you heard that they want a read back on the trump tower meeting. they're going to the original conspiracy to catch and kill. david pecker, michael cohen and donald trump. ultimately that just sets the table, katy, for the 34 counts that we have. 34 felony counts. you have 11 from the invoices submitted by michael cohen, 12 from the vouchers that were logged by deborah tarasoff. this was created by the manhattan d.a.'s office, and it is in evidence. this document, this exhibit we're all looking at right now, the jurors get the chance to be able to look at it as well. there's also something i want to highlight before i turn it back to you. their jury is going to be looking at the checks, the checks that constitute some of the multiple counts that donald trump is looking at. remember, there was one count that deals with the revocable trust account, and there was a second one. you'll see this, katy, over and over again, starting from donald trump's personal checking account, you've got the $35,000 made payable to michael cohen, and then you have here do

that's where they take it back to pecker in trump tower. that's why they say trump wanted the daniels payment secret, precisely to hide the other crimes, which he knew were ongoing. so, this jury ends its first day of deliberations discussing these key moments from the prosecution's argument, catch and kill to help trump. now, that is not a pure win for the d.a. but it's not bad either for prosecutors. because remember there have been five weeks, 80 hours of testimony, 22 witnesses, 200 pieces of evidence. we count all this stuff. so, they have options. if they were only asking about michael cohen's credibility or only asking for testimony that went to compliants that trump's lawyers made across exams that showed problems with the d.a.'s witnesses, that would suggest a very different start. instead we can see now for the first time -- and this is new. this is kind of exciting and interesting if you're trying to follow the case -- the very first time we hear what the jury is thinking about. the jury has diversity professionally, ideologically

that trump tower meeting where the prosecution says the conspiracy was hatched. e there was donald trump and michael cohen dealing with mr. pecker. on catch to kill. and mr. blanche said it wasn't a catch and kill and josh steinglass, the prosecution and his summation said just because they didn't use the words, that didn't mean that is what it was. and you can see from the testimony that that was catch and kill. so, i would be cautiously optimistic if i was a prosecutor. be very looking to, like, thank goodness they are focusing in when what i went to. stepping back, it could be two jurors who want that. a note doesn't have to be all 12. one juror can say i want that question asked. >> you are emphasizing something that really bears a focus here. they are following the plot. the da has the burden of proof, but they are telling you the story, the movie. and, all the questions show people asking about the core origin story of the movie and not something else. if you ever go see a movie, you go see the god father, it's an old movie, really great. and you walk out of

they have arrived at trump tower just south of central park. for those of you who know manhattan, the former president returning to his home at trump tower, you can see the nypd there telling people to continue on their way. a difficult thing, though, to get through to new yorkers who know very well, obviously, as as does the country, that this is something, that that certainly will divide many americans, but it will be a day and a piece of history that we will not forget in a long line of sort of markers in this political climate of these last several years in our country. former president trump, you see here, arriving back at trump tower, just a couple of hours after thinking that the jury would be going home for another night, that deliberations would go into a third day, and then the sudden turn in that courtroom when judge juan merchan informed the former president, where you saw him there just moments ago on the sidewalk, unclear whether or not he will address any reporters or those who are gathered there. let's just listen to the those w

that testimony involves a meeting at trump tower a little more than a year before 2016 election. donald trump was part of that meeting. they want to hear testimony read back from the former publisher of "the national enquirer" david pecker and michael cohen as well, also at that meeting and his testimony, too. later about an hour the bell ringing again and the jury asking for the judge's instructions read after they were first delivered by the judge. dan abrams is here tonight and aaron katersky at the courthouse leading us off. >> reporter: tonight, the fate of donald trump, the first former president ever to face criminal charges, now in the hands of the jury. less than four hours into deliberations, a bell rang in court, signaling a note from the jurors. they wanted four pieces of question testimony read back to them including testimony from david pecker, who buried stories for trump and one from trump's former fixer michael cohen about a trump tower meeting with trump in august 2015, where prosecutors said the three men hatched a conspiracy to corrupt the 2016 election. an hou

