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
i m michael smerconish in philadelphia. fighter jets have shot down an object in u.s. air space. on friday president biden gave the order to shoot down a high altitude object hovering ten m miles off the coast of alaska. last saturday fighter jets shot down a suspected chinese spy balloon in the atlantic ocean after flying across the entire country. j joining me now to discuss is retired air force lieutenant general, he was the first chief of intelligence, surveillance and he s a fighter pilot with more than 3,000 flying hours. he was the principle attack planner by operation desert storm commander of no-fly operations over iraq in the 90s. these days he s the dean of the mitchell institute for aerospace studies. general, thank you for coming back to the program. so what is norad s responsibility and the framework through which it determines a course of action? well, michael, it s good to see you again 37 it s been quite a week for the commander of north american air defen
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