1 00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:03,000 DENT AGAIN BECAUSE THIS IS A STATE CRIME. 2 00:00:03,000 --> 00:00:05,000 ONCE AGAIN, THE BREAKING NEWS 3 00:00:05,000 --> 00:00:06,000 FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP 4 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:10,000 HAS BEEN FOUND GUILTY BY A JURY 5 00:00:10,000 --> 00:00:12,000 OF 12 UNANIMOUS. 6 00:00:12,000 --> 00:00:14,000 ALL 34 COUNTS OF FALSIFYING 7 00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:15,000 BUSINESS RECORDS. 8 00:00:15,000 --> 00:00:18,000 OUR COVERAGE WILL CONTINUE ON CBS NEWS, 24/7 LOCAL NEWS AND 9 00:00:18,000 --> 00:00:20,000 TONIGHT WE WILL HAVE A FULL WRAP 10 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:21,000 UP ON THE CBS EVENING NEWS. 11 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:26,000 THANK YOU EVERYONE TO JOIN JOINED 12 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:31,000 US. THIS HAS BEEN A "CBS NEWS" 13 00:01:07,000 --> 00:01:09,000 BREAKING NEWS AT 3:00. A JURY 14 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:10,000 FINDS FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD 15 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:11,000 TRUMP TRUMP GUILTY ON ALL 16 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:12,000 COUNTS IN THE HUSH MONEY TRIAL. 17 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:14,000 GOOD AFTERNOON THAT HISTORIC 18 00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:15,000 VERDICT CAME FROM A MANHATTAN 19 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:18,000 JURY. JUST A SHORT TIME AGO 20 00:01:18,000 --> 00:01:19,000 CBS NEWS REPORTER MICHAEL 21 00:01:19,000 --> 00:01:21,000 GEORGE HAS ALL THE DETAILS FROM 22 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:23,000 NEW YORK. 23 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:25,000 >>DONALD TRUMP IS NOW THE 1ST 24 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:26,000 FORMER PRESIDENT TO BE 25 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:28,000 CONVICTED OF A CRIME. 26 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:32,000 >>WAS A RIGGED DISGRACEFUL. THE 27 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:34,000 REAL VERDICT IS GOING TO BE 28 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:36,000 OVER. 5TH BY THE PEOPLE. 29 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:37,000 >>TRUMP WAS CHARGED WITH 30 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:39,000 FALSIFYING BUSINESS RECORDS IN 31 00:01:39,000 --> 00:01:40,000 CONNECTION WITH MONEY. HIS 32 00:01:40,000 --> 00:01:42,000 FORMER FIXER MICHAEL COHEN 33 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:44,000 PAID TO ADULT FILM STAR STORMY 34 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:46,000 DANIELS AHEAD OF THE 2016 35 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:47,000 ELECTION TO KEEP HER QUIET 36 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:49,000 ABOUT AN ALLEGED SEXUAL 37 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:51,000 ENCOUNTER. PROSECUTORS ARGUED 38 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:53,000 THAT TRUMP REIMBURSED COHEN BUT 39 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:54,000 DISGUISED THE PAYMENTS AS LEGAL 40 00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:56,000 EXPENSES. AMOUNTING TO A 41 00:01:56,000 --> 00:01:57,000 CRIMINAL SCHEME TO CORRUPT THE 42 00:01:57,000 --> 00:01:59,000 ELECTION. 43 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:00,000 >>FOR DONALD TRUMP TODAY 44 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:02,000 >>AS THE PROSECUTION'S STAR 45 00:02:02,000 --> 00:02:04,000 WITNESS, COHEN TESTIFIED. TRUMP 46 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:06,000 PERSONALLY APPROVED THE PLAN TO 47 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:07,000 DISGUISE THE PAYMENTS. COHEN 48 00:02:07,000 --> 00:02:09,000 WHO IS A CONVICTED FELON FACED 49 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:11,000 INTENSE GRILLING BY THE DEFENSE 50 00:02:11,000 --> 00:02:13,000 WHO ATTACKED HIS CREDIBILITY 51 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:15,000 AND HIS MOTIVES. JURORS ALSO 52 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:16,000 GOT TO HEAR FROM STORMY 53 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:18,000 DANIELS, WHO OFFERED GRAPHIC 54 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:19,000 DETAILS ABOUT HER 2006. 55 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:21,000 ENCOUNTER WITH TRUMP WHICH HE 56 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:23,000 DENIES. THE JURY WAS COMPRISED 57 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:26,000 OF 7 MEN AND 5 WOMEN AND 58 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:28,000 INCLUDED 2 LAWYERS AS WELL AS A 59 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:30,000 TEACHER AND A SPEECH THERAPIST. 60 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:32,000 TRUMP MAINTAINS THIS TRIAL. 61 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:33,000 LIKE HIS OTHER CRIMINAL 62 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:34,000 INDICTMENTS. ARE ALL 63 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:36,000 POLITICALLY POLITICALLY MOTIVATED AND THAT HE HAS DONE 64 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:37,000 NOTHING WRONG. 65 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:39,000 >>IT WAS TAKE A LIVE LOOK FROM 66 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:40,000 OUTSIDE THE COURTHOUSE IN 67 00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:41,000 MANHATTAN. THIS IS ACTUALLY THE 68 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:43,000 HIGHWAY THAT THE MOTORCADE 69 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:44,000 THERE AS YOU CAN SEE MR TRUMP 70 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:47,000 IS IN 1 OF THOSE BLACK SUVS 71 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:49,000 THAT JUST LEFT THE COURTHOUSE 72 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:51,000 ABOUT 30 MINUTES AGO AND 73 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:52,000 HERE'S TO TAKE ANOTHER LIVE. 74 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:53,000 LOOK FROM OUTSIDE THE 75 00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:54,000 COURTHOUSE RIGHT NOW. YOU SEE A 76 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:56,000 VERY LARGE POLICE PRESENCE, LOT 77 00:02:56,000 --> 00:02:57,000 OF REPORTERS ARE SURROUNDING 78 00:02:57,000 --> 00:03:00,000 THE AREA AS WELL. HERE'S WHAT 79 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:01,000 THE FORMER PRESIDENT SAID. 80 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:03,000 THERE'S FULL REMARKS AFTER THE 81 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:04,000 VERDICTS WERE