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donald trump convicted on 34 counts of falsifying business records after a manhattan jury deliberated for 9 1/2 hours. will the former president face prison time or just probation for the low-level felonies in the hush money case? and how will the judicial system handle the unprecedented case of a former president with secret service protection? the political fallout. how will this impact donald trump's campaign for the presidency. >> the real verdict is going to be november 5th. >> mr. trump, the presumptive republican nominee defiant tonight, proclaiming his innocence, calling the process rigged, and accusing president biden of backing a political persecution, as he addressed cameras outside the courtroom. the biden campaign saying, quote, we saw that no one is above the law. and how will a nation driven by political division react? our complete historic coverage, coming up. >> this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt. >> good evening and welcome, everyone. guilty on all counts. donald j. trump, the 45th president of the united states, was found guilty late today in a new york co

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reaction coming in from downtown manhattan where the courthouse is. we'll take you live for a moment. >>> historic reversal from the white house. the biden administration giving ukraine permission to strike inside russia with american made weapons for the first time. let's turn to martha raddatz for late reporting. >> reporter: tonight with the russian assault on ukraine's second largest city kharkiv intensifying, the biden administration has made a major rehearsal allowing u.s. supplied weapons to be fired inside russia. for years, the administration balked at the idea, fearing a strike on russia itself with u.s.-made weapons could draw the u.s. into direct conflict with russia. u.s. officials insisting tonight the u.s. weapons will be used only to strike russian military sies that are being used to launch weapons into kharkiv. more than a dozen other western countries have also approved weapons being used inside russia. but vladimir putin already with threatening response, calling it an escalation, "another step towards a serious conflict in europe

there were 37 republican officials that visited that manhattan courthouse. we were talking about two republican governors, seven current or former attorney generals, 28 republican lawmakers. and a lot of them were saying what the former president could not. we know that donald trump was under that very strict gag order. so a lot of those republicans were coming out and a show of loyalty for the former president to rail against michael cohen, to rail against the witnesses to blast this whole process, something that the former president was barred from doing under that gag order. it was a sign of loyalty to the former president. but, david, this is a party that has only grown more closer to donald trump as he has been indicted. and now as he has been convicted, we have learned moments ago, the trump campaign says that their fundraising site is down because of the volume of people supporters looking to show in sizable numbers, according to the trump campaign, their support of the former president and the former president posting himself, rachel, on truth social

georgia longstreet is a paralegal in the manhattan d.a.'s office, much of her testimony the last time around, i'm expecting it to be similar this time around, of course, setting up for michael cohen. it seems like georgia longstreet, she takes the stand, setting up for major witnesses to come as we saw hope hicks to take the street after georgia longstreet with stormy daniels who took the stand throughout the week, this week. georgia longstreet, her responsibilities inside of the manhattan d.a.'s office is part of scouring social media, she talked about scouring thousands and thousands of social media posts. we know much of donald trump's social media, some admitted for evidence, for instance, if you go after me, i'm going to go after you, we know for instance georgia longstreet could testify to the point of scouring social media once again. the way in which she came upon some of the social media posts, specifically pertaining to michael cohen, this record keeping, book keeping, how we got stuff, setting up for some major testimony that we'

a historic decision coming out of a manhattan courtroom. former president donald trump today found guilty on 34 felony counts in his criminal hush money trial. it was the first time ever a former u.s. president was ever tried or convicted in a criminal case. and this is just one of 4 indictments to reach trial. thank you for joining us on this historic day here on kron. 4 news at 3. i'm justine waldman. let's go over this breaking news now. the former president convicted on all 34 counts of falsifying records to cover up a scandal that threaten to. keep him out of the white house. in 2016, trump giving remarks right after the ruling. >> this was a disgrace. this is a try was correct trial. race. they wouldn't give us and then a change. we were. 60 per said. and this district in this area, this is the real is going to be november by the people. and they know what happened here everybody knows what happened here. you have a star is back. >> very innocent man. it's fighting for our constitution. countries. big regret station. >> yoow

circus down the courthouse in manhattan. all of the news media has been posted up, running visuals that day in and day out relentlessly, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. and so we use it as an opportunity to directly address the american people about the fundamental threat that donald trump poses to our democracy. that is what the president is going to talk about with donald trump on the debate stage. if he does show up in june. and so we're going to make sure that people understand that donald trump is a person who's fighting for himself no matter where he has. but as a person who continues to embrace in political violence everywhere he goes, he's somebody who was pledging to rule as a dictator on day one. he is somebody who is promising for a bloodbath if he's not able to win so that's what we were doing yesterday, manhattan, it's what we'll continue to talk about every day until the first debate and atlanta. >> but michael real quick that trump campaigns suggests that they think it's blown up in your face and in the mov

