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that they're going into a deliberations exactly. sources saying the former president is in the courthouse, is watching coverage of this pivotal moment is he is awaiting what could be a historic bernick. this morning before deliberations continued for a second day, juror sent the judge a new note. they were asking for clarification on the jury three instructions, including those related to count one of trump's 34 charges. jurors also rehearse testimony from key prosecution witnesses. >> national enquirer publisher, david pecker, and trump's former attorney, michael cohen. they specifically wanted to hear what each man said about the 2015 meeting at trump tower? and what pecker said about the catch-and-kill deal with playmate karen mcdougal, including his phone call with trump. cnn's paula reid is live for us outside the courtroom in new york with more details. >> paula, how significant is this testimony that jurors asked to review this morning? >> all right. >> of course, this is such an important moment at in this alleged conspiracy because prosecutors argue that this 2015 meeting in trump tower between david pecker, the head of the national enquirer, michael cohen, and then prospective candidate donald trump. who was the first step in this larger conspiracy to use the national enquirer to help trump win the white house. and it's interesting that the jury not only wants to hear david pecker's version of events, but they also want to hear from michael cohen. and earlier today, the judge read back portions of david pecker's testimony. including where he talked about how this arrangement where he was promising to be the campaign's eyes and ears looking out for stories he testified under direct examination for prosecutors, but this was mutually beneficial. he testified that positive stories about mr. trump and covering the election and writing negative stories about his opponents is only going to increase the newsstand sales of the national enquirer. and the other tabloids. so for me, that was my benefit. and then in doing what in publishing these types of stories, we were going to benefit his campaign. so that's where he testified that he said they were both mutually both parties. we're going to benefit from this arrangement and this is something that could potentially help the defense a little bit. this is something that they have honed in on, but they also got a portion of david pecker's cross-examination from trump's lawyers about the trump tower meeting? and he testified there under under cross-examination, i would speak to michael cohen and tell him that these are the stories that are going to be for sale. and if we don't buy them, someone else will. and that michael cohen would handle them by them, or try to make sure to get that they don't ever get published that was my understanding from the meeting. that's significant because they're they're talking about how the effort wasn't not necessarily just to help the national enquirer with their sales, but also to make sure to suppress them stories. but it wasn't just david pecker's testimony. they also wanted to hear michael cohen's version of events there. he testified to something similar. he said that in this meeting they discussed the power of the national enquirer in terms of being located at the cash register of so many supermarkets, if a day goes, and that if we can place positive stories about mr. trump that would be beneficial. and if we could place negative stories about some of the other candidates, that would also be beneficial shell and he testified here too that the point of contact for mr. pecker would be fim would be michael cohen. but again, if you look at michael cohen's testimony, the issue there is that he's also extending this not just a positive stories about trump, not just to help the sales of the national enquirer, but also to hurt other candidates as we know, prosecutors have charged here. that this entire conspiracy that they see ultimately resulted in trump causing these documents is business records to be falsified to cover up that payment to stormy daniels, that this was all part of an effort to help him win in 2016? team and that is how this is being charged as a felony. >> so it is significant that the jury find the prosecutors are going to win, that this was all part of an effort to help trump win the white house, not just to help the national enquirer, not just to help trump's ego, but to help put him in the white house to influence the campaign, subvert democracy. this is a key thing that prosecutors been pushing. again, it's unclear exactly what the jury is going to do with this testimony, but they have certainly asked for a very significant portion of the evidence that they heard of the past seven weeks yeah, they certainly have paula. thank you so much for keeping an eye on that for us. we've seen an legal analyst, karen agnifilo joining us now here in the studio. she's also a former manhattan district attorney, prosecutor, and the former chief assistant district attorney of the manhattan district attorney's office. karen, what do you make so far are what the jury has requested? >> well, with the caveat that it's really hard to read the tea leaves and fair people are also notoriously wrong when they say, oh, this is good for the prosecution, or this is bad for the prosecution. so with all