let's bring in fox business lydia hu, andy mccarthy, former u.s. torney and fox news contributor live outside the courthouse. i have two for one on this shot. thank you both for being here. lydia, we put together, fox news put together a mockup what the jury might have. it is a list of all 34 counts. they relate to that many of many of misdemeanor of falsifying business records. they have to deal with one of three underlying causes, is that the proper that is taking place here? yeah that is intended to be a guide for the jurors, to help them walk through what each one of the counts are, to indicate what the decision is guilt or innocence with respect to each one of them. i would love to tell you we are able to evaluate the actual document the jurors have in hand. it is not available to the public. that is extremely frustrating for so many of us. i can tell you what we believe is not on the document, andy, excuse me, david, that's the underlying unlawful acts that the jurors would also have to find in order to be able to check guilty for any one of t

lydia hu is live from new york's supreme court with the latest. ood morning to you. >> reporter: good morning. it is the second day of testimony from the prosecution's star witness, one time lawyer for the pfor the president and , michael cohen. we heard testimony about the alleged scheme to influence the 2016 election, michael cohen told him trump told him to delay payments to stormy daniels as long as he could, aiming for after the election. but when payments were needed cohen said he wired $130,000 from his home equity line of credit to hide the payment from cohen's own wife. cohen says trump and allen wiselburg disguised payments. the cross examination will directly question cohen's credibility. cohen is a convicted felon, admitted to lying under oath. he served prison time in part for dealings with stormy daniels. he's also built a career off attacking trump with pod casts and books. donald trump's son, eric trump, responded yesterday. >> this guy's a convicted felon, lost his law license, went down the tubes because he was defrauding apparent

the stand tomorrow the prosecution said is the final witness before turning over to the defense lydia hu with all the details lydia. >> angry liar out for money, that is how defense attorneys general are painting the disbarred former attorney for donald trump michael cohen we are breaking down the crosss examination blow-by-blow coming up don't go away. ♪ ♪ . e to side. when you work with someone who knows a lot and cares even more... you can do this. ...you're unstoppable. (♪) wow... are you kidding me? you can do this. at truist, we believe the same is true for banking. if you have wet amd, you never want to lose sight of the things you love. some things should stand the test of time. long lasting eylea hd could significantly improve your vision and can help you go up to 4 months between treatments. if you have an eye infection, eye pain or redness, or allergies to eylea hd, don't use. eye injections like eyla hd may cause eye infection, separation of the retina, or rare but severe swelling of blood vessels in the eye. an increase in eye pressure has been seen. there's an uncommon risk

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trump tower right now, lydia hu standing by. trump is going to speak soon, what are we going to hear from him? >> i expect the former president is going to speak to his supporters, his face and use this verdict as an opportunity to energize them and seems like it's probably already happening because we are getting fresh information from the trump campaign about the donations going in a verdict. the six hour since the verdict came in, digital donations the received 34.8 billing dollars. 30% or nearly 30% of the donations are coming from new donors. i had a chance to talk to his attorney todd blanche defense attorney and i confirmed the judge's gag order remains in place so that means over the former president says today here from the podium he's under the gag order so how far he will push comments because it wasn't long ago the judge trend trump with possible jail time if he continued. i will bring you the latest. >> thank you very much. brian brenberg with me right now for the hour i believe. what you want to hear from trump? >>

fox business' lydia hu is outside the new york supreme court right now with more. morning, that's right, maria. the scorching pros examination of the adult film store will continue today when stormy daniels resumes her testimony. there's already been fireworks intense exchanges between the judge, the attorneys and stormy daniels as she testified on tuesday. daniels provided salacious details of her alleged sexual encounter with the former president back in 2006. this prompted defense attorney objections and a demand for a mistrial. they argue that daniels' testimony was so graphic and unrelated to the charges of falsifying documents that jurors simply can't be expected to decide this case fairly now. the judge merchan denied the request for a mistrial. legal experts say these are strong grounds for an you appeal. trump's allies are offering support. senator rick scott said he plans to attend court today. watch. >> i'm going to go support this president because this is wrong what's happening to this guy. he's just been politically persecuted with a finding for no on

we'll have to cut back to lydia hu in a second let's go back n now. when you see action in the court right now what is former president donald trump, what is his parents? >> ordinarily on the former president is in the courtroom, he sitting defense counsel table and attorneys todd blanche on one side along with other members of esteem and many days when i'm in there, he's , stoic. generally meaning back in his chair and seems to be generally at peace. there are a few occasions it seems he shows emotion and expresses frustration perhaps encounters between his defense team and judge -- >> go ahead, tell us the cha charges. >> the first verdict we are getting now is guilty. let me get caught up your. >> guilty on the first? >> we are up through one through 12, 13 all guilty so far and i do care erection from the park over my left shoulder, people are plotting. fourteen, 15, 16 guilty. seventeenth guilty. these are accounts i am reading. count 18 guilty. nineteen guilty. so far, all guilty counts one through 20 of this 34 count indictment guilty up to 21,