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in manhattan. for more analysis on this, eric thanks for joining us good we should point out that he is in jerusalem where he has been living but he has been following this case very closely. eric, i wanted to ask first of all how much damage do you think todd blanche did to michael cohen in the cross-examination this morning when he got him to admit that he stole some $60,000 from the trump organization? >> i think todd has done an amazing job. i think this is just another point of reference of who michael cohen really is. he's a liar, he committed tax evasion, and now he had to admit under oath that he stole from the person he admired the most. i thought it was a devastating thing for todd blanche and a benefit for president trump. >> sandra: we are left wondering how this is going over with the jury. that's what matters. >> i've tried a lot of cases in manhattan and i was senior trial attorney in the manhattan d.a.'s office. i think that any jury would be wondering what is this case about? and i

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. >>> back at home, a manhattan courtroom, a new fine imposed on former president trump for violating the gag order in his hush money trial. vaughn hillyard reports on a sharp new warning from the judge. >> reporter: tonight former president trump facing a new threat of jail time at his hush money trial after his tenth violation of the judge's gag order. >> he's taken away my constitutional right to speak. >> reporter: the judge directly addressing the possibility of putting mr. trump behind bars over future violations. "the magnitude of such a decision is not lost on me. you are the former president of the united states and possibly the next president as well." adding "as much as i do not want to impose a jail sanction, i will if necessary and appropriate." >> frankly, you know what? our constitution is much more important than jail. it's not even close. i'll do that sacrifice any day. >> reporter: the judge fining mr. trump an additional $1,000 for complaining about the jury in deep blue manhattan saying "it's 95% democrat." the judge saying the former president wrongfully called in

and again, i think that also speaks to manhattan nights. they understood what they were getting into and they were up for this assignment. >> we have not heard obviously, from any jurors. judge merchan had has instructed them they can speak out if they want to. they can also remain quiet if they want onto the choice is up to them, obviously, to be a lot of interests and what they have to say. but for all the pretrial talk about the complexity of this novel charge, the difficult guilty of perhaps understanding what crime was committed, or maybe there'd be a disagreement of a web. particular crime was committed and arguments over the judge there's instructions to the jury. did that make it easier for them to find him guilty verdict that they didn't all have to agree on the exact same criminal count charge or criminal activity they were able to make this very quickly. >> yeah, it's really i talking actually to those of us who are, who are you're waiting for the verdict that they were able to do this so quickly because even those of us who have

now, trump has the manhattan courtroom headed back. we believe to trump tower at this moment. what does the trump team do do now as they try to prepare their campaign for him to run for reelection? >> well, i think triple go to his normal playbook trump has been a political figure for almost a decade now. so, you know, we know a lot of the those one is hopeful trend, but skepticism about the out there amongst supporters. this what he did, you know, with the media in 2016 or even the whole government in 2016, he also try you know, take the real anger of his supporters and trained directed toward supporting his campaign aligned himself. as you know, i'm the personification of your pain. they're persecuting me like they're persecuting you so vote for me. i think i'll try a lot of those things. i do think one of the things that's going to hold that he was able to communicate in 2016 that he really cant 2024, in my estimation as he was a big proponent ending corruption, he was going to drain the swamp all those types of promises in 2016. after he's found guilty of 34, you know, fel

