>> WE WILL WAIT TO SEE. AND AS
YOU SUGGEST, I CERTAINLY BELIEVE
THAT IS THE CASE. JUDGE JUAN
MARCHAND CERTAINLY WILL BE
LIKELY COMING UP WITH WHATEVER
DECISION HE COMES UP WITH,
MOSTLY ON HIS OWN. AND HE'S HAD
SOME TIME TO THINK ABOUT THIS.
CERTAINLY THE POTENTIAL THAT HE
WOULD HAVE TO COME UP WITH A
SENTENCE FOR A FORMER PRESIDENT
OF THE UNITED STATES WHO LAY TODAY WAS FOUND GUILTY ON 34
FELONY COUNTS IN A NEW YORK
COURTROOM. AGAIN, THE FORMER
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP BACK AT
TRUMP TOWER TONIGHT DECIDING
WHAT HIS NEXT MOVE WILL BE AS HE
CONTINUES IN THIS RACE FOR
PRESIDENT. WORLD NEWS TONIGHT
BEGINS RIGHT NOW.
>> THIS HAS BEEN A SPECIAL
REPORT
>> Announcer: FROM ABC NEWS
WORLD HEADQUARTERS IN NEW YORK,
THIS IS "WORLD NEWS TONIGHT"
WITH DAVID MUIR.
>> David: GOOD EVENING, AGAIN,
EVERYONE.
FOR THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN JOINING US FOR OUR ABC NEWSLIVE COVERAGE
WE NOW JOIN THE ENTIRE NATION
WITH "WORLD NEWS TONIGHT" ON THIS THURSDAY NIGHT, A SPECIAL
EDITION HERE AS WE BEGIN WITH
THE BREAKING NEWS, A STUNNING
MOMENT IN AMERICAN HISTORY,
DONALD TRUMP, THE FORMER
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES,
FOUND GUILTY ON 34 FELONY
COUNTS, THE FIRST FORMER
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
CONVICTED ON CRIMINAL CHARGES.
THE DRAMATIC TURN OF THE
COURTROOM, THE JUDGE SIGNALING
HE WOULD EXCUSE THE JURORS FOR
THE DAY. YOU COULD SEE THE FORMER
PRESIDENT ACTUALLY JOKING WITH
HIS ATTORNEY AT THAT POINT AND
THEN JURORS TELLING THE JUDGE
THAT THEY HAD, IN FACT, REACHED
A VERDICT.
WHIPLASH IN THE COURTROOM.
A SUDDEN CHANGE IN TEMPERATURE
WHEN THE FORMER PRESIDENT
REALIZED HE WAS ABOUT TO LEARN HIS FATE.
THEY DELIBERATED NEARLY TEN
HOURS OVER THE COURSE OF TWO DAYS.
SHORT TIME AGO, DONALD TRUMP
RETURNING TO TRUMP TOWER RIGHT
HERE ON FIFTH AVENUE IN
MANHATTAN AFTER HIS CONVICTION
PUMPING HIS FISTS, WAVING AT THE
CHEERING CROWD.
BACK IN COURT, THE FORMER
PRESIDENT SITTING STONE-FACED AS
EACH OF THE CHARGES WAS READ ONE
BY ONE GUILTY ON ALL 34 COUNTS
AND THE FORMER PRESIDENT SHAKING
HIS HEAD AT FINALS REACTING
IMMEDIATELY COMING BEFORE THE
CAMERAS CALLING THE TRIAL
"RIGGED, DISGRACEFUL," SAYING
"REAL VERDICT WILL BE NOVEMBER
5th BY THE PEOPLE.
I SHORT TIME LATER WE WITNESSED
AS WE WERE CARRYING THIS LIVE
THE FORMER PRESIDENT SEEN
LEAVING THE COURTHOUSE GETTING
INTO AN SUV, THE SECRET SERVICE
THERE GATHERED TO DRIVE BACK TO
TRUMP TOWER.
HE WILL RETURN TO THE COURTHOUSE
ON JULY 11th TO BE SENTENCED BY
JUDGE JUAN MERCHAN JUST DAYS BEFORE THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL
CONVENTION, IN FACT, SENTENCING
FOUR DAYS BEFORE THE RNC MEETS.
OUR CHIEF LEGAL ANALYST DAN
ABRAMS AT THE DESK ON WHAT IT
MEANS, THE LAW, THE DECISION,
THIS MOMENT IN HISTORY AND OUR
CORRESPONDENTS WITH REACTION,
MARY BRUCE AT THE WHITE HOUSE
TONIGHT. RACHEL SCOTT ON CAPITOL HILL
WITH REACTION FROM REPUBLICANS.
WHAT THIS DOES IN THE RACE FOR
PRESIDENT.
BUT FIRST THE DRAMATIC SCENE
THAT PLAYED OUT LATE TODAY FROM
AARON KATERSKY LEADING US OFF AT
THE COURTHOUSE.
>> Reporter: TONIGHT, FORMER
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP DEFIANT ARRIVING HOME AT TRUMP
TOWER AFTER BEING FOUND GUILTY
OF ALL 34 CHARGES.
