yesterday, manhattan, it's what we'll continue to talk about every day until the first debate and atlanta. >> but michael real quick that trump campaigns suggests that they think it's blown up in your face and in the movie you guys made yesterday saying that it proves the case that they've been trying to make the whole time that politics is motivating the case. jason miller said after months of st. politics thanks, had nothing to do with this trial. they showed up and made a campaign event out of lower out of a lower manhattan trial for president trump. did this backfire on you no, not at all we're not talking about the trial. >> we're talking about the threat that donald trump poses to our democracy. his embrace of political violence, that he does every single day, whether he's outside the courthouse there in manhattan or he's down to mar-a-lago or he's shouting into an echo chamber on truth, social. that's what we were talking about with robert de niro and officers for known in, dunn, who defended our democracy at the capitol on january 6 so we're of course going to take advantage of the media circus there. we're going to use every tool at our disposal to communicate directly with the voters and breakthrough this fragmented media environment and make sure that people understand the stakes. so we're going to continue to do that every single day through the debate. >> michael tyler, thanks for coming in. appreciate your time a new our i've seen a new central starts now hello everyone, i'm john berman. >> i'm outside the man hattan criminal court. this is cnn special live coverage of the case against donald trump. and today is the day the jury gets the case. in the next few hours, they will begin deliberating the 34 counts. donald trump is charged with falsifying documents to cover up. hush money payments to stormy he daniel's all to influence the 2016 election. the prosecution calls this an election fraud case. the closing arguments are done. the lawyers foreign done. they have spoken before the jury for the very last time today, it is the judge and the judge alone who will address them before they go behind closed doors to determine the fate of the former president and by the end of today, donald trump could be the first former president convicted of a felony or likewise the first former president acquitted of criminal charges, either way, what we're about to see here is simply on precedented with me this morning seat as a brynn gin grass has been covering the trial all 44 days since it began back in april 15. what will we see today? >> yeah. i mean, listen, let's talk about what's going on. and add 9:30, and we expect the former president to be here. he might actually say some words like you mentioned before. then at 10:00, that's when it's going to start today. the judge giving those jurors a little extra time since they went so late yesterday, what those closing arguments, jury instructions are expected to take about an hour. now, remember, this is the roadmap that the judge is giving these jurors to interpret the law and apply it to all this evidence that they have heard over these last several weeks, and they were debated last week by the, by the both sides, right? they had markers, yellow and i forgot the other color, but they were basically wiping out what they wanted in those jury instructions and what they did it nobody has seen these your instructions. nobody has heard them. this is gonna be the first time that we actually here the judge talk about them when he gives him to those jurors and then we are going to have the deliberation. >> this is the big moment when those 12 jurors go behind closed doors and deliberate the fate of the former president during that time, trump and his defense team, they have to stay inside the courthouse. >> there will be other press up there to waiting to see if there are any notes and then of course waiting for the verdict. if there are notes, they're not allowed to come during the lunch hour. that is the latest guidance that we are getting. so that's about an hour break during the day that they're going to ask any questions about anything with this case. but they have a lot of evidence to bile through. they have recording, we have text messages, they have documents, they have the testimony. so there's a lot that's going to happen within today, possibly get into tomorrow to no notes during lunch. >> that was the latest guidance that we got when they want to eat. >> i did i did also take note yesterday that the prosecution, joshua steinglass, kept on saying you can check this evidence, look at these documents as you are delivered branding the prosecution very much wants the physical evidence to be a key part of the double ration deliberations? >> yeah, absolutely. all right. brynn gingras, us. thank you so much for being here really appreciate it. all right. with let's now senior legal analyst, jennifer rodgers and molly murphy, trial consultant and mediator, jen, let me just start with you the jury instructions. brin points out, we don't know what they are exactly yet. we heard the discussions about them, but we haven't heard exactly what the judge will say both legal teams know, and they crafted their closing arguments around those jury instructions. but what will you be looking forward today? hey, when the jury when here's those instructions for the first time i think john, the biggest thing to me is how is the judge going to describe to them the law around the enhanced issue. right. so the the financial records crime is fairly simple. falsification of financial records, but then of course we have this enhancement where if in the course of that you were concealing are committing a second crime, it becomes a felony. so how is the judge going to describe that? and then how is he going to describe the third piece which is what crime was it that was being concealed are committed because that's where we get into the federal election law, for example. so that's the main thing i'm focusing on we don't know what that's gonna look like and you know, it's kind of confusing. so he's going to want to do it in a way that the jury can understand it just to follow up with more time on that quickly, jennifer, in this case, it matters so much because the length would use to describe the charges in what the jury will be deciding it is novel in it could influence how they end up deliberating, correct? >> well it certainly does. i mean, the instructions or the framework for how they