d-day, why we still fight for democracy on an all new episode of the whole story. that s this sunday at 8:00 p.m. eastern only right here on cnn. and thank you so much for watching news night. laura coates live starts right now. have a great weekend well tonight, donald trump turns his conviction into a cornerstone of his and pain. but will it work? plus american airlines soon after eight black men say they were kicked off a flight because someone complained about body one of them will be my guest tonight and laura coates live so. we actually have no idea what sentence judge messiah is going to actually hand down to donald j. trump next month, but we do know one thing for sure. donald trump is not leaving his political future up to this judge between now and november, donald trump is going to use that 34 count conviction to try to get to 47, the number 47 that is. and today, a furious trump railed against the verdict during a speech in trump tower. you know, trump tower
analyzed and restored in the power of delhi reserving memories and helping to write new ones i m caitlin polantz at the federal courthouse in washington, and this is cnn welcome back to cns special coverage. i m wolf blitzer in washington, along with erin burnett, qizan, new york last sauer donald trump spoke over at trump tower in new york, rayleigh against the historic guilty verdict in his criminal hush money trial, and wearing i just want to point out this was at trump tower. you would have covered trump for many, many years. we used to go over there to trump tower to interview them. he obviously feels pretty comfortable over there. obviously, wolffian you he spent the night there. interestingly, we understand his wife, melania, was there as well she did not appear with him today as of course, she didn t any de in the courtroom were looking at live pictures outside wolf of the people who gathered as you pointed out, this was marked to be a news conference, which it was
don t know. i mean, it s a good question. i think understanding why a jury reaches a verdict is something that every single trial lawyer in the country would love to be able to answer honestly look, a lot goes into a jury verdict that doesn t even include what happened at the trial. the decisions that are made before the trial, the decisions that the court makes, and that the parties decide about witnesses a call, what evidence to put in i think that at the end of the day it remains true that if the word of michael cohen was not accepted at all, then you could not have convicted president trump. and the jury convicted. so at the end of the day they they looked past what we thought were were fatal flaws and mr. cohen s story and his past and they ve reached a guilty verdict right. but it wasn t just the word of michael cohen. i mean, there was other evidence in this case, the documents they wanted to rehear, david pecker s testimony. i mean, they took all of that into consid
verdict is read, but of course that means they haven t ruled it in either. right? and there s not much time. nicely. all right. thank carol. thank you. thanks for joining us. the news continues now, right here on cnn it s thursday, may 30, right now on cnn this morning day two of deliberations about to begin in donald trump s hush money trial after jurors sent to requests to the judge supreme court justice samuel alito, blaming his wife for flying an upside-down on flag. now recused, refusing to recuse himself from january 6, cases and dirty tactics, north korea launching balloons filled with feces he s and trash and dropping them on south korea i m here in washington, alive. look at, i guess that s new york city city. there it is a little little cloudy there this morning as those jurors start to wake up, had into their second day of deliberations. good morning, everyone. i m casey, hence it s wonderful to have you with us. the jury in the trump hush money trial bac
trial of a former president began with the judge reading 55 ages of instructions on what to consider as the jurors way, 34 felony charges. now, the day ended with the buzzer, which signals the jury wants to communicate going off once then again, the first time to say they wanted four pieces of testimony read back to them. the second to ask the judge to reread them his instructions unclear so far whether that means the whole thing or selected portions of it. the testimony they want us from david pecker, the former national enquirer publisher and former trump lawyer and fixer, michael cohen. some of it dealing with the arrangement for pecker to act as the campaigns, eyes and ears for potentially damaging stories they ll hear that tomorrow morning. the judge dismissing them, then staying with attorneys for both sides to try to hammer out exactly what will be said. as for the defendant here some of what he said coming and going mother teresa could not be discharges. these charges