TRUMP NOW A CONVICTED FELON.
THE HISTORIC VERDICT COMING
AFTER NEARLY TEN HOURS OF
DELIBERATIONS, A UNANIMOUS JURY
OF 12 NEW YORKERS MADE
TRUMP THE FIRST PRESIDENT IN
HISTORY TO BE A CONVICTED CRIMINAL.
IT WAS AN EXTRAORDINARY TURN IN
THE COURTROOM.
JUST MOMENTS BEFORE JURORS
SIGNALED THEY HAD REACHED A
VERDICT, JUDGE JUAN MERCHAN
INDICATED HE WAS GOING TO EXCUSE
THEM FOR THE DAY.
THEN, A DRAMATIC SHIFT, TRUMP
WENT FROM JOKING WITH HIS
ATTORNEYS TO SITTING STONE-FACED
LOOKING DOWN AS THE JURY READ
THE VERDICT COUNT BY COUNT.
PROSECUTORS PROVING TRUMP
FALSIFIED BUSINESS RECORDS TO
CONCEAL A $130,000 HUSH PAYMENT
TO PORN ACTRESS STORMY DANIELS
TO KEEP HER STORY FROM VOTERS BEFORE THE 2016 ELECTION.
>> MR. PRESIDENT, HOW DO YOU
FEEL? >> Reporter: THE FORMER
PRESIDENT THEN MARCHING OUT OF
THE COURTROOM WITH HIS LAWYER,
TODD BLANCHE, BY HIS SIDE. >> THIS WAS A RIGGED,
DISGRACEFUL TRIAL.
THE REAL VERDICT IS GOING TO BE
NOVEMBER 5th BY THE PEOPLE.
>> Reporter: OUTSIDE COURT --
>> GUILTY!
>> YES!
>> Reporter: -- CHEERS COULD BE
HEARD IN THE CROWD AS NEWS OF
HIS CONVICTION SPREAD.
>> GUILTY!
>> Reporter: THE TRIAL LASTING
SEVEN WEEKS, 22 WITNESSES TAKING
THE STAND INCLUDING TRUMP'S
FORMER FIXER AND LAWYER, MICHAEL
COHEN, WHO TRUMP'S DEFENSE TEAM
CALLED THE GREATEST LIAR OF ALL
TIME.
COHEN LATE TODAY RELEASING A
STATEMENT SAYING, "TODAY IS AN
IMPORTANT DAY FOR ACCOUNTABILITY
AND THE RULE OF LAW. WHILE IT HAS BEEN A DIFFICULT
JOURNEY FOR ME AND MY FAMILY,
THE TRUTH ALWAYS MATTERS."
AND STORMY DANIELS IN A
STATEMENT TONIGHT SAYING, NO MAN
IS ABOVE THE LAW.
TRUMP SEEN LEAVING THE COURTROOM
LATE TODAY, GETTING INTO HIS SUV
SURROUNDED BY SECURITY.
JUDGE JUAN MERCHAN
THANKED THE JURY FOR THEIR
HANDLING OF A "VERY STRESSFUL
AND DIFFICULT TASK," SAYING "YOU ARE EXCUSED WITH THE GRATITUDE
OF THE COURT."
COURT DISMISSED.
THE SENTENCING DATE SET FOR
DONALD TRUMP, JULY 11th, JUST
FOUR DAYS BEFORE THE REPUBLICAN
NATIONAL CONVENTION.
>> ALL RIGHT, SO LET'S GET TO
AARON KATERSKY, OUR CHIEF
INVESTIGATIVE CORRESPONDENT LIVE
OUTSIDE THE COURTHOUSE AGAIN
TONIGHT AND, AARON, AS WE WERE
ON THE AIR YOU REPORTED ON THIS
EXTRAORDINARY SHIFT IN
TEMPERATURE IN THAT COURTROOM.
JUDGE JUAN MERCHAN AT FIRST
INDICATED THAT JURORS WOULD BE
GOING HOME FOR THE DAY, THAT
THIS WOULD SORT OF BLEED INTO A
THIRD DAY OF DELIBERATIONS,
WHICH OSTENSIBLY WOULD BE A GOOD
SIGN FOR THE DEFENSE TEAM AND
THE PRESIDENT THAT THEY HAD NOT
COME TO A UNANIMOUS DECISION
HERE. SUDDENLY THE JUDGE THEN GETTING
A NOTE FROM THE JURY THAT THEY
HAD REACHED THEIR VERDICT.
CAN YOU DESCRIBE THE SHIFT IN
TONE, THE SORT OF WHIPLASH IN
THAT COURTROOM AND CERTAINLY
WHAT THAT MUST HAVE BEEN LIKE
FOR THE DEFENSE TABLE?
>> IT WAS REALLY INCREDIBLE TO
WATCH.
FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP JOKING
WITH HIS DEFENSE ATTORNEY TODD
BLANCHE AT ONE POINT, THE
DEFENSE ATTORNEY KEELED OVER AND
LAUGHING NEARLY HITTING HIS HEAD
ON THE DEFENSE TABLE HE WAS
LAUGHING SO HARD, PROSECUTORS
TOO SHARING PLEASANTRIES,
LAUGHING WITH ONE ANOTHER AND
WHEN THE JUDGE RETURNED TO THE
BENCH SAYING WE'RE NOT GOING
HOME BECAUSE THE JURY HAS
REACHED A VERDICT, THE MOOD IN
THE ROOM INSTANTLY SHIFTED.
EVERYTHING BECAME MUCH MORE
RIGID. COURT OFFICERS FLOWED INTO THE
ROOM. THERE WAS NOT A SOUND FROM THE
CROWD UNTIL THE JURY WALKED IN
AND RENDERED ITS HISTORIC
VERDICT, DAVID.
>> David: AARON KATERSKY LEADING
US OFF TONIGHT, AARON, OUR
THANKS TO YOU AS ALWAYS.
I WANT TO BRING IN CHIEF LEGAL
ANALYST DAN ABRAMS.
YOU AND I WERE TALKING.
TWO DAYS OF DELIBERATIONS AND
KNOW THE JUDGE INSTRUCTED THIS
JURY TO MAKE SURE YOU CANNOT
COME UP WITH A VERDICT HERE,
GUILTY OR NOT GUILTY BASED
SOLELY ON THE TESTIMONY OF
MICHAEL COHEN. YOU MUST LOOK AT THE TOTALITY OF
THE EVIDENCE.
THERE MUST BE CORROBORATING
EVIDENCE. THEY ASKED ABOUT DAVID PECKER'S
TESTIMONY FROM "THE NATIONAL
ENCHOIR IR"TO BE REREAD ALONG
WITH OTHER THINGS AND CAME UP
WITH THEIR DECISION, THEIR
UNANIMOUS VERDICT, GUILTY ON ALL
34 COUNTS AT THE END OF DAY TWO.
WHAT DID THAT SIGNAL TO YOU?
>> THAT THEY CLEARLY BELIEVED
THE CORROBORATING EVIDENCE,
RIGHT? IT'S CAN'T JUST BE ABOUT MICHAEL
COHEN. SO IT MEANS THAT WHEN THEY WERE
ASKING TO HAVE THAT TESTIMONY
REREAD OF DAVID PECKER, THEY
WANTED TO BE REMINDED WHAT
EXACTLY DID HE SAY?
IN PARTICULAR ABOUT HOW THIS
SCHEME STARTED, CORDING TO THE
PROSECUTORS THIS STARTS IN 2015,
NOT IN 2016.
THAT'S WHEN THE EFFORT BEGINS IN
A MEETING WITH DAVID PECKER.
MICHAEL COHEN AND DONALD TRUMP
DISCUSSING HOW TO FIND
POTENTIALLY NEGATIVE STORIES
ABOUT DONALD TRUMP AND MAKE SURE
THAT THEY DON'T SEE THE LIGHT OF
DAY.
PROSECUTORS MADE IT CLEAR IN
THEIR CLOSING ARGUMENTS THAT
THAT WAS THE BEGINNING OF THIS,
WHEN THEY ASKED TO HAVE THAT
READ BACK, THAT MEANT AT THE
LEAST THEY WERE FOLLOWING THE
PROSECUTOR'S ROAD MAP.
>> David: A COUPLE OF QUICK
FOLLOW-UP QUESTIONS FROM A LEGAL
PERSPECTIVE BEING A CONVICTED
FELON MEANS NOTHING IN THE RACE
FOR PRESIDENT. HE MOVES FORWARD.
>> CORRECT. HE CAN RUN FOR PRESIDENT NO
QUESTION AND HE CAN EVEN VOTE
BASED ON THE FACT THAT HE IS A
FLORIDA RESIDENT, FLORIDA LAW
SAYS THEY DEFER BACK TO THE
STATE WHERE IT HAPPENED.
THAT WOULD MEAN NEW YORK AND IN
NEW YORK THE ONLY WAY YOU CAN'T
VOTE IF YOU'RE ACTUALLY SERVING
TIME AS A FELON.
>> David: I THINK ABOUT THE
VIEWERS AT HOME ON THIS.
WE KNOW JUDGE JUAN MERCHAN IS
PLANNING A SENTENCING AT THIS
POINT FOR JULY 11th, I BELIEVE,
WHICH IS FOUR DAYS BEFORE THE
REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION.
I KNOW LEHMAN OBSERVERS
INCLUDING YOU DO 23409 BELIEVE
ANY TIME BEHIND BARS IS LIKELY
HERE, BUT WHAT IS THE SCOPE OF
WHAT WE COULD SEE?
>> ANYTHING FROM NO TIME TO UP
TO FOUR YEARS.
AND EVEN IF IT'S NO TIME, THE
QUESTION BECOMES ARE THERE
NUANCES, RIGHT?
COULD IT BE HOME CONFINEMENT?
COULD IT BE POE BASE?
COULD THERE BE COMMUNITY
SERVICE?
