members, two of them who i'd never heard of until this morning. are joining marjorie taylor greene in the end, democrats will help save him because it's the right thing to do. and he's worked with them and that's all they wanted. they wanted to speak or they could sort of trust. i didn't have that in mccarthy and so they got rid of them. i think democrats will follow the leader progressives like ro khanna and other folks and support the speaker for the next hundred, 98 days then it came jeffries will be the speaker that's in row counter this. >> we can say very specifically, finish out this term correct? correct. let's not get out of hand. >> let's not get crazy or people bipartisanship only can go so far in american politics, it's good to see you guys soon. thanks. please come back. even though you love it, you didn't do a neck and new era of zeta news central starts now we are standing by for open putting statements in the new york criminal case against donald

trump were getting new details on the first witness to be called a men allegedly in the room, what a scheme was hatched to bury bad stories about donald trump. >> and the 2016 election. >> jewish students being urged to return home for their own safety classes go virtual has protests, royal, a unit diversity, and the supreme court braces for arguments that could effectively end the federal election case against donald trump i'm john berman with sara sidner and kate this this is n newsroom historis unfolding before our es today, right behind me live pictures of a courthouse in lower manhattan a then at use trump tower here in new york vershortly, donald trump will leave his apartment for opening statements in a trial or could ultimatelland him behind bars. we're getting new

details this morning about the very first witness expected to called by the prosecution a man known to be involved in several catch and kill schemes for donald trump. >> polluting the alleged hush money payment with porn star stormy daniels. >> cnn's kristen holmes is live outside court this morning where history really will be made crystal that's all right, john, and we do expect donald trump to stop by those cameras in the hallway. remember this campaign stop he's had in several days. he was supposed to have a rally in north carolina over the weekend where he could likely air his grievances as he likes to do. however, it was canceled due to bad weather as we know, he is using these various trial appearances as campaign stops because he effectively has two. he is in court four days a week. so what do we know about what we're going to see too? today? of course, you're going to have those opening arguments by both sides talking about what the details are of the case laying out their version

of the case, but we also have leard who that fir witness is going to be. that is a man by the name of david now has been friends with donald trump for decades. he ran the company that owned the national enquirer. he is known to have bought & buried damaging stories about donald trump, meaning that people would come to him. he would buy the rights of the story and then never publish it because it could hurt trump he allegedly helped broker the deal with stormy daniels and allegedly had multiple conversations with the former president about that. again, this would have been before he was president. now he has been granted immunity in exchange for his testimony. the thing to keep an eye on here is how donald trump reacts during this testimony. this is likely when we're going to here are some of those salacious details, remember at the heart of all of this, isn't an alleged affair with a porn star, stormy daniels, something that roiled his marriage when he was the white house, when these reports first came out

and something that has embarrassed the former president. now, he's going to be forced to sit in that courtroom for hours, listening to the line of questioning around them. strong and we really begun to see him grow more uncomfortable in that courtroom as the days of this trial has progressed and today could certainly be the worst so far, kristen holmes. >> thank you very much for being with us. we'll check in with you and again shortly, sarah. all right. 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 starting with david who is the publisher of the enquirer that was made a deal with prosecutors, but was killing stories that were negative against donald trump before the 2016 election. why do you think, or what do you think of the prosecutors strategy of starting with him? >> it makes sense because he's a hub of all of this. he was in the room, if true, with donald trump back in 2015. he is part of that formula, that plan of what to kill any bad story that catch-and-kill, which involved stormy daniels, which involve mcdougal, which involve potentially as well. this doorman so this is if you don't start here, you're kind of coming out fragmented and he's a strong witness who's

also not someone who maybe so adversarial like michael cohen or stormy daniels, to the former president. so he's a great place to start by laying that foundation and understanding what's next. how did this evolve? where did this come from? david? >> this is how they're trying to link it to the election because that is why this is a felony, correct? that there is an course of another crime. right. so the intent to defraud and making those alterations in the business records in the falsifications. that's that misdemeanor when you get that felony, while is there a tax fraud in there? is there a federal election crime in there? is there a state election crime in there? is it a combination of any of those? and again, that all starts with this theme and why we're doing this, because it makes no sense just to kill a story. and this was a reason behind it. that reason is behind it is to protect donald trump in the election in some capacity. that is a theory and part of the prosecution was the defense do with david. how do they combat what the prosecutors are going to bring out of him?

