hello, i m ana cabrera reporting from new york. i want to get right to the breaking news we re following this morning. donald trump arriving just moments ago at a manhattan courthouse for the closing arguments in his multimillion dollar civil fraud trial, and he spoke just before going into the courtroom. there is high tension this morning because trump has suggested he could challenge the judge who has barred him from speaking during closing arguments. another big development, a threat we re following, law enforcement responding to a reported bomb threat at the judge s house this morning. a source with direct knowledge tells nbc news. i want to get right to our yasmin vossoughian joining us from outside the courthouse in lower manhattan. and also with us, former u.s. attorney barbara mcquade and criminal defense attorney danny cevallos. we just saw trump speaking before heading into the courtroom saying, you know, it s not fair that the judge won t let him speak at closing a
Be facing time here at home. And not guilty. Bob menendez is out on bond but a growing number of his democratic colleagues want him out of the senate. Were following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right now to cnn news central. Former President Trump heads to michigan tonight to give a prime time speech and make a play for Working Class Voters. There, hell take the stage in front of current and former union workers. That means he wont be on stage at tonights republican president ial debate. As with the first gop debate, trump is skipping the second showdown in california. This is the former president s Business Empire is under a major threat after a new york judge ruled trump and list adult sons committed fraud for years by overvaluing their properties to get favorable loans and insurance deals. We have reporters covering all of these stories. Cnn National Correspondent Kristen Holmes is there ahead of the speech. And we have kyung law in simi valley, the si
Among his legal team that he shouldnt get on the stand. He believes that he was adversely affected in the outcome ultimately, there where it was found liable for sexual assault and then of course, defamation is we later saw the damages there. And so that is a driving factor for him here, too. He always thinks that he had can whooo people that he can persuade people. But i think with donald trump, you know, he always says he wants to do it until he doesnt. We saw with robert muller, weve seen it in many other instances and getting up in front of but actual jury in a criminal trial is much different than doing it in a civil fraud trials. He did for mere minutes as youll recall. And so i think its really a gametime decision. Its its ultimately that, but for him, at least in his mind and what hes been telling people is that he does want to take the stand here. I know we didnt talk too much about it, but earlier today, the judge really decided against his lawyers in terms of most of the iss
While it seems that the unprecedented attack on Donald Trump won’t stop until he's behind bars, the former president isn’t going down without a fight. In a huge victory on Monday, Trump won an appeal in his fraud case to have his bond reduced which is now set at $175 million instead of $464 mi.
A court officer screening mail at Judge Arthur Engoron's Manhattan courthouse opened the envelope around 9:30 a.m. Some of the powder fell out of the envelope and landed on the officer's pants, police said.