READ. TAKE A 82 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:08,000 LOOK. THIS WAS A DISGRACE. YES. 83 00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:10,000 WAS A RIGGED TRIAL BY 84 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:12,000 CONFLICTED JUDGE WHO WAS 85 00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:15,000 CORRUPT. IT'S A RIGGED TRIAL AT 86 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:17,000 THIS GRACE. THEY WOULDN'T GIVE 87 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:20,000 US A VENUE CHANGE. WE WERE 88 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:24,000 FIVE. OR 6 IN THIS DISTRICT IN 89 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:27,000 THIS AREA. YES. THIS WAS A 90 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:30,000 RIGGED DESTROY. TRAIL. THE REAL 91 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:33,000 VERDICT IS GOING TO BE NOVEMBER 92 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:35,000 5TH BY THE PEOPLE. AND THEY 93 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:36,000 KNOW WHAT HAPPENED HERE, AND 94 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:37,000 EVERYBODY KNOWS WHAT HAPPENED 95 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:40,000 HERE. YOU HAVE A SO RESPECT? 96 00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:43,000 THE A AND THE WHOLE THING. WE 97 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:46,000 DIDN'T DO A THING WRONG. VERY 98 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:50,000 INNOCENT MAN. THAT IT'S OK. I'M 99 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:51,000 FIGHTING FOR OUR COUNTRY AND 100 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:53,000 FIGHTING FOR OUR CONSTITUTION. 101 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:55,000 OUR COUNTRY HAS BIG RIG RIGHT 102 00:03:55,000 --> 00:03:57,000 NOW. THIS WAS DONE BY THE 103 00:03:57,000 --> 00:03:59,000 ADMINISTRATION. YOU KNOW? ORDER 104 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:02,000 TO WOULD HURT OPPONENTS 105 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:05,000 POLITICAL OPPONENT. YEAH. IT'S 106 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:07,000 JUST A DISGRACE. KEEP FIGHTING 107 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:09,000 THE FIGHT TILL THE END IT WILL 108 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:11,000 WIN BECAUSE OUR COUNTRY HAS 109 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:13,000 GONE TO .... WE DON'T HAVE THE 110 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:14,000 SAME COUNTRY ANYMORE. WE HAVE A 111 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:17,000 DIVIDED MESS. WE'RE NATION AND 112 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:19,000 DECLINED SERIOUS TO MILLIONS 113 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:20,000 AND MILLIONS OF PEOPLE POURING 114 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:23,000 INTO OUR COUNTRY RIGHT NOW. 115 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:25,000 FROM PRISON. AND FROM MENTAL 116 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:28,000 INSTITUTION. TERRORISTS. AND 117 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:29,000 THEY'RE TAKING OVER OUR 118 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:30,000 COUNTRY. WE HAVE A COUNTRY 119 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:32,000 THAT'S A BIG TROUBLE. BUT THIS 120 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:34,000 WAS A RIGGED DECISION, RIGHT 121 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:36,000 FROM DAY 1. WITH A CONFLICTED 122 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:38,000 JUDGES SHOULD HAVE NEVER BEEN 123 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:40,000 ALLOWED TO TRY THIS CASE. NEVER 124 00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:42,000 AND WE WILL FIGHT FOR OUR 125 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:43,000 CONSTITUTION. THIS IS LONG FROM 126 00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:46,000 OVER. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 127 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:47,000 FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP THEY'RE 128 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:49,000 CALLING THE TRIAL RIGGED AND A 129 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:50,000 DISGRACE. HERE'S ANOTHER LOOK 130 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:52,000 FROM THE FREEWAY JUST NEAR THE 131 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:53,000 COURTHOUSE WHERE THAT IS THE 132 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:54,000 MOTORCADE WHERE FORMER 133 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:56,000 PRESIDENT TRUMP IS IN RIGHT NOW 134 00:04:56,000 --> 00:04:58,000 HE'S IN 1 OF THOSE BLACK SUVS. 135 00:04:58,000 --> 00:05:00,000 UNDERSTANDABLY SO SURROUNDED BY 136 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:02,000 A LOT OF SECURITY AS IS THE 137 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:04,000 COURTHOUSE RIGHT NOW CBS NEWS 138 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:05,000 REPORTER ROBERT COSTA WHO WAS 139 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:06,000 OUTSIDE THE COURTHOUSE, TALKED 140 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:08,000 TO SOMEONE WHO WAS CLOSE TO THE 141 00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:10,000 FORMER PRESIDENT. 142 00:05:10,000 --> 00:05:11,000 >>SAID HE WAS EXPRESSING HIS 143 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:14,000 ANGER. HIS IS FURY ABOUT THIS 144 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:15,000 VERDICT EVEN BEFORE IT WAS 145 00:05:15,000 --> 00:05:16,000 READ, HE WAS PREDICTED TO 146 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:18,000 ASSOCIATES. THAT HE BELIEVED 147 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:20,000 THAT THIS TRIAL WAS A DISASTER 148 00:05:20,000 --> 00:05:21,000 AND THAT HE WAS GOING TO FIGHT 149 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:23,000 IT ALL THE WAY THROUGH APPEAL. 150 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:24,000 HE WAS ALREADY SIGNALING TO 151 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:25,000 SOME OF THE TOP REPUBLICANS IN 152 00:05:25,000 --> 00:05:26,000 THE COUNTRY IN THE PAST HOUR, 153 00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:27,000 THAT REGARDLESS OF WHAT 154 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:29,000 HAPPENED HE WANTED THEM TO BE 155 00:05:29,000 --> 00:05:30,000 WITH HIM. HE BELIEVED THEY 156 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:32,000 WOULD STAND WITH HIM AND HE IS 157 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:34,000 REALLY PREPARING HIS ALLIES. 