i want them now. >> hannity and tonight album brags while crowning t political show trial is almost over. the closing arguments are in the bookris arguments, and soon 12 jurors selected from one of the most anti trump districts in theanti entire country. they will decide the fate of donaltr d trump pending appeal. now, today, the prosecution asked jurors to throw caution to the wind, convict the former president of a crimer that they were never able to explain, let alone prove it. le tn in fact, bragg wants the y to hand down 34 felony convictionyut 3s. based on what we have been h saying from the beginning. the l theory surroundingding a a misdemeanor document labeling allegation well past l the statute of limitationsab upcharge to a felony because of this mysterious election lawr violation that was never charged or prosecuteio d evere in a anywhere in america. and this entire convolutedme ca relies on one witness, a convicted liarconvic, admitted liar, disbarred lawyer by the, name of michael cohen. now, we have talked in detain.l about bragg's ulterior motives and cohen's utter lackth of credibility. a judg we have talked about a h judge that should have recused himself. but tonighavcusedt, another majr story is emerging and it surround s the judge. and that's one version. the biden donating judge has has now placed basically cinderblocks on the scales of justice. first, he attempted to silence donald trump with anscales o unconstitutional gag order. next, he allowed the prosecution to run wild with speculation and insinuate the courd t in court that trump was guilty of phantom election that were charged or that weren't even charged or prosecuted. merchan then allowed a shady cast of charactersprosecut thatf prosecution called to the stand ta sayaracters whatever. stormy daniels can talkeo about ghosts and dead people tellspl raunchy stories and bad jokes that were in no relevant or material to the case. the judge also allowed michael- ael cohe cohen to profit fromophe his testimony and apparently wantint fr ig the defense attore lie on the stand repeatedly. according to our own trey gowdy, the defense gave up objecting because it was almosta never sustained by the judge. but when it camein , the defense, while judge merchan sustained, almost every objection. what is he doing? hamstringing witnesses, yelling at trump's lawyers, fro openly rebuking one witness in front of the jury. judge motions disdain fors palp all things. trump. it was palpable from beginning to endable, but his adherencerec to the law was nowhere to bewa found. this is, by every measure, a travesty of justicry measue perpetrated by judge one merchan. make no mistakes. there is no credible evidence in this case of ane's noy crime committed by donald j. trump. the prosecution's star witness was not just a thief, but also admitted thief convicted liar. and as trump's attorneys put ttornee of liars and closing arguments they referred to cohen as the gloat, the greatest liar of all time. he gd on his taxes. he lied to his bank. he lied to the mueller investigation team. he lied to a federal judge. he lied to congress on multiple occasions, lied to his family and lied to the media. and during this current trial, cole was accused of lying on the stand during multipletipc occasions. keep in mind a nondisclosure agreement. its tokeep in mind is not a cri. paying a publication, working with a publication, "the national enquirer", what they call catch and kill, about a story that is also not n a crime. the prosecutorot prosecution wants jurors to believe that the way those paymentsincor were labeled was incorrect and illegal and some type of federal election fraud. expee payments were to trump's attorney. they were labeled a legal expense because that's what they were. ultimately, the burden of proofr is supposed to be with the prosecutiooo supposen. and they have proved nothing. and by the way, where is the also trump.at donald because intent matters here. where is the attention that he violated the law? where is the evidence that he committed an electiownn violation? why should anyone believe that michael cohen is tellin beliegs te the truth this time? but of course,e e.judge juan merchan, whilet to he has done his best to basically tip the scales of justiceasically scale with c, constantly giving the prosecutio n whatever they want, while severely limiting the defense around every turn, this is not justice in america. this is la w fair being waged by a biden loving prosecutor. what the help of ae biden donating judge to be decidedbiting by a jury from the borough of manhattan in new york citd byy, where biden won shy of 90% of the vote. ther90 the vote is crime. there's no evidence of a crime. there's no credibility in this casee noy in the. but a jury might well vote to convict simply because donald w trump is on trial with a judge that obviously wantsjudg convicted. what did i say from the beginning of this tria whai donald trump cannot