hello, i m ana cabrera reporting from new york. i want to get right to the breaking news we re following this morning. donald trump arriving just moments ago at a manhattan courthouse for the closing arguments in his multimillion dollar civil fraud trial, and he spoke just before going into the courtroom. there is high tension this morning because trump has suggested he could challenge the judge who has barred him from speaking during closing arguments. another big development, a threat we re following, law enforcement responding to a reported bomb threat at the judge s house this morning. a source with direct knowledge tells nbc news. i want to get right to our yasmin vossoughian joining us from outside the courthouse in lower manhattan. and also with us, former u.s. attorney barbara mcquade and criminal defense attorney danny cevallos. we just saw trump speaking before heading into the courtroom saying, you know, it s not fair that the judge won t let him speak at closing a
was interested abo wk ago. the judge had said okay, but he to agree to these conditions. and i want to put those conditions back up again for our audience here. no introducing new evidence. no acting as a witness and e essentially testifying without cross examination. he can t bring up irrelevant matters, deliv a campaign speech, or impugn the judge, his court staff, or the prosecution, but trump s team didn t agree to these terms by the judge s extended deadline, which was yesterday. danny, trump s team, they didn t agree. you re a defense attorney yourself. what would you have done with this? would you have wanted trump to testify? or was this an easy out for them? i would have done nothing because this motion would never have been granted unless a party is named trump. this isn t how any of this works. originally when it was reported that justice engoron denied the request, i thought that makes sense because no other party with counsel unless they re pro se doing the whole thing b