SO THE JUDGE HAS ENORMOUS
DISCRETION BUT MOST BELIEVE
BECAUSE IT'S A LOW-LEVEL FELONY
TESTIMONY BE ON THE LOW END.
>> David: WE WILL WITNESS A
CONVICTED FELON SENTENCED BY A
JUDGE TO, YOU KNOW, AS YOU SAY
POTENTIALLY HOME CONFINEMENT OR
COMMUNITY SERVICE OR WHATEVER
THE JUDGE DECIDES, AND THAT
PERSON IS STILL RUNNING FOR
PRESIDENT. >> RIGHT, AND, REMEMBER, IT
DOESN'T MEAN HE'S ACTUALLY
SERVING THE SENTENCE IMMEDIATELY
AFTER THE SENTENCING.
THEY COULD ACTUALLY DELAY THAT
AS THEY APPEAL IT AND
POTENTIALLY NOT HAVE TO SERVE
THE SENTENCE UNTIL AFTER THE
ELECTION.
>> David: DAN, THANK YOU.
>>> TO OLIVIA RUBIN WHO HAS BEEN
IN THE COURTROOM AND ALSO IN THE
OVERFLOW ROOM AS WE KNOW IN NEW
YORK. NO CAMERAS IN COURT AND RELIED
ON OLIVIA AND OUR TEAM INSIDE
THE COURTHOUSE EVERY SINGLE DAY
ABLE TO WATCH THEMSELVES AS THIS
PLAYS OUT AND OLIVIA YOU WERE ON
THE AIR WITH ME EARLIER.
I THOUGHT THAT DYNAMIC THAT YOU
DESCRIBED OF JURORS WALKING INTO
THAT ROOM WAS EXTRAORDINARY.
WE'LL HAVE TO FIND OUT IN THE
DAYS AND WEEKS TO COME IF THIS
WAS SOMETHING THEY TALKED ABOUT,
WHETHER THE FOREPERSON OR
PERHAPS THE TWO ATTORNEYS WHO
WERE MEMBERS OF THE JURY SAID
THIS IS THE WAY WE'LL PRESENT
OURSELVES BUT YOU DESCRIBED THEM
WALKING IN ALMOST SINGLE FILE
BRINGING NO DRAMA.
NO EMOTION, THEIR HEADS DOWN,
VERY LITTLE INTERACTION OR EVEN
LOOKING AT THE FORMER PRESIDENT.
>> Reporter: EXACTLY AND DONALD
TRUMP, DAVID, AS WELL,
STONE-FACED AND MOTIONLESS AS WE
HAVE SEEN FOR SO MUCH OF THIS
TRIAL. HARDLY ANY REACTION FROM HIM.
ALMOST DETACHED FROM THE
PROCEEDINGS WITH THE OCCASIONAL
HEAD NOD AND, OF COURSE, AFTER
THIS WAS ALL OVER, WHAT WE SAW
EVERY SINGLE DAY, THE JURY
GETTING UP AND FILING OUT OF THE
COURTROOM IN THAT SINGLE FILE
LINE, JUST INCHES AWAY FROM THE
FORMER PRESIDENT AFTER THEY HAD
JUST DELIVERED HIS FATE IN THEIR
HANDS AND MANY OF THEM LOOKING
DOWN. DONALD TRUMP WATCHING MANY OF
THEM LOOKING AT THE FLOOR.
>> David: OUR TEAM REPORTING
HERE THAT AS THE COUNTS WERE
READ, YOU KNOW, COUNT ONE
GUILTY, COUNT TWO, GUILTY AND
DOWN THE LIST, THAT DONALD
TRUMP'S REACTION AT ONE POINT HE
BEGAN TO SHAKE HIS HEAD BUT
SIMPLY STOPPED AS THE NUMBER OF
GUILTY INVESTORS RENDERED ON
MULTIPLE COUNTS HERE CONTINUED TO GROW.
>> Reporter: IT APPEARED AT
COUNT 4 IS WHEN HE SHOOK HIS
HEAD.
IT IS THE REACTION WE HAVE SEEN
FROM DONALD TRUMP SO MANY TIMES
THEN, OF COURSE, BEFORE HE LEFT
THE COURTROOM, DAVID, DONALD
TRUMP STANDING AND ADJUSTING HIS
JACKET, LOOKING NERVOUSLY AROUND
THE ROOM AND MAKING HIS WAY OUT
FOR THE LAST TIME, DAVID.
>> David: OLIVIA, THANK YOU.
>>> LET'S GET RIGHT TO OUR
WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT
JONATHAN KARL TONIGHT.
JON, THE RACE FOR PRESIDENT,
FOLKS AT HOME, WE HAVE SEEN THIS
IN THE POLLING HAVE SAID
OVERWHELMINGLY THAT THEY DID NOT
WANT A JOE BIDEN/DONALD TRUMP
MATCHUP. IT IS WHAT THE COUNTRY IS
STARING DOWN AS WE HEAD TOWARD
ELECTION DAY AND THE POLLS SHOW
IT IS A ONE OR TWO-POINT RACE.