in real time, but this is it's interesting, particularly the fact that they're so focused on the trump tower meeting because yesterday and closing statements prosecutor spent a lot of time going through the alleged conspiracy she to help trump win in 2016. now that is significant because the reason that is 34 counts of falsifying business records have been charged as a felony, whose prosecutors argue that this was all part of a conspiracy to help trump win in 2016? team. and they argue that this alleged conspiracy began with that trump tower meeting. so it appears that the jury, during their nearly four hours of deliberations right now, that this is something that they want to see more closely. what michael cohen and david pecker testified about. now, we're told that the parties are preparing where the judge has said that he'll be in the robing room until the parties are ready to begin. now, he said he's gonna bring the jury and plus alternates, and he is going to read the testimony back to they're not going to get a copy i'll be a bit instead, it's going to be read back to them and he's giv

one on michael cohen's testimony from that trump tower meeting where prosecutors allege this conspiracy began where pecker, the former ceo of america media promised to be the eyes and ears of the trump campaign and to put up positive stories about former president donald trump and to suppress negative stories about him. and also to publish negative stories about his opponents encoding former secretary of state hillary clinton at the time. this is key because this is one of the few moments where trump is accused of directly being involved and of note shannon, as part of the jury instructions despite the fact that it was allowed to be brought up by the prosecution several times during their closing arguments and throughout the trial, judge juan merchan did say that michael cohen's 2018 guilty plea of the fee code violation and david pecker's nonpersecution violation agreement were only brought up to provide context for the jury bar they cannot actually imply trump's level of guilt. this trump tower meeting of course is the one conversation that these people were in the same room, prosecut

robert costa joins us now for outside trump tower, and robert, i understand you spoke with donald trump'syer 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? >> we are thinking about it. but i don't think so. the judge set the date. he presumably knew what was happening the next week. and we want to move forward with an appeal. we think an appeal has a lot of merit. we think we are going to win on appeal, and so right now we are proceeding as the sentencing is july 11th and getting ready for it. >> reporter: is the former president comfortable having his sentencing happened just days before the republican convention? >> i don't know if comfortable is the word i would use about anything happening in this case, and certainly a sentencing, but he is resolute, as we are, that getting to an appeal is impor

pecker and michael cohen's accounts of that 2015 trump tower meeting where they hatch the plan to catch and kill stories that could be harmful to trump's campaign. what do these requests from the jury tell you? >> it really does tell you where and the kinds of things that the jury is focusing on in terms of looking for corroboration, looking at testimony that they might question for some reason in terms of the credibility of a witness, but seeing or analyzing whether there is or are pieces of evidence that coincide. so i think you get to see that when you hear their selection of what they want to hear, and the judge actually giving them that information. >> and again, these jury instructions are lengthy. it took the judge over an hour to read them initially. the jury requesting a chunk in the middle of these instructions to hear again. i imagine you have heard hundreds of cases in your court, maybe thousands, i don't know. how complicated is this one for the jury? >> well, it can be complicated, first of all, because you're dealing with a number of counts or charges, but the easy thing

that includes michael cohen and david pecker's a counts of a 2015 trump tower meeting. pecker is 2016 phone call with trump about the former playboy playmate karen mcdougal. and also pecker's testimony about not finalizing the payment with trump is going to pay pecker's company bag after they had purchased karatay goals life rights about her alleged affair with donald trump, paula reid, and kristen holmes we're here with me and pull it. this is such an interesting part. note trump is causing a note to attorney todd blanche, who passed him and one in return, trump is hunching over to read it before placing table. that is typical for anyone who's it was wondering what they could be talking about. trump is basically, i would love to read all the sticky notes that he sends to todd blanche, if you watch multiple times staring someone's testimony, he would send all these sticky notes todd blanche is white. it's not clear what this is about. maybe he's born, he's been there for several hours already listening to the testimony. they've already heard heard before. >> but it is a

