First Day of Jury Deliberations in Trump New York Hush Money Trial

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🗓️ 30 May 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Jury deliberations have begun in the former president's criminal hush money trial and the jurors have some questions. The jury sent two notes to Judge Juan Merchan this afternoon. In one, they asked to rehear testimony from David Pecker and Michael Cohen. In the other, they asked to rehear the judge's jury instructions. The Washington Post’s Philip Bump, who served as a juror in the high-profile 2009 New York trial of socialite Brook Astor's son, who was convicted of bilking her out of millions of dollars, and jury consultant Alan Tuerkheimer talk about what it's like to be part of a jury and what they can gleam from the deliberations so far. Plus, just over a week ago, Nikki Haley revealed she plans to vote for former President Trump in November. She urged him to reach out to her supporters and not take their votes for granted. In tonight's installment of John King's "All Over the Map" series, he heads to Pennsylvania to speak to Haley supporters about who they'll vote for this fall. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Donald Trump's fate is in the hands of 12 Manhattan jurors and they have questions.
0:06.2	Good evening, thanks for joining us. Day one of jury deliberations in the first ever trial of a former
0:10.7	president began with the judge reading 55 pages of instructions on what to
0:15.2	consider as the jurors weigh 34 felony charges.
0:18.8	Now the day ended with the buzzer, which signals the jury wants to communicate going off once then again the
0:24.4	first time to say they wanted four pieces of testimony read back to them the second
0:29.1	to ask the judge to reread them his instructions unclear so far whether that means the whole thing or selected portions of it.
0:36.0	The testimony they want is from David Pecker, the former National Inquirer publisher and
0:39.6	former Trump lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen, some of it dealing with the arrangement for
0:44.0	Pecker to act as the campaign's eyes and ears for potentially damaging stories.
0:47.9	They'll hear that tomorrow morning, the judge dismissing them, then staying with
0:52.2	attorneys for both sides to try to hammer out
0:54.3	exactly what will be said.
0:56.3	As for the defendant, here's some of what he said coming and going.
1:01.3	Mother Teresa could not beat these charges. These charges are rigged. The whole thing is rigged.
1:07.0	Nobody knows what the crime is, a decisional crime.
1:10.0	Nobody knows what the crime is. The DA didn't name the crime.
1:14.0	They don't know what the crime is. That's what the problem is.
1:18.0	It's a disgrace. This thing ought to be ended immediately. The judge ought to end it and save his
1:24.0	reputation. The part about not naming the crime isn't true and we'll talk about
1:28.2	that tonight. For the late Mother Teresa she was judged by the Nobel
1:30.9	Committee which awarded her the 1979 peace prize for
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