quote, the financial statements are perfect. the bank s got all their money. the banks are happy as can be. the money is irrelevant. it s a small number. i m an innocent man persecuted by someone running for office. this state is vicious. and it takes away all my rightings. this is no fraud. it s a fraud on me. i did nothing wrong, he said. perhaps unsurprisingly, judge engoron interrupted asking chris kise to control your client, before calling the whole thing off and breaking for lunch. it s the prosecution s turn to deliver its close. asking for a $370 million fine as well as a ban on the trump organization in new york. prosecutors say the court has not heard any new facts from donald trump s team because, quote, most of the facts are undisputed. joining us from outside the manhattan courthouse, yasmin vossoughian. it got a bit spicy today. what else are we hearing from the prosecution right now? reporter: spicy is putting it lightly to say the least. i got to say, when
breaking news, new reporting on the trump attorney who wanted to try to settle with the justice department and keep his client from facing charges. the catch, his client. also tonight, cnn gets frontline access to ukrainian special forces on the hunt for russian commanders to corner and kill. and later, a father is speaking out about nearly losing his children and their remarkable, simply remarkable story of surviving 40 days in the colombian jungle. we begin with the new reporting on what you might call the exit ramp not taken by the former president, one that might have kept him off his current road to trial in the documents case. quote, one of donald trump s new attorneys proposed an idea in the fall of 2022. the former president s team could try to arrange a settlement with the justice department. he joins us on the telephone now. josh, walk us through this reporting. one of the president s attorneys wanted to turn down the temperature, went to the former president
special counsel s latest move aimed at keeping the defense from made the king potential evidence public. also tonight a live report from the texas panhandle how people are coping in the wake of a devastating tornado. plus, it s not just ukraine, you re reporting on russia s notorious wagner mercenaries spreading brutality to horrific warfare elsewhere. first up tonight the trump documents case in the new sign of how serious special counsel jack smith is about keeping the defense and the defendant rained in. also reminder today, this defendant has no desire to be reigned in. virtually everyone is saying that the fake indictment is about election interference and should not have been brought, except bill barr a disgruntled former employee, and very weak person, he knows the indictment is total [bleep], a stupid person named john bolton, mick mulvaney who has nothing going for him, absolutely nothing. two things to note about what you saw, first, all three people he is talki
is going to be a permanent member of this team. we ll see. and so that is what they re working on now. and kaitlan, judge cannon, we should point out, she s a trump appointee. she did a trump-friendly ruling that was overturned months ago. i know that there are people on the prosecution team who are wary of her. how does the trump team view her? do they think that she s going to be an asset? they re thrilled. i mean, they could not be happier to have her on their team or to have her overseeing this i mean. she is a trump appointee. she was picked in the days after he lost the 2020 election. that s obviously not a comment on whether or not she s a good judge or a bad judge or indifferent. but they re thrilled because they saw how she was what her rulings were when they went to her for the special master case last fall. that was when she got overruled by an appeals court in a pretty embarrassing fashion for a judge because basically they said she was giving trump specia
11:00 a.m. eastern, 8:00 a.m. pacific, i m jose diaz-balart. right now in new york city, former president donald trump inside the courtroom at closing arguments in his $250 million civil fraud trial. just hours after police responded to a bomb threat at the judge s home. meanwhile, on the campaign trail, nikki haley and ron desantis traded insults during last night s gop debate in the battle for second place. you re invisible in new hampshire. you re invisible in south carolina. you re in fifth place. she s got this problem with ballistic podiatry, shooting herself in the foot every other day. this as chris christie is caught on a hot mic talking about haley and desantis right before he dropped out of the race. and in california, presidential son hunter biden is due to face tax charges in court this afternoon, a day after his surprise appearance on capitol hill. and we begin with breaking news from new york city, where cloing arguments are under way in former presiden