so the trump tower meeting whether it is pecker's testimony or cohen's, they're both about a meeting in which trump called a trump between him and pecker. >> and this is the period where everything you reverse engineer and work eight different ways but that is the headline. this is trump's direct involvement. this is bad news for donald trump as i interpret this question. we're always interpreting. >> tea leaves, yes. >> but it is focusing on his credibility and his role in the scheme including causing these false statements to have been made in the first place. >> remember, that is josh steinglass at 8:00 p.m. last night, the last part of his summation was about just go back over the highlights of direct participation of donald trump. he wanted to nail that down. and the powerpoint he used, if you were in the courtroom, was sort of remarkable. because as he hit a point, it was sort of pop out the exhibit for the testimony. so it kept on populating. so by the end, what looked like a small list was like a -- the tree. and so -- >> do they have them, control room? no, that is a great po

the real verdict will come on november 5th, election day. >> dana: microphones are in place at trump tower as we're less than an hour away from hearing from donald trump himself. we'll bring you the former president's remarks as soon as they start. >> the real verdict will be november 5th by the people and they know what happened here and everybody knows what happened here. health? mary, janet, hey!! (thinking: eddie, no frasier, frank... frank?) fred! how are you?! fred... fuel up to 7 brain health indicators, including your memory. join the neuriva brain health challenge. voices of people with cidp: cidp disrupts. cidp derails. let's be honest... all: cidp sucks! voices of people with cidp: but living with cidp doesn't have to. when you sign up at shiningthroughcidp.com, you'll find inspiration in real patient stories, helpful tips, reliable information, and more. cidp can be tough. but finding hope just got a little easier. sign up at shiningthroughcidp.com. all: be heard. be hopeful. be you. -unnecessary action hero ... the nemesis. -it appears that despite my sinister efforts, employe

let's go to bryan llenas outside trump tower waiting for the news conference at 11:00 a.m. eastern time. good morning, bryan. >> good morning. at 11:00 a.m. 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 v

and he's doing it, guys, at the literal scene of the crime here in trump tower. s where david pecker and michael cohen testified that the scheme to influence the 2016 election corruptly as the prosecutors successfully argued was hatched, that david pecker was in donald trump's office 20 some odd floors above me as michael cohen and donald trump asked him what he could do for the campaign and david pecker said i can catch and kill stories. your eyes and ears. i can find negative stories about you before they come to light and i can bury them. that is where donald trump is holding this press conference. it's going to start in about an hour. we don't know what he's going to say. we haven't had prepared remarks, but we do also know what he's going to say because he's been saying it all along, that the system is rigged against him, that the court was rigged against him, that the judge was unfair, the prosecution was unfair. will he go after the jury? he's been gagged and told not to do so. will he do so now? he's claimed wrongly, falsely, that this is a political prose

they specifically want to hear what both men said about a trump tower meeting where pecker says they to an agreement with "trump himself" about a scheme to kill negative stories about him, among other pieces of testimony. they also, the jury, wants to rehear those instructions from the judge. those are the only clues that we have about what is happening inside the deliberation room as the jury weighs a historic decision, whether or not to convict the former president. cbs's robert costa was inside the courthouse, and he will start us off tonight. >> reporter: donald trump's fate is now in the hands of 12 new yorkers. >> mother teresa could not beat these charges. >> reporter: the decision is up to the jury of seven men and five women. among them, to lawyers, a teacher, and a banker, sequestered in a jury room just feet from the courtroom. no cell phones allowed, but they have access to a laptop containing all the evidence. what's it like being inside the jury room? >> it's a pretty extraordinary experience because you have people from all walks of life, all kinds of different diverse

when you look where we are, this trump tower building built 41 years ago. so much is riding not only on these trials but also on november. for them, they understand the stakes. >> there's a court-appointed monitor of the trump organization. donald trump is not in charge right now. we are looking -- you saw a moment ago on the screen next to us, you see where dasha burns is standing. across from her is matthew calamari. it was a trip walking back into this building. seeing all of the people that are still surrounding donald trump and have been throughout all of this. >> not keith schiller. >> they told us they will start on time. it's 11:03. it could happen any moment. we are watching the area where -- that's roped off. i want to talk about the campaign going forward. do we think there's going to be any surprises here today? is donald trump going to give the -- >> you have seen some of the folks that were some of the hardest critics over the years of donald trump, ted cruz's name came up for having his wife and father maligned by the "national enquirer." >> t

