i'm going to go now to kristen holmes, who of course is covering the trump campaign. what do we expect their kristin it does. >> this is actually a pretty busy day. we know there's at least three of these events today to luncheons in houston and a dinner. and we're talking about some of the wealthiest people, not only just in texas, but really across the country. i think we have one of the invitations here. this one, i believe that we're going to show you. this is going to benefit his super pac, and this is hosted by three he executives. know we had the other ones, so this is the joint fundraising committee. >> this is hosted by a several people as you can see, they're three of them are energy and oil executives. >> there's also another luncheon that is hosted by three oil executives. the reason why i am pointing out these specific executives is because it comes after just about a month though, donald trump hosted several of these executives at his home at mar-a-lago. and according to reports at one point, he essentially told these oil executives to donate one billion

cnn's beringia and grasses outside court and kristen holmes is in washington. brynn, we're going to begin with you. do we now know or is there any clue as to who the next witness? might be no, unfortunately, not sarah. >> but what you will know in 30 minutes don't court gets started as you just said, the former president making his way down here to lower manhattan for what will be the fourth week of this trial. >> and like you said, there's some big witnesses left on the prosecution's roster, michael cohen and stormy daniels, karen mcdougal, unclear who will be called next, but what is clear is that we are getting closer and closer xu the prosecution making its case about whether or not trump knew about these hush money payments prior to the 2016 election. and did it to influence that election. and that's what we saw a little bit of help from hope hicks when she took the stand, the former president's former spokesperson, who really played it out for the prosecution that trump had an idea about that hush money payment. they got her to acknowledge that in 2018 wh

cnn's kristen holmes live outside the court with this new information. also christen, it does begs the question, what will we see today in this trial? >> so first we'll talk about michael cohen because this is something that we know both prosecution and the defense have been preparing for. we have been watching the prosecution lay out their case brick by brick, but that missing piece his time, donald trump, to those payments and knowledge of donald trump and it appears that michael cohen is going to be that missing link. he will be laying out exactly what he says happened with this hush money payment and these reimbursement payments. now, in terms of how the defense is going to handle that, this remember what we have said from the very beginning. they plan on going attack mode fully on michael cohen and hope painting him as an unreliable witness, some of which we saw are a little taste of what we saw when we saw that cross-examination of stormy daniels yesterday, really tearing into her being aggressive, picking up old posts, twitter posts post, as well

cnn's kristen holmes joins us now, live from new york. so kristen, what more did trump have to say photo president trump gave what seemed to be kind of rambling 35 minutes speech. >> she did not use a teleprompter actually, in fact, they had brought one out and they actually removed it before he stepped up there. all he did was take a few notes on a note card. he was all over the place. he aired his grievances. he said exactly as we have reported, the same messaging he has been saying since before the trial that it was a rigged trial, that it was election interference, that it was political persecution something that his team believed this resonating, at least with his base. and republicans. but one thing he said that really perked up a lot of our ears, particularly given us that are following the case closely mostly is he appeared to violate the gag order. does reminder he is not allowed to talk about any witnesses. he is not allowed to talk about people who for prosecuting the case other than alvin bragg, it this was the moment in which

let's bring in cnn's mj lee at the white house and kristen holmes here in studio. she covers the trump campaign for us. first to mj mj. why was biden's campaign so eager to get this on the calendar so early in june yeah. >> what we saw jake was a total smack down by the biden campaign of the presidential debate calendar that the commission on presidential debates had proposed what the biden campaign said was that this idea that the first debate between the two candidates wouldn't take place until mid-september was just ludicrous. it was too late. it would the after some voters that actually participated already in early voting in some parts of the country. and jen o'malley, dillon saying in a letter to the commission that the calendar shows a series its limitations of the cpd's outdated approach. and this, of course, was not the only issue that the biden campaign took with the commission. the cnn studio, the atlanta studio were the first debate is going to take place in june, is not going to have a live audience canceled the biden campaign had said that the way tha

