sure on monday, stacy schneider and jeremy saland are backed up right now. both defense attorney former prosecutor, in jeremy's case, stacy, back to you on the issue of the gag order because i am someone flomax, again, not a lawyer by someone having a gag order posting regularly on social media in a way that doesn't seem to imply, feels that constraint. but he did post earlier today, judge, for sean is railroading me in quotes. >> the he has gagged in quotes me so that i cannot talk about the most important topics, including his totally disqualifying conflict of interest and taking away my constitutional right of free speech. >> look it all all snark and joking and back-and-forth. the sayyed, the idea of what he's saying right now, the gag order violating his free speech, particularly in such a high-stakes legal moment for him is there validity to that there is zero validity to that. in fact, donald trump doesn't understand the law behind the first amendment. the first amendment and only protects certain types of speech. >> it's, it's limited and the law does

john, we're going to continue the conversation with me now for manhattan prosecutor, jeremy saland. jeremy, thank you so much for being here. opening statements began. prosecutors go first. what should we expect from them and the response from the defense? >> absolutely. the prosecution does not want over-promise and fail to deliver. and what they need to do and what i'm sure they will do is not make this about a salacious, sexy scandal. this is a very straightforward, it is a very straightforward case involving falsifying business records and it's a very straightforward case that the jury should be able to follow that this involves the former president tried to circumvent the law when it came to the election. that's what this case is about. it's not about stormy daniels per say sayyed about michael cohen per say, although they will take the wind out of those sales of the defense does so that this is not just on michael cohen shoulders. in fact, we know that david is going to start things off. so it's far more than that but they're going to simplify things and the prosecution they're

everyone hold that thought i want to bring jeremy saland back in, jeremy opening statements start on monday. can you give us a preview of what we could be seeing everyone's been waiting for this moment. >> the opening statements leading up to this, we've had jury selection has been a lot of boring, if you will, mundane type of back-and-forth between the parties. but now it's time to hear what we should expect. the fear where is it the case and the narrative? who starts the prosecution starts, and what might they start with? they're not going to say this is the michael cohen and stormy daniels show, but they are going to be relevant to this case and they're going to take this opportunity to say as important as these two are as relevant as they are as much evidence as they have it is not resting on a tour of their shoulders, but yes, there's issues with credibility yes, there's been issues with lying, but stormy daniels and michael cohen, you should listen to them, but not alone. why not? you also have checks, for example, and those checks will show that these payments were in fact mad

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sounded discuss is jeremy saland, a former prosecutor with manhattan district attorney, as well as trial attorney misty marris. welcome to both you, jeremy, let me start with you because the prosecution argued today, quote, the entire case is predicated on the idea that there was a conspiracy to influence the election in 2016. in your view? how helpful has peckers testimony been to this central argument of a conspiracy, even though they haven't charged anyone with conspiracy well, i think you can say josh steinglass in the prosecutors that a fabulous job. >> they ask the right questions and they got the right answers. you've heard from so many different pieces here you hear about the ban and you hear about going to signal which is an app to cover up buck communications, not being uncertain phones. you hear about why there isn't a formal agreement between donald trump and david pecker. you understand that things were being run by michael cohen to confirm that the story should be run or shouldn't be run, you've got all well the foundational pieces, the bricks, if you will to build this fou

conduct were protected under the first amendment joining us right now is former manhattan prosecutor jeremy saland. jeremy, thanks for coming in. so these two rejections of motions to dismiss, if you will what is your takeaway from this in georgia and they're two very different criminal cases, obviously. but the fact it's feels like this is the week of donald trump is not immune from prosecution though is kind of how i end of the week. >> i think some of the prosecution won some battles, whether they win the war proverbially is yet to be seen because in part, because, because even, even these, these minor wins doesn't mean these trials are going to happen before the election or anytime after immediately after the election. so their wins an immediate, but when we look at smith and we look at what's happening in florida, we say, well, great, this isn't a presidential records act case. this is an espionage act case. and the judge says, in the four corners of that superseding indictment it's fine. it's legally sufficient. but what does she say? >> i'm leaving that door >> open to potentially have this

joins me now is jeremy saland. a new york criminal defense attorney.reat to see you. >> great to see you. >> so am i, i mean, sure seems like a message to throw him in jail again at 76. it was already seen as kind of a tough move to throw him in jail the first time. a second bid right before the criminal trial begins. to you read it that way? >> i see it not as a chilling effect that will adversely impact these witnesses to say we shouldn't testify. but it will be more in terms of reality check that if you make believe and if you tell that story that isn't true and you misrepresent, we as prosecutors will do our homework and hold you accountable and if we can without putt an olderman in custody, you could go too. >> come clean or else. >> or stay home. >> or don't come. don't come at all. i mean, when we talk about some of the witnesses that i just listed off, i mean, what is your expectation about how forthcoming they will be? some of these folks have testified in separate cases to separate law enforcement bodies or grand juries. how much of a lift do

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with us now, former manhattan prosecutor jeremy saland and cnn legal analyst and former federal prosecutor, jennifer rodgers. court about to resume in just a few minutes. what will you be looking forward today, jennifer? >> well, i'm looking to see obviously, we have to get through these 39 or so that are still in the box. and so we'll see who we get from there and then going forward, i want to see if these proportions hold up when you bring another hundred people into the room are about 50 of them going to self excuse at some point you start to think about who we're left with if were excluding anyone with strong feelings it's about trump because that suggests not only that they have strong feelings about trump, but these are the people who follow the news and are up on current events, are steeped in what's happening in the country. >> if you >> exclude all of those people, you start to think about. if you're the prosecutor, what are you left with given that the whole point of their case, they're won a little bit of outrage from this jury about the manipulation of the 2016 election. >> wha

joining us now is jeremy saland.sexual finding in the sex case cannot be introduced. but that he can be asked about the defamation. he separated it between the financial issues, these were civil cases, not criminal cases. it's a different burden of proof. it doesn't have to be beyond a reasonable doubt. >> that's true. there's a prejudice value. how does it impact his credibility. the ruling says the prior immoral, criminal, vicious bad acts. >> they're not criminal. >> these were, but i'm talking about the -- it allows for certain types of cases and past history to be admitted solely for the purpose of credibility, so an allegation and even a confirmation in the civil proceeding of sex abuse, this is a lower standard. when you have issues being told not to say about court clerk, that would be a finding. if you have issues with cooking the books or tax issues, that would be something that goes to his credibility. so it goes directly to veracity and truthfulness. there's a balance, it can't be too biassed and hurt him

jeremy saland for my hand, prosecutor. thank you so much for being with us, but we're about to see truly is history and with the magic of television, we are right next to you as we wait for this case to begin. >> thank you so much for joining us special coverage of the opening statements from the donald trump hush money trial starts right now in just minute, people the state of new york versus donald j. >> trump started the main event opening statement hey, miss, you're looking at my picture in downtown new york. the courthouse and you hadn't soon the judge will gavel in and cmt the jury for the first ever prosecution of a former united states president. minutes ago, we watched trump walk into court after his motorcade arrived at 100 centre street. we expect him to stop for the cameras and talk before heading inside get up in the judge and the jury prosecutors will chart a roadmap of what they intend to prove, how they say the former president helm, the scheme to buried the details of a sexual encounter with adult film act