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hi there, everyone. it s 4:00 in new york. the ex-president turned criminal defendant and his lawyers, the prosecutors who brought the first ever criminal case against an american ex-president and indeed the entire country waiting for word from the jury in the trump election interference hush money criminal trial. in court right now, the jury is currently on its 10th hour of deliberations. the judge has said that the jury will not work past 6:00 p.m. today no matter what. if anything happens in court, we ll let you know as soon as we know. the jury spent most of their morning listening to things they have already heard before read back to them. they asked to rehear the judge s instructions regarding what inferences they can make from the evidence shown at trial. they also reviewed the testimony of michael cohen and david pecker regarding their august 2015 trump tower meeting, as well as testimony from david pecker regarding a call from donald trump at his decision to not buy
they want to hear again, and this morning the jury will also re-hear four pieces of critical testimony in the case at their request. nbc s yasmin vossoughian is outside the courthouse. also with us, msnbc legal correspondent and host katie phang along with catherine christian, former assistant manhattan district attorney. kristy greenberg, former federal prosecutor and sdny criminal division deputy chief. and harry litman, former deputy assistant attorney general. yasmin, i want to go right to the courthouse. let s start with what we heard from the jurors in this new note today. reporter: so we needed clarification on what they wanted out of jury instructions, right? we didn t know if they wanted the entirety of the jury instructions read back to them after yesterday s note or they wanted a portion. it turns out they wanted a portion. they essentially wanted what the jury considers as evidence in the lead up to count one. that s really the entirety of all of the instruction
good morning. 11:00 a.m. eastern, 8:00 a.m. pacific. i m jose diaz-balart. we are following the very latest in the new york hush money trial of former president donald trump. now, jurors are still in the courtroom, they re relistening to some of the testimony from former tabloid mogul david pecker and trump s former lawyer and fixer michael cohen. with us now to talk more about this as we continue focusing on what exactly is happening in that courtroom, nbc news correspondent vaughn hillyard. outside the courthouse, in lower manhattan. defense attorney misty maris, temidayo aganga williams and jeremy saland, a criminal defense attorney, a former prosecutor in manhattan. so, vaughn, what is the latest, they are now focusing in on the third of four questions that the jury wanted to hear again. reporter: exactly. these were very four specific passages they wanted read back to them. they made this request yesterday afternoon before leaving for the day. there is deliberation bet
i mean, can you fathom that? where in the he like i said, he injected too much of that bleach. i think it affected his brain. president biden drawing yet another contrast on the campaign trail, this time in philadelphia. he and the vice president made a pitch to black voters. we re going to have much more from their campaign stop in just a moment. meanwhile, the former president was rage posting from the courthouse holding room while a jury deliberated his fate in the criminal hush money case against him. we ll bring you expert legal analysis ahead of the jury reconvening later this morning. plus, we ll go through a possible major shift in policy on the war in ukraine as the biden administration now appears open to allowing u.s.-made weapons to be used in strikes in russian territory. willie, i m just looking at this now. i mean, after all of this, they dropped the charges. breaking news. can you believe that? there was so much stuff. you d think after all thi