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allowed. a lot of this hinges on whether or not former president trump who you say heading to court earlier this morning decides to testify. we he has said he wants to do. in the past he said he wanted to do that and dissuaded by his attorneys. we'll see what happens with this. andy mccarthy is with us as well. andy, give me a sense of your reaction to this. not a big surprise he won't allow the actual tape. >> all this wrangling is being done now before open statements. the lawyers really want to know before they start making commitments to the jury, what they are going to be allowed to do and not to do. i always think the biggest advantage a defense has in a criminal trial is they don't have to do anything. they don't have to prove anything. and i think it would be perilous if they were to promise the jury that they would hear from president trump during the trial. they are better off keeping that

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the company. why would she be doing that when i put up the money? i just want you to know that's taking place in front of an extremely crazed judge who is the most overturned judge in new york state. he was overturned four or five times on that case alone. you know who it is. i want to be nice and don't mention names. i want to be very nice. a thing like what is going on right here should never be happening. a very sad day in america, i can tell you that. thank you very much. >> dana: those are the first comments of the day from president trump as opening statements get underway in the so-called hush money trial. he had a lot to say, including some comments about the other case and about letitia james who complaining about the bonding company, which he says doesn't make any sense since he put up cash, the amount that she wanted in cash.

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taxes. so if he gets on the ballot and in the race that's a win for president trump for sure because you have two democrats biden and kennedy that will be splitting the vote. if kennedy -- i know young people somehow under 30 numbers look like they are going towards him. that's where joe biden is trying to hang onto those votes. those under 30 a lot are shifting to president trump. so it is early in that sense that people don't know really who r.f.k., jr. is. when he is for taxes and spending the same as joe biden, bring it on. let them split the democrat vote. >> dana: when he got on the michigan ballot it was a clever move and the biden team has gone after them. hillary clinton said what president trump wants to do is get rid of his opposition. watch her here. >> trump is like just gaga.

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The Faulkner Focus

sense of how challenging this moment is for you both in terms of your ability to police but also your judgment as you judge what is and what isn't a crime. >> i think several of us can jump in on this. first i will say the nypd is the most adaptable police department in the country if not the globe. we do this on a regular basis while still keeping the other places safe for tourists, special events, protests. this is not abnormal for us. this is not stretching our resources. we're not concerned about that. our biggest concern is to make sure people remain safe in this area but it is not a concern of ours in terms of our ability to respond. in terms of some of the legal challenges i will let the commissioner talk about that. >> sure. i really appreciate the question. this is very sensitive.

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Trump on Trial New York v. Donald Trump

does, to protect his family, his reputation, and his -- i think there's a typo here, it says brink. you will hear about hush money payments from another individual. how do you make sense of this, temidayo sno. >> i think, one, it is not normal to object during someone's opening statement. as lawyers at trial, it has to be pretty egregious in your perspective to stand out. one, it's just as a professional courtesy. people do not look friendly on that. it can make you look weak. part of your job as a prosecutor is you want to exert strength to the jury. as prosecutor that is so important. i think for the prosecutors to object and to get overruled, that's not a good start there. if you're going to object, you want to stand on very sure ground. now, to this meeting between -- that merchan just called. it may be the fact that we're seeing multiple objections and he may be saying what's going

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Trump on Trial New York v. Donald Trump

actual funds. i think they're presenting what they expect to be their counternarrative because they have to, and we'll see whether it's effective. >> blanche is now saying president trump had nothing to do with the invoices. he had nothing to do. he was just essentially dealing with a ledger like people deal with their checking account checks, and when you say the president had nothing to do with it, you're in a sense saying he can't be guilty of anything he didn't know about. >> yeah, they're saying where's the intent here? >> there's an interesting thing that one of the prosecutors did in jury voir dire, which essentially he was saying to the jury you understand, right, that, you know, if someone takes a contract out with a hitman to kill their wife, that person's guilty of a crime, right? i mean, that's sort of their way of saying, yeah, donald trump did not have to personally engage in every single act to

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putin. what are going to be the concessions they're willing to make? if, at the end of the day, we're funneling billions and billions without any end state in mind or strategy to lead to the end state, that does feed into what to her side's argument was, that there has to be some kind of strategy and some kind of end in sight, instead of just spending money on endless war. >> well, i will say, inside the white house, the belief has been we need this money so we can move both sides toward a settlement. without this money, putin goes wherever he wants to go. with this support, with the united states and europe behind zelenskyy's fight, behind ukraine's fight, that's the best hope of ending this war. i certainly agree with that assessment. it makes a lot of sense. i do want to say, yes, it was the cia director's briefing and other briefings that mike johnson got that, as we learned during donald trump's

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Trump on Trial New York v. Donald Trump

on. let's take it away from the jury and have that discussion. it could be something that's happening as far as body lang, which we'll see. sometimes what happens is it might be the former president exhaling or he's been doing something else that the judge might be saying this is getting a little out of hand. >> merchan sustained this last objection. so there have been at least two objections, as far as we know, one was overruled. this one was sustained. asks for the past comments to be stricken from the record. >> there is more of this right? >> reporter: right. this is -- if you can forgive me as we're trying to track this in realtime and make notes as they come in here. this was ultimately, if you give me a second here. >> vaughn, as you're looking at that -- >> reporter: blanche says that, if you may pick it up. >> you make sense of it, and we'll just chat with our -- it looks like trump is also talking at one point with his attorneys

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Trump on Trial New York v. Donald Trump

>> 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

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