lydia hu is outside the courthouse.n instructions to the jury, they've got to be unanimous in their decision, 34 counts, and now they have some questions? >> reporter: that's exactly right. and we know these questions were communicated to justice juan her if chan just before 3:00. and we have some details about what those questions specifically were. the jurors wanted to have testimony read back to them on four particular issues. one is david pecker, that's the former ceo of american media incorporated that owns the "national enquirer", david pecker's testimony regarding a phone call he had with the former president. david pecker testified that president trump all called him -- excuse me, david pecker testified that trump called david pecker to discuss buying the life rights to karen mcdougal's story. she's the playboy model that allegedly had an affair with the former president. and trump was concerned she was about to sell her story rights to another media outlet. and the conversation was whether or not he thought, wh

this morning everyone judge merchan will give instructions lydia hu live from new york state supreme court right now with the story lydia. >> yeah. good morning there maria, this six week trial culminated yesterday in marathon day of closing arguments jurors sat until 8:00 pm to hear 8 hours worth of closing remarks, five of them came from prosecution, now under new york law, it is practical that defense attorneys go first, so defense attorney todd blanche addressed jurors first up reminded jurors this is quite simple about documents whether they've been falsified he argued to jurors there is no evidence that documents have been falsified in this case, planch honed in on michael cohen calling prosecution emembattled star witness human embodiment of reasonable doubt they concededed michael cohen has baggage with track record of lying but prosecutors still insist he should be believed, some experts say prosecutors used the judge's long leach for help in making their case to the jurors yesterday just merchan allowed repeetdz references to 2018 guilty plea to federal campaign violations,

coast, time for hot topic of the hour former president trump so-called hush money trial day 15, lydia hu outside new york state supreme court right now in the very latest lydia good morning. >> good morning, good morning, maria. we have important update for you on this trial continues on this day we expect former trump fixer attorney michael cohen will take the stand to testify, on monday. that information confirmed by colleague of fox news eric the fox trial starts 9:30 continues after judge juan merchan denied another defense motion for mistrial yesterday judge also denied request fors modification to trump's gag to do allow trump to responded to allegations, laid there by stormy daniels this week former president sponge about both as he left court yesterday watch here. >> everybody saw what happened tie he is a corrupt judge totally conflicted i got to get object campaign trail i am not supposed to be here. >> today compromisings of former white house aid madeleine continues her testimony relates to document charges in this case because she would receive checks from trump tower presen

east hot topic of the hour day 18 former president trump so-called hush money trial fox business lydia hu outside the supreme court with the latest, good morning. >> good morning there maria that is right cross can say examination former trump attorney general michael cohen will continue today will spend third day in witness chair under cross-examination led by defense attorney todd bachelor painting con as angry liar out for money wants to see donald trump in jail some most powerful testimony undercutting cohen happened yesterday wasn't inside criminal court inside an attorney general robert costello testified on capitol hill said he gave cohen advice after authorities raided cohen's home and office in 2018 said cope's testimony in criminal trial now that trump approved stormy daniels approved of none o delivery agreement is not true cohen explained negotiated 130,000 dollars in exchange for mba with stormy daniels asked if trump had knowledge cohen told me no asked whether cohen got 130,000 dollars from trump or any trump intent or friend cohen again said no, he said to the committee, w

larry: great reporting thank you lydia hu, we appreciate it. we'll have more w with former prosecutor andy mcarte -- joe biden trying to buy the election by pumping green money that no one wants in to the swing states. that is a subject of tonight's riff. 3 biden bills for total of 15.4 billion dollars in government spending, mostly for green energy, being injected in states like arizona, pennsylvania, michigan and elsewhere, the biggest church from -- chunk from misnamed inflation reduction act. but a conduct side nationwide poll, a kudlow tipp poll over 1400 americans. shows, that 54% oppose the epa mandate for electric vehicles by 2032 that would ban gasoline powered cars, 54% oppose. then, when consumers are asked about having a choice, to drive gasoline powered cars if they want, survey was consumer choice. by 83%. interestingly from poll, perch first of democrats 89% of republicans and 83% of independents say, they want to be able to decide for themselves. then, the kudlow tipp poll asked whether biden's ev push is blind to a lack of cons

in, new york city courtroom this morning so-called hush money trial entering day 20, fox business lydia hu live outside new york supreme court with the latest lydia good morning. >> good morning there maria that is right this trial, is winding down but i can tell you he inside the courtroom tensions are flying high. the prosecution finally rested its case after star witness disbard attorney michael cohen finished testifying for four days on witness stand michael cohen, of course, testified that donald trump knew of the hush money payments to stormy daniels approved of them, the cross-examination completed cohen's credibility rests in absolute tatters, yesterday todd blanche got cohen to admit he stole about 60,000 dollars from trump organization allowing them to incorrectly believe cohen was owed more than he paid to a vendor the exchange between blanche and cohen blanche asked so you stole from the trump organization right cohen answeredier. >> and you didn't just steel 30,000 dollars right it was grossed up it was 50,000 dollars. >> answer:yes, sir. >> did he have called witness costello

