Donald trump did not take the stand. Closing arguments are now set for one week from today. Then the case will go to the jury. My colleague has all the details. Reporter tonight, the defense resting their case with former President Trump choosing not to take the stand in their first criminal trial. Jurors left today hearing only from robert costello, a lawyer who briefly advised Michael Cohen. Prosecutors trying to Paint Costello as a paint ally to prevent cohen from flipping on mr. Trump. Confronted with emails, suggesting he was frustrated. He refused to hire him including one where he wrote he continues to slow play us and the president. Is he totally nuts . Hes playing with the most powerful man on the planet. Costello suggested monday, cohens entire story, that former President Trump plotted to silence Stormy Daniels to protect his campaign was all a lie. Costello telling jurors that Michael Cohen said numerous times that President Trump knew nothing about those payments and that
president getting a big vote of confidence from the university despite major backlash over congressional testimony concerning anti-semitism on campus attracting widespread outrage. the university released a statement of support and right now we re waiting to hear from house republican conference chair elise stefanik with a couple of fiery exchanges with dr. gay at that hearing. she is scheduled to speak in moments. right now the push to impeach president biden taking a major step forward. the house rules committee is meeting this hour preparing a measure to formalize the impeachment inquiry into president biden setting up the resolution for a vote by the full house as early as tomorrow. welcome to a new hour of america s newsroom, i m dana perino. we start with a bang. bill: yes, we do. we saw that coming, didn t we? i m bill hemmer. good morning at home. it now appears house republicans have the votes to authorize what is called an impeachment inquiry. house speaker mike
back here, especially because you specialize in the mishandling of classified documents. the trump team is outraged over the photo we will put up now, the photo included in the doj filing, calling it gratuitous. what do you think of that? what is your reaction? this is what happens when you collect evidence, in particular if you are collecting classified evidence. this is not an education indication of what it looked like, this is trying to demonstrate, this is the material sees from this particular location. one of the things that jumps out is, or are, i should say, what are called cover sheets. when you have classified documents, they are not just mark top-secret or secret, there is a coversheet. the point of that coversheet is to scream at anyone in the room that this material is classified so that you don t trip over it, so that there aren t accidents. so, when you see these cover sheets and you learn that there were hundreds of classified documents, it indicates that it
you re quite right with that, nick. brandon, good to have you back because you specialize in mishandling of classified documents. the trump team is expressing outrageove over the photo inclu the doj filing. what do you think of that? what is your reaction? this is what happens when you collect evidence in particular if you re collecting classified evidence. this isn t an indication of what it looked like. this is an indication trying to demonstrate this is the material seized from this particular location and one of the things that jumps out is these cover sheets. when you have classified documents, they re not just marked top secret or secret, there is a cover sheet and the point of that cover sheet is to scream at anyone in the room that this material is classified so you don t trip over it so that there aren t accidents. when you see the cover sheets
these aren t accidents or outliers. it is part of a play to the the base strategy, and even incumbents can t wait to take their constituents to the gun show. did we mention he owns a gun range? now, we should all know that being responsible isn t an asset in the republican primaries these days, so you might as well blow stuff up, right? i get it in states where winning the prime i haary is like winni general election, but a swing strait strained to outgun each other. i ve been shooting and hunting my whole life. as a teenager i hunted with a 30 ott 6. at west point, we march with the springfield. what passes for a scandal these days is dr. oz trying to