Evening edit starts right now. So the jury in the new york trump trial was dismissed until next tuesday after the defense wrapped up their presentation of the case. Fox news nate foy is live outside the New York State Supreme Court with the very latest. Now, nate, usually jury instructions are kind of boring, but in this case it could really be the heart of the trial, right . Reporter oh, it certainly could be, david, because these instructions are the last thing that the jury hear before they start deliberating and ultimately decide if former President Donald Trump is guilty or not. Now, trump just left the courthouse and at the end of court today he appeared frustrated. He threw down a note, sat back in his chair and crossed his arms as lawyers on both sides argued about what those instructions to the jury will be. Now, some of the highlights here, david, the take away from todays afternoon session is that judge her san merchan agreed to instruct the jury that Michael Cohen pleading guilty to the federal Campaign Finance laws in no way shows any guilt on the part of former President Donald Trump. Trumps lawyers also wanted judge merchan to clarify that socalled hush money payments are not all legal. Merchan said that it came up several times at the trial and that another instruction would be going too far. Now, her merchan did side with dumps lawyers about a key matter, prosecution prosecutors argue trump falsified records, but the jury instructions will read, quote, if the payment would have been made even in absence of candidacy, payment should not be treated as contribution. So if the jury thinks trump was motivated by his brand or his family, the bookkeeping charges could not be elevated to felonies. They would be misdemeanors. Trumps team rested their case after Bob Costellos testimony, he was the 2 22nd overall witness, the 2 opinioneddened for the 2nd for the defense. He testified about his close relationship with Rudy Giuliani and setting up a back channel the trump, he sent messages at miking cohens request. Trump did not testify himself in the trial. His son don jr. Said today outside the courthouse, that would have made no sense with how unfair the trial has been. Right now, david, the jury was sent home in the morning, and theyll be back on tuesday when we will have closing arguments, and then after that theyll be handed the instructions that were debated over today and deliberations will begin on wednesday of next week. Well send it back to you with. David wow, trial of the century. Of this century anyway. Nate, thank you very much for that, appreciate it. Joining me now for reaction, former doj official Francey Hakes and former prosecutor portfolio prosecutor and senior legal fellow at the heritage foundation, cully stemson. Cully, as were near to the end of this trial, are we any closer to know what that socalled other crime listed in the indictments, has lifted an extired expired misdemeanor charge to 34 felonies . Apparently not. Because if these are the final jury instructions which is the legal road map for the jurors that they must follow, millions there are other instructions out there, were done. And now its just with all over but the shouting, the final arguments from both sides and then the judge will tell them go off in the jury room and deliberate. So, no, i think were done. David wow. So, francey, arent we essentially charging trump with a felony crime which hasnt been specified . Well, david, that thats exactly whats happening. This is a mystery crime, and that is everything that violates the constitution and our system of government that weve had for more than 200 years. In fact, we broke away from england so that we would have better rights as defendants sitting in the box with. And here we still today have no idea, it seems as though bragg is trying to get a multiple choice option in front of the jury which is unconstitutional and wildly unlawful. David well, culley, isnt the reason why we we havent heard that other charge because it would have to be mentioned that that, that he is being accused, essentially, of a federal crime over which the d. A. Of new york and this judge have no authority to are prosecute . If to prosecute . Right. Federal finance crimes are prosecuted by doj or the federal Election Commission. They waived off on that, so now we have a jury thats probably going to go in the back in the jury deliberation room can and start scratching their head. And i think it was this judge has made a number of mistakes k. And i was a judge, and you dont want to be overturned on appeal. Hes made a number of mistakes, not the least of which was not letting brad smith who was on the federal Election Commission testify on behalf of the defense to talk through federal if Election Campaign rules. And so i think the theres even a conviction on anything, theres a lot of grounds for an appeal. David and thats an extraordinary thing, that essentially Michael Cohen was the one who was explaining because of his own conviction for violations of federal law, he was explaining the to the jury what federal law was where and hes a liar. Hes a liar, and and as we found out yesterday, hes a thief. So the jury was taking instructions, and it was rowed by the judge on election allowed