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>> harris: we have breaking news inside a federal courthouse in delaware. the prosecution now has rested its case and were told both the defense attorneys and the prosecution attorneys are in a side bar right now with the judge. we can confirm president bidens son, hunter biden, will not take the stand in his own defense for gun felonies he is accused of. the defense and prosecution again have rested. that means the case could be in the jurys hands as soon as today. im harris faulkner ...

Also wired money to some of these vendors that we heard about last week, including the clothing people that ostrich jacket. He explained how those money flows went there. So hes connecting the dots for prosecutors. He also explained how he helped falsify documents at manaforts request at the banks so manafort could get mortgages and he also explained how they falsified his tax returns, explaining how they moved things that should have been income to loans and back to back dated documents. At One...

He told me two or three months ago that trump used to direct him to call up reporters who he suspected of writing unfavorable story asks tell them you better watch out or well do what we did to tim obrien. he sued me unsuccessfully. the reason michael was hired, he was hired to be an enforcer. he wasnt hired to do contract law. and the cultures was built on intimidation and threats and media. it wasnt built on brilliant business decisions. and when andrew mentioned about the similarities here in...

And january 6. do you think she did a good job laying it all out? >> i think she did. i think to get to joyces earlier point, rico really allowed them the prosecutors to cast a very wide net. you see that in this more than overt acts listed here. overt acts arent specifically or necessarily crimes, theyre just things that were done to help the overall alleged criminal conspiracy. and so what you see in this indictment is that there are just tons and tons of overt acts. everything up to and inclu...

Before the entire world on television. a witness who is named and pictured on television becomes a sitting duck for any trump partisan in seeking retribution. it sounds like you are comparing these possible cases to what someone might say would happen in a mob trial. is that what you are intending here? >> absolutely. this is exactly the same danger that witnesses i had in mob trials experienced. this is even worse because if this is televised all over the world, looked what just happened in pro...

Analyst, elie honig, who was a mob prosecutor which pertains to what im about to ask you. were getting word out of georgia where nick valencia is just there that fani willis, is fulton county da may ruse racketeering charges to go after donald trump. >> yeah. >> i know rico because i follow mob trials and listen to your podcast. how does that apply here? >> so, rico stands for racketeer influence corrupt organizations started as a federal law passed in 1970 designed to fight organized crime and ...

Happened in american history. nothing even close. so, im stunned and amazed and thank the reporters at the "washington post" and "the new york times" for the information. >> i think we all share that same sense of gratitude for the reporting thats been done. following that, i harken back to mob trials where we have perhaps covered where they go up the chain until they get what theyre looking for. in this case, the issue would seem to be, correct me if im wrong, would be the intent of principal "...

In organized crime families. he is right at home defending the trump family in this matter. and i think what theyre doing now is pulling out all the stops to try to block the legal and judiciary machinery from moving forward. they are not going to be successful. they have thrown one hamill re-pass after another. and they are finding increasingly laughable and we grounds for doing so. the subpoenas will be enforced. the children are going to testify, donald trump is going to testify. and well see...

Collaboration. other thing to remember, the lawyer made his bones in new york defending organized crime families, the colombos, gambinos and genoveses, so hes at home. theyre trying to pull all the stops to block the legal machinery going forward. theyve thrown one hail mary after another and finding increasingly laughable and weak grounds for doing so. subpoenas will be enforced, children are going to testify, donald trump is going to testify. well see what happens. >> one of the similarities t...

Place. ly. youre always grappling with was cohen a yes man, or was he a people pleaseer which i gleaned from a public pause. if youre an approximate if -- i have a legendary hook to. so its a harder case. to your point, though, mob trials are often tried on that circumstantial evidence of other corroborate ration. other things that say, based on that implicit understanding, i acted. and i was either trade. its a heard case, and what he did was significant. its a harder sell. >> thats if there is...