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It's the Brian Laird Show on WNYC.

Good morning everyone.

So 12 anonymous Manhattanites

have returned to the courthouse for day two

of deliberations in the 34 felony counts and that isn't something that's gotten much attention. We'll ask

our guest about that in a minute. Do they need 34 different decisions? 34

felony counts of falsifying business records in pursuit of fooling the public about his payments to Stormy Daniels.

But we do have some clues to what discussions might be sounding like behind the jury's closed

doors.

Jurors have requested to hear four particular excerpts of testimony from two key witnesses for the prosecution, David Pecker, former publisher

of the National Inquirer, and Michael Cullen, Trump's former lawyer, a court reporter

reads these excerpts out loud to the jury.

Additionally, the jury asked just a few minutes ago

for a repeat of certain pages of the jury instructions,

which the judge read from the bench yesterday morning.

I saw that it's estimated that this is a 45 minute reread that they're asking for.

So let's see where we are in this first criminal trial

of any former US president joining us now.

And Drew Weisman, professor of practice

at the NYU School of Law, lead prosecutor in Robert Mueller's Special Counsel's Office in the Russia

investigation, MS NBC Legal Analysts, co-author of the book, The Trump Indictments, the Historic Charging

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