>> well, david got a deal, if you will. so he has immunity is not going to get prosecuted. and there can be some attacks and that although it may be awkward a little bit that the attorneys are in his friend, but donald trump and david have a long-standing relationship. but listen, there's an advantage to you to do this, why you're doing this, because you have a benefit and you may be able to fudge things a little bit to point things the other way, as opposed to taking blame when responsibility david his company had 187,000, i think or show so five from the federal election commission, his hands are clean, so there's going to be a tax certainly on that level as well. >> can you give me a sense of what the hardest thing for prosecutors will be in this case, is it about intent really in this case? >> i think you're going to have to establish that donald trump really new and that's how they're bringing david. that's why they're bringing in michael cohen. that's why they're bringing other folks. but it's that second component which people have a hard time with which i understand is falsifying business records is just a misdemeanor, just as a relative term because no one wants to be committed i think that of a misdemeanor, but

it's how do you get to that next stage. and this sort of novel theory of it's a federal election crime that was never charged. a state election crime that was never charged, a tax fraud. so it's convincing that jury again, to follow the law, to follow what i am saying as the product executed, josh steinglass chris conroy, that's not make this about sexy scandalous behavior involving in a fair and former porn star. this take it out. this is just falsifying business records you're talking about, but those salacious details are going to come and you've got stormy daniels, got michael cohen, you've got david packard, and you've got karen mcdougal all on the witness less. >> i do want to ask you because this has been something that's been in the back of my head. i'm looking at what happened with michael cohen who was convicted of violating campaign finance laws and here he will be on the stand. he is one of the main witnesses in this case. does that work well for the prosecutors? say, hey, look, he was convicted of this. he went to jail for this this is in trying to help donald trump do what we're saying. he

tried to do in this case. >> whatever hand you have is what you have and what they need to do. as i said before, is take the windom, the sales of that he's a bad guy in a liar, but what's really important here is if you have a drug dealer who is a kingpin announcing donald trump is a drug dealing kingpin. but if a drug dealer and kingpin, who knows most about that person, not someone on the outside, but someone who's immersed in that business, someone who's selling the drugs is buying the drugs, who's involved? that is ogives analogy it is, is who is michael collin? he's a mercies hands-on. he's there. so there's a great advantage to have michael cohen on your team. you just have the bubble to clean them off and say, i get it. he's not the best guy, but that's not what your hear about you here. if you believe him and he's immersed in it, there's your answer and trying to corroborate that with all the document minutes and then the right. this is well, not just his shoulders. it's a lot of other people involved in documents. >> all right. we'll be watching this historic trial. jeremy cillian, i know you'll be watching every moment i really, really appreciate it. >> and this just in protesters arrested at yale, this morning and at columbia university

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his apartment to get into an suv and head down to lower manhattan to get head back into court opening statements in his criminal trial are set to begin. this morning. also happening right now in connecticut, police are resting pro-palestinian protesters from an encampment at yale university, at least 13 people, including students have been removed so far. >> and this is happening as classes at columbia university of just been pushed to go virtual today as that school continues to struggle with ongoing protest, their cnn's polo sandoval at columbia's campus for us is joining us once again, pull the school's president in, talking about the class is going virtual said that they are in need of a reset. what does that mean? >> well, what are the big questions about that to caters, does that mean potentially having to forcibly removed some of the protesters that have sat up on the campus itself, kate, because over the weekend we witnessed really two demonstrations taking place pro-palestinian demonstrations taking place. one of them on

campus, the gaza solidarity encampment that you'd be able to see just beyond that fence sign that you see again, the campaign is still restricted access right now because of the events of last week up at the other demonstration also taking place on the sidewalk, literally at the gate of columbia university would also has intensified over the weekend. are these growing fears among some jewish students who say they fear? i just feel not just uncomfortable, but in some cases, even intimidated an update to speak to sum over the weekend saying that they are growing increasingly frustrated saying the columbia university simply not doing enough to make sure that some of the jewish student population feel safe coming to class. so as a result, one of the rabbis, it's with tai sui diversity calling on some jewish students, it simply go home now, the columbia, columbia institution itself hello for a statement saying that they hear those concerns. they are acting on them, that they are taking steps to make sure that they feel that the students are supported, especially ahead of g silver. now, in terms