by the judge on election law from a liar and a thief, and they wouldnt let brad smith who was the former chair of the fec testify as to to what really was the law about elections. David, thats perfectly illustrative of why this case is such a legal abomination. The judge actually let someone like are Michael Cohen basically instruct the jury on the law. No witness is allowed to instruct the jury on the law unless they are an expert if witness and it is an area of the law outside the jurys experience. Now, election law, federal election law is certainly outside the jurys experience, so its extraordinary that the judge did not let President Trump call their witness in order to define certain terms for the jury that they certainly should not be getting from Michael Cohen. David and, you know, cully, what this really brings to mind is the whole concept of the twotiered scwus hes system that weve heard so much about with regard to one side getting prosecuted for very politicallyoriented crimes and the other side not getting prosecuted at all. Or, if so, just a slap of the hand. Particularly with regard to what has been accepted by this judge from the prosecution as opposed to what has been rejected from the judge concerning the defense, the defense of donald trump. Our own trey, trey gowdy spoke to this just moments ago. I just want to play that sound bite and get your reaction. Roll tape. I dont like criticizing judges. I mean, i judges can be wrong. That doesnt necessarily mean theyre corrupt. I was stunned yesterday at how the strike zone was so different for the prosecution than the defense. And if anything, im biased towards the prosecution ordinarily. David so, cully, do you see the same thing . Is it a different strike zone depending on whether its defense or prosecution . Like trey, im old school. I dont think i criticize the judge, but i can certainly look at his rulings and which way did the rulings lean. One way, towards the prosecution. Typically, what you do when youre a judge if youre going to lean one way to the or the other, and you shouldnt, lean towards the defense because at least you inure to the rights of the person whos presumed innocent under the law. Here he went the other way, and if theres a conviction on anything on these alleged crimes, there are going to be at lot of issues on appeal that are ripe. David and francey, very quickly, finally, the role of the Biden Administration in all this forward to sending one of their top prosecutors from doj down to prosecute this case, also with the fani willis case, apparently they were dealing with fannie if willis assistant who turned out to be a very close friend as well, how deep does their involvement and theyre supposed to be hands off. The president says the doj is hands off. Do you believe what the president says about that . Well, i its interesting, david, because what you have here is the number three official at the department of justice going to a City Prosecutors Office as an assistant d. A. It just doesnt happen. The ladder goes the other way, the ladder does not generally go down. What you can see from this case is political partisan bias is everywhere from the if judge on down. David thank you very much, appreciate you being here. Turning now to the question of president bidens competence as his gaffes are really piling up, and the white house is working overtime the try to correct them. The white house had to make nine corrections to the transcript of bides speech at an naacp event this past weekend. This is now a common if occurrence for the Biden Administration if as biden continues his blunders in speeches. Joining me now to discuss is New York Post political reporter jon jon levine. Jon, good the see you. Good to be back. David thank you very much. Besides putting up that full screen of the nine mistakes that were made, e just want to play a little montage of some of the mistakes he made at that naacp meeting. Roll tape. When i was Vice President , things were kind of bad during the pandemic, and what happened was barack said to me, go the detroit. Help fix it. Im humbled to receive this organization with the character and consequence of what we do. I protected and expanded the Affordable Care act, saving millions of families 800,000 a year in premium. David let me just show what the corrections were. He said when i was Vice President during the pandemic, he wasnt Vice President during the pandemic. He said im humbled to receive this organization, he was receiving an award, not the organization. And he said that his expanded Affordable Care act is saving a families, first he said 800,000. Then he. Corrected himself to say 8,000 a year. It was actually 800 a year if you were to believe it. Right. David im just wondering, how much of his mistakes are, you know, kind of natural flubs and how much are actually concerted lies, for example, claiming there was 99 inflation 9 inflation when he came to office. I think a lot of it just hes getting older. What youve got to remind your viewers is thats a prepared speech. Hes not just riffing. Hes reading off a teleprompter, and theres still nine things you have to correct. So i do think, you know, you have to hide him, he wont do interviews, they keep him out of sight. But