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All right, both the defense and prosecution have now delivered their closing arguments. What kind of an impact will they have on the jury's final verdict? Here to weigh in. Fox News legal analyst, best-selling author Greg Jarrett, Harvard law professor, and best-selling author Alan Dershowitz. Good to see you both. Greg, start with you. One of the things I found pretty interesting is the judge allowing this false claim by the prosecution to be brought in again and again and again, uncontradicted and the judge allowing even the prosecution to read unrelated quotes from Trump's book, again, why would they allow that? Trey Gowdy said, "It's stunning some of the objections which are overruled. The prosecution just accused Donald J. Trump of threatening witnesses. The objection was overruled even on that." I mean, at some point here, you know, you've got to say cinder blocks and, I don't know, bricks are put on the scales of justice in this case by the judge. Oh, yeah. It's one in a long list of reversible errors by the judge. And here, Sean, in the history of American law, never has a defendant been tried on an unidentified charge. No ethical prosecutor would ever do it. No fair or competent judge would ever allow it because every defendant has a right to be informed of the precise accusations against him. It's guaranteed in the Sixth Amendment. But even now, nobody least of all the jury knows for sure. And as I say, it's one of the many reversible errors committed by Judge Marchant. I think the fix was in from the outset. This case was rigged by an unscrupulous DA and a biased judge, and together, they worked to engineer an absurd legal theory. It would never withstand judicial scrutiny. They know it. But their goal, I think, is to gain a wrongful conviction to delegitimize Trump's candidacy. They contorted the law. They manipulated the justice system to create this illusion of wrongdoing. The end justifies any means.

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- What I saw was something amazing. You saw people of every ethnic background out there in the Bronx being supportive of President Donald J. Trump because they have witnessed firsthand the disaster of Democrat policy. They know Donald Trump did a great job as president and they want him back. The crowd spoke for itself. I think the estimates were about 25,000 that were out there in that park to hear from President Trump. It was an amazing event, probably the best political rally I'd ever been to.

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-Well, thank you very much. Just to begin, so the news of inflation is -- it really is rampant. It's moving at a level like people have not seen. They don't seem to be able to cut it down. Biting is no control over what's happening. He started it with energy, and now it's taking on a life of his own, so he's very sad. We'll get it fixed. I'd like to be out campaigning right now. We'll get out of the minute. He'll be in here almost five weeks in court, and they have no case, and there's no crime. Every single legal expert, and I can say this again and again, every time they come out, maybe at some point they'll come out and say, "Oh, we found something." But every single legal expert, and he regards it -- Jonathan Terrell, Mark Levin, everyone but Rick Jarrett. He's a great talent. These are actually very brilliant guys, and they're not necessarily on my side historically over the years, but they're very talented people. They're legal scholars. I respect it. Every single person is saying there's no crime. There's no crime. It's a kangaroo court. There's never been anything like this that I've ever seen. Now I have two other trials that were kangaroo courts also. It's stacked up, and hopefully a public division will take care of those things because, you know, they're greeges. And the problem is that New York is really on trial itself. The whole world is watching to see what's happening, and you can't use conflicted judges. This is a conflicted judge, highly conflicted judge, and you just can't do that. You just cannot allow that to happen because you ruined the whole system. The whole system comes tumbling now. And New York -- Look, I love New York. This is where I grew up. I was born here. I grew up here, and I see what's happening with this judicial system, and it's just -- they call it all kangaroos, and we just can't have it. And I think the appellate courts can take care of a lot of things, but this one shouldn't even get to an appellate court. This should be an easy ruling, and it should really be. And I think it would be great for Judge Marchant to rule from the bench and to terminate this witch hunting. And it needs it. It really needs the size of this. Every single scholar says there's been no crime. He's done nothing wrong. And I'm fighting for 300 billion people. I mean, I have no choice. It's not that I like doing this. Sitting in an icebox all day for seven, eight, nine hours, and it's a very cold room, I will tell you that. But I'm doing this because our country needs it. Our constitution's under threat. Our country needs it. So here I am. I will be doing something in the morning and then probably coming back in the afternoon, and we'll be resting pretty quickly -- resting, mini-resting the case. I won't be resting. I don't rest. I like to rest sometimes, but I don't get to rest. But we are -- we have a phenomenal case. We've won the case by any standard. Any other judge who would have thrown this case down. Any other judge would have thrown this case down. And I think that Juan Marchant would do himself and do the state and the city in great service by doing what everybody knows should be done. And so we're going to go in. We'll have another little scrum in a little while, perhaps. It should end a little bit early today. We appreciate you suffering with us. Look, you've been with us for five weeks, and you see the crowds outside. We can't get -- it's not a very big thing for us. We don't really care that much. But people want to get out there, and you have all police. The only people that are let out there is the radical F lunatics. And they put our people four or five blocks away. There are a lot of them, too. But I say that doesn't matter. What matters is what's going on in this courthouse. So thank you very much. We'll be back in a little bit later. Thank you.

