developments from trump s many legal problems. we begin with developments about the former president s rough time in court over fraud today. closing arguments underway in the case against trump and his two eldest sons in the entire allegedly fraudulent trump organization. you can see trump in atep dance. he s been in more courtrooms than campaign events. he turned towards cameras every time he could. he lashed out at the judge and the attorney general. and he did his set of grievances. there were closing arguments on behalf of donald trump by trump himself got involved briefly. as we reported on this program yesterday here on msnbc, donald trump is a civil defendant here. his request to speak during closing arguments or give some sort of grand closing statement, that was denied by the judge for a simple reason. donald trump s own lawyers basically refsed the rules that would bar personal attacks. you can see some of the court sketches as that was all dealt with. now the judge
defendant trump addition of the last word, with lawrence o donnell. that starts right now. o donnell. that starts right now. donald trump s principal occupation is defendant. he spent his first couple of years after leaving the presidency as a civil defendant, and then last year became a criminal defendant for the first time in his life on april 4th and just four months later. he became a criminal defendant for the fourth time in his life. it mantra jen, he can make two of the four criminal prosecutions he is facing disappear, but the rest of defendant trump s criminal and civil cases would simply be put on pause for four years. in june of this year donald trump will turn 78 years old. he could be convicted of crimes by then or shortly after, he is june 14th birthday. 78-year-old donald trump will appeal every criminal and civil verdict against him. the state and federal appeals court process could easily use up the rest of a 78 year old life. and so the title defendant
quote, the financial statements are perfect. the bank s got all their money. the banks are happy as can be. the money is irrelevant. it s a small number. i m an innocent man persecuted by someone running for office. this state is vicious. and it takes away all my rightings. this is no fraud. it s a fraud on me. i did nothing wrong, he said. perhaps unsurprisingly, judge engoron interrupted asking chris kise to control your client, before calling the whole thing off and breaking for lunch. it s the prosecution s turn to deliver its close. asking for a $370 million fine as well as a ban on the trump organization in new york. prosecutors say the court has not heard any new facts from donald trump s team because, quote, most of the facts are undisputed. joining us from outside the manhattan courthouse, yasmin vossoughian. it got a bit spicy today. what else are we hearing from the prosecution right now? reporter: spicy is putting it lightly to say the least. i got to say, when
los angeles, and this is america s late news, fox news @ night. breaking tonight, governor ron desantis says forget the polls, because his ground game will translate into a big win in iowa. it s a bold statement considering former president trump is leading ila by more than 30 points. the latest power rankings have just come out, and they indicate the very real possibility of a surprise in iowa or new hampshire. aishah hasnie is live in des moines, iowa, with more on the fox news town hall as well as the shake-up in the fox news power rankings. good evening. trace, good evening to you. that s right, desantis says don t count him out just yet, despite the stagnant polling on him at there recently. he says he is promising to exceed expectations here in iowa. tonight on the big stage he boasted about his ground game at the fox town hall and his team tells me they have more than 30,000 people committed to caucus for desantis. that s a big deal. he said it s time to elect some
well, look at that. the supreme court is right where it did not want to be, smack dab in the middle of the 2024 election with the first votes in just a few days. tonight on laura coates live . okay, so if we are being honest, drumroll please, the supreme court said yes. they will decide whether donald trump, former president of the united states, one who is trying to become president again, can be on the ballot after his role in january 6. which ballot? this one concerns colorado, but the supreme court noted the floodgates are about to open. it has already been, and i can t believe either, three years tomorrow since the attack you are seeing on the screen. and while prosecutors have been dragged for taking so long to get the prosecutorial ball rolling, the court not known for lightning speed, now they are wasting no time. the oral arguments are set for february 8. donald trump saying just a little while ago that he hopes the justices he appointed will be, i will use his word