Thank you, jomana. We salute this very courageous woman. Erin Burnett Outfront starts right now. Out front next, trump returns the favor backing jim jordan in the race to be the next speaker of the house. Someone whos leading the way on trying to impeach biden and one of the biggest backers of trumps rigged election claims. Plus, breaking news. An appeals judge denying trumps appeal to halt the fraud case. Michael cohen will be out front tonight. Putins latest strike killing a young boy. Tonight there is a threat of more to come. Lets go out front. Good evening, im erin burnett. Out front tonight, Trump Playing King Maker Backing congressman jim jordan and his bid to become the next house speaker. Jim jordan has a long history of doing trumps work for him. In fact, jordan is now one of the heads of the biden Impeachment Inquiry, something that trump, of course, made clear absolutely had to happen. They should investigate the bidens. I call them corrupt joe. Crooked joe biden. I believe
we re covering today s climatic closing arguments in donald trump s trial. the trial is still ongoing right now. the prosecutor continuing the closing arguments. we ll continue in our live coverage to bring you that as well as what i m going to do with you right now, which is try to summarize what is the most important day and likely the last day or two before this jury deliberates. the day began with trump s lawyers doing their closing arguments for the defendant. they finished. the scene outside court was more rauk cause than usual. there was trump family members, robert deniro. i was downtown with our team, reporters and lawyers at the court today. we were out there. i made some videos. we kept an eye on it. all working together. the closing arguments give jurors the pivotal final last material. it s the culmination of a trial that s featured 22 exhibits, 20 days, emails, hundreds of exhibits. now it s all going down today. critical day, former president trump s criminal
Man himself. do you think allen weisselberg looks at you as a cautionary tale in some ways? do you think he will flip? i think allen s stupid if he doesn t because what they did to me, i mean, they came down with the full weight and authority of the u.s. government, especially this corrupt the former corrupt department of justice with bill barr. it was nothing that i had ever experienced before. it was like being stuck between a tsunami and, you know, and a typhoon all at the same time. they should be doing the same thing to him. they should go after his son barry, his son jack, barry worked for the company. jack was one of two lenders, deutsche bank and ladder capital. why is it they re not pressuring him that way. i wouldn t be shocked down the road to find folks like allen weisselberg, jeff mcconny and others actually already providing information and testimony to the attorney general, i should say to the
In the organization. tonight new reporting shows the grand jury may already be a problem for both trump and weiss el burg. here s why. one of the senior officials of the organization already testified. according to to the report, jeff mcconny. a senior vice president and controller for the trump organization is the first employee of the former president called to testify. the testimony is a sign that prosecutors have burroed deep into the companies finances. how much does he know? who has worked for trump 35 years. know about his business. congressional testimony in 2019 former trump lawyer cohen was asked about the trump organization accounting practices. responding quote there are three people that actually four, approximately four people that know. trump, weiss el burg. mcconny and another one.