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This isn't going to make for great reading this morning in the Oval Office, is it? Bidenomics equals inflation. And when you ask, "How is the economy going today? What's your rating of it?" 30 percent. 30 percent of Americans say it's good. 70 percent of Americans say it's poor. Has it gotten better? And very few people say that it has. In fact, many say they feel it's gotten worse, and inflation is the reason that they say that. 34 percent currently approve of Biden's handling of the economy. 66 percent disapprove. And a majority of swing-state voters may not see worsening economic conditions in the coming months. So that doesn't spell optimism for the Biden camp. Less than one in five respondents say they expect inflation and interest rates to be lower by the end of the year. And then more than three-quarters say that Biden is responsible for how they feel about the economy. More say they feel they'd be financially better off under Donald Trump, and that cuts directly to vote. Trump is leading Biden, who has ample work to do with his base and with independent voters who are breaking to his GOP rival. In a head-to-head race, 49 percent of voters say they'd pick Trump for president, compared to 43 percent for Biden. 55 percent say Trump's time in office was his success, with only 39 percent saying the same about Biden's presidency. [music fades out]

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Trump has been stuck in New York thanks to this sham trial, but he has found a way to use the confinement, I think, to his advantage. - Yeah, Laura, look, if the prosecutor's goal was to lock him down, Trump has outfoxed them. In between his courtroom visits, Trump has created these pop-up campaign events in Atlanta and New York, in Harlem, reaching constituencies far beyond his usual base, and he's turned Trump Tower into, really, the U.N. on Fifth Avenue. Just last week, he hosted the Polish president at his home base in New York, and yesterday, Laura, the former Japanese prime minister visited him. Now, I mean, this is really a brilliant strategy, and it's hardly the lockdown Alvin Bragg and company were banking on. - I like that. He's treating Trump Tower like the Oval Office. They're all coming to meet him, and the polls are going in his direction, too, as we saw with that interactive polls today. The trend is against Biden, big time. - Warning to the prosecutors. Remember, with Joan of Arc, it wasn't until the fire that things got really interesting. Subjecting Trump to this is only heating things up. Biden is also on the trail. He spoke, or read, rather, to union workers in Washington today. - Are you ready to choose freedom over democracy? For democracy. Imagine what we can do next. Four more years. Four more years, four more years, four more years. - Four more years, pause, I mean, every moment is scripted, every moment is a disaster, and he may have very well risked his entire election in that moment. It's the cascade of them every week, every day. The reinforcement that he simply can't read. - Oh no, if Trump said pause, it would be every late night show. It would be every comedian, every tedious commentator on The View. Oh, he said pause, but they treat it like he's talking, you know, at a dog charity event or something. Pause, W-A-S.

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-I believe now that a rising China is a positive development, not only for the people of China, but for the United States and the world as a whole. -Joe Biden's policy is China first. My policy is very simple -- America first.