of those, it's a good reminder. yes it's really hard to know. i mean, really all that the jury notes tell you is that there is at least one juror in there who has requested the whatever it is that they requested, whether it's the jury charge or particular portions of the testimony and it could be that they want to refresh their memory. it could be that there's factions in the jury room where they want to use this testimony to convince each other. so it's really hard to know what it looks like though, is that they started at the beginning where the conspiracy started at this meeting, where they decided that they were going to do this catch and kill scheme to benefit the election. it also looks like they're trying to corroborate michael cohen they have to corroborate michael cohen because the law doesn't necessarily require that you corroborate everything someone says he isn't accomplice, which means you have to corroborate it a little. you have to corroborate it just enough and the checks alone would be enough for that. but there's an added cost corroboration that the prosecution emphasized and really encouraged the jury to say, look, we know michael cohen has a history of lying he has a lot of baggage. he's actually convicted of lying to congress so corroboration here so you don't just have to believe his word. there's so much corroboration and that's what i like about the notes, is that the testimony they asked for all corroborates one another. so i think they're really paying attention. the other thing that this tells me is that this is not how donald trump suggested, which is that he can't get a fair trial. this is a journey sorry, this working hard. it's evaluating the evidence. they're not having a knee-jerk reaction one way or the other. they're really working there deliberating. and he is getting a fair trial, whatever the outcome is and whatever the verdict is when it comes to the testimony about that trump tower meeting, as you described it, they're going think back to the beginning of this arrangement how does that testimony helped the prosecution go beyond trump's motivation and get to the question of intent so it's about whether or not this was in order to benefit the election or not, because if it wasn't, if this was just because their friends and he was protecting his wife, that's then then it doesn't make it a felony. >> it's not because there's two kind of issues in this trial. there's was actually three issues there we're the records falsified. number one. number two, was this to benefit the election, and then number three was trump involved and i would say that the first two are proven beyond a reasonable doubt against david sorry, against allen weisselberg and michael cohen. for sure they committed those crimes. in fact, michael cohen went to prison just for this type for this conduct. the question is, can they link it to donald trump? and this testimony that they asked for is all about linking it to donald trump's. so i think they're wrestling with the exact issue in this case, karen, yesterday, we were on air in the afternoon when the jury requested hear all of the jury instructions and our to legal experts uniformly groaned it was in unison, and i wonder then in the end that's not what the jury heard, but they did hear an awful lot. >> i mean, almost 30 pages of rewrite instructions. what did you make of that? >> like it's it's complicated the law. it's very common for juries to ask for read back again. and certain jurisdictions, they actually send the written jury instructions that it's part that it's just the way it's always been in part that in the criminal procedure law talks about what the jury can take back with them and it lists out things like evidence. they can take the evidence back with them. it has other things in there. it doesn't specify this one way or another. so i think you could argue if they intended for the jury to be able to take the instructions back with them that the law would permit that, but it's just one of those things. it's always been done that way. i don't know interesting karen agnifilo. thank you so much. we appreciate it let's talk more now with a jury consultant, melissa gomez, who is with us and melissa, we've had lots of discussion today about the so-called reign metaphor that the jury requested to rehear this morning. >> what does that tell you about where the heads of the jurors are? >> i think what it sounds like is that they realize and they want to understand the extent to which they can rely on circumstantial evidence. so the rain metaphor basically says that you can assume, you can come to the conclusion that it's raining even if you didn't see the actual rain, if there's no direct evidence that someone saw the actual ran, you can infer that based on if it's wet outside or someone comes in with an umbrella or with a raincoat. and so i think that what they're doing is they're putting the pieces of the evidence together and saying, what can we surmise even if we don't have direct evidence of that? >> so there are some examples of things you might wonder about that, okay trump signed the checks. can you infer by him signing the checks that he knew certain details? i mean, am i off base here or these the kinds of things that this might be something there there, they're applying this to that's absolutely right. but what they would do is they would say, usually when