Beco i was born here, i grew up here. I see whats happening with this judicial system. And is all kangaroos. To rule from the bench and determine its a witch hunt. It needs decisiveness. We have phenomenal we have won the case many standard. John thats a look as they return to the courtroom as the Criminal Trial enters its final stretch. About one hour and 15 minutes away from that lom don roberts in washington. Here we go again, sandra. Sandra we do, im sandra smith in new york and this is america reports. Witness testimony has wrapped, both sides have rested their cases. We await the ever important Jury Instructions. The judge to hear arguments from the prosecution and defense teams on exactly how the jury should be charged before they had into deliberations. Sandra we have an allstar team of legal and political voices to take us through the next two hours. John first the former federal prosecutor trey gaudi has been in the courtroom all morning and, trey, if they wrap up the case no
The deals on top before there job the defense has rested. Testimony has wrapped, and donald trump notably did not take the stand of course, sanchez, alongside jessica dean in the nations capital, and soon the judge and attorneys for both sides are expected to go back in court to go over Jury Instructions. In this historic Criminal Hush Money Trial of the former president. Earlier today, jurors were dismissed for the week the judge telling them to be ready for Closing Arguments next tuesday it comes after the defenses second and final witness, attorney Robert Costello, took the stand for a second day, and once again, the former adviser to Michael Cohen face some tough crossexaminati on prosecutors, youth castellows, emails in an attempt to show he made several efforts to stop cohen from flipping and assured him that he had a backchannel to trump won email dated april 19, 2018, indicated trumps former lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, was joining trumps team and costello wrote to cohen, quote im su
Specifically those stills of a cspan video that proves donald trump and Keith Schiller were together, which has just been introduced into the redirection from cohen. So far, todd blanche has landed multiple punches against cohen. Including cohens admission that he stole Tens Of Thousands of dollars from the Trump Organization and the question about how many more witnesses were left and who might the defense call. Those are big questions. Vaughn hillyard is outside of the courthouse, along with Andrew Weissmann and Catherine Christian who are still with us as well. So, vaughn, its the top of the hour. I will let you top us off. Reporter were looking at the 3 00 p. M. Eastern hour, and Michael Cohen is still on the stand, and there were questions of whether Michael Cohen when we started the day would be off the stand by lunch hour. Thats not the case as there has been of course the back and forth over potential witnesses, the back and forth over the cspan clip from october 24th. A video
Continues on cnn with wolf blitzer right next door. Tonight in the Trump Trial Fireworks in the court room. Witness who was reprimanded by the judge snide remarks and i rolling this after Star Prosecution witness Michael Cohen admitted on the stand to stealing from the Trump Organization other Breaking News this hour, the us has denouncing the International Criminal court as it seeks work crimes, Arrest Warrants for israeli Prime Minister benjamin designe out in mission to hamas leaders President Biden saying its outrageous to suggest any equivalency between israel and a terrorist group plus, theres even more uncertainty in the volatile middle east after the uranium president s death in a Helicopter Crash, thats raising concerns about a potentially very dangerous he jurists powers struggling welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world im wolf blitzer with a Special Report in the Situation Room, the trump trial today Donald Trumps criminal trial is nearing its
Bret 100 percent not. Thanks. Good evening, welcome to washington. Im bret baier. Breaking tonight the key prosecution witness in the criminal trial. Concluded his testimony and the prosecution rested its case today. But, before that former trump attorney and selfdescribed fixer admitted to stealing 10s of thousands of dollars from his boss company. When the defense took over, cohen was followed on the stand by one of his former legal advisers. Now, there has been a request by the defense for the judge to dismiss the case from the bench. Correspondent nate foy is outside the New York State Supreme Court again tonight, good evening, nate good evening, bret. Todd blanche requested that the judge dismiss this case on the grounds that prosecutors did not prove that trump falsified Business Records or did anything illegal to influence the 2016 president ial election. The judge reserved his decision and trump spoke about that while leaving court tonight. Hopefully the motion to dismiss this