deliberate ultimately, there's a verdict forms as guilty or not guilty, but it's going to go into a little bit more more detail because it's going to have to ask them whether they find that the business records were falsified. and then again, whether they find this enhancement, there was another crime that was being concealed or committed there. and so they have to think about it in that way. and if they don't understand what crime is being discussed, then they're not gonna be able to deliberate properly and they'll have appeal problems. so it's really, really important and it's interesting that at this point we don't know but what it will be, but i guess we'll find out in the next hour and then molly, at about 11:00 the jury walks behind the door and enters what is in a way, a twilight zone, but also in another way, the very foundation of our legal system, the jury will deliberate and what happens behind those doors? >> how which ways can it go? what do juries often do in situations like this well, they've waited what, six weeks now, seven weeks of trying to figure out what the evidence is and make a decision. >> so i think there's for the most part, the jurors are ready and they're walking in the courtroom too. figure out truly what evidence was pertinent, what evidence was weighed well enough to support the elements of the charges as ms rodgers just stated, that these are new instructions for the jury and the key is do they will they be able to really understand the instructions, what we typically do is we will talk about specific instructions that and we'll explain what the instructions mean in lay terms. because often they're written more in the legal ease. so often jurors are talking amongst themselves. so what is this actually mean? their job is to take those instructions and tie them into the evidence itself and figure out if the burden is it's been match so it's a big task and i think they're ready for it what jury questions, what possible questions will you be looking for mom? >> polly, to instruct us as to how they're thinking what a question would be a red flag well, i i think if, if they aren't sure what the beyond a reasonable doubt is would be a major flag because the way i have to say the closing arguments we're just so long and my bet very contrived. >> so i think there's going to be some confusion of really what is to see evidence what was the real evidence versus what were the arguments? >> if they come in and they want to know i would say the document this themselves, if they're not clear of who said what if and i think the i think cohen did a very good job in the sense that he he he lied because he was told to lie. >> and if the jury really understands that, then i think that's gonna be a big discussion. i think they are going to talk a lot about what cohen so if a note comes out on really the pertinent evidence itself, that's going to be problematic. i believe for the prosecution and then very quickly, jennifer rodgers which sayyed, do you think field does any side as any lawyer feel good at this moment after closing arguments in before france, directions. well, all the lawyers feel nervous. i'll tell you that much. i think prosecutors should feel pretty good. they went a little too long, but i thought it was a really powerful summation they managed to counter the points made by the defense and layout. their basis for why the evidence meets the law and 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coming in. how are things going right now in your county? how do you describe it? >> you know, things are rough for a lot of people because here in north texas, we had 650,000 of those million without power and we still have about 290 290,000 customers as don people, but that's homes and businesses so more than that, and people are without power in dallas county. we have about 198,000 of the original 350,000 without power and we're lucky that it's been relatively mild weather in the middle east for heights but we know this is a multi-day event just to get the power back on the water is safe here and we're doing food distribution and cooling childers. but it's really tough on those people who had been without power what is the biggest hole up and getting the power restoring? is it is it just the infrastructures just been crushed it is the infrastructure. >> so you had a widespread storm of 80 plus mile per hour straight-line winds that knocks tree limbs into the lines that even knocks down lines are nowhere near trees. and so you've got a lot of lines to fix cruz have been coming in from several other states to help our provider onboard restore those lines and there's a possibility of more storms. in the next couple of days. and so we may see more damage. they'll have to be fixed yeah. i was i was seeing that yesterday was primary day for taxes and at one point yesterday, you'd said that all hundred and three of the counties, 283 polling places, they didn't have electricity and couldn't process voters. how much did this weather impact voting yesterday well, i'm sure it impacted his son because a lot of people who would have voted yesterday, i didn't empower and we're worried about other things rather than a voting in the election we're fortunate that in dallas county we have what's called countywide voting and so you can go to any of those other hundred and 80 places. >> you didn't have to go to a specific precinct, devote we also extended voting hours by two hours. so instead of the post-closing and seven, they close at 9:00 p.m. so hopefully that helps. but no doubt, there were people yesterday that would have otherwise voted. but because of the storms either decided not to or we're not able to get to the polls for sure. i was taking a look according to our storm prediction center at texas has seen at least one storm report of hail damaging wind gusts, or for tornadoes. >> the reports of tornadoes 23 days just this month, just in the month of may. i mean, you guys cannot get a break. it's been wild how do. you how do you describe what this month has been like it's been tough, these weather phenomenas that are happening this month he dabbled in texas for a long time, but they've never happened with this frequency or this widespread of an effect so i've been the county executive here for 14 years. >> i was talking to the senior vice president over restoring outages and encore our provider yesterday, neither us either neither of us have seen this 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