former president trump will hold a news conference here in the lobby of trump tower in mid town manhattan in what is the biggest, most important campaign event he has held at trump tower since he came down those escalators in june of 2015 to launch his presidential candidacy back then. now last night former president acknowledged the hundreds of people outside of trump tower that came here following the guilty verdict, historic verdict. he pumped his fist in the air and acknowledged the crowd, which cheered, booed and also chanted, quote, lock him up. today we expect the former president to reiterate a new campaign mantra that the real verdict will be on november 5th by the people when they vote on election day. the trump campaign tells fox former president trump, quote, won't let this, quote, sham stop the movement of this campaign. within minutes of the verdict the trump campaign already began fundraising off of this verdict. the home page on trump's website now says breaking news, i'm a political prisoner asking people to donate. fundraising emails sent after the verdict ask is this th

launches, the manhattan project, because we think the germans are far ahead of us.the german military authorities decided to cancel their own nuclear program. they give it up right around? the time we started. but they didn't know that that back to los alamos. this is, of course, the main facility where they're constructing bombs, but it's not the only one i mentioned. there's a lab in washington. there's a lab in tennessee. there are universities. and research centers across the u.s., canada, england are contributing bits of research so much so that if you include all people working on the manhattan project down to like janitors and repairmen, there aren't nearly. 600,000 thousand people involved in project it took lots of money. if you add up all of the projects that are contributing to the development of the atomic bomb, it cost today's equivalent. of $35 billion. it was the second most expensive thing the u.s. had ever the first most expensive weapons system was developing the b-29, which was the only plane big enough to carry what was going to be about a 10,000

on the stand right now as you mentioned georgia longstreet, a paralegal at the manhattan d.a.'s office. i think it is significant to talk about this, jose, because i think we need to understand kind of how document heavy this entire case and the prosecution is, right? we know the defense is continuously chipping away at some potential witnesses here, the potential of michael cohen to take the stand, the potential of stormy daniels to take the stand. we can't count how many times michael cohen has been talked about so far and hasn't taken the stand. their objective is to chip away at michael cohen's credibility, to chip away at stormy daniels' credibility as well. one reason why they're relying so heavily on text message exchanges, social media posts, things posted on twitter, back in 2016, through 2020, things that were posted on truth social by the former president after he was taken off twitter, email exchanges as well, so we heard from douglas daus, the forensic expert earlier on today, and cross examination, as well as redirect, and now we're hearing from georgia longstreet

this is a case in lower manhattan. this was a jury comprised of 12, new yorkers, people who are his peers in his home city of new york at the same time, you're going to hear former president trump constantly use this as a refrain that he was targeted. by this trial, targeted by this prosecutor, and he is going to use his own channels of communication. whether it's social media. some kind of rally or speeches or other means to get his message out there without fact, checking and often without the bounds of normal discourse holding him in, but this is american politics today he has helped to create and really spearheaded this environment we are in now, but i know from people who have been with him in the past hour that he is furious and that this is not just something he's going to leave to the lawyers. he wants to be out front now and this country is going to see him out front. all summer. >>and this verdict, sending shock waves throughout the country right now, and mackovic joins me now tracking the local reaction to t

a former president donald trump is well underway right now in manhattan on the stand, right now is a man named douglas doubts he works for the manhattan district attorney's office, but as opposed to previous days that we're focused on bank records today. we are knee deep in shady deals and sleazy details mentioned today, we're other celebrity scandals involving all cogen and charlie sheen more on that in a second. but the reason we heard all of this today was because of this man keith davidson, who took the stand. he is the attorney who represented both stormy daniel's the adult film star and director, and karen mcdougal, the 1998 playboy playmate of the year. when negotiating hush money payments arrange to keep them twice quiet about alleged sexual encounters they had with donald trump, ones that mr. trump denies. jurors saw the actual confidential settlement agreement between daniels and trump with mr. trump's signature sure the documents used pseudonyms, the ones that were more available. stormy daniel's was peggy peterson. donald trump was david dennison. and in this document, da

