room. i ll see you bright and early tomorrow and around the world to a special report here in the situation room the trump trial today i m wolf blitzer were following breaking news, right now. the prosecution in donald trump s criminal trial is getting the last word before the judge sends the case to jurors who will decide the former president s faith prosecutor, joshua steinglass, pressing on with his marathon closing arguments trying to counter attacks. that a star witness, michael cohen made during the trump team s summation earlier today. cnn s kara scannell has been inside the courtroom all day. she s joining us now. she s outside qarrah bring us up to speed on this climactic moment in this truly historic trial what prosecutor joshua steinglass is now entering his third hour of these closing arguments in his focus right now is on the payments. this is the heart of the case. the repayment to michael cohen, and how it was booked in donald trump s company s books and re
The latest Political Developments of the day and interviews with top newsmakers are featured. About it. Something directly has him spooked. But its caused him to make a tactical error, which is to come out and essentially throw his son and his soninlaw under the bus and say, yes, they were there to get dirt on hillary clinton. Okay. Joining jared and his son under the bus was jay sekulow, one of his last remaining tv lawyers other than Rudy Giuliani who may just have the tv part of that job. Lets look at his statements now rendered as someone who has been on both sides of the question about what the president knew about the Trump Tower Meeting. When you look at a meeting when you look at a meeting, george, that took place a year before, now two years ago, the question is what law, statute, rule or regulation has been violated. No one has pointed to one. They pointed to olympic zone spir si to dee frautd the United States. That would be one possible charge. Aiding and abetting a conspir
A recap of the days headlines and a look at whats in store for tomorrow. All tried to convince her to look at the paper trail, we laid it out in front of her again and again and she still said she had reasonable doubt and that is the way the jury worked. We didnt want it to be hung so we tried for an extended period of time to convince her that in the end she held out and that is why we have 10 counts. Is that where the note did not come from, performance in the note and said can you explain reasonable doubt . Wasnt connected to that . It was. Most of us did not want that question out there but one of the jurors did. We felt a little foolish sending it but that is the way the jury works. Deliberation requires we submit that question to the judge. Judge ellis said this about the situation. I received criticism and threats. I can imagine they would too meaning of your names were released. If you told jurors their names would be public at the outset of this trial i might see some request
possible so that everybody s, everybody could be satisfied with the results? i don t, so i think he set out to do it as expeditiously as he could up to his own standards, and there were multiple, you know, detours along the way, surprises that they had to run down, you know, the papadopoulos type stuff and some of the other, the cohen stuff, etc. he was always pushing to get this done for the betterment of the cup. i wish it could have been done sooner, but it was done right, and i don t think after this summary today ed: ty, we have about to seconds, and so before we lose your, i just want to get your quick reaction. one element we haven t mentioned is democrats still want to see
era. if he had been accused of doing what trump had done, it would not take 1100, it would take one or two and we would be having a different conversation then as well. and what southern district has on paper already. the agreed upon facts here, it says that donald trump districted michael cohen to pay off a porn star to cover up affairs because the release of that information would impact the election. there is already conclusion to the cohen stuff. right, and that is just one thing out of so many facts in this investigation that is are widely nope. i think our politics have grown more triable.