IN MANY OF THE KEY BATTLEGROUND
STATES TRUMP AHEAD OF BIDEN AND
POLLSTERS WILL ASK RIGHT AWAY,
DOES THIS CONVICTION CHANGE ANY
OF THE MINDS OF THOSE WHO HAVE
SAID THEY WOULD VOTE FOR DONALD
TRUMP? >> Reporter: DAVID, POLLSTERS
HAVE BEEN ASKING THIS QUESTION
HYPOTHETICALLY SAYING, IF DONALD
TRUMP WERE TO BE CONVICTED OF A
CRIME, IF HE WERE TO BE
CONVICTED OF A FELONY, WOULD
THAT CHANGE YOUR SUPPORT FOR HIM
AND THE OVERWHELMING MAJORITY OF
TRUMP SUPPORTERS HAVE SAID NO
BUT THERE HAVE BEEN ON AVERAGE
IN POLLS INCLUDING AN ABC NEWS
POLL JUST A MONTH AGO, 20% OF
VOTERS WHO SAY THEY WOULD
SUPPORT DONALD TRUMP AND SAY AT
LEAST RECONSIDER THEIR SUPPORT
FOR DONALD TRUMP IF HE WERE TO
BE CONVICTED FOR A FELONY, IF
THAT HOLDS, THAT COULD BE DEVER
STATING TO HIS PRESIDENTIAL
CAMPAIGN, AGAIN, GIVEN HOW CLOSE
THIS IS BUT WILL IT HOLD?
I MEAN, WE JUST DON'T KNOW,
DAVID.
IT'S IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER TRUMP
IS NOW -- HE WAS INDICTED ON
FOUR DIFFERENT VENUES, TWO
FEDERAL, ONE STATE, NOW THIS ONE
IN NEW YORK AND EACH OF THOSE
INDICTMENTS ACTUALLY ONLY HELPED
HIS CAMPAIGN.
HE ACTUALLY ONLY IMPROVED AFTER
BEING INDICTED.
SO WE'LL SEE WHAT HAPPENS NOW
THAT AN INDICTMENT HAS LED TO A
CONVICTION. >> David: JON KARL WITH US AS
WELL. >>> THANK YOU. >>> I WANT TO BRING IN JOHN
SANTUCCI WHO COVERED HIM FOR
MANY YEARS.
IT'S MY UNDERSTANDING ERIC TRUMP
WAS IN THE COURTROOM TODAY.
OTHER CHILDREN HAVE BEEN IN THE
COURTROOM ALONG THE WAY BUT
NOTICEABLY ABSENT, MELANIA TRUMP
AND IVANKA TRUMP.
>> Reporter: INTERESTING.
ERIC HAS BEEN BY HIS FATHER'S
SIDE FOR MUCH OF THIS CASE, MANY
OF THE OTHER CASES BUT, OF
COURSE, HIS BROTHER DONALD
TRUMP JR. HAD BEEN THERE EARLIER
IN THE WEEK.
IVANKA AND MELANIA HAVE NOT BEEN
PRESENT AT ANY OF HIS COURT
CASES OR ANY OF HIS CAMPAIGN
EVENTS FOR THIS CYCLE SO FAR.
DAVID, TONIGHT I CAN TELL YOU
WITHIN THE TRUMP FAMILY AND
INNER CIRCLE SURPRISING TWO
WAYS, SURPRISED AT HOW QUICK
THIS VERDICT CAME DOWN BUT NOT A
LOT OF SURPRISE, DAVID, IN WHAT
THE VERDICT ULTIMATELY WAS.
>> David: AT LEAST AT THE OUTSET
THEY KNOW THERE IS A POSITIVE.
THEY HAVE REPORTED THAT THEIR
SITE HAS CRASHED WHEN IT COMES
TO FUND-RAISING BUT THEN THE
REALITY IN THE WEEKS TO COME
THEY HAVE TO RUN WITH THE FORMER
PRESIDENT NOW A CONVICTED FELON.
>> Reporter: DAVID, ACTUALLY
JUST MOMENTS AGO MY COLLEAGUE
LEARNING DONALD TRUMP TONIGHT IS
ACTUALLY PARTICIPATING IN A
FUND-RAISER HERE IN NEW YORK SO
CONTINUING THAT PUSH, DAVID.
>> JOHN, THANK YOU.
>>> RIGHT TO MARY BRUCE.
MARY, YOU WERE ON THE AIR WITH
ME EARLIER AND REPORTED IN
REALTIME AS IT WAS COMING TO
YOUR iPHONE, REACTION FROM THE
BIDEN CAMPAIGN.
WE WITNESSED AND YOU HAVE
REPORTED MANY NIGHTS HERE THE
PRESIDENT SELDOMLY ACTUALLY EVEN
POINTING OUT THAT DONALD TRUMP
WAS IN THE MIDDLE OF THIS
CRIMINAL TRIAL OTHER THAN TO
SORT OF NEEDLE THE TRUMP
CAMPAIGN SAYING THE FORMER
PRESIDENT IS BUSY, I HEAR.
IN SO MANY WORDS, I PARAPHRASE.
