but first, a moment in court the judge called outrageous and simply not allowed. good day. i m chris jansing alongside andrea mitchell and katy tur and they are back in the courtroom. the judge is now planning to issue a new instruction to the jury after trump s defense attorney made a remark that the jury, quote, cannot send someone to prison based on the words of michael cohen. the judge did not like that at all and blasted todd blanche for even raising the idea of trump going to prison. it s not in the jury s purview. and of course, you can t unring the bell and now we are all watching to just see how the prosecution tries to rebut the defense s portrayal of michael cohen as someone with an ax to grind and quote, the greatest liar of all time, that he called the gloat. vaughn hillyard is with us, danny, catherine christian. both are msnbc legal analysts. okay, they are already back, as we said. we have a little bit of color from inside the room. all the attorneys are
versus donald j. trump. we re getting live updates from inside of the courtroom. we re going to do our best to watch them together and bring out and interrupt our conversations and bring you any and all significant moments as they re happening. over the last few hours the prosecutor has been going through the claims made by trump s lawyers in their closing argument this morning. steinglass, the prosecutor, pushed back against trump s lawyers claim from this morning that porn star stormy daniels was extorting donald trump. prosecutors saying this, quote, extortion is not a defense to falsifying business records. and if you have any questions about that, you can ask the judge. after putting on the stand, just two witnesses, one of whose credibility completely crumbled during cross-examination, donald trump s defense team today closed by arguing essentially that there was never any criminal conspiracy to conceal the hush money payments. trump s attorney todd blanche also went af
now with trays. andres gallagher information mcauley and this is the story, right now prosecution about an hour in the closing arguments and former president trump s criminal trial. the greatest leire of all time. outside the courtroom stark reminder that all of this is happening against the backdrop of the 2024 election the biden campaign holding a news conference during robert de niro. cream trump weekly firing back. watch. we don t want to act wake up after the election saying again? my god. what the hell have we done? if you don t think this is politics why do the democrats will out a retread like robert de niro to try to change the size subject? hannah brandt has been inside and take but first to the correspondent nate foy he is life are as outside the courtroom as you has been for the past few weeks. good afternoon. hi, trace. right now prosecutors are really addressing michael cohen s credibility concern saying former president donald trump picked coh