of the organizers of these pro-palestinian demonstrations, the two groups that organize them. there with the statement as well, effectively trying to distance themselves from non-student protesters calling them in a quote, inflammatory individuals we're just waiting one 2nd to see if polo's shot clears up. >> seems like it's not going to work. all right. we're going to get back to polo sandoval. he's going to continue to cover this for us. john. >> all right. we have new developments in a suspect in custody after a break-in at the home of the los angeles mayor while she was there, what police are learning this morning and with opening statements set to begin in the criminal trial against donald trump, new polling shows his lead against president biden has been slipping riyad say's two album is breaking records

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very closely. in the meantime, there is some new polling out in the last few days that shows the state of the rais with me, cnn senior data reporter, harry enten and harry, let's start with in general, how americans feel about this content. >> yeah, enthusiasm for 2020 before or not, when you got one guy who's now facing prosecution or york, you've got another guy who folks feel are too old, very interested in the presidential election. look at this on, at this point that cycle, a nine or ten on a one to ten scale, just 64%. that is the lowest that the nbc news paul has ever burt measured at this 0.4 years ago, it was 77%, 64% is the lowest we've seen since 2008, not a big surprise given that both candidates are disliked by the american public. how does that impact whether people say they're going to vote? yes. so this to me is another interesting trend line, definitely bone the 2024 election go back for years ago. it was 80%. you go back last year, 76% the same in the fall,

76%. where are we now? just 70% of americans say they will definitely vote the election. so it's not just that folks are less interested that they were four years ago or eight years ago, is they become less interested during the course of this electoral cycle. that's a big drop and it's a drop that happened pretty quickly that yes, very interesting. all right. in terms of how people say they're going to vote at this point. >> yeah. so, you know, who would this benefit if we didn't fact have lower turnout. so biden versus trump margin. if you're looking among all registered voters, the average of new york times in marquette university, paul's, you see that trump? as plus two. but look among likely voters, those folks who actually say they're likely to turn out and vote, we got a tie. so it turns out that there's low potentially lower turnout. who does it benefit more? it actually benefits joe biden more than it benefits donald trump at this particular, which is interesting to people of a certain age like me who grew up in this was always reversed among republicans public, it's a democrats, the supposition always was that likely voters

were better for republicans registered for democrat. that's exactly right. if you tend to think about who is the party that's most associated, associated with get out the vote drives. it's normally democrats, but at this particular point, if republicans want to win at this point, it looks like they would actually benefit and donald trump would benefit from larger returning one of the thing you want to find out, there is a new poll out today, a marist poll, which esa definitely vote question. and now you see joe biden with an even bigger yeah, you see joe biden's lead at seven points on that particular pole. he does lead among registered voters, but this is a tremar seeing across polling data that is that donald trump benefits from a wider electorate while joe biden fact benefits from a narrow electric and of course lines about what we've seen in the special election so far, which tend to have smaller turnout and democrats have been dominating and interesting to see of that last area. and thank you. thank you. must all that is, they're pretty interesting, guys. all right. ahead. is it cruel and unusual punishment? >> two tick is homeless people for living on the streets. and in part i had we have a look at the supreme court case that could have far-reaching implications on how cities deal with their homeless all right. if you think prescriptions and

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police department responded, took a suspect into custody without incident. there were no injuries to the occupants during this incident. remains under investigation. now, as you mentioned, bass was home at the time along with their family, but again, no injuries were told that a 2ye-o man was taken to custodyhe was a reside olos angeles, of course,hateveyou hear, somethg like this, a official being bken into a lot of us quickly went back to so we're of 2022 when e home of then-house speaker nancy pelosi was broken into by that man who obviously assaulted her husband, was taken into custody and was finally charged again, too soon to determine if that was any type of motive here that the mayor was actually specifically specifically targeted. but certainly raising concerns. i'm told that as of last that's tonight, a law enforcement official said that authorities were working to obtain search warrants for digital devices used by the suspect. again, john all to try to get to that motive. >> and this is not the first time that karen bass has been the victim of a home break-in?

