defendant trump himself, by the way, after weeks of revealing witness testimony, after weeks of intense cross-examination, after our legal system has been tried and tested in ways it has never before, we re now reaching the end of this trial. closing arguments in donald trump s criminal trial start after that judge juan merchan will deliver his instructions ti the jury. then those seven men and five women bill deliberate and give the result to former president. we don t know what the outcome will be. i know it sounds surreal, but it s all happening starting tomorrow morning. and if one person appears to be feeling the heat right now is clearly trump himself who surprise surprise, everyone, lashed out at the judge, the jury and over the weekend trump is pretty clearly testing the bounds of his gag order here because he knows at this point hours away from closing arguments the judge is probably past the point of wanting to derail they trial. as this case enters its final phase
president. we don t know what the outcome will be. only they decide that. that is how our system works, as it should. i know it sounds sur role. it is all really happening, starting tomorrow morning. and if one person appears to be feeling the heat right now, it is clearly trump himself. who, surprise, surprise, lashed out at the judge and the district attorney on the case as a whole over memorial day weekend. trump is pretty clearly testing the bounds ever his gag order because he knows at this point hours away from closing arguments, the judge is past the point of wanting to derail the trial and as the case enters the final phase, you could find any prediction for how it may end. the jury may find the prosecution did not make its case or be acquitted or deadlock and this could end in a mistrial. or the jury could convict trump as former fbi director james comey predicts. that would make trump the first former u.s. president to be convicted. by the end of the week, we may kn
this is real life. this is stranger than fiction. i m going to hand it off to my friend chris jansing. wow! it s a deluge of news. i am chris jansing. we have more on that bombshell news in the mueller investigation. right now in manhattan federal court, president trump s former personal attorney and self proclaimed fixer, michael cohen, entering a new plea deal with special counsel robert mueller. he is pleading guilty to lying to congress in closed door testimony about his contacts with the russians during the presidential campaign. remember, this is a man who was once who once said he would take a bullet for donald trump. and now he s given more than 70 hours of testimony to the mueller team. it would be tough to overstate the significance of cohen s cooperation because for more
than a decade, there was, perhaps, no man closer to donald trump and his businesses outside the family. this breaking news after another dizzying day of developments in the robert mueller investigatio
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so, glenn, i mean, this is just all new territory for me, right. i ve never had this discussion about whether an adviser to the president may or may not have been intoxicated. but talk to me about how this is important to anybody s case. jack smith s case, fani willis s case, rudy giuliani is a named co-defendant in georgia, not in the january 6 case for the moment. tell me more about what you think about this and the thread that jack smith is pulling on. yeah, i think it is relevant evidence. it is not just salacious. it is not just the setup a punchline about rudy giuliani. but first of all, intoxication is a subject of keen interest in most criminal investigations. for example, if you have a defendant who is intoxicated at the time he committed a crime, it might negate his specific intent and it might take a case of a salt with intent to kill down to a case of simple assault because he was too drunk to form