Would begin with the breaking news,
the aging Carol case against Donald Trump,
postponed for the day because of COVID precautions and a
source telling NBC News Trump had been planning on testifying
our Yasmin Vesugians outside the courthouse.
Von Hilliard is standing by in New Hampshire.
Also with us former Assistant Manhattan District Attorney Katherine Christian,
along with Caroline police, former federal and white collar defense
attorney Yasmin.
Why this delay? What's going on?
So I'm just going to ask you to excuse me,
Anna, as we're talking throughout these next couple of minutes
or so,
I'm going to keep glancing down at my phone because
we have dictation coming from inside the courtroom as to
what's actually happening.
But we are getting word,
as you just mentioned that the court,
the trial in fact has been delayed until tomorrow,
resuming at 9:30 AM for a couple of different reasons.
It's because COVID has. It seems struck again.
Alina Hava, the former presidents attorney,
along with another other Presidents attorneys as well.
I'm feeling symptomatic. Lena Havas parents tested positive for Covad.
She so far has tested negative,
but she is feeling symptomatic.
One of the jurors as well said they were feeling
symptomatic as well as they were on their way making
their way into Manhattan.
So they turned around and went home to go get.
Tested so because of all of that,
because of COVID, which so many of us know quite
well at this point in those symptoms.
The trial has been resumed,
it seems or has been delayed until tomorrow morning at
9:30 AM,
in which it will resume throughout the day.
They're going to be setting up a phone line in
which they're going to be reporting test results to make
sure nobody else tests positive in the next 24 hours
or so. We're going to wait and see actually what
happens because you bring up,
obviously, the fact that the former president may be testifying
with,
and he has said this before,
and then they pulled the plug at the very end.
That is still very much in question,
first and foremost, Carol. Carol's attorneys have to wrap their
case here.
We're going to be hearing from Roberta Myers,
when in fact they resume tomorrow,
the editor in chief of Elle magazine.
Speak to the importance of Eugene Carroll's column at Elle
magazine and then the question of will the former president
testify or will he not testify.
There's a lot of restrictions in place for him.
He cannot, for instance, get on the stand and say
I did not assault Eugene Carroll.
He has already been found liable for that.
He cannot defame her on the stand either.
He has already been found liable for that and the
first go around.
If in fact he says those things,
he can be found in contempt of court for those
reasons.
Anna, his attorneys may advise him not,
in fact, to testify. Again want to reiterate Eugene Carroll
seeking $10 million in damages when in fact court resumes
tomorrow morning.
But again a wait and see here.
As we know COVID goes folks testing negative now but
that may change in the next 24 hours or so.