new york court again, again, not required to show up for this, but he clearly wants to for closing arguments in his civil fraud trial. he s accused of inflating his wealth by billions of dollars, something the judge overseeing the case has already found trump liable for. joining us jennifer rogers. let s start with tomorrow and then go back to yesterday. with tomorrow, donald trump is planning to be back in court for the conclusion of the civil fraud trial. when it comes to this case, because it s an interesting one when you think about it, there s no jury, this is everything here is decided by the judge who has been overseeing this the entire time. what does that mean the defense team should be doing with these closing arguments here? well, they largely have to do the same thing you would do in a jury trial which is to marshal the evidence that we ve heard over the last couple months, the testimony, the documents, and make your legal arguments as to why in the case of donald trump
parties do before a trial is they indicate what lines o prior darvish depositions they want to use. one of the things that trump s team did is they get what is called the positione designation. on the basics of those designations and reading those lines, robert, caplan carols lawyer, went to the judge an said i think he is trying to introduce evidence of he sexual history or proclivities and under a federal rule o evidence that is prohibited. i need you to tell him no, h has not acted on that motion yet. you ve got carols other defamation lawsuit against trump sent back to a distric judge. could he end up in court again agent carroll? he could. right now the case is coming back as you, noted coming back to the second circuit court of appeals. but it is in front of the same judge. the case that we are about t try is not about trump s first denial of carole s claims. when he was in the white house it is about him reiteratin
ethics committee refuses to investigate? mr. santos is the target of criminal investigations at the local, state, national, and international level. so, i support holding him accountable by every means. but notice that there s a glaring disconnect between local republicans who have heard directly from the voters and who have called on him to resign, and house republican leadership, which has been conspicuously silent about the fraudulence of george santos. i mean, kevin mccarthy needs every vote he can get, and he needs the vote of george santos. the new speaker is at the mercy of not only the most extreme members of his party but the most ethically compromised. coming up the suspect in the murders of four college students in idaho was in court again today. our gary tuchman was in the state with the latest on the trial and reportedly online speculation and sometimes misinformation about the suspect.
read his own mess sandals allude. he insist own personal messages and phone call with osundairo personal training and 9:00 a.m. workout training. he asked smollett why none of his messages discussed or even canceled a 9:30 a.m. workout session. smollett fired back that none of his messages revealed anything about an alleged hoax. also yesterday, on the stand, jussie smollett testified that don lemon sent him a text message indicating that chicago police were not big smollett s story. there was no follow up from that and that did not coming up in court again today. we will be in court tomorrow. there is a possibility of a verdict. tammy? tammy: wow that would be quick but once again a fascinating day. thank you, matt. appreciate it we already knew the role that media played in hyping smollett s hate crime hoax. but what we didn t know is some members of the media were a little too involved with his case. you heard a little bit of this from matt. done lemon will already on