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Deadline: White House

“The smoking guns”

Deadline: White House

MSNBC

News, Donald Trump, Daily News, The White House, Nicolle Wallace, Politics, Nbc News, Washington Dc, Msnbc, Government

4.66K Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2024

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Summary

Nicolle Wallace is joined by Andrew Weissmann, Susanne Craig, Vaughn Hillyard, Lachlan Cartwright, Tim Heaphy, Harry Litman, Claire McCaskill, and Ken Burns.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi there everyone it's 4 o'clock in New York on a huge huge day of news

0:15.1

Quote conspiracy and a cover-up prosecutors today reminding the jury of the basic facts of this historic first ever criminal trial of an American ex president.

0:25.0

As we come on the air, closing arguments are right now underway.

0:28.0

In the people of the state of New York versus Donald J. Trump, we're getting live updates from inside the courtroom.

0:34.3

We're going to do our best to watch them together

0:37.0

and bring out, interrupt our conversations,

0:39.2

and bring you any and all significant moments

0:41.3

as they're happening.

0:42.7

Over the last few hours,

0:43.9

prosecutor Joshua Steinglass

0:45.6

has been going through the claims that were made

0:47.7

by Trump's lawyers in their closing argument this morning.

0:51.4

Steinglass, the prosecutor, pushed back against Trump's lawyers

0:54.7

claim from this morning that porn star Stormy Daniels was extorting Donald

0:58.6

Trump. Prosecutor saying this, quote, extortion is not a defense to falsifying business records.

1:05.0

And if you have any questions about that,

1:06.8

you can ask the judge.

1:08.5

After putting on the stand just two witnesses,

1:10.8

one of whose credibility completely crumbled during cost examination, Donald

1:15.5

Trump's defense team today closed by arguing essentially that there was never any criminal

1:21.4

conspiracy to conceal the hush money payments.

1:24.7

Trump's attorney Todd Blanche also went after Michael Cohen aggressively and loudly, calling

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