get a fair trial in new york cityan't regardless of the outcome. he did not get a fair trial in newge york city. and for the record, mar-a-lago is not worth $80 million, much closer to a billion, maybe more. but according to the biden white house, this is fairl and equal justice. it's not political, except today, all the biden campaign, they decided to have a campaign photmpaign po op in front of thw courthouse. now, of course, joe wasn't there in his placeasn't ther. t the campaign rolled out the 80 year old robert de nira o to rat and rave and hem and hawo and yell and pretendya to be a tough guy like he wash in goodfellas. >> take a look. this citguy y is pretty accommodating. we make room for clowns. we had them all over the city. people who do crazy things in the street. we tolerat it's e it it's part e city. it's part of the culture, but not a person like trump. under trump, this kind government will perish from the eartaresh. i don't mean to scare you. . care ywait maybe i doou mean to scare you.m if trump returns to the whiteed house, you can kiss these freedoms goodbye that we all takego for granted.take and elections. forget about it. orted anthat's over. that's done. if he gets in, i can tellil you right now he will never leave. n: for forget about it. all right. anyway, like biden and eero'geit s, im best years are behind him. sadly, he suffers from one ofs e the worst cases of trump derangement syndrome we've ever seen. su to what you heard from de niro, the greatest threat to oure american republic, this great republic of ours, this constitutionitutiona, a republi, is not from the guy facing real prison time becaus te of this political show trial. instead, it would be the far left prosecutor or the bureaucrats who have termed your system of justice into a tool for political retribution. our constitution political ret t equal justice under the law be . ice law equal application of ouo be . welcome to joe biden's t. all right. here with more fox news contributor jonathan turle aye as well as jonathan, you had some amazing observations todaia and how the defense had to live in judge merchan small neighborhood while prosecutors got to globe trot, you know, pretty much all aroundth the world with whatever theory they wanted to throw out or er with pure impunity here. and you actually went and said by allowing prosecutors to state these transactions, campaign violations. it whan turned this into a canned hunt. how is a jurord supposed to question charges whenhe the jury starts with this jus assumption? >> now, you're a professor of.an how could that be in this country? it sounde ins to me likee pu cinderblocks were put on the scales of justice by the judge that wants an outcome. >> am i wrong? well, it's not that i haven't seen anything like this. i haven't even read about anything like this. what i saw in that courtroom was really otherworldly. and, you know, i've i've really attempted to give the judge the benefit of doubt on many occasions. but whate i saw today was, frankly, outrageous. h was ouat one point, the proser actually said, that michael cohen committed election, federa micl election violations upon the orders of donald trump. now, merchan has given an suppruction that the jury is not supposed to attribute cohen's a plea deal as an issuee of guilt. trump. so the defense objected. and merchan, jus t overruled itd and allowed the prosecutor later to repeatedly state that federal election violations by trump are a fact and that there's not any dispute to that. theand just sat there. >> he was as useful as a ficusom plant in that courtroom.hi it was. i kept on waiting, looking at him for some sign that he was even listening to some of these arguments. and at one point,t the prosecutor said that hope hickais burst into tears because she knew that she had destroyedm any defense by donald trump. really? know tha how do you know that? at another point, the prosecutor basically started to testify and said that to catch and kill techniques are just not used in the media or politics, that this is beyond anythinga or that the media or political groups have ever done. >> that'groups have s not in the he was giving testimony. there was no experre t as to that. hillary clinton killed and planted cases in veryn kill election. some of the most outrageous hoaxesed casat elect were were e by the hillary clinton campaigrn with an enabling media. now, in fact, many of those reporters helped the hillaryn dt thataign dhao that. and so that's what was soworldl otherworldly about today. and i can't imagine a jury member going into deliberations and not assuming that it is an established that federal election law violations factd in this case, because the trump has allowed the prosecutors to say it dozens of times. i >> so you're saying that the jury now has been told dozensn o of times these payments for campaign violations ofs, the jue let that false claim stand on, contradicted. now, i don't know what