make now the future at godaddy.com/airo larry: we'll bring in lydia hu talk about the who is going on to make appeals or has already made them and quoting famous fox legal analyst left and right. what can you tell us. reporter: yes, we started off this morning hearing from former president saying that today they are planning to file or have filed an appeal to the wide wide range gag order that restrains former president and those they say he could direct from commenting about witnesses and the staff and matters to the case, he has been slapped with 10 violations with the gag order, that sense thousand dollars in fines, and then, judge merchan has told president trump if he continues to violate the gag order he could face the possibility of jail time, this is raising serious constitutional questions, considering the former president is pres presumptive nominee for the g.o.p. t ticket for white house, what is happening in court now is interesting. , as i lift defense attorney todd blank made an argument with gag order with respect to stormy daniels should be lifted. that donald trump sh

fox business' lydia hu live from the new york supreme court this morning with the latest. lydia, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, maria. that's right, the cross-examination of the prosecution's star witness disbarred attorney michael cohen is set to continue this morning and we expect this is going to be the prosecution's last and final witness so we'll soon see whether the defense is going to put up its own case and call any witnesses. of the witnesses that are possible, one possibility is attorney robert costello, costello offered advice to cohen after cohen's home and office were raided in 2018. costello says cohen claimed then trump had nothing to do with the stormy daniels nondisclosure and cohen is lying now to this jury when he says that trump approved the plan. another possibility, maria, the former president himself, donald trump. although it's rare to see defendants testify, take the stand in their own defense, trump did remark early in the proceedings that he could be willing to testify in his own defense but there are plenty of reasons why that is unlike

jonathan turley, fox business correspondent lydia hu. good morning to both of you. down there. i had a little bit of gmjelleli -- jealousy thchlt is. this is from dears witch. -- the judge tried to clear out the courtroom. press reporters said wait, this is a public place, it's all in the transcript. i was inside the court when the judge closed the trump trial. what i saw shocked me. the judge in trump's trial was a tyrant though he appeared to have a benevolent despot and ruling against the defendant at every turn. you were there, do you agree with that? >> i certainly agree with the fact the judge was overwhelmingly voting with the prosecutors. he has reserved questions that could make a big question in terms of how the jury ultimately rules. we're watching that very closely. we expect to get some answers by thursday. but some of the decisions from the judge i must tell you, i was mystified and they did seem to be pretty biased. for example, when costello was testifying, the prosecutors asked about the meaning of a line and he was expressing what the meaning meant

lydia hu is outside trump tower and has been following this trial and the aftermath every step of thereporter: yeah, liz, you know, donald trump made his remarks right here at trump tower just earlier today, and he called this trial unfair. but he also had had added that it is his honor, he says, to now fight this conviction. he said not just for himself, but he says on behalf of the constitution. watch this. >> it's very important, far beyond me, and this can't be allowed to happen to other presidents. it should never be allowed to happen in the future. but this is far beyond me. this is bigger than trump. this is bigger than me, this is bigger than my president city. presidency. >> reporter: and that, liz, is how he is cruzing this varkt verdict to energize his supporters. the trump campaign says donations are flooding in, they say they've raised nearly $35 until online donations in just the 6 or hours yesterday after the verdict was announced. 30% of those donations, they say, were from new donors. and as you mentioned, trump wasn't the only person talking about yesterday's histori

first bring out lydia hu live outside the courthouse with the very latest.hese requests from the jury keep on coming right? >> reporter: that is exactly right, david. we got a second request from the jury in the just the past couple minutes. this makes two notes sent from the jury since they started deliberating just a little after 11:30 this morning and in this most recent note the jury is requesting to rehear the judge's instructions. i will tell you, i was in the room. the overflow courtroom this morning when the judge read instructions to the jury roughly an hur out of a document that expands longer than 50 pages. they are long, they are detailed, they are quite frankly confusing and the jury is not allowed to take them back into deliberations with them, a hard copy. so they're asking for them to be' read again. as you can imagine that process will be an hour again. doesn't feel like this process is moving quickly at this point. the second note, the first note which was earlier today, requesting to hear excerpts of testimony. read to them again. specific

