yet, so i do think sarah saying about doing some coupling with the hush money case and abortion doing that campaign can do that. but then also outside groups like that ad was great. and i think you'll see more of things like that from outside cruises this has been a great conversation, thanks to all of you, because it's friday. we did want to leave you with this. it's a very special story. we want to wish a very happy 100, 100th birthday to art sialic, who is now the oldest living former major league baseball player or the south pole. i made his mlb debut way back in 19 dean 51, playing five seasons for the yankees and my beloved baltimore orioles. >> recently, sialic told the associated press, quote, here's a game i loved. >> i really enjoyed it. i love the game of baseball and they pay you for it. >> what more can you ask for? seriously, what more can you ask for? i wish i was playing today and getting the salaries they get also but that's the way it goes. sialic pitched on three world series championship teams in new york and get this

when he was called up by the bronx bombers, he replaced a 19 year old mickey mantle, who was optioned for aaa and he became roommates with yogi berra. how's that for friday ticker. thanks to our panel. tnks to you for joining us. i'm kasie hunt, cnn news central starts right now f is four friday and breaking this morning, damage control, donald trump's lawyers try to mitigate the dramatic, tawdry testimony from the first witness in the criminal hush money is it possible adult film star stormy daniels takes the stand today protests and golfing college campuses, college professors getting arrested and now one university is canceling their main graduation ceremony at tiktok fights back the wildly social media app does. it will not be

sold out through a law that could lead to a nationwide ban. real that bad happened. i'm sorry, sided with john berman and kate bolduan. this is cnn news central this morning. how much damage was done, how much can be undone? a critical moment in the falsified documents, criminal trial against donald trump shortly we will. see david pecker, the man who ran the national enquirer back on the stand. >> this will be the meat of the cross-examination after pecker testified in vivid detail how he buried bad stories about donald trump in vivid detail about how trump would keep asking about the playboy playmate with whom he allegedly had an affair and in vivid detail, a conversation that trump had about stormy daniels with david pecker. >> now, remember, trump is charged with falsifying business documents to hide hush

money payments to daniels today, we expect that offense to question pecker's memory and also suggests that there was nothing unusual about the catch and kill arrangement he had with trump. we can also see the next witness today. will it be stormy daniels herself and really any moment now, trump could be found in contempt for violating the gag order. let's get right to cnn's kaitlan, poland's for the latest on what we will see this morning. kayla well, john, we don't know who the next witness will be, but we have more testimony from david pecker first, there will be more questioning of him from donald trump's defense team, and then the prosecutors will get another shot to ask him little bit more of his their questions for him but in his initial round of testimony, the prosecutors used him to lay out the full ark of the scheme and the motivation of donald trump to catch negative stories about him before the 2016 election and kill them, catch and kill in this ark, we her learned

quite a bit about karen mcdougal that is the first woman that came to the national enquirer or with a story to tell about an alleged affair that trump and his team denied. >> david pecker testified that he had michael cohen in the loop. he had a conversation with donald trump about karen mcdougal's story, and then the national enquirer to the bosses pleasure that's trump decided to pay for that story and bury it so it would not be published before the 2016 election. he then testified about another type of very similar situation with a different outcome, where stormy daniels hill's came to the national enquirer pecker looped in michael cohen, let them know. he's not going to be paying for that. the national enquirer wouldn't be buying stormy daniels story and he testified that michael cohen told him that donald trump would be furious the national enquirer wasn't helping underlining all of this is

david pecker testifying over and over again that he clearly understood trump had motivations to protect his campaign at that time. that their relationship shifted, that the way that they were buying stories and burying them shifted once donald trump came a presidential candidate, and that he understood at the national enquirer as the former chairman of the company running that that buying karen mcdougal's could potentially be problematic for campaign finance reasons. a key point for the prosecutor's case and where are we in the gag order? donald trump could be held in contempt odyssey caitlyn yeah. >> well, the prosecutors wanted donald trump held in contempt. have that hearing earlier in the week because of ten violations that they had collected that they believe when beyond what the judge is allowing donald trump to say publicly about witnesses and jurors specifically, we don't ever resolve on that yet because the judge hasn't said what he's going to do. if

