goes to the jury and within hour the bell rings in court, the first note from the jury requesting key testimony read back to them. what their request could signal in the donald trump criminal trial then an hour later they request regarding the jumdge s instrugs to the jury and what all of this being mean. the close call on the runway, an american airlines passenger jet barreling down the runway at 110 miles per hour successes from takeoff. air traffic control calling on them to abort. another plane in the path. tonight, supreme court justice samuel alito refusing to recuse himself from cases involving january 6th despite the flag seen for a time flying outside both of his homes. tone, he s putting the responsibility on his wife. tonight, the new turn the world s number one golfer arrested in louisville, now the charges dropped amid the release of new body camera video and what it shows. there s also word coming in, the shooting at a very busy kroger s grocery store. polic
james comey is here. i m going to get his reaction to the brian his thoughts on a potential second trump term and talk to him about his brand new novel. also major league baseball is changing its history books as it now embraces all leagues in its record books, including the segregated leagues, how the addition of more than 2000 players is shaking up the mlb s statistics. breaking news moments ago, former president donald trump walked back into that manhattan courtroom, has lawyers and prosecutors have just been negotiating and arguing and bigger bickering over which portions of the testimony the jury will get to rehear tomorrow when it s read back to them cnn s paula reads outside the courthouse polo, walk us through exactly what s happening in court right now is the right now what appears day that even though the jury has gone home for the de it appears that the defense attorneys prosecutors, and they appear poised to go back on the record because the judge is basically l
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okay so there are big weeks and really big weeks and this week is as big as it comes. after weeks of revealing witness testimony, after weeks of intense cross-examination. after a legal system has been tried, tested in ways that it has never been before. we re now reaching the end of this trial. closing arguments start tomorrow. those seven men and five women will deliberate and decide the fate of the former president. we don t know what the outcome will be. only they decide that. that s how our system works. i know it all sounds surreal but it s all really happening, starting tomorrow morning. if one person appears to be feeling the heat right now, it is truly a surprise, he shouted at the judge, the district attorney. hours away from closing arguments, the judge is probably past wanting to derail the. or the jury may be dead locked, unable to reach a consensus and this could end in a mistrial. or the jury could convict trump as former director has predicted. that would make
president. we don t know what the outcome will be. only they decide that. that is how our system works, as it should. i know it sounds sur role. it is all really happening, starting tomorrow morning. and if one person appears to be feeling the heat right now, it is clearly trump himself. who, surprise, surprise, lashed out at the judge and the district attorney on the case as a whole over memorial day weekend. trump is pretty clearly testing the bounds ever his gag order because he knows at this point hours away from closing arguments, the judge is past the point of wanting to derail the trial and as the case enters the final phase, you could find any prediction for how it may end. the jury may find the prosecution did not make its case or be acquitted or deadlock and this could end in a mistrial. or the jury could convict trump as former fbi director james comey predicts. that would make trump the first former u.s. president to be convicted. by the end of the week, we may kn