Hush Money Trial: Closing Arguments Are Over, Now Jurors Deliberate
What A Day
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🗓️ 29 May 2024
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
The defense and prosecution delivered their closing arguments Tuesday in former President Donald Trump’s criminal hush money trial. New York Justice Juan Merchan said jury instructions will begin early today, after which the jurors will begin deliberating Trump’s fate. He faces 34 charges of falsifying business documents in the first criminal trial of a former U.S. president. Harry Litman, senior legal affairs columnist for The Los Angeles Times and a former deputy assistant attorney general at the Department of Justice, takes us inside the courtroom.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Wednesday, May 29th. |
| 0:02.8 | I'm Priy Ani, and I'm Josie Duffy Rice, |
| 0:05.5 | and this is What a Day, the show where we are loving Robert DeNiro's latest role |
| 0:10.0 | heckling Trump supporters in public. |
| 0:11.7 | The Biden campaign called in DeNiro as a surrogate. |
| 0:14.8 | He was joined by two former capital police officers right outside the Manhattan |
| 0:18.1 | courtroom of Trump's hush money trial, where he got into a profane shouting |
| 0:21.3 | match with one of the magahads there. |
| 0:23.2 | There was a big internet question, Al Pacino or Robert DeNiro recently. |
| 0:26.8 | This is putting me in the Robert DeNiro camp. |
| 0:31.2 | On today's show, the DNC finds a way to get President Biden on the Ohio |
| 0:34.8 | ballot. Plus, is it hot where you are? We look at the extreme weather events |
| 0:39.9 | across North America. But first, we are in the final stretch |
| 0:43.4 | of the first criminal trial against a former US president |
| 0:46.6 | Donald Trump. |
| 0:47.8 | Trump has been charged with 34 counts |
| 0:49.6 | of falsifying business documents |
| 0:51.8 | as part of his attempts to cover up the hush money payments made to adult. business documents |
| 0:54.4 | made to adult film store Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 election. |
| 0:58.9 | This follows more than four weeks of witness testimony |
| 1:01.6 | and tense courtroom proceedings. |
| 1:04.0 | On Tuesday, Trump's defense attorney Todd Blanch |
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