court. he been told he has to be there. he is awaiting the decision earlier. judge juan merchan read specific sections of his instructions to the jury also at their request, the jury also asked for headphones, a specific type of headphone to use with their laptop that contains the physical evidence or evidence of it. this morning? yeah. and that jury, who asked to those headphones is also right now rehearing the testimony that came from david pecker. he has of course, the tabloid king but they left yesterday. they asked to rehear four key pieces of that testimony, and that is what is happening inside that courtroom, right now. that includes michael cohen and david pecker s a counts of a 2015 trump tower meeting. pecker is 2016 phone call with trump about the former playboy playmate karen mcdougal. and also pecker s testimony about not finalizing the payment with trump is going to pay pecker s company bag after they had purchased karatay goals life rights about her alleged a
later, we get a second request. we re going to hear the instructions potentially all over again. a lot to process the leader, jake tapper starts right now cnn breaking news and welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we do have some breaking news for you and just over four hours to deliberate creation. the jury has now requested to here read back of four parts of testimony, and just now, they send a second node another node, a second one. he s, 12 people will decide the fate of former president trump in his criminal hush money cover-up problem. we re going to bring you all the updates a moment. the verdict comes down, which could be in seconds or days if you ask down trump s allies this is they believed that every minute the jury continues to deliberate as a good sign for trump. the truth is, we have no idea. this morning, judge juan were shown instructed the jury on how they should reach their verdict. this included a directive to check any personal trump views at the do
james comey is here. i m going to get his reaction to the brian his thoughts on a potential second trump term and talk to him about his brand new novel. also major league baseball is changing its history books as it now embraces all leagues in its record books, including the segregated leagues, how the addition of more than 2000 players is shaking up the mlb s statistics. breaking news moments ago, former president donald trump walked back into that manhattan courtroom, has lawyers and prosecutors have just been negotiating and arguing and bigger bickering over which portions of the testimony the jury will get to rehear tomorrow when it s read back to them cnn s paula reads outside the courthouse polo, walk us through exactly what s happening in court right now is the right now what appears day that even though the jury has gone home for the de it appears that the defense attorneys prosecutors, and they appear poised to go back on the record because the judge is basically l
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situation room, stay with cnn are special live coverage of this truly historic criminal trial continues right now. on the lead with jake tapper cnn breaking news and welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper, donald trump s hush money trial is in its final phase as the prosecution is in the midst of giving its closing arguments, court will be back from break at any moment. the prosecution has been arguing that president trump, quote, quote, corrupted those around him, and he got them to lie and covered up unquote. trump picked michael cohen as his fixer. the prosecution says, quote, because he was willing to lie and cheat for donald trump this follows nearly three hours of closing arguments from trump s defense attorney todd blanche, who attacked michael cohen using trump like nicknames, calling him the gloat not the goat, the glutes. the greatest liar of all time. he also said that michael cohen is quote literally like an mvp of liars and added quote, i don t know how many leinz