before first let's head to lydia hu who is alive outside the courthouse in lower manhattan. >> good eveningagen and sean kirby got the verdict for the former president donald trump finding him guilty of all 34 felony counts of falsifying business records of the first degree. just about two hours ago. since then the reactions across the political spectrum has been pouring in. most recently from the district attorney alvin bragg who spoke just around the corner from where i'm standing for the courthouse for a couple of minutes, just moments ago. his remarks, he says he did his job. here's more of what he said. >> will this defendant may be unlike any other in american history, we arrived at this trial and ultimately today at this verdict in the same manner as every other case that comes to the courtroom doors. by following the facts, and the law, and doing so without fear or favor. >> we also heard from president trump as he was exiting the courtroom after hearing the results of the trial hearing the verdict read. here ihere's what he said, watc. >> this was a disgrace. this was a rigged tria

more news coming in, let's get to lydia hu outside the courthouse with more on the jury notes we saw just before or was it dismissed today. they looking for here? >> we got to notes from the jury on the first day they've been sent to deliberate. one of the notes asked that the jury instructions the judge read this morning be read to them again a second time. judge reconvened the jurors in the courtroom talk about this and asked which portions you want readback because it took about an hour to read all of them and they can have some time to decide and dismissed him around 4:00 p.m. so they can let him know if they will all or some and the second note asked for portions of testimony be readback. they want to hear more or again about david packer's testimony and regarding to what he had with the former president donald trump about karen mcdougall, the claiborne model who alleged had a relationship with the former president. how it came to be trump did not paying for the story rights, $150,000 david pecker's company left paying. they want to hear about that again and the last pieces of t

york city trial as former president is found guilty on all 34 o counts against him fox business lydia hulive outside trump tower where former president will spending a around 11:00 a.m. lydia. >> that is exactly right we are standing by for remarks we can bring you very latest this trial lasted six weeks ended swiftly, yesterday, with two days of deliberations and that verdict announced in a mere matter of minutes, former president o found guilty of all 34 counts his attorney todd blanche said donald trump did not get a fair trial, watch. . >> i think that there were a lot of decisions that he made, leading up to the trial, which really hurt us at trial the that evidence can come in evidence that cannot come in we filed two elevate motions saying he should recuse himself he didn't. >> decisions speaking about made judge merchan, alvin bragg saying he did his job. while this defendant maybe unlike any other in american history, we arrived at this trial, ultimately today at this verdict same manner as every other case that comes to the courtroom doors by following the facts, and the law, a

trump tower right now, lydia hu standing by.expect the former president is going to speak to his supporters, his face and use this verdict as an opportunity to energize them and seems like it's probably already happening because we are getting fresh information from the trump campaign about the donations going in a verdict. the six hour since the verdict came in, digital donations the received 34.8 billing dollars. 30% or nearly 30% of the donations are coming from new donors. i had a chance to talk to his attorney todd blanche defense attorney and i confirmed the judge's gag order remains in place so that means over the former president says today here from the podium he's under the

to continue deliberating a second day fox business lydia hu is live right now from new york state supreme court, with more on the story, lydia. >> good morning there maria, this trial has been ongoing for about a month and a half do i mention this will now be day two of those jury deliberations but some ways feels like going back to the very beginning, the very start and that is because the jury has requested to hear are excerpts of temperature by pecker very first witness called in this trial specifically jurors want to hear testimony reorganize the phone conversations with donald trump, testimony about the decision to not have donald trump finalize pay pecker back to rights to playboy model mcdougal story, want testimony from pecker michael cohen about meetings at trump tower impossible to know why seeking this testimony possible trying to get a better understanding of so-called alleged catch and kill scheme in which the prosecutors allege pepper agreed to be the eyes and ears for trump campaign buying stories could be potentially damaging to donald trump efforts to be elected president

. >> bill: we'll begin a new hour with lydia hu live outside the courtroom in downtown manhattan. lydia, bring us up to date from there. hello. >> good morning, bill and dana. the judge right now is going through this process of reading those instructions. this is a huge swath, very large portion of the instructions because they span 55 pages and want roughly 29 pages read back to them. what is covered by that, a lot of the basic ground rules. what is evidence, what types of inferences can be drawn from the evidence. what can they conclude from redactions and instructions on the limiting instruction and the presumption of innocence. the fact that president trump didn't testify in his own defense and didn't have to all the way down to the explanation of the counts. falsification of business records and importantly as we've heard discussed many times, this interesting instruction from judge merchan about the unlawful means that the jury is searching for in determining whether a state law may have been violated or there was an intent to violate a state law by unlawfully influencing an

fox business' lydia hu live from the new york supreme court this morning with the latest. ing.