. >> "new york times" reporting jury selection started in manhattan and the corruption trial for new jersey senator bob menendez. the jurors will be selected from manhattan, the bronx, one of several new york counties north of the city. senator menendez on his wife and two other new jersey businessmen have pleaded not guilty for their alleged role in international bribery scheme bold bars, cash and mercedes-benz. prosecutors with the u.s. attorney's office for the southern district of new york has said they expect to take as many as six weeks to present their case against the lawmaker. who said he believes he will be exonerated also guilty of running for reelection as it. [inaudible] >> is a scam is a terrible thing happening. we have one stay back and pass love jd vance what's going on today. persuading the respected front of the free world will be. politics is no place in this this is all politics. great legal analyst none of this is a leak there is nothing illegal. they are person who once it is he is conflicted. check that out. everyone is saying there is no crime. bread of evide

former president of the united states, and now criminal defendant, is tonight in the hands of a manhattan jury. the seven men and five women deliberating for 4 1/2 hours today on whether mr. trump was part of an unlawful scheme to falsify business records to cover up hush money, paid to an adult film star. he is charged with 34 counts. late this afternoon the panel rang a bell summoning a bailiff to the deliberation room, not to say they had reached a verdict, but rather with questions about those instructions and a request to have a readback of testimony from two major prosecution witnesses. tonight, lawyers on both sides can only wonder what the jury could be telegraphing about its process and progress. senior legal correspondent laura jarrett has the latest. >> reporter: tonight, jury deliberations wrapping up for the day in former president trump's hush money case. the first trial of an american president. seven men and five women deliberating for roughly 4 1/2 hours after sitting through more than an hour of complex instructions from the judge, who told the manhattan jury to set asid

out of deep blue manhattan. >> and this was rigged, disgraceful trial. the real verdict is going to be november 5th by the people and they know what happened here and everybody knows what happened here. >> reporter: the presidential candidate went to trump tower and waved his fist at the crowded. as many predicted, today's guilty verdict might ignite... drums donation website briefly went down today and... reading i was just convicted in a rigged political witchhunt. i did nothing wrong. and a text message, biden's campaign urged his supporters to counter trump donations, writing donald trump supporters are fired up and likely setting fundraising records for his campaign. while the rights comes to the aid of trump, joe biden and those who care about democracy need you. some known opponents of trump like adam shift posted on. first... now donald jay trump is a convicted felon. all our and affirmation of the role of law. a short while ago tonight, ivankovic trump posted this picture to instagram writing i love you dad. 67 percent of registered photos -- vo

in new jersey, right across the water from manhattan.ue, and you can look across and maybe even see the peak of trump tower, although trump tower is so much shorter than its namesake claims that it is, that i don't think you can see it in the skyline. but the point is that i think we would say that here are two days that mark how far we have come. the way i would put it, joy, is that the founders wanted us to elect a president of conviction, but not criminal convictions. >> and absolutely. and the only other president who faced even this possibility was richard nixon and you said, i heard you earlier on "today" saying he had the dignity to walk away. it's hard to say anything nice about richard nixon but in the end, he was a greater patriot on any given day of the week that trump is all week long. >> by far. he tried to taint our democracy, but for instance, at the beginning of watergate, april 30th of 1973, he gave a tv speech in which he talked about the judge that was sending some of his people ultimately to prison, he calls him a cou

the dutch colony existed in manhattan for 40 years, and then in europe war broke out.herefore, is against england, and london sent an armed expedition across the atlantic and forced the colonists from new netherlands to surrender. the lands came under english control, and amsterdam was renamed new york. according to modern estimates, the value of land on manhattan island - the very center of new york - exceeds $50 billion. on may 6, 1742 , a solemn ceremony took place in the assumption cathedral of the moscow kremlin. coronation of the russian empress elizaveta petrovna, the younger daughter of peter the great and his second wife catherine i. the coronation took place on an unprecedented scale; to the usual regalia of the head of the russian state of that time, the crown, scepter, orb and mantle, three more were added: a banner, a sword seal, and everything except the scepter was for elizaveta petrovna were created anew. the festivities lasted for several days, with roasting taking place on the cathedral square in the kremlin. food, and two carved gilded fountains flow

i know about the politics of new york, manhattan is the worst place for any republican.unity in the bronx as we saw last week then you have in manhattan and for aoc to say this is a fair trial, this is putting their minions forward to celebrate the victory use all the smugness among people in alvin bragg's team including an official from the biden justice department, there is a cohesion between the biden d.o.j. and alvin bragg to bring the localized charge there is not an american that would face the charges that donald trump did. in the jury instructions it came from this judge. he put his thumb on the scale right there and sent the order to how this was going to play out. maria: you think trump can still win in november? >> i absolutely do there is a new energy this morning and last night i heard from people that i haven't heard from in years very casual republicans that may have defected to biden in the last election i did not have the heart to ask them not they're going to vote for donald trump based on what they've seen a weaponization of the government and three le