trump is held in contempt, if he should be fined or have some other punishment or sanction then prosecutors yesterday it came into court and said he keeps doing it. here's an example about david pecker on the stand as trump walked into court or was in manhattan speaking to reporters yesterday morning all right you lot of david pecker's testimony so far one last time very nice david been very nice and nice guy. there's going to be a hearing next thursday about this, and prosecutors say that is an example of donald donald trump using his platform to make it clear he's going to comment on witnesses as they come through the courtroom. jon, katelyn polantz. thank you very much for that report. it promises to be an interesting morning. >> slowly and on top of that, there's also the question and the issue of donald trump potentially testifying himself. he said last week he wants to

unsurprisingly, though he is now this morning entering more of a gray area on we'll hear wonky and while that isn't clear, what is clear is donald trump would like the crowd outside the courthouse to be bigger cnn's alayna treene is following this one. she's joining us now what is donald trump saying about on this question of testifying that what is actually changing his to tibet, as you pointed out, kate last night while speaking during an interview on newsmax, donald trump said that he would testify if it was necessary, and that is a shift from what he said in the past last week, he said that he wanted to testify. >> he repeated that the week before. and so clearly, i think there are conversations happening behind the scenes about whether or not his testimony would actually benefit him. now, take a listen to how he put it in that interview well i if it's necessary right now, i don't know if you heard about today. >> today was just incredible people are saying the experts, i'm talking about legal scholars, an experts. they say,

what kind of a cases is, there is no case now, kate, i do just want to give you some context here. we have heard donald trump in several of his trials. and also when speaking about his criminal indictments, more generally, saying that he wants to testify, he did this in his civil fraud trial. in other trials with the e v. e jean carroll defamation case, saying that he wants to take the stand and at some points he did briefly, but for the most part, he normally says this and then backs off and that's kind of what we're seeing happen here. you attorneys have repeatedly told him this might not be a good idea, and especially in this case where you have this gag order in place, it could complicate things for him further on this one, staying true to form at least for now, alumina he's also complained about not being able to campaign because he has to be in the courtroom. but now campaign stops are being planned. yeah they are. >> so next wednesday, donald trump is expected to hold to rallies on wednesday, one of the days that he is not required to be in core. he's expected to travel to wisconsin

first and then to michigan of course two, very crucial joel battlegrounds and it's interesting because we haven't really seen him campaign that much so far. we've heard donald trump repeatedly criticized the judge, criticize this trial for what he says is keeping him off the campaign trail. however, there are days that he has been able to travel. wednesday's, saturdays and sundays. he is not in court or forced to be in new york, but he hasn't really used that opportunity too much to campaign. he tried to do one rally last weekend in north carolina and they had to cancel that at the last minute because of weather, but otherwise, he hasn't been campaigning that much. so i think we'll see whether these trips on wednesday and to being more of a regular thing for him. but as of now, he's really trying to maximize as much on the trail as he can, while also being in new york we will say it's great to see you. >> thank you so much, sir. >> all right. coming up, professors are among those arrested and dramatic video from the campus of emory university in atlanta protests over the war in gaza expand to colleges nationwide. we are

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as well with students and parents staging a sit-in in solidarity and usc in los angeles has now canceled its main stage graduation ceremony over safety concerns as its campus remains closed, cnn's polo sandoval is live outside columbia university in new york city where the sweeping protests movement began and got quite entrenched. polo, the new york times reporting this morning, the university president faces a faculty senate vote over the handling of this crisis. what can you tell us about that? >> you are really important points, sarah days into this and he's wide sweeping protests in it all really started here. >> now, after some initial ports about the potential deadline between the negotiations that are happening between the leaders of the pro-palestinian and cabinet and university officials. we heard a little bit more clarity from some of those students yesterday saying that that's really more of a timeline versus a deadline in these ongoing negotiations. and i

