from judge juan merchan, quote, it is an actual doubt, not an imaginary doubt. it is a doubt of reasonable person, acting in a matter of this importance would be likely to entertain because of the evidence presented or the lack of convincing evidence. so, will the jury find donald trump guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, and if so, will they be convinced on all 34 counts. we could find out any moment, joining us now, nbc news national correspondent, yasmin vossoughian who's outside of that new york city courthouse for us. also with us is former assistant district attorney in manhattan and msnbc legal analyst, catherine christian, former assistant district attorney of the manhattan d.a.'s office, daniel horowitz, and former federal prosecutor and criminal defense attorney, duncan levin. when i was in the overflow room, i could donald trump, the prosecution, the defense, the judge, the woman playing the michael cohen and david pecker roles, reading back the testimony. i could not see the jury. what insight do we have about the jury and what they were doing this mor

you have judge juan merchan. you have the witness stand to the left of judge juan merchan, if he's looking out to the courtroom. then to the left of that witness stand is the jury box. there's 12 jurors. this is a jury who has been very focused in on the judge, who seems to respect this judge, who follows his lead as well. throughout these jury instructions being given, this jury is taking notes it seems for the most part throughout these jury instructions, and again, just a reminder. i know i've said this at the top of the show, i know you've talked about it repeatedly. any questions they have throughout these deliberations, they can ask the judge in which the judge will call in the prosecution and the defense to answer these questions, depending on what the question is about. they are in fact taking notes. they are tuned in despite the fact they had a very long day yesterday with about 30 minutes to go with these jury instructions, guys. >> and please keep us posted. i'll read right now they just mentioned mich

. >> reporter: judge juan merchan, who held trump in criminal content ten times, fining him $10,000 during the trial, has said if trump violates the order again, he'd risk going to jail. trump attacked him, too, calling him a devil and a tyrant. it will be merchan who sentences the former president on july 11th, just four days before he's set to accept the republican nomination for president. >> david: let's bring in rachel scott with us in new york. rachel reported on what donald trump said today, going after the judge. we should point out, this is the very judge who will decide trump's fate in a matter of weeks? >> it is, david. the sentencing is set for july 11th, four days before the republican national convention. it will be up to judge juan merchan to decide whether the former president gets prison time, home confinement, probation, or fines. tonight, so many are questioning why the former president would go after the very judge who's ultimately responsible for deciding his fate.

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 th

just moments before jurors signaled they had 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 being a convicted felon? >> 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: and outside court -- >> guilty! >> guilty, yes! >> reporter: -- cheers could be heard in the crowd as news of trump's conviction spread. >> guilty! >> yeah! >> reporter: the trial lasting seven weeks. 22 witnesses taking the stand including trump's former fixer and lawyer, michael cohen, whose trump's defense team called the greatest liar of all time. cohen late to

judge juan merchan said as you deliberately cannot consider the sentence and they can only consider the facts and the evidence at trial today injured in the courthouse, donald trump said this is election interference and you blamed president joe biden for bringing this case and other cases against him. if he is convicted of the prosecution could request a dollar from get locked up until his sentencing hearing, but that is considered unlikely, considering that this is a nonviolent defense and that donald trump does not have a criminal history by trump's lawyers could request lifting the gaggle order after the sisett and undone so it publicly responded to the charges that have been laid out in this trial -- gag. we're waiting minute by minute on an update for this note, but right now we don't have any answers quite yet. >> shannon: very much appreciate that, we will keep checking in. as a judge said we will find out if there is a notice that comes from the jury or juror, we will hear what they have to save asking questions or telling the judge that came to some kind of decision. we will s

there was no warning but it did seem that judge juan merchan was a little bit frustrated. i do not think that there is any possibility of trump being jailed, in part because the prosecution did not request it. but, we will see. i think it seems likely that a few more violations might be in trumps future. >> incarceration is something the judge laid out in his last order. who can actually know what lies in donald trump's future. duncan levin, anna bauer, thank you for your time and wisdom on this topic. >>> we have a lot more to get to tonight, including ongoing attempts by republicans to whitewash january 6th and new efforts to subvert the next election. >>> first, president biden weighs in on protests on campuses across the country. new york congressman jamaal bowman joins me to discuss the president's remarks and what democrats need to do. that is coming up next. next. dh a replacement you can trust. >> vo: schedule free mobile service now at safelite.com. ♪ safelite repair, safelite replace. ♪ liberty mutual customized my car insurance and i saved hundreds. that's great

this is the first time judge juan merchan has vocalized that the threat of jail to trump.t loud in open court and if the prosecutors brought another alleged violation to his bench and he heard it, he found another violation, he threw down the gauntlet. if he doesn't throw trump in jail, he would look entirely like a paper tiger and trump got that message and it was evident in the press conferences during the proceedings and after the proceedings of the day. >> andrew, when we hear jail, we are all thinking rikers island, sending a former president to rikers island with a secret service detail, we could hear and what the judge said from the bench that he is concerned with the things i have wondered about, which is how does the secret service do this? how do the local officials handle it, how do they interact, how does it work? in real, practical terms, what are the options that the judge has that could involve some measure of incarceration without necessarily it being rikers island? >> leaving aside that he could just say, as judge engoron has suggested and ryan goodman has