to infer from that because i agreee with you that hearinwig that and of course, when the defense tried to objec d tot, they were overruled almost every time until the end. they got, you know a bone throwt thrown to them once or twice, probably because the judge was tire jd. but short of that, it was allowed in. it was allowed to be statede as fact. now,stated what does that mean?f not just for the jury, but foror the outcome for a potential ifea there was a conviction? e pros >> well, you know, some ofec what the prosecutor said, i hope h the jury views is obviously ridiculous. at one point the prosecutors said that when michael cohen went into a bankt prosecd when d a financial transaction and wrote something untrue, tha that trump must have known that. trump must, how clients know trantheir attorneys frame a financial transfer in a bank. i mean, that's how really sort of overextended the prosecutors were. but the main problem here is still that the judge allowed this erroneous assumption to be reinforced. there is no federal election contribution violation. here. it is. e judge stopped a federalllegal a legal expert who would have said that. >> and so when they go into that room, they're going to start with that proposition, and that's going to take them a long way . now, does that mean that it'ss a it's a lead pipemean cinch for conviction? no, i think what it means is that the chances of an acquittal are diminishing to the point of vanishing. but i think there's still a chance, a hung jury, if any of these jurors just say, you know what? none of this holds together. i mean, you also had all these witnesses saying that,n was you know, this designation was made by an antiquatemad dropdown menu that listed things as legal expenses. and where's wisenberg weisselberg? they keep on referring to thise guy, but she's not being brought in. e refeowhen they quoted trump is closing argument, it was cohen quoting trump. >> so i'm hoping that one of these jurors or two are going to say, look, i think that we're being played for chumpsre being here. and there were, you know, allegations that were allowed wr be stated in court that are not proven and there are no fact bst to. back them up. there was no evidence to back it up. you know, one of the more up n eithe1 ofr ular parts of ih think the prosecution's close waprosecuts how much time they t trying to rehabilitate michael cohen's devastating testimony. you know, he and literally saying can't blame cohn for selling, you know, trump inand jail merchandise or making money and millions of dollarjo n writing books and a podcast orso admitting he hates trump wants him in jail. >> and cohn felt like he dide wa him dirty, i think was dirty actually a phrase that was used at one point. and that keeps the trump security guard had a coded language for the one minute and 36 second call and literally allowing, you know, this whole narrative to go forward about michael cohe micn. and and i'm sitting here saying, oh, it's okay for michael cohen to liei'ng on the stand make mol off donald trump. and you're going to excuse that away as the prosecutor and even commit a bit, committing a crime, robbing himn . >> now, that's one of the moreg bizarre moments. first of all, the prosecutorst s rehabilitated stormy daniels st forwa she really wasn't the money. she was trying to protect her family. and it wasn't extortioyingect ho she was demanding more money from trump. netrumand this was clearly a whe lot of put up on the screen. >> her opponents are callinge yo her audience. >> yeah, let me put while you're talkingu'reter up, i'll p on the screen her of the agenda. >> also, when. yeah, i mean, she claims she according to the prosecutors, she was this victim was pulled into the vortex of donald trump. and i think that even jurors must have been sort of laughingr under their breath. but then when it came to cohen, i would thin whenk that some jurors would be insulted. i mean, here's the stormy daniels letter you're referringe to. i anard it's clear that this waa a hold up operation. but whenholdup cohen came up. we they portrayed him like he was pushing some cart down the street to support his family. they literally said he did thisthis to support his family. he had no mone ty. he's living in a multimillion condo in a trump building. he's made over $2 million. he's selling a merchandise. >> and i think that's yeah. and i think that some of thesehe jurors who live in the realhave world actually have jobs job mit be a little insulted that, you know, give us a break. thi you can't portray this guy is desperately tryingug to feed his family from his penthouse condo. >> long day for you. jonathan turley, thank you, spending time with us. we appreciate it. here now with reaction from the trump campaignh reactithaigp 2024 national press secretary karoline leavitt in the courtroom today. caroline, let's get your take on today's eventday wa s and, maybe dovetail off of what professor turley was