we go din with former president donald trump ace fury at trump tower today, unleashing after being found guilty on 34 felony counts. tonight here for the first time, president biden breaking his silence on the verdict and what he said about the jurors in this case. abc's rachel scott leading us off. >> reporter: tonight, president biden speaking out for the first time since his rival, former president donald trump, was convicted of 34 felony counts, declaring the verdict should be respected. >> the american principle that no one is above the law was reaffirmed. >> reporter: biden praising the regular americans who sat on the 12-person jury, saying trump was given every opportunity to defend himself and denouncing trump's efforts to undermine the criminal justice system. >> it's reckless. it's dangerous. it's irresponsible. for anyone to say this was rigged just because they don't like the verdict. our justice system. the justice system should be respected, and we should never allow anyone to tear it down. >> reporter: but from trump today, defiance and fury. at trump tower, the former pr

at the courthouse. >> reporter: tonight, former president donald trump defiant arriving home at trump tower after being found guilty of all 34 charges. trump now a convicted felon. the historic verdict coming after nearly ten hours of deliberations, a unanimous jury of 12 new yorkers made trump the first president in history to be a convicted criminal. it was an extraordinary turn in the courtroom. just moments before jurors signaled they had reached a verdict, judge juan merchan indicated he was going to excuse them for the day. then, a dramatic shift, trump went from joking with his attorneys to sitting stone-faced looking down as the jury read the verdict count by count. prosecutors proving trump falsified business records to conceal a $130,000 hush payment to porn actress stormy daniels to keep her story from voters before the 2016 election. >> mr. president, how do you feel? >> reporter: the former president then marching out of the courtroom with his lawyer, todd blanche, by his side. >> this was a rigged, disgraceful trial. the real verdict is going to be november 5th by the people.

we start with katy tur at trump tower. is where we first saw you in june of 2015 as donald trump was coming down the escalator to declare his presidency with some of the same inaccurate and very controversial rhetoric about migrants and others that we heard today. this is when you first started covering him full-time nine years ago. >> what a nine years it has been. in many ways so familiar and so completely the same. talking about immigration and migrants then. talking about immigration and migrants today. this is a surreal moment to be here in trump tower, because this is literally the scene of the crime. this is what he was convicted for in a manhattan courtroom, 34 felony counts of falsifying documents for a scheme hatched above my head. donald trump, david pecker, michael cohen, to go after donald trump's opponents in the presidential race and to bury stories that are negative about him, including stories from women, including one of stormy daniels. that's what he was convicted for. after that conviction, he came back

today at trump tower, the very place the crimes at the heart of the case took place, mr. trump stood before gathered reporters and some supporters in what appeared to be an unscripted monologue, he railed against the judge calling the trial unfair and rigged and without evidence accused president biden of being behind it. complaints picked up by many of mr. trump's supporters tonight. president biden in his first post-verdict comments pointed out the jury's unanimous verdict and warned it is reckless to say the system is rigged. it's where we begin tonight with hallie jackson. >> reporter: donald trump defiant as ever railing against the dubious history he's made as the first former president convicted of felonies. >> if they can do this to me, they can do this to anyone. >> reporter: as supporters outside trump tower flew a flag reading, trump or death, inside, mr. trump insisted he wanted to take the stand in his own defense. he had the choice and chose not to. >> i wanted to testify. the theory is you never testify because as soon as you testify, anybody, if it were geo

what is striking about the two requests, meeting at trump tower and the phone call seem to highlight donald trump's role in this scheme. jurors may be trying to get to the bottom of what they were told that the president did, telling david pecker and michael cohen to quash negative stories and buy the karen mcdougal story. we will know more when we get a verdict. when could that come? starting with first w-- >> steve: there are dozens of charges, so to make this a felony, there has to be three different choices of other laws broken and stuff like that. judge said, like a cafeteria, you decide this, is it this, this or that? it is possible for him to be convicted on just one and not the others, right? >> yeah, they have 34 separate counts, could convict on one of the 34, some of the 34, all of the 34 and what bumped this up were three other alleged crimes. what is strange about this, those crimes are not charged in this case, it is business records, falsifying business records. they are asking, find him guilty on this other stuff, we did not charge. that is what bragg used to bump it t

