hi, everyone. here we go. it is 4:00 in new york. oh, to be a fly on the wall behind these closed doors. in the courthouse that has seen no shortage of famous influential or wealthy criminal defendants. 12 new yorkers and seven men and five women are right now debating the fate of a former president of the united states and they have questions. the jury in the historic trump criminal election interference hush money trial is at this moment deliberating on the 34 felony counts trump is charged with by the manhattan district attorney. just in, in the last few minutes, a second note has been sent from the jury, they re asking to re-hear judge merchan s instructions to them and earlier they are requested testimony from david pecker and michael cohen. our journalists are standing watch and they are updating us and we ll update you as soon as we know anything. as of 4:00 p.m., the juries that deliberated for four hours after yesterday s marathon day of closing arguments, more than
the 11th hour with stephanie ruhle starts now. tonight s closing arguments in donald trump s new york criminal trial. the defense targets michael cohen as the prosecution point to a mountain of evidence against the former president. then the biden campaign brings star power outside the courthouse. robert de niro s blunt message about trump. plus, how aggressive will president biden get on the campaign trail once the trial is over? as the 11th hour gets underway on this tuesday night. good evening once again. i am stephanie ruhle. we are now 161 days away from the election and we are likely 13 hours away from the first case against a former president going to the jury. closing arguments in the case began this morning, lasted all day long, and wrapped up a few hours ago. both sides made their final pleas to the jury of 12 ordinary new yorkers who are taking on an extraordinary task. here is my colleague laura jarrett with more. reporter: tonight the first trial of an americ
the beat with ari melber starts right now. hi, ari. hi, nicolle. i m going to pull a minilawrence. i was trying to give you your seconds back. we have a full breakdown of all these jury questions tonight, which is so interesting. that s what we re going to do. i can t wait. i m going to get upstairs fast enough so i don t miss anything. have a great show. thank you. thank you to nicolle. and welcome to the beat. i m ari melber. today for the first time ever, donald trump s fate in this criminal trial is now in the hands of a jury of his peers. the presides judge giving the standard and detailed instructions to these 12 jurors in a case that s anything but standard. we know that. and tonight we can report several brand-new developments from the jury s first day of deliberations, which lasted over four hours. we have now gleaned new clues about what they re discussing, what they re considering, what exact evidence and testimony they are focused on today, and presu
good morning, i m ana cabrera alongside my colleague josé diaz-balart with special coverage, the historic criminal trial of a former president moves from the courtroom to the jury room. any moment judge juan merchan will start laying out the instructions to the jury, and that s expected to last about an hour. then the jurors begin deliberations, which could last until at least 4:30 today. nbc s yasmin vossoughian is outside the courthouse. also with us, catherine christian, former manhattan assistant district attorney, temidayo agone da williams, former federal prosecutor, and adam pollock, and judge diane keyes l, a retired court judge. yasmin, what s going on right now? reporter: ten hours of closing yesterday. here we are, jury instructions happening any moment now. court beginning at 10:00 a.m. donald trump inside the courtroom not making any comments as he was walking in. let s just remind folks where we are and what these charges kind of make up. the falsifica
nitric oxide, support, blood pressure, and improve heart-healthy rush to walmart and find total bce. laura coates, live next on cnn close captioning is brought to you by tableau. watch, pause and record live tv subscription free. start watching tv for free with tablet well switching to tableau has really been a money saver without a monthly subscription was amazing quarter today at tableau tv.com donald trump s criminal trial goes into overdrive. time and the ball is about to be in the jury s court tonight on a special edition alarm codes live 12 new york jurors are just a few hours now away from finally delivering what they have spent weeks listening to one of the highest cases and all of american history and tomorrow morning around 10:00 eastern, they re going to get specific instructions to follow from the judge four there then sent off to really talk amongst themselves and we all wish i do. we could be a fly on the wall, but we will have to wait for this smoke signal