and the jury has spoken let's get straight to kristen holmes there at trump tower.o christian, what are we expecting to hear from the former president this morning well eric i was a senior advisers to expect a lot of the same messaging saying that this was election interference, that this case should have never been brought talking about how this is political persecution, really what we've heard from the president since before this trial even started. >> but i will note that while the senior advisers have briefed me on that, it is unclear that donald trump will stay on message. that's just moments ago, they had a teleprompter set-up that was taken down and as you know, when donald trump goes off-the-cuff, he tends to say almost anything. so we'll stay tuned to see what kind of messaging he has. i will say that after being shocked, stunned after that verdict came out, i am told by sources close to him that he started being in better spirits after week i'm told by donors, allies, lawmakers that they would all stand by him. i think one of the most critical pieces of th

but honestly, as i was listening, kristen holmes, piece two every one of these surrogates who was out there today, you can literally go back to donald trump's truth, social feed and find the exact quotes that they we're reading because they are standing in for him where he can't speak and amplifying the political message of this. obviously, the jury doesn't here this. this is not going to impact what's going on necessarily in the courtroom. but this is all about framing the political argument. i will say watching the guy who is second in line and constitutional order and ina constitutional officer to sort of hang-up that hat to take on the party surrogate hat that happens in american politics. >> it's just a little discordant from his day job to have them out there sort of slam in them, i think for speaker johnson to he just came off of about with marjorie taylor greene where president trump sided with johnson and kinda smack greens hand a bit, johnson was under fire from the right flank and his conference over the foreign aid bill, trump's de, with johnson and johnson standing with t

kristen holmes, i wonder what you think of. there's long been this question and trump is sort of played it up about whether biden was going to debate him, but it all happened pretty fast and furious today. biden comes out sort of jabbing trump and then there's the acceptance trump comes jabs at. now, then he accepts a fox invitation, but now by another debate, yeah, what's going on with this? so biden will not do a fox debate, right? >> so we're told that biden is not going to it. i'll read that statement from the campaign in just a second. but just to give an overall view here, talking to trump's senior advisers and those in his orbit, they're a little bit irked right now, the fact that joe biden somehow took over the debate narrative, despite the fact that donald trump has been really using this as a narrative at all of his campaign rallies. he's been up on stage with an empty podium next to him know when they're saying, come debate me and he's often said, i will debate anywhere anytime this has been kind of a rallying cry fo

but obviously, now the other side, you probably just heard kristen holmes. they're talking about how trump campaign wants more than two debates. they've agreed to a third do you think more debates will work to biden's advantage? i don't really know a frankly, you know, what we all know about politics. >> you don't have to be a professional, is that expectations is half the battle. and boy, has donald trump and the republican party done a pretty bad job of setting expectations high for joe biden. they keep making it out like he's done to show up and fall over and look what happened for the state of the union. he gave a great speech and energetic speech. and what was their response? donald trump said, well, i want him drug tested for the debates because i think he was on cocaine. what else would explain it? so i think they have to be careful and that was at play 2022 excuse me, 2021 of the moments that i remember is people always say joe biden is not a great debater, but one of the moments that stuck out was when donald trump said about the proud boys stand ba

. >> cnn's kristen holmes has reporting on that and joins us now along with a washington post national collins, philip bump, who served as a juror in the high-profile of 2009 trial here in new york socialite brook astor son, who was convicted of bilking his mom out of millions of dollars and with his again, tonight is jury consultant on tuerkheimer. so christian for so what would it be learned? >> well, i would just want to be very clear all of this is reading tea leaves here. and the first people who will tell you they don't know anything are donald trump's team? they're just hoping for a hung jury right now. but what we do know and have learned tonight is that we saw donald trump bring in a series of donors, allies lawmakers. and while they were in the courtroom, a lot of them were observing the jury and then relaying their observations back to donald trump's team, and they weren't all negative. some of these various lawmakers particularly some of the high-profile lawmakers that they saw one or two of the jurors acknowledged them, make eye contact at one point, someone said they were

