Judge Orders Trump To Testify In Case Over 2015 Confrontation Between His Security Team & Protesters
MARQUARDT: A judge in New York has ordered President Trump to testify not about whistleblowers or Russia or even Stormy Daniels. It's for a lawsuit that's been brought by protestors who say that, in 2015, they were assaulted by the president's security team outside of Trump Tower in Manhattan. This incident was at least partially captured on video, as you can see there. Five men who describe themselves as human rights activists, of Mexican origin, filed a suit a month later and their claim has finally made it to the courtroom. Our Polo Sandoval joins me here now. Polo, this was just a few months into the campaign. Describe what happened and how we got here with this lawsuit?</s>POLO SANDOVAL, CNN CORRESPONDENT: At the core here, Alex, it's fascinating. What you have here is a judge at the state level ordering a sitting president to offer his testimony under oath. Will it actually happen here? We'll have to see. Let's go back to 2015 to paint a clear picture of this ongoing litigation here. To remind you that this started as a protest outside of Trump Tower where protestors were wearing parody Klan outfits. And that's when some members of his security team that worked for then- Candidate Trump was part of an altercation. And now what you have is a lawsuit by these five men. That image showing the scene out there on September 3, 2013. The subjects of this lawsuit, Donald Trump, his campaign, the Trump Organization and various security agents who were working for him at the time, including Keith Schiller, who is the man who was holding that sign in this video from our affiliate. It was written in the ruling that nobody is above the law and that includes the chief executive here. The question is, what will be the next move by Donald Trump and his legal team. We reached out to the Trump campaign. They did not want to comment on this. We are trying to reach out to his attorneys to see if they plan on appealing this. It's something that would not be surprising since trial is creeping up as part of this ongoing civil litigation.</s>MARQUARDT: That would certainly be the expectation. There are a number of people who would love to see President Trump testify on a number of different issues --</s>MARQUARDT: -- and on camera. Polo Sandoval, thanks so much.</s>SANDOVAL: Thanks, Alex.</s>MARQUARDT: Coming up, there are new details revealing a bitter split between financier, Jeffrey Epstein, and his good friend the Duke of York, Prince Andrew. And find out the true stories of the agencies that are protecting us from terrorists, drug cartels and Russian spies and more when the CNN original series "DECLASSIFIED" returns. That's on Sunday, September 29th, 9:00 p.m. Eastern time and Pacific, right here on CNN.