did hunter biden just call the republican s bluff. the president s son agrees to testify to congress but under one condition. trending in america s crime crisis this so-called crash and grab robbery. we will show you what that is all about. and growing concerns over a new respiratory virus from china. is this deja vu all over again? but, first, breaking tonight, as another group of hostages is released by hamas, we are learning some of the remaining captives are no longer in hamas custody. the israeli defense forces say some hostages are being held by other terror groups, making them harder to find. this comes as the truce is interrupted by sporadic violence. correspondent nate foy is in northern israel to begin our coverage tonight. hi, nate. nate: good evening, john. tonight 12 hostages back in israel and finally reuniting with their families after just going through absolute hell in hamas captivity for 53 straight days. for a moment today it appeared that the possible ex
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
they want to hear again, and this morning the jury will also re-hear four pieces of critical testimony in the case at their request. nbc s yasmin vossoughian is outside the courthouse. also with us, msnbc legal correspondent and host katie phang along with catherine christian, former assistant manhattan district attorney. kristy greenberg, former federal prosecutor and sdny criminal division deputy chief. and harry litman, former deputy assistant attorney general. yasmin, i want to go right to the courthouse. let s start with what we heard from the jurors in this new note today. reporter: so we needed clarification on what they wanted out of jury instructions, right? we didn t know if they wanted the entirety of the jury instructions read back to them after yesterday s note or they wanted a portion. it turns out they wanted a portion. they essentially wanted what the jury considers as evidence in the lead up to count one. that s really the entirety of all of the instruction
other defendant, but it s not clear if you will have a mug shot, according to sources, who say there are concerns about whether it could leak in violation of state law. shots are for people so that you recognize who they are. he is the most recognized face in the world, let alone the country right now, so there s no need for that. there s no need for the theatrics. social media, trump has attacked manhattan district attorney alvin bragg, calling him corrupt. he even went so far as to attack judge one were sean, who will oversee the case, alleging the judge treated trump s companies viciously when they went to trial last year, the judge presided over the prosecution of trump organization cfo alan weisberg, as well as the tax fraud trial in which the family s company was found guilty of conspiracy and falsifying business records unrelated to the hush money scheme. trump s lawyers tried to clean up his attacks against the judge. i don t believe the judges bias. i mean, the president somet
unsealed, which may not be until trump s arrangement as trump faces criminal charges for the first time, he just added another white collar attorney, todd blanche to his defense team he previous he represented former trump campaign manager paul manafort. a grand jury returned an indictment thursday after a years long probe into a hush money payments made to adult film star stormy daniels in the days leading up to the 2016 election, cnn has learned. the charges include more than 30 counts related to business fraud. trump is expected to be fingerprinted just like any other defendant, but it s not clear if you will have a mug shot, according to sources, who say there are concerns about whether it could leak in violation of state law mugs. shots are for people so that you recognize who they are. he is the most recognized face in the world, let alone the country right now, so there s no need for that. there s no need for the theatrics on social media. trump has attacked manhattan district a