we have seen a national correspondent, kristen holmes, who is in the bronx ahead of trump's rally. kristin talk to us a little bit about the strategy here, because obviously it's not always about winning over a ton of people. it might just be about trying to convince a few to stay home and in close elections that can really mean the difference breanna, it sometimes it's just the fact that you're supposed to be in court four days a week and you need a rally location that's nearby. but there are multiple things that are true at one time, that being the donald trump does see an opening when it comes to black and latino voters. and that's something we've really seen in recent polling, shows some kind of movement towards republican party and towards trump as well. so that's what you're seeing here today. now the other part of this, of course, being that they believed he was going to be in court today. court wrapped on tuesday. they thought the trial was going to be a little bit longer and they have been planning this rally for a number of months. but what we're seeing here on the ground

close aides and allies of the former president are telling, our kristen holmes how trump plants to respond to a possible conviction in this case. and kristen is out front now, so christian, what are you learning about what they're thinking, how they're discussing this, what their plans are well everyone i'm talking to these senior advisers. they believe they've really been spinning this trial from long before it even started to prepare for a potential conviction. they have been calling this election interference you have seen donald trump and a number of his allies calling this rigged on the airwaves on social media, saying that this is about president joe biden, which obviously it is an office was brought by the state of new york for can attacking de a alvin bragg saying that he should have never actually brought this case. we saw a little bit of a preview of how they're going to respond if he is potentially convicted, just moments ago, chris lacivita and susie wiles, the two heads of the trump campaign putting out a memo outlining that because essentially they have said that this trial i

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she's alongside kristen holmes and paula reid kaitlan. these are pretty substantial requests for testimony. this is no doubt going to take awhile yeah, it's interesting part where you don't want to read too much into it because we don't know what's happening inside that jury room, but also you want to read a lot into it because we are desperate to know what they are debating or deliberating and what part of this debate that they are at right now, we're still waiting on the actual jury to be brock. >> it brought into the courtroom as it appears that the two parties are still trying to make sure they have exactly which parts of the testimony that the jury here is asking about. they got this note about an hour ago that buzzer when often inside the courtroom, it got everyone's attention as they were waiting to see what it was that the jury had in mind, and it turned out it was a note requesting four different pieces of testimony, all related to two crucial witnesses here, one, a tabloid king david pecker, and to michael cohen. of course, trum

we know, of course, if he ended up not being okay, i want to turn now to cnn's paula reid and kristen holmes and impala, bring us up to speed about this. >> first of all, for many people in this was his last conversation with trump. >> i mean, that's what 2018 here we are. all that is transpired, making it all the more significant. again that he is coming face-to-face them in a courtroom. >> yeah. this is the second time this year that they have bet in the same courtroom, but this is far more significant because this is a criminal proceeding and he is arguably the star witness of this case, whether people like it or not, much of this case dress on the testimony of michael cohen and this morning, he brought the jury through those 11 checks that he received each for $35,000, because you submitted false invoices to the trial i've organization and then after that, he walked the jury through sort of how his relationship with trump deteriorated to the point where he became one of the most significant public witnesses against trump and really helped set the wheels in motion for this criminal case.

. >> cnn's kristen holmes is outside the courthouse force in new york. kristen, what do you hearing from the trump camp today? >> laboriously they're dealing with the same thing that we are right now, which is really just a waiting game. they are sitting off in a small room, him and a group of close advisors, and i am told that they are watching some of the court coverage. they're looking at clips that are being sent to them of surrogates of our allies that are defending donald trump on tv. and they are trying to read the tea leaves of what exactly those notes from the jury meant, and what exactly could happen in this trial. now, as i reported yesterday, they did believe or at least they hoped that they saw some favorable jurors, at least one favorable juror that could lead to a mistrial in this case. but they also acknowledged that they absolutely have no idea what's going to happen next and last for the former president itself, he has been antsy here it's been ranting about the fact that he doesn't want to be stuck in that room. but again, there are a l

nikki, haley's dramatic announcement from the trump world for that, i want to bring in cnn's kristen holmes, who has been working her sources over there. kristen, how will this play? >> well, that's really interesting, and that's the big question here. i mean, despite the fact that nikki haley and trump had this somewhat bitter and personal rivalry, i'll remind you that he called her names. that's certain point. he made fun of her husband and his military service. now you see her really falling in line behind my pattern that we've seen from republicans since 2016 with these fuse between donald trump and other republicans and then them eventually saying that they would come out and vote for donald trump. now, the interesting part here is as kylie mentioned, whether or not this actually moves the needle with these protests, voters, with these haley supporters i will remind you, we showed a list there of some of the states in which haley really outperform. but she should have given the fact that she had dropped out of the race pennsylvania really being the key one. this was open for a month af

