Hi everyone it's four o'clock here in New York I'm Ari Melbren for Nicole

Wallace with special coverage as we track a whole range of big court developments from defendant Trump's many

legal problems to the president's son. Hunter Biden was in federal court in

California right now on a tax arraignment. So we begin though with developments about the former

president's rough time in court over fraud today, closing arguments underway in the

civil fraud case against Trump and his two eldest sons and the entire allegedly fraudulent Trump organization.

As you can see, Trump himself in attendance.

He's been in a lot more courtrooms than campaign events this week and he turned towards cameras every time he could.

He lashed out at the judge and the attorney general who's brought this case quite effectively

all the way through trial and he did his festivist set of grievances.

Indeed, there were closing arguments on behalf of Donald Trump by attorneys Chris Kice and

Elena Habba and Trump himself got involved briefly.

Now as we reported on this very program yesterday

here on MS NBC, Donald Trump is a civil defendant here, his request to speak

during closing arguments or give some sort of grandiose closing statement, that was denied by the judge

for a very simple reason. Donald Trump's own lawyers basically refused the

rules that would bar personal attacks. You can see some of the court sketches as that was all dealt with.

Now the judge addressed Donald Trump's side today in a follow-up

basically demanding under the rules that any comment that Donald Trump issued, even if not a formal full closing argument, would have to be limited to the quote facts and law.

And Trump, who you can see in these sketches, basically started a sort of a rant.

He called the case itself a fraud.

He's the one, of course, on trial for fraud.

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