today on inside politics waiting and watching. we are about to find out how much donald trump will have to pay after being found liable for defamation and sexual abuse. it is now all up to the jury. we will have live updates from inside the courtroom. plus, pushing for a pause. president biden dispatched his cia director to help negotiate a deal to release israeli hostages kidnapped during the brutal october 7th attack. this as we are learning about a very tense call between the u.s. president and the israeli prime minister. and ignoring the supreme court. that s what the state of texas is doing when it comes to the southern border, and almost every republican governor is supporting the decision. i m dana bash. let s go behind the headlines and inside politics. as we speak donald trump s attorney is giving her closing argument in the e. jean carroll defamation trial. the jury will start deliberating this afternoon on how much trump must pay in damages. this morn
Welcome back to the weekend. In less than 24 hours, Michael Cohen will take the stand for his fourth day and Donald Trumps Election Interference trial. He was berated by Heated Cross Examinations Last week by trumps team. Today will be the 19th day in court. The prosecution signaled they wont be calling anyone else to the stand and the defense said last week that trump still has not decided if he will testify. Joining us now is our msnbc justice and Legal Affairs analyst, Anthony Coley. Director of the office of Public Affairs and Senior Advisor to attorney general merrick garland. And legal analyst Kristi Greenberg. A former federal prosecutor and former Criminal Division deputy chief for the Southern District of new york. Say that five times. I want to read you something. This is from the New York Times. The trump trail nears the end. If the jury chooses to believe the governments evidence, a conviction is warranted. Although noted that mr. Cohen remains the linchpin of the case. The
Laura ingraham, this is the ingraham angle, thank you for joining us tonight. The conspiracy of dunces, that is the focus of tonights angle. It is bad for the Trump Hush Money Trial Prosecution when the New York Times feels compelled to call out the cases weakness. Jed shugerman, Law Professor at boston called alvin braggs case a historic mistake, writing, their vague allegation about a criminal scheme to corrupt the 2016 election more concern about unprecedented use of state law and avoidance of election crime or fraud. Thats all . Beyond that, he writes, it is legal for a candidate to pay a nondisclosure agreement, hush money is unseemly, but it is legal. Bottom line here. As honest objective minds concluded, underlying conduct alleged is a violation of federal Campaign Finance rules, one problem with that, the fec looked at the case and decided against pursuing it. From day one, alvin bragg was a man on a political, not a legal mission. It was to charge trump with whatever just to k
for laura ingraham and this is the ingraham angle from new york city tonight. closing arguments are still underway in the ludicrous trump trail. reminding the jurors this entire case is based on the word ofdi guy who lied directly to them. they even nickname star witness michael cohen as the greatest layer of old time here the prosecution has been droning ont for hours.s fo joining me now outside of the courthouse is fox news correspondent, 848.t? nate, what is the latest? hey, judge, the prosecutionin is five hours into making its closing argument and court ends 4:30 and right now 7:00, we ared still waiting for formerco president trump to leave the courthouse and speak as he is expected to do. in the next few minutes, the prosecution has been w hainterpreting tweets from trump s books and interpreting what they believe he meantveal during those experts. the prosecution today also revealed the underlying crimeaw futhat trump is accused of. he is accused of unlawfullyou