we are wrapping our part of our special recap of today s closing arguments in trump s criminal trial but do not go anywhere. coverage continues with the last word, and lawrence o donnell, who spent all day today in court and has the back pain to prove it. i was working on my posture for most of the day, rachel. two full reporters notebooks today. i ve never filled up two in the day before, i think. certainly not on the courtroom day. it went on longer than any of us expected, i think longus than most thought was necessary but it was one of those no stone unturned closings by the prosecution. the defense, i thought, was as effective as they could be, given the cars that have been dealt them. they have some contradictions in their theory of the case but this is a criminal defense team trying to defend donald trump. good luck with that. it s going to look pretty messy. judge merchan said at the outset that he likes for the jury to get both summations on one day i felt like h
the surge and are encouraging smugglers to be bolder than ever. we ve seen surges before. surges the end to respond to hope and there was a significant hope for a more humane policy after four years of pent up demand. so i don t know whether i would call that a coincidence but i certainly think that the idea that a more humane policy would be in place may have driven people to make that decision. harris: well, here is how many are coming. more than 100,000 migrants were encountered at the border in february. that s a 97% jump from the same month of last year. nearly 30,000 unaccompanied children were encountered. some 3,000 of them 12 years old or younger. arrests and deportations plunged as president biden tightened the rules how ice agents can operate. there were more than 2300 arrests in february. that s down 66% from the average number over october, november, on december. and only about half the number of deportations if in february compared to the month before. fewer
One thing he did not do was release his tax returns. His running mate, however, did just that. Cnns Sunlen Serfaty joins me. In terms of the rally, what was he talking about tonight, anything in particular . Reporter its really interesting. Donald trump has the teleprompter tonight, he has prepared remarks but its really a spot where hes deviated from those prepared remarks. It certainly caught our ear tonight. Hes talking about Hillary Clinton, setting up the private email server, all the controversy over her emails and the fact that she did not get charged. Heres what he had to say. Because she is being so protected. She could walk into this arena right now and shoot somebody with 20,000 people watching right smack in the middle of the heart and she wouldnt be prosecuted. Reporter so some pretty Strong Language and words there from donald trump. Of course, thats just more red meat to this crowd. They ate it up. Trump still has not released his taxes. Tonight his running mate, governo
We re going to watch joe biden struggle with his morality enemy the teleprompter tonight. what zelenskyy is doing is speaking courage in a very desperate situation. there were two chechen hit teams in kyiv looking for him. they have taken out both of them. but the man s life is on the line. is he demonstrating courage which is never not inspiring. bret: there are some democrats, juan, who is saying that it s time to change the russian oil equation. one of them, not surprisingly is senator joe manchin, take a listen. putin has weaponized energy. and hes is doing it very effectively. nord stream 2 now has been canceled. if it s been canceled it gives us another opportunity to basically to reemerge with our european allies and help them basically have more in energy independence from russia. that means basically we versing some of the decisions that have been made with no leasing, not drilling and basic cutting back. we need energy independence more now than ever before. bret: manch
This is an operation that has 80 full-time paid staffers. they hope to have 2 million volunteers by election day. they have 13 regional directors out into the states. this is aprn operation that s going and wooing donors and they re having some success. again, it can t be overstated. trump is still trump. he is the one who is speaking tonight. he is the one who may depart from the teleprompter tonight, but there s a real operation in place around him that looks a lot more like a presidential campaign. and, ashley, to be clear, the president has raised a boatload of money. yeah. he sure has. and that s one of the things is that people who donors who were very skeptical of him the first time for a number of reasons, i was just talking to someone who was in touch with a lot of donors before i came on this show, a lot of them have just come over to him. part of it is they say they re worried about the democratic alternative. let s say an elizabeth warren or