97% of burning uv rays. it s light, but it s working hard like me, neutrogena ultras yourself on screen. i m zachary cohen and washington. and this is cnn hello and welcome to cnn special coverage of the closing arguments in former president donald trump s criminal hush money trial. i m wolf blitzer in washington alongside abby phillip, who s outside the courthouse in new york a very consequential de, as we enter the home stretch of this truly historic trial korda s out now for lunch following a morning of blistering closing arguments by trump s defense team on surprisingly, trump attorney todd blanche made the case that payments made to michel cone the heart of the prosecution s charges were not illegal abbe over to you that s right. well, a blanche ripped into potential pivotal testimony delivered by trump s former fixer and personal attorney repeatedly calling michael cohen a liar, whose words should not be trusted, and the claims that the alleged tryst between trump
de niro to try to change the subject? you can see the look on the biden campaign staffers faces. they knew it was a bad idea. they didn t want to be here. somebody as central command everything is going down the tubes for joe biden. i hand it over to carolyn leavitt. you heard a desperate and failing and pathetic harris: we ll pull back from that. jason miller, an important voice. the senior advisor for the trump campaign. what you saw there were dueling campaign events. you first saw robert de niro, who was mixed in with some lawmakers and then behind him were a couple of the police officers who testified in court about january 6th and were actually responding to that as officers. then robert de niro seemed to get into it with a reporter who asked about the testimonies of people at that january 6th and some of that hadn t told the truth and so on and so 4th of july. de niro dropping his usual bad language. sorry about that. in the meantime jason miller comes out and an
good evening. we begin with the closing arguments in the historic first ever criminal trial of a former u.s. president. arguments that are still under way as we speak. in fact, the 12-member jury in donald trump s hush money election interference trial is hearing its seventh hour of summations right now. nearly three hours for the defense followed by four hours for the prosecution with the clock still running. it appears they will continue tonight until the prosecution finishes. over the last four hours the prosecution has been arguing that the case comes down to three things. that they claim they have proven. one, that there were in fact false business records that the false business records were intended to cover up conspiracy related to the 2016 election. number three, that donald trump was personally involved. prosecutor joshua stein glass has been taking them through it, starting with the meeting with trump, michael cohen, and the former national enquirer publisher dav
ingraham angle from new york city tonight. judge jeanine: closing arguments are still underway right now and the ludicrous trump tile in lower manhattan. the defense reminding jurors that this entire case is based on the word of a guy who lied directly to them. they even star witness michael cohen as the gloat. the greatest liar of all time. the prosecution has been droning on for hours. joining me now outside the courthouse is fox news correspondent nate foy. nate, what s the latest? nate: hey, judge, the prosecution is five hours in to making closing arguments. court normally ends 4:30. right now 7:00. still waiting for former president trump to leave the courthouse and speak as he is expected to do. within the past few minutes the prosecution has been interpreting tweets and quotes from trump s books and interpreting what they believe he meant during those or in those excerpts. today the prosecution also revealed the underlying crime that trump is accused of. he i
we re covering today s climatic closing arguments in donald trump s trial. the trial is still ongoing right now. the prosecutor continuing the closing arguments. we ll continue in our live coverage to bring you that as well as what i m going to do with you right now, which is try to summarize what is the most important day and likely the last day or two before this jury deliberates. the day began with trump s lawyers doing their closing arguments for the defendant. they finished. the scene outside court was more rauk cause than usual. there was trump family members, robert deniro. i was downtown with our team, reporters and lawyers at the court today. we were out there. i made some videos. we kept an eye on it. all working together. the closing arguments give jurors the pivotal final last material. it s the culmination of a trial that s featured 22 exhibits, 20 days, emails, hundreds of exhibits. now it s all going down today. critical day, former president trump s criminal