history unfolding right now. judge juan merchan has finished giving the jury instructions. when that happens, former president trump s fate in his new york criminal trial will be in the hands of the jury. 22 days from opening statements, 22 witnesses took the stand and a marathon length closing argument yesterday particularly from the prosecution. both the defense and the prosecution taking all day long to do that. we ve been following it all together minute-by-minute. reminder on the right-hand side of your screen is the box that gives you some color from the courtroom and play-by-play. we also will wait together to see what the jury decides on the 34 felony counts brought against the former president and current presumptive republican presidential nominee. history making indeed. i m harris faulkner. closing arguments didn t wrap up until almost 8:00. i was on the air as that was happening at 7:55 last night. in total, the jury was listening to nearly eight hours of summatio
good evening. we begin with the closing arguments in the historic first ever criminal trial of a former u.s. president. arguments that are still under way as we speak. in fact, the 12-member jury in donald trump s hush money election interference trial is hearing its seventh hour of summations right now. nearly three hours for the defense followed by four hours for the prosecution with the clock still running. it appears they will continue tonight until the prosecution finishes. over the last four hours the prosecution has been arguing that the case comes down to three things. that they claim they have proven. one, that there were in fact false business records that the false business records were intended to cover up conspiracy related to the 2016 election. number three, that donald trump was personally involved. prosecutor joshua stein glass has been taking them through it, starting with the meeting with trump, michael cohen, and the former national enquirer publisher dav
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correspondent david spunt is in wilmington, delaware tonight awaiting a verdict. david, good evening. david: trace, good evening. jurors will be back tomorrow for day two of deliberations. they deliberated about an hour today before going home. over the past week we saw salacious text messages, pictures in the courtroom. even high profile people sitting in the audience. but, in the end, it s all about this one gun form, hunter biden filled out in october 2018. hunter biden s attorney abbe lowell offered no reason for his client deciding not to testify in his own defense .38 caliber revolver. such a move would have been strategically risky. opening the president s son to likely intense cross-examination. in closing arguments. prosecutor pointed to more than a dozen msnbc of the biden family in the audience saying they don t matter. only the evidence does. which he called, quote: ugly and overwhelming. another prosecutor added no one is above the law. including the presiden