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we are in the final stretch of the first criminal trial of a former president. the defense is presenting its closing arguments in donald trump's hush money trial. the former president's lead attorney, todd blanche, has spent the morning trying to plant seeds of reasonable doubt by saying the prosecution's trove of checks and documents do not link president trump to the crime. they can only believe this if they believe michael cohen. >> they moved on to stormy daniels, suggesting she hasn't told the truth either. once that's done -- we think it's getting close to the end of the defens...

i am here because of crooked joe biden. the worst president in the history of our country. he is destroying our country. this country is being destroyed rapidly. not slowly. rapidly. >> this is the time to stop him by voting him out once and for all. we don't want to wake up after the election saying again? my god. what the hell have we done. we can't have that happen again peered >> we have been here for six weeks. nobody has said trump did anything wrong. we have a highly conflicted judge with unconstitutional gag order and everybody sees this case for what it is. >> sandra: a live...

good morning. it is 10:00 eastern. i'm ana cabrera alongside my colleague and friend jose diaz-balart, bringing you special coverage as history unfolds this morning in a new york courthouse. closing arguments now under way in the first criminal trial of a former president. the dramatic final phase of donald trump's hush money case after 21 days in court, 22 witnesses and 80 hours of testimony. >> up first in today's closing arguments, trump's defense team. attorney todd blanche trying to convince a jury that the prosecution did not meet their burden of proof in this trial. >> nbc's y...

de niro to try to change the subject? you can see the look on the biden campaign staffers faces. they knew it was a bad idea. they didn't want to be here. somebody as central command everything is going down the tubes for joe biden. i hand it over to carolyn leavitt. >> you heard a desperate and failing and pathetic -- >> harris: we'll pull back from that. jason miller, an important voice. the senior advisor for the trump campaign. what you saw there were dueling campaign events. you first saw robert de niro, who was mixed in with some lawmakers and then behind him were a couple of t...

versus donald j. trump. we're getting live updates from inside of the courtroom. we're going to do our best to watch them together and bring out and interrupt our conversations and bring you any and all significant moments as they're happening. over the last few hours the prosecutor has been going through the claims made by trump's lawyers in their closing argument this morning. steinglass, the prosecutor, pushed back against trump's lawyers claim from this morning that porn star stormy daniels was extorting donald trump. prosecutors saying this, quote, extortion is not a defense to ...