Our coverage continues with the last word and Lawrence O'Donnell who spent all day today in court and has the back pain to prove it.

Good evening, my friend.

Good evening, my friend. Good evening.

I was working on my posture for most of the day

Rachel in that chair but look Rachel two two full reporters notebooks today I've

never filled up to in a day before I think certainly not a courtroom day.

It went on longer than any of us expected.

I think longer than most of us thought was necessary.

But it was one of those no stone unturned closings

by the prosecution.

The defense, I thought, was as effective

as they could be, given the cards that have been dealt them.

They've got some internal contradictions in their theory of the case.

But remember, this is a criminal defense team trying to defend Donald Trump.

Good luck with that.

It's going to look pretty messy.

Judge Barshan said at the outset

that it is his practice as a matter of running his courtroom. He likes for the jury to get both summations on one day and

I felt like heading into today I was so worried about whether or not there would be

other trailing ends from the trial which sort of ended on the schedule

he didn't want last week and whether they'd be able to squeeze them in.

I was thinking each summation would be like 90 minutes.

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