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former president trump about to head downtown. the final phase of his trial where the jury could deliver a verdict as early as today. we ll watch it. good morning. let s go. i m bill hemmer, welcome to the program. a lot to get to. dana: i m dana perino and this is america s newsroom. so it is a big day, everyone will try to focus. we might get a verdict today, we could. let s get you first to the beginning of the day. a live look at the courthouse where less than one hour from now judge merchan will give the jury instructions to them. it has been a bone of contention before they re given about to take an hour with that. the jury starts deliberating and then we see where they go. bill: the clock will be running and verdict watch. former president faces 34 counts of falsifying business records. the jury to convict or he quit him on all charges. it could also deliver a mixed verdict which gets very complicated. if the jury is deadlocked the judge may declare a mistr ....
Voter id. i m against voter id that people don t have. or can t get. or can t get. the kind of id proposed in states around the country. our id, about 11% of eligible voters just don t have. but even though there is broad support in some sense that you need to be who you say you are, people do not want it undermine the basic tenet of american democracy. starting in the declaration of independence, we were all created equal, and that s what makes us different as americans. we should not make it harder for any americans to vote. there are easy ways to have id that everybody has. you could have lengths tronnic poll books. everything else is done through computers. yet when you vote, it is this fumbling through paper. if we had electronic poll books, it would be easier. ....