should add negotiations at both sides maintain progress is active surely being made, so they have not reached a stalemate days into this, it's important to remind viewers what the objectives are here when you hear from the students, they insist that divestment and also so looking for amnesty for the students that have been punished for participating in some of these demonstrations. that's one of the key goals. the university really just wants us and cabinet just mantle feared that could potentially interfere with activities on campus, especially as we get closer to commitment next month in terms of what we've heard from some of those participating in this, she goes seasons, we are told that they are focused and they are also quite friendly according to when negotiators and then some new reporting from our colleague, abbey washer that suggested that there really tells us a little bit more about what happened last night at the encampment that students participating in that in cabinet were told that part of negotiations include a possible statement it may be issued by the university president, possibly addressing the events of last week. you recall that's when columbia actually reached out to the

nypd are helping clearing out any cash but i'll see has reached out to columbia university for more, but that really paints a little bit of a clearer picture in terms of where negotiation stand between, between both parties here and what may be in the way that again, some positive news what we heard from both sides, you're saying that they are making progress then in the lessons in terms of what we've actually heard from the university, they are very clear in saying we have our objective victims and they have theirs. and as we heard from the university, sarah, they also said that the president of diversity certainly hopeful negotiations are successful. that same time, they are also preparing to consider other options in restoring calm. now, finally, i should mention, we've been allowed on campus everyday for a couple of hours since it is still a the restricted access. and while we're there, the situation has been very calm at that in cabinet. sarah polo sandoval. thank you so much. it will be talking with a couple of students coming up who are on other campuses that are protesting as well. john wright, the high-stakes mission off the coast of gaza, how the

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plus months here. and so it's finally going to be operational ideally, hopefully within the next two weeks or so, they have begun those initial construction stages. there are a couple of hundred meters it's off the coast of gaza is where this peer & this floating causeway is going to be according to the pentagon. now, there are a number of concerns here. i mean, obviously the big goal is to deliver up to 150 trucks of aid per day to gaza, which would be very, very significant. and this maritime corridor is seen by unit i just states government and the us military as potentially being a very big boon to the amount of aid that can actually get to this. obviously starving population inside gaza. but it also poses a number of threats to the us personnel who are going to be operating this period. as i said, they are going to be a couple of hundred meters off the shore there. and importantly, they're going to be no boots on the ground, no american boots on the ground in gaza. but still just a couple of days ago, there were mortar rounds that were fired at the

beach where this aid is going to be offloaded by some unidentified group that really underscores here just how dangerous this mission is there going to be off the coast of gaza here, building in this pier, operating it for at least the next several months according to us military officials. and that is a very clear target for potential terrorists groups to try to take action against, against these us personnel that are there. so right now what we're expecting is that this peer is going to be operational at probably by early to mid-may. and the hope, of course that this is going to serve as a large portion of northern gaza, right near gaza city on the coastline there, which has been very much in dire need of humanitarian assistance, roughly 2.2 million people in gaza now are facing acute food insecure dirty. and so while this is not going to substitute entirely the land corridors, of course going into gaza from israel, it is going to be a big

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plans to sell it and calls reports indicating otherwise untrue this week, as you know, president biden signed a law that could lead to a nationwide ban of the app if the company's continues to refuse to sell it's part of a larger foreign aid package for israel ukraine, and taiwan. lawmakers have security concerns about tiktoks algorithm, despite the new law, tiktok ceo says they're not going anywhere and an emotional moment caught on camera supermodel, just sell bunch in, breaking down, in tears during a traffic stop in florida telling police she's crying over the fact that she says that paparazzi had been stocking and following her thank you i just trying to stay from who you are. >> i know. i'll give you nothing i can do about that one of the file so before we ran be beach because it was coming