>> now, let's write back in 2022, whenever she was a us representative who was running for mayor, her home was burglarized to firearms were stolen. take a listen. this is how she described that experience i got home and saw my house was burglarized and that was shocking and traumatic. i have to say that my safety was shattered and like many angelinos understand that one of the most important issues in our city is for los angeles to be safe and the number one job of this mayor is to keep the city safe now, the two suspects in that case pleaded no contest of burglary and grand theft. >> again, we're waiting to see what charges will be brought against this new suspect in yesterday's incident, were told according at least according to court records, he's currently being held john on $100,000 bond all right. josh campbell for us in los angeles is born and keep us posted, josh. thank you sarah. >> all right. this morning is supreme court will hear arguments in a case that is seen as the most significant

case on the homelessness issue in decades. the debate is over whether it is cruel and unusual punishment to find or arrest people sleeping outside when shelter spaces. so scarce this is all happening as homeless levels are reaching record levels in the united states, cnn's nick watt is joining us now. nick, this is a really significant case. it could have far-reaching implications for how cities deal with their homeless, correct? >> that is absolutely right, sarah and the crux here is, can you criminalize homelessness? can you make it a crime to be destitute humans? we all need to sleep and the issue here is places like grants past, where is which is the focus of this sec? >> hey they don't have enough shelter beds. in fact, they only got one shelter. it's a religious shelter, and there are very high bars to get in. so people are saying, i have no choice but to sleep on the street, but few years ago the city started cracking down,

started finding people & three people filed a lawsuit and this has i ended up at the supreme court because it's a big issue way beyond grants pass this picture, s. little town of 40,000 people and 200 unhoused people. los angeles, san francisco, california. they all filed amicus briefs because in la, we've got 45,000 unhoused people. but the criticism here is that there's a bit of nimbyism, not in my backyard, and there's one quote from a city councilor in grants pass that's from about ten years ago. it's really coming back to haunt them. and the quote is this. the point is to make it uncomfortable enough in our city. so they will want to move on down the road. so the criticism here is that this isn't going to solve the problem. it just moves the problem. but then of course, you have the other side of the argument in grants pass. people, young families also have a right to use the park and they don't want to use the part because they're scared if there's a homeless encampment the other issue here is it

doesn't really get to the root causes of homelessness or the actual solutions of creating more houses. but it is going to be a massive impact on how cities across the west and across the country deal with this. are they allowed to ticket people? >> for sleeping on the sidewalk or are they t this is a huge issue, especially where you live in los angeles, you've done a lot of great stories on the homeless issue there, there's a fear with drug use and all sorts of other things. a danger to the public. on the other hand, where speed people supposed to go lots to discuss& i know you'll be watching this case. nick watt but right. report. thank you so much. appreciate it. okay all right. >> i think we're gonna look right now. this is donald trump leaving trump tower his getting ready to leaving right there i'm gonna. again, that suv and he's going to take what is now becoming a very familiar drive down to lower manhattan to head

back into court this monday, a very big de in court for the president and for this entire historic first criminal case against him, which is opening statements from prosecutors and his defense team as they are going to begin laying out what they see or the or the facts of the case. and then quickly after that, this trial gets into full swing. now that we saw last week, the bumpy road to getting a full jury seeded. we'll see if we hear from the former president before he heads in, but he's headed down to court right now. we're all for also focused here right now from the border crisis to abortion, vice president kamala harris has gone from standing in the background to front and center, becoming the front and leading voice on some of president biden's top campaign issues. it comes as the campaign is acknowledging that there is a group of democratic voters who are turned off by president biden and harris is becoming key to their strategy to keep them on board. this is new reporting from cnn's isaac dovere. let me bring an isaac right now. isaac, tell us more about what you've learned well

look i have spent a lot of time on the campaign trail. president, the vice president, you can see what is going on now that on a number of key issues, abortion probably top of the list, but also things like student loans, gun control legalizing marijuana, things that democratic voters want to hear from pumping up that enthusiasm than they need from the base. there for seeing that people want to hear more from kamala harris on that. and they had been we're all pretty familiar as is everybody on her staff with what a rocky start she had on the job, but in being out with her, i was in arizona and nevada with her. you can see in those battleground states and overall a looser, more energetic, more ready to go kind of approach to her. she he is talking about prosecuting the case of being the prosecutor out there, taking a part of the arguments and i'm like, i said, to her, we sat down in an exclusive interview in las vegas. i said, what about whoever trump picks as his running mate what do you think about the person she said to me? and i think a pretty good mark of where her mind is these days, i'm ready for whoever has the film in the