are storming the streets of manhattan.re marching around, taunting police, sean. >> sean: matt finn, will check in with you throughout the evening. standby, thank you. we'll keep you updated on all this breaking news. the protests on new york and the important military operation that has started in rafah in gaza tonight. also tonight we are less than six months away, 182 days to be exact, filter 2024 election. donald trump by the way is once again stuck in a manhattan courtroom were a biden donor posing as an impartial judge whose a statute of limitations that have long expired at whose family is comprised as we pointed out repeatedly on this program, is not threatening to unilaterally lock up former president trump tonight. alina habba, house judiciary -- jim jordan will weigh in and also jim jordan will weigh in on the issue of oh may be evidence was tempered with an that being in the florida case. on the far left digital force donald trump on the -- of the campaign trail. his opponent joe biden has been sidelined by his

also in the court was the manhattan _ to. also in the court was the manhattan district _ to.ttorney, alvin bragg, the first prosecutor to bring charges against former president. many had actually criticised him and wondered if this was a case worth bringing but ultimately it has had an outsize impact now given this is the only case that will be heard before the election and it has resulted in the guilty verdict. but let's turn back to donald trump because as he left, he turned to his family in that moment, didn't he?— didn't he? the only family member— didn't he? the only family member in _ didn't he? the only family member in court - didn't he? the only family member in court with - didn't he? the only family member in court with him j didn't he? the only family - member in court with him today was eric— member in court with him today was eric trump, his second eidest _ was eric trump, his second eldest son. as trump got up and left the — eldest son. as trump got up and left the defence table, he passed _ left the defence table, he passed right by eric and he seemed _ passed

therefore, technology has been invested in so called the manhattan project. code name for the us nuclear, headed by robert oppenheimer. during fission, neutrons are released, which split other atoms. chicken reaction. are you thinking the same thing i'm thinking? now any physicist who has seen the newspapers thinks about this. i don't understand what we are thinking about? oh bomby, alvarez. oh bomby. general leslie groves was so pleased with the results of alsas that he used mission agents to further study german laboratories, dragging everything that was bad, because the manhattan project they literally saved german developments; the americans couldn’t help themselves. the alsas mission groups consisted of intelligence officers, professionals and nuclear scientists, and mercilessly robbed their manhattan atomic project, taking 24 of the best specialists from there. how failed was this project if the bet was on capturing the bomb from the germans? one american physicist wrote: “it seems that we are involved in a hopeless endeavor, the project is not moving forward one iota, our leaders,

convicted by a manhattan jury of all charges. now the first american president ever convicted of a crime. jurors finding mr. trump guilty on all 34 counts of falsifying his business records to cover up a conspiracy no into influentia 2016 election by hiding how he reimbursed his former fixer by paying off a porn star before the election. the jury included seven men and five women, including two lawyers and a foreman in sales. after hearing from more than 20 witnesses over six weeks. it largely came down to whether jurors would believe the word of michael cohen. cohen was the only witness who directly tied mr. trump to the alleged crime of falsifying business records. he testified mr. trump directed him to pay off stormy daniels so she couldn't derail his campaign. she'd alleged a sexual encounter years before. but mr. trump vehemently denied it. prosecutors argue at trial the president was desperate to keep her smiling, panicked after the release of the "access hollywood" tape, hiding the $130,000 payoff with a phony paper trail,

that was in bad shape. scouts , professionals, nuclear scientists, while mercilessly robbing their manhattanomic project, taking 24 of the best specialists from there. how disastrous this project was, if the bet was on capturing the bomb from the germans, one american physicist wrote: “it seems that we have gotten ourselves involved in a hopeless cause.” the project is not moving forward one iota, our leaders, in my opinion, do not believe in it at all success, and we don’t believe it either, if it weren’t for the huge money they pay us here, i think we would have been doing something more useful long ago. it is noteworthy that the americans, having essentially robbed the french as part of the mission, made a book-length story out of it. yes, now the participants in those events, the heroes who violated the agreements, who prevented the nazis from creating a bomb. this is a falsification of history, it all goes in the same direction , falsification of history, exaltation, that means, of american valor, so to speak, that is... creation, if anyone prevented the creation of the atomic bomb, it

