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Trump on Trial New York v. Donald Trump

opening or a closing. it has to be really, really bad to do so. it's a professional courtesy but it's just kind of understood sort of in the business that, you know, you get a little bit more leeway in what you can get away with, and again, maya's exactly right. it's only the part of the judge to instruct the jurors as to the law. the jurors sometimes get confused about what they can and cannot sort of take for granted or take as true and sometimes jurors would, you know, the fear is that they would misunderstand, they would take an argument, a legal argument made by one of the lawyers and think that they have to internalize that. in this case todd blanche is saying x is not illegal. a juror may internalize that. it sounds like, again, nothing has been smooth in this trial. i think we're going to get -- i mean, you have such great lawyers really on both sides looking for those objections. i don't think either side is going to give the other side much leeway in terms of getting

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Morning Joe

think, is even if he keeps the job, it's a question of the power of the position. there are open questions about whether or not a sort of coalition governance can work in the house. it is a very majority-focused body, as you guys all know, but for mike johnson, there are the votes right now. three republicans say that they want him to no longer be the speaker of the house. there seems to be a difference of opinion on how they get out of the job, a motion to vacate or pressuring him to resign. there's also enough democrats right now that would save his job. that's where we come back to the idea of the power of his position. i think that's the explanation for why i have heard from republican members of congress who support the speaker, who also say he's basically done in his role. now, whether or not they mean he is done tomorrow or whether or not they mean he is done in november when they start thinking about what the next congress looks like, that's, i think, the question we're waiting to see the answer to.

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Trump on Trial New York v. Donald Trump

is saying to the jury. president trump did not pay mr. cohen back $130,000. president trump paid michael cohen $420,000. would a frugal businessman, would a man who pinches pennies repay a $130,000 debt to the tune of 420,000, this was no at payback. he paid more than he needed to so it can't be for a hush money deal of some sort. >> i think that's the argument they have to make. there are going to be facts they cannot ignore. payments have been made. there are going to be bank records. so yes, a defense doesn't have the burden, but a jury needs to have use their common sense and a have a story or an understanding they can buy into. a jury has to say what happens. i think what todd branch is doing here, he has to offer them a counterexplanation. it's not enough to say the prosecution didn't meet the burden. those documents are there. that money went, people received

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Morning Joe

prescient questions that we were all asking on the hill on saturday when we thought we were going to have to sort of squash the recess coming up and stay to cover a motion to vacate. however, that was not ultimately introduced by marjorie taylor greene and thomas massie. they've decided to delay that push to potentially oust johnson and, instead, angrily ended a historic day with calls for him to resign. they told reporters that they wanted to have mike johnson and other members go home to their constituents and hear from them directly about how allegedly angry they're going to be that johnson betrayed the base and some of the maga disciples to pass this foreign aid. but that attitude toward johnson and sort of this very small and increasingly diminishing cohort of johnson's detractors was really not the main occasion on

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Trump on Trial New York v. Donald Trump

payments that trump ended up directing that his books and records be doctored. so yeah, these are the witnesses you get in trials. you know, it's interesting to me, jose, if this trial in some ways is unique because it's the former president as a defendant, and in other ways, it's extraordinarily ordinary, right? these are how openings are done. this is how evidence is deduced, this is how and why the witnesses are ccalled. you can walk into any courtroom in america and hear the judge charge the jury with these sort of instructions before their opening statements and then you would hear these sorts of opening statements and you would see these sorts of witnesses in almost any criminal trial. what's different here is donald trump is the defendant. >> joining us now is former u.s. attorney and msnbc legal analyst, barbara mcquaid. they're obviously trying to get ahead of potential credibility questions around michael cohen, and colangelo saying cohen's

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Trump on Trial New York v. Donald Trump

story a number of times. the prosecution is going to present sort of an upside down pyramid here. they're going to go big. that's why they're starting with pecker. they're setting the stage with this scheme they're calling it. as a defense attorney, i feel the need to inform everybody the catch-and-kill process is not illegal. the act in and of itself of keeping information from the public in this manner is not illegal. what is being alleged which is illegal is the way they went about accounting for it, and that it was a campaign contribution above the limit for reporting purposes for the federal election commission. i think the prosecution, again, is going to try to paint this picture of things being generally bad in this area. then they're going to hit the documents, the specific pay stubs and the checks and things like that. >> we understand the opening statements have begun. matthew coangelo is saying good morning to everybody there.

