situation room, stay with cnn are special live coverage of this truly historic criminal trial continues right now. on the lead with jake tapper cnn breaking news and welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper, donald trump s hush money trial is in its final phase as the prosecution is in the midst of giving its closing arguments, court will be back from break at any moment. the prosecution has been arguing that president trump, quote, quote, corrupted those around him, and he got them to lie and covered up unquote. trump picked michael cohen as his fixer. the prosecution says, quote, because he was willing to lie and cheat for donald trump this follows nearly three hours of closing arguments from trump s defense attorney todd blanche, who attacked michael cohen using trump like nicknames, calling him the gloat not the goat, the glutes. the greatest liar of all time. he also said that michael cohen is quote literally like an mvp of liars and added quote, i don t know how many leinz
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securing peace amid two major current international conflicts were following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here. cnn news central right now, the jury and hunter biden s federal gun trial continues to hear testimony from a key witness. prosecutors just called the police officer who it s responded to a report that hunter biden s gun had been thrown away in a grocery store dumpster in 2018 before that, hallie biden, who was bo biden s widow, who then dated hunter biden after beau s death testified for hours describing how she found and got rid of the gun. she also went into detail about her own drug use while she was dating hunter biden, cnn s paula reid is outside of the federal courthouse in delaware paul catches up what s the latest here it s been quite a day here in wilmington. hallie biden just got off the witness stand and she has been by far the most significant witness for the prosecution because she was able to share her observat