cohen is a liar, that he would have a hard time fooling 12 new yorkers in that jury box, judge juan merchan instructing them even in the end, through jury instructions agreed upon by both the prosecution and the defense, that the jurors could not find the former president guilty. based solely on the testimony of michael cohen, that they must have corroborating evidence to the magnitude that would allow them to find the president, the former president, guilty on all 34 counts in a new york city courtroom here late today. josh einiger of our station, wabc-tv here in new york, channel seven, of course, that team doing extraordinary work, trying to cover this day in and day out as well. josh, you were in the courtroom. describe the moment the jurors walked in and the former president's reaction to that verdict. >> yeah. so, david, it was it's hard to overstate the wild shifts in the atmosphere in that courtroom over the course of really just a few minutes. i'll actually start a few minutes before that, which is when the judge called all the parties back to the courtroom at around 415, when the

that's his job, and it's an open question whether in the event of a conviction juan merchan is going to sentence donald trump to time in prison, but ultimately, it is not a consideration that the jury is supposed to take into account, and todd blanche, a former prosecutor, knows that. >> harry, it is not lost on me that todd blanche took that chance, probably because donald trump wanted him to, with even

president trump already find $9,000 for violating a gag order, could be penalized again as judge juan merchan this morning considered four additional violations. >> this judge is totally conflicted. has me under an unconstitutional gag order. >> reporter: prosecutors cited several examples, including this come about future witness michael cohen. >> got caught lying in the last trial. >> reporter: on the stand today, stormy daniels a former attorney keith davidson who negotiated $130,000 payment from cohen to pay stormy daniels forr story before the election. >> and you have sex? >> yes. >> reporter: the night trump won, writing, what have we done? howard replied, oh, my god. asked to clarify the text, davidson told the attorney there is an understanding their activity might have assisted trump's campaign. trump has denied any wrongdoing and details about the payment, so today, the prosecution played an audio recording, in which rafah until davidson hates the fact we did it. davidson testified that was a reference to the payment for daniels. trump lawyers meanwhile tried to paint davidson is a

but in those moments, judge juan merchan would say, objection sustained. stormy, listen to -- he would say listen to the question, please, and answer the question. just stick to the answer. and after he did that repeatedly, it seemed as if the jury became more disinterested in her testimony during direct. and then they became refocused between during cross examination and much of that period was also when they were talking about what happened between 2006 and then, of course, 2016 when michael cohen and keith davidson then made contact in the payoff scheme began to go down. so, during that period in which they walked through kind of the play by play of 2006, to 2016, the jury seemed to kind of lose interest. i think much of it was taking kind of cues from judge juan merchan who seemed annoyed with her testimony. >> lisa, what would be your judgment of how the day progressed for stormy daniels as a witness, and also those moments yasmin was talking about when the defense did object? were they frequent? because outside, we were as we were narrating what you

judge juan merchan and lawyers on both sides hashing out how he will instruct the jurors about the law before they start deliberating. it's a complicated case. trump accused of falsifying business records to cover up a hush money deal with porn star stormy daniels to keep their alleged sexual tryst from voters in the days before the 2016 election. judge merchan saying, "we want to make it as easy as possible for the jury." both sides argued over a myriad of issues. prosecutors insisting the jury should be told they can convict trump even though he didn't personally doctor any business records himself, leaving it instead to acown taints and bookkeepers. the defense team pushing back on that. trump's lawyer emil bove asking the judge to tell the jury, "hush money is not illegal." prosecutor matthew colangelo fired back, though, "what the defense is asking is for you to make their argument for them." when the conference wrapped up, judge merchan telling the lawyers he will take it all under consideration and provide them his jury instructions by thursday to help them as they prepare to de

. >> la sentencia del juez juan merchan podria ser desde una multa hasta una pena de prision de entre y cuatro anos. >> vamos de inmediato a las afueras de la torre trump, residencia y edificio del exmandatario en manhattan. >> en manhattan. >> ahi esta cristina londono. >> cristina, es la primera conferencia de prensa que da trump y reacciona a este v veredicto en un discurso donde de nuevo pone en tela de juicio este proceso como ya lo habia hecho con anterioridad. >> octavio, el expresidente hablo expresidente hablo ayer despues del veredicto brevemente en la corte, pero vez que convoca medios de prensa para dar su lado. >> recordemos que el llevaba cuatro de los cinco dias de la semana sentado entonces ese discurso fue un poco desorganizado y hablo de todo, hizo un discurso de campana, pero tambien dio una especie de argumentos finales, dio su propia defensa, explico lo que habia que habia pasado, dice que el en ningun momento falsifico momento falsifico documentos, asegura que fue un error de contaduria porque su contadora puso los pagos a michael cohen como pagos legales, despue