. >> we didn't think we were going to get a fair shake in manhattan, and we didn't. >> 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

you just look at what is happening in manhattan right now.is what is going to go on throughout the country. without limits, without boundaries, the interference in presidential elections, state prosecutors coming up with concoctions to use federal law way out of their jurisdiction the department of justice that refuses to defend federal jurisdiction while it is in your court demanding their beat no poster presidential immunity. we have five former attorneys at general one existing, partisan politics must play no role in decisions of federal investigators or prosecutors regarding any investigation or criminal crimes. jack smith, this is all he cares about he came to your court the supreme court he demanded to rulyourule immediately get thisl underway. all of these have time to do exactly that. they say the inspector general the department of justice said this is just advisory attorneys in general issued these memos just because the giving advice. it is more than advisory be owed to the department of justice handbook, nine -- 85 -- 500. actions

why is a trial taking place in manhattan is the question. like that is a great question i am not clear. the southern district of new yorkth brought the charges. >> as of the trial will be in new york in federal court? this is ralph here in washington d.c. independent. you are next and on with kadia goba. >> i did not vote for trump. i would not vote for hilary. but this time i am voting for trump because what i am seeing is legal persecution of someone of a political opponent. jack smith is a special counsel. jack smith special counsel authorities do not exist. they were voted and before congress and had an expiration date. so by what authority does he become a god and decides i could go off and charge anyone with any crime to persecute them for type them up in court and bring criminal charges. please explain that to me. >> doctor jackson? garland wanted to maintain -- did not want to seem biased. it brought in a special counsel to view this. we have seen this in cases with the president biden. with the documents in case also with various si

jarred hill in lower manhattan. thank you so much. >>> supreme court justice samuel alito is rejecting calls to recuse himself from cases involving the january 6th insurrection and the 2020 election. democrats in congress demanded alito step aside after photos surfaced two of flags linked to the so-called "stop the steal" movement flying outside his homes. in a letter to democrats, the conservative justice blamed his wife saying he had nothing to do with flying any flags. he writes, quote, i was not even aware of the upside down flag until it was called to my attention. as soon as i saw it, i asked my wife to take it down but for several days she refused. >>> turning to the israel-hamas war. and israel is increasing its military forces in rafah as troops move deeper into the southern gaza city. the idf says that they have seized control of an 8.5-mile corridor along the gaza-egyptian border. the military says that they found about 20 cross-border tunnels which they say hamas has been using to smuggle weapons and oth

manhattan.an when i was working for george bush, manhattan went 85-15 for the democrats against george bush. some numbers against trump. it is one of the most ideologically narrow minded places in america. i can point to numerous small towns in mississippi and alabama that are more ideologically di verse than the island of manhattan. democrats think it is fair because they have a different ideological point of view and why they picked manhattan for this case and why they picked fulton county for this case. if they ever went to a purple area of america you couldn't find a jury that would convict donald trump. there is a huge risk still to donald trump by venue, not by fact, but by venue. what you pointed to. if people think this is fair, it is because manhattan overwhelmingly democrats across the country think it is fair. >> harris: the only thing that moves the needle at all is the explosion of particularly illegal immigrants on the streets of new york. you know, just here in the last, well, lat

so it's 12 people, 12 residents of manhattan. can you tell us a little bit more about how that works? we don't know their identities. and again, the, the, the result, whether it's a conviction or an acquittal, it could take a few minutes, could take longer than that. can you just remind or a few words how this works and who are the people tasked with a deciding whether the president, former president is, is guilty of this crime? well, 0. these are 7 men, 5 women average new yorkers. they didn't volunteer for theirs. they were called in for jury duty. they were interviewed to ensure that they, they didn't have a predisposed bias for or against the president. they all persuaded both sides that they would be acceptable jurors in this case. but it's important to point out something that trump is certainly noted and that is it. this is a very democratic, we drama get dominated city. and there is verdict. number one, i am told count one, they have found president donald trump guilty. so this is the 1st ever case against an american pre