DOES THAT TACTIC CHANGE MOVING
FORWARD. >> Reporter: WELL, DAVID, WE
STILL HAVE NOT HEARD DIRECTLY
FROM THE PRESIDENT HIMSELF.
BUT HIS CAMPAIGN SAYS IT SHOWS
NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW.
THIS VERDICT IS A POLITICAL GIFT
TO DEMOCRATS AND THE PRESIDENT
BUT HIS CAMPAIGN IS BEING
CAREFUL NOT TO CELEBRATE THIS
TOO MUCH.
THEY DON'T WANT TO BE SEEN AS
FEEDING INTO TRUMP'S NARRATIVE
THAT THIS WAS ALL SOMETHING OF A
POLITICAL HIT JOB.
THAT'S SOMETHING THE PRESIDENT
ADAMANTLY REJECTS BUT IN A MUTED
STATEMENT THEY SAY TODAY'S VERDICT DOES NOT CHANGE THE FACT
THAT THERE IS STILL ONLY ONE WAY
TO KEEP DONALD TRUMP OUT OF THE
OVAL OFFICE, AT THE BALLOT BOX
SAYING CONVICTED FELON OR NOT
TRUMP WILL BE THE REPUBLICAN
NOMINEE FOR PRESIDENT, DAVID.
>> ALL RIGHT, MARY BRUCE WITH US
AT THE WHITE HOUSE, MARY, THANK
YOU.
>>> LET'S BRING IN RACHEL SCOTT
BECAUSE, RACHEL, REACTION CAME
IN VERY SWIFTLY FROM REPUBLICANS
ON THE HILL.
REPUBLICAN LEADERS ACROSS THIS
COUNTRY, THEY ARE UNITED BEHIND
DONALD TRUMP. >> Reporter: UNITED BEHIND THE
FORMER PRESIDENT AFTER THIS
VERDICT TODAY.
THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE, MIKE
JOHNSON CALLING TODAY A SHAMEFUL
DAY CALLING THIS A POLITICAL
EXERCISE NOT A LEGAL ONE.
JOHNSON, OF COURSE, 1 OF 37
REPUBLICAN OFFICIALS THAT
VISITED THAT MANHATTAN
COURTHOUSE TO SHOW THEIR SUPPORT
FOR THE FORMER PRESIDENT, EVEN
TRUMP'S FORMER RIVALS INCLUDING
FLORIDA GOVERNOR RON DeSANTIS
WHO ONCE SAID TRUMP'S INDICTMENT
SUCKED THE OXYGEN OUT OF THE
REPUBLICAN PRIMARY TONIGHT BLASTING THE VERDICT.
THE BOTTOM LINE, DAVID, THIS IS
A REPUBLICAN PARTY THAT HAS ONLY
GROWN MORE CLOSER TO DONALD
TRUMP EVEN AFTER TODAY'S GUILTY
VERDICT.
>> RACHEL SCOTT IN WASHINGTON,
THANK YOU.
WE HAVE JUST LEARNED THAT THE
NEW YORK CITY DISTRICT ATTORNEY
ALVIN BRAGG IS GOING TO ADDRESS
THE CAMERAS JUST MOMENTS FROM
NOW.
REACTION COMING IN FROM DOWNTOWN
MANHATTAN WHERE THE COURTHOUSE
IS. WE'LL TAKE YOU LIVE FOR A
MOMENT.
>>> HISTORIC REVERSAL FROM THE
WHITE HOUSE.
THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION GIVING
UKRAINE PERMISSION TO STRIKE
INSIDE RUSSIA WITH AMERICAN MADE
WEAPONS FOR THE FIRST TIME. LET'S TURN TO MARTHA RADDATZ FOR
LATE REPORTING.
>> Reporter: TONIGHT WITH THE
RUSSIAN ASSAULT ON UKRAINE'S
SECOND LARGEST CITY KHARKIV
INTENSIFYING, THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION HAS MADE A MAJOR
REHEARSAL ALLOWING U.S. SUPPLIED
WEAPONS TO BE FIRED INSIDE
RUSSIA.
FOR YEARS, THE ADMINISTRATION
BALKED AT THE IDEA, FEARING A
STRIKE ON RUSSIA ITSELF WITH
U.S.-MADE WEAPONS COULD DRAW THE U.S. INTO DIRECT CONFLICT WITH
RUSSIA.
U.S. OFFICIALS INSISTING TONIGHT THE U.S. WEAPONS WILL BE USED
ONLY TO STRIKE RUSSIAN MILITARY
SIES THAT ARE BEING USED TO
LAUNCH WEAPONS INTO KHARKIV.
MORE THAN A DOZEN OTHER WESTERN
COUNTRIES HAVE ALSO APPROVED
WEAPONS BEING USED INSIDE RUSSIA.
