under trump this kind of government will perish from the earth. in a surprise move the biden campaign sent a surrogate of its own to lower manhattan yesterday. two-time academy award winner robert de niro. we ll have more of the actor s warnings about the dangers of a possible second donald trump presidency. and of course we ll go through what happened inside the courtroom as well. during closing arguments in the former president s criminal hush money trial as we are now just hours away from the start of jury deliberations. plus we ll go through new reporting on the deadly israeli air strike in rafah and the biden administration s response to the tragedy. good morning and welcome to way too early on this wednesday, may 29th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. and we have a big show this morning. and in just hours donald trump s fate will be in the hands of a juror. both the defense and prosecution delivered their closing arguments yesterday in
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