158 00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:36,000 TELL ME JUST NOW. TO FIGHT THIS 159 00:05:36,000 --> 00:05:38,000 ALL THE WAY INTO USE THIS AS A 160 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:40,000 POLITICAL WEAPON AGAINST 161 00:05:40,000 --> 00:05:41,000 PRESIDENT BIDEN JUSTICE. 162 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:43,000 JUSTICE DEPARTMENT NOT INVOLVED 163 00:05:43,000 --> 00:05:44,000 IN THIS CASE. THIS IS A CASE IN 164 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:45,000 LOWER MANHATTAN. THIS WAS A 165 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:47,000 JURY COMPRISED OF 12, NEW 166 00:05:47,000 --> 00:05:48,000 YORKERS, PEOPLE WHO ARE HIS 167 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:51,000 PEERS IN HIS HOME CITY OF NEW 168 00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:53,000 YORK AT THE SAME TIME, YOU'RE 169 00:05:53,000 --> 00:05:54,000 GOING TO HEAR FORMER PRESIDENT 170 00:05:54,000 --> 00:05:56,000 TRUMP CONSTANTLY USE THIS AS A 171 00:05:56,000 --> 00:05:58,000 REFRAIN THAT HE WAS TARGETED. 172 00:05:58,000 --> 00:06:01,000 BY THIS TRIAL TARGETED BY THIS 173 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:02,000 PROSECUTOR AND HE IS GOING TO 174 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:04,000 USE HIS OWN CHANNELS OF 175 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:05,000 COMMUNICATION. WHETHER IT'S 176 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:07,000 SOCIAL MEDIA. SOME KIND OF 177 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:09,000 RALLY OR SPEECHES OR OTHER 178 00:06:09,000 --> 00:06:10,000 MEANS TO GET HIS MESSAGE OUT 179 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:12,000 THERE WITHOUT FACT, CHECKING 180 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:14,000 AND OFTEN WITHOUT THE BOUNDS OF 181 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:16,000 NORMAL DISCOURSE HOLDING HIM 182 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:17,000 IN, BUT THIS IS AMERICAN 183 00:06:17,000 --> 00:06:19,000 POLITICS TODAY HE HAS HELPED TO 184 00:06:19,000 --> 00:06:21,000 CREATE AND REALLY SPEARHEADED 185 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:23,000 THIS ENVIRONMENT WE ARE IN NOW 186 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:24,000 BUT I KNOW FROM PEOPLE WHO HAVE 187 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:25,000 BEEN WITH HIM IN THE PAST HOUR 188 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:28,000 THAT HE IS FURIOUS AND THAT 189 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:29,000 THIS IS NOT JUST SOMETHING HE'S 190 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:30,000 GOING TO LEAVE TO THE LAWYERS. 191 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:32,000 HE WANTS TO BE OUT FRONT NOW 192 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:33,000 AND THIS COUNTRY IS GOING TO 193 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:36,000 SEE HIM OUT FRONT. ALL SUMMER. 194 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:37,000 >>AND THIS VERDICT SENDING 195 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:38,000 SHOCK WAVES THROUGHOUT THE 196 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:40,000 COUNTRY RIGHT NOW AND MACKOVIC 197 00:06:40,000 --> 00:06:42,000 JOINS ME NOW TRACKING THE LOCAL 198 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:44,000 REACTION TO THE TRUMP VERDICT. 199 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:45,000 AND WHAT ARE PEOPLE SAYING 200 00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:46,000 >>LOCALLY AND ACROSS THE 201 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:48,000 COUNTRY? SOME STRONG OPINIONS 202 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:49,000 REACTION STARTING TO COME, 203 00:06:49,000 --> 00:06:51,000 INCLUDING FROM THE WHITE HOUSE. 204 00:06:51,000 --> 00:06:52,000 SO LET'S TAKE A LOOK 1ST. AT 205 00:06:52,000 --> 00:06:53,000 THAT STATEMENT FROM THE BIDEN 206 00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:54,000 HARRIS CAMPAIGN, IT READS IN 207 00:06:54,000 --> 00:06:56,000 PART IN NEW YORK TODAY WE SAW 208 00:06:56,000 --> 00:06:58,000 THAT NO 1 IS ABOVE THE LAW 209 00:06:58,000 --> 00:07:00,000 DONALD TRUMP HAS ALWAYS 210 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:01,000 MISTAKENLY BELIEVED HE WOULD 211 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:03,000 NEVER FACE CONSEQUENCES. FOR 212 00:07:03,000 --> 00:07:05,000 BREAKING THE LAW FOR HIS OWN 213 00:07:05,000 --> 00:07:06,000 PERSONAL GAIN. BUT TODAY'S 214 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:08,000 VERDICT DOES NOT CHANGE THE 215 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:09,000 FACT THAT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE 216 00:07:09,000 --> 00:07:11,000 FACE A SIMPLE REALITY THERE IS 217 00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:13,000 STILL ONLY 1 WAY TO KEEP DONALD 218 00:07:13,000 --> 00:07:15,000 TRUMP OUT OF THE OVAL OFFICE AT 219 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:17,000 THE BALLOT BOX. EAST BAY 220 00:07:17,000 --> 00:07:18,000 CONGRESSMAN ERIC SWALWELL 221 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:20,000 SAYING ON X DONALD TRUMP IS A 222 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:22,000 CONVICTED FELON. THIS VERDICT 223 00:07:22,000 --> 00:07:24,000 IS NOT A WIN FOR ANY SINGLE 224 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:26,000 PERSON HE SAYS. IT'S A WIN FOR 225 00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:27,000 AN IDEA. THE IDEA THAT WE ALL 226 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:29,000 FOLLOW THE SAME RULES THE RULE 227 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:31,000 OF LAW 1 TODAY. IN SAN 228 00:07:31,000 --> 00:07:32,000 FRANCISCO CITY ATTORNEY DAVID 229 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:34,000 CHU, SAYING TRUMP HAS LONG 230 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:35,000 DISREGARDED THE RULE OF LAW. 231 00:07:35,000 --> 00:07:37,000 BUT TODAY A JURY SENT A CLEAR 232 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:39,000 MESSAGE THAT NO 1 IS ABOVE THE 233 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:40,000 LAW VOTERS ACROSS THE COUNTRY 234 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:41,000 MUST WAKE UP TO THE FACT THAT 235 00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:43,000 TRUMP IS A CONVICTED FELON AND 236 00:07:43,000 --> 00:07:46,000 IS UNFIT FOR OFFICE. ON THE 237 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:47,000 OTHER SIDE OF THE AISLE 238 00:07:47,000 --> 00:07:48,000 REPUBLICAN HOUSE SPEAKER MIKE 239 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:50,000 JOHNSON JUST SAID THAT TODAY IS 240 00:07:50,000 --> 00:07:51,000 A SHAMEFUL DAY IN AMERICAN 241 00:07:51,000 --> 00:07:52,000 HISTORY, HE SAID. DEMOCRATS 242 