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Hi there from CNN, I'm Chris de Boau with the five things you need to know for

Thursday January 11th. Instead of hitting the campaign trail in Iowa,

former President Donald Trump is in the courtroom in New York today,

attending the closing arguments of his civil fraud trial that has the fate of his

business empire at stake.

He's not expected to speak in the courtroom, but he had this to say outside of it.

Election interference at the highest level,

or to disgrace.

At this moment, the judge is not letting me make the summation

because I'll bring up things that he was going to hear.

The judge rejected a request for Trump to speak

because he would not agree to only talk about the relevant facts of the case.

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