akey instruction from judge juan merchan to the jury reads "if payment would have been made in absencecandidacy, i should not be treated as contribution". remember, testifying that trump worried a very much about his wife's reaction to the stoning me daniels story resurfacing, it testifying he requested the newspapers do not be delivered to their private residence. if jury finds that trump made a payment to protect his wife, it would not be a fica violation. >> mr. trump: mother teresa cannot beat these charges be! these charges are rig, this whole thing is rigged. >> as owners following it minute by minute here the newest information, the judge is reading the notes back to the jury right now, we should be getting more information here shortly. a lot of people wondering what happens if donald trump is found guilty, new york caps the maximum sentence for those evil of funneling it for 20 years in prison but given the fact that donald trump is no conal history and nonviolent funds, legal analyst say present time is unlikely in this case -- criminal. >> niel: just to clarify, when you tal

judge juan merchan calling a brief recess as she walked out to compose herself.. when she returned, a brief and gentle cross examination. hicks spoke glowingly of trump, saying “i don't think he wanted anyone in his family to be hurt or embarrassed by anything that was happening in the campaign.” when she finished, trump turning to watch as hicks exited the courtroom, and after, this was all he had to say about her testimony. >> i was -- i was very interested in what took place today. >> reporter: hope hicks gave the jury a lot to think about. michael cohen, who will soon take his place here at the witness table, and she said that michael cohen often went rogue and was only trump's fixer because he first broke things. but when trump told her that cohen paid stormy daniels out of the kindness of her own heart,

. >> reporter: tonight, judge juan merchan putting donald trump on notice. if the former president violates the gag order one more time, he could be thrown in jail. trump, today, held in criminal contempt for a tenth time for publicly criticizing the jury. he was slapped with yet another $1,000 fine, the maximum allowable, but the judge today acknowledging these fines "are not serving as a deterrent," and warned, "going forward, this court will have to consider a jail sentence." judge merchan addressing trump directly -- "the last thing i want to do is put you in jail," he said. "you are the former president of the united states, and possibly the next president as well. at the end of the day, i have a job to do." outside court, trump defiant. >> our constitution is much more important than jail. it's not even close. i'll do that sacrifice any day. >> reporter: jurors today for the first time seeing the documents at the heart of this case. trump accused of illegally falsifying business records to cover up a hush money payment to porn star stormy daniels, to k

and when judge juan merchan upheld those objections, costello audibly reacting from the witness standd one time. “ridiculous,” he mumbled under his breath. the judge, furious, sending the jury out of the room. addressing costello directly. “if you don't like my ruling, you don't give me side-eye and you don't roll your eyes. do you understand that?" costello glared at him. "are you staring me down?” the judge asked. and then, that dramatic move. judge merchan clearing the courtroom. sending everyone out into the hallway. when the trial resumed, costello back on the stand. prosecutors beginning their cross-examination. he'll be back on the stand tomorrow, but tonight, before court adjourned for the day, trump's lawyer asking judge merchan to dismiss the case. >> hopefully the motion to dismiss this trial will go through, because this trial is a disaster for our country. >> reporter: no immediate ruling from the judge. but when the defense argued the jury shouldn't even consider testimony from michael cohen, the judge was skeptical, say, "you think he's going to fool 12 new yorkers?" da

i think that juan merchan would do himself and do the state and city a great service by doing what everybody knows should be done and so we'll go in and we'll have another little scrub in a little while. it should end a little early today. we appreciate you suffering with us. you have been with us for approximately as you see it, the press outside -- it's not a very big thing for us, people want to get out there and you have all police. the only people they let out there is the radical left l lun lunatics, put out people four or five blocks away. that doesn't matter. what matters is what's going on in this courthouse. so thank you very much. we'll be back a little bit later. thank you. [shouted questions] >> bill: always interesting to see the posse who joins him in court and this is a whole new cast of characters today. eric schmitt, and looked like pam bondi and matt whitaker.

brian, there are clearly many factors for judge juan merchan to consider. there are wolf donald trump's age and his status as a first-time offender are among the factors that judge more merchan will be weighing tonight. we have new information on the many possible forms of punishment the judge could impose from here tonight, donald trump's legal team has just a few weeks to come up with their best argument for why he shouldn't go to jail july 11 is his sentencing date before then, the former president is likely to have to go through pre-sentencing interviews with probation officers where he'd have to give personal information when judge juan merchan does let's level the sentence. he has a few options. the most serious one prison time, the crimes for which trump's been convicted, falsifying business records could carry sentences of up to four years each. but realistically, it's unlikely that someone convicted of this type of felony in new york with no prior criminal history would see much, if any prison time. >> trump's advanced age experts say would also be

with juan merchan, this is of course, look, the trial is over.not going to get them removed at this point. and the courts rightly are keeping him there. but he has already gone back to the 2016 play book of saying juan merchan, of course. he is unfair. look where he came from. i mean, and it is all that sort of dog whistle and megaphone on what he means. it is really something where it is very hard to sit here and sort of have a logical dispassionate conversation because you are not really dealing with something where they are playing on that playing field. >> judge merchan, born in south america, columbia. his family came to the united states. he worked his way through school on the low level jobs someone would have to get in new york city to work his way through school and i have to say, i have never seen a better presiding judge in trial. i have seen judges as good. i mean, it is not unusual for judges to be that good. it is hard to think of a trial judge under more pressure than what he has been under, unique pressure that no other judge has