blanks to do it that's one way to put it zero. this goes from here. it's good to see you in a great reporting as always, john got to figure out the fill in the blank. >> there you get to choose. it's a chooser own venture all right. >> thank you very much with now a cnn political commentator, s. e. cupp and democratic strategist consultant simon rosenberg, friends we just saw donald trump leave trump tower for the manhattan courthouse for opening statements in his criminal trial i mean, this is an historic moment. but from a political perspective, sc what role do you or fairly do you not think this is playing in the election, right now? >> yeah. >> that's an excellent way to put it because what i don't think this is doing is capturing the attention of most voters were following this because it's important. this is a guy running for president who's about to go on trial. it's important, but i don't think most voters are following the tiktok of these cases closely. on the other side, i

think this is incredibly important for his election and his base they want to see this. he doesn't want to be out talking about policy. he wants to be at these courthouses making these speech it afterward playing the victim& telling his voters, look, there aftermath, just like i told you, signed me to that point, the conventional wisdom in the primaries was that these cases help donald trump once he was prosecutor or the charges were filed here in manhattan, his poll numbers actually started going up. >> but does that still the case at this point i mean, does it still help him to be in a courtroom facing this get charged today no i don't i don't think that he can make the case or i don't think it's going to be true that months and months and months of his criminality, his misdeeds, being thrown in front of the american people day after day after day that there's any universe where that's going to be helpful to him in my view. >> and i think you're seeing that donald trump is having a really, truly terrible month

right now. i mean, not only as you mentioned, that numerous poll is the best biden poll that he's had this year. but the abortion extremism of the republican party was exposed, are struggling to raise money, right? you have the court cases now. you have trump getting rebuke by his own party over the weekend on russia and ukraine. i mean, this has been a really bad month for donald trump. i don't think another week, particularly, i think today is going to be a big day. these opening statements are going to lay out the case that the prosecutors have against him. and i think this is gonna be a really tough week for him. >> simon, you quoted the marist poll. i know from reading interviews with you, including on april 3, 2024, and that york times, that you don't take polling that seriously. i think a centering your understanding of this election around biden's approval rating around public polling is risky business. is that no longer operative here no, it's risky. >> it's just one bit of john. it's a one bit of data that we have, but the truth is what we know. now from dozens of polls, right? what they're telling us

is the election is getting much bluer and better for the democrats. and we have to acknowledge trends when they happen. but team scores, a lot of baskets, scores a lot of points that matters in the game. we're scoring a lot of points right now. and i feel good about where we are because you put it in sports terms now i understand it se if you buy simon's argument that trump has had a bad month. biden has had a good month why? >> i think it's because of the abortion issue. that's been really in the news and crystallizing the argument that the republicans want these regressive anti-woman, anti-abortion bills that are not even popular among a majority of republicans and so i think you have people really seeing in evidence, not just the threat the republicans will push this too extreme, but in actuality, that they are and want to continue to. and they're not seeing a lot of of, of hope coming up there, just seeing more doom and gloom with these bills and court cases on the horizon. i think

that's been the leading factor in why those polls are tightening sine brought up something else over the weekend. >> obviously, the us house passed aid to ukraine, among other things, punch bowls, big headline this morning was basically it biden is winning this congress and they went on to say, in the end, biden has emerged as the big winner on government funding, on fisa and now on ukraine and israel, biden got what he wanted with this congress look, if you, if you're trying to make the argument, if you're mike johnson, you're trying to make the argument that look, we might not like everything we have to do, but we have to work together these kind of headlines are not helpful, right there really pointing out yeah, you're giving biden exactly what he wanted, which is the argument marjorie taylor greene and other far-right members of the house are making, but this is the job. >> it is the job to work together. it's as much a win for mike johnson as it is for joe biden. >> so i'm in last word yeah. >> look, joe biden is a good president and he's had a very good few weeks and donald trump

is having a terrible april and i think democrats are feeling good about where we are right now. we've got a long way to go. john, as you know, but i'll take i'll take things where they are today nothing makes democrats more nervous than a statement like democrats are feeling good sayyed rosenberg asieh are thanks to both of you i appreciate it. all right. >> live pictures here just outside court. >> you can see the huge police presence there as donald trump is already making his way to court today, a big de that very well hear exactly what prosecutors intend to prove with opening statements in his historic criminal trial and a scary close call on the runway. yeah four planes were cleared to cross the path of a jet that was about to take off the faa. now investigating will have details for your coming up have you heard sling tv offers the news you love for less weight you look and sound just like me. >> actually i am you because on