BUT VLADIMIR PUTIN ALREADY WITH
THREATENING RESPONSE, CALLING
IT AN ESCALATION,
"ANOTHER STEP TOWARDS A SERIOUS
CONFLICT IN EUROPE AND AROUND
THE GLOBE." IT WILL BE THE PENTAGON THAT
WILL COORDINATE EXACTLY WHETHER
WEAPONS CAN STRIKE INSIDE RUSSIA
BUT, DAVID, THERE IS NO QUESTION
THIS IS A BIG CHANGE.
DAVID. >> David: MARTHA RADDATZ
REPORTING FROM WASHINGTON.
MARTHA, THANK YOU.
>>> WE HAVE LEARNED ALVIN BRAGG,
THE D.A. IN NEW YORK ADDRESSING
CAMERAS AND WE'LL PAUSE HERE SO
THAT THE ENTIRE NETWORK CAN JOIN
US, STAY TUNED.
SPECIAL REPORT. NOW REPORTING.
DAVID MUIR.
>> GOOD EVENING AGAIN EVERYONE.
I'M DAVID MUIR IN NEW YORK. FOR
THOSE OF YOU HERE IN THE EAST
ALREADY WATCHING WORLD NEWS
TONIGHT, WE NOW JOIN THE REST OF
THE COUNTRY AS WE LISTEN IN ON
ALVIN BRAGG, THE MANHATTAN
DISTRICT ATTORNEY. OF COURSE,
PROSECUTORS WINNING THEIR CASE
AGAINST THE FORMER PRESIDENT OF
THE UNITED STATES LATE TODAY,
GETTING GUILTY VERDICTS ON ALL
34 FELONY COUNTS. LET'S LISTEN
TO ALVIN BRAGG. GOOD EVENING,
FIRST AND FOREMOST, I WANT TO
THANK THE JURY FOR ITS SERVICE,
JURORS PERFORM A FUNDAMENTAL
CIVIC DUTY. THEIR SERVICE IS
LITERALLY THE CORNERSTONE OF OUR
JUDICIAL SYSTEM. WE SHOULD ALL
BE THANKFUL FOR THE CAREFUL
ATTENTION, THAT THIS JURY PAID
TO THE EVIDENCE AND THE LAW AND
THEIR TIME AND COMMITMENT OVER
THESE PAST SEVERAL WEEKS, 12
EVERYDAY NEW YORKERS AND, OF
COURSE, OUR ALTERNATES, HER
TESTIMONY FROM 22 WITNESSES,
INCLUDING FORMER AND CURRENT
EMPLOYEES OF THE DEFENDANT,
MEDIA EXECUTIVES, BOOK PUBLISHERS, CUSTODIANS OF
RECORDS AND OTHERS. THEY
REVIEWED CALL LOGS, TEXTS,
MESSAGES AND EMAILS. THEY HEARD
RECORDINGS. THEY SAW CHECKS AND
INVOICES, BANK STATEMENTS AND
CALENDAR APPOINTMENTS. THIS TYPE
OF WHITE COLLAR PROSECUTION IS
CORE TO WHAT WE DO AT THE
MANHATTAN DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S
OFFICE. IN THE 1930S, DISTRICT
ATTORNEY THOMAS DEWEY USHERED IN
THE ERA OF THE MODERN
INDEPENDENT PROFESSIONAL
PROSECUTOR. WE'RE NOW NEARLY
YEARS DEDICATED PROFESSIONALS IN
THIS OFFICE HAVE BUILT UPON THAT
FINE TRADITION. A MAJOR PART OF
OUR PRACTICE DURING THAT NEARLY
90 YEARS HAS BEEN PUBLIC
INTEGRITY WORK, INCLUDING CASES
INVOLVING JURISTS, LOCAL AND
STATE ELECTEDS, PUBLIC SERVANTS
AND OTHERS. I WANT TO
PHENOMENAL PROSECUTION TEAM,
EMBODYING THE FINEST TRADITIONS
OF THIS OFFICE, ALVIN BRAGG
THANKING THE TEAM BEHIND HIM.
>> THE PROSECUTORS WHO WON THIS
CASE, BUT PRIMARILY OPENING BY
THANKING THE 12 EVERYDAY NEW
YORKERS, IN HIS WORDS, WHO
SERVED IN THIS CASE, ALVIN BRAGG
HERE IN NEW YORK. FOR THOSE OF
YOU WATCHING WORLD NEWS, WE'LL
HAVE MORE ON THIS HARROWING
SCENE IN NEW YORK CITY AND
MACHETE ATTACK IN TIMES SQUARE
THAT'S COMING UP IN A MOMENT.
AND FOR THE REST OF THE COUNTRY,
WE'LL SEE YOU A LITTLE LATER FOR
WORLD NEWS AS. THIS HAS BEEN A
SPECIAL REPORT FROM ABC NEWS
NEWS. A HAR ROWING SCENE IN NEW YORK
CITY. A MAN WAS ATTACKED BY A MACHETE
IN THE HEART OF TIMES SQUARE.
THE VICTIM WAS STABBED IN THE
LEGS AT 45th STREET AND
BROADWAY, AN AREA PACKED WITH
TOURISTS, AT LEAST THREE PEOPLE
HAVE BEEN DETAINED.
