trial of a former president began with the judge reading 55 ages of instructions on what to consider as the jurors way, 34 felony charges. now, the day ended with the buzzer, which signals the jury wants to communicate going off once then again, the first time to say they wanted four pieces of testimony read back to them. the second to ask the judge to reread them his instructions unclear so far whether that means the whole thing or selected portions of it. the testimony they want us from david pecker, the former national enquirer publisher and former trump lawyer and fixer, michael cohen. some of it dealing with the arrangement for pecker to act as the campaigns, eyes and ears for potentially damaging stories they ll hear that tomorrow morning. the judge dismissing them, then staying with attorneys for both sides to try to hammer out exactly what will be said. as for the defendant here some of what he said coming and going mother teresa could not be discharges. these charges
you won t physicians mutual wednesday, may 29th, right now on cnn this morning, 12 manhattan jurors about to begin deciding the fate of a former president will it impact the future of the country? plus ahead. all right your question robert de niro taking on trump and tangling with his supporters outside the manhattan courthouse and hurricane-force winds pushing an american airlines 7307 completely away from the gate with no one at the helm? and the best of america s pastime finally, getting there dues. major league baseball, shaking up the all-time record books 6:00 a.m. here in washington. alive. look at new york city is a town that is going to start deliberating donald trump s fate here later on this morning. good morning, everyone. i m kasie hunt. it s wonderful to have you with us the arguments have been made and now it s time for 12 ordinary people from manhattan to decide whether or not donald trump is a criminal, a decision that might shake up the race for presiden
day for the most part i found it i was totally zoned in that one pretty pretty quick. i felt towards the last hour, so that mr. steinglass couldn t move to the long and i didn t know if we needed like six book excerpts get more choice xors. i think get less for have been a little more with some of that, but i think i think look, on the defense end i think todd blanche rule was i heard the word meandering. yeah, i certainly subscribe to that. i think he made a real legal and tactical mistake by diving into people s exhibits 35 and 36. the weisselberg notes i think they are the smoking gun evidence and i think he dove into a minefield without a plan to get to get through it. do you think he should not have even brought those up? if anything? i wouldn t he like lead with it. right that s not those documents are not his strong suit. and i anticipated and then i tours steinglass just went to town. he really he got to a plus on that bolt documents up you ve got weisselb
and by mistake, i get this network and it showed an empty field and it said we drew 250,000 people. that is not bad, but it is a lie. we had 250,000 people literally in the little bowl that we constructed. well the president sent his press secretaries out to defend this untruth and repeated it several times. and even formed a presidential commission to investigate. the president says and continues to say this about the border wall. we started building our wall. i am so proud of it. we started, we have 1.6 billion. and we have already started, you saw the pictures yesterday. what a thing of beauty. we sent garry tuckman. the president has repeated lied
it shows where walter scott was pulled over on saturday morning by officer slager allegedly for that broken taillight. the officer report add foot chase that enshoed. look at the distance between those two points. it s a long distance talking about camera angles. it ended near an alley. and that s where scott was shot to death while fleeing from officer slager. one insist tency, is whether police gave help to scott. with that, here s cnn garry tuckman. the chief of police or the the questions about officer michael slager came hard and fast. eddie drigers is the chief of the new orleans charleston police. to my knowledge, nobody was witness to anything but slager. at least in video, he did not appear to aid him. shortly after the shooting,