president of the united states and on the other you have exhibit a to the fact that even when it comes to his own son, he let justice go forward because they have two very different views of what it means to uphold the rule of law, even when it comes to your own child. adam, the judge said today he s intending to make a decision by the end of the month, what s the schedule on that? he said exactly as you said, lawrence. by the end of the month, he said by january 31st, but he also said that was aspirational. not a guarantee. he is reviewing 14 some odd weeks of evidence that we spoke about very often last year. it s a voluminous record, and the stakes are gonna be couldn t be higher. whether trump will be forced to pay 300 and $70 million in ill gotten gains of discouragement and whether he ll be ever barred from the real estate industry in new york along with two of his business associates and whether to have his sons are going to face five year bands. so there s a lot for the jud
i trust that justice will be done. judge engoron said today he hopes to show a final decision here by january 31st. joining me now is so crane, new york times investigative reporter and mary mccord and an innocent b. c. legal analyst. thank you both for being here tonight. so, you are in the courtroom. and a lot happened there. there was a lot of back and forth we talked about on the show earlier this week about whether or not trump could give a closing argument. and the ruling from judge engoron was no. if he wouldn t agree to these limitations, he couldn t speak, but he did speak anyway. how did that happen and how to the unsolved? in the limitations that were to be placed on him, that limitations that would be placed on any lawyer given closing arguments, any
month, what s the schedule on that? he said exactly as you said, lawrence. by the end of the month, he said by january 31st, but he also said that was aspirational. not a guarantee. he is reviewing 14 some odd weeks of evidence that we spoke about very often last year. it s a voluminous record, and the stakes are gonna be couldn t be higher. whether trump will be forced to pay 300 and $70 million in ill gotten gains of discouragement and whether he ll be ever barred from the real estate industry in new york along with two of his business associates and whether to have his sons are going to face five year bands. so there s a lot for the judge to-to-one before the end of the month. adam klasfeld thank you for the fireworks report. we appreciate it. thank you for having me.
equally and fairly. i trust that justice will be done. judge engoron said today he hopes to issue a final decision here by january 31st. joining me now is the new york times investigative reporter and mary mccord a former security advisor for the national division and msnbc analyst. thank you both for being here tonight. you were in the courtroom and a lot happened there. there was a lot of back and forth. we talked about it on the show earlier this week about whether or not trump could give a closing argument, and the ruling from judge engoron was, no, if you wouldn t agree to these limitations he couldn t speak. but he did end up speaking anyway, right? how did that happen, and how did that unfold for the people inside the room? well, in the limitations that were to be placed on him were limitations that would be placed on any lawyer giving closing arguments, any individual giving closing arguments, which is you have to stick with the facts of
predictably. what he ended up doing was creating a space where this is one less issue for an appeal. he would go back and say, i was treated unfairly and my rights were violated in some form or fashion. kudos to the judge. it was a calculated risk by the bench. he understood there was a risk this could happen, but, ultimately, it didn t play a factor in the way donald trump wanted it to. there is $370 million penalty that the state general wants to impose, and it ll prevent trump from doing business in new york state. he hopes to make his decision by january 31st. talk about the process the judge now has to go through and what you think the outcome right be. jonathan, it is important to note that in addition to the finding of liability that we ve already seen on summary judgment, there were an additional six counts that were on this case that needed to be decided. there will be a liability