POLICE BELIEVE IT BEGAN AS A
DISPUTE BETWEEN VENDORS SELLING
ITEMS ON THE STREET.
>>> TONIGHT THE CDC CONFIRMING A
THIRD HUMAN CASE OF BIRD FLU
HERE IN THE U.S.
THE SECOND CASE IN MICHIGAN.
HEALTH OFFICIALS SAY ALL THREE
CASES INVOLVE DAIRY FARM WORKERS
EXPOSED TO INFECTED COWS.
THE LATEST HAS SYMPTOMS OF
RESPIRATORY ILLNESS, NONE OF THE
CASES ARE DIRECTLY LINKED.
THE CDC SAYS THERE IS NO
EVERYDAY OF THE VIRUS SPREADING
FROM PERSON TO PERSON.
>>> WE'RE ALSO TRACKING STORMS.
SEVERE WEATHER RETURNING TO
HARD-HIT PARTS OF TEXAS.
MOST OF THE STATE AT RISK FOR
POSSIBLE TORNADOES, DAMAGING
WINDS AND LARGE HAIL.
THE THREAT STRETCHING EAST
TOMORROW FROM SAN ANTONIO TO
MEMPHIS. UP TO SIX INCHES OF RAIN
POSSIBLE IN SOME OF THOSE AREAS,
PARTS OF TEXAS JUST CAN'T GET A
BREAK. >>> WE'LL BE BACK WITH AN UPDATE
ON THE NEWS OF THIS DAY IN A
MOMENT.
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>> David: BEFORE WE GO TONIGHT
THE FORMER PRESIDENT AT TRUMP
TOWER AT THIS HOUR, DONALD TRUMP
WILL NOW CAMPAIGN FOR PRESIDENT
IN THIS COUNTRY AS A CONVICTED
FELON FOUND GUILTY LATE TODAY ON
ALL 34 FELONY COUNTS HERE IN NEW
YORK AFTER TWO DAYS OF DMRIB
RATIONS THERE WAS A MOMENT TODAY
WHEN THEY THOUGHT THE JURY WOULD
GO HOME. THE JUDGE THEN INFORMING DONALD
TRUMP AND HIS DEFENSE ATTORNEYS
THAT A VERDICT HAD BEEN REACHED.
THE TEMPERATURE SUDDENLY
CHANGING IN THAT COURTROOM.
A JURY OF 12, 7 MEN AND 5 WOMEN,
THE JURY AGREEING UPON -- AGREED
UPON BY THE PROSECUTION AND THE
DEFENSE. WE HAVE LEARNED TONIGHT THAT
TRUMP'S SENTENCING IS NOW SET
FOR JULY 11th, JUST FOUR DAYS
BEFORE HE ACCEPTS THE PRS
PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION AT THE
REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CON VEJS.
I'M DAVID MUIR HERE IN NEW YORK.
THANK YOU FOR JOINING US.
I'LL SEE YOU HERE TOMORROW
NIGHT.
ACCOUNTS. THIS JURY IN NEW YORK
CITY. A JURY OF HIS PEERS
FINDING THE FORMER PRESIDENT
GUILTY ON EVERY SINGLE FELONY
COUNT BROUGHT AGAINST HIM BY THE
MANHATTAN DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S
OFFICE.
>> THIS WAS A RIGGED,
DISGRACEFUL TRIAL THAT THE REAL
VERDICT IS GOING TO BE NOVEMBER
FIFTH BY THE PEOPLE.
>> PRESIDENT TRUMP CALLING THIS
A RIGGED TRIAL IMMEDIATELY AFTER
HEARING THE VERDICT. GUILTY ON
ALL 34 COUNTS IN THE NEW YORK
HUSH MONEY TRIAL. GOOD
AFTERNOON. THANKS FOR JOINING
US. >> I'M LARRY BEIL AND I'M JULIAN
GLOVER. WE BEGIN OUR COVERAGE
TODAY WITH THE VERY LATEST
HAPPENING IN NEW YORK. HERE'S
ABC NEWS REPORTER REENA ROY.
>> FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP
FOUND GUILTY. JURORS DELIVERING
THE VERDICT ON 34 COUNTS OF
FALSIFYING BUSINESS RECORDS IN
THE HUSH MONEY PAYMENT TO ADULT
FILM ACTRESS STORMY DANIELS.
TRUMP REACTING TO THE VERDICT.
>> THIS WAS A DISGRACE. THIS WAS
A RIGGED TRIAL BY A CONFLICTED
JUDGE WHO WAS CORRUPT. BUT THE
REAL VERDICT IS GOING TO BE
NOVEMBER 5TH BY THE PEOPLE AND
THEY KNOW WHAT HAPPENED HERE.
AND EVERYBODY KNOWS WHAT
HAPPENED HERE.
>> LAST YEAR, TRUMP PLEADED NOT
GUILTY TO THE FELONY CHARGES
BROUGHT BY MANHATTAN DISTRICT
ATTORNEY ALVIN BRAGG. >> WHILE THIS DEFENDANT MAY BE
UNLIKE ANY OTHER IN AMERICAN
HISTORY. >>