. >> cnn's kristen holmes is traveling with the former president and join us live from the bronx so kristen, how much of this is he expected to be in court today? and they wanted to squeeze in a rally. and how much of this is him actually thinking and his campaign thinking that this is an area where he can turn it red well, it did multiple things can be true at one, it is through the donald trump's team believed that he can make some short of inroads, particularly with minority voters. and we've seen pulling that indicates that among latino men and black men, there has been some movement towards donald trump and his team wants to seize on that. that's part of the reason that they're here. we also know donald trump has the heatedly said, and i will let you know that this has been since 2016, that new york state is in play. it was not in play in 2016. it is not was not in play in 2020 and it is likely not in play. now, however, as you noted, donald trump's team did believe he was going to be in court, only had those three days off wins today's saturdays and sundays and had been scheduling eve

will kristen holmes reported in kristen, thank you very much. >> let's get someone else. let's just from our political experts said, let me start with david chilean, or political director are how significant is this nikki haley endorsement of trump? was a significant development because she did something she hasn't done before, which is publicly say in with him and i'm gonna vote for donald trump i don't think this is a terribly surprising development. i don't think there was anywhere else for nikki haley, the land in this race, if she wanted to preserve any kind of future in the republican party, it's donald trump's republican party and he's remade it in his image. so i think the political calculation was always sort of inevitable that we'd get here. but i do think it is interesting because she she said that biden would be a catastrophe and yes trump isn't been perfect on these things. that is very different from when she talked to dana bash in new hampshire and she said, these guys are equally bad. she clearly has moved in her calculation on that as she made this decisi

stronghold more top republicans are due to flee falling in line behind the former president cnn's kristen holmes, reporting from the bronx, the campaign rally in the bronx for trump is about to speak this hour donald trump campaigning tonight. and one of the blues counties in the country, just a few miles from where a jury will start to wait his fate in the criminal hush money trial next week the south prompts to go rally at the former president tries to build support with black and hispanic voters recent polls showing him making gains with key blocks of president joe biden's coalition four years ago, biden, one bronx county by nearly 68 points. >> i'm confident that the bronx is going to overwhelmingly reject donald trump based on the polling data that i've seen among likely voters in the bronx, donald trump is so unpopular, s3 radioactive. he's even less popular than arsenic in the bronx, despite new york strong democratic lean, trump insists he can put the empire state in play this november i love the people understand i'm running hard and new york, i think we're going to win new york, someth

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fundraisers with wealthy donors, including energy and oil executives, senior national correspondent kristen holmes is joining us now. kristen, what more can you tell us about his plans for today, his travels. >> he is attending this series of fundraisers across texas and we're talking about big money here, not just the wealthiest people in texas, but will wealthiest people in the entire country, billionaires. now the reason why it matters is that he has a series of fundraisers hosted by energy and oil executives. this comes about a month after he hosted the same group down at mar-a-lago for dinner and reportedly essentially said to them when they were complaining about some of the restrictions that biden administration has put into effect well, why don't you give my campaign $1 billion? all go back to the white house. and when i go back to the white house, all of that's going to be reversed. now, obviously that has sparked some criticism from democrats but it is interesting to see him down there in the lone star state and stay off court as he is getting ready for this jury deliberation spending hi

cnn's kristen holmes is in the bronx for us. kristen, what is the strategy for the trump campaign in choosing what is a democratic stronghold? >> well, for us two things can be true at once. one, we know the donald trump and his campaign believed that they see an opening with minority voters, particularly black and his spanish men and the polling supports that. we've seen a time and time again, a shift towards republicans and towards donald trump's something democrats have been increasingly concerned about now, why they have chosen one of the most blue counties in all of new york. well, the other part of this that is true is that donald trump was supposed to still be in court as of the planning for this rally. they were looking for different kinds of events around the state to keep them occupied on the campaign trail while he was that to be import month monday, tuesday, thursdays, and friday is now for us. now, we know that court has wrapped on tuesday, but he did come back to do this rally and it will tell you the reaction that

