tonight on the reidout right now at 11:28 eastern, i m asking you to step out to begin deliberations. the jury has been dismissed to begin deliberations. the jurors are now leaving the courtroom to deliberate. and we are told they are expeditiously to begin deliberations. for the first time in american history, a jury is deciding whether a former president of the united states committed felonies. and as the deliberations began, the jury made several requests to the judge. meanwhile, trump and his defenders are bracing for the verdict by attacking the judge, lying about the jury instructions, and increasingly portraying trump as a martyr. reporting on justice sam alito s insurrectionist flags. he s now throwing his wife even further under the bus. and refusing to recuse from trump cases, earning a pat on the head from trump himself. after 22 days in cord, following 22 witnesses, giving more than 80 hours of testimony, plus more than seven hours of closin