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tonight donald trump s lawyers wrap up the case and his criminal trial as the former president declined to take the witness stand. then my interview with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu, as a war crimes prosecutor now seeks a warrant for his arrest. and what is going on with the economy? inflation may be slowing, but prices remain high in this country. i will ask the head of the federal reserve bank of chicago as the 11th hour gets underway on this tuesday night. it evening once again, i m stephanie ruhle in chicago and we are now 168 is away from the election. in about one week from now, a jury of 12 new yorkers will start deliberating the fate of the first former president charged with a crime. donald trump s defense team rested its new york criminal case today after calling just two witnesses. donald trump did not take the stand. the closing arguments are now set for one week from today. then the case goes to the jury. my colleague laura jarrett has a ....
donald trump did not take the stand. closing arguments are now set for one week from today. then the case will go to the jury. my colleague has all the details. reporter: tonight, the defense resting their case with former president trump choosing not to take the stand in their first criminal trial. jurors left today hearing only from robert costello, a lawyer who briefly advised michael cohen. prosecutors trying to paint costello as a paint ally to prevent cohen from flipping on mr. trump. confronted with e-mails, suggesting he was frustrated. he refused to hire him including one where he wrote he continues to slow play us and the president. is he totally nuts? he s playing with the most powerful man on the planet. costello suggested monday, cohen s entire story, that former president trump plotted to silence stormy daniels to protect his campaign was all a lie. costello telling jurors that michael cohen said numerous times that president trump knew nothing about tho ....
out, a group of protesters breaking windows and barricading themselves inside hamilton hall at the campus. they ve pushed tables and chairs against the doors. this action comes after a couple of hours from columbia university, the epicenter of nationwide pro-palestinian campus. protests started suspending students. the ivy league school had set a 2 p.m. deadline monday for the protesters to leave their encampments at the campus. the university has been trying to avoid calling back the police, whose intervention on april 18th led to more than 100 student arrests. the protesters at columbia have inspired similar pro-palestine demonstrations on campuses all across the country. arrests nationwide are now approaching 1000 as the final days of class wrap up and commencement ceremonies are just days or weeks away. the protesters demand the universities cut financial ties with israel over the war in gaza, but many jewish students say the protests have veered into anti-semitism ....
there is a possibility they may see some opportunity for some immunity for some presidential decisions. if they decide it that way, it may have to go back down to the district court which could cause further delay. i appreciate you not being sidetracked by somebody who apparently wants to scream louder than anybody else. catherine, the lower courts have been unanimous that trump cannot claim immunity. does that tell you something? i can t imagine they re going to say a former president has absolute immunity for criminal acts. what will be a win for donald trump is if they re saying we re sending it back to judge chutkan to determine which, if any he would have immunity for and which he would not. that s a win because that would delay the trial, which is already delayed. so what of course obviously jack smith and special counsel is hoping for, a majority of the court will just say, no, absolute immunity from criminal prosecution for a former president and clearly jac ....
gillian: good evening good evening, welcome to washington i m gillian in for bret baier. one major university just canceled graduation. are others going to follow? plus this, president biden is now facing more disappointing economiccous. former president trump says he s worse than jimmy carter harvey weinstein s rape convictions one of the cases spawned the me too movement now suddenly overturned. what s going to come next? gillian: first, breaking tonight, two hugely important court cases involving former president trump and his ability to pursue another term in the oval office. the first ever criminal trial of a former president is continuing in new york with more testimony from trump s former ally kicking off the prosecution s case today. meanwhile, here in washington, at the u.s. supreme court, trump s attorneys tried to convince justices he has wide ranging immunity from prosecution in an election interference case. we got fox team conch for you. nate foy is in ....