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good morning. 11:00 a.m. eastern, 8:00 a.m. pacific. i'm jose diaz-balart. we are following the very latest in the new york hush money trial of former president donald trump. now, jurors are still in the courtroom, they're relistening to some of the testimony from former tabloid mogul david pecker and trump's former lawyer and fixer michael cohen. with us now to talk more about this as we continue focusing on what exactly is happening in that courtroom, nbc news correspondent vaughn hillyard. outside the courthouse, in lower manhattan. defense attorney misty maris, temidayo aganga wi...

♪♪ 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 judg...

versus donald j. trump. we're getting live updates from inside of the courtroom. we're going to do our best to watch them together and bring out and interrupt our conversations and bring you any and all significant moments as they're happening. over the last few hours the prosecutor has been going through the claims made by trump's lawyers in their closing argument this morning. steinglass, the prosecutor, pushed back against trump's lawyers claim from this morning that porn star stormy daniels was extorting donald trump. prosecutors saying this, quote, extortion is not a defense to ...

defendant trump himself, by the way, after weeks of revealing witness testimony, after weeks of intense cross-examination, after our legal system has been tried and tested in ways it has never before, we're now reaching the end of this trial. closing arguments in donald trump's criminal trial start after that judge juan merchan will deliver his instructions ti the jury. then those seven men and five women bill deliberate and give the result to former president. we don't know what the outcome will be. i know it sounds surreal, but it's all happening starting tomorrow morning. and if o...

Evidence to support their allegations. Including naming over two dozen witnesses each. Unfortunately the limited investigation that was conducted by the fbi failed to interview any one of the witnesses these two women identified who could support her account. Let me say that again, they refused to investigate, to talk with any of the 24 witnesses that could have supported their accounts. Mr. President , i think its important to remember why were here today. Were here to determine whether judge kavanaugh has demonstrated the impartiality, the democrat perment, t me temperament, the evenhandedne...