It's the Brian Larry Show on WNYC. Good morning, everyone. So 12 anonymous Manhattanites have returned to the courthouse for day two of deliberations in the criminal trial of Donald Trump.

Who doesn't know that already, but I had to say it to start out.

Yesterday, the jury rapped without reaching a verdict on the former president's 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 Enquirer, and Michael

Cohen, 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 U.S. President,

joining us now. Andrew Weissman, professor of practice at the NYU School of Law, lead prosecutor

in Robert Mueller's, special counsel's office in the Russia investigation,

MSNBC legal analyst, co-author of the book, The Trump Indictments, the Historic Charging Documents with Commentary,

and co-host of the podcast called Prosecuting Donald Trump. So you might say Andrew Weissman is covering

this just a little bit. And Andrew, I know with your TV commitments, you're doing us a great favor

by carving out this time for us. So thank you and welcome back to WNYC.

Happy to be here. I've been a veteran New Yorker, so I've been a fan of yours for many, many years.

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