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to court in new york. he is going to arrive any moment now, huge police presence out there, as you might imagine today, important because it is opening statements to de and his criminal trial, which will begin in just the next few minutes here. all right. the faa investigating a frighteningly close call involving multiple planes at jfk international airport in new york. wednesday, a swiss airlines flight suddenly aborted take-off because the pilot was paying attention because four other planes were crossing the same runway at the same time. air traffic control recording show the swiss airlines flight was cleared for takeoff by one air traffic controller while another controller instructed the four planes to taxi across the same runway are looking at that simulation. they're joining me now a cnn safety analyst and former faa safety inspector david soucie first of all, how does this happen? and it's not the first time there was another incident, another airport this week how does something like this take place no, sir.

>> this is the one that we've mentioned a jfk as the cardinal sin rule, where two different controllers are controlling what goes onto that airport that should never happen. it should not have happened and i think it's indicative of some of this problem that we've been having with fatigue, with controllers. and i think it's very fortunate, like you said, that those pilots were on their game because when they looked out and they saw traffic on the runway, they aborted their takeoff there's multiple tiers to make sure that this is safe and that these aren't actually collisions. but there's a bigger underlying in problem that the faa is looking at very closely yeah, there was an investigation thing from january where there was a close call as well at jfk. >> i do want to ask you whether or not you think this is a consequence of seeing and hearing about these things more often? or if indeed these close calls are actually happening more often? >> i think sarah, that they are happening more often. we are covering them more closely. it's under the microscope however, the seriousness of what's being found is what bothers me most, not

necessarily the number of occurrences, but the fact that why they're occurring. and i think that speaks to this report that just came out a few days ago that i'm still looking at and speaking with the members of the committee on it. but basically they're looking at the fatigue of the air traffic controllers, their work schedules, their circadian rhythms, how they're sleeping, how they're not sleeping, do they have the ability to call up and say, raise the white flag and say, i'm just too tired to do this. all of those things are being looked at by the faa and this report just came out about three days ago. this special report that the administrator prescribed. >> yeah. when you look at it, i mean, it's one of the most stressful jobs on earth. what they do every day, but it is so paramount to the safety of the flight crew and passengers i do want to ask you about sort of the flying public can safety. we've got all these stories about boeing, including that door plug blowing off and a tire falling off and dozens of passengers hurt during what the airline described as a technical incident in one case, at the ceo of boeing resigning

when you take all of these incidents, including what is happening at airports as a whole, is flipped fine becoming less safe or should people be concerned about it in general that's a great question and it's almost impossible to answer because of the fact that if i say what everyone says, which is it's still the safest mode of transportation end it is, it makes it sound like i'm minimizing these problems these are problems they need to be addressed, but it is related to the increased amount of traffic they the system itself as being overloaded. >> it's on the brink. i don't think at this point there's any concern for the flying public. i'm i'm still flying. i have my family is still flying. i don't see that there's any immediate concern. anything we can do because the flying public, however, it's important to remind yourself as you fly, there are inherent risks and flying completely however, make that risk yourself, make that decision yourself. i can't convince you that it's safe or not, but i feel that it is safe

and i've got a lot of years, 35 years in this industry now trying to figure out how to make make it safer. and i still believe even with all these things were looking at, it's a matter of it's still the safest mode of transportation david soucie is always a pleasure to talk to you. >> thank you for your expertise. appreciate it. okay this thursday. >> and what will be their final oral argument for the 2023 24 term? >> the us supreme court will hear the case that gets at the heart of the federal charges against donald trump. is he immune from prosecution for his efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election? also, an a new op-ed for the new york times, former congresswoman liz cheney is laying out her case. they're giving a stark warning for the high court resolve the issue of presidential immunity quickly and get this case to trial. or there will be a quote, profoundly negative impact on the country. cnn senior supreme court analyst joan biskupic joins us now for more on what is sure to be a huge de, for the high court.