we will see where that takes us next as we speak >> we will see if he ends up agency a witness, lydia hu, your reaction. my reaction prosecution cavalier to think michael cohen can withstand any sort of cross-examination yesterday proved that realistically they are so cavalier there is so much conflict with respect the to interest from the judge daughter being paid by goldman coaching michael cohen the lead prosecutor former number three at department of justice judge as i mentioned, why specifically being he chosen for this case worked on nushlz trump relate case before this is all coordinated showing just yesterday the fact cohen cannot stand any sort of cross because really, he is incredible liar, and everyone knows it but still, prosecution thinks he is the right witness to do the job of putting donald trump taking him off the ballot. >> a incredible what you just said the fact that a california congressman or a congressman in general new york congressman don goldman coaching michael cohen that is a you said? do we know for sure dan goldman coaching michael cohen. >> we know met with

so lydia hu is here to help us with this. lot to dig into here today starting with the cpi. the headline cpi number coming in at 3.4% from a year ago. that matched expectations. it was .3 higher from a month ago which was lower than the consensus which was expecting .4 of a percent but when we take a look at so-called supercore inflation, when we strip out the volatile parts of energy and food, that is surging, up higher than 4.88%. retail sales, let's take a look at those, those stagnated unchanged against a consensus up .4 of a percent. march revised lower to higher by .6 of a percent. down from an initial read of .7 of a percent. you have to ask here, charles, are these signs that the consumer is now pulling back under that heavyweight of persistent inflation? here are the highlights from that report. gasoline sales higher, 3.1%. food and beverages, higher, .8 of a percent, department store sales higher by half a percent. internet sales down by more than a a pull percent. the empire state manufacturing survey missed consens

our own lydia hu has the latest from the new york state supreme court, downtown new york city. dia, what can you tell us? >> reporter: hi, there, larry i just stepped outside of the courtroom. as we near the finish line of this time it is getting tense. objections from both sides, intense debate and arguments over evidentiary matters which are really important because they determine what information the jury will hear in the final days of this trial. the prosecution rested its case within the past hour. the defense was able to call their first witnesses. one of them being a witness that was used to document some of the phone calls that have been exchanged. most importantly their second witness is now attorney robert costello. we know him as the one-time legal advisor to michael cohen and costello, i'm getting notes from our producers who are inside the courtroom, just importantly testified on the stand that michael cohen said numerous times, that president trump knew nothing about the payments to stormy daniels. he said this numerous times, he being michael cohen. that is really

we will hear from alan dershowitz on that and a lot more moments but first, lydia hu live outside trump tower with the latest. >> that's right, the former president donald trump spoke earlier today here at trump tower for a little more than 30 minutes and addressed his recent conviction coming down less than 24 hours from now as well as campaign to retake the white house. as far as the trial, he called it very unfair and pledged to make that appeal. trump explained why he never testified during the trial. we started off with the trial about a month and a half ago, he said he wanted to and plans to but we never heard from him. today he explains why he did not. >> you can go into every single thing i ever did. was he a bad boy there, about four here? what you need to go through? are you want to do is testify on this case because i would have loved to have testified. to this day i would love to testify. >> it appears the product is energizing his supporters, donation to flooding and according to the trump campaign. they raised $35 million and online donations alone in just the first six ho

fox business' lydia hu is here with the latest. >> reporter: good morning, maria. we can remember this trial started with intense velocity out of the gate, but now it seems like we're moving on a slow roll toward the finish line. definance rested its case yesterday without calling former president trump to testify. and usually a case would proceed quickly to closing arguments but the judge raised concerns about the upcoming holiday weekend interrupting deliberations so he dismissed the jury until tuesday. we now expect closing arguments then. yesterday, attorneys and merchan held a charging conference to discuss jury instructions and tensions became evident when defense attorneys asked to include language suggesting trump relied on the advise of counsel in making decisions. merchan became annoyed saying it was, quote, disingenuous. trump seemed annoyed at the interaction, tossing a note onto the table and crossing his arms. merchan says he aims to have jury instructions back to attorneys tomorrow. earlier yesterday, the cross examination of attorney bob costello co

lydia hu outside the courthouse. you been busy today, it's good to see you. >> great to see you. the prosecution is making their way through closing arguments. they started around 2:00 p.m. this evening and expected to last hours longer. at the start the prosecution said they expected to speak for the foreign a half hours throughout the evening their main objective should be to rehabilitate their main star witness, michael cohen because during the defense closing arguments which happened earlier today, the defense todd blanche attorney landed some major blows on the credibility of michael cohen reminding jurors how the prosecution's entire case hangs on the credibility and believability of what michael collins that which was donald trump knew about these payment to stormy daniels as they happened in an effort to unlawfully influence the election. blanche reminded the jury michael cohen has lied many times to congress, to his family, to his kids, to his banks and the former president admitting to stealing from the trump organization so as we were winding through the prosecution cl