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Happy tax day to everyone. This year, the typical families tax bill is thousands of dollars lower because of the Trump tax cuts. We doubled your standard deduction, we doubled the child tax cuts, and we lowered income tax rates for everyone. A very big thing. Everybody was very happy when we did that. But if Joe Biden gets his way, you will soon be facing colossal tax hikes, the likes of which no one has ever seen before, almost six trillion dollars in his latest budget and going up. In addition, every day you're also paying stealth tax of Joe Biden's massive inflation. A stealth tax like nobody's seen before either because, frankly, the inflation is probably the worst ever, but certainly the worst in the last 70 years. It's been a disaster for the American taxpayer. It's been a disaster for the American citizen. Every dollar in your bank account is worth 20 to 30 percent less than the day Joe Biden took office. A wealth confiscation on a scale our country has never seen before. Joe Biden looted the treasury, spending trillions of dollars on the Green News scam, open borders, and other payoffs to his political cronies. Biden stole your money and used it to give rich people seven thousand five hundred dollar tax credits to buy luxury electric cars. It's so ridiculous. They don't go far. They just are not the right ones. If you want to buy one, go buy one. But you have to have a choice of lots of other forms of transportation. And that's what we do. We provide everybody with everything. He used to give welfare and free housing to illegal aliens from all over the world. And now he's doing it at a level that has never been seen before. Meanwhile, you're paying the price in your tax bills and in your grocery bills, which have gone higher than ever in our history. Nobody's ever seen anything like it. Congratulations. You voted for this guy, but you didn't vote enough because I'll tell you what. Take a look at that election. Take a look at the real numbers. You're not going to be happy, but we're going to do it right. I'll tell you this year is the most important year in the history of our country because on November 5th, we have an election. The election day November 5th will go down as the most important day in the history of our country because we're going to get rid of the worst president we've ever had. A vote for Crooked Joe is a vote for the largest tax hike in American history, uncontrolled spending, a menacing migrant invasion like never seen before, and rampant inflation as far as the eye can see. A vote for Trump is a vote for low taxes, no inflation, strong borders, and the greatest economy in the history of the world. Remember, this is what you have to think about when you go into vote. You're going to get the greatest economy ever. You're going to get the greatest tax cuts ever because we're cutting them lower. Biden wants to increase your taxes by four times. I'm going to substantially decrease your taxes over and above what you already got, which was the largest tax reduction in the history of our country. It's one of the reasons we created the best economy we've ever had. Thank you very much.

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Crooked Joe Biden just agreed to pay a $6 billion ransom to the Iranian dictatorship in exchange for hostages. This is yet another Biden surrender and a further blistering humiliation of the United States of America to the world stage. But even worse, this decision will be extremely deadly. Biden is giving $6 billion to the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism, just as when Obama sent the Iranian regime pallets of cash for hostages in the dark of night. Remember, plain loads of cash. Biden's ransom payment will be immediately used to stoke violence, bloodshed, and mayhem throughout the Middle East and all around the world, costing countless innocent lives. It's also guaranteed that the fanatical Iranian regime will use this money to advance their nuclear weapons program, putting Israel, the United States, and the entire world in very grave peril. They are reportedly just weeks away from a nuclear bomb, something which would have never happened under the Trump administration. Tragically, Biden's ransom payments also make it dramatically more likely that even more Americans will be held captive in the future because Biden has shown that he will pay gargantuan sums of money meaning the kidnappers turn a massive profit. They're making money hand over fist. In other words, Biden has put a bounty on the head of every American citizen abroad. Under my leadership, we brought home more than 50 hostages from all over the world, and we never paid ransom money to do it. Not at all. We did it with diplomacy, and we did it through strength, and we will do it again when we are reelected as President of the United States. Our country is failing. We are a failing nation. We will turn it around, and we will make America great again. Thank you.

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