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Morning Joe

wallace. still can't sort it through. you never know how this is going to break. at least in this nbc news poll, it certainly looks like one anti-vaxer is going to be, you know -- a conspiracy theorist, i guess i should say, is going to be taking votes from another conspiracy theorist. >> that's certainly where sort of common sense, barstool analysis would lead you, right? if you're thinking about voting for an anti-vax person, i don't think your second choice is going to be the democratic incumbent who believes in science and is a politician who is arguing for a constitutional and rational order. doesn't seem like exactly where you'd go. historically, you're right, wallace in '68, john anderson in

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CNN This Morning

manuel was running around. questions on the hill how how do they grapple with this i mean, i got to say like she probably did as find a job. i mean, did you just have to muddle through and doing it in her audition to be the deuce for donald trump? i got to say, did you hurt herself in that interview probably not. i mean, she wears the red baseball cap around. she's his maga as they get in most other circumstances. and so if she gives a little bit of a jumbled answer on these questions, at least she was on their base i mean, basically defending him. i mean, i don't think it's going to injure heard any sort, of grievous way? yeah. i mean, again, i go back to this certifying of the election. if she wouldn't say that she wouldn't have done that we cannot overstate how big a deal that is to donald trump, right? i completely agree with you. so another moment on sunday, that's really stood out what as from congressman at tony

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BBC News

overturn, — commons. mps are expected to overturn, get rid of those changes this afternoon and send it back to the lords — this afternoon and send it back to the lords. from what i'm hearing from _ the lords. from what i'm hearing from speaking to people in the house of lords, _ from speaking to people in the house of lords, particularly opposition peers. — of lords, particularly opposition peers, labour peers in the house of lords, _ peers, labour peers in the house of lords, they— peers, labour peers in the house of lords, they are in no mood to back down _ lords, they are in no mood to back down and — lords, they are in no mood to back down and they will reinsert their suggested changes. they want to see some sort— suggested changes. they want to see some sort of compromise on what they want to— some sort of compromise on what they want to see _ some sort of compromise on what they want to see on their suggested changes — want to see on their suggested changes. it will then bounce between the house _ changes. it will then bounce between the house of commons and house of lords, _ the house of commons and house of lords, it— the house of commons and house of lords, it is_ the house of commons and house of lords, it is called ping—pong, so it will ping _ lords, it is called ping—pong, so it will ping and pong between the two houses _ will ping and pong between the two houses basically until the house of lords _ houses basically until the house of lords backs down and it largely depends— lords backs down and it largely depends on a group of what are called _ depends on a group of what are called crossbench or independent peers _ called crossbench or independent peers in — called crossbench or independent peers in the house of lords as to when _ peers in the house of lords as to when or— peers in the house of lords as to when or how long they are prepared to keep _ when or how long they are prepared to keep it— when or how long they are prepared to keep it going when at some point they will— to keep it going when at some point they will give up and we are expecting a late night in westminster tonight. the prime minister— westminster tonight. the prime minister saying he wants to get it done _ minister saying he wants to get it done today. he has previously urged the house _ done today. he has previously urged the house of lords, in his words, not to— the house of lords, in his words, not to frustrate the will of the pe0pte~ — not to frustrate the will of the pe0pte~ i _ not to frustrate the will of the people. i think it's worth saying obviously— people. i think it's worth saying obviously there is opposition from labour_ obviously there is opposition from labour peers in the house of lords.

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CNN This Morning

history cnn has learned that the prosecution's first witness will likely be david. >> he is the former publisher of the national enquirer, joining me now is former federal prosecutor andrei tarkovsky andrew. good morning. thank you so much for being here. this is a real cast of characters that we are expecting to come through this courtroom. why start with well, he is the one who essentially initiated the payments to stormy daniels. >> and that is an important factor in all of this. the payment to stormy daniels is the initiation of what they say is donald trump's effort to effectively interfere with the election by making a payment to a hush money payment that was not reported in any sort of campaign finance books and was part of his overall scheme to interfere with that election. now, the prosecutors have to prove several layers of donald trump from specific intent and it all goes to the question of whether he was making that

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