Donald trump s lawyer arranging $130,000 payment to a former adult film star. he reportedly did so in october, 2016. one month before the election. s story breaking news here in new york city. a grand jury has voted to indict former president trump. former commander-in-chief, now a criminal defendant. these are felony crimes in new york state, no matter who you are. we have officially begun the first criminal trial of a former president in the united states. i am not going to be getting a fair trial. it is a very sad thing. he seems old and tired and mad. the first witness in this criminal trial is now taking the stand. echo was right there beginning of trump s plan to keep his relationship with stormy daniels a secret. hope hicks on the stand. she just started crying. tissues came out. stormy daniels testified in vivid detail about their
Courthouse in lower manhattan. our legal panel is back, chuck rosenberg and caroline polisi. let s start with vaughn, bring us up to speed on what s been happening in court so far. reporter: we re a little bit more than half an hour into opening statements from the prosecution. they ve indicated that they intended to spend about 40 minutes presenting their case here as part of their opening statements to the jury, and the biggest significance of the last five minutes is the fact that the prosecution is telling the jury that donald trump was aware in october 2016 of the arrangements to pay stormy daniels $130,000, and it is quite if we may take a step back for a moment, it is amazing that almost nine years later we are still learning details of what exactly took place in 2016. these details are clearly going to be presented by the prosecution with a litany of witnesses and evidence, but i
Attorney, todd blanche, just saying to the jury, none of this. anderson cooper, none of this was a crime we expect. todd blanche is opening statement to be shorter. we believed it was supposed to be embedded in the 20-minute range. where s the prosecution was supposed to be about 40 minutes or so? yeah, about half the leg and just a reminder that we re getting this and he s acknowledged i think by the way, that stormy daniels did, in fact sign an nda in october 2016 and exchange for $130,000. and there was an agreement here that she did sign this nda. he s acknowledging the deal i m sure he reminds the jurors that it s not a crime to enter into a non-disclosure agreement with anyone now here, i think what you re going to hear is just for a moment. it s ago they were talking about how the prosecution laid out a simple story then argue that this is not simple and complexity is something that they are going to seize on the way this has been charged. these 34 counts each one representing a different documents. and the fact that this has been sort of
Category called prior bad acts, things i m going to raise about behavior you have been engaged in are alleged to behavior and/or criminal trials or civil trials rather different and then about whether you ll be questioned to try to undermine your credibility. it s not for the jury to say, listen because this person did x, y, and z bad, they must have done this crime. it s to give greater context, especially for a pattern of behavior in this case, largely around the idea of maybe a karen mcdougal and giving her money initially or a bad a catch and kill all or about falsifying business records in the past, it gives some idea for the actual jury of what he may have been doing in this context. so one of the things that the prosecution wanted to bring up ellie and karen is the access hollywood video which we all remember from october 2016, not a pleasant bit of business there for mr. trump or for billy bush for that matter explained what the jury what a judge has ruled on that matter. so the prosecution wants to introduce evidence of that
The way, he was also alleged to have done this with karen mcdougal, the playboy playmate. so, would he be a good choice? would david packer be a good choice to go first? i think that being able to tell the story chronologically, it is difficult when then you have to do with different witnesses and their counsel overlap. i think the fact that this stretches back into 2015 does potentially make him an interesting choice here. i would predict we are going to hear from hope hicks very early on in the case. former trump campaign and white house inner circle member, longtime very close staff who was in the room, when it happened, so to speak. he has been on the witness list. i would suspect we will be hearing from her. we will get the contacts that will then set up the october
That jordan had been arrested. as nice as it would be to have more siblings, it would be easier for everyone if he just took a break and stopped. after his arrest, mary and her children were rooting for mischele lewis as she faced him in the courtroom. in 2015 he pleaded not guilty. it is laughable that he pleaded not guilty. i have so much evidence on it, i don t know if he even realizes how much evidence i collected on him. after negotiations between attorneys, william allen jordan accepted of plea deal of three years in state prison for theft by deception. three years later he is free and and october 2016 jordan is granted early release from prison with credits for good behavior for his work in prison and time already served in county jail. through his attorney jordan declined to speak to dateline.
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Homicide units like albuquerque s. but after months of dogged persistence, gonterman wrangled up the funds and shipped a sample of the john doe dna to parabon and settled in to wait. the process would take several months. meanwhile, gonterman set brittani s file aside and focused on other cases. and it was at this time in october 2016 when a name suddenly emerged from brittani s memory. she said the name justin kept coming up. i asked my mom like, hey, did you know this person? and she goes, no. i was like, well, for some reason that name keeps coming back to mind. she s like, how often? i was like, like every day. i was like, i don t know why. every day? every day. this was the first time a name had just popped into her head. brittani called her sisters to see if she remembered a guy named hands justin hansen.
but he s announcing i ve got this huge press conference that as you re reporting, a lot of people didn t know about. one question i had last night thinking on this is how this affects what he s doing with the debate. i mean, before this we were told he s not going to he s not showing up to the debate next wednesday. but now that he s got this time crunch to turn himself in to actually show up in fulton county do you think that could change the calculus at all that he has? he has two days until after the debate to turn himself in technically. i think that he is likely to stick to a plan. there s been some discussion today about will this be like right after the access hollywood tape in october 2016 when he went to st. louis to debate hillary clinton and that set him back on a path toward winning. but his whole campaign was riding on that debate as one former aide pointed out to me today correctly. that s not the case here in terms of the primary. i think it could impact his impulse to defend himself. i still think it s unlikely that he shows up. but again, it s him. you never really know until he does or doesn t do it. you ve covered new york politics for a long time. you ve covered rudy giuliani for a long time. you have seen him go from this
Ashamed of herself if you want to know the truth. oh, my god. that is donald trump deflecting from his own troubles in a presidential debate in october 2016, just two days after the access hollywood tape was made. seems so long ago. as john heilemann says about donald trump, it is always confession or projection. our next guest is looking at how trump s current troubles are weighing over the republicans first presidential debate. now just days away. the piece by senior columnist matt lewis is entitled showing up to the gop debate would be the ultimate trump flex and it reads in part this, for normal politicians one indictment would be enough to go into hiding and avoid interrogation by a debate moderator, but, remember, trump is not a normal politician and just as there is precedent for trump to skip a primary debris,