another it's like a whole new version of the guy that lives in the apartment, your bank in the maroon can be quiet all right. >> on that note. thanks to you guys. i appreciate you being here. thanks to all of you for watching. i'm kasie hunt. don't go anywhere. cnn news central starts right now it all comes down to this seven men, five women are about to start deliberating and are about to decide the fate of a former president and current presidential candidate. a senior exclusive sean diddy combs under new scrutiny right now, sources tell cnn federal investigators are working to bring his accusers before a grand jury and people in texas could be in the dark 40 days is the latest word, the already deadly storms now leaving nearly half million texans without power and more bad weather is on the way. >> i'm kate bolduan with john berman, sara sidner is out today. this is cnn news central good morning for the manhattan criminal court, where as soon as today history will be made, this morning. >> the jury he gets the case in the criminal case against donald trump. he of course, is charged with falsifying documents to cover up. hush money. hush money payments to an adult film actress, all to influence the 2016 election. of course, the prosecution calls this an election fraud case, not a hush money case. >> in any case over the next few hours, the jury will be instructed on the law, then they will go to a room and they will determine the fate of the former president and the presumptive current republican nominee. >> of course, they could find him guilty. they could find him not guilty, or it could be a hung jury. what that means is at least one juror dissents from the rest of the group. and if you listen to the trump team, they may feel like that is their best possibility at this moment. nevertheless, no one knows what will happen once the jury goes behind those closed doors and discusses the case. trump is charged with 34 counts. he could be found guilty on all or some of them. we are just waiting to see how it all goes down. nevertheless, as i said, today, is the day in history. will happen here one way or another with me. see it as a brynn jin grass who has been down here at the court, the entire what is it? six, six plus weeks of the trial now, it's been fine yesterday was a marathon. >> my gosh, closing arguments was a marathon getting us up to this point, you'd like you said, a juror it's could have this case as early as 11:00 this morning, and it is a big de will see where it progresses from here, but yes, that yesterday was just such a marathon of closing arguments, the defense trying to so that reasonable doubt integers miok giving ten reasons as to why they should have reasonable doubt. probably the number one one reason michael cohen, right. there wasn't a name that they didn't call michael cohen throughout this trial. and then they kinda summed it up with the berlin lives at the end of their arguments calling ham basically the vp outliers, the gloat, or the greatest liar of all time said he committed perjury and the prosecution allow him to commit perjury on the stand when you read a quote from defense counsel, todd blanche, he said that michael cohehen has heatedly repeatedly lied under oath. he has lied to his family. he lied to his wife about the $131,000 home equity line of credit. he lied to his banker. i mean, he's literally like an mvp of liars. so let's see where jurors take that. then it was a prosecution stirring yesterday, of course. and it was about four less than five hours that they spent trying to basically kind of counter what the defense had just said in their closing arguments, but also we've in all of that evidence, all of that testimony, into why they believe of course, donald trump is guilty on all these crimes. so we'll see what happens again. >> the defense mentioned michael cohen yeah. >> more than donald trump in its closing argument, we countered with what like 250 plus menchu of michael cohen, 230 of donald trump. you got a sense of what the defense wants this case to be about michael cohen prosecution was like, you don't need to pay attention to make a clone. >> you have your pecker, you have whole picks, you have all of this evidence. >> you don't need to pay attention on michael cohen, so who does the jurors belief in the business this morning, the judge will give joe jury instructions to this jury that will last about an hour. >> my 11:00. yeah. they will start deliberating. all right. bridging rest. thank you so much. thanks for you in this come down here with you whatever happens here. obviously, doesn't just have legal implications. it has huge political implications as well with me now seeing its senior political analyst, mark preston and mark theta sense of the fact that this is the center of the political university chris, right now, all you have to do is look at the fact that the biden campaign for the first time actually sent surrogates down here to do an event, not about the case itself, but about donald trump everyone knows what happens here is the political moment happening right now? >> you know, john, there's something to be said about this moment in history as we wait for this verdict to happen, we've never seen this happen before. >> if he is convicted, can you imagine for the first time in history that we would have a united states president running for the presidency as the, as the nominee of a major party with a conviction having said that, who knows what is going to happen and more importantly, as you note, what happens in new york is going to reverberate throughout the country so we're will reverberate and where will it help politically? >> because as much as this is a case about business records, this is really a case about politics and this is a very divided nation right now. and we just don't know if this is going to help or hurt donald trump in the coming days or rather the coming months no, there is simply no way of knowing the political impact it could have mostly