VELCHI starts now.

Good morning.

It's Sunday, May 26th, and you're watching VELCHI on MSNBC.

I'm Charles Coleman, Jr. filling in for my friend and colleague Ali Velshi, and we've got a lot to talk about.

Now, it's not just talk to say that there is a very big week coming up.

Donald Trump had a relatively light court schedule this week, but that was just the calm before the storm.

In about 48 hours from now, it's going to get real. Closing arguments will begin in the

first ever criminal trial of a former United States president. And after 20 days in court

that featured more than 80 hours of testimony from a total of 22 different witnesses, a jury

will soon deliberate whether the former president should be convicted of a crime.

This is simply something that has never happened before in this country.

Trump could face more trials in the future to come, that is, if he doesn't win a second

term in the White House and shut down the remaining prosecutions against him.

But this is all happening as questions continue to

swirl about where things stand with his three other criminal cases. Right now, none of them,

none of them, not a single one, has a trial date scheduled on the calendar. That's partially because

of how successful and effective the former president's delay tactics

have been. For example, in his federal election case in D.C., that remains indefinitely postponed

because its pause until the Supreme Court issues its decision regarding Trump's claims of

presidential immunity. Interest in that decision has grown even higher in the past week for obvious reasons.

The scandal over the Supreme Court and Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito and his apparent

political bias has been wet with more calls for his recusal on this and other Trump-related

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