from so i'm sorry. so there's nothing i could do about that. >> but what do you need? why are you crying i can't breathe. i can prevent them from doing their job, which is to take pictures so it's not clear at this point why police actually pulled her over. >> but you heard their him telling her to file a report with authorities about the paparazzi who she he says is stalking and following her feel for her. >> so with the first ever criminal trial of a former us president underway, a new and interesting look now on how americans feel about this trial of donald trump, a new cnn poll finds only 13%, just 13% nationwide feel that donald trump is being treated the same as any other defendant. and when you look within that number, most americans though are divided over whether he is

being treated more harshly or more leniently, more leniently. cnn senior political analyst, mark preston has been going through those numbers leniently is really hard word to say and television, i'm just kidding one question in the presidential election is whether or not voters are going to take this case into consideration when it comes to their votes. yes, there's a lot we don't know yet in a far way to go, but what you're seeing in the numbers is the hush money trial impacting how voters feel about him right now? >> it certainly isn't. it's not only we're seeing in the hush money trial what we're seeing in all the other trials that he is going to face the federal charges that he faces as well. let's take a look at these numbers here. kate, we're actually seeing an increase in support, right now for president trump over the past six months when it comes to these four cases, look at the hush money case right there hello 17, 45%, but it's almost half of americans right now believe that donald trump would be fit for office regardless of what happens in this hush money case. but go down that list

right there and you can see the numbers. you know, it's not a huge jump, kate but we're certainly seeing trending in one way. but not all numbers are created equal. >> and that's why we're a nation divided. >> let's look at the political breakdown on these numbers because you just kinda shows where we are as a nation, 75% of americans, excuse me, of republicans now believed that donald trump will be fine regardless, if key is convicted up in new york, but go down the list again, you are looking at efforts to overturn the 2020 election that classified documents case, the january 6 attack on the us capitol. look at where republicans are on that. well over 60% look over democrats are on that. they are almost in the single digits on almost every one of them except for the hush money case, kate, it really does show the divide what about in the numbers right now, again, a snapshot in time. >> what are the ever say about won the jury actually reaches a verdict in this okay. >> well, again, we shouldn't be too surprised by this, but 56% of americans don't think that

it's going to be reached in a fair manner. so you have more more than half of americans don't believe that donald trump's can get a fair trial up in manhattan course, we've heard him say that over and over and over again, but kate i want to go back to something that's incredibly interesting because donald trump famously said back in 2016 in january 2016 in sioux city, iowa, that he could go onto fifth avenue and let me just give you exactly. we said i can stand in the middle of fifth avenue and shoot somebody and i wouldn't lose voters. well, you know what this is? exactly equivalent to that. but it's kinda close. let's take a look at this number right here. because this really shows you where donald trump is with his supporters and he truly knows his supporters. kate 76% of republicans said that even if donald trump is convicted of a crime they are going to support him trump noses support is kate are you getting a sense though, of there's this 24%. >> i want to talk about it has

to talk to me about this 24% and sure who these voters are, which this gets too, if convicted they are trump supporters, but they might reconsider their vote. talked to me about this. >> so the flip side of the 76% is that 24% in 24% tend to be voters who lean more to the democratic side. they tend to describe themselves more as moderates they also tend to be non whites as well, and they also tend to be younger. donald trump really has a really strong hold on his older voters. that 24%, what is problematic for the trump campaign is that if he were to lose, that's a significant part of the electrode. if he were to lose a significant part of that 24% than he potentially could lose the election what we haven't seen so far is donald trump trying to reach out to those kind of those republicans, those could be those nikki haley republicans. >> we haven't seen that outrage definitely quite yet. it's good to see you, mark.

