Case in Point: Day 1 of Trump's Hush Money Case

The Briefing with Jen Psaki

NBC News

News, Politics

4.5 • 664 Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

On the first day of Donald Trump's first criminal trial, Jen Psaki explains why the case is both extraordinary and ordinary: extraordinary in its unprecedented nature and circus-like atmosphere, but also ordinary in how it demonstrates a functioning justice system. Former US Attorney for SDNY Preet Bharara joins Jen to unpack the details of the case, from the admissibility of the evidence, to the gag order and jury selection. Next, Norm Eisen joins Jen to break down the narrative arc that prosecutors must outline to jurors. Later, Rep. Dan Goldman joins the show to discuss the case and set the stakes for what may be the only Trump trial before the presidential election. Finally, former Executive Editor for The National Enquirer Lachlan Cartwright joins Jen to outline the news outlet's 'catch and kill scheme' that served to protect, and benefit Donald Trump in the leadup to the 2016 election - and how it connects to the hush money trial.

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0:00.0	Before today, this country had never watched a former president stand trial in criminal charges.
0:15.3	We didn't know what that would look like or feel like.
0:18.5	But today, we found out.
0:20.6	And in addition to the spectacle of it,
0:22.5	there was a little bit of a spectacle, not as much as there could have been. A lot actually
0:26.1	happened during day one of Donald Trump's trial here in New York City. We're going to break it
0:30.6	all down over the course of the next hour and we have the perfect people, absolutely the perfect
0:34.7	ones to do it with. Former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Puparara has been in these courtrooms. He understands the calculations
0:41.4	being made by the prosecutors about everything from jury selection to evidence to gag orders,
0:46.7	things we all heard a lot about today. Norm Eisen investigated Donald Trump during his first
0:51.0	impeachment. He literally wrote the book on this New York case,
0:54.7	and he was at the courthouse today for the trial.
0:57.6	And Congressman Dan Goldman was a prosecutor in New York and worked with both Manhattan DA
1:01.3	Alvin Bragg and Trump defense attorney Todd Blanche.
1:05.3	But I do want to start tonight with the scene that unfolded today in Lower Manhattan.
1:09.5	One that was both extraordinary and kind of ordinary, all at the same time.
1:15.4	I mean, on the one hand, a former president of the United States faced the start of his criminal trial,
1:20.8	which was historic.
1:22.2	Who knew we would get here?
1:23.4	We were skeptical at times.
1:24.7	And it was almost surreal.
1:26.1	I mean, helicopters tracked as every movement as he
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