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This is a complex case. you're talking about 18 criminal counts, hundreds and hundreds of pages of exhibits, financial documents, tax documents. as an attorney, i might be confused. they sent a message to the court that they're confused. the prosecution should have explain that. that's not the job of the judge to do. the judge was right in not doing that for them. >> trace: prosecution called 27 witnesses. the defense called zero. >> right. >> trace: prosecutor put up 388 pieces of evidence. the defense put up ten pieces of evidence. 18 counts. you look at this and paul manafort needs to run t...

Through and link up to the charges in the indictment that could take some time. and so i don't think getting to the point of a day and a half of deliberations is anything out of the ordinary at all at this point. it doesn't really read like that means they will hang or they won't convict. it's just sifting through a fairly sizeable mountain of evidence. >> dana: one the great things about our judicial system the jurors -- it could be a baker, the candle stick maker all sorts of different people. they come together. they're not financial experts. they are looking through 388 pieces of evidence....

This is the first we have heard from the jury since they began deliberating minutes before 10:00 this morning. what is happening is that we know the jury has given this note to the judge. they are asking four questions. we do not know exactly what the questions are. as part of the note they have indicated that they will be deliberating tomorrow. no verdict will come tonight. paul manafort is back in the courtroom along with his defense lawyers as well as the prosecution. these are 18 counts this jury is considering. there are a lot of elements to all of the counts of bank fraud, conspiracy. th...

Manafort, as you know, facing 18 charges of tax evasion, bank fraud. his defense team wrapped the case without calling a single witness. prosecutors put 388 exhibits over the trial. the first case brought to trial by robert mueller's team. genetics snyder was in the courtroom today. she joins us with more. so what was more of the prosecution's closing argument? >> anderson, prosecutors really stressed two main themes here today. first of all, paul manafort is not above the law. and secondly, they repeatedly accused him of lying. they said he lied to the government, to the book keepers, he also...

The documents. of course, they had the unpopular actual human star witness named rick gates. but paper doesn't lie. speaking of paper, 388 photos and e-mails and documents, 27 witnesses just instructing the jury took 90 minutes. what do you think? >> look, these cases are time intensive and they are labor intensive and going to the documents but because the star witness documents, i thought it was a great line that prosecutors used. they tend to be easier to decide. there is not much debate about. i think the prosecution did a great job of not focusing on gates and then when the defense got up...