no it wouldn't the gag order carves out alvin bragg and judge juan merchan.aughter's part of the gag order for understanding but judge juan merchan can be criticized what trump said last night by staying away from witnesses and witness testimony i think he's a definitely within the buoys of his -- what i believe to be an unconstitutional gag order. jon: why is judge juan merchan's daughter covered with a gag order? >> nobody knows. because a judge juan merchan's s profile encourage she's currently raising money off of the case on daddy's docket. any criticism of her for some reason -- the reason you have a gag order is to protect the integrity of the proceedings inside the courtroom. his daughter is not a party, not a witness, not an issue in this case. yet he is for whatever reason has decided to protect her. it really does go to it president trump assange at the rally and not a political analyst but there is a permissive bias here that we have seen throughout the proceedings and certainly this trial as it relates to judge merchan trump did the right thing b

but judge juan merchan rejecting that request. "this is not a case about sex," argued defense attorney todd blanche. "the nda was entered. whether it happened or not has nothing to do with the charges in this case." trump's lawyer objecting to daniels' detailed description of her alleged fling with trump. but prosecutor joshua steinglass insisting the details "corroborate that the sex happened." "you know who knew what happened in that room? mr. trump knew," steinglass said. "that was mr. trump's motive to silence this woman in 2016." judge merchan telling trump's lawyers, bottom line, "you denied that there was ever a sexual encounter between stormy daniels and the defendant. your denial puts the jury in a position to decide who they believe." >> david: let's bring back in aaron katersky at the courthouse again tonight. stormy daniels on the stand for seven hours over two days. you were studying the jurors. how did they react? did they react at all? >> reporter: jury was captivated, david, as stormy daniels sparred with defense a

this is a jury tainted by a judge juan merchan, who has been anything but fair. democrats have weaponized your system of justice. sythey have shred your constitution in the process. and just imagine for a second if a deep blue, deep red state like, let's say wyoming, idaho, i don't know, alabama cooked up a felony charge against barack obama. they used novel legal theory, te then tried the case before a judge who donated to donald trump. and on top of that dumb cinder blocks on the scales of justicet and pretty much let the prosecution sa lety anything they want even accuse the the defendant of a crime he's not o accused of or constantly say broke the lantly sw when. been a in fact, that should not have been admissible. you think that would sit well, the democratic party in the mob and the media? i don't think so. but tonight, some good news. if trump is convicted, this thi case will gos ca to appealin t and trump will, in the end win. and if he is elected, he will have an important opportunity to restore america'sl have systn of justice. and you know what? i don

a lot of what judge juan merchan is doing is reversible.f i was in that courtroom those lawyers would have been at my sidebar as soon as stormy daniels -- >> martha: he is not a muscular judge in terms of, it yesterday at 1 point he said they should have objected more. >> they objected to every question. they objected to the witness. what he's doing their martha he's blaming the defence. he knows and he is saying to the higher court they didn't object all you have to do is read the transcript they objected. they are covered totally on that. >> martha: thank you so much we will see you on the 5. great to see you great coverage today. as we monitor the new york trial for donald trump, you can see the latest madeleine westerhout testifying donald trump had things brought to his attention. back-and-forth on checks that were signed and sent to new york and doing business here with his former assistant. but, you know, we are watching this remarkable turn of events and other legal battles have some hearing that maybe the president couldn't escape

this was a dream come true for juan merchan. he never tried to hide his bias. rchan coddled the prosecution, allowed rampant speculation, irrelevant, immaterial smears against donald trump. he all but encourage the m prosecution to mislead the jury and insinuate that michael cohen's election crimes were tied to this case. he should be viewed as an accessory to the trump crimes before the conviction. that happened earlier today. very different story with the defence. merchan actually blocked testimony from an election law expert. former head of the fec, he paraded trump's team and theirde key witnesd s in front of the jury.e ju he rejected nearly every objection made by the defence, yet tempted to silence donald trump with what was a clearlync unconstitutional gag order andea perhaps worst of all, his jurywe instructions were completelyllin unconstitutional, telling jurors he didn't need n to agree on wht the phantom law was or...yi as long as they agreed he did something wrong, that was enough for a conviction. according to juan merchan, itse did not need to be

