for laura ingraham and this is "the ingraham angle" from new york city tonight. closing arguments are still underway in the ludicrous trump trail. reminding the jurors this entire case is based on the word ofdi guy who lied directly to them. they even nickname star witness michael cohen as the greatest layer of old time here the prosecution has been droning ont for hours.s fo joining me now outside of the courthouse is fox news correspondent, 848.t? nate, what is the latest? >> hey, judge, the prosecutionin is five hours into making its closing argument and court ends 4:30 and right now 7:00, we ared still waiting for formerco president trump to leave the courthouse and speak as he is expected to do. in the next few minutes, the prosecution has been w hainterpreting tweets" from trump's books and interpreting what they believe he meantveal during those experts. the prosecution today also revealed the underlying crimeaw futhat trump is accused of. he is accused of unlawfullyou influencing the 2016 election bn suppressing negative stories about himself along withru michael cohen and david packer.e trump's said the closing arguments on true social isr boring and said this about the judge earlier today. listen to those periods big of a judge is a highly conflicted. happens to be corrupt and complexion is the worst that anybody has seen. nobody has seen a judge like him. they can't even be the prospector of impropriety. >> judge, as you mentioned a big part of trump's lawyers closing arguments is attacking michael cohen's credibility. he described the greatest layer of all time and remember cohen laura says the only one directly to the scheme to pay off adult film actress stormy daniels. cohen admitted to lying unde agr oath several times. lying again while testifying during this trial. told the jury, "you cannot send someone to prison based on the words of michael cohen. after that, judge merchan admonished blanche and reminded the jury it is hisis responsibility alone to decide trump's punishment if, in fact, found guilty. there is a quote mountain ofls evidence connecting to thed th daniels payoff and directed the business of business to be falsified rather than doing himself. within the past 30 minutes, trump was not eager to silencebe daniels until he was a political candidate.test he described the hick's testimony as the "nail in thenes coffin." that is why she cried on the tru witness stand but remember, hicks testified that trump worrie meld about his family and specific milani a win forimpo daniels story resurfaced. that is important because durinn the jury instruction debate, thr judge indicated that as part of the jury instructions if theyote find make the payment would have been made for reasons other than putin political future of nameli his brand or future, it could not be considered a campaign contribution, and that is what is elevating the 34 misdemeanor countsrigh to felonies here at t now, we are waiting for the end of the action today. again, we are to win a half hours past my normal time with that you're expected this case tomorrow. we send it back to you. >> judge jeanine: nate, i wantua to follow up with one question. you said the prosecution said it was the nail in the coffin whena hope hicks started crying? they interpreting hope hicks tears as being negative towards donald trump as opposed to the fact that she was trying tot protect or that thesh president was trying to protect his wife and she had to testify for the prosecution. >> that is exactly right, judge. the prosecutor josh bergstein glass claims that hicks broke down on the witness standg he because she knew how damaging her testimony was to former president trump here at about ia mentioned earlier she was the that trump was actually worried how melaniaet would react. she specifically called trump t make sure the newspapers did not get delivered to the hometo t because he was concerned aboutin melania's action. >> judge jeanine: i have to tell you, nate, the idea of the prosecution would be able to assess motive behind tears it which they followed up with the question>>, which i assume they didn't, correct? >> yeah, no, that is correct,is judge here the prosecution is interpreting hicks and how she felt on the witness stand. i mentioned at the veryti beginning of the report, they are also interpreting how trump felt and what he meant when he posted several things on twitter and they are alshio going throuh quotes from his books right now and attaching a meaning that is coming from them rather than from trump himself.th >> judge jeanine: it looks like trump is walking backan ino the courtroom right now. nate, thank you so much. there they are, the trump family, lara trump -- okay, we saw some of the family, tiffany, michael, her husband or that is the whole trump group, jason there, the attorney, okay. they are back into the courtroom. the joining me now is mike davis, founder and president of the article three project and also clerked for justice for search and sean duffy, fox news contributor and cobosan d fox business, the bottom linee sean, i was in court today and i had one outstanding question, no one has indicated that donald trump directed anyone to file the bookkeeping in a way where it would be criminal orwn even had a conversation. in fact, they broke it down to invoice, vouchers, checks generated here at michael cohen gives the invoice anred,d the vouchers are prepared consistent with mic michael cohen wins inve spirit and the checks are generated based on the invoices. so where is trump worth constraining a crime? >> where is the crime? we are focused on the jury and these summations, if you are thr jury, we are like he spent four and have half five weeks ind th court with a trial against a former president and this is all you've got? this is it? you will spend five, six hours in summation.reak you pull all the strings trying to compute those, but when youro break it down to the law and the facts, judge, they don't have it.ik >> judge jeanine: the amazings,i part of this, mike davis, is that there were nine points that todd blanche laid out fong ar te defense seining and every one of them was clear that in the end michael cohen is the embodiment of reasonable doubt. is theve glowed of the greatest layer of all times.y what isa thought