the courthouse would be york for us, qarrah, give us the very latest well well, if donald trump has just left the courthouse at the end of this day, that was just after his lawyers and prosecutors finished negotiating what portions of the transcripts, some from the testimony of david pecker her and michael cohen. >> they agreed would be read back to the jury when the jury resumes tomorrow. this came after there was the sound of a buzzer going up twice inside the courtroom indicating that there were notes from those juries. but at the end of this first day of deliberations, there's not a verdict the historic first criminal trial of a former president and presumptive republican nominee is now in the hands of a jury, erasing condemned i mean, there's charges for we'll say, we'll see how we do 12 manhattan residents, seven men and five women deliberating. if donald trump is guilty of 34 felony charges of falsifying business records in an attempt to influence the 2016 election these charges are written all thing is rig after nearly four hours of deliberations, the jury sent in their first note asking for portions of testimony to be read back from former national enquirer publisher david pecker, and former trump fixer, michael cohen, about a meeting at trump tower prosecutors say there was a 2015 meeting, there between the two men and trump, where pecker allegedly agreed to be the eyes and ears for trump's campaign and flag any negative stories to cohen. >> there were several other meetings there that pecker and cohen testified about during the trial. the testimony will be read back to the jury at the start of deliberations on thursday first day, the jury also had a second question before they were dismissed for the day about judge juan merchan's instructions earlier, he explained that to find trump guilty, they must unanimously find that he falsified business records with the intent to violate new york state election law promoting or preventing the election of a candidate to public office by unlawful means. the jury does not need to be unanimous about what those unlawful means are prosecutors have put forward three theories about how trump violated election law. a corporate donation or individual contribution exceeding $2,700 falsifying thank other business records such as michael cohen's bank records and tax law violations as it did during his 17 hours of intense testimony and closing arguments, michael cohen and his credibility took center stage under our law, michael cohen is an accomplice judge merchan said to the jury, even if you find the testimony of michael cohen to be believable, you may not convict the defendant solely upon that testimony unless you also find it's corroborated by other evidence. cohen, the prosecution's star witness, and the only person call to could directly implicate trump testified he spoke to trump twice to get his sign off just before making payments to stormy daniel's he said trump approved the repayment scheme trump's defense painted cohen as a liar and a thief who could not be trusted out for revenge on his former boss. the judge left the jury to deliberate with these parting words. it is not my responsibility to judge the evidence here. it is yours. my sean said you are the judges that facts and you are responsible for deciding whether the defendant is guilty or not guilty now, the jury will be back here tomorrow at 9:30 a.m. that is when the judge will have the testimony read back to them and also instruct them on the law and whether that is in the whole instruction again, or portion of it, he's expecting the jury to let them know that tomorrow morning deliberations will pick up again and donald trump will be forced to stay in this courthouse until there's a note or verdict. >> will cara thank you. >> kara scannell reporting for us going to bring in our legal and political experts right now and elie honig, let me start with you. take a look at this and i'll put it up on the screen. these are the four portions of the transcript of the jury has asked the judge to read out three of them from david pecker's testimony and one from michael cohen's testimony. what stands out to you from these four sections? >> so this tells me that the jury has been assessing this case more or less, how the prosecution asked them to look at it yesterday and they're closing. they're looking at it from a more or less chronological perspective, and they're taking a systematic approach. and the thing that they asked about that i think is most important is this august 2015 meeting that happens at trump tower, the de as today said, essentially, this is where the conspiracy start at the participants in this meeting, three key players, donald trump, michael cohen, and david pecker. and here's the crucial part of david pecker's testimony that i think the judge should read back if he's responding accurately, two the request tomorrow when the jury comes back in, here's what david pecker said at that meeting, donald trump and michael, meaning michael cohen, they asked me, what can i do and what my magazines meaning the national enquirer could do to help the campaign. so thinking about it as i did previously, 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. and i said that i would also be the eyes and ears of your dash. i said i would be your eyes and ears because i know that the trump organization had a very small staff, so eyes and ears is a crucial phrase that the prosecution really stressed to the jury. clearly, they want to go back to this crucial testimony and incorporate it into their deliberations. >> certainly do on chris khardori is with us as well, anchors the prosecutor, joshua steinglass, who did all of a summation yesterday, we heard