. >> reporter: the jurors were given strict instructions by judge juan merchan, to set aside any opinions bias in reaching their verdict. he laid out each of the 34 counts trump faces and pointed to documents related to the payments to stormy daniels. 11 invoices from michael cohen, 11 checks, nine of them signed by trump, and 12 entries in the trump organization's. the prosecutor say those were% reimbursement for hush money. trump's lawyers say they were legal expenses. if convicted, judge merchan could sentence trump to serve up to four years in prison, or impose a sentence of probation with no jail time. how long could these deliberations last? >> there is no real telling. there's 34 charges here, so they have to come up with a verdict on each of these charges, so it could take a while to get >> reporter: to find trump guilty, the jury would have to unanimously decide he acted personally, or with others, to falsify business records, and that he did so with an intent to defraud, while also intending to aid or conceal another crime. >> i predict that they would spend most of the day tomo

judge juan merchan walking jurors through each of the 34 counts mr. trump faces for allegedly falsifying his business records to cover up michael cohen's payoff of a porn star on the eve of the 2016 election, which mr. trump denies. the charge, normally a misdemeanor, raised to a low-level felony here because prosecutors argue they allegedly doctored records that were meant to cover up another crime, in this case a conspiracy to promote mr. trump's candidacy in 2016 through, quote, unlawful means. at trial prosecutors raised possible violations of multiple other laws that could qualify as those unlawful means including campaign finance violations mr. trump was never charged with. the judge instructing the jury today to reach a guilty verdict, they need not be unanimous about which unlawful means triggers that felony, a major advantage for prosecutors. >> it's a disgrace and i mean mother teresa could not beat these charges. we'll see. i just want to say it's a very unfair trial. >> reporter: the jury asking for a readback from the very first witness,

judge juan merchan denied the motion but acknowledge some things would have been better left unsaid. >> eight case totally falling apart. they have nothing on records and even some thing that should bury very little relationship to the case. >> reporter: meanwhile trump lawyers right went right at stormy daniels credibility and motivation. with several top exchanges, including one where daniels acknowledged she hates trump. >> norah: and robert, i do need to ask you about a separate trial involving that classified documents. what have we learned today about that trial? >> reporter: norah, a stunning development late today. florida federal judge aileen cannon has now decided to indefinitely postpone that classified documents trial that was looming on the horizon for the former president, raising a real question about whether trump will ever face a trial on

escuchen lo que le dijo "guarda silencio o te vas preso", asÍ de firme se puso el juez juan merchan,lta de 1000 $ por una violaciÓn pendiente de esa orden mordaza. borja: aquÍ en la gran manzana ha entrado la cuarta semana del juicio penal contra el expresidente, donald trump y va a continuar los testimonios en el que se espera la intervenciÓn de testigos claves. nos conectamos en este momento con peggy carranza, en vivo desde el bajo manhattan, Última hora, adelante, buenas tardes. peggy: hola. buenas tardes. asÍ es, el expresidente, donald trump se encuentra en problemas, luego de que el juez juan merchan lo encontrÓ en desacato por 10 vez, lo que implica esta multa de 1000 $, ya Él habÍa pagado unas sanciones de 9000 $ por otra nueve violaciones a esta orden mordaza que le impide hablar del jurado y de testigos. mientras tanto, les digo loue dijo el juez merchan "lo Último que quiero hacer es meterlo en la cÁrcel, pero al final del dÍa tengo un trabajo que hacer, parte de ese trabajo es proteger la dignidad del sistema de justicia". en ese momento, trump negÓ con su cabeza dos vec

but costello's behavior irking judge juan merchan, who briefly paused testimony to admonish the witness. laura jarrett with more on today's legal fireworks. >> reporter: tonight former president trump's defense team launching a fiery start to its case, taking direct aim at the credibility of star prosecution witness michael cohen, calling robert costello, a former federal prosecutor and attorney for rudy giuliani, who advised cohen before a falling out. costello describing cohen as, quote, manic at a 2018 meeting after cohen's home and office were raided by the fbi. while cohen is now implicating mr. trump in an alleged crime, costello testifying cohen told him back then, "i swear to god, bob, i don't have anything on donald trump." directly refuting cohen's testimony that mr. trump directed him to pay off stormy daniels before the 2016 election. "michael cohen said numerous times that president trump knew nothing about those payments and that he did this on his own," costello testifying. the judge repeatedly sustaining prosecution objections leading to a heated scolding of costello aft

stu, just last week the new york appellate division upheld judge juan merchan's decision to not recuse. stuart: we got it, thanks very much, indeed. trump's supporters standing outside the new york courthouse have been blasting this ongoing trial. ing watch this. >> this is damaging the american legal system -- [inaudible conversations] >> listen, on this level -- [inaudible] >> never mind trump, it's damaging the country. >> you know, i was a democrat, you know? but, you know, i had to research and start seeing things, and i started to come to -- [inaudible] and said, nah, this guy, trump, you don't have to agree with him on everything, but one thing he say you do agree with, he love the take care of the people, he love people. stuart: all right. we're joined by congresswoman claudia tenney there from upstate new york. you're an attorney. does this trial damage the reputation of new york's judicial system? >> not only new york's judicial system, it is the a indictment of of the system when we are allowing people like alvin bragg and this judge to carry on as they are. look, i'm admitt

