecker the former publisher of the

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Outnumbered

it really does show the effectiveness of what democrats are doing. closely connected to biden. the one who made the opening statement today. that is how closely connected it is to the biden administration. this is part of a large campaign. i think americans even if they are thankful that maybe the american people aren't falling for it, they should understand how serious this is to what it means to be in this country and not to deal with our political opponents in this manner. >> harris: i didn't think i would never quote espn's stephen a. smith on this. "are you doing this because you can't take a man on based on the merits of a job -- i am paraphrasing. the answer is yes which is the point he made in his youtube video. an outspoken jewish professor at columbia is going after the school for not keeping jewish students at passover safe. it is sundown by the way.

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One Nation With Brian Kilmeade

out and what's interesting is michael cohen is looming in the background for the opening statement. if you are a prosecutor, you do not want to attribute too much of the case to michael cohen, you know the defense will tee off so i think the prosecution tells the story either downplaying him and saying it's not that important or a more subtle way to not contribute every piece of evidence. to say the evidence will show trump was doing x, y, and z see and not saying ♪ ♪ michael cohen will testify to those facts. >> the opening statement shows his defense team up for the challenge. >> they need to make about : there's a lot wrong with this prosecution in terms of it being creative, avoiding statute of limitations about political bias and entry but end of the day your on the merits, and trial, you need to make about : and you hope at least one or two jurors if not more say never buy a used

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One Nation With Brian Kilmeade

out and what's interesting is michael cohen is looming in the background for the opening statement. if you are a prosecutor, you do not want to attribute too much of the case to michael cohen, you know the defense will tee off so i think the prosecution tells the story either downplaying him and saying it's not that important or a more subtle way to not contribute every piece of evidence. to say the evidence will show trump was doing x, y, and z see and not saying ♪ ♪ michael cohen will testify to those facts. >> the opening statement shows his defense team up for the challenge. >> they need to make about : there's a lot wrong with this prosecution in terms of it being creative, avoiding statute of limitations about political bias and entry but end of the day your on the merits, and trial, you need to make about : and you hope at least one or two jurors if not more say never buy a used

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HARDtalk

at their ease because i say, "look, it's ok, we can laugh, you do not have to worry "about what you are going to say. "we will be friends." that is really important. because people, yeah, you are right. at heart, they are still worried about disability because they have been told that disability is a terrible thing. yeah, i know that in your advocacy work, and you have worked in academia, but you have also worked at the united nations and around the world in disability rights and advocacy. your point comes to a pretty simple one, in essence, that what we call disability is primarily difference. yeah. and we need to understand that if society creates the right conditions, that difference need not be a negative. indeed, it can be a positive, but at least it can be a level playing field so people can be judged on their merits and not

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Alex Witt Reports

number of features, providing greater accountability and forces an end game strategy and includes a loan instrument of the the foreign loan and ensures russian assets pay for part of the bill. the loan system itself is a house innovation and allows for much needed insight. 80% of the ukraine funding will go to the replennishment of american weapons and stocks and our facilities and our operations. it also includes tough measures and sanctions on iran and russia and china which most of the american people understand is a necess and important thing. our process ensured that each member was able to consider each of the elements on their own merits which is how the house is supposed to work. i know there are critics of the legislation. i understand that. it is not a perfect piece of legislation.

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Fox News Live

that house as a number of important features. it provides for greater accountability over ukraine aid, it forces an end game strategy for war. it includes a loan instrument of the foreign aid to ukraine and the rico act to ensure russian assets pay for part of the bill. unlike the senate bill, the loan system itself is a house innovation and allows for much needed insight. 80% of the ukraine funding will go to the replenishment of american weapons and stocks. our facilities and our operations. it also includes tough measures and sanctions on iran and russia and china at which most of the american people understand that's a necessity in a very important thing. our process and the and ensured each member was able to consider the individual supplemental elements on their own merits which is exactly how the house is supposed to work.

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CNN Newsroom With Fredricka Whitfield

thing our process in the end ensured that each member was able to consider the individual supplemental elements on their own merits, which is exactly how the house is supposed to work. i know there are critics of the legislation. i understand that it is not a perfect piece of legislation. were not insured that in a time of divided government and in a time where there are lots of different opinions, but there's no question whatsoever that the house has made many strong improvements to the senate bill and the product that we've sent over there is much better this package, i will note because it's very important, also includes national security priorities and many of them. but it is the only way that we could have gotten democrats to support aid to israel. and that's a fact there is a lot of misinformation out there about the bill and i just want to make one point about one issue that has been drawn. a lot of attention and that is creating of this funding go to hamas or two a terrorist organizations or what have you. and we put safeguards& the legislation to

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FOX and Friends

court finishes he cites legal analysts and media pundits who have attacked the merits of the case. and he continues to say this case should never have been brought. >> political and i'm sitting here for days now, from morning until night in the freezing room. freezing. everybody was freezing in there. and all for this. and this is your result. it's very unfair. very bad thing. very bad thing. the whole world is watching this hoax. >> the jurors seem a bit medicationed when considering their personal views of the former president. but they all said that they could judge this case fairly and on the merits. one juror who was seated said, quote: i don't like his persona. how he presents himself in public. i don't like some of my co-workers but i don't try to sabotage their work. well, that prompted. laughter ir box. they tried to get her bounced but they were out of challenges

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Americas Newsroom

merits. >> dana: former federal prosecutor andrew is here. eric shawn is in downtown manhattan to give us the lay of the land this thursday morning. hi, eric. >> good morning dana and bill. the former president arrived at court. he didn't speak to reporters on his way in but as is his want he is making his feelings known on social media. he has reposted comments critical of the trial despite being under that gag order from district attorney alvin bragg. he has already said he wants the former president cited for contempt of court for three previous social media posts in which he attacked witnesses stormy daniels and michael cohen. we'll see if the new posts fall under the gag order at some point. all they need is five more jurors to get the trial to sit in judgment of the former president and six alternates. this morning once again 96

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