you're dealing with circumstantial evidence, you're dealing with multiple things at a time. >> so for example, trump signed the checks, but there was also a testimony that trump was very careful about every detail, every dime that went out you exactly where it went too. he knew exactly what it cost and so what the circumstantial evidence is is if you put those pieces together, then you can develop the story and come to that conclusion. >> and i also wondered when they were when the prosecution was laying out its case, they spent a lot of time obviously focusing on the karen mcdougal arrangement. and it seemed like they were painting this picture of okay. this is the approach that they're taking for burying stories that may be negative. what about an inference that yes, of course that is how they would then approach another negative story involving another woman exactly. so consensus or consistency of behavior, what they were trying to do, what the prosecution was focused on, was a pattern of behavior, you can infer something because this is something that's happens before you can infer something because when you put the pieces of the puzzle together i. can only come to one conclusion. so this is exactly what the prosecution wanted to happen given the lack of credibility of the direct evidence, which was michael cohen, that the jury is not able to rely on specifically and directly because of his involvement in the endeavor. >> they had specific the questions the jury did about count one, and we should remind our viewers, we're talking about 34 counts of falsifying documents. some of these documents are different, right? some of them are invoices, some of them are checks that were signed. invoices that might say retainer when really it wasn't a retainer for michael cohen checks that were signed find some of them by trump himself. they came from his personal account some were coming from a trust and we're not signed by trump. do you see a situation where the jury is making a distinction potentially between those counts? >> they potentially could be. and i think what we're seeing, especially in the fact that they're there hours and and they're asking about count one, they're asking about specific information. they're looking at each counts specifically. i mean, i think there were some some ideas or some speculation that what they may do is just decide guilty or innocent and then draw and then decide down the board but if they're looking and if they're asking questions specifically about specific counts, what that means is that they're going through piece by piece going through the evidence piece by piece, and they're going to take the time that they need to make sure that they're making the right decision. not globally in one swoop, but really taking a look at the evidence and taking a look at each count separately yeah, it'll be really interesting to hear what their process has been throughout this as we await potentially a verdict at some point in your melissa gomez. >> great to speak with you. thank you. >> thank you. >> still ahead. it's a big shift that could be underway in how ukraine may use weapons to get that it gets from the west chief of naval says, quote, the time has come to talk about loosening restrictions on those weapons plus the supreme court's siding with the nra in a free beach case will break down with that unanimous ruling means and a third human case of bird flu in the united states. >> what we're learning about this person their symptoms, their stories are much more coming up on cnn news central erin burnett outfront tonight, it's seven odd cnn when dry ice symptoms keep kelvin inflammation might be to play over over-the-counter. >> why drops can provide temporary relief you say dry provided lasting relief. he targets inflammation. they can cause dry. it it's going to drag treats the signs and symptoms of dry eye disease, don't use it allergic disease, common side effects include it irritation, discomfort, or blurred vision when applied in unusual taste sensation why way ask your doctor about a 90 day prescription, you can pay as little as $0 mnajdra she, asked them down to you but who pass them to her those mom jeans are a big part of you ancestry dna can show you the people and places they came from. discover the traits you inherited. the places where they started, and the people you share them with your genes are one of a kind. find out why with ancestry dna today, at america's beverage companies are models might still look the same, but they can be remade in a whole new wait thanks to you. >> we're getting bottles back and we've developed a way to make new ones from 100% recycled plastic new bottles made using no new plastic we seeing more of these bottles in more places. >> and when we get more of them back we can use less new plastic bottles are days to be remade you know, when i take the bike out like this, all my stress is just melt away i hear that this bad boy can fix anything yeah, tough day at work like cruz's sought, you write out when i'm writing, i'm not even thinking about my painful cavity he shouldn't ignore that every time i get stress about having to pay my bills and it's hopped on the bike, man, come on. you got to pay your bills. >> you don't have to worry about anything when you're protected by america's number one motorcycle insurer? 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