From Arizona now to New York where Donald Trump's defense team rested its case today in the trial brought against the former president by the Manhattan District Attorney's Office.

Donald Trump did not testify. Next week, lawyers from both sides will make their closing statements to the jury,

and then deliberations will begin.

As William Bringham explains, while this case is often referred to as the hush money trial, the charges

against the former president are far more complicated.

William?

Donald Trump is not being charged with making that 2016 hush money payment to silence adult film star Stormy

Daniels.

His former lawyer, Michael Cohen, paid that $130,000 and did so, Cohen testified, to protect Trump's chances of winning the presidency.

Trump is charged with how he repaid Michael Cohen.

Prosecutors allege Trump was responsible for falsifying 34 different business records to hide the true nature of that repayment, calling them legal fees instead, and that Trump did so intending to commit or conceal

another crime, a violation of state election law.

So to help us wade through these legal weeds, we are joined again by Jessica Roth.

She's a former federal prosecutor, but now teaches at Cardozo School of Law.

Jessica, so nice to see you again.

Thank you for being here.

I want to talk through the different

things that the prosecutors have to prove in this case. So during trial, as I mentioned,

the prosecutor showed 34 allegedly false invoices, ledgers, The prosecutors While they were labeled legal fees, prosecutors say these were really a way to

masquerade the true repayment to Michael Cohen. First off, what do

prosecutors have to prove as far as Donald Trump's involvement in how those records

were created?

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