and judge juan merchan agreed. so with the former president staring straight ahead, and the jury watching intently, daniels describing in explicit detail her alleged fling with trump. something he says never happened. she told the jury they met at a golf tournament back in 2006, and she was invited to have dinner with trump in his hotel suite. when she arrived, she said trump was in “silk or satin pajamas.” “i told him to go change,” she said, “and so he obliged very politely.” she said they talked for two hours. he told her she reminded him of his daughter, ivanka. and revealed that he and melania trump slept in separate bedrooms. she told him to stop interrupting, saying, “are you always this rude? are you always this arrogant and pompous?” at one point, she said she went to the bathroom, and when she came out, she testified trump was on the bed in “his boxer shorts and t-shirt.” daniels said she was “startled”" wondering to herself, “oh my god, what did i misread?” she then testified in graphic detail about havi

la sentencia del juez juan merchÁn podrÍa ser desde una multa hasta una pena de prisiÓn de entre 18 mesesl ex mandatario pidiÓ la nulidad del juicio. el mismo trump arremetÓo contra el proceso describiÉndolo como una vergÜenza al salir de la corte. >> this was a rigged trial by a conflicted judge and was corrupt as a rigged trial and disgrace they wouldn't give us a venue change. we were at five percent or 6% in this district in this area. this was a rigged disgraceful trial that the real verdict is going to be november fifth by the people. >> y tambiÉn ha reaccionado a este veredicto el ex abogado personal de trump y el principal testigo en su contra en este juicio, michael cohen, karla amezola, quien estuvo dentro de la corte durante todo el dÍa, tiene las reacciones dentro y fuera del tribunal. >> katy, katy, katy. >> culpable de todos y cada uno de los cargos. ese fue el veredicto de los 12 miembros del jurado en nueva york. donald trump. ahora el primer expresidente condenado por un delito adentro, con el rostro desencajado, Él y su equipo legal escucharon el veredicto sin poder ocul

alina habba said judge juan merchan was smirking. watching donald trump the whole time, i was not watching judge juan merchan. what did you see? >> i saw something so different, katy. i did see juan merchan cover his mouth. on that alina habba and i can agree. but i have a very different interpretation of what he was doing. it was after the verdict was read, after the individual jurors had been pulled. judge merchan put his head down and sort of covered his mouth like this, and my read of that moment was not that juan merchan was trying to cover a smirk or a smile but that he was taking in the gravity of the moment before him, that he had just presided over a five-week trial in which a former president was convicted of a felony for the first time in our nation's history. he was collecting his thoughts, taking a breath and almost sighing understanding what still remained before him and then moving on from there to thank the jurors. i saw a man deeply impacted by the gravity of the moment, not somebody who was mocking what had happened

he appears to hate judge juan merchan, and is very convincing in delivering that feeling. cannot hate the judge because the judge is unfair. he has to pay to the judge for some other reason. even donald trump knows the judge is fair. today, half of the trump lawyer objections were sustained . and, there weren't that many objections because the trial was proceeding fairly under judge juan merchan's guidance . but, the judge did say something today that we know enrages donald trump. it was in the round of the judges good mornings to the lawyers on both sides. he said "good morning, everyone." then he said, "good morning mr. trump." of course, mr. trump is blasphemy to the man who demands that his lawyers and everyone around him call him by his former official title. good morning mr. trump. it was not a good morning for mr. trump when michael cohen took the witness stand to testify against him. witness michael cohen delivered all of the essential elements of the criminal charges against donald trump in his testimony. district attorney alvin bragg was watching after being publ

parte de la defensa y la fiscalÍa y, por supuesto las instrucciones tambiÉn el jurado del juez juan merchaner conexiÓn hasta la tÉcnica ransa se encuentra en vivo desde camp y Última hora en este histÓrico caso adelante. >> asÍ es como lo dices, ya se llevan a cabo estas deliberaciones, lo que significa que este jurado tiene el poder de decisiÓn en este juicio penal histÓrico contra el expresidente donald chon y ellos lo estÁn haciendo en una habitaciÓn en secreto, ademÁs, si quieren comunicarse con el juez solo puedes hacer a travÉs de una nota. ademÁs, van a recibir una computadora donde van a tener toda la evidencia que quieran revisar de ser necesario para ellos llegaron veredicto debe ser una decisiÓn unÁnime. asÍ lo dijo el juez como tÚ dijiste quien dio instrucciones antes de que comenzaran estas deliberaciones le pidiÓ al jurado quisieran a un lado cualquier prejuicio u opiniÓn que tuvieran. hacia el exmandatario. ademÁs, dijo que no podÍan declararlo culpable basÁndose solo en el testimonio de may coco en sino tambiÉn tenÍan que tomar obviamente, en cuenta la evidencia. por otra pa

told the jury, "you cannot send someone to prison based upon the words of michael cohen," judge juan merchan said that went too far, calling the comment "outrageous" and "improper" and then reminding the jury they have no say on sentencing. jurors listening intently as blanche said trump "did not commit any crimes," distancing the former president from the invoices and records presented in the case, insisting trump was "too busy" to look at the checks he signed and "there was no conspiracy to influence the 2016 election." trump is facing 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to conceal a $130,000 hush money payment 12 days before the 2016 election so voters wouldn't learn of his sexual tryst with porn star stormy daniels that trump denies ever happened. on the witness stand daniels provided details that prosecutors today said were "cringe-worthy" but "ring true," from what trump was wearing to the contents of his toiletry bag. trump's lawyers called daniel's testimony "pure embarrassment" meant to "inflame the jury." the defense arguing daniels was out to extort trump, saying she s