00:07:52,000 --> 00:07:54,000 CHEERED AS THEY CONVICTED THE 243 00:07:54,000 --> 00:07:56,000 LEADER OF THE OPPOSING PARTY ON 244 00:07:56,000 --> 00:07:59,000 RIDICULOUS CHARGES. PREDICATED 245 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:01,000 ON THE TESTIMONY OF A DISBARRED 246 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:03,000 CONVICTED FELON. HE ADDS. THIS 247 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:05,000 IS A PURELY PEOPLE. POLITICAL 248 00:08:05,000 --> 00:08:08,000 EXERCISE. NOT A LEGAL 1. BUT WE 249 00:08:08,000 --> 00:08:09,000 ARE CONTINUING TOGETHER MORE 250 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:11,000 REACTION HERE LOCALLY AND FROM 251 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:12,000 ACROSS THE COUNTRY. WE'RE GOING 252 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:13,000 TO HAVE MORE FOR YOU ALL 253 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:15,000 AFTERNOON AND EVENING HERE ON 254 00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:17,000 KPX AND CBS NEWS BAY AREA LIST. 255 00:08:17,000 --> 00:08:18,000 >>ALL RIGHT, ANN THANKS SO 256 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:20,000 MUCH CBS NEWS CARRIED THE 257 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:22,000 HISTORIC VERDICT AND A SPECIAL 258 00:08:22,000 --> 00:08:24,000 REPORT IN JUST THE PAST HOUR. 259 00:08:24,000 --> 00:08:25,000 HERE'S THE MOMENT IT ALL CAME 260 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:26,000 DOWN. 261 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:30,000 >>WE ARE GETTING WORD. ON THE 262 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:35,000 1ST COUNT. THAT DONALD TRUMP IS 263 00:08:35,000 --> 00:08:40,000 GIL. NOW. REMEMBER, THERE ARE 264 00:08:40,000 --> 00:08:43,000 34 COUNTS. THAT WE WILL GO 265 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:48,000 THROUGH. COUNT 2. GUILTY. GUY. 266 00:08:49,000 --> 00:08:54,000 COUNT 3. GUILTY. COUNT 4. 267 00:08:54,000 --> 00:08:59,000 GUILTY. COUNT 5 AND 6 GUILTY. 268 00:08:59,000 --> 00:09:04,000 COUNT 7. GUILTY. COUNT 8. 269 00:09:04,000 --> 00:09:09,000 GUILTY. COUNT 9 GUILTY. COUNT 270 00:09:12,000 --> 00:09:17,000 10. GUILTY. COUNT 11 GUILTY. 271 00:09:17,000 --> 00:09:22,000 COUNT 12. GUILTY. COUNT 13 272 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:27,000 GUILTY. COUNT 14. AND 15. 273 00:09:27,000 --> 00:09:29,000 GUILTY. COUNT 16. GUILTY. 274 00:09:29,000 --> 00:09:31,000 REMEMBER. THIS IS A UNANIMOUS 275 00:09:31,000 --> 00:09:32,000 DECISION BY THE JURY ON EACH OF 276 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:34,000 THESE COUNTS COUNTS 17. 277 00:09:34,000 --> 00:09:38,000 GUILTY. COUNT 18 GUILTY. COUNT 278 00:09:38,000 --> 00:09:41,000 19 GUILTY COUNT 20 GUILTY 279 00:09:41,000 --> 00:09:44,000 COUNT. 21 GUILTY. COUNT 22. 280 00:09:44,000 --> 00:09:47,000 GUILTY COUNT 23 GUILTY COUNT 24 281 00:09:47,000 --> 00:09:52,000 GUILTY. COUNT 25. GUILTY COUNT 282 00:09:53,000 --> 00:09:56,000 26 GUILTY COUNT 27 GUILTY COUNT 283 00:09:56,000 --> 00:10:00,000 28 GUILTY 29 GUILTY. 30 GUILTY 284 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:03,000 COUNT 31 GUILTY COUNT 32 GUILTY 285 00:10:03,000 --> 00:10:08,000 COUNT 33 GUILTY COUNT 34. 286 00:10:08,000 --> 00:10:10,000 GUILTY. DONALD TRUMP HAS BEEN 287 00:10:10,000 --> 00:10:14,000 FOUND GUILTY ON ALL COUNTS. OF 288 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:18,000 FALSIFYING BUSINESS. RECORDS. 289 00:10:18,000 --> 00:10:20,000 IN AN ATTEMPT TO COVER UP THE 290 00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:22,000 ALLEGED RELATIONSHIPS. IN THE 291 00:10:22,000 --> 00:10:25,000 NEW YORK HAS SH MONEY TRIAL. 292 00:10:25,000 --> 00:10:26,000 >>AND IT WAS A MOMENT THAT WILL 293 00:10:26,000 --> 00:10:28,000 BE ETCHED IN HISTORY. PEOPLE 294 00:10:28,000 --> 00:10:29,000 EVERYWHERE HERE IN THE BAY AREA 295 00:10:29,000 --> 00:10:31,000 AND AROUND THE WORLD FOR THAT 296 00:10:31,000 --> 00:10:32,000 MATTER ARE REACTING TO THIS 297 00:10:32,000 --> 00:10:34,000 VERDICT. HERE'S WHAT SOME FOLKS 298 00:10:34,000 --> 00:10:37,000 SAID IN NEW YORK TIMES SQUARE. 299 00:10:37,000 --> 00:10:39,000 I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO SAY. I DID 300 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:40,000 NOT THINK THAT THIS WAS 301 00:10:40,000 --> 00:10:42,000 ACTUALLY GOING TO HAPPEN AND I 302 00:10:42,000 --> 00:10:45,000 I'M JUST CAN'T BELIEVE IT. IT'S 303 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:47,000 ABOUT TIME. ACCOUNTABLE FOR 304 00:10:47,000 --> 00:10:49,000 SOMETHING I CAN'T BELIEVE IT. 305 00:10:49,000 --> 00:10:52,000 IT'S AMAZING. SURPRISE. IT'S AN 306 00:10:52,000 --> 00:10:54,000 INCREDIBLE SURPRISE. I REALLY 307 00:10:54,000 --> 00:10:55,000 DIDN'T THINK HE WAS EVER GOING 308 00:10:55,000 --> 00:10:56,000 TO GET HELP TO ACCOUNT FOR 309 00:10:56,000 --> 00:10:59,000 ANYTHING AND THE RETURN. 310 00:10:59,000 --> 00:11:01,000 BURDEN. VERDICT. I'M LIKE I'M 311 00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:03,000 STUNNED. DON'T THINK THAT'S 312 00:11:03,000 --> 00:11:04,000 REALLY TRUE. I MEAN, I DON'T 313 00:11:04,000 --> 00:11:06,000 KNOW HOW THE DETAILS ABOUT HIS 314 00:11:06,000 --> 00:11:09,000 CASE. TRULY THINK HE DIDN'T DID 315 00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:10,000 IT DIDN'T DO IT. MY FAULT 316 00:11:10,000 --> 00:11:14,000 CREATURE. CREATURE. AND I JUST 317 00:11:14,000 --> 00:11:16,000 WANT TO SEE THE TRUTH COME OUT. 318 00:11:16,000 --> 00:11:17,000 AND I JUST WANT TO SEE THE 2 319 00:11:17,000 --> 00:11:20,000 STORIES. INVOLVED. JOINING US 320 00:11:20,000 --> 00:11:22,000 NOW IS SAN JOSE STATE PROFESSOR 321 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:23,000 MELINDA JACKSON. THANK YOU SO 322 00:11:23,000 --> 00:11:25,000 MUCH FOR BEING WITH US. WE'RE 323 00:11:25,000 --> 00:11:27,000 HEARING A LOT OF REACTION. A 324 00:11:27,000 --> 00:11:28,000 LOT OF SHOCK THAT THESE 325 00:11:28,000 --> 00:11:29,000 VERDICTS CAME DOWN THE WAY THAT 326 00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:31,000 THEY DID. WHAT WAS YOUR 327 00:11:31,000 --> 00:11:34,000 REACTION? YES. WELL, I WAS ALSO 328 00:11:34,000 --> 00:11:36,000 VERY SURPRISED THAT WE GOT A 329 00:11:36,000 --> 00:11:38,000 VERDICT SO QUICKLY UM AND I 330 00:11:38,000 --> 00:11:39,000 THINK THE FACT THAT IT WAS 331 00:11:39,000 --> 00:11:42,000 GUILTY ON ALL 34 COUNTS AND 332 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:43,000 THAT IT CAME OUT WITHIN 2 DAYS. 333 00:11:43,000 --> 00:11:46,000 REALLY SPEAKS TO THE STRENGTH 334 00:11:46,000 --> 00:11:48,000 OF OF THE CASE AGAINST TRUMP 335 00:11:48,000 --> 00:11:51,000 THAT THIS JURY, YOU KNOW, IS 336 00:11:51,000 --> 00:11:52,000 REALLY SENDING A STRONG MESSAGE 337 00:11:52,000 --> 00:11:54,000 HERE THAT THERE WAS NO DOUBT IN 338 00:11:54,000 --> 00:11:58,000 THEIR MINDS. UM AND OBVIOUSLY 339 00:11:58,000 --> 00:12:00,000 THE POLITICAL IMPLICATIONS OF 340 00:12:00,000 --> 00:12:04,000 THIS REMAINS TO BE SEEN. BUT 341 00:12:04,000 --> 00:12:06,000 DESPITE ALL OF TRUMP'S CLAIMS 342 00:12:06,000 --> 00:12:09,000 THAT THIS WAS UNFAIR AND HE'S 343 00:12:09,000 --> 00:12:11,000 BEING POLITICALLY TARGETED. IT 344 00:12:11,000 --> 00:12:13,000 IS NEVER HELPFUL FOR SOMEONE TO 345 00:12:13,000 --> 00:12:15,000 BE CAMPAIGNING. AS A CONVICTED 346 00:12:15,000 --> 00:12:17,000 FELON. THERE IS THERE'S REALLY 347 00:12:17,000 --> 00:12:20,000 NO UPSIDE TO THAT. AND I THINK 348 00:12:20,000 --> 00:12:21,000 IT WILL MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN 349 00:12:21,000 --> 00:12:23,000 THE MINDS OF SOME POTENTIAL. 