'Major Win' - Alvin Bragg's Trump Case Shaken To Its Core

Hey ladies and gentlemen, this is Carmine Sabia for Explain America and there's been a major

victory in the Alvin Bragg Donald Trump hush money case involving Stormy Daniels. Before we

get started, please make sure you like, comment, share and subscribe. Those little things really

help us out and they help our channel continue to grow. It's being touted as a major victory

but it's not a major victory for Trump. For Trump it's a defeat. It's a major victory for Alvin

Bragg because the judge, Judge Juan Marchand, has again ruled against Donald Trump. Big surprise

Show me your surprise face ladies and gentlemen. Of course he ruled against Donald Trump. He

continuously rules against Donald Trump, but in this case he's going to allow evidence that

suggests that the National Enquirer, believe that, the National Enquirer was complicit in

killing stories that were negative against Donald Trump, including that involving former Playboy

playmate Karen McDougal who claims to have had an affair with former President Trump. They're

also going to allow evidence that suggests that they planted stories against Trump's opponents

like Ted Cruz and saying that his dad was involved with the Kennedy thing in the 60s and all that

stuff. So this is a piece of evidence the Trump team did not want in. It's a major victory for

Alvin Bragg. I think it's unfair, but I want to know what you guys think. So please watch this video

and then let me know. Of course as always please remember to like, comment, share, and subscribe

I'm Carmine Sabia for Explain America. We love you guys. God bless you. Take care everybody

And welcome back to CNN's special live coverage. I'm Caitlin Collins outside of the New York

courthouse where Donald Trump's hush money trial has just officially gotten underway and is now

going back and forth between the prosecution, the defense, and the judge, Judge Juan Roshan

who is overseeing all of this. CNN's Paula Reid is outside the courthouse here with me. And Paula

the prosecution just got a major win inside of that courtroom as they were arguing that evidence

related to the National Enquirer and its coordination with the Trump campaign of 2016

should be allowed in as evidence, which Trump's team didn't want. And the judge just said

yeah, I'll let it in. And specifically this is evidence about articles that were run in the

summer of 2015 about Trump's then opponent, Ted Cruz. Now Trump's lawyer, Todd Blanch

objected to this saying that this is going to confuse the jury. Running a negative story about

Ted Cruz, they argue, is not a crime. But the judge said he's going to allow this evidence in

because remember the theory of the case here from the district attorney is that when Michael Cohen

was reimbursed for that hush money to Stormy Daniels, that the documents were falsified

right? They wrote down fraudulent reasons for why he was being paid. But the reason that's

being charged as a felony is because the district attorney insists that this was all done to

interfere with the 2016 election. And so the reason that this evidence is critical for the prosecution

is they're trying to show that these falsified business records were part of a larger scheme

to help Trump's chances in 2016. And the judge here said he's going to allow this in because

quote, the district attorney's office has demonstrated there was an understanding that

certain things would be done and wouldn't be done at AMI. That is the company that owned

the National Enquirer. He said, I believe this evidence is necessary to complete the narrative

of what took place. So not great for the Trump team there. Because again, this is the larger

narrative that the district attorney is using to charge this as a felony

Yeah. And this is notable, Jake, because the argument is that the Trump court, the Trump team

the campaign in 2016 was able to approve changes, to suggest changes as they were going after

Trump's political opponents in that Republican primary. And that is actually the bigger picture

here. We always call this the hush money case. But what Alvin Bragg, the district attorney

has been arguing is that this all has to do with efforts to sway the election

to protect Donald Trump. And they're arguing help get him elected. Right. So much of this took place in October, right before the presidential election of 2016