Good morning. 11 00 a. M. Eastern, 8 00 a. M. Pacific. I am jose diazbalart. Any moment now, testimony will resume in former president trumps hushmoney trial. The National Enquirer publisher, david pecker will be back on the stand detailing what prosecutors call a conspiracy to win the white house in 2016. Trumps lawyer denied any willful violation of the judges gag order. Trump faces 34 counts of falsifying Business Records related to a hushmoney payment made to an adult film actress, Stormy Daniels. With us now to talk more about this, nbc news correspondent, vaughn hillyard, outside the courtroom in manhattan, and senior fbi official, gerald coleman, and a former prosecutor, and a former new york Assistant Attorney General who led the investigation into Trump University. So as we await, vaughn, court to resume, take us what we have been seeing this morning so far . Reporter over the course of nearly an hour and a half, the gag order hearing that was in the works for the better part
Harris at this moment, former President Trumps criminal trial, the defense has wrapped up its Opening Statements to the jury. The nations 45th president , his lead attorney told jurors the former president is innocent. He claims trump committed no crimes and alvin bragg should never have brought this trial. On the other side, prosecutors called this Election Fraud and fullblown election conspiracy. These are all biden products. Everybody knows it. Im here instead of being able to be in pennsylvania and georgia and lots of other places campaigning. Its very unprepared. This is a witch hunt. It comes out of Washington In Coordination With washington, everything including the d. A. s office. Its in coordination with washington. I want people to understand that. This is done for purposes of hurting the opponent of the worst president in the history of our country. Harris youre watching outnumbered here with my cohost of Emily Compagno and kayleigh mcenany. Fox news contributor and the fede
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the east coast and 8:00 in los angeles and this is america s late news fox news at night. so much time telling america how bad donald trump is but not enough time saying what biden has done right. trace: did you hear charlemagne the god on got felt? we have a guess the strongly disagrees with him on next but the focus of america s crime crisis as general hospital or actor was shot and killed after confronting confronting themes trying to steel parts from his car and nicole parker live with his theory and closing arguments wrapping up and president trump s criminal trial and prosecution is laying out the crime of federal crime in a statement and the judge outside the new york supreme court with more. good evening nate. reporter: good evening and up until 8:00 pm eastern time but both the defense and prosecution finished making their closing arguments today and you mention the prosecution finally revealed the underlying crime former president donald trump is accused of
nobody knows what the crime is because there s no crime. nobody knows what the crime is. the d.a. didn t name the crime. they don t know what the crime is that s what the problem is it s a disgrace. this thing ought to be ended immediately. the judge ought to end it. laura: for several weeks, alvin bragg s team elicited testimony from their star witnesses, stormy daniels, michael cohen, they had virtually no relevance to proving the elements of the crime charged. given this as i said earlier, the motion for directed verdict should have been granted by any judge worth his or her salt. in other words, no reasonable jury could have found that the crime charged was committed because the evidence wasn t presented. but, that would actually require an objective jurist. but trump faced a badly conflicted one and one the left is obsessed with. with respect to judge merchan, i mean, i am like now, you know, i have like a man crush on him. he is such a great judge that it s hard t