Hi everyone it's 4 o'clock in New York an ex-president stripped of the flourishes of exaggerated fame and status was today

reduced to the role of basically a spectator as his lawyers and prosecutors picked out the

12 people who will ultimately determine his legal fate.

Inside the courtroom we saw once again it looked like a diminished Donald Trump subject to the rules of

this judge in this courtroom.

Just outside the courthouse it was a different story. of this

judge in this courtroom.

Just outside the courthouse, it was a different story.

Trump lashed out.

This morning he called the trial itself a disgrace and argued that all he was indicted

for was, quote, paying a lawyer and said it was just a quote legal expense.

It's a story that collapsed on live TV like a house of cards years ago

thanks to Trump's lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, watch.

Having something to do with paying some Stormy Daniels woman $130,000,

I mean, which is going to turn out to be perfectly legal.

That money was not campaign money.

Sorry, I'm giving you a fact now that you don't know.

It's not campaign money.

No campaign finance violation. So they funneled it through the law firm.

Funnels through the law firm and the president repaid it. Oh, I didn't know what he did. Yeah.

Funelling, usually had a word associated with legal financial schemes. In this case, a hush

money payment according to really Giuliani funneled through his

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