prosecution's star witness, michael cohen, and continued their attacks on his credibility cnn's kristen holmess covering trump the trial and the 2024 campaign. kristen, how are the former president and his advisors approaching this pivotal week? >> i think they're still trying to figure out what exactly is going to happen. i mean, we have some of them telling me they think it's gonna be a hung jury. we have donald trump, who privately has said both that it could be a hungry, but also that he feels like he's likely to be convicted giving up the makeup of the jury. what are the things we've heard him? >> echo while he's out there talking in the courtroom that it's unfair that the demographic is due democratic, that he wouldn't get a fair trial. so that's what some of the stuff has been saying in private, but it's really hard for them to plan what exactly to du unless they know what the verdict is. >> and right now, they don't there have been ongoing conversations as two how exactly do they address this? how is this going to impact the campaign? but the bottom line is that one donald trump is goi

to hold out hope here that there could be a hung jury holding out that hope i'm going to code kristen holmes from now on. nobody knows at least two-and-a-half hours and you really don't kristen and paula. thank you both. so my let's dig deeper now with former florida judge, jeff short's judge. thank you so much for being with us. >> i want to get your reaction initially to judge merchan's jury instructions. >> is there anything in there you would have done differently and charging the jurors generally from what i've been able to read and i kind of followed it along. it's almost like a transcript. there's really nothing that i would have done differently. i would phrase things differently because the standard jury instructions in florida are a little bit different, but the media is saying discussed that a a jury can't a juror can believe all any part of or none of a witness's testimony. that's pretty much the standard language wherever you go they can sit there and say, yeah michael cohen lied in the past about things, but the question is, did he lie to us and whether they act actually see th

cohen and by the way, expected to testify next week, cnn's kristen holmes outside the courthouse this morning, as we waited to see donald trump leave trial i'm tower for the court, kristen, the case moving right along, but the big buildup here, we're now hearing michael cohen to testify next week, the preparation must be furiously going on there with trump's team i think we saw a lot of what or at least a preview of what that's going to actually look like with stormy daniels. this kind of intense cross-examination of very aggressive by susan necheles is pushing stormy daniels to try to paint her as an opportunist. try to paint her as someone who is doing all of this for money or even as a liar, saw a lot of what susan necheles did was pull up old tweets it's old post and try to read them to stormy daniel's really with the point of trying to make it look as those stormy daniels had an ax to grind and that's what we expect from michael cohen as well when i'm talking to members first of trump's legal team, his legal advisors, they say they are doing the most work to prep for michael cohe

attacks on the judge and key witness michael cohen, as well as the biden administration cnn's kristen holmes is back with us now. >> i wonder if you're hearing anything from trump's camp about what biden said there, kristen not yet. >> we haven't gotten a response and i will let you know. we just saw his motorcade around trump tower is expected any moment we've trump tower and go to bedminster. that's where it's going to spend the weekend before going back to palm beach is still no reaction to exactly what biden said but donald trump himself, as you noted, getting out there and talking about the case today. and then at times rambling, airing of grievances he also claimed at one point that he had wanted to testify, but it was encouraged not to take a listen to what he said no, i would have testified i wanted to testify the theory is you never testify because as soon as you test for anybody, if it were george washington, don't testify because they'll get you on something that you he said slightly wrong and then they sue you for perjury. >> but i didn't care about that. i wanted to but the judg

. >> he's referring to a president by cnn's kristen holmes is joining us from michigan right now, where former president trump by hazard event later this hour cnn's mj lee is in florida covering an appearance by vice president kamala harris there, kristen, first of all, tell us more about what trump is saying yes. all right. now, donald trump is in michigan and giving his pretty standard campaigns earlier he was in wisconsin seizing on what he and his team is an opening with these campus protests is sweeping across the country. this idea that it is given an opening nardi as president joe biden has been forced to navigate, is sensitive issue here ahead of the november election, reset actually doubling down. you said that donald biden was not possible i raised a law enforcement for the crackdowns. take alyssa the cameras, the radical extremists and far-left agitators are terrorizing college campuses as you you possibly noticed and biden's nowhere to be found. he has anything but there is political base he also pointed to a cvs report that said that the biden administration was considering

