Renewed china trade optimism set to fuel further gains of the open retails big week and the tariff impact into the holidays. Best buy, dicks, dollar tree, abercrombie among the retailers reporting today. And ford challenging tesla to a apples to apples tug of war between pickups and elon musk says bring it on three major indices saw record closes, top trade negotiators from the u. S. And China Holding a phone call earlier this morning the two sides continue to work toward a phase one trade agreement. Trade rep lighthizer, mnuchin, both participated in that call and both sides agree to remain in contact over remaining issues on twitter, you said the phone call last night was very important in terms of furthering a deal yeah. It is real ive been skeptical. This was a real call phase one probably happens Financial Services get opened up president may believe that intellectual property is for real that instead of just a soybean buy, a promise to they would respect intellectual property. Do
Senator jd vance waiting in wings to talk about it but first Jonathan Turley, our favorite constitutional scholar and fax ne fox news contributor, what do you think closing arguments who being treated well who is not . Give us a hint. Defense continues to struggle with this judge. Who is ruling largely with the prosecution that is continuing in this hearing dealing with the en vehicl vehicthe instructions in the case, which is important stage, how he instructs jury on law could well dictate outcome in this case, government is trying very hard to adopting lower standards for the jury. Including arguing that they dont have to prove a willful intent on all of the elements before the jury to establish a crime. That would make it much more likely they could convict, i was in the courtroom with former President Trump he is taking an active role in this passing notes to his attorneys, and being very attentive as they debate what the standards should be in these jury invehic invehicinstruction
Finished Cross Examination from alvin braggs office. Welcome to a new hour of americas newsroom, im dana perino. Bill im bill hemmer. He is off the state is done with his questions. Who is robert costello, right . He is telling the jury the shame bombshell claims he told to Congress Last week and told us, too, on our program. I think he was with martha as well. Who is he . Former Legal Advisor to Michael Cohen, from new york. He had a falling out partly due to alleged outstanding legal bills which there were many, formal federal prosecutor and defense lawyer. Costello is on the stand yesterday saying Michael Cohen said numerous times that President Trump knew nothing about those payments, that he did this on his own and he repeated that numerous times, okay . We reported on that many times. He has said that on television the last week many times. So here we go. Go ahead. Dana what we can show you a little bit of that from costello. Watch here. I probably came back to this subject ten o
Well head to the courthouse in just a moment. Then senator jd vance waiting in the wings to talk about all this. Now lets go straight to jonathan turley, gw law professor, our favorite constitutional scholar and a fox news contributor. Jonathan, what are you thinking here . Closing arguments, who is being treated well, who is not being treated well . Give us a hint. Well, the defense continues to struggle with this judge who is ruling largely with the prosecution. Thats continuing in this hearing dealing with the instructions in the case. Thats a very important stage in this trial. How he instructs the jury own the law could well dictate the outcome in this case. The government is trying very hard to adopt lower standards for the jury, including arguing that they dont have to prove a willful intent on all of the elements before the jury, to establish a crime. That would make it much more likely they could convict. I was just in the courtroom with former president trump. He is taking a
Calgarians permit good afternoon, i martha maccallum, and this is we are in this husso step of this process and President Trumps trial in new york city. Right this minute the lawyers in the judge are debating what instructions, parameters, they will lay down for the jury before they go into deliberate my this is for the framework, the path that the judge says look, this is what you can consider how this is what you cant consider in this case. So that we will have Closing Arguments set for next week so youve just got this enormous golf of time between the Jury Instructions and the Closing Arguments were all these jurors will go home, that is eight leads, over the memorial day weekend. We are also waiting for the judge to rule on the trumps team which has been sort of a Standing Request and the necklace again right no and the judge said he is in the process of considering it and wont say when he will determine whether or not this case should be thrown out. Mr. Trump we have that was put