Tonight on the readout.

And right now at 11-28 Eastern,

my chang's words, jurors, 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 after deliberations began began the jury made several requests to the judge

meanwhile Trump and his defenders are bracing for the verdict by attacking the judge

lying about the jury instructions, and increasingly

portraying Trump as a martyr. Plus, reporting on Justice Sam Alito's

insurrectionist flags. He's now throwing his wife even further under the bus and

refusing to recuse from Trump cases earning a pat on the head from Trump himself.

Well, after 22 days in court following 22 witnesses,

giving more than 80 hours of testimony, plus more than 80 hours of testimony,

plus more than seven hours of closing arguments

and just over an hour of jury instructions from the judge,

we are now in the final stage of the first ever

criminal trial of a former US president.

The 12-member jury made up of Manhattan residents began their deliberations today behind closed

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