thank you so much. >> john mark preska and making his overdue debut. oh, do is exactly right. and your central but in his handsome friday, so good time to roll on all right. very shortly, donald trump we'll head back to new york courtroom for his criminal trial, having to do with hush money payments to stormy daniels, falsifying documents to cover up those hush money payments back on the stand first thing this morning will be david pecker. that will be the meat of the cross-examinati on with this now seen in legal commentator, former trump white house lawyer jim scholz, and national security attorney bradley moss. welcome to the hansen friday edition of cnn news central well, i want to read you part of the transcript from yesterday that could be in the jury's minds as they are waking up this morning. this is david pecker on direct, so this is the prosecutor, josh steinglass, talking to him. were you aware that expenditures by corporations made for the purpose of influencing an election made in coordination with or at the request of a candidate or a campaign? are unlawful david pecker says, yes. steinglass

says, did either you or ami ever report to the federal election commission that ami had made a donation to of care, a payment to karen mcdougal. pecker says, we did not sign. glas says, why did ami and make this purchase of karen mcdougal story? pecker says, we purchased a story so it won't be published by any or other organization steinglass asked why did you not want it to be published by any other organization? pecker says, i didn't want we didn't want the story to embarrass mr. trump or embarrassed or hurt that campaign? hurt the campaign. bradley, first to you, why that focus, how much damage did it do to trump as we approach cross this morning yeah no that. >> was the meat and bones of the prosecution's case in terms the idea that this was all tied to the campaign, that this wasn't a personal thing that wasn't what rudy giuliani is to talk about it. oh, was just disparate as family the embarrassment. >> no the entire criminal congruent between ami and

donald trump threw my cohen was to assist the campaign to catch and kill these stories for the purpose of assist in this campaign. >> david pecker himself knew very well this was a campaign finance violations, but here's the catch. >> we're not charging him in new york with a campaign. find campaign finance violations. they can't because it's a state issue. they're bringing the falsification of business records. this is why this walz would have been better as a federal case, but it's a state case. so over the course of this trial, as we hear from other witnesses, they're going to have to link up that falsification of business records tied to the invoices, to the intent to defraud through this campaign finance violations. that's the prosecution's burden. >> and we have not yet heard any or seen any documentation yet exactly on the falsification of business records. >> jim, to you. so david pecker is still on the san and is cross-examination. what do donald trump's lawyers need to do this morning? >> i think what just continuing along the lines of the

questioning yesterday, they use the words standard operating procedure, a ton of times yesterday, they're trying to, you know, and they also established that this whole business is a dirty business, right there's this idea of i think they called it checkbook journalism in some of the questioning. and then they went on to go through that. they've done this with other celebrities through throughout the top. the national enquirer typically does this was celebrities is what they tried to establish that this is something they did it for donald trump. they did it brother celebrity this is standard course of business for the national enquirer to kind of get, get, get this information and use it for leverage for other things. so i think they're going to continue to try to dirty up the national enquirer if you are if you will, through this testimony today and continue along that along those lines. so the jury curry is looking at it and saying, this is just a dirty business and this is just part of politics. and that kind

of feeds into the defense's opening statement. it says, yes, this is politics, this is this is the way it works. this is nothing. there's, there's, there's no crime here is what the defense is going to be arguing and they've got they have to really they have to really dig into this through cross-examination today on those issues. >> and again, we don't have a graphic, i think ready for this, but there was that literal path that jim just laid out there. you also had a relationship like this other politicians, correct? pecker says, yes trump's lawyer said, were you aware that many politicians work with immediate to try to promote their image, right? pecker says, yes, later emil bove, the defense attorney, says standard operating procedure, as you understand it, correct? pecker says yes. bradley moss. how much does that stick? do you think the jury will be convinced this is just standard operating procedure or after three days of david pecker do you think they're left with a feeling that something unusual was going on here. >> yeah. >> as much as they're going to

try to hit this standard operating procedure line. >> this was a rather unique set of circumstances in the way they frame this agreement. i don't think anything we were heard so far on cross-examinati on and want to certainly see what comes out today as outlined. a similar set of facts comparable to what michael cohen when donald trump is set up. so as this goes through, there, obviously they're gonna try to dirty up the national enquirer grade. it's not like they had a pristine reputation in the first place, becomes a question for the jury of do we view this as unique? was this something distinguishable from the normal standard operating procedures, the normal way the national enquirer right operated. >> that's gonna be the defense's job to try to prove that. >> i don't think they've done it yet. >> jim, very quickly. >> we also heard testimony i'm not sure this gets to the law in any which way, but donald trump walking in the rose garden, talking to david pecker about karen mcdougal phone calls with white house staff who picks sarah huckabee sanders. >> sanders. then i'll governor of arkansas to david pecker about karen mcdougal.

