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 defense case the prosecution will follow with what s expected to be four hours plus of their closing argument as they tie together their sprawling case after jurors heard from 20 witnesses. they saw about 200 pieces of evidence over a six-week period. the challenge? to sum up those arguments behind the 34 felony counts against the former president. remember, the prosecution has to connect donald trump n
keep pushing forward with this, and there are a lot of other liars. to me, that s the weakness in the defense coming in. to point it out, it s 11:00 eastern, and 8:00 pacific right now. they did bring up the catch and kill yeah, and related it back to cohen. that specifically, duncan, the idea that catch and kill is not illegal. we have talked about that before and that s true. they brought out the testimony and he s bringing in during the argument other catch and kill instances, schwarzenegger, and others, and this is different. the reason it s different is catch and kill is not illegal and maybe it s a questionable journalistic technique but it s not illegal. prior to 2016, the national enquirer and donald trump never engaged in this together, and why is that? this is borne out by the testimony of david pecker, and then they talked to michael cohen about this, and the timing of it and the fact that it was taking place after the access hollywood testimony cam