its closing arguments in donald trump s civil fraud trial after a dramatic scene in which the former president himself addressed the court. the judge had only allowed trump to speak on the condition that he focus on the facts but the president quickly veered into other territory claiming he is an innocent man being persecuted d the judge telling defense counsel please control your client. th former president has already been found liable for inflating properties to get loan deals. the judge will attempt to issue his ruling by the end of the month. yasmin vossoughian is reporting for us outside the courtroom in new york. vaughn hillyard is urbandale, iowa, also with us, renato, former federal prosecutor. somebody might argue at least in terms of drama donald trump s a tough act to follow. reporter: yeah, i think that person would likely win that argument. nonetheless, i think lee tee james has a lot in store. she is not likely to offer closing arguments to other attorneys.
i m not the governor who attacked walt disney world because they expressed their point of view. i m not the governor who attacked the cruise industry because they wanted to make sure they weren t sick before they got on the boat. you re the most ant-business governor i have seen. a baseball team for send ago tweet saying that they were sorry that children were gunned down in uvalde, suddenly the governor of florida decided to actually penalize a baseball team for expressing sympathy with the parents of dead children. culture wars were a major topic in last night s debate between the two candidates for governor of florida. we re going to have more from that show down this morning, including the big question ron desantis would not answer. plus, the latest from eastern europe as there are growing fears that vladimir putin is planning a new type of attack as a justification for escalating the war with ukraine. also ahead, adidas finally appears to be taking action on its
on this. and chris kise objected, this is the murderer s row, this is outrageous, what do you make of the idea from, again, the prosecution that the witnesses that were brought forward by donald trump s team are frankly not credible, not relevant? you know, chris, i really think that the presentation by trump s legal team was fit hand in glove with his own bombastic pr political strategy. you just had a moment ago a bunch of american flags behind him talking to the press while the civil theme from the attorney general s office was making their closing arguments in his trial in which he s already been found to have engaged in fraud. it s really, i think, a comment,
we got it. seems too soon. you have waited patiently, steve rattner with your charts. two weeks to election day, with all of this in mind, suicide bombing notwithstanding, how do things look, what do the percentages look like? i have waited patiently to a murderer s row, i was hoping we were going to do it before these guys got on set. let me put from a 30,000 perspective what you just heard from on the ground reporting. if you take a look first at the senate as a probability map, what you ll see is a lot of what we talked about in terms of the trend which is that the republicans started out in a strong position. biden administration not doing well. midterms go against incumbent party, and you see roe v. wade overturn their marks on the upper left corner, and you see the republicans support drop. this is the odds of the senate going to either the republicans or the democrats and you see the blue line at the bottom starting to go up, which is the democrats