president is four criminal trials. look at the case tomorrow with it a job. they know jury has ever had before deciding whether or not to convict a former president united states and current candidate for the office again, of as many as 34 felonies today was the final chance for both sides to persuade them. we re talking about it tonight, joining the panel, retired new york city criminal judge george grosso, and jury consultant to alan. alan tuerkheimer. just grosso. it is great to have you with all your experience here what did you make up closing arguments night, i mean five hours two-and-a-half, three hours. is that it was a long day for the most part. i found it i was totally zoned in that one pretty pretty quick. i felt towards the last hour, so that mr. steinglass couldn t move to the long and i didn t know if we needed like six book excerpts more choice choice xors. i think less for the been a little more with some of that, but i think i think look, on the defense
defense attorney punctuating the defense s last chance to convince the jury to acquit in the first criminal trial of a former president. i m chris jansing, anchoring along side my colleagues andrea mitchell and katy tur has made her way back from the courtroom. we re here at msnbc headquarters in new york city. and in that downtown courthouse, history is being written during closing arguments today. donald trump s attorney todd blanche just wrapped his closing argument, leaning into the word lie, using it 25 times as he tried to attach it to the prosecution s star witness, michael cohen. and the court just broke for lunch. after that the prosecution is expected to start their closing arguments for the jury. can they deliver a powerful argument as to why 12 citizens should make a historic decision to convict a former president of the united states. i want to bring in former fbi general counsel and former senior member of muller probe and msnbc legal analyst andrew weizma
hung. he accidentally said it is the case is hung and it is a hung jury and he said no, no, let me fix that. that is causing confusion and they sent out another note and what do you mean by that, judge? a smart jury. did that judge mess it up. the law said that is a satisfactory cower. no harm. throw counts of attempted second-degree murder and a gun charge conviction on top of it. michael dunn is likely to look at life behind bars. is state thing? every state has different rowels for murder, first and second and voluntary
we begin with a developing story from afghanistan. at least two u.s. soldiers shot and killed inside the interior ministry in kabul. the taliban are claiming responsibility. they say this is retaliation for the burning of korans at a u.s. air base. anti-american protests over this incident have been intense, they have been deadly. four afghan civilians were killed today. now all military advisers for the international security forces are being pulled out now. we have the very latest on what we know. nic, what do we know? reporter: well, the most interesting thing is the gunman who is believed to be northwestern is still at large. these two american officers found in what we understand from an afghan senior policeman was a secure part of this government ministry. obviously deep concerns as to how the security breach happened and of course the taliban claiming responsibility. they do this reasonably often. sometimes they re right, sometimes they re just trying to get politica
was 100% decomposition. was baez wrong in how he handled george anthony? he was an idiot. i mean i can t even bill and joey, ther they are being too . it was one of the top three blunders of the defense. i was screaming at the monitor quit opening the door. i mean basically jeff ashton got back up. but he gets up and says did you tell the police you thought your daughter killed your granddaughter and george says to the jury no, i didn t think that then. he just told the jury he believes his daughter is guilty. it s devastating. devastating. i couldn t believe it. i couldn t believe it. judge jeanine: this jury is listening. they are a smart jury. i have watched them and stared them down and they are hearing everything that is going on in this case. in terms of lee, let s talk about lee s testimony. did it help the defense or