Vague timeline of the alleged attack made it difficult for trump to testify, saying, quote, how do you prove a negative? nbc news correspondent ron allen is outside the courthouse and also with us is federal and white collar criminal defense attorney caroline polisi. walk us through where this case stands with jury deliberations beginning today and what we heard in the closing arguments. reporter: the judge is instructing the jury going through the allegations, going through the charges, and defining, for example, what battery is. that s first question they have to answer. did he commit battery, which is rape in the civil proceeding. and if they answer yes to that, then they have to go and decide several elements of what constitutes battery. and then the issue is defamation. did he defame her? e. jean carroll alleges he raped her in the department store in the spring of 1996 and that this destroyed her life, destroyed her reputation, haun harmed her
And even through thursday daytime, we just pull the wind round to a bit more of a north easterly direction. that s just going to bring in some slightly cooler air than we started the week with perhaps some showers into eastern england later in the day. what we re looking at is that our temperatures tending away from the mid teens into perhaps the lower end of double figures for thursday and still perhaps just ten degrees along the north sea coast. now, end of the week, things start to get more lively. the high pressure in the north gives way to allow low pressure to come swirling up from the south. that means we will see, i think, some showers spreading across england and wales on friday more widely across the whole of the uk for saturday and sunday. and then quite a shock to the system, i think as we potentially pick up a northerly wind and some much colder weather for early next week. shaun, full credit to david for saving his place on tour at the qualifiers. and earning
About that we know that federal investigators have found evidence that shows trum looked through documents and moved boxes with thi classified material, after h was served a subpoena to tur it all over. as prosecutors move forward to mike s point in this investigation, what type o additional evidence might they need to charge trump wit obstruction here could the interviews that he s also done come back and haun him? sure, they can come back to haunt him. but the key evidence, we ll, first of all, let me just sa this the document section o the case, the espionage sectio of the case, that has to d with having the document themselves basically an easy case it s like, you stole the documents. we told you we wanted them back your promise to do it. you didn t do it you lied about we ask you then. you said - pretty please. and we served him a subpoena you lied again, and then w found them so, that part of the case is actually pretty easy, and read to go. and the obstruction case looks like it s also getting easie and ready to go, because the one thing we know is a federal
Back to it was actually foun at the residence in mar-a-lago yes, and i remember recentl that interview that he did o fox were basically, by som people s analysis, confessed t taking these documents and saying that you re allowed t do that, and that i can do it. and cynthia, i want to ask about that we know that federal investigators have found evidence that shows trum looked through documents and moved boxes with thi classified material, after h was served a subpoena to tur it all over. as prosecutors move forward to mike s point in this investigation, what type o additional evidence might they need to charge trump wit obstruction here could the interviews that he s also done come back and haun him? sure, they can come back to haunt him. but the key evidence, we ll, first of all, let me just sa this the document section o the case, the espionage sectio of the case, that has to d with having the documents an self he basically needs a case, right? you stole the documents. we told you we wanted them back your promise to do it. you didn t do it you lied about we ask you then. you said - and we served him a subpoena