From WNYC Studios. I'm Brian Lehrer. This is my daily politics podcast. It's Thursday, May 30th.

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.

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