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hello everyone and welcome back to the Don Lemon Show.

I hope you had a great memorial weekend.

We're kicking off the post-Memorial Day news cycle with some very huge updates for you.

I'm sure you're aware, but if you're not, closing statements have now begun in the former

President Donald Trump's hush money trial.

Yes, we have a former president who is on trial here to talk about the end of the first criminal trial for a sitting U.S. president, a former sitting U.S. president, Democratic political strategist Rachel Bittaker, she's also the author of Hinnom, Where It Hurtz. Also joined by defense attorney.

Join again, I should say, because he's becoming a regular on this program.

Defense attorney and legal analyst Mark Iglash.

Thanks to both of you for joining.

How are you doing?

Great.

Choosing to be wonderful, Don.

Great, great, great.

Choosing to be wonderful and choosing to be happy, as you say, as your book says.

So, Mark, I'm going to start with you. As I mentioned, these are closing statements. They're ongoing now,

as we are recording this for the former first president's trial. What are you expecting to hear from

Trump's defense team? That they didn't prove the case beyond the exclusion of every reasonable doubt,

that they relied upon somebody who's got tremendous defects in character who can't keep his

story straight. He's a convicted perjurer, and you have to believe him in order to find

Trump guilty is the defense's argument. And I would also say in the worst case scenario,

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