it for hours yesterday, called pecker's testimony, and i'm quoting i'm quoting him now. >> but early does this suggest the jurors are following his lead with these requests? >> yeah. no, i agree with elie that the question suggests that they're following the roadmap that the prosecutors i tried to lay it out for layout for them. it's also the start of the story effectively chronologically, but just to play devil's advocate here, i did think one of the more effective things that todd blanche did during his closing yesterday was asked some serious questions about the testimony about that meeting and whether pecker and cohen's recollection that meeting completely aligns and also what exactly happened in that meeting? what was the object of the conspiracy at that meeting? the scope of it. so i could see these questions being asked in either direction. >> todd blanche so defense attorney for trump, raising those those issues. judge george graph, retired judge. judge george gracilis with us as well, judged. thanks for joining us. the jury is also asking for the judge in this case to read his jury instructions again how unusual is that type of request? and what does that tell you well first of all, hall wolf, it's always good to be with you well, it tells me that taking this very seriously, that they want this, this is not a simple, it's not the most straightforward case i'm not clear at this point whether or not they want all of the jury instructions read back are just some of the jury instructions read back. but i agree with what the previous guests just said that they're starting starting from the beginning, they looking to follow a roadmap laid out in the prosecutors summation and i think they want to just make sure that they've got the right rules of the road when they start driving down the highway towards either raw conviction or acquittal i have in front of me. 55 pages of the instructions from the judge. it's all written down, but a judge grosso explained to me because i'm still a little bit confused about this. if i have a copy of all these instructions from the judge, why don't members of the jury have the same written 55 pages that they can simply we read the theory. the theory is, is they don't want individual jurors acting like the judge don't want one juror reading instructions with another juries interpret another juror this system is designed to funnel all of that instructions testimony evidence that the judges, the judges keeping control if they've got questions about things, they send a note to the judge and then the judge can bring the whole jury back. >> they want specific evidence they requested. >> they get it if they want read backs, they have to come to the judge. it's all the keep the judge in the driver's seat. >> very interesting, indeed, alyssa farah griffin is with us as well as you know, alyssa, former president trump has to remain inside the courtroom while the jury deliberates. how do you think all of this is weighing on him listen, i think trump role is really bracing for the impact of a conviction. >> there's clearly already a bit of a strategy underway. we sought to today that some of trump's closest allies members on capitol phonic are actually calling for essentially an investigation into how judge more sean got into this case. you've seen others messaging and echoing that this is a witch hunt calling into question the entire process itself. so what you're doing is laying the groundwork because this is out of his control. he does not know where the jury is going to come down. there's a very real chance he could be coming evicted, so he needs his outside allies out there convincing the public that there was something on toward here that it wasn't he wasn't treated properly. i suspect that regardless of the outcome, you're going to hear a lot of anger from donald trump. we've seen that when he's gone out and spoken in these little press conferences, even if it were to be a hung jury or an acquittal, which seems unlikely i think he's still going to rail against the judge in the process and try to use that to rally his base. >> yeah elie, i thought it was interesting that there's another portion of the jury request involving david pecker's testimony. i know you've been going over that and giving us some insight and what it could potentially suggests. >> so another indicator, wolf that the jury is being chronological follicle about how they go about it. >> they asked for read back of david pecker's testimony about a june 2016 meeting. now, david pecker is in a meeting with an investor and he essentially gets pulled out because donald trump has called him. and this is right in the heart of the election campaign season leading up to 2016. and here's how that testimony went. again, i believe this is what the judge will read to the jury tomorrow. steinglass, the ada asks david pecker, and could you tell us about the conversation you had that de with donald trump now, pecker's response? yes. when a god on the phone, mr. trump said to me, i spoke to michael, meaning michael cohen, karen meaning karen mcdougal. her allegations are starting to surface now, karen is a nice girl is it true that a mexican group is looking to buy her story for $8 million i said i absolutely don't believe that there's a mexican group out there to buy a story for $8 million. and then he meaning trump, he said, what do you think i should do? i said, i think you should buy the story and take it off the market. so again, this is the evolution of catch-and-kill that the de a tried to lay out for the jury that leads up to the next incident, which is stormy daniel's interesting. >> ankush, what are these two notes from the jury tell you about their