appreciate it. and thank you so much for joining us this afternoon. a lot to monitor with the trump hush money in case and the jury s hands as we speak, make it a decision any moment. the lead with jake tapper starts right now 30 before counts of falsifying records. 12 jurors, three notes to the judge, 11 hours down. the lead starts right down the drop. hush mon fate of the first ever us president to face a criminal trial of former juror from a different high-profile cases here to break down what s actually going on behind that door. plus boeing rolls out as sweeping new plan hoping to convince skeptical flyers that it is safe to travel on their planes, but it s not just a matter of boeing planes that has so many flyers nervous we re learning today about another near miss on the runway in a moment before takeoff, what is really going on at airports and in the skies and cnn s exclusive reporting on the dramatic negotiations between the us government and haitian gang leader
97% of burning uv rays. it s light, but it s working hard like me, neutrogena ultras yourself on screen. i m zachary cohen and washington. and this is cnn hello and welcome to cnn special coverage of the closing arguments in former president donald trump s criminal hush money trial. i m wolf blitzer in washington alongside abby phillip, who s outside the courthouse in new york a very consequential de, as we enter the home stretch of this truly historic trial korda s out now for lunch following a morning of blistering closing arguments by trump s defense team on surprisingly, trump attorney todd blanche made the case that payments made to michel cone the heart of the prosecution s charges were not illegal abbe over to you that s right. well, a blanche ripped into potential pivotal testimony delivered by trump s former fixer and personal attorney repeatedly calling michael cohen a liar, whose words should not be trusted, and the claims that the alleged tryst between trump
half of the hush money conspiracy, michael cohen, paid for his crimes and went to prison. and the other half, donald trump, has not yet paid one thin dime. but it looks like that is about to change. we will have to wait and see. again, the grand jury s meeting tomorrow. we all know what is going to happen. but i can bet you at least we will be. watching peter baker, daniella diaz and glenn kirschner, thank you very, very much. coming up fox news and dominion voting systems are in court today for a key hearing. jeremy peters is here on what happened and we ll break down another lawsuit, this one from a current fox employee. and later, kev mccarthy and his caucus are supposed to be focused on policy, and they re quote unquote, retreat. but those, rise all trump is again dominating the conversation. the 11th hour is just getting underway on a tuesday night.
abuse of power by mccarthy, and jordan, and the other committee members, who are doing nothing, more than trying to chill a district attorney, because he was prosecuting, one of their political leaders. and the one thing i graded mccarthy on, there is a deep injustices play right now, the deep injustice, is that one half of the hush money conspiracy, michael cohen, paid for his crimes, and went to prison, and the other, half donald trump, has not yet paid one dime, but it looks like that s about to change. we will have to wait and see, again, the grand jury s meeting, tomorrow we don t know what s gonna happen, but i can bet you at least we will be watching. peter baker, daniel diaz, and glen gardner, thank you very, very much. coming up, fox news and dominion voting systems, or in court today, for a key hearing. jeremy peters is here, and what happened, and we ll break down another lawsuit, this one from
three years because of the hush money payments. you don t have to assume that. it says that. it says that the redacted area is the discussion of the hush money conspiracy. the precise contours of that and who is involved in the illegal activity, that s not disclosed. should the president be worried about all of this right now as he keeps talking about a witch hunt? he has to be worried about this. he has to be worried about the investigation tls that are continuing in new york. the justice department guidelines that you cannot indict a sitting president. donald trump is not going to be president for the rest of his life. i know we re waiting for the mueller investigation to wrap up. we re waiting for the potential that could be there could be more bombshells. i think we need to be prepared for the fact that we could wait a while. these could be investigations open for quite some time. we may not see movement on them. there may be cards that prosecutors in new york decide to hol