eventually, this is a president ial campaign, theres no more pandemic to hide behind, hes going to have to face the vote, and youre boeing to see a lot more of this voters. David and hes also facing his contributors who are getting worried about whether theyre wasting their money. He had a big drop. Back in march he collected about 99 90 million, in may he collected 51 million, so the smart money peoples seems to be going to trump. And this is a very, very big reversal. I think it shows reality is starting to take a bite. Obviously, every time you go into a supermarket, you see what things cost. That a matters. And theres also gee geopolitical issues like the israelpalestine situation where, obviously, you have parts of president bidens base that have openly prohamas, and they live in some swing states, and theyre causing major disruptions. And you have a lot of young voters who are very, very upset, but you also have very influential proisrael democrats, major e doe can nors who have written to the white house saying theyre unhappy with bidens approach to the conflict. And i think the white house is trying to sort of appease everybody and split if the difference, and you pend up just p if issing everybody off. [laughter] pissing everybody off. David you mentioned the scripts themselves that biden uses. Right. David you compare that, we just saw donald trump outside the courtroom ad libbing, feels perfectly comfortable and in charge. Right. That. David he, frankly, looks more president ial, and i think that may be dissuading some donors from guiden as well. Theres only a 3year difference between those two men, but we see a world of age hits all of us differently, and i think were seeing a world of difference in their respective competencies in front of the camera, in front of audiences. I urge anyone to the watch biden videos from 10 years ago a, 15 years david right, very different man. A completely different can man. David finally, on thursday night we see donald trump in the bronx before another big crowd. Of whoever thought hed be in the bronx being able to deliver a campaign speech. What do you think were going to see . Madness. Ethical madness. Ill say reagan was here in 1980 and did a similar rally in the bronx and this video on youtube, and he went on to win new york in 1980. It was a big spoiler. Oregon that trump is going to win new york but itll as i said, its going to be wild. David you going to be there . Yeah. David daf jon, thank you very much for being here. Still ahead, senator ron johnson from the Senate Budget committee is with us. The Biden White House tries the flip the inflation narrative claiming that inflation has nothing to do with trillions of dollars in deficit spending. Instead, theyre placing the blame for rising prices on greedy companies. Well get the senators opinion on that. Meanwhile, Jpmorgan ChaseCeo Jamie Dimon says he is, quote, cautiously possess if mystic on the economy. Well break down what that a means next on the evening edit. Many. If. marci so, how long have you lived here . opponent over forty years. marci and how are the restaurants around here . Are they good, bad, meh . Whats the average Household Income . Is there a mall . I dont know. A hair salon . 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Does inflation come from price gouging from companies or from president bidens economic policies . It comes from massive deficit spending, prohibiting trillions of dollars printing trillions of dollars. Too many dollars chasing too few goods. Two stats i use are the start of the Biden Administration, the dollar held value its now 83 cent 83 cents. The average american is paying 1,000 more per month just to maintain a standard of living, and if we put that in context, i look at a past studies, one from the federal reserve, somewhere between 3767 of americans in 2022 couldnt afford a 400 emergency payment. 400, and theyre being forced to pay 1,000 a month just to maintain hair standard of living. Thats why regardless of what the stock market says or the Unemployment Rate is, thats why people are feeling real economic pain. They cant afford things. David now, they have this new thing called the strike the force on unfair and illegal pricing. Thats supposed to get all those pricegouging companies. They claim that it saved 20 billion specifically on these junk fees. Even if you accept that as true, 20 billion writ large over the nations economy is nothing compared to a 20 loss in gdp because of inflation. That amounts to about 5 trillion. So, i mean, theyre putting these minute changes in savings that they claim to have against a 20 loss in the entire gdp. Its a distraction. Theyre counting on the immediate media who, by and large, are advocates of the left to potentially cover that like its a serious attempt, like its going to actually help people. As you point out, thats not even going to show up how many decimal points in terms of a percentage of our gdp. So its a meaningless number. Theyre going to try and distract the American Public with that, like theyre actually doing Something Like opening up and draining more of our Strategic Oil verve which is a dangerous thing to do reserve. Theyre getting desperate. 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