were declassified. on that subject overnight, trump offered a, frankly, odd defense. if you re the president of the united states you can declassify by saying it s declassified. even by thinking about it. because you re sending it to mar-a-lago or wherever you re sending it and there doesn t have to be a process. there can be a process but there doesn t have to be. you re the president. you make that decision. so when you send it, it s declassified. i declassified everything. he seems to be creating a new security category. declassified in his mind. more on that in a moment. in new york, trump, his children and empire accused of fraud over the value of his properties for more than a decade. the new york attorney general wants the trump organization dissolved. also trump is facing a new sexual battery lawsuit from eg carroll, who accused him of raping her in a department store in the mid 90s. genie thomas, wife of clarence thomas, has agreed to sit down for an intervi
the moment a plane landed on a busy highway as drivers filmed it all. how the mlb is rewriting the record books to honor the hits, home runs, and milestones of some of history s greatest players. the panda-plomacy breakthrough. inside the new effort to bring the furry favorites back to the national zoo. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening, and welcome, and now we wait. the fate of donald j. trump, former president of the united states, and now criminal defendant, is tonight in the hands of a manhattan jury. the seven men and five women deliberating for 4 1/2 hours today on whether mr. trump was part of an unlawful scheme to falsify business records to cover up hush money paid to an adult film star. he is charged with 34 counts. late this afternoon the panel rang a bell summoning a bailiff to the deliberation room, not to say they had reached a verdict, but rather with questions about those instructions and a request to have a readback
norah: what we are learning from day one of jury deliberations. how do you feel about the jury? norah: the cbs evening news starts now. donald trump just leaving the courthouse after spending five hours waiting for the jury to decide his fate. good evening. i m norah o donnell, and thank you for being with us. day one of deliberations is done, and there is still no verdict, but the jury did send two notes to the judge. the first was a request to rehear key testimony from two central players in this case, former national enquirer publisher david pecker and trump s former fixer michael cohen. they specifically want to hear what boh men said about a trump tower meeting where pecker says they came to an agreement with trump himself about a scheme to kill negative stories about him, among other pieces of testimony. they also, the jury, wants to rehear those instructions from the judge. those are the only clues that we have about what is happening inside the deliber
you won t physicians mutual wednesday, may 29th, right now on cnn this morning, 12 manhattan jurors about to begin deciding the fate of a former president will it impact the future of the country? plus ahead. all right your question robert de niro taking on trump and tangling with his supporters outside the manhattan courthouse and hurricane-force winds pushing an american airlines 7307 completely away from the gate with no one at the helm? and the best of america s pastime finally, getting there dues. major league baseball, shaking up the all-time record books 6:00 a.m. here in washington. alive. look at new york city is a town that is going to start deliberating donald trump s fate here later on this morning. good morning, everyone. i m kasie hunt. it s wonderful to have you with us the arguments have been made and now it s time for 12 ordinary people from manhattan to decide whether or not donald trump is a criminal, a decision that might shake up the race for presiden
from day one of jury deliberations. how do you feel about the jury? norah: the cbs evening news starts now. donald trump just leaving the courthouse after spending five hours waiting for the jury to decide his fate. good evening. i m norah o donnell, and thank you for being with us. day one of deliberations is done, and there is still no verdict, but the jury did send two notes to the judge. the first was a request to rehear key testimony from two central players in this case, former national enquirer publisher david pecker and trump s former fixer michael cohen. they specifically want to hear what both men said about a trump tower meeting where pecker says they came to an agreement with trump himself about a scheme to kill negative stories about him, among other pieces of testimony. they also, the jury, wants to rehear those instructions from the judge. those are the only clues that we have about what is happening inside the deliberation room as the jury weighs