americans freedoms yeah, and our lead, i'm just looking at some new reporting coming in from our kristen holmesnd mj lee saying that the president's announcement comes after informal conversations between the biden and trump campaigns about debates in recent weeks things that largely focused on a mutual disdain for the commission on presidential debates and potential scenarios to work around the commission. >> this is according to three sources, familiar with these discussions. so it sounds as though we know that former president donald trump, he's air at his a grievances and his problems with the commission in the past. i mean, this has come up several times before and i remember being at those debates, i was out there with your lead at a number of those back in 2020, he is no fan of the presidential debate commission interesting that we're hearing the same are sort of the same from president biden and his can yeah, it is. and there is a very detailed letter where jen o'malley, dillon, the biden campaign chair, detail to the presidential commission, exact the commission on presidential debates

but the former president has to say all right, kristen holmes thanks so much to the white house now where the final preparations are underway for tonight's state dinner with the president of kenya before the festivities, the two leaders held a joint news conference where they were pressed about a few tough issues. cnn's mj lee is at the white house for us mj. tell us what are the most pressing topics for the two leaders. this afternoon? >> well, jake, we are certainly seeing the highest trappings of us diplomacy this week earlier today, we had a bilateral meeting between the two liters, followed by the press conference. and then of course to come tonight is a state dinner. no big surprises. it's from that press conference, jake, which was of course meant to really highlight the deep relationship between us and kenya. we saw a number of announcements from the two leaders including the designation of kenya as a major non-nato ally. this of course is really significant given that this is the first subsaharan african nation to receive that designation. and then just the two liters highlightin

cnn's kristen holmes is therefore, tonight's the prison just wrapped up remarks in michigan, what more do it? what more can you tell us anderson in his one day out of the courtroom, he spent here in michigan railing against that new york hush money trial complaining about the gag order and attacking the judge. >> all of this, of course, just one day after that, judge, find him $9,000 for violating the gag order in the first place, he has another gag order hearing tomorrow. now, you mentioned some of what he said in wisconsin. i want to point out two other notable moments. one, he said that people were thrilled at the overturning of roe v. wade this is particularly notable given what today is. it is a day that that's six-week abortion ban was put into effect in florida. florida, something that people are not overwhelmingly thrilled with. the other thing that he mentioned was something that had been deeply reported, but to my knowledge, he had never said in detail was about january 6. he'd actually confirmed the reporting that when he got into his car that de after his rally he told the

cnn's kristen holmes is joining me now. so kristin, of course, the big question is, will trump utter those words, nikki haley, when please on that stage tonight will emmer. >> there are certainly those in trump's orbit who hope that he does not only mentioned her name, but his gracious about it, but i will remind you that they also hoped that he would be gracious when she suspended her campaign and we saw that he was well not really at all. but when i talked to republicans across the country, they say they really hope that donald trump starts to court these nikki haley voters. you put up some of those numbers of republicans voting in primaries after halley had dropped out in critical battleground states the most jarring really being in pennsylvania where she got 16% of the vote again, in a state, the donald trump's team believes they need to win. so whether or not donald trump is going to start courting those voters remains to be seen, but he is going to be up in new york today in the bronx trying to court minority voters.

kristen holmes reporting or my colleague kristen holmes is reporting that trump advisers have observed one or two jurors through the process specifically that have shown what they're describing as sign that maybe possibly likely they will side with donald trump. >> there on his side or believing the case of the defense is laying out more and hoping that that will end in a mistrial what do you think of those reading tea leaves? what do you think? >> absolute nonsense that was in a courtroom yesterday and i'm looking at, first of all, it's very difficult to see all of the jury. yes. so highly unlikely that they saw jurors making faces like, hey, let me give you don't wink, wink. i got you. donald trump. highly unlikely. i mean, these jurors, like they're very focused at paying attention to the judge. and i even really looking around into a courtroom at all, like everything is a tight ship there so i highly doubt that let's see together what comes this morning and it's all about to get back underway. >> it's great to see you guys. thank you for being here. >> john wright graphic images of