350 00:12:23,000 --> 00:12:24,000 VOTERS WHO ARE NOW GOING TO 351 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:26,000 LOOK AT THIS RACE DIFFERENTLY 352 00:12:26,000 --> 00:12:28,000 IN LIGHT OF THIS VERDICT. AS A 353 00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:29,000 SURPRISE TO NO. 1 THE FORMER 354 00:12:29,000 --> 00:12:31,000 PRESIDENT CAME OUT SAYING THAT 355 00:12:31,000 --> 00:12:33,000 THIS WAS RIGGED AND A DISGRACE. 356 00:12:33,000 --> 00:12:35,000 THIS WHOLE TRIAL WAS RIGGED AND 357 00:12:35,000 --> 00:12:37,000 A DISGRACE. I'M CURIOUS THAT 358 00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:39,000 REACTION AND THAT SORT OF FURY 359 00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:41,000 THAT HE IS MOST LIKELY GOING TO 360 00:12:41,000 --> 00:12:42,000 TAKE WITH HIM THROUGH THE REST 361 00:12:42,000 --> 00:12:44,000 OF THE CAMPAIGN. DO YOU THINK 362 00:12:44,000 --> 00:12:46,000 THAT IS GOING TO HELP HIM IN 363 00:12:46,000 --> 00:12:49,000 THIS RACE? I DON'T THINK SO. A 364 00:12:49,000 --> 00:12:51,000 AND WE'VE HEARD IT BEFORE. YOU 365 00:12:51,000 --> 00:12:52,000 KNOW, HE HAS BEEN MAKING THOSE 366 00:12:52,000 --> 00:12:55,000 CLAIMS FOR UM FOR THE LAST 4 367 00:12:55,000 --> 00:12:58,000 YEARS REALLY? UM AND SO THE 368 00:12:58,000 --> 00:13:01,000 FACT THAT HIS MESSAGE MAYBE 369 00:13:01,000 --> 00:13:04,000 MOSTLY FOCUSED ON HIS OWN 370 00:13:04,000 --> 00:13:07,000 PERCEIVED AND TREATMENT AND 371 00:13:07,000 --> 00:13:09,000 VICTIMHOOD UM, YOU KNOW THAT 372 00:13:09,000 --> 00:13:11,000 THAT IS A STORY THAT UH, THAT 373 00:13:11,000 --> 00:13:14,000 WE'VE ALL HEARD BEFORE. AND 374 00:13:14,000 --> 00:13:16,000 THOSE WHO SUPPORT HIM. I DON'T 375 00:13:16,000 --> 00:13:18,000 THINK IT'S GOING TO CONVINCE 376 00:13:18,000 --> 00:13:19,000 HIM TO SUPPORT HIM ANYMORE. 377 00:13:19,000 --> 00:13:20,000 WHAT HE NEEDS TO BE DOING 378 00:13:20,000 --> 00:13:22,000 THINKING AHEAD TO THE GENERAL 379 00:13:22,000 --> 00:13:23,000 ELECTION IN NOVEMBER. IS 380 00:13:23,000 --> 00:13:25,000 REACHING OUT TO THE PEOPLE WHO 381 00:13:25,000 --> 00:13:27,000 ARE ON THE FENCE WHO ARE NOT 382 00:13:27,000 --> 00:13:29,000 HIS DIEHARD SUPPORTERS AND 383 00:13:29,000 --> 00:13:31,000 TRYING TO WIN THEIR VOTES AND I 384 00:13:31,000 --> 00:13:34,000 DON'T KNOW THAT FOCUSING UM, 385 00:13:34,000 --> 00:13:35,000 YOU KNOW AGAIN ON HIS PERCEIVED 386 00:13:35,000 --> 00:13:37,000 MISTREATMENT IS GOING TO BE A 387 00:13:37,000 --> 00:13:38,000 VERY EFFECTIVE CAMPAIGN 388 00:13:38,000 --> 00:13:40,000 STRATEGY TO REACH OUT TO THOSE 389 00:13:40,000 --> 00:13:42,000 UNDECIDED VOTERS AT THIS YOU 390 00:13:42,000 --> 00:13:43,000 MENTIONED YOU WERE SURPRISED 391 00:13:43,000 --> 00:13:45,000 HOW QUICKLY THE JURY CAME BACK 392 00:13:45,000 --> 00:13:47,000 WITH THEIR VERDICT. I'M CURIOUS 393 00:13:47,000 --> 00:13:49,000 WITH THE EVIDENCE PRESENTED IN 394 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:51,000 COURT. WHY YOU THINK THAT IT 395 00:13:51,000 --> 00:13:53,000 TOOK AS SHORT OR AS LONG AS IT 396 00:13:53,000 --> 00:13:56,000 DID? WELL, IT WAS A COMPLEX 397 00:13:56,000 --> 00:13:58,000 CASE IN TERMS OF YOU KNOW THE 398 00:13:58,000 --> 00:14:01,000 FINANCIAL DETAILS AND YOU KNOW, 399 00:14:01,000 --> 00:14:03,000 JUST SORTING THROUGH ALL OF THE 400 00:14:03,000 --> 00:14:05,000 THE VARIOUS LEGAL UM, YOU 401 00:14:05,000 --> 00:14:09,000 KNOW ASPECTS OF IT, UM AND UH, 402 00:14:09,000 --> 00:14:11,000 YOU KNOW, YOU JUST NEVER KNOW 403 00:14:11,000 --> 00:14:13,000 WITH WITH A JURY TRIAL YOU 404 00:14:13,000 --> 00:14:15,000 KNOW, THAT IS WHY IT IS THE YOU 405 00:14:15,000 --> 00:14:16,000 KNOW THE BACKBONE OF OUR LEGAL 406 00:14:16,000 --> 00:14:18,000 SYSTEM BECAUSE IT REALLY DOES 407 00:14:18,000 --> 00:14:22,000 BRING IN UM ORDINARY ORDINARY. 408 00:14:22,000 --> 00:14:24,000 AMERICANS, TO SIT AND LISTEN TO 409 00:14:24,000 --> 00:14:27,000 THE EVIDENCE AND TO, UM SIFTED 410 00:14:27,000 --> 00:14:30,000 ALL THROUGH AND DISCUSS AND UM 411 00:14:30,000 --> 00:14:31,000 PARTICULARLY AGAIN WITH WITH 412 00:14:31,000 --> 00:14:33,000 THE NUMBER OF COUNTS AND THE 413 00:14:33,000 --> 00:14:35,000 HIGH PROFILE NATURE OF THIS 414 00:14:35,000 --> 00:14:37,000 CASE YOU KNOW? UM, IT WOULD 415 00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:38,000 NOT HAVE SURPRISED ME IF THE 416 00:14:38,000 --> 00:14:40,000 JURY TOOK A LITTLE BIT LONGER 417 00:14:40,000 --> 00:14:42,000 TO REALLY, YOU KNOW THOROUGHLY. 418 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:46,000 UM REEG. EVERYTHING. UM THE 419 00:14:46,000 --> 00:14:48,000 FACT THAT IT WAS SO QUICK AND 420 00:14:48,000 --> 00:14:49,000 THAT THEY ASKED FOR 421 00:14:49,000 --> 00:14:51,000 CLARIFICATION ON A FEW THINGS, 422 00:14:51,000 --> 00:14:52,000 BUT THEY HAD A UNANIMOUS 423 00:14:52,000 --> 00:14:53,000 DECISION WITHIN 2 DAYS MEANS 424 00:14:53,000 --> 00:14:56,000 THAT UM IT SOUNDS LIKE THERE 425 00:14:56,000 --> 00:14:58,000 WASN'T A LOT OF DISAGREEMENT 426 00:14:58,000 --> 00:15:00,000 AMONG THE JURY AND THAT THE 427 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:02,000 PROSECUTION. UM PROVED ITS CASE 428 00:15:02,000 --> 00:15:04,000 EFFECTIVELY. SENTENCING WILL BE 429 00:15:04,000 --> 00:15:06,000 ON JULY 11TH, WHICH IS JUST A 430 00:15:06,000 --> 00:15:07,000 FEW DAYS AWAY FROM THE 431 00:15:07,000 --> 00:15:08,000 REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. 