at trump university we teach success. that s what it s all about. success. it s going to happen to you. that was trump s pitch for trump university two decades ago. he marketed his school as a shortcut to financial success. you just had to pay him and his instructors first, and then you would know everything you needed to make it big. the only problem was that it was all a scam. as a result, trump eventually settled a civil fraud case for $25 million, and that case gave us real insight into how donald trump views the average american. trump university a series of for-profit real estate seminars launched in 2005 ads promised donald trump would hand pick the instructors, but as a rule he did not. a set of play books for the sales team coached them how to market the courses even to single mothers with three children who, quote, may need money for food. that is how donald trump sees america, a country that is just filled with easy marks and fools to be scammed by a millio
[sneeze] dude you coming? because the only thing dripping should be your style. plop plop fizz fizz with alka-seltzer plus cold & flu relief. also try for fizzy fast cough relief. john: a live look at lower manhattan where closing arguments are underway in former president trump s months long civil fraud lawsuit. one side the supreme court, the other a trump building at 40 wall street where just minutes from now the former president is expected to hold a news conference. we will bring you that live just as soon as it starts. new york attorney general letitia james says the rule of law is on her side but legal experts say the case is without any precedent. jonathan: she s a very political attorney general. none of us could find a single case like this one where james or her office sought these types of damages. john: hello, john roberts in washington. nothing happening this afternoon, sandra, if you want to go out for lunch, now is the time to do it. sandra: nothing t
des moines, iowa. this is the story this hour. former president trump just held a news conference in new york city. the closing arguments on the other side of this equation are still underway in this fraud trial. the former president saying again today that he s innocent. he s done nothing wrong. watch. so they have no case. it s a shame that a thing like this is able to happen. businesses leave new york. martha: hunter biden on the other coast of the country, we re waiting for his arrival in court in los angeles on tax charges. one day after causing chaos on capitol hill when he showed up unexpectedly at his contempt of congress hearing as if he was open to testifying and speaking at the hearing except when he didn t like the way things were going, he stormed out. matt whitaker is standing by here in iowa where he s born and raised in iowa. let s go to nate foy, our correspondent covering the trump trials and he s in new york city on the latest developments in that today
harris: fox news alert. a live look now. the nation s 45th president donald trump said to watch him because he will be stepping up to the microphones again when he exits a new york city courtroom for closing arguments in his new york civil fraud trial. we showed those microphones to the left of the screen. we ll see him again. i m harris faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. yesterday it seemed like we would hear directly from former president inside the courtroom for his own closing argument. but after asking the judge if he could do that, that is now not happening. that judge puts stipulations and restrictions on what that would look like and trump s legal team said they had issues with the judge s conditions to stick to relevant matters covered in the trial and not deliver a campaign speech. that s what the judge said he wanted. well, trump may be silenced inside that courtroom. he is never really silenced. he talked this morning. i want to speak and make a sum
that s a bus in new york city and behind that is trump tower. there we go. former president trump about to depart for closing arguments today in his civil fraud trial. the judge has barred him from speaking in court. he wanted to make his own closing argument. the judge said forget about it. so he has been known to talk to reporters on the way in. we re watching that. no buses or trucks, good morning, i m bill hemmer. dana: just us. that s all you get for right now. i m dana perino and this is america s newsroom. we had a wild day yesterday. see how this one turns out. the fraud trial culminating as iowa casts the first votes in the presidential election. the former president was there last night for a fox news town hall and tried to assure voters his second term would not be focused on revenge. i m not going to have time for retribution. we ll make the country so successful i won t have time for retribution. our ultimate retribution is success. dana: bill melugin is