they may very well continue down that path because judge juan merchan will give them there blessing -s we have seen. >> neil: we were waiting to hear from a former president and he will come a. it's more convoluted today than it has been prior days but he promised folks he would talk. and of course it always brings up issues surrounding the gag order which also came up today. we will spell it all out for you meantime i want to draw your attention to the corner of wall and brought today. a lot of e-mail and asked if the market is in its own world. today was a classic example with protests going on, you know, all of this back-and-forth with washington trying to vote on if the speaker should be tossed out again and he wasn't. than this ongoing trial which is unthinkable almost surreal in the scheme of thanks. and is just a couple miles away from hacker couple thousand feet from where this big trial is going on here and there really focused on things like the prospect's are slowing down enough to warrant another cut in interest rates. some people were thinking certainly an environment lik

an hour later, jurors sending a second note asking judge juan merchan to re-read instructions. you are asked to make another very important decision, think of the former president as another member of the community. you must set aside any personal opinions or bias you might have in favor of or against the defendant and you must not allow any such opinions to influence the verdict. the jury weighing 34 felony counts of falsifying business records that prosecutors say trump used to conceal a $130,000 hush money payment to porn star stormy daniels. jurors must reach a unanimous decision of guilty on each of those counts. the jurors were given a laptop to take with them into deliberations. the computer loaded with nearly 300 pieces of evidence, including the checks trump signed to reimburse cohen, who wired daniels the money, and the invoices cohen sent that mentioned a retainer agreement he said did not exist. merchan told the jurors they may not decide the case based solely on cohen's testimony because he's an accomplice to the alleged crime. in other words, the judge said, even

this seems like walking like to the line of getting juan merchan to find him in violation of the gag order. it seems like a pressure cooker , and the judge has to cross the line in order to waive the mistrial to supporters and say this is a kangaroo court, the system is rigged against me. and you know, for people who read the transcripts and understand what transpired in court today i don't think that holds water, but to trump supporters who want to believe in the injustice donald trump has stoped it's effective. >> that is a good strategic point, alex, because we had judge juan merchan motion from the defense, and he said to them i was expecting you guys to be object more than you were. if you were really object thing to what she had to say, you sort of have yourselves to blame, which raises the prospect that they were letting her say things when they were not object thing or drawing attention to it, in hopes that she might speak in such a way that might raise the prospect of a mistrial. judge juan merchan in addition to questioning the strategy, he also said no, you are not getting

. >> reporter: trump also relatives judge juan merchan. >> you saw what happened to some of the witnessest were on our side. they were literally crucified by this man. who looks like an angel, but he's really a devil. >> reporter: throughout the trial, there was speculation trump might testify. he said today he wanted to. he and his lawyers ultimately decided against it. >> the theory is you never testify because as soon as you testify, anybody, if it were george washington, don't testify, because they will get you on something you said slightly wrong and then they sue you for perjury. >> norah: to be clear, no one was literally crucified. robert costa joins us now for outside trump tower, and robert, i understand you spoke with donald trump's lawyer about his legal options. what did he tell you? >> reporter: norah, trump's lawyer todd blanche told us it's a tough road ahead for the legal team in the coming weeks ahead of sentencing, and he explained it in an in-depth interview. let's listen. is there any chance the trump team is going to try to move the sentencing date from july 11th? >>

how important is this decision from judge juan merchan? >> remarkable, chris, that the cfo, right, the guy who handled paper and who talked to cohen and who talked to trump and who ostensibly would know about the deal isn't testifying in a criminal trial, and jessica had it exactly right. an important development. it's a bit mysterious but it's hard to imagine as a prosecutor i wouldn't want that guy on the stand. it's really interesting to see how the judge handles this problem. my inclination as a prosecutor would be to try and force the issue, to subpoena weisselberg and put him on the stand and see what happens, but he's not cooperating, and he has, it seems, several millions reasons not to, and so it's not a problem that should have surprised anyone. it was apparently i think from the outset that weisselberg wouldn't cooperate, didn't want to, but you know, federal prosecutors like jessica, state prosecutors like the folks trying this case have ways to force the issue. maybe less in state court than in federal court, but it's a little