was effective s when they said, todd blanche said, "michael cohen did not just slide into congress, and just lied to the judges, his wife, the bank and everyone else but you lied to you when hethat swore to tell the truth. rem >> that is right. we have to remember even if everything that brad and cole [boos] theno radco angelo, just play along, there was no crime here. it is not a crime for am an businessman to settle a nuisance claim and put in his privateit o book as a legal expense. i don't know what you call it other than illegal spins and it is also not a crime for presidential candidate to try to "scheme to effects of the election." t were a crime, every canada in america would be criminals. this is coa rigged, partisan, corrupt process by a judge whof was conflicted because his daughter is raising millions of ase,dollars off of this case het the prosecutor alvin bragg thomas george soros d.a. and michael cohen angelo from the justice department to bring thi political case and there is noto evidence. >> judge jeanine: mike, i will go to you, sean. apparently they are now identifying what t the underlyig crime that gave to expired misdemeanors and they are saying the president unlawfullyt influenced an election by suppressing stories. i'm going to get to this question, every campaign is basically a conspiracy to win an election. you tries.d to get stories and b your friends to publish bad stories about your opponent. you ran for office and i ran for office, talk to me. >> calling the press nonstopilli pushing stores and trying to kill bad stories and that ishat what campaigns actually do and by the way hillary clinton in the dossier was trying to push a full story against donald trump. shpoine too should be prosecute trey gowdy made a point in emails basically saying i didn't realize this hush money scheme and i thought it was wisconsinrr and she had a private server with classified information ondn it which is wife -- the point, in the closing argument, you anu i both know this, you're not supposed to talk about the sentencing and when trump's team talked about you don't send a man to prison off of cohen's testimony, that was brilliant this is an alley cat type fight. brass knuckles and somewhat breaking the rules, but with this kind of budget, you can'tmh take it to the jury and do you want to send it him into prison with michael cohen's testimony,i proof beyond a reasonable doubt a man who has lied to the jury,d congress, anged america. >> judge jeanine: as a former judge myself and michael, youse know the judge has to instruct the jury that sentencing is uprt to him or her. but just so you know them apparently, the court will kee knop going until 8:00 tonight. we don't knocaw what is happenig after that. i can imagine the judge told these people to bring theirst t toothbrush. they should have beend ha sequestered by tuesday night. that is what i would have done with my juriesis here at but the prosecution is saying that donald trump directed the business records to be written in a way where they could cover up wharsont was goit on. but not one person talked about donald trump. even michael cohen when getting involved in th e bookkeeping, even michael cohen didn't. so now, they are making up the story all along. they are not giving donald trump t to defend himself based upon objections that were made during the course of the defenses argument. >> yeah, when cnn jake tapper is even admitting that the prosecution has failed to provea reasonable doubt, you know it ir a bad day for the prosecution if this were a fair trial and a fair court. >> judge jeanined : you know, sean, you and i both know this is a judge in the event -- ands let's just remind the viewers what the options are here of a verdict. what are the options?ui >> you have an acquittal, an acquittal on some of the charges a h and convictions on the others.id a hung jury or a conviction. by the way, i've said this before and i will say it again, the judge tried to give it to donald trump by sending the jury home for a week and talking -- so>> judge jeanine: that is something we all agree. >> no, it's not bu- t i think u want your jurors to fight for you. and you don't want to think about the vacation of barbecues, bringing them back on tuesday, the jurors focus for truth and>> justice.>> j >> judge jeanine: let's hope so, let's hope so. the lastthe ion, question, mich. if the judge tomorrow is charged as a jury in a way that you and i have reason to believe it isne not going tofi be beneficial to the defense,y given the will lee wait in the prosecution in theie summation, the jury is going tot go in and the last thing they will have heard is the judge'swn instructions and you and i w they were missing witnesses here. he is the one that made decisions about the checks and case-shiller is a missingth witness.e the prosecution chose not to call these people, why not?l >> what is a good question. this is a partisan, rig, corrup process. i would not be surprised at all if this jury finds president trump guilty even thoughand there is no crime ano evidencey. this may have to be resolved byh the american people onefor november 5th, 2024 because ite will not get resolved todayd before that. >> judge jeanine: it will not ta be resold before the election. john and mike, thank you for being with me tonight. joe biden making a surprise nighttime visit to see his daughter-in-law who also happens to be hunter and normally that would not be a big deal, butstif just days before she plans ton r testify in his son's gun trial here at fox senior national correspondent, kevin corke, is here with all the details, kevin. >> evening, judge, making the surprise nighttime is it to thea delaware home on sunday. s thatug is why that is newsworths or some suggested incredibly problematic.me it is because the president's visit, judge, comes days before hallie biden to serve as one of the most important witnesses at hunter biden's federal trial for alleged gun crimes. now, you may recall she was i married to the president's son, beau, who died in 2015 of brain cancer. that was before she had a ntlyrelationship with a youngerl brother, hunter. she was apparently dating hunter at the time of alleged crime and onestie of a dozen expected witr testify. and apparently stopped by the house