dana: right now former president donald trump and his defense team are getting one final chance to convince a new york jury he is innocent. with closing arguments now underway in his historic criminal trial. welcome to a new hour of america s newsroom. i m dana perino and with you, bill hemmer. i was in a hurry to get to the news. bill: hope you guys had a great memorial weekend. we re back at work today and back at trial. i m bill hemmer. got a great cast of characters to take us through the legal hurdles that we ll be jumping through between now and whenever the jury comes back with its verdict. kerri kupec-urbahn joins our coverage now and look at pictures inside court today. trey gowdy is with us as well. kerri, let s begin with you and reading lydia s latest email. blanche is hammering in all caps, please excuse the caps. cohen was rendering services personal attorney in 2017. there is no dispute. so apparently he is trying to deliver that message with vigor, kerri
de niro to try to change the subject? you can see the look on the biden campaign staffers faces. they knew it was a bad idea. they didn t want to be here. somebody as central command everything is going down the tubes for joe biden. i hand it over to carolyn leavitt. you heard a desperate and failing and pathetic harris: we ll pull back from that. jason miller, an important voice. the senior advisor for the trump campaign. what you saw there were dueling campaign events. you first saw robert de niro, who was mixed in with some lawmakers and then behind him were a couple of the police officers who testified in court about january 6th and were actually responding to that as officers. then robert de niro seemed to get into it with a reporter who asked about the testimonies of people at that january 6th and some of that hadn t told the truth and so on and so 4th of july. de niro dropping his usual bad language. sorry about that. in the meantime jason miller comes out and an