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webegin with that stunning verdict delivered in a manhattan courtroom. donald j. trump, the 45th president of the united states found guilty on all 34 counts of falsifying business records. that makes him the first american president to be convicted of a crime. mr. trump is calling this a rigged, disgraceful trial, saying the real verdict will be delivered on election day. he remains the presumptive republican nominee in a close race for the white house. the former president's sentencing is scheduled for july 11th. it's just four days before his party is scheduled to hold its convention to officially declare him the candidate. laura jarret kicks off our coverage. >> reporter: former president donald trump found guilty, convicted by a manhattan jury of all charges. now the first american president everybody ever convicted of a crime. jurors finding mr. trump guilty on all 34 counts of falsifying his business records to cover up a conspiracy to influence the 2016 election by hiding how he reimbursed his former fixer for paying off a porn star before the election. th

judge jeanine: closing arguments are still underway right now and the ludicrous trump tile in lower manhattanfense reminding jurors that this entire case is based on the word of a guy who lied directly to them. they even star witness michael cohen as the gloat. the greatest liar of all time. the prosecution has been droning on for hours. joining me now outside the courthouse is fox news correspondent nate foy. nate, what's the latest? >> nate: hey, judge, the prosecution is five hours in to making closing arguments. court normally ends 4:30. right now 7:00. still waiting for former president trump to leave the courthouse and speak as he is expected to do. within the past few minutes the prosecution has been interpreting tweets and quotes from trump's books and interpreting what they believe he meant during those or in those excerpts. today the prosecution also revealed the underlying crime that trump is accused of. he is accused of unlawfully influencing the 201 election by suppressing negative stories about himself along with michael cohen and david pecker. trump described the prosecutionens

he ran the rackets bureau at the manhattan d.a.'ows the way this works, and to the extent that he says, "oh, i thought i'd get away with it"-- either that is simply an outright lie, or it is an indication of such massive self-deception that that also says something about what's going on and not going on in this guy's mind. right. after the first press conference, lloyd and silda spent a furious 61 hours trying to convince spitzer to remain and fight. and for the first time in his life, eliot spitzer chickened out. silda, along with me, is trying to convince him not to resign as governor. he humored us, i think. i don't think he ever seriously considered it. -he wants out. -he wants out. he doesn't wanna be a hypocrite. he wants out. because of the sex trafficking laws he pushed for. -yeah. -that's the reason? part of it. that's part of it. we made a principled argument here. you're afraid of being a hypocrite. you shouldn't elevate your sense of self over the interests of the state of new york and the people who elected you in this

and that manhattan d.a. bragg developed a totally novel legal theory where 34 misdemeanor counts of business -- can be converted to felony charged because they were allegedly in the service of covering up another crime. bragg's team forgot to offer any evidence that their records were falsified or to specify what the other crime might be let alone prove it. you write about this in the ops desk today. why hasn't the second crime been named? we're so many weeks into this trial. what is going on? >> just the fact that so many of the commentary around this case revolves around what is the theory of this case is indicative of how unusual and really mal formed this is. you never have this when we have public discussions of cases. generally was a witness effective. has the crime been proven. none of us can figure out what's going on. don't you get the feeling we all expected an aha moment by now where it become clear what that second crime was supposed to be. they haven't clarified it. one of the reasons and what y

crowds outside of that courthouse in manhattan reacting with boos and cheers. the manhattan district attorney defending the jury tonight, while this defendant may be unlike any other in american history, we arrived at this trial and ultimately today at this verdict in the same manner as every other case that comes through the courtroom doors. so here's what happens next in terms of the legal part of all of this, sentencing is set for july 11th. mr. trump says he's planning to hold a news conference tomorrow morning at trump tower in new york city. we're following all this now. tonight, let's start with in washington with nbc's alice barr , with the reaction on capitol hill. alice so we have heard a whole lot pouring out from capitol hill, a lot of former president trump's republican allies have just had, you know, terrible things to say about this verdict. we heard from house speaker mike johnson that it's a disgrace saying that this was a political exercise and not a legal one from the biden campaign. we have heard that what we saw today was that no one is abo