. >> of kristen holmes reports on what the former president has planned former president donald trump treating the courtroom for the campaign trail this holiday weekend, we're going to win so big as the during his criminal hush money trial is poised to begin deliberations in his case. >> next week. >> as he continues to try and make inroads with black and hispanic voters. i did criminal justice reform at a level that nobody thought was possible again, and i did that particularly with. the black and hispanic community, trump making a campaign stop in the bronx thursday night. the simple fact is joe biden is not getting the job done for the bronx at that event, trump weighing in for the first time on his former rival, nikki haley's announcements, she would vote for him in november. i appreciated what she said. you know, we had a nasty campaign and it was pretty nasty. but she's a very capable person and i'm sure she's gonna be on our team in some form. >> but despite the public thawing in their rivalry, trump and haley still have not spoken since the former south carolina governor ended

cnn's kristen holmes has bore on what trump just saying and doing anyone. >> i defined donald trump lashing out friday a day after a new york jury found him guilty on all 34 counts in his criminal hush money trial. >> we're gonna fight. >> i'm wired in such a way that a lot of people would gone away a long time ago, the trump air grievances with the trial and level the tax at the prosecutor and the presiding judge, juan merchan, it was a rigged trial. we wanted a venue change where we can have a fair trial we didn't get it we wanted a judge change. we wanted to judge. it wasn't conflicted and obviously he didn't do that even as the former president remains under a gag order that blocks them from speaking out about witnesses, jurors, and others closely tied to the case trump's singled out x attorney michael cohen, a key witness in the case without using his name, not allowed to use his day because of the gag order. but you know, he's just leaves back. everybody knows that took me a while to find out but he was effective. he did work, but he wasn't a fixer. he was a lawyer in a statement to c

the second face off, we'll be in september on abc cnn's kristen holmes is covering the trump campaign, but i want to start with cnn senior white house correspondent kayla tausche, who's covering the president's reelection. kayla, take us behind the scenes. >> well, dana, it's been several weeks now that president biden's campaign team and the president personally in an interview with howard stern, essentially laid the groundwork for his willingness to debate, saying that he would be happy to stand sayyed by trump and have that conversation. and then earlier today suggesting that he would be happy to debate the former president and his now gop rival, at least twice. and as early as june that is a detail that would allow voters to see the two candidates side-by-side in that debate matchup with several months before early voting begins. earlier today, president biden's team released this video on social media with the president himself trump lost two debates to me in 20 said he hadn't shown up for debate. >> now exactly like you want to debate me again or make my day pal i'll even do it

cnn's kristen holmes, just watch trump's remarks from outside the courthouse. christian, what are you hearing from team trump? >> well, actually one of the things donald from so that was so interesting to me is something that i've heard time and time again from the defense, something that they believe is going to help them in the case. and it is the fact that the prosecution didn't call a number of witnesses that could have corroborated the story from michael cohen that being in particular, allen weisselberg and keith schiller, they were several conversations that michael cohen relayed between him and allen weisselberg. they did not call weisselberg to confirm that conversation, as well as that specific call that we know that the defense tried to say was about a prank color, whereas the prosecution had said it was about a stormy daniels, something that michael cohen himself had said they could have called keith schiller, that call went to keith schiller. this is something that offense things will help them in the end, there could be speculation among the jury a

let's go to cnn's kristen holmes, who's outside the courthouse and kristin trump had a couple of allies show up for him today in korda. tell us who they are and what's his mindset when it comes to the he's guest list yeah. >> jagan coming to court with donald trump has become the new loyalty task. many of these people actually are wanting to be at the top of the ticket the long donald trump, here's what we saw today without eric tribe, alina habba, who was one of his lawyers, but not in this case, a representative from new york, nicole maluo taka's we saw the air alabama senator ami toupper, iwill. we saw jd vance out of ohio, senator there he is rumored to be on the shortlist for vice president, as well as attorney general of iowa, breonna bird, who paid pivotal role in his landslide victory in the primary and are the caucuses in that state. >> his mindset around having these visitors is that he wants the support. >> we are told by people close to the former president that he was really upset that more people were not coming out to show their support for him. and also that there weren'