we'll bring in lydia hu, talking about what is going on in the trials. lydia, thank you. mr.eals. he is quoting famous fox legal analysts left and right about this, what can you tell us, lydia? >> yeah, larry, we started off this morning hearing from our former president saying that today they're planning to file or have filed an appeal to this wide-ranging gag order that restrains both the former president and those that they say he could direct from commenting about witnesses, the judge's staff, the attorney's staff, matters relating to this case. as you know has been slapped with 10 violations relating to this gag order. that has amounted to $10,000 in fines. then most importantly judge mershon has told president trump if he continues to violate this gag order he could face the possibility of jail time this is really raising some serious constitutional questions considering the former president is the presumptive nominee for the gop ticket, for the white house. both really interesting, larry, is what is happening inside of court right now. i actually stepped outside before

lydia hu will walk us through the latest. >> reporter: charles, on that score we have to talk about thendex, because it has flipped even further this past month. we're down well into negative territory that happens when we see data missing the forecasts and it's a sign that momentum is slowing. all this is happening as we're also seeing the markets climbing maybe on the hopes for a rate cut here. we have got to talk about retailers because we have news from target. the big box retailer target is really showing weakness. they're showing us that the consumer pulling back in a meaningful way. transactions fell 1.9%, they're also seeing the amount per average transaction falling also 1.9%. that means the company is joining the ranks of home depot and lowe's, abysmal same-store sales but this decline in pricing power, charles, noticeable as it comes in the decline also in the number of companies that are talking about inflation andin their earnings calls. you can see most recently 219 mentions, way down than two years ago when we saw more than 400 mentions per quarter. even on that positive

. >> bill: brett, we're learning from lydia hu about this brad smith fellow used to work for the fecthought he would be a witness. apparently that all fell apart yesterday. he just sent out a big threat on x. i will read one for you. number six talks about what we'll testify to. we were going to go over the reporting schedules showing even if they thought it was a campaign expense to be reported. an expenditure made in 2016 money sent to daniels' attorney would not under law be reported until december 8th, a full 30 days after the election. can you make sense of that and how that would be relevant and maybe give us an explanation as to why -- if you will be charged for a campaign violations, and the defendant wants to call somebody up there and testify to how this works and based on all of our understanding federal election law is very complicated and you would need an expert witness to take the jury through this. why is he not allowed to tell the story? >> well, bill, judges typically do not like anyone taking the stand that is going to try to explain the law. it is explicitly the r

first, lydia hu who is live outside of the courthouse with the very latest. lydia, i love your notes you've been sending to the fox crew. thanks. what's the latest. >> reporter: good. yeah, hey there, david. well the latest is that the prosecution has been presenting their closing arguments for about two hours. we still expect several hours to go, so we're probably right in the middle what they are presenting as their final take on the case they have built against the former president. joshua stein glass is the prosecutor who is friending these oral arguments, oral arguments in the jury there are some issues we could highlight from what they're saying inside of the courtroom but i will leave you with just one example of what a wide birth the judge seems to give the prosecution when they make the final pitch to the jurors. one of the issues come up is michael key hen's guilty plea from back in 2018 when he pled guilty to tax crimes and also the federal election violation and in the closing arguments over defense objection the judge is allowing prosecutors stein

i want to go to lydia hu, who happens to be outside of the court house with the very latest. he jurors got underway a little after 11:30. they had a lunch break. so far no notes or questions from the jurors that we're aware of. seems they are continuing conversation amongst themselves. as to what exactly are they deciding? well the judge instructed them, this is the essentially the question before them, whether defendant, that's donald trump, made or caused false business, excuse me, false entries in business records and did so with the intent to defraud, with the intent to aid or conceal another crime? when it comes to that other crime there are three theories the prosecution has advanced that is a violation of the federal election campaign violation act, a state election law, in the state of new york and also tax violations f all that sounds confusing because it is. imagine being a juror and receiving those instructions for roughly an hour, read to you by the judge out of a document that is longer than 50 pages and not being able to take those instructions with you into the

lydia hu is outside the new york supreme court with the very latest t. good morning. >> reporter: good morning there, maria. today the cross examination of former trump attorney and fixer michael cohen will continue, this will be his third day in the witness chair as the defense attorney is trying to paint cohen as an angry liar who is out for money and wants to see donald trump in jail. some of the most powerful testimony undercutting cohen's accounts happened yesterday and it was actually not inside of the criminal court. that testimony came from an attorney named robert costello who testified on capitol hill, costello said he gave cohen advice after authorities raided he cohen's home and office and he said cohen's testimony in the criminal trial that trump approved a stormy daniels nondisclosure agreement is not true. costello's prepared statement to the committee reads this. cohen explained he negotiated the sum of $130,000 in, change for the nda with storm heyy dan. when asked if trump had any knowledge of this, cohen told me know. when asked whethe