432 00:15:08,000 --> 00:15:10,000 I'M CURIOUS WHAT IMPACT DO YOU 433 00:15:10,000 --> 00:15:13,000 THINK THAT SENTENCING DAY WILL 434 00:15:13,000 --> 00:15:16,000 HAVE ON THE CONVENTION? YEAH, 435 00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:18,000 WELL IT'S HARD TO SAY. I MEAN, 436 00:15:18,000 --> 00:15:19,000 ALL OF THIS IS SO 437 00:15:19,000 --> 00:15:23,000 UNPRECEDENTED. UM AND UH, YOU 438 00:15:23,000 --> 00:15:25,000 KNOW AGAIN IT CAN'T BE GOOD, 439 00:15:25,000 --> 00:15:26,000 RIGHT? WE DON'T KNOW WHAT THE 440 00:15:26,000 --> 00:15:28,000 SENTENCING WILL HOLD. WE EXPECT 441 00:15:28,000 --> 00:15:29,000 THAT THEY'RE GOING TO BE 442 00:15:29,000 --> 00:15:32,000 APPEALS AS WELL. SO, YOU KNOW, 443 00:15:32,000 --> 00:15:34,000 THE NEXT PHASES OF THIS ARE 444 00:15:34,000 --> 00:15:36,000 LIKELY TO TAKE MONTHS AND NOT 445 00:15:36,000 --> 00:15:38,000 BE RESOLVED. BEFORE THE 446 00:15:38,000 --> 00:15:40,000 ELECTION IN NOVEMBER, BUT UM, 447 00:15:40,000 --> 00:15:42,000 AGAIN. IT IS NOT A GOOD NEWS 448 00:15:42,000 --> 00:15:44,000 STORY TO BE SENTENCED FOR A 449 00:15:44,000 --> 00:15:46,000 CRIMINAL CONVICTION, YOU KNOW, 450 00:15:46,000 --> 00:15:49,000 AT THE SAME TIME THAT YOU ARE 451 00:15:49,000 --> 00:15:50,000 RUNNING FOR ANY PUBLIC OFFICE, 452 00:15:50,000 --> 00:15:52,000 UM LET ALONE YOU KNOW, THE 453 00:15:52,000 --> 00:15:54,000 PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, 454 00:15:54,000 --> 00:15:56,000 SO I DO THINK THAT THIS WILL 455 00:15:56,000 --> 00:15:59,000 HAVE A CHILLING EFFECT ON AT 456 00:15:59,000 --> 00:16:01,000 LEAST SOME PEOPLE WHO MAY HAVE 457 00:16:01,000 --> 00:16:02,000 BEEN CONSIDERING VOTING FOR 458 00:16:02,000 --> 00:16:05,000 TRUMP AND WILL NOT BE AS LIKELY 459 00:16:05,000 --> 00:16:07,000 TO DO THAT NOW PROFESSOR 460 00:16:07,000 --> 00:16:08,000 MELINDA JACKSON. THANK YOU SO 461 00:16:08,000 --> 00:16:10,000 MUCH FOR BEING HERE. YOU'RE 462 00:16:10,000 --> 00:16:11,000 WELCOME, BUT WE WILL HAVE 463 00:16:11,000 --> 00:16:12,000 CONTINUING COVERAGE OF THE 464 00:16:12,000 --> 00:16:14,000 TRUMP GUILTY VERDICT IN THE 465 00:16:14,000 --> 00:16:16,000 HUSH MONEY TRIAL. SONOMA STATE 466 00:16:16,000 --> 00:16:17,000 POLITICAL SCIENCE PROFESSOR 467 00:16:17,000 --> 00:16:19,000 DAVID MCEWAN JOINS US LIVE FOR 468 00:16:19,000 --> 00:16:20,000 HIS INSIGHT. WE'LL BE RIGHT 469 00:16:20,000 --> 00:16:25,000 BACK. 470 00:18:26,000 --> 00:18:27,000 Is it possible to be more capable 471 00:18:27,000 --> 00:18:29,000 and more practical? 472 00:18:29,000 --> 00:18:34,000 Be able to perform here 473 00:18:34,000 --> 00:18:36,000 and here? 474 00:18:36,000 --> 00:18:37,000 Make a statement while barely making 475 00:18:37,000 --> 00:18:38,000 a sound and command the world as well as 476 00:18:38,000 --> 00:18:41,000 what lies ahead. 477 00:18:41,000 --> 00:18:45,000 How we get there matters. 478 00:18:45,000 --> 00:18:46,000 Get exceptional offers at your local 479 00:18:46,000 --> 00:18:49,000 Audi dealer. 480 00:18:49,000 --> 00:18:54,000 ♪ ♪ 481 00:19:12,000 --> 00:19:14,000 WE ARE 482 00:19:14,000 --> 00:19:15,000 CONTINUING TO FOLLOW THIS. 483 00:19:15,000 --> 00:19:16,000 BREAKING NEWS. FORMER PREZ DON TRUMP FOUND GUILTY ON ALL 484 00:19:16,000 --> 00:19:17,000 COUNTS AND THE HUSH MONEY TRIAL 485 00:19:17,000 --> 00:19:19,000 IN NEW YORK, MAKING HIM THE 1ST 486 00:19:19,000 --> 00:19:21,000 FORMER PRESIDENT TO EVER BE 487 00:19:21,000 --> 00:19:23,000 CONVICTED OF FELONY CRIMES. 488 00:19:23,000 --> 00:19:24,000 JOINING ME LIVE NOW IS SONOMA 489 00:19:24,000 --> 00:19:25,000 STATE POLITICAL SCIENCE 490 00:19:25,000 --> 00:19:27,000 PROFESSOR DAVID MCEWAN. 491 00:19:27,000 --> 00:19:28,000 PROFESSOR MCEWAN THANK YOU SO 492 00:19:28,000 --> 00:19:30,000 MUCH FOR BEING WITH US. YEAH. 493 00:19:30,000 --> 00:19:31,000 IT'S A PLEASURE TO BE WITH YOU. 494 00:19:31,000 --> 00:19:32,000 THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME GIVE US 495 00:19:32,000 --> 00:19:34,000 SOME PERSPECTIVE ON THE 496 00:19:34,000 --> 00:19:36,000 MAGNITUDE. OF THIS MOMENT. THIS 497 00:19:36,000 --> 00:19:38,000 IS THE 1ST FORMER PRESIDENT TO 498 00:19:38,000 --> 00:19:40,000 BE EVER CONVICTED. OF A CRIME. 499 00:19:40,000 --> 00:19:43,000 HOW HUGE IS THIS IN HISTORY? 500 00:19:43,000 --> 00:19:46,000 IT'S A BIG DEAL. I MEAN, LOOK, 501 00:19:46,000 --> 00:19:47,000 THIS IS A TECTONIC SHIFT IN OUR 502 00:19:47,000 --> 00:19:49,000 POLITICS. IT WAS 50 YEARS AGO 503 00:19:49,000 --> 00:19:51,000 THIS AUGUST, AUGUST 20TH THAT 504 00:19:51,000 --> 00:19:53,000 RICHARD NIXON RESIGNED. THE 505 00:19:53,000 --> 00:19:54,000 PRESIDENCY OF THE UNITED 506 00:19:54,000 --> 00:19:55,000 STATES. AND IN SOME WAYS WE'VE 507 00:19:55,000 --> 00:19:57,000 COME FULL CIRCLE FROM THAT, BUT 508 00:19:57,000 --> 00:19:59,000 THIS IS DRAMATICALLY DIFFERENT. 509 00:19:59,000 --> 00:20:02,000 THIS ISN'T THINKING 68 OR 1974. 510 00:20:02,000 --> 00:20:04,000 IT'S MORE LIKE 1860S. AND THE 511 00:20:04,000 --> 00:20:05,000 STAKES ARE HUGE. WHAT'S GOING 512 00:20:05,000 --> 00:20:07,000 ON IN THE COUNTRY IS MORE THAN 513 00:20:07,000 --> 00:20:08,000 DIVISIVE AND MORE MORE THAN 514 00:20:08,000 --> 00:20:10,000 POLARIZED. IT'S SHAKING FAITH 515 00:20:10,000 --> 00:20:12,000 IN INSTITUTIONS. SO RECOGNITION 516 00:20:12,000 --> 00:20:14,000 OF THE RULE OF LAW IS HUGELY 517 00:20:14,000 --> 00:20:15,000 IMPORTANT. AND AND THAT'S 1 518 00:20:15,000 --> 00:20:17,000 THING WE ELEMENT THAT IS 519 00:20:17,000 --> 00:20:18,000 RELIABLE BECAUSE LEGAL 520 00:20:18,000 --> 00:20:20,000 INSTITUTIONS ARE STRONG, SO 521 00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:22,000 THIS HAS LEGAL ASPECTS. THE 522 00:20:22,000 --> 00:20:23,000 POLITICAL RAMIFICATIONS OF THIS 523 00:20:23,000 --> 00:20:26,000 CASE OF TODAY OF WHAT HAPPENS 524 00:20:26,000 --> 00:20:27,000 IN THE FUTURE WITH SUBSEQUENT 525 00:20:27,000 --> 00:20:28,000 CHARGES OR SUBSEQUENT 526 00:20:28,000 --> 00:20:30,000 DEVELOPMENTS. BUYS HUGELY 527 00:20:30,000 --> 00:20:32,000 POLITICAL THAT REVERBERATES 528 00:20:32,000 --> 00:20:35,000 ASKED. NOVEMBER 5TH AND THIS 529 00:20:35,000 --> 00:20:36,000 HAS HUGE CONSTITUTIONAL 530 00:20:36,000 --> 00:20:38,000 IMPLICATIONS. SO THESE 3 THINGS 531 00:20:38,000 --> 00:20:39,000 LEGAL POLITICAL AND 532 00:20:39,000 --> 00:20:41,000 CONSTITUTIONAL ARE ALL THAT'S 533 00:20:41,000 --> 00:20:43,000 AT STAKE AFTER TODAY'S VERDICT 534 00:20:43,000 --> 00:20:45,000 AND WHAT'S GOING ON, AND DONALD 535 00:20:45,000 --> 00:20:46,000 TRUMP IS FRONT AND CENTER, AND 536 00:20:46,000 --> 00:20:47,000 ALL OF THAT, THAT'S JUST THE 537 00:20:47,000 --> 00:20:48,000 WAY HE'D ACTUALLY LIKE TO HAVE 538 00:20:48,000 --> 00:20:49,000 IT. JUST CLARIFY. WE KEEP 539 00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:51,000 CALLING US THE HUSH MONEY 540 00:20:51,000 --> 00:20:52,000 TRIAL, BUT TO BE CLEAR TO BE 541 00:20:52,000 --> 00:20:53,000 CLEAR HE WAS FOUND GUILTY OF 542 00:20:53,000 --> 00:20:55,000 FALSIFYING BUSINESS RECORDS TO 543 00:20:55,000 --> 00:20:57,000 COVER UP THE PAYOFF. TO A ... 