>> i mean, there's a lot of pretty tawdry stuff here is someone who had worked it white house adjacent there. >> how do you feel about that? >> so i really think look for that for the jurors. i think it's the defense's job here to show to say, look, this is politics. it's nasty, it's rough and tumble. of course these things happens. of course, staff are going to defend their boss. that's the burden that that's what they're going to have to show. it's the burden on the prosecution to prove the case it's the defense's job that just chip away a little bit to catch a juror to who might buy into their theory talking to a tabloid to buy a story from a former playboy playmate, just how the framers intended standard operating procedure. jim shells bradley mass, thanks so much for being with us this morning. sarah all right. >> a big night in detroit for round one of the blockbuster

nfl draft, even scoring a w for the history books, cnn's andy scholes, i has the highlights for us well, sarah, the first round last night was all about offense. the first 14 pigs were all on the offensive side of the ball. five of the top ten picks were quarterback, six of the top 12. we'd never seen that before and it all started with the bears that number one with the first pick in the 2024 nfl draft the chicago bears select caleb williams quarterback southern california. >> no surprise there. the bears taking 2023 heisman trophy winner caleb williams, first overall, it's casual fans hoping they finally have hello star quarterback. the bears have never had a qbs dropper, 4,000 yards in there, 103 year history. and the future is here in more ways than one williams he's joining the pair's draft party on stage. >> the hologram that was pretty cool. >> now the shakur of the draft

coming quickly at pick number eighth, the atlanta falcons selecting washington quarterback michael penix, jr. junior. no one had penix the falcons it aid especially since they just signed kirk cousins two four-year hundred 80 million field is off-season. so that was certainly a head scratcher. here was your top ten picks, half of them, again, or quarterbacks for the first time ever, the vikings traded up to ten to take michigan's jj mccarthy, quarterback bo nix, also went 12th to the denver broncos. now the drafts going to continue tonight with rounds two and three and just look at the crowd. they had for night one in detroit, the nfl says an estimated 275,000 fans showed up, is smashing the attendance record for the event. >> the previous record set that the 2018 draft and neck asheville with about 200,000 in the crowd and sara is just another sign of just how popular the nfl has become. >> hundreds of thousands of people showing up just to hear names read off of a card it's

heretical, still, and he scholz great report, kate, i just have to tell you, i went to an nfl draft with my husband and it was really live up, you know what i loved when the football players, these big guys are running out and you see them running out and they jump into the arms every now and then of the commissioner. >> okay? snow, this is important. this is important. do you know that roger goodell had back surgery just weeks ago? he had back surgery weeks ago. and there's a lot of talk about are what are they going to do. i saw some being kindly, gentle as a woman who just had back surgery as well. >> but what was it, jc lay thumb, like bear hug. yeah. i gasped. >> what i saw and i really hope roger has a good pt today we will continue to drop tonight. all right. coming up still for us. >> what happens now that harvey weinstein's new york rape conviction was overturned. >> and the painful chapter that it is reopened for the women who spoke out against him. we

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also. this morning, women who accused harvey weinstein of horrible things they are speaking out, calling the news of weinstein's new trial in new york, disheartening and profoundly unjust. ashley judd, one of the first women to public clear, accuse weinstein of sexual harassment, says learning his conviction was overturned is quote, an act of institutional betrayal. now the infamous hollywood producer who was found guilty of two sex crimes four years ago, new york and thursday, the new york court of appeals overturned that conviction and ordered a new trial. >> it's get rid overseen as jean casarez, she has much more on this gene. >> let's start with why was this conviction overturned we locate first let's say the court did not find him innocent at all, and that is an important thing here, is what the judge allowed in the trial. >> prosecutors asked for many things. judge allowed those just things to come in at trial and what the highest court of new york said is here's what it did that it's stripped a defendant of a right. he has a