mindset? >> right now. >> well, i mean, i'm a little reluctant to read anything into the more than what we've already talked about. but i think general matter suggests to me that they're taking this very seriously. honestly, the questions are good. their questions are good in terms of like the granularity of them and i also would want the jury we instructions, not just in my hands that read back. there very complicated. they're complicated to read, much less to here. and i think as anyone who's seen a jury here, jury instructions can tell you they're very hard for jurors to follow. often they don't follow them very closely because they're dense. >> very complicated to harry connor, i spent more than an hour reading these jury instructions. and if you read it, you have a better chance of understanding it, as opposed to simply the judge talking about absolutely. there's a big difference between when you can read a document here, it's very dense very complicated alyssa sources say that former president trump's allies believed that the longer the jury deliberates, the better that is for trump. >> do you think that's right? >> i actually would disagree. i think that if they were to come to a decision quickly especially if it were a conviction, it would play into the notion that this is partisan and they were always against him. i think it actually the longer they take it shows they're really weighing the facts of this case. they're being meticulous. and i think it was very noteworthy by the way, that the judge gave this instruction about you cannot base your decision purely on michael cohen's tests so one, it has to be corroborated that's right. that's correct. that's the way that the process should work. >> and i think based on what we're hearing from the jury, the more information they want back, they're doing exactly. >> that's why i'd say complete the actually quite the opposite of what trump ruled suggesting their bottom line, we have no idea what's going on inside that jury room, but we should find out fairly soon to all of you. thank you very much for joining us just ahead. we're gonna get more reaction to the first day of deliberations and the trump trial from an attorney for the prosecution's star witness, michael cohen stay with us. you're in the situation we're trying to save the planet with nuggets because we need the planet and we also need nuggets impossible. we're setting the meat problem with more meat welcome to the roots of our legacy where excellence comfort and electricity. are forever welcome to beyond the mercedes my buck he qs suv why choose asleep numbers, smart bad. >> can it keep me warm when i'm cold wait, no, i'm always hot. >> sweep number. does that can i hi side softer. >> i think my sayyed firmer squeeze number. >> does that can help us sleep better and better sleep number? 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well, here is i've asked him to essentially sequester himself the jury's not sequester, but the witnesses and so yes, i think he's speaking only to his family and to me and he wants to know what's the meaning of these notes? >> what's our takeaway and i always tell my clients would i do know and also the limits of what i know. and i'll tell you what i said to him, which is that we can't you don't want to overread into jury notes. so what we do know is that this is a methodical and deliberate jury and the prosecution told them that this election fraud conspiracy was hatched in august of 2015. at this trump tower meeting between david pecker, michael cohen and donald trump and so they're going back to the beginning and they're asking for testimony about that, about two of the attendees of that meeting so clearly there being careful and methodical, they also i think of note asked for some testimony of mr. cohen's and that to me, the only take away or i should say, the most likely take away from that is that they are discounting todd blanche's summation where he said, do not rely on the say-so of michael cohen. they're asking specifically for his testimony. so while there are other possible alternative explanations, i think the most likely is that they are in fact looking to his testimony and to rely on it as as well as mr. peppers and other testimony from the trial jury instructions, as you know, danya, judge merchan instructed the jury to treat michael cohen, your client, as an accomplice, telling them, in my quote, i'm quoting him now, even if you find the testimony of michael cohen to be believable, you may not convict the defendant solely the upon that testimony, unless you also find that it was corroborated by other evidence. >> what does that say about the concerns over michael cohen's testimony? >> it says nothing at all. >> that is an everyday garden variety instruction. >> there's nothing unusual about that at all. and it's not, judge or justice mission instructing the jury that mr. cohen was an accomplice. mr. cohen testified to that he allocated to it in federal criminal court, and he told the jury all about it. so that is a very ordinary commonplace instruction, and i don't believe anything should be read into that at all. and the jury is following that instruction. they are asking for mr. cohen's testimony. they're also asking for corroborative testimony from mr. pecker and that's i believe exactly what a careful jury should be doing. >> does michael cohen, danya, belief this jury will ultimately ultimately convict donald trump? that i think because this is still pending, it's still in front of a jury. i really don't want to get into his subjective or personal thoughts about it. he testified in court. then i can reiterate that here. that he does wish to see accountability for mr. trump that is u