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aftermath. Hey everyone welcome to another live recording of Trump's trials and

tribulations New York trial dispatch edition. Today is May 6th

2024 and I'm Roger Parloff, a senior editor at law fair.

I'm joined by Court's correspondent and Legal Fellow Anna Bauer, managing editor Tyler McBrien, and editor-in-chief Benjamin Wittis.

Anna, can you get us started by setting the scene?

Which one of you was in the courtroom?

Who was in overflow and what was notable about the pretrial activities

this morning?

Yeah, Roger, I was in the courtroom today

and then Tyler and Ben were stuck in the overflow line,

which is first come first word,

whereas the line that I was in, you know, you can show up at 8 o'clock and go right in because we have a reserve seat in the courtroom.

Today seemed like, you know, we were coming off of last week or we had this major

witness hope Hicks who testified it was kind of a really interesting day in

court that day because we had you know some fiery exchanges

that have been going on between Emil Bovey and the witness before Hope Hicks

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