Formally recognized a palestinian state. Deadline white house starts right now. Hi there, everyone. 22 witnesses, 21 days of court, 80 hours of Witness Testimony later, the firstever criminal trail of an expresident is coming to a close. The prosecution has one last chance to hammer home its case in close answer on tuesday, given that the defense put up just two witnesses, lasting four times longer than their entire presentation, only the manhattan d. A. Is wrestling with the about the Testimony Bombshell after bombshell over four weeks. Jurors listens intendly, as they testified about the confidential arrangement made with trump in 2015. Hope hick telling the about the infame owls Access Hollywood tape. Jurors also saw the handwritten notes that worked out the monthly reimbursements. Stormy daniels was questioned in detail about an rattled Sexual Encounter . Michael cohen it was, mr. Trumps former fixer turned foe Michael Cohen taken the stand. So, all the testimony and all of the evi
Do you get these calls in secret where guys go listen, i cant say it publicly but im for you and im going to vote for you. Im a republican but screw it, i cant vote for this guy . Theyre not saying theyre going to vote for me, theyre saying i agree with you. Do you say to them, why dont you Say Something publicly . Where is jeb bush, where is george bush, where are these guys . Why dont they say, hey, im interested in saving democracy for our grandchildren . I dont think the election is over yet on that score. If you notice traffic was especially snarled in New York City today, asked and answered. That was President Biden in midtown, manhattan today to be interviewed by radio legend howard stern. While former President Donald Trump was in Lower Manhattan back in a courthouse for his criminal trial. And that is where we begin tonight. At the end of the first week for a 12member Jury Empanelled in the first ever criminal trial of a former president. Today was the final day of the prosecu
listen, i m not telling you to hurt anybody, i m just sayin that s what we have here. it s so transparent that it s laughable. what do we make of this volker s testimony about rudy guiliani having to tell them, everybody this, do what rudy tells you to do. we learned from these transcripts that pompeo was essentially rolling his eyes at guiliani saying this is a problem we ve got to deal with and the impression from folks around him was pompeo and the state department wanted guiliani out of this but had to hit a brick wall in trying to get guiliani removed from the ukraine policy everybody is word is passed among foreign policy civil servants, foreign officers, do what rudy wants? yeah. this is mob stuff. rudy is the enforcer. do what this guy wants. the president in the meetings essentially say two things, one, rudy guiliani is going to hand him this, talk to him. he also is in some way
shut down as a criminal enterprise including the mob stuff. it s weird, right? it s just uncanny. after the third straight firm he worked at got shut down and excelled from the securities industry lev parnas finally appears to have given up his work in finance. of course we know he lands on his feet because now he works for the president of the united states of america. at least he was. we re not sure if that continues now while he s under arrest and awaiting trial. but this is just a remarkable thing that is plodding along, alongside what is happening on capitol hill with all the impeachment drama. i mean, there s this guy who s under arrest, he s facing more than 30 years in prison. he s charged with funneling illegal foreign money to the president s re-election effort and other republican campaigns. there are enough pictures of him with the president and the president s eldest son and the president s lawyer. i mean there s enough pictures of this guy with the president and the presi
jackpot. now, that deal never came to fruition but it was the source of huge controversy in ukraine because it was seen as basically a bway, an effort, to launder hundreds of millions of dollars of ill-gotten gains through new york city real estate. but as with deripaska, it s not just the money and the kremlin connections and the unexplained financial ties to trump s campaign chair, with firtash, it s also the mob stuff. it s also the organized crime. in 2014 right after manafort s client, victor yanukovych was ousted in ukraine, ousted in a popular uprising and fled first to eastern ukraine and moscow for his own safety, three weeks after yanukovych was ousted from power and fled the country, russia s man in ukraine, dmitry firtash, this billionaire they created by giving him all that natural gas money, dmitry firtash was arrested at the fbi s request.