Donald Trump’s historic criminal trial is now under way
The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown
CNN
3.2 • 865 Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2024
⏱️ 40 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Happening now we're following two major breaking stories tonight. First, the |
| 0:07.5 | breaking news out of Manhattan Donald Trump's unprecedented hush money case |
| 0:11.6 | begins. It's the first time a former US president The as the judge, defense attorneys, and the prosecutors narrowed down a massive list of |
| 0:25.4 | potential jurors to find the 12 New Yorkers who will consider Trump's fate. |
| 0:30.5 | Also tonight the Middle East on edge after Israel vows to exact a price for an Iranian |
| 0:37.3 | attack. |
| 0:38.3 | What Israeli official tells CNN the war cabinet is determined to act, but it's still unclear where, when, and how the IDF might retaliate. |
| 0:47.8 | The White House, meanwhile, urging calm in the region as President Biden turns his focus to diplomacy and de-escalation. |
| 0:55.0 | Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world. |
| 1:00.0 | I'm Wolf Plitzer, you're in the situation room. |
| 1:03.0 | This is CNN breaking news. |
| 1:10.0 | We begin our coverage tonight in New York. This is CNN breaking news. |
| 1:12.8 | We begin our coverage tonight in New York where Donald Trump's historic criminal trial is finally underway. |
| 1:19.0 | The court adjourned for the day just a short time ago after getting started on the first order of |
| 1:23.8 | business jury selection. CMS Kariskanel has more on all of today's |
| 1:28.5 | developments. |
| 1:30.5 | It's seeing this have a this has ever happened before. |
| 1:35.0 | It's never happened before. |
| 1:37.0 | It's never been anything like it. |
| 1:39.0 | After weeks of delays in last ditch legal maneuvering, |
| 1:42.0 | jury selection now underway in the historic |
| 1:44.8 | and unprecedented hush money case against Donald Trump. Following a series of |
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