it s fair to say he ll address reporters. another press event trying to make sure he gets as much attention as possible. as a political matter, it doesn t matter whether he delivers the cholosing argument. he got what he wanted. our special live coverage from outside closing arguments in the trump civil fraud trial continues right after this.
and he did. we heard him say this is election interference. now we heard there s going to be some kind of press event. we don t know what that s going to look like. again, there really is no distinction anymore between the legal and the campaign, even if his senior advisers don t want to be in and out of courtrooms, they have used this as an opportunity. we have our first update inside the courtroom. as was reported earlier today, the judge had a bomb threat called into his home. the proceedings are under way. he didn t address the bomb threat. he s not addressing the larger controversy over closing arguments. the judge said the defense, trump s team has until 12:45 to lay out their closing argument. now trump s lawyer is at the podium and we ll see if he decides to, again, relitigate this question of whether his client can participate today. interesting to see
will not be speaking during closing arguments. the judge kind of shut the door on that, saying he wouldn t agree to the conditions. sources close to the former president are telling cnn he plans to deliver remarks after today s proceedings. we heard donald trump announce something of a press event will be held later today. paula reid is with john at the courthouse. ellie coneberg is here joining us. ellie, let s first address the comments trump made going into court where he said he is hoping to speak to to offer a summation and he s being silenced. wildly misleading. donald trump s team led the court know he wanted to give some portion of his own closing argument, which under some circumstances you might be able
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