Juror Box News Today

Both of you now. That is all for us. This has been cnn central, cnn special live coverage of the criminal trial. Donald trump picks up right now a live look at the Manhattan Courthouse behind me. Were shooting the jury will hear again from Marquee Witness for me, daniels, moments ago, the former president of the United States heading into court for you, listen to testimony from the Adult Film Star comes as his lawyers are adopting a new Mission Store his reputation by attacking her credibility m...

late. see you at the end of tomorrow. and welcome to the beat. im ari melber and today, for the first time ever, defendant donald trumps fate in this criminal trial is now in the hands of a jury of his peers. presiding judge giving the standard and detailed instructions to the 12 jurors in a case that is anything but standard. we know that. and tonight, we can report several brand new developments from the jurys first day of the deliberations which lasted over four hours. we have now...

A week and he went to his private office. yes, registered as a sex offender but not the jail experience one would assume from a sex offender. when it came up to alex acostas confirmation hearing, a lot of people wondering, then and now, this is stuff happening is this okay. hey, that was not the best work of the justice system ever done. do you just let it go? >> at the time, the prosecutor had a 53-page indictment and it was acosta stepped in and worked on his deal. we learned epstein has offic...

He looked into the press box -- sorry, the juror box which the press sits in here in this federal courthouse when theres actually no jury sitting. in addition to that, epstein seemed to kind of smirk and scoff at the notion that somebody who may have worked for him, defense investigative attorney tried to run one of his accusers father off the road. thats something that prosecutors put in a filing and reiterated to the judge today. so basically again to recap, jeffrey epstein pleaded not guilty ...

And so forth. heather: are we doing enough to adjust quickly enough? >> thats the question thats the balance. ultimately these sort of issues get up to the supreme court where theres a decision on a federal basis and then the states will make their own decisions and interpret federal laws based on what we should do, how much balance of privacy versus someones rights and how invasive can we be in a situation where we saw in the last jodi arias trial, we had one of those alternate jurors tweeting ...

Nbc aired. >> this guy looks like he is up to no good. he looks black. >> gregg: an attorney calls it outrageous because here is the full clip. >> this guy look like he is up to no good or on drugs or something. he is walking around and looking about. >> and is he black or hispanic? >> he looks black. >> gregg: lets bring in our news analyst. mercedes, the edited version makes him sound like all he cares about, alleged victim is african-american, makes i am sound like a racist. in truth he was a...