welcome to prime time weekend, let s get right to the week s top stories. 22 witnesses, 21 days of court, 80 hours of witness testimony later, the first-ever criminal trial of an american ex-president is coming to a close. the fate of the ex-president could be in the hands of 12 every day new yorkers from all walks of life. the prosecution has one last chance to hammer home it s case against trump and closing arguments, that happens tuesday, given that the defense put up just to witnesses, their eight hour cross-examination of michael cohen lasting four times longer than their entire presentation, only the manhattan da is wrestling with the challenge of reminding the jury about all of the testimony presented. all of the documentary evidence, bombshell after bombshell, after bombshell. here s just some of what the jury heard as told by the press covering it. jurors listening intently today as the former publisher of the inquire testified about the confidential arrangement
i knew that the military satellites at that time were extremely good. there were stories like they could read license plates from space. -we have quite a fleet of spy satellites out there, and mostly are trying to, at that time, chase down terrorists in afghanistan and iraq or whatever. aiming it at the shuttle was a possibility. -that s why the whole group thought it was a good idea. let s ask for military assets. the meeting participants all agreed. we will always have big uncertainties until we get definitive, better, clearer photos of the wing and body underside. so, in boldface, i put, can we petition, beg for outside agency assistance?
-when we completed the analysis, none of the scenario showed a fatal outcome. -i felt some relief. i thought we were in good shape, i believed him. -that s what you want to hear. you don t want to hear, we re going to lose the vehicle. -what s missing in that is we should have had in boldface at the very beginning, these are engineering assumption cases. we do not know without extra data whether these are actual representations of reality. a turnaround issue, what they meant was some level of repair. -so when columbia comes back? -when it comes back, but nothing really bad. that bad. just local repair.
We will always have big uncertainties until we get definitive, better, clearer photos of the Wing And Body underside. So, in boldface, i put, can we petition, beg for outside Agency Assistance . Good morning, blue. You know, as a kid, your imagination just like, runs wild. And im like, do they just float and sleep or, you know, does he get to go out in actual space . Did he see aliens . Mostly just thought, like, he was an explorer. Kind of like, i dont know, like a Space Indiana jones
It would cause localized heating, but no burn through, i believe were the words that they used. When we completed the analysis, none of the scenario showed a fatal outcome. I felt some relief. I thought we were in good shape, i believed him. Thats what you want to hear. You dont want to hear, were going to lose the vehicle. Whats missing in that is we should have had in boldface at the very beginning, these are Engineering Assumption cases. We do not know without extra data whether these are actual representations of reality