Good evening I'm on the Navas and I'm Jeff Bennett on the news hour tonight.

Jury deliberation gets underway in Manhattan in the criminal hush money trial of former President Donald Trump.

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Former President Donald Trump's future now rests in the

hands of a jury in New York City. Jurors in the criminal hush money case

against Mr. Trump began deliberating this morning.

Seven men and five women received instructions from Judge Juan Mershahn and were then

sent off to decide this historic case. William Bringham has been covering the trial from the start

and he joins us now. So William let's start with those instructions that the

judge gave to the members of the jury. They're very important in this case, the

subject of a lot of debate between the

defense and the prosecution. Tell us more about what exactly the judge

instructed those jurors to do this morning.

You're right, I'm know. They are always, they're important in every case but particularly in this one because it is such a complicated case and the judge laid out several key issues first off he stressed to the jury that a defendant can be held liable for the criminal

acts of other people if the defendant basically instructed or asked or helped them to do so and did so intentionally.

Secondly, the judge then went through the 34 different charges which all accused

Donald Trump of falsifying business records.

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