sandra: kerri kupec urbahn, thank you for joining us. what a day so far. i should probably add that part. john: it s not over yet. sandra: we are monitoring the briefing at the white house. meanwhile, a new york judge rescinding permission for former president trump to give part of his closing argument in his civil fraud trial. his team labelling the case brought on by the attorney general james a political witch hunt as the a.g. seeks $370 million for trump s alleged shady real estate practices, in addition to permanently barring him from the new york real estate industry. alexis mcadams has more from the studios. a lot going on, politics world, and this. trump was planning to speak tomorrow but a new court filing containing emails between the judge and trump s legal team, the judge says that s not going to happen. trump will now not be allowed to speak here. so the emails are pretty
contentious, the judge writing he will not debate the issue more and trump s team miss add deadline of noon today. the former president s team writing hey, it s very unfair and trump has been belittled by an out of control politically motivated attorney general, letitia james, and requested the closing arguments be delayed because his mother-in-law died last night. the judge denying that request, too. the judge initially indicated trump would be allowed to speak but said he would have to limit remarks to commentary on the relevant material facts in evidence and application of the relevant law to the facts and not allowed to introduce now evidence or comment on irrelevant matters or deliver a campaign speech or talk about the judge, his staff, the attorney general, lawyers or the court system, which are things that trump has brought up. the judge wrote trump s attorney responded limitations were unfair and said trump could not agree to them. so the a.g. says the former president def
a trial. the appeal there answering the question. what are you asking the court to do? not how a jury will find, but what is the legal question here? it is not an overall fact finding hearing we are going to have witnesses and testimony or the courthouse or the a.g. s filing against trump in new york. instead, it is what is the legal basis? here s what s interesting about this, the court could bury will conclude whether there is immunity or not without touching the underlying facts of the case. the legal question is, does a president have absolute immunity that they cannot be prosecuted for anything they did while in office? didn t commit insurrection. that s not, was he engaged in insurrection? that is, do you have absolute immunity? but that, trump will be very disappointed when he found some self trying to wonder, will they actually say that i committed insurrection or not? really, quick he s arguing that he needed to have been told that his actions were illegal. is that true? n
as a platform to be able to come out and skew his version of events outside of the courtroom. he s not going to be able to do that. a court of appeals argument as you know is very different. there is not a trial, there s no witnesses, there is no breaks to go out. i mean, he can say whatever he wants to say afterwards and before the courthouse, but it is a very different somber formal atmosphere. so, he thinks there is going to be that kind of environments he will be sorely board and disappointed. i mean, we re talking about an appeal. people think of themselves as law & order, every courtroom proceeding being like a trial. the appeal, they are there to answer a question. what are you asking the court to do, not how a jury will find but what is the legal question here? it is not an overall fact finding hearing where they re going to have witnesses and testimony, or the courthouse moments of even the a. g. filing against trump and new york.
the courthouse steps. but unlike what happened in new york when we saw james the a.g. do something dup diifferent, wet hear them on the courthouse steps. oh, no, trump will be a spectator. which will drive him crazy. he is allowed to talk outside of court. i don t know what he will. one thing that is important and tone of this rgtargument and trump s approach, there has been a shift. early day, he had a different team of lawyers. very aggressive and very political throwing things out there that were just so over the top. but now a shift. and if you can we just note, you can continue that point, but we do believe this is the former president actually arriving. he has been staying at his golf course in virginia. we believe this is him and his legal team arriving at the court. and notice he is going into an area that won t have a lot of