this bomb threat? what do we know? we don t know a lot, right? so we know that there was a bomb threat earlier this morning against judge engoron. we don t know if he was actually in the home or not in nasa county, nasa county police visited the house as well to investigate this bomb threat. so it s happened befor in other high profile cases. again, judge engoron has been at the front and center of this trial from the very beginning. he has been very decided about his opinions in this case, and as we ve seen, the former president has attacked both judge engoron along with his clerk as well. as of now, it s not supposed to delay any trial going forward today. no further threat exists at this moment, but again, as we learn more, i m going to bring it to you. stay with me, yasmin, as trump is complaining about not being allowed to speakn the closing arguments, apparently his attorneys had suggested he
indictments, sure he s looking at all these criminal trials. sure he s looking at the federal case in d.c. and the case out of miami with the documents. this is going to hit at the heart of who this former president is. it s his essence, i think i ve said that before, and that s how we know him. it s about his brand. it s his identity. these images, again, from earlier just moments ago when we were allowed inside the courtroom, we are told chris kise, the attorney sitting next to donald trump at that defense table is starting his closing argument right now, danny, starting out saying if there were a jury here, i d be looking at them. that s something trump has tried to emphasize that there s no jury in this case. it s just the judge. remind us why that is. it s a pretty rare bench trial, and it s even stranger because many of the issues were already decided on summary judgment. so you don t normally have a trial where summary judgment s been decided as to many issues including liab
failure to report those taxes. now, what hunter biden s legal team is arguing here is not necessarily the facts here but that the prosecution itself is what they call selective and vindictive. they re arguing that what the federal government here is doing and with the special counsel is involved in doing here is responding to pressure from house republicans to bring charges that are only being brought as they ago because of his last name. carol, hunter was previously set to plead guilty to the misdemeanor tax charges and to serve probation in this plea deal that fell apart last summer. so how much heft does this case have considering it was all about to be pleaded out a few months ago? look, these tax charges are serious charges. it was a large amount of money that he did he notay in satisfaction of his tax obligations, and so i think it falls within the discretion of a prosecutor to bring charges like
and what s happening inside this manhattan courtroom. we ll bring you more as it happens. we re also tracking developments in another case, hunter biden set to answer nine tax-related charges in an l.a. courtroom today after his dramatic appearance on capitol hill yesterday. plus, caucus countdown, four days left for the four remaining gop candidates in iowa as chris christie is caught on a hot mic just before he exits the race. all that and more when we re back in just 60 seconds. you re watching ana cabrera reports. reports. (mom) that s a bit dramatic. a better plan is verizon. it starts at 25 dollars a line. (dad) did you say 25 dollars a line? (sister) and save big on things we love, like netflix and max! (dad) oh, that s awesome (mom) spaghetti night dinner in 30 (dad) oh, happy day! (vo) a better plan to save is verizon. it starts at $25 per line guaranteed for 3 years and get both netflix and max for just $10/mo. only on verizon. do you like that bone? i got a great pri
if you re betting, the odds are that he s going to side with the attorney general. the best evidence of that is that he already did so in his opinion granting summary judgment to the attorney general. he essentially goes into this case already half deciding it for the a.g. now, over the course of the last couple of months, could the defense have chipped away at this? did justice engoron keep an open mind? i m sure he did. and if there was some compelling evidence, for example, the expert i just mentioned, the deutsche bank executives, did that have an effect on the judge. and i think he probably especially given the high profile nature of this trial, probably extra committed himself to being as impartial as he could, once and that s after donald trump had left the courthouse, intentioned had died down because, look, like i said earlier, the best part of the case for the defense was not donald trump. all he it was antagonize the judge. i think you remember there was this talk he mig