544 00:20:57,000 --> 00:20:59,000 STAR. 34 COUNTS WERE YOU 545 00:20:59,000 --> 00:21:01,000 SURPRISED THAT HE CAME BACK 546 00:21:01,000 --> 00:21:03,000 GUILTY ON ALL 34 COUNTS THIS 547 00:21:03,000 --> 00:21:06,000 QUICKLY. YEAH, IT'S BOTH FAST. 548 00:21:06,000 --> 00:21:08,000 AND THE SENSE THAT THEY AGREED 549 00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:10,000 ON ALL OF THE ELEMENTS BECAUSE 550 00:21:10,000 --> 00:21:11,000 SOME OF THEM ARE RELATED TO 551 00:21:11,000 --> 00:21:12,000 SOME OF THE CHARGES ARE RELATED 552 00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:15,000 TO HIS REVOKABLE TRUST SUMMER 553 00:21:15,000 --> 00:21:17,000 RELATED TO OTHER ENTITIES, AND 554 00:21:17,000 --> 00:21:19,000 SO IT IS A COMPLEX SET OF 555 00:21:19,000 --> 00:21:21,000 BUSINESS PRACTICES. AND A 556 00:21:21,000 --> 00:21:23,000 COMPLEX SET THAT WAS LAID OUT 557 00:21:23,000 --> 00:21:24,000 AND SO GUMMY AND COMING, 558 00:21:24,000 --> 00:21:25,000 EVERYBODY COMING TOGETHER TO 559 00:21:25,000 --> 00:21:27,000 UNDERSTAND THE MINDSET. AND 560 00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:29,000 DOING SO SO QUICKLY READING 561 00:21:29,000 --> 00:21:30,000 BACK TO TESTIMONY, FOR EXAMPLE 562 00:21:30,000 --> 00:21:32,000 OF ... UH AND THEN AND THEN OF 563 00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:33,000 MICHAEL COHEN SIGNALED 564 00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:36,000 YESTERDAY. THAT THINGS WERE 565 00:21:36,000 --> 00:21:37,000 HEADED IN THIS DIRECTION. BUT 566 00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:39,000 ALSO THE CALENDAR IS HUGELY 567 00:21:39,000 --> 00:21:40,000 IMPORTANT HERE BECAUSE YOU KNOW 568 00:21:40,000 --> 00:21:42,000 WE HAVE JUNE 27TH COMING UP. WE 569 00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:45,000 HAVE THE REPUBLICAN CONVENTION 570 00:21:45,000 --> 00:21:46,000 JUST BEFORE JUST AFTER 571 00:21:46,000 --> 00:21:47,000 SENTENCING OCCURS AS YOU 572 00:21:47,000 --> 00:21:49,000 MENTIONED WE HAVE ANOTHER 573 00:21:49,000 --> 00:21:50,000 DEBATE. THE ELECTION ITSELF IS 574 00:21:50,000 --> 00:21:53,000 ONLY 100 58 DAYS AWAY, SO THAT 575 00:21:53,000 --> 00:21:55,000 MEANS DONALD TRUMP IS GOING TO 576 00:21:55,000 --> 00:21:57,000 GO NEGATIVE WAY HE'S GOING TO 577 00:21:57,000 --> 00:21:58,000 HAVE TO DO THIS, AND HE'S GOING 578 00:21:58,000 --> 00:22:00,000 TO HAVE TO ATTACK WHILE THOSE 579 00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:01,000 LEGAL THINGS ARE GOING ON, AND 580 00:22:01,000 --> 00:22:02,000 THAT MEANS EVERYONE KIND OF 581 00:22:02,000 --> 00:22:04,000 STRAPPING AND GET READY. 582 00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:06,000 CURIOUS THAT THIS IS GOING TO 583 00:22:06,000 --> 00:22:08,000 REALLY CHANGE THE CAMPAIGN. 584 00:22:08,000 --> 00:22:09,000 MOVING FORWARD. HOW IS BIDEN 585 00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:10,000 GOING TO REACT TO THIS? HOW 586 00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:13,000 SHOULD HE REACT? YEAH. I MEAN, 587 00:22:13,000 --> 00:22:14,000 YOU SAW ELEMENTS OF THIS WITH 588 00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:16,000 JOE BIDEN KAMALA HARRIS TALKED 589 00:22:16,000 --> 00:22:17,000 AFRICAN TO AFRICAN AMERICAN 590 00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:19,000 VOTERS WHO ARE SO CRITICAL FOR 591 00:22:19,000 --> 00:22:21,000 WHAT HAPPENED. I MEAN, 94% OF 592 00:22:21,000 --> 00:22:22,000 AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN VOTED 593 00:22:22,000 --> 00:22:25,000 FOR JOE BIDEN. IN 2020. THEY 594 00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:26,000 NEED A HUGE TURNOUT OF AFRICAN 595 00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:28,000 AMERICAN VOTERS OVERALL BUT 596 00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:30,000 THEY'VE ALSO SEEN SOME CHANGES 597 00:22:30,000 --> 00:22:32,000 IN LEAKAGE LINKAGE WITH THE 598 00:22:32,000 --> 00:22:34,000 LATINX VOTERS. LATINOS AND 599 00:22:34,000 --> 00:22:35,000 LATINAS, NOT JUST IN FLORIDA 600 00:22:35,000 --> 00:22:37,000 BUT ACROSS THE COUNTRY AND 601 00:22:37,000 --> 00:22:38,000 THEY ARE HUGELY IMPORTANT. AND 602 00:22:38,000 --> 00:22:39,000 SO THE FOCUS FOR THE BIDEN 603 00:22:39,000 --> 00:22:41,000 ADMINISTRATION REALLY NEEDS TO 604 00:22:41,000 --> 00:22:43,000 BE ON WINNING 3 STATES. THOSE 605 00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:44,000 STATES ARE PENNSYLVANIA. 606 00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:45,000 MICHIGAN AND WISCONSIN. THEY 607 00:22:45,000 --> 00:22:47,000 CAN WEATHER LOSSES IN GEORGIA 608 00:22:47,000 --> 00:22:49,000 ARIZONA OR NEVADA AS A RESULT, 609 00:22:49,000 --> 00:22:51,000 BUT THE ELEMENTS OF THOSE 2 610 00:22:51,000 --> 00:22:52,000 GROUPS FOR EXAMPLE AFRICAN 611 00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:55,000 AMERICANS AND LATINOS AND 612 00:22:55,000 --> 00:22:56,000 LATINAS ARE HUGE FOR THE BIDEN 613 00:22:56,000 --> 00:22:57,000 COALITION. THEY HAVE TO 614 00:22:57,000 --> 00:22:59,000 REASSEMBLE THAT WHILE WE HAVE 615 00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:00,000 THIS UP PEOPLE FOR WHAT'S GOING 616 00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:02,000 ON WITH YOUNG PEOPLE, DONALD 617 00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:04,000 TRUMP TAPPED OUT AT ABOUT 46 OR 618 00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:06,000 47%. AND WE KNOW THAT THERE'S 619 00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:08,000 AN ELEMENT OF THE GOP HABITUAL 620 00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:09,000 VOTER THAT WILL NOT VOTE FOR A 621 00:23:09,000 --> 00:23:11,000 CONVICTED FELON. SO WHAT DO 622 00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:13,000 THEY DO? THEY WON'T VOTE FOR JOB. BIDEN DO THEY VOTE FOR 623 00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:14,000 SOMEONE LIKE RFK OR A 3RD 624 00:23:14,000 --> 00:23:16,000 PARTY, OR DO THEY SIT OUT? AND 625 00:23:16,000 --> 00:23:17,000 THAT'S AN IMPORTANT ELEMENT 626 00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:19,000 BECAUSE 93 0 PEOPLE WHO WERE 627 00:23:19,000 --> 00:23:21,000 ELIGIBLE TO VOTE IN 2016 DID 628 00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:23,000 NOT CAST A BALLOT. AND IF 629 00:23:23,000 --> 00:23:24,000 YOU'RE DONALD TRUMP, YOU WANT 630 00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:25,000 FURTHER PEOPLE STAYING HOME. SO 631 00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:26,000 YOU GO NEGATIVE EARLY AND 632 00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:28,000 OFTEN, THIS IS THE START OF 633 00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:30,000 THAT BIG MOMENTUM TO DO THAT, 634 00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:31,000 WITH THE VOTING PUBLIC. JUST 635 00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:32,000 WANT TO REPEAT ONCE AGAIN. 636 00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:34,000 SENTENCING AS IT ON JULY 11 637 00:23:34,000 --> 00:23:35,000 JUST A FEW DAYS AWAY FROM THE 638 00:23:35,000 --> 00:23:37,000 REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION 639 00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:38,000 PROFESSOR DAVID MCEWAN, THANK 640 00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:40,000 YOU SO MUCH. THANK YOU. IT'S 641 00:23:40,000 --> 00:23:42,000 GOOD TO SEE YOU AND WE WILL 642 00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:43,000 HAVE CONTINUING COVERAGE OF THE 643 00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:44,000 TRUMP GUILTY VERDICT IN THE 644 00:23:44,000 --> 00:23:46,000 HUSH MONEY TRIAL. WE'LL BE 645 00:23:46,000 --> 00:23:51,000 RIGHT BACK. 646 00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:53,000 - Lift the clouds off of... - Virtual 647 00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:58,000 Weather, only on KPIX and Pix+. 