deliberations about to resume in donald trump s criminal trial. what the jury is asking to hear for a second time will be revealed in a matter of moments. stay tuned for that. good morning. could be quite a day. we ll see. i m bill hemmer in new york city. dana: i woke up ready to go. i m dana perino and this is america s newsroom. we have a lot to get to. former president trump heading downtown for day two of deliberations. trump and his team must remain at the courthouse as the jury decides whether to convict him of 34 counts of falsifying business records. bill: the former president s fate in the hands of 12 new yorkers. they deliberated 4 1/2 hours day one and ended the day with a few requests from the judge. dana: they want to rehear testimony from david pecker and michael cohen and then they also asked the judge to repeat his instructions. those things are expected to happen when court resumes less than 30 minutes from now. bill: our legal team is ready to go.
very good to be with you. i m alex witt in for katy tur. what jack smith s case, that is the question being batted around before judge aileen cannon in court today as major questions about her own role in the trial hang over proceedings. there is still no trial date in sight. instead, to the frustration of many, cannon is hearing out what several legal experts have called another long shot argument to dismiss charges against the former president. yesterday, the new york times reported cannon rejected urges from two federal judges that she not take the case when it was firsthanded to her last june. the question is why, when a huge chunk of her rulings have drawn criticism from the prosecution and legal scholars. is it inexperience, she was only on the bench just over a year. is it potential bias? she has shown unusual favor to trump by intervening in the mar-a-lago investigation before he was indicted or is it simply judge cannon s way of proceeding over such a high stakes h
Chris Hayes discusses the days top news. Collusion and it appears to be an effort to silence or punish the president s supporters and their advocates. Washington post reporting the Special Counsel is offering to limit questions to the president. And submit some questions in writing. A parade of administration heavy hitters today saying russia is still trying to attack u. S. Elections. Even as Key Administration officials admit they dont know the relationship between donald trump and vladimir putin. You are saying today that the president has directed you to make the issue of russian meddling a priority. How do you explain what you are saying, his advisers and what the president has said. I am not in the position to
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