presumption of innocence until the case goes to the jury. that was gone, the appellate court said, before it went to the jury, and also right to a fair trial and is due process since rights were violated. number one, they said molar no witnesses are allowed in new york now, all across the country, they're called prior bad acts, witnesses. >> and in weinstein's case, four of them took the stand, was very difficult for them to testify as to sexual crimes. >> they say weinstein committed against them. now, this did not go so toward the charges. it was mentioned in the indictment, but prosecutors got those four in and it is appropriate to show certain things like a pattern of conduct, but the appellate court said you had three accusers. then judge, you allowed for more to come in and there were so many that there was no presumption of the innocence when the jury got that case, he was guilty already. that was number one. number two, if weinstein had

decided to take the stand, the judge ruled that not only would he be cross-examined on all four of those but he would also be cross-examined on things he did in the workplace, throwing food and somebody's face, boolean employees, court said no relevance and because of that, the jury was denied to hear his testimony because he stayed silent because he wasn't going to take the stand under those circumstances. and the difficult thing is though, that these women that had to take the stand and they gave their stories made me haley, gloria, all read represented the one victim. there was a conviction and she would have to take the stand again. and gloria already said in a statement that she is she will try to take the stand again if there is a retrial. but obviously this is difficult and it's a shock to so many. but he's not innocent. the court said the blame is really on the judge allowing too much into the trial yeah. i'm seeing

someone, glory already. statement there. and what she's saying about what this does doing. it's great to see you. thank you very much for that, sir. >> all right. joining me now to discuss his defense attorney, misty marris, a first-off. you watch this trial dream really closely, all the details of this trial were you surprised that the public was surprised by this? were you surprised by this? >> so having watched this trial and being in new york practitioner, the prior bad acts evidence and when that can come in, it is a very, very narrow set of circumstances that can come into the trial so while i had a feeling he was going get convicted, i think many lawyers who are watching this had the same impression that they there would be a pretty good appellate argument for harvey weinstein in new york. so not a big surprise to you because of all of the issues that were led into and the witnesses led into this case. i do want to ask you if there's enough other appellate case that you can kind of compare this to the closest is bill cosby everybody was

shocked when that case got overturned, but it's the same principle, basically prior bad acts, evidence, meaning uncharged crimes, things that don't have to do with the case in principle, can only come in if it's to show a propensity to and modus operandi relating to that conduct. >> it can't come into impugn the defendants character. and so it's a fine line as to whether or not that evidence can actually come in. witnesses can testify, and in some of these cases, bill cosby and now harvey weinstein appellate courts have found the judges went too far. they let too much in an ultimately that impacted the rights of the defendant. keep in mind sara it's not just bill cosby, harvey weinstein. it sets a standard for any other criminal defendant and that's why the appellate courts are very strict about when this type of evidence can come into the courtroom and prosecutors but what you have to think through this, but judges will also be paying a lot of attention because judges do not like being overturned for sure i do want to ask you about what this means for harvey weinstein's time jail. there is this

appellate court ruling that says that this has to be retried, but he also has a case in california where he was convicted of rape and sexual assault. >> there. what does it mean for him? so as far as california, the new york decision is not binding. now the challenge to the california case, it's going to be a very, very similar challenge. but. it will be governed by california law. so the standard is slightly different as of now, new york, the case needs to be retried in order for conviction and would have to be starting from ground zero. right. but he's now under california jurisdiction where he was sentenced to six teen years. so the law they're quite different from the law are different from the law in new york or maybe not so narrow, but still, it is something that he is going to use viable challenge in california as well. okay. i want to ask you something, this twist that was brought up first by report or an author, ronan farrow, who has done extensive reporting and wrote a book on how, what harvey weinstein operated he argues that this appellate case could actually have some impact on donald trump's se