648 00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:14,000 (♪) I'm getting vaccinated with 649 00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:18,000 Pfizer's pneumococcal pneumonia vaccine. 650 00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:19,000 So am I. Because I'm at risk for 651 00:24:19,000 --> 00:24:23,000 pneumococcal pneumonia. Come on. 652 00:24:23,000 --> 00:24:24,000 I already got a pneumonia vaccine, 653 00:24:24,000 --> 00:24:25,000 but I'm asking about the added protection 654 00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:28,000 of Prevnar 20®. If you're 19 or 655 00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:31,000 older with certain chronic conditions 656 00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:32,000 like asthma, diabetes, COPD, or 657 00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:35,000 heart disease or are 65 or older 658 00:24:35,000 --> 00:24:36,000 you are at increased risk for 659 00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:37,000 pneumococcal pneumonia. Prevnar 660 00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:40,000 20® is approved in adults to 661 00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:41,000 help prevent infections from 20 662 00:24:41,000 --> 00:24:42,000 strains of the bacteria that 663 00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:44,000 cause pneumococcal pneumonia. 664 00:24:44,000 --> 00:24:45,000 In just one dose. Don't get Prevnar 665 00:24:45,000 --> 00:24:46,000 20® 666 00:24:46,000 --> 00:24:47,000 if you've had a severe allergic 667 00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:49,000 reaction to the vaccine or its 668 00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:50,000 ingredients. Adults with weakened 669 00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:52,000 immune systems may have a lower 670 00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:54,000 response to the vaccine. The 671 00:24:54,000 --> 00:24:55,000 most common side effects were pain 672 00:24:55,000 --> 00:24:56,000 and swelling at the injection site, 673 00:24:56,000 --> 00:24:58,000 muscle pain, fatigue, headache, 674 00:24:58,000 --> 00:25:00,000 and joint pain. I want to be able 675 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:01,000 to keep my plans. I don't want to 676 00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:03,000 risk ending up in the hospital with 677 00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:04,000 pneumococcal pneumonia. That's why 678 00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:07,000 I chose Prevnar 20®. Ask your 679 00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:10,000 doctor or pharmacist about the Pfizer vaccine for pneumococcal 680 00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:15,000 pneumonia. 681 00:26:54,000 --> 00:26:56,000 LIVE PICTURES JUST 682 00:26:56,000 --> 00:26:57,000 OUTSIDE THE COURTROOM IN 683 00:26:57,000 --> 00:26:58,000 MANHATTAN. THERE, YOU SEE IT. SWARM OF REPORTERS AND SECURE 684 00:26:58,000 --> 00:26:59,000 THERE. STILL AND WE ARE CONTINUING TO FOLLOW THE 685 00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:00,000 BREAKING NEWS OF THE TRUMP 686 00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:01,000 VERDICT AND MORE REACTIONS JUST 687 00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:03,000 COMING INTO OUR NEWSROOM. YEAH. 688 00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:05,000 IT'S VERY SAD DAY FOR AMERICA. 689 00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:06,000 YEAH. ANOTHER WAY BECAUSE 690 00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:07,000 BECAUSE THIS IS POLITICAL 691 00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:11,000 PROSECUTION AND ABSOLUTELY NOT. 692 00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:14,000 BEHIND THIS CASE. AND I HOPE 693 00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:19,000 THEY FEEL IT. AGAIN. THE JURY 694 00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:20,000 AND FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD 695 00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:21,000 TRUMP'S SO CALLED HUSH MONEY 696 00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:23,000 TRIAL IN NEW YORK HAS FOUND HIM 697 00:27:23,000 --> 00:27:25,000 GUILTY ON ALL 34 COUNTS. HE IS 698 00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:27,000 THE 1ST FORMER PRESIDENT IN THE 699 00:27:27,000 --> 00:27:28,000 UNITED STATES HISTORY TO BE 700 00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:31,000 CONVICTED OF FELONY CRIMES THAT 701 00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:32,000 VERDICT HANDED DOWN IN THE 702 00:27:32,000 --> 00:27:34,000 MANHATTAN COURTROOM WHERE TRUMP 703 00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:39,000 HAS BEEN ON TRIAL FOR THE PAST 704 00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:38,000 ( ♪ ) You made a cow! Actually it's 705 00:28:38,000 --> 00:28:39,000 a piggy bank. My inspiration to 706 00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:42,000 start saving. 707 00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:45,000 How about a more solid way to save? 708 00:28:45,000 --> 00:28:46,000 I'm listening. Well, BMO helps get 709 00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:48,000 your savings habit into shape with 710 00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:50,000 a cash reward every month you save. 711 00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:51,000 Both: Cash reward? 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OF FOR PRESIDENT DONALD 720 00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:21,000 TRUMP, MUCH MORE ON THE CBS EVENING NEWS NEXT 721 00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:26,000 ON KPX. 722 00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:29,000 >> Norah: TONIGHT, THE 723 00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:30,000 BREAKING NEWS. 724 00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:32,000 DONALD TRUMP GUILTY IN THE 725 00:30:32,000 --> 00:30:33,000 SO-CALLED HUSH MONEY CRIMINAL TRIAL. 726 00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:35,000 ON THE FIRST COUNT, DONALD TRUMP 727 00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:38,000 IS GUILTY. 728 00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:41,000 COUNT TWO, GUILTY. 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