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hi, everyone. here we go. it is 4:00 in new york. oh, to be a fly on the wall behind these closed doors. in the courthouse that has seen no shortage of famous influential or wealthy criminal defendants. 12 new yorkers and seven men and five women are right now debating the fate of a former president of the united states and they have questions. the jury in the historic trump criminal election interference hush money trial is at this moment deliberating on the 34 felony counts trump is charged with by the manhattan district attorney. just in, in the last few minutes, a second note has...

But we got to know what it is. >> okay. so then-candidate trump, all right -- this is just days before that meeting. here's what he said. >> you know, the people of crimea, from what i've heard, would rather be with russia than where they were. >> i mean that sounds like a kremlin talking point. is that suspicious to you? >> it is suspicious. what's even more suspicious is there's -- you know, clip after clip of him saying, i had no dealings with russia. i have no dealings with russia and so on. and he, at the same time, was sending out all of his people to have dealings with russia, or maybe ...

White house correspondent kristen welker, national security analyst, frank, and msnbc contributor jill, wat watergate special prosecutor. kristen, let's talk about the president. denial, denial on twitter today. no collusion, we've heard that before but it does seem from these filings on friday that both on the manafort side and the michael cohen side, these connections are all circling the president. >> reporter: it does and the documents say that president trump directed two felonies. now, president trump in trying to dispute that says, look, these are nothing more than private contributions...

I'm looking at two deadlines for tuesday as well as december 7th. those two deadlines, the latter being for paul manafort. we'll find out the details and there's also the one on the 4th of december related to michael flynn. fill us in on those two that we're watching. >> feels like we're watching a tennis match where you see the trump side of the story which we have this morning from robert mueller but earlier in the week or last week, we heard the michael cohen side of the story. none of this really completes our picture of what's happening. when you listen to what we're hearing from roger st...

Trump's campaign denied any knowledge of ami deal in a november 2016 wall street journal report on the agreement. the fbi seized the mcdougal tape and others during an april raid of cohen's office. part of the southern district of new york's criminal investigation into his business dealings including the $130,000 payment he made to porn star stormy daniels day before the 2016 election to keep her quiet about an alleged 2006 encounter with trump that trump also denies. >> and you had sex with him? >> yes. >> you were 27, he was 60. were you physically attracted to him 12 him? >> no. >> not at a...