saying. >> well, today was an absolute dumpster fire for the biden campaign . ll go to they woke up to a headline in politico that the democrat party is in a full freakout over joe biden's failing hi. desperate campaign o and a couple hours later, they showed up to the criminal courthouse d upe in joe biden's spokesperson was holding a press conferencee jo all butee conceding that this entire case comes from the top. it comes from crooked joe biden, who is using alvin bragdeg as, a far left prosecutor, because no other prosecutor in americ prost in right mind would proceed with this case other than alvin bragg, who has trump derangemenher thant syndrd and who is the star guest at that press conference outsid we, the courthouse today, hactor de niro, an out of touc elitist actor from hollywood, because those are the only peoplfruse left this county who support joe biden. and he went on an unhinged people tirade about president trump. you know what? he didn't mention the reale yo problems that americans are facing, the fact that they are petrifie facind about weapod government, that joe biden is leading the facts go that ism of robbing them of thousands of dollars everythousa single m. the fact that we have a wide open border because of joe biden's that is allowed ans invasion of millions of illegal criminal tos, terrorists into our great country. joe biden's campaign is so desperate, that was outside the courtroom. and then inside the courtroom, the jawsutside soros funded prosecution completely imploded . they have lost the plot. it took them more than 4 hours to conclude their closing arguments because they don't gyve a crime the and they know . they've been doing legal gymnastics with this jurmny. aa and i feel sorry for the jury because they've wasted six weeks of their life listening to this fromom georg george source's team. joe biden's teamros team, alvins team and judge merchan was a highly conflicted judge who has overseen it all. >> what is your take on the judge allowing, as jonathan turley was talking about in detai n: as we l all of this information, to go out there? sd they've been told the jury has been told dozens of times tin. nts for campaig the judge let that false claim without any evidence go on contradicted in this case. what's your take on that t cas? >> it's unbelievable to witness the sheer biasevable t of this r and every time our defense teams proposes a objection, he totally overrules it. but has all the patients in the world for the prosecution. he has the entire time. and as professoradhe turley poid out, he denied a key witness in this case who would have proved that there was no federal campaign violatione wa.g that's why the fec didn't bring this case up in the first place. case first place biden's justice department even passed on this case. and soe even p didn't alvin bragg's predecessor in the d.a.'s office, cy vance. inthey all passed on this case because there is no crimbee. e n the judge knows that. and he's a highly conflicted judge for reason as that president trump can't even talk about because he imposed an unconstitutionareasons l ordr on the president, because he doesn't want president trump to expos hee the truth about his. corruption. >> that's wh y he did not he did not step in and stop this on contradicted false narrative to go forward. in closing arguments today, outrageous beyond anything i've ever heard or seen in my you. karoline leavitt, thank you. here now with more on today'u ns closing arguments, fox business correspondent linton lydia who is with us. she was in the trial today.s wow. i was watching you earlierd your and what a day you had. >> yeah, great. g da be with you. it's certainly a long day, not just for us covering thit ju ust trial, but for the jurors. i mean, i've heard the point already been made by your prior guest about the length of this trial. this was the sixth week of testingmony. ctive so think about that fromof the perspective of the jurors. do setting your own life asideid for six weeks to hear about this cas6 e? and then today, starting your dayfinally at 930 in the h with closing arguments from the defensfrome and ending 8 p.. tonight, closing arguments from the prosecution wrap up, you have to wonder, is the jurey all of this information, particularly from the prosecution in their win e digging and long, painstaking, painstaking closing argumentain and is the jury concluding, wow, they're saying a lot. sol th this must be important oh is it the reverse? eythey're saying a lot. and i really wish this wouldis d be over you know, we'll soon get an indication when this jury gets the case. we assume tomorrow tomorro after they hear the charging instructions. that's certainly a long day for all involved . any feel for the jury as you were in the courtroom? well, today i was in the overflow, so i didn't have the opportunity to lay my eyes on them, but i was able to see them on one occasion, one dayourtro when i was in the mainom