at 8:00 sunday night for a brief i'm a private talk, again, eight days before she isar scheduled to begin part of a trial to begin on june 3rd. but if you think this was odd, strange, even, the white house wants you to know it was no such thing. spokesman andrew bates said the president didn't discuss thehe trial with hallie biden during the visit noting, "he visited her because of the approaching l ninth anniversary of bo's passing." prosecutors allege hunter lied about his drug abuse on a done form that used to purchase a firearm and in illegal thpossession of an firearm which allegedly, hallie biden disposed of in a public dumpster in 2018. the plot thickens, judge. >> judge jeanine: i'm sure he was they were to talnintk aboute ninth anniversary but that is me. bidkevin my thank you so much. the biden campaign trots out uber trump hater robert de niro outside of the courthouse today. the wild video you have got to see next. ♪ ♪ we want to do whatever is best for the individual service person. we want to be known as america's mortgage company for veterans and active duty service people, and they and their families. we're the ones that are there to help them. people are doing hard, arduous, difficult, dangerous things. some of them are giving 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lost in front of him standing in front of a courthouse with the former president and a relentless crusade to imprison his political opponent. unless you just think this is robert de niro acting on his own committee was introduced by the biden campaigns communication director. >> we are not here today because of what is going on over there and we are here because you all are here. we are here primarily with the threatened donald trump poses to the united states of america. of course, we are happy to have robert de niro. >> judge jeanine: joining me now is charlie hurt, "washington times" opinion editor and fox news contributor. netbrain, founder and ceo of "american majority." you know what, charlie, the biden campaign is running out of ideas. they are losing women and minorities, blacks and trade out an old actor to read a script. >> i think that is a perfect summation. this is the most desperate move i have ever seen from a major parties political campaign. i think they have run out and i would say they are losing on all of the ideas. so they have to go through with this. it is strange to listen to robert de niro. obviously, this is a guy that will take in a row anybody gives him never turn anything anything he's been called about. is talking about how donald trump is a terrorists. and at the problem is everyone knows what it's like to live as donald trump as president and they were much better off than the current guy. as you point out, the current guy is the one who has turned the justice system into clinical cultural to betray donald trump. so joe biden doesn't have to face him in an election. >> judge jeanine: you know, ned ryun, good idea? >> no, terrible idea. total and completely political nonpractice with the biden campaign today. first of all, they tied themselves to this political witch hunt of a trial to the chief political opponent you would be no they have been coordinating this law fair, but they have dropped the masquerade and publicly tied themselves to it. judgment it felt like jury tampering. you are telling me none of those jurors will go home and find out the biden campaign held a press or outside of the courthouse and basically, we hope you do the right thing in this trial? and always that deranged, demented dwarf dinero going out on the hinge grant. it felt like biden wrote it because it was incoherent but it reeks of desperation. listen to the press conference. they were talking about lies, trump and democracy come abortion here they can't run on foreign policy, that is a disaster and that they cannot run on the economy total disaster, southern border dumpster fire. you sense the panic rising because they thought this law fair would take out trump and all of a sudden he's thriving in fund-raising and thriving in the polls. >> judge jeanine: no question about it. you know, charlie the amazing thing, he says it's the end of my city and the end of the country in the end of the world. people remember what it was like living under president donald trump. an incredibly high percentage said they had a better life. >> yeah. and sitting here watching this incredible situation where you have the president who obviously ends up being harassed and court during the campaign, but he takes the opportunity to go visit construction workers in manhattan and conduct that amazing, amazing rally last week in the bronx where he gave one of the finest political speeches i had ever heard about hopeful speech about the city of new york and about what these people have done to america and how, you know, if a new yorker can't fix this, nobody can. >> judge jeanine: all right, charlie, ned, hold on i want to bring in laura ingraham host of "the ingraham angle," hello, laura, here you are on an airport or point somewhere. >> eight hours in friendly skies united airlines. it wasn't so friendly today but that's okay. i'm so sorry not to be on tonight, literally there is no way to get to a studio on time given what happened that airline had mechanical problems here at about i followed everything that was happening today and continue to happen in manhattan. judge, you have a bird's-eye view here at what is going on in our country with the weaponization of the judicial system hacked off with the spectacle of complete confirmation of what you and i have been saying all along. that this was political from the outset. obviously my heard you talk about robert de niro you were to but we know this. they are so stupid that they confirmed it for everybody to date, and will be confirmed again in joe biden speaks after the verdict is in. we know this. we know this. there was no crime that was committed. a jury that is fairly inst instructed. it doesn't look like this one will be. jury fairly instructor would ever be able to have a unanimous verdict for this penal statute with business falsification of records. they have no predicate crime, no follow-up crime here this is a complete travesty from the beginning to the end. and that i was mad about -- bu