about trump possibly participating in the closing arguments. dana, that would be highy unusual, and the judge was open to it but wanted trump to agree to certain restrictions asking him to focus on the material facts of the case, not give a campaign speech. his team would not agree to those limitations. so so far, trump has not participated in the proceedings today. his lawyer, chris kise, offering a summary of their case. arguing that this is a politically motivated case that has been manufactured, insisting that their client had no motivation to lie to deutsche bank about his net worth, and insisting that in trump s experience, he didn t expect that the bank would just rely solely on these statements that were presented about his net worth. now, kise also took aim at trump s former lawyer and fixer, michael cohen, because as you may remember, back in 2019, cohen testified before congress
a point afterwards to shake hands and kind of work the room. i think a lot of people were emotionally invested in the outcome of this hearing in the room and the courthouse today. there were several of the officers injured on january 6th who are watching from overflow rooms. you could kind of feel that throughout the course of the proceedings today. and then i think probably the most interesting break from the sort of standard procedure of all this was this warning to donald trump that he not commit any crimes. okay, that is pretty standard, released fair. but also not try to contact or intimidate or bribe or in other ways interfere with witnesses. a look at think about was all the times i ve seen him post on truth social or twitter before that, going after judges and witnesses and others whom he has crossed paths with over the years. it was kind of this weirdly mundane court hearing in a lot of ways, but it felt so much bigger and more connected to everything we ve been dealing with p
courtroom as you are describing it, having these other judges in, they re a lot of reporters, including myself who were there on january 6th, having so many fbi agents and clerks and other folks who work for the special counsel in the room. kind of felt like a home game for the justice system. you see sort of jack smith staring down donald trump throughout the hearing, making a point afterwards to shake hands and kind of work the room. i think a lot of people were emotionally invested in the outcome of this hearing in the room and the courthouse today. there were several of the officers injured on january 6th who are watching from overflow rooms. you could kind of feel that throughout the course of the proceedings today. and then i think probably the most interesting break from the sort of standard procedure of all this was this warning to donald trump that he not commit any crimes. okay, that is pretty standard, released fair. but also not try to contact or intimidate or bribe or in o
him for political reasons is concerning and distracting doing the work in washington. congressman robert garcia, we appreciate you joining us, we look forward to you coming back to talk about the unidentified phenomenon. happy to do so. marshal cohen have been in the courtroom for the proceedings today, marshall, there are questions about what happens next. but i wonder how, you can describe how the lawyers on each side, hunter biden s lawyers were reacting, one of the remarkable moments in effect, biden s lawyers said this deal is null and void. we re not on board with how it is playing out right now? well, right, that s right, jim. when the hearing started it seemed like business as usual. everything was going as planned. the deal was on. then, as the judge sort of
between miami and the mar-a-lago documents. it is just that they re both in the southern district of florida. miami may have a better security apparatus. that s why they re having the arraignment down here. it was a long drive to get here today, jose. i m from miami, i love the 312, but palm beach is different. it is a bluer place. it will be better for the government. 46% of dade county voted for trump. 43% in palm beach county. even though it is in his backyard, i think palm beach has a better track record of convicting officials for corruption. miami-dade county, not so much. we just reported, laura jarrett, the new lawyers representing trump at his proceedings today. he had a revolving door of lawyers over the past few years, the past few weeks and months. here are some of his most recent legal counsel he had on this