playing out before our eyes taking us to another scary place over the past fort night. a criminal investigation into donald trump s handling of classified information looming over the country and both major political parties with an even more significant specter casting a long, shadow in sharp relief. the very real possibility that a former president of the united states could soon be indicted for violating the espionage act or other federal statutes. it is extremely volatile and if donald trump is indeed indicted although that remains a big if, for the moment and we ll move beyond volatility and into more territory that s explosive into where there is a dramatic increase into more political violence than we ve seen already in our republic. in just the last two weeks we ve seen threats against the fbi and law enforcement surging. a pennsylvania man was arrested last week for threatening to kill agents of the federal bureau of investigation and a man armed with a semiautomat
new york city courtroom this week with closing arguments set to get underway tomorrow, tuesday. in the first ever criminal prosecution of a former u.s. president. welcome to a new hour of fox news live. i m julie banderas. rich: i m rich edson. we could get a verdict this week after more than a month of testimony featuring 22 witnesses. the two sides are making their final case tomorrow. then a key moment the judge will deliver instructions to the jury sending them out for deliberations to decide trump s fate. julie: andy mccarthy pointing out the judge has a lot of power over this jury and how they view the case. watch this. try to see the case the way the jury is seeing it and in this instance i think the jury is seeing it through the lens of judge merchan, who has been very indulgent of the prosecution s dodgy theories here and i can sit here and poke holes at him at day. it doesn t make a difference. we re not in there speaking to the jury. rich: peter doocy live
Cocktail napkin and backdating it? what s that going to look like? i ll be curious to see what sort of defense he mounts with the team he s got around him. rev, you have the longest history of everybody in this group with donald trump. known him longest, seen him as an operator, a player in new york, as a grifter, a brand merchant, a publicity hound, all that stuff. and people don t change. i mean, the things that you have been a great analyst of him because you ve known him for so long and seen how he operated in various situations. this question that miles just raised is, i think, fundamental. you have people like john bolton who was on our air earlier this week saying, why did trump take these documents? i don t know, but he likes cool stuff. you know? he wants french fries. next day, he wants secret documents. and an amazing number of people believe like, trump says, i want it so i just take it. other people say, there s no doubt he had some scheme in place to benefit from it
Was no defense for this. the more she questioned him, the more he seemed to the point where she was saying who gave you this picture and who posted it? he said i don t know who gave it to me. one of the volunteers or something in my house posted it on my phone and she said, you don t know who did it? are there 500 people living in his house that could have posted it on his phone? color me skeptical about that. i believe he knows exactly how it occurred and, by the way, he also wrote all the hash tags, such as fix is in and win on info wars and gave an interview that was not complimentary of the judge. so she had him and he couldn t get out of it. and roger stone is used to getting out of things. he is a publicity hound, as we know. his whole career. do you think, chris, he will be able to keep quiet? that s a normally i would say no. i would think that this hearing would be instructive to him.