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good to be with you. i m katy tur. all eyes are on lower manhattan where five women and seven men are in their eighth hour of deliberations, tasked with deciding whether donald trump is guilty of a cover up to interfere with the 2016 election. this morning, the jurors asked the court for a second hearing of key testimony. the descriptions from both michael cohen and david pecker about the 2015 trump tower meeting where the three men agreed to work together to promote and protect donald trump in the press. from pecker, quote, at that meeting, donald trump and michael, they asked me what i can do and what my magazine could do to help the campaign. i said what i would do is i would run or publish positive stories about mr. trump, and i would publish negative stories about his opponents. i said i would be your eyes and ears. if i hear anything negative or hear anything about women selling stories, i would notify michael cohen. this from michael cohen s testimony, quote, what he,
good day. i m chris jansing live at msnbc headquarters in new york city. the waiting room now complete with television. new nbc news reporting about how the former president has gotten permission to outfit the drab room in lower manhattan where he has to wait for the jury s decision. he is watching sitcom reruns or coverage of his trial? has the waiting room become the epicenter of presidential campaign, both physically and strategically. plus, michael cohen, david pecker, and the 2015 trump tower meeting, the jury in donald trump s hush money case today keying in on the details of that critical encounter. asking to rehear multiple portions of related testimony as well as significant portions of jury instructions. what it could tell us about where their deliberations stand. and, yes, the law and the evidence, but as jurors deliberate, how and when will common sense impact their verdict? the important instruction from judge merchan that jurors must consider. . we have so m
are in charge of history, a decision you will make will be taught in schools, written down in history books, and then that decision awaits you today. imagine how heavy it would feel to get out of bed this morning. it s a lot. and yet that is what 12 men and women are doing right now, deciding if they believe the former president of the united states, donald trump, committed a crime, potentially multiple felonies for as the manhattan district attorney s office argues corruptly trying to interfere with an election. engaging in a so-called scheme that prosecutors say could have been what got him elected. the prosecution has told the jury they think this is a simple case, that in the weeks before the 2016 election during the fallout from the access hollywood tape, donald trump caused michael cohen to buy and bury the story of an affair with an adult film star, to hide it from you, the voters. they call that election interference, and say this case has so much evidence, it is over
hi, everyone. here we go. it is 4:00 in new york. oh, to be a fly on the wall behind these closed doors. in the courthouse that has seen no shortage of famous influential or wealthy criminal defendants. 12 new yorkers and seven men and five women are right now debating the fate of a former president of the united states and they have questions. the jury in the historic trump criminal election interference hush money trial is at this moment deliberating on the 34 felony counts trump is charged with by the manhattan district attorney. just in, in the last few minutes, a second note has been sent from the jury, they re asking to re-hear judge merchan s instructions to them and earlier they are requested testimony from david pecker and michael cohen. our journalists are standing watch and they are updating us and we ll update you as soon as we know anything. as of 4:00 p.m., the juries that deliberated for four hours after yesterday s marathon day of closing arguments, more than