end of his presidency. john: the case is likely to up end the 2024 residential race where trump remains the gop front-runner and says he is the victim of a political hit job by the biden justice department. sandra: fox team coverage begins now. bret baier and martha maccallum moments away with analysis, but jonathan serrie is live on the ground at the federal courthouse. what is the scene right now? more people are gathering and you can feel the anticipation of the former president about to arrive at the courthouse and we have learned more about the booking procedures. he will be digitally fingerprinted, no ink involved, and instead of taking a new photo of him, they are going to upload an existing photo, but they are still not going to release the existing photo to the media, and at no time will he be placed in any handcuffs. a more streamlined process for this former president of the united states. he tells radio host howie carr he plans to enter a not guilty plea, an
But a lot actually happened. Michael cohen was back on the stand finishing his four days of testimony, and trumps lawyers began and ended their case, so we basically in one week saw the d. A. And the defense team both rest, and we saw the Defense Witnesses who at times stumbled. Heres how it played out. The defense wrapped up with Michael Cohen after three days of Cross Examination. It was a grueling three days. The prosecution has now rested its case. The defense has also just now called its first witness. Robert costello back on the stand later this morning after yesterdays fireworks. He was nearly tossed from the witness box and his entire testimony was nearly stricken from the record. An extraordinary moment. His whole attitude on the stand could have the defense team rethinking its strategy of calling him at all. The defense has rested its case after calling just two witnesses, but donald trump did not testify in his own defense. Thats how it went down, and it was actionpacked. Mi
happened this past week, which was really the last week of argument in this historic criminal trial of donald trump. the first ever for a former president, as you certainly know by now. this final week was a short one, but a lot happened. michael cohen was back on the stand finishing his four days of testimony, and trump s lawyers began and ended the case. in one week we saw the d.a. and the defense team both rest. and we saw the defense witnesses, who, at times, stumbled. here is how it played out. the defense wrapped up with michael cohen after three days of cross-examination. it was a grueling three days. the prosecution has now rested its case. the defense has also just now called its first witness. robert costello back on the stand later this morning after yesterday s fireworks. he was nearly tossed from the witness box and his entire testimony was nearly stricken from the record. an extraordinary moment. his whole attitude on the stand can have the defense
Will be in the ferguson courthouse shortly. i have to wonder politically, i mean, bret laid out i think what the former president defense is likely to be, and i would just remind everyone at home that although you see a lot of emotion around this, we have only scene the indictment, ok. we haven t heard one bit of the defense in this case. there was 18 months of back and forth between the trump lawyers and the department of justice and nara, which keeps the archival records of u.s. presidents so we have not seen their side of the story yet and it always changes a little bit when you get that part of the equation in terms of how all of this is looked at. but politically i think we have to ask ourselves if anything has really changed, if people are so used to this sort of dynamic and trump orbit that this is just the same gear that a lot of his supporters and we have heard it anecdotally, see it in numbers as well, this does not affect