. >> reporter: blanche today also taking aim at judge juan merchan for not recusing himself. merchan contributed $15 to president biden's 2020 campaign, and his daughter is a democratic political consultant. >> we felt very strongly that there was an actual bias that this judge had, and even if not an actual bias, that there was certainly a perception of bias. >> reporter: a new york appeals court recently upheld merchan's decision to stay on the case, perhaps the most fruitful possible grounds for appeal, legal, not political. including the fact prosecutors relied on a novel legal theory to escalate what would normally be a misdemeanor books and records charge to a felony, and the defense also zeroing in on the credibility of star prosecution witness, michael cohen. >> i do not think michael cohen should ever be somebody who can be relied upon to convict somebody. >> reporter: but the jury reached their verdict after being instructed twice they could not convict on cohen's word alone. cohen today reacting to the verdict. >> i let out a -- just a gasp of air. this has been a

the jury sent a note to judge juan merchan, it said, quote, we, the jury, have reached a verdict. 45 minutes later at 5:05 p.m. the jury was back in the courtroom and seated. defendant donald trump was there and seated as well. judge merchan then addressed the foreperson of the jury. it went like this. the judge, mr. foreperson, without telling me the verdict, has the jury, in fact, reached a verdict. juror number one, yes, they have. the judge, take the verdict, please. the clerk, will the foreperson please rise. have the members of the jury agreed on a verdict? juror number one, yes we have. the clerk, how say you to the first count of the indictment charging donald j. trump with the crime of falsifying business records in the first degree, guilty or not guilty? juror number one, guilty. >> the clerk, how say you to count three? >> juror number one, guilty. the clerk, how say you to count four? juror number one, guilty. and so on and so on. the clerk proceeded to ask the foreperson the same question, guilty or not guilty for each of the 34 felony counts and each time the foreperson

la sentencia estarÍa en manos del juez juan merchÁn, quien debe considerar varios factores para determinarimen y si muestra arrepentimiento, quÉ factor va a pesar mÁs en la decisiÓn del juez juan merchÁn? el que trump nunca ha cometido un crimen antes o que trump no ha mostrado arrepentimiento? >> si la persona muestra arrepentimiento, esto es un gran factor. y hasta ahora trump, pues ha sido a base de insultos al juez e insultos al procedimiento legal. todo eso va a contar en su contra. >> una de las posibilidades, siempre en caso de un veredicto de culpabilidad, es que marcan sentencia trompa en libertad condicional o probatoria. pero quÉ pasarÍa si el juez merchant lo condena a prisiÓn? a dÓnde serÍa enviado el expresidente? >> el departamento de prisiÓn tendrÍa que buscar un lugar donde la seguridad de trump sea lo primordial. Él va a estar rodeado en todo momento por agentes del servicio secreto. >> pero primero, el jurado debe decidir si trump es culpable o inocente. y eso aÚn estÁ en suspenso. y julio, hay otras preguntas que se desprenden en caso de que el veredicto sea de culpabil

violation of your own order, so therefore we need a mistrial and judgejuan merchan are and judge juan merchan was not a salary. stormy daniels will continue her evidence at that trial on thursday. shayna jacobs, federal courts and law enforcement reporter for the washington post. thanks forjoining us. thank thanks for “oining us. thank ou. separetely, donald trump's trial in florida — where he's accused of mishandling classified documents — has been indefinitely postponed. us districtjudge aileen cannon, who was appointed by the former president, said that setting a trial date before resolving questions over evidence would be "imprudent". mr trump is accused of keeping top—secret documents after leaving office. the trial — initially set for 20 may — is now unlikely to begin before the presidential election on 5 november. new details emerged on tuesday about an american soldier who was arrested in russia last week while travelling to the country's far east. the us army said staff sergeant gordon black did not receive military clearance for his trip to the far east from a us garrison in south k

exclamation points in my notes beside the clear the courtroom line, which was, you know judge juan merchane is the most mild-mannered and fair judge. most judges are fair and obviously. but judge merchan is the model. it's one of the great sacrifices that america cannot see how even-tempered he is. so when he says something with exclamation points, which he did. it changes the room.>> i know you're good to go through this. but can i ask you one objective experiencing. when he said clear the courtroom, was it clear that it meant you? >> listen >> i would get up and run out. >> half of the reporters did not leave. and the transcript shows that it takes a while. i knew right away immediately what he wanted and i knew it applied to me and that comes from a lifetime experience of being in courtrooms. but in that lifetime of being in courtrooms, which i think began when i was about 10 years old when my father was a criminal defense lawyer, i never heard the words cut clear the courtroom. it's like clear the movie theater. but i know what to do if they say that. it just was remarkable and the mos

and new york judge juan merchan will guide them as they begin deliberations.a, cbs news, new york. >>> in youngstown, ohio, investigators are on the scene of a natural gas explosion inside a downtown building that houses a chase bank on the ground floor. seven people were injured, including one critically, and at least two people are still missing. cbs's roxana saberi has video on this blast. >> reporter: the explosion shook downtown youngstown, ripping the facade right off this building. >> all fire department ladders respond to 47 central square for a gas explosion. >> when some of that smoke started to clear, we could see that a lot of the building wasn't there anymore. >> reporter: eddie bean was working construction in the building, which houses a chase bank and apartments. he says he smelled gas moments earlier and rushed out. >> i'm shook right now. i just keep thinking about this girl's baby that made it out just like seconds -- seconds ago. >> his wife said that he came to work. his co-workers said he came to work, but we can't find him. >> reporter: