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Fixer. Back with us, yasmin vossoughian, Danny Cevallos, Criminal Defense Attorney and msnbc legal analyst. Joining us this hour, maya wiley, former assistant u. S. Attorney who is now president of the Leadership Conference on civil and human right. And misty merits, a Defense Attorney. Good to see you. Welcome to the show. Yasmin, start us off. Whats happening now inside that courtroom . Reporter so this is all about the leadup to august 2018 in which Michael Cohen pleads guilty and then in a court of law, essentially points the finger at donald trump, the president at the time, and says he made me do it. Hence launching the inquiry by the manhattan d. A. s office, shifting to alvin bragg wh ....
Im not sure that anybody has ever seen anything like this before. Day two of testimony in trumps hush money election interference trial. And the judge has already had it with trump and his legal team. Meanwhile, i was in the courtroom as the first witness, david pecker, gave riveting testimony about his interactions with trump. I will tell you what i saw and heard. And that is where we begin tonight. With the historic first ever trial of a former american president , as donald trump spent a second day in court before a attan jury. It was a day that i can say i witnessed personally as i took my turn to be at the courthouse, and has been the case so far, there were no throngs of Trump Supporters outside raising hell on his behalf. We notice this one guy who had a crucifix and rang a loud bell while wearing a tshirt declaring the three greatest u. S. President s were george washington, john f. Kennedy, and donald trump. Other than ....
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 instr ....