remind everyone, joan, what the question is before the justices? says here that's right and good to see you. >> it's morning, kate. yes. with all attention on manhattan, just in a matter of days, it'll all be down here in washington on the supreme court. that's going to decide whether the federal government's case against donald trump for election subversion special counsel jack smith has brought four counts against him involving fraud obstruction, denial of the right to vote, all count culminating in what happened on january 6, 2021 at the capitol. the precise question for the justices is whether a former president it is absolutely immune from criminal prosecution for acts that he took while in office. now, lower federal courts said, no former president donald trump must stand trial. whatever presidential immunity he might have enjoyed while president dissolved once he left office. the president is making a pretty audacious claim here.

and but, but it has been effective to this point because getting to what former congresswoman lynn cheney said, liz cheney power to meet liz cheney said about delay and no chance of a trial before the election. the justices were asked by special counsel smith to take this case up in december, and they waited, slowed it down a bit. it's still on somewhat of a faster schedule than a normal case. but her her comments are quite pointed given that when they hear oral arguments in april it tends to mean they don't resolve it until the end of june. and, you know, kate, we'll be right up against the conventions and then soon to the november election and also given what we know of the makeup of the court, who has the tougher hill? >> to climb, do you think that's a good question? and it really is former president donald trump because what he's asking for is absolute immunity with no exceptions. in the past, the supreme court has

said that a president could be a former president could be shielded from a civil proceeding. but not the way to your instance of a criminal proceeding. and one thing that's special counsel jack smith points do is 1974 parts pardon by gerald ford of richard nixon after watergate and he said the reason the president pardon him, president ford pardoned him and what everyone accepted at the time was that richard nixon would have been subject to criminal prosecution for what went on during watergate. and he said that that instance is part of a long history in america of an understanding that former presidents could be prosecuted criminally. so it is really donald trump who's trying to break that norm, but you know, we'll have to see what kinds of questions that justices have on thursday. kate, it'll be a very consequential ruling when it eventually comes absolutely, joan. thank you so much thank you very much. thank you, john. all right. we are minutes away

from opening statements in the new york criminal case against donald trump. this is a history-making moment with us now for a minute hadn't prosecutor jeremy saland, so take me behind the scenes right now prosecutors really minutes away from delivering their opening statements. what are they doing right now? >> they've done this front and back. there has been mocked cross-examinations. they practice their opening, their ready for whatever may be coming their way. they know the answers before the questions are even asked. their prepare the writer to go and this goes not just for the prosecution, this goes for the defense though it's a little bit more difficult on one side than the other since the prosecution is one laying out the case and it's their direct, so they're really prepared. they've looked in that mirror, they've done it in front of their for colleagues. they've cross-examine the witnesses, david is ready to go. absolutely. so it was michael cohen. so with stormy daniels, so as all of them we learned are katelyn polantz is down reporting outside the courthouse all morning long. she has sources inside the defense that tell her it's going to be short, that when they give their opening statement, rather, this morning, they're going to come

out and they're not going to talk for a very long time. they're going to talk briefly about the case, about the witnesses, what they see as wrong with witnesses, and they're going to sit down analytic go. >> this is the persecution of donald trump. he wasn't involved in this. let, let the prosecution meet that burden. it's not the defense's burden to tell it still that story line and defend themselves out of the gate. it's their burden the prosecution, and as things cross-examined and as things evolve, we'll get there, but let the prosecution have added, if you are the prosecution in this case or in any case, what do you need to achieve in your opening statements, you have to lay out that this all happened in manhattan, lay out the crime, tell that narrative. you don't have to go through every witness, every piece of evidence, but give the overall story and they'll do that. we'll do that. this is pretty straightforward, despite the salaciousness but how do, how much do you think they addressed the facthat that is donald j. trump former pose the united states sitting there. >> well, it's important. i mean, he's central to this because why it's about involving the election and trying to circumvent the election. so it's very critical it's about trump's break it down to the four ain,

corners that indictment. the four corners of that courtroom. this is just a falsifying business record case, even have even if it has great implications why there is reporting that they want to make this more about than just hush money it's getting in the way of an election, election. so why is that important? >> because if it's about a hush money that's not in a legal offense. hush money is not a crime falsifying business records, trying to challenge it overturn or impact of an election that's also the crime that bumps it to the felony. >> all right. 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