lydia hu with more. >> reporter: the cross examination highlighted cohen's history of lying and made the discussion that michael cohen continued his lies on the stand before the jury yesterday. defense attorney todd blanche cross-examined michael cohen about a brief phone call that took place in late october of 2016. cohen testified that he called keith schiller, trump's body guard, and trump about stormy daniels, telling them the non-s didisclosure agreement was done. blanche used text messages to suggest cohen received a harassing series of phone calls and called schiller to discuss the harassment. here's the exchange. blanche, question, that was a lie, you were actually talking to mr. schiller about the fact that you were getting harassing phone calls from the a 14-year-old, correct? answer, part of it was the 14-year-old but i know that keith was with mr. trump at the time and there was potentially more than just this. another exchange. question. that was a lie, you did not talk to the president, to president trump on that night. you talked to keith schiller about what we just we

we mentioned lydia hu a short time ago. she is a lawyer.in the courtroom and she is describing the cross examination of stormy daniels as effective. she believes susan nicklaus is the attorney for donald trump undermining stormy's claim she wanted her story out which paints the picture that stormy extorted trump. a reporter from slate magazine who was willing to go ahead and report the story but slate apparently was not willing to give her any money for it. so the attorney for donald trump then suggested that slate would not pay you so instead you sold your silence to michael cohen. and hence you get the money and the $130,000. that point made inside court. >> dana: former deputy assistant attorney general tom dupree. we haven't had a chance to hear your thoughts how this is going in new york city? >> i suspect there are some in the prosecutors camp who are regretting to call her as a witness. it wasn't helpful to the prosecution the first day. they overplayed their hand in eliciting sordid and salacious details irrelevant to the charges th

lydia hu tells us to address the payments to michael cohen saying they were grossed up.an additional amount of money added to a a payment to cover the income tax -- the payments. now what does that have to do with the price of rice, okay? apparently lydia tells us it is another theory of the predicate crime prosecutors are now pursuing that business records were falsified with the intent to violate tax law. that's the reason he is there. we'll see how far they go with the case. how is that? >> dana: pretty good. >> bill: all right, we're back in business. 30 minutes before the hour. [shouting] >> dana: what goes on many campus protests are entering the third week and critics are pouceing on colleges for capitulateing to rowdy students. are we pouncing? >> brown and northwestern and a few others agreed to divest. other schools have not. as the protests drag on do the demonstrators want conflict, not resolution? some demands so unrealistic the ask isn't meant to be answered but gain attention. students sharing secrets online, the dearrest primer teaches protestors to physi

lydia hu is at trump tower. what happens next?ll, stuart, i'm standing in the lobby of trump tower right now where we are awaiting those remarks from the former president, donald trump, expected to kick off around a 1 1:00 today just on the heels of that guilty verdict. the former president has already told fox news digital that he will fight this guilty verdict with an appeal from this trial. his attorney, todd blanche, also told fox that they believe the former president did not get a fair trial in this case. but, stuart, important to note here that that whatever the former president, donald trump, i says today here at trump the tower, he still remains under the gag order at the moment from judge with juan merchan which prohibits his comments on witnesses and and jurors in this case. that gag order, stuart, remains in place unless and until the judge lifts it. the defense attorneys can ask is ask for that 40 to happen, ask and we're checking this morning, and there are no signs of any movement on that front just yet. as a we are

wait until you hear details from lydia hu. >> reporter: really alarming report right now.s in march last year alone experienced a run. so the situation could have been much more tragic. we have a new report out from the new york federal reserve. they are highlighting 22 banks that suffered a run. they're saying that this run was driven by large institutional depositors. remember we were so worried about mom-and-pop taking their money out of the banks? turns out we should have been talking about the large depositors. the bank that survived b doing so by borrowing new funds. look at the next chart, they're tracing the situation of the balance sheets, back in december of 2022 just before this crisis and the banks that experienced the runs had characteristics we're finding made them more vulnerable. you see high loan to asset ratio, higher than the banks that did not experience runs. we're also seeing commercial real estate loan to total loan also higher, pretty significantly, 44% compared to 19%. most of them publicly-traded and also concentrated in california and new york. s

one of the attorneys for trump was advocating for his client's interests, as he should, as lydia hu points one point merchan the judge said just relax, and both defense and judge seemed frustrated. so i have guess we'll kick it off on a brand-new week on that note. we'll see you at noon. thank you for coming in. we'll get you back down to the courthouse. mccarthy on the outside, turley on the inside. we have you all covered now for day 19 as we continue. choice hotels is a family of brands with a hotel for any traveler you want to be... like quality inn, for the dad that gets every dollar and minute outta this family road trip! the day is upon us! book at choicehotels.com. hellllllooooooooo! you know, when i take the bike out like this, all my stresses just melt away. i hear that. this bad boy can fix anything. yep, tough day at work, nice cruise will sort you right out. when i'm riding, i'm not even thinking about my painful cavity. well, you shouldn't ignore that. and every time i get stressed about having to pay my bills, i just hop on the bike, man. oh, come on, man, you got to pay you

lydia health care u outside the courthouse for us -- lydia hu outside the courthouse for us.us through the day. >> reporter: good morning, stuart. right now we are waiting for president trump to arrive here at court. the proceedings will get started around a 9:30 this morning, and right off the top we expect judge juan merchan to address those two notes that the jury sent to the court yesterday. one of those notes requested that testimony be read back. they are the interested in hearing about david pecker's testimony and michael cohen's testimony on this alleged so-called catch and kill scheme. this is the agreement that prosecutors allege a had developed in 2015 where david perk, the other than of the national inquirer -- david pecker -- offered to be the eyes and ears for the trump campaign. it's hard to know why jurors want to know more about that a particular testimony, but one possibility is perhaps they are ea a accessing the veracity and the credibility of michael cohen's account, determining whether they can accept any of his testimony at all. the other note that was