because we don't know what the verdict will be, but it is worth noting if james michael curley, former mayor, a congressman, governor of massachusetts, he had been convicted and he kept on winning elections. >> you just don't know what the impact will be marked, anything you're hearing from the political parties on this well i, did talk to someone very close to the trump campaign last night about what, what is the next play, what happens if there's a conviction? what happens if there's not a conviction? imagine this, john, they were very tight lipped about what, what they're going to do. something we're not used to hearing from the trump campaign. however, all we have to do is look at history and look at president trump's actions. there is no surprise, there's no mystery and what is going to happen donald trump is clearly going to try to use this to rally his base, which is very solid around heading into the election. meanwhile, as you note, democrats see this as a political opportunity, might not have worked very well for them yesterday. it was kind of broken up by the trump campaign, but they see this as a political opportunity, but just remember this john, a couple of things one, when donald trump was elected back in 2016, i remember going on television and saying me a couple of me a cup of mea culpa i was one of those folks who said that donald trump would not win because of the access hollywood tape. i said it on television. i was absolutely wrong. it just goes to show you that is much you and i have spent in this world of politics trying to understand the voters. are voters are changing very, very quickly and we are really one thing we've learned from, from donald trump's presidency is that we didn't necessarily know what the electorate was thinking across the country know it is just impossible to rick what could happen, as i said, because we don't really know what will happen behind the closed doors as the jury deliberates. >> but one thing i think we did learn over the last 24 hours is that for either party at this point, either election to deny that this is the center of it all is futile at this zero point that's what i took out of the fact that the democrats showed up your with robert de niro yesterday. it wasn't about the case. the event wasn't about the case, but it was an acknowledgment that this says where the campaign is right now it's absolutely look, this is the first of four cases, john, this very well may be the only case that goes to trial before the election. >> that's why all the cards are on the table. well, here look, donald trump has used this as, as a political staging ground coming out and giving his comments before and after bringing up members of congress, the speaker of the house of representatives stood behind donald trump, as well as many senators who are trying to be his running mate. so you're absolutely right. the political center of the university today, new york city, perhaps tomorrow. and you're standing there that's right. >> vp auditions have been taking place in this courthouse behind me over the last few weeks. mark preston always great to see you. thanks so much for being with us. kate, i have to say more media here than the last time i was here for shore a security presence, you do get a sense that at the moment is upon us. >> absolutely. and all the action is going to be happening inside that courtroom, right. where you are, john and we're gonna be getting right back to it. johns down in lower manhattan. we also have this coming up before i still ahead as cnn exclusive federal investigators are preparing to bring the accusers of sean combs before a federal grand jury. what this means now for all of the allegations chins and lawsuits, he's already facing, plus the phone call to police from samuel alito's neighbor, new reporting justin on the controversial flat i've flown outside. the supreme court justices home and a 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justice could be moving to indict the disgraced music mogul since november, you'll probably remember that combs has been named in eight civil lawsuits seven directly accusing him of sexual assault. cnn's elizabeth wagmeister has all of his new reporting four is 11. elizabeth, what more are you learning? >> good morning, kate. so this is obviously the biggest escalation since those march raids on diddy's homes in los angeles and miami, we are now hearing that federal investigators are preparing to possibly bring witnesses in front of a federal role grand jury in new york city. what we have heard is that possible witnesses have been notified that they could be called to testify. now, sources do caution that investigators are still in the process of gathering information. in fact, they are still calling in new witnesses and they have called in some witnesses, multiple times. we also here that the majority of the accusers who have filed these civil lawsuits against sean diddy combs have been brought in for questioning. and again, some of them being called in numerous times. we hear that many are cooperating and even handing over evidence that they feel so it'd be relevant into this federal probe. now, a spokesperson for homeland security, did not respond to our request for comment about the presence of a grand jury, but they did confirm that this investigation is presently ongoing. >> and those with what are you learning about the evidence that investigators could be reviewing here so as i mentioned, those federal raids that were conducted on his home's and back in march obviously, a lot of people wondering what was seized while we are learning now that federal investigators the are in possession, of video footage that was taken inside of combs is residents. >> we hear that these investigators have been contacting individuals that they have seen on this footage one person in addition to the accusers who have filed these civil suits is a male sex worker. that is what a 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