Inside Trump's Criminal Hush Money Trial
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🗓️ 23 April 2024
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Summary
The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office and attorneys for Donald Trump gave their opening statements on Monday in the former president’s criminal hush-money trial. Prosecutors also called their first witness to the stand: former ‘National Enquirer’ publisher David Pecker. Washington Post federal courts and law enforcement reporter Shayna Jacobs was in the courtroom and details what happened.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Tuesday, April 23rd. I'm Josie Duffy Race. |
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| 0:19.1 | If you weren't going out 20 years ago now is your chance to know how we dressed. You got to get an express going out |
| 0:25.8 | top. I know exactly what you're talking about. On today's show we look at the Pennsylvania primary election happening today. |
| 0:35.0 | Plus Columbia University suspends in-person classes as protests against the war in Gaza continue. |
| 0:40.0 | But first on Monday the Manhattan DA's office and attorneys for Donald Trump gave |
| 0:44.7 | opening statements in the former president's criminal hush money trial. This is the beginning of each |
| 0:50.0 | side laying out their case before the jury. Remember despite this being an historic |
| 0:54.8 | trial there are no cameras or recordings allowed in the courtroom. So we decided to |
| 0:59.5 | catch up with someone who was in the room where it all went down. |
| 1:02.8 | Shannon Jacobs is a federal courts and law enforcement reporter |
| 1:06.0 | on the National Security team at the Washington Post. |
| 1:08.7 | She started by describing the mood in the courtroom |
| 1:10.8 | after Trump's lawyer said, quote, |
| 1:12.7 | there's nothing wrong with trying to influence the election. |
| 1:16.0 | I didn't notice any dramatic reaction |
| 1:18.8 | or any look of shock or anything like that. |
| 1:21.4 | The jury is clearly taking it very seriously. They're paying close |
| 1:25.2 | attention to everyone who's speaking, whether it was the judge giving them instructions |
| 1:30.1 | or the prosecutors or Todd Blanche, Trump's attorney. |
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