. >> bill: lydia hu is telling us that merchan added he asked the parties to get back to him with responsesy instructions. if they found errors or had further arguments. and apparently the judge says no one got back to him. so we've been talking about how complicated this could be and at least initially the jurors did not find much complication. >> dana: we lost turley and mccarthy for a moment. andrew, the question about weisselberg. i assume this article was correct and because based on the jury transcript that the defense and prosecution said no need for weisselberg. >> right. the idea with weisselberg is the prosecution wasn't expecting him to be beneficial enough and the defense was thinking he would be too damaging to them. it doesn't mean the defense can't argue the absence of evidence. the absence of evidence can be the idea of reasonable doubt without this coming in. think of a surveillance video. without getting the surveillance video or someone who refuses to testify or they simply didn't call them. if you will find proof beyond a reasonable doubt you will have had to heard the a

shannon bream, jonathan turley, kerri urbahn and lydia hu starting us off live at trump tower. good morning. >> good morning, dana and bret. i'm standing in the lobby of trump tower. we're among many press packed in here waiting to hear the remarks from the former president on the heels of that historic guilty verdict. we expect the comments to start around 11:00 a.m. in just under an hour. already the former president has told fox news digital he plans to fight this verdict. they will appeal. he also told fox news digital this verdict is a stain on the new york judicial system. now today's remarks are a campaign event for trump so perhaps we could hear more from trump speaking to his supporters motivating them to support him in this election. that comes as we are learning just moments ago from the trump campaign that since 6:00 p.m. last night the trump campaign has raised $34.9 million just on the heels of this verdict. whatever trump says today here at trump tower, he is saying it while he remains under judge juan merchan's gag order. of course, we know that prohibits certai

lydia hu an attorney inside the courtroom today. she writes that the idea here for prosecutors reading excerpts from "the art of the deal" is to show how trump is so detail oriented, penny pinching and frugal and that he always signs his own checks. meaning that trump would know -- these are new pictures from inside the courtroom right now seeing them for the first time -- that trump would know every penny of his multi-billion dollar operation. does that argument fly to you? >> i looked up when "the art of the was published." 1987. the fact that the prosecution thinks they have to rely on a book which by the way, i'm sure you can still buy it. donald trump didn't try to scrub that book to interfere with the campaign, right? so the fact that they have to rely on that to help prove their case is utterly ridiculous. i hope what they are serving the jurors for lunch is popcorn. that's the only thing that the benefit they get out of the testimony coming this afternoon or later this morning. >> dana: not very nutritious but fan to snack o

. >> john: let's bring in our panel, trey gowdy, host -- andy gaudi, and lydia hu, correspondent for business. so andy, let's start with you. the jury has to unanimously believe that donald trump committed a crime in order to convict him. but they do not need to unanimously agree on what that crime was. and in what world does that work? >> andy: not in any world i have ever been in, john. you look at what makes it a criminal prosecution appropriate in the sense of taking somebody's liberty, the array of constitutional protections we have, i have always understood them in 20 years of prosecuting cases and then four years that i carried and analyzed them, i always understood that to mean every crime has a set of essential elements and what the jury has to be unanimous on is that the government approves the elements beyond a visible dock. it to me, it is an essential element of that case. of this case, it is the most essential element that they find this other crime because of the only reason we are here is because bragg used the other crime to inflate what would otherwise be a misdemea

. >> bill: to close the loop on that lydia hu says so it amounts to 60,000 that cohen stole from the organization for work he was paid for but work he did not do. kennedy, this whole costello gentleman, it almost seems to me on the outside that republicans are trying to tell trump's team get this guy into court because he came out of nowhere last week with that hearing in d.c. and we booked him on our show to flush out his relationship with cohen and it was extraordinary to listen to him about the relationship and almost like they are saying hey, get this guy in there. he is well respected. he knows the southern district in and out, and he was right there with michael cohen during that critical period. >> dana: yeah, and he could be the one person to quickly put the nail in the cohen coffin. they want it to be wrapped up but sealed with some sort of a win, with some sort of an exclamation point that shows you can't do this to people. you cannot coble a case together because it makes you wonder with the credit scores and things like that looming what sort of case will they build again