hello, i m ana cabrera reporting from new york. i want to get right to the breaking news we re following this morning. donald trump arriving just moments ago at a manhattan courthouse for the closing arguments in his multimillion dollar civil fraud trial, and he spoke just before going into the courtroom. there is high tension this morning because trump has suggested he could challenge the judge who has barred him from speaking during closing arguments. another big development, a threat we re following, law enforcement responding to a reported bomb threat at the judge s house this morning. a source with direct knowledge tells nbc news. i want to get right to our yasmin vossoughian joining us from outside the courthouse in lower manhattan. and also with us, former u.s. attorney barbara mcquade and criminal defense attorney danny cevallos. we just saw trump speaking before heading into the courtroom saying, you know, it s not fair that the judge won t let him speak at closing a
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
today in inside politics, destination destiny. soon donald trump takes off for florida, and tomorrow he sees inside a miami federal court with decades in jail on the line. plus, worry that words can and will hurt people. the former president and his allies put law enforcement on edge with calls for retribution. congressman jamie raskin joins me ahead. and trump s 2024 republican rivals are choosing between two paths attacking law and order or risking voter anger by saying the president, the former president, was wrong. i m dana bash. let s go behind the headlines and inside politics. right now heading for history. you re looking at live pictures of former president donald trump. any moment he takes off for florida from newark airport. we all just watched his motorcade make the 30-mile drive from his golf resort, and tomorrow he goes in front of a federal judge in miami. and there trump will were the title, something he hasn t wanted, the first former president to fa
nothing i can see but you when you dance, dance, dance, girl [laughter] rachel: you guys, sometimes we just talk too much in the commercial break and we we forget that we re actually on tv. pete: uh-huh. i guess we are. [laughter] rachel: and here we are. dance dance, dance, guys. good miles an hour, everybody pete: good morning. rachel: welcome. joey, thanks for filling in for will with. joey: thanks for having me. pete: the second to last fox & friends of 2023 here on december 30th. rachel: yeah. we re so close to the the end o- pete: but we re actually at the end of nothing, okay? [laughter] it s the end of nothing. it s. the end of an arbitrary calendar. it s actually we re heading into madness. wonderful i mean, political season. we re heading into rachel: i don t think it s wonderful madness, i m just going to be really honest. i think the next year is going to be extremely pete: but if you love chaos like mentioner it s going to be great. joey: if you t
let s do it. we begin with questions about our 80-year-old president. pres president biden was in colorado to deliver a commencement address at the united states air force academy. his remarks were quickly overshadowed after he tripped and fell over a sand bag on the event center stage. thankfully president biden was quick to get up and later joked about the incident while at the white house. yesterday wasn t the first time we ve seen president biden stumble in public. there was the time he struggled down the stairs at the g7 summit in japan, that was last month. he has fallen several times going up the stairs of air force one, as well as while he has been riding his bicycle. and growing numbers of these moments have many americans revisiting concerns about biden s advanced age and physical well-being. look, emily, i was on with trace gallagher, he mentioned a fall, i assumed a slight fall or trip like we ve seen from before. after i saw the video, i was stunned and saddene