history unfolding right now. judge juan merchan has finished giving the jury instructions. when that happens, former president trump s fate in his new york criminal trial will be in the hands of the jury. 22 days from opening statements, 22 witnesses took the stand and a marathon length closing argument yesterday particularly from the prosecution. both the defense and the prosecution taking all day long to do that. we ve been following it all together minute-by-minute. reminder on the right-hand side of your screen is the box that gives you some color from the courtroom and play-by-play. we also will wait together to see what the jury decides on the 34 felony counts brought against the former president and current presumptive republican presidential nominee. history making indeed. i m harris faulkner. closing arguments didn t wrap up until almost 8:00. i was on the air as that was happening at 7:55 last night. in total, the jury was listening to nearly eight hours of summatio
probably see a charge as a solicitation offense, maybe a conspiracy offense, and maybe it can help support a charge of intentional interference with the carrying out of public duties by a public officer, again in this case secretary raffensperger. so there s numerous avenues from where president trump s conduct could give rise to criminal liability here. as soon as this phone call became public and raffensperger side, released to the media. we brought georgia lord years on to the show to outline all of the statues that they knew about. that we don t know about. within georgia law. and they were rattling off these things that don t exist, some of these statutes are different from state to say. and obviously as you know, we kept hearing about them, and kept looking at them, we kept saying while these laws in georgia are very solid
raffensperger with the intent that secretary raffensperger perform a certain act, and that act itself was a crime, the crime that you just described, the crime of tampering with ballots, tampering with the vote tabulation in the state. so i think looking at that, you d probably see it charged as a solicitation offense, maybe a conspiracy offense it could even help support a charge of intentional interference with the carrying out of public duties by public officer. again, in this case, secretary raffensperger. there is numerous avenues through whichpresident trump s conduct could give rise to criminal liability here. as soon as this phone call became public in the raffensperger side released to it the media, we re all listening to it, we brought georgia lawyers on to this show to outline all of these statutes that they knew about, that we didn t know about within georgia law. and they were rattling off these things that don t exist. some of these statutes, they re different from stat