kristen holmes, donald trump earlier today, said that, let's go to number number six. by the way, a full-screen six, if we could our court reporters inside the court have mentioned that trump is close design is quite a bit including while keith davidson testified about his conversations with michael cohen, one trump attorney whisper to trump, he acknowledged, but did not open his eyes trump today on truth, social posted contrary to the fake news media, i don't fall asleep during the crooked da's witch hunt especially not today. i simply close my beautiful blue eyes, sometimes listen intensely and take it all in. it's actually not so different from what maggie haberman said, who was one of the most authoritative trump journalists that there is, that he does sometimes close his eyes in her view to focus and calm down and not lose his temper. but just because his eyes are closed, doesn't mean he's asleep. >> yeah. he doesn't like anyone saying that he's falling asleep because this entire argument and this election is that he's running against sleepy joe biden and he is th

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early he is presidential debate between general election candidates in modern history, cnn's kristen holmes as more on trump's efforts to rally support at this critical moment former president donald trump training the courtroom for the campaign trail this holiday weekend, we're going to win so big as the jury in his criminal hush, money trial is poised to begin deliberations in his case next week. as he continues to try and make inroads with black and hispanic voters. i did criminal justice reform at a level that nobody told was fine. us all again. and i did that dr. julie for the black and hispanic community, trump making a campaign stop in the bronx thursday night. >> the simple fact is joe biden is not getting the job done for the bronx at that event, trump weighing in for the first time on his former rival, nikki haley's announcement, she would vote for him in november. >> i appreciated what she's did. you know, we had a nasty campaign. it was pretty nasty. but she's a very capable person and i'm sure she's going to be on our team in some form. >> but despite the public thawing and the

let's bring in some of our political voices kristen holmes want to start with you. you cover the trump campaign. you're with them every day. you're talking to them every day. hope picks very emotional today on the stand to testified she last had contact with trump in the summer or fall 2022. >> it's almost two years ago. >> what do we know about her role? how people inside the campaign view her now, well, people inside of the campaign's still have a lot of respect for hope hicks. >> i mean, what we know about the reason that that she hasn't spoken to trump since 2022. is that all of this is around her testimony to the january 6 committee being made public. and in that there was a series of text messages in which she really went after donald trump over january 6, she went after talking about how this was going to harm his legacy, but also harm white house staffers who hadn't gotten jobs outside of the white house, essentially saying they weren't going to be able to find those jobs when they left the white house. and this really rankled a lot of people that were very

kristen holmes, who obviously covers the trump campaign. she's reporting trump's team believes there are one or two jurors in particular that could deliver them a mistrial what what's your take on the jury luck that fact is unremarkable. >> we're exactly at the stage where people are. every little thing your tease out in 16 different directions. each party made their final now calls for jury selection. remember, and they took a couple of risks. and it's just part of the trial lawyers ardor obsession, their focused very much on the jury, and i think it stands to reason for each of them was number seven kind of smiling when that you're that you just don't want to somebody that seemed to nod when jd vance it was in the room. there you go. i have that in particular, a lot of eyes on that journey. >> that's right. so in other words, the fact that they say, oh, we think there are one or two who could be holdouts. says essentially nothing. every trial you would have something like that and you'd be focused on an exactly now. >> all right. so as yo

cnn's kristen holmes and brynn gingras are live inside and inside and outside trump tower, i think is what is the guess is what i'm looking at kristinn, take us inside first. donald trump says he's holding a press conference. what are you hearing? we could be he could say okay, i wouldn't expect to hear anything different from what he has been saying that this case was election interference, that it should have never been rod, it was political persecution and probably trying to link this without any evidence to president joe biden. >> the reason why he has competed company continued to repeat this rhetoric is because his team thinks that this helps him. in november, that it riles up the base than it really helps rally republicans around the former president. now i will well, note that there are several advisers and allies of the former president who will acknowledge that they are in uncharted territory. they don't know what is going to happen. they are feeling good at forgetting lot of fund raising numbers. they haven't given them to us yet, but they say that they really took in a lot