questions you may have call now and we ll come to you 808 to one 4,000 it will all come down to this after more than five weeks and 20 plus witnesses attorneys in donald trump s hush money trial present. they re closing arguments tomorrow. will show you what to expect plus it s millions of americans facing the threat of severe weather this memorial day, the same storm system that already claimed the lives of at least 21 people leaving a path of destruction and it s way. and at least 45 people killed in israeli strike in rafah that gazan authorities they hit a camp for displaced people. the idf saying it took out we will senior hamas commanders. how could this strike impact hostage negotiations? we are following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to see it a nuisance. it s criminal trial of a former us president is now entering its final stage. i m boris sanchez alongside jessica dean in the nation s capital. closing arguments are
Obligation to account fully for my role in these events. Did by obligation, you mean simply your legal obligation . Or did you mean something bigger . Well, both my legal obligation and my moral obligation. Your moral obligation . I actually want to present an alternative theory. Your family came here escaping the holocaust via uruguay. And your parents moved lucy and later you here where, frankly, youve been an american success story. Through dent of hard work and innovation, good idea, and knack to hire the right people and some luck, youve built a considerable successful business. One that i know for a fact would make your parents proud. They came here because they knew
that it was here that they could have freedom that they had not enjoyed, security that they had not enjoyed, and opportunity that they had not enjoyed. And no doubt, on some level, youre grateful and its created a sense of patriotism in you. Is that fair to say . Very fair. Why then, sir, with your courage to come be
asked to particularize their indictment. there s 34 charges in the indictment that are template, they re bare bones charges. they list element and they say to wit a check or a rebellinger. they do not give ledger. the only time we had felony theories coming out was really kind of, i think, an unethical press conference by alvin bragg where he held up a statement of facts which was not anything the grand jury decided, but something alvin bragg decided. so he skirted the ethical prohibitions about talking about the facts of the case by kind of creating this impersonation document in lieu of an indictment. so you had a very vague indictment, a judge that did not make them particularize, and literally all the way to the closing arguments or at least to the charging conference there was not clear how he was going to instruct the jury on that critical issue of how these misdemeanors became felonies. so that s going to be a big one for appeal. i would also just mention real quick, paul, tha
grave danger, whether they are targeting specific individuals for political purposes or whether they are even not prosecuting certain crimes, like shoplifting. a prosecutors job is to see that justice is done, not to gain convictions. beginning, middle and end of a prosecution is to obtain a political conviction that results in a political disruption. that is a very significant injury to the system. trace: it really is. of former precedence attorney was talking about the appeals process. he said this, and i will get your response, watch. nobody knew what the underlying basis for felon immunization was until at the earliest of the charging conference. that is a bizarre spectacle to be on trial where you don t really know the government s theory until the end of the case trace: it was kind of bizarre because you look at this and you think it was almost like
showed up in court but who you can see on videotape speaking while he was at least for a little while under oath a sort of a unique situation for him. all of these moments on the videotape are very powerful because they in essence form trump s testimony. he doesn t do a very good job of defending himself when he says things like this. what should we expect to come monday. if trump doesn t respond by 5 pm today? right, so monday the judge will hold what s called a charging conference. that s the point where he sits down with the lawyers and hammers out of the instructions so give the jury. jury s are the judge of the facts. they decide what testimony they believe, what they think happened. it s up to the judge to tell them what law they should apply. once they determine those facts. that can take a little while. there will be closing arguments both of the parties have suggested that they would like about two hours for each side in order to close. what s likely is that if trump