the moment a plane landed on a busy highway as drivers filmed it all. how the mlb is rewriting the record books to honor the hits, home runs, and milestones of some of history s greatest players. the panda-plomacy breakthrough. inside the new effort to bring the furry favorites back to the national zoo. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening, and welcome, and now we wait. the fate of donald j. trump, former president of the united states, and now criminal defendant, is tonight in the hands of a manhattan jury. the seven men and five women deliberating for 4 1/2 hours today on whether mr. trump was part of an unlawful scheme to falsify business records to cover up hush money paid to an adult film star. he is charged with 34 counts. late this afternoon the panel rang a bell summoning a bailiff to the deliberation room, not to say they had reached a verdict, but rather with questions about those instructions and a request to have a readback
are on verdict watch in the criminal hello. case against donald trump. but tete watch delayed a little bit because the jury has asked for key pieces of testimony. why one side might like that? get more. my wife is fond of flying flags. i am not supreme court justice samuel alito refuses to recuse himself in january this case is despite the controversial flags that trump s supporters have adopted seen at two of his homes had just when you thought that zooms staff who s were so 2020 meet demand, caught driving, driving during a virtual court hearing after being charged for dr we begin with a suspended license i m john berman with kate bolduan. sara is out today and this is cnn news central this morning, prosecutors, defense lawyers, legal hello. so around the world, trying to figure out what the jury is thinking it is. verdict watch and the criminal case against donald trump, the jury has the case. they have been deliberating for four hours, but they asked to be red key
to the jury and within hours the bell rings in court, the first note from the jury requesting key testimony read back to them. what their request could signal in the donald trump criminal trial. then an hour later, the request regarding the judge s instructions to the jury and what all of this being mean. also developing this hour, the close call on the runway, an american airlines passenger jet barreling down the runway at 110 miles per hour seconds from takeoff. air traffic control calling on them to abort. another plane in the path. tonight, supreme court justice samuel alito refusing to recuse himself from cases involving january 6th despite the flag seen for a time flying outside both of his homes. tonight, he s putting the responsibility entirely on his wife. tonight, the new turn the world s number one golfer arrested in louisville, now the charges dropped amid the release of new body camera video and what it shows. there s also word coming in, the shooting at
sure, but really the slice of the electorate that biden needs to reach. i think that s totally plausible, yes. the difference maker, tiktok, that s where we are, 2024. thank you, my friend. today the jurors in donald trump s hush money case began deliberating, and while we have no idea what they will decide, trump himself and his conservative apologists are already setting their expectations. what did i say from the beginning of this trial? donald trump cannot get a fair trial in new york city regardless of the outcome. to me, should be an acquittal. but i m not a new york liberal. i really hope donald trump gets acquitted. and if he does, it will be a miracle because of how loaded this judge has been from the start. mother teresa could not beat these charges. these charges are rigged. the whole thing is rigged. trump and his promoters are falsely claiming that the whole trial was rigged. they are priming their audience for a guilty verdict. but again, nobod
and the jurors have been sent to begin deliberations. the jury finally has the case. a former president now awaiting his fate in a criminal trial. tonight, the testimony the jury wants to hear from david pecker and michael cohen. why even getting to this point is a positive sign for the rule of law. it will be talked about in the history books. then, justice samuel alito warms up the bus. as soon as i saw the upside down american flag i asked my wife to take it down, but for several days she refused. congressman daniel goldman on the response to calls for recusal. chief justice roberts must step in and make sure that he does not have any role in deciding these cases. when all in starts now. good evening from new york, i am chris hayes. the criminal trial of donald trump was turned over to the jury today. 12 of trumps fellow new yorkers, i say that somewhat tongue-in-cheek, deliberated for four hours today before being dismissed for the day shortly befo