former president donald trump is expected to hold a news conference at trump tower in a few hours after the stunning verdict. a manhattan jury finding the former president guilty of all 34 charges in a scheme to illegally influence the 2016 election with hush-money payments to an adult film star. outside the courthouse, chee and jeers erupted as crowds gathered to witness the historic moment. this morning the verdict is splashed across the front page of newspapers here and across the globe. cbs' jarred hill is outside of trump tower with more on the verdict, the reaction, and of course what's to come next. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. that is a huge question -- what happens next? right now it's pretty quiet around trump tower, although there are police and barricades for a couple of blocks as we are expecting the former president to speak here at trump tower after this historic conviction. former president donald trump -- now a convicted felon -- is vowing to appeal. >> i'm a very innocent man who will keep fighting. we'll fight until the end. >> reporter: trump was convicte

. >> now this is significant, jake, because prosecutors allege that 25th the 15 trump tower meeting where they all talked about how the national enquirer could help trump win the white house prosecutors alleged that was the first step in the conspiracy to help trump win the white house in 2016, that ultimately resulted in this effort. >> to cover up the hush money that was paid to stormy daniels. now the jury also asked to hear portions of the instructions, but they'd received earlier yesterday and it was really interesting. they only asked you to rehear the instructions for count one. in addition, in addition to some other things, they only wanted to hear the instructions for count one so if you take together the fact that they wanted to hear about the trump tower meeting way back in 2015, really, the first step in an alleged conspiracy and count one, that's suggests that they could be approaching this incredible task in a linear chronological fashion. but at this point, look, we, we really don't know what is happening inside that deliberation room, but we are watching and we are waiting

michael cohen, david pecker, donald trump, in trump tower, hope hicks coming in and out. e conversation was about essentially david pecker being the eyes and ears for the campaign, making sure they can plant defaming articles about donald trump's opponents in "national enquirer," putting positive spin on pieces about donald trump, and looking out for any women that would kind of quote, unquote, come would have the wood work as donald trump was running for president. and the jury instructions, pages 6 of 35 of the jury instructions that were read or re-read. one thing that stood out within these jury instructions was basically evident inferences. say you go to bed and it's not raining, and you wake up in the morning and the ground is wet and people are walking around with umbrellas. you can draw from that evidence that, in fact, it rained overnight. that was an example they gave in the jury instructions. another was how to find david pecker and michael cohen credible. david pecker obviously signing this non-prosecution agreement with the s.e.c. you can take that to assess h

>> he told the jury that trump signed off on the repayment scheme in a meeting at trump tower with former trump organization cfo allen weisselberg, cohen walked the jury through the 34 allegedly falsified five documents testifying there was no retainer agreement. the money was payback for the daniels deal. >> there's $35,000 check was one of 11 check installments that was paid throughout the year while he was president, the president of the united states thus wrote a personal check for the payment of hush money as part of a criminal scheme to violate campaign finance laws. >> trump attorney todd blanche has used cohen's own words to bolster their defense that cohen would say anything to take trump down and is out for revenge are truly and hope that this man ends up in prison that closing arguments are expected to go all day tomorrow and then on wednesday, the judge expects to instruct the jury on the law. >> that is what the prosecution

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. >> carley: todd piro is live outside trump tower where president trump will speak in three hours fromow. hi, todd. >> todd: expecting and awaiting what president trump will say following 34 counts of falsifying records. his team is focusing on next legal steps. the president telling fox news, think about how something like this could have happened to our country. november 5 will be most important day in our country, we will be fighting hard. listen. >> i predict this will increase t turnout on our side, he will win, he will become next president. he was already crushing joe biden in the polls. i think it will help us and that huge enthusiasm gap will be wider. >> todd: judge juan merchan set his sentencing july 11th. they will challenge this. because of pretrial publicity, former president could not get a fair trial. and the judge's exclusion of witnesses and the judge did not recuse himself after he donated to president biden's campaign and the judge's lawyer works for a democrat political consulting firm. expect all this to be spoken about at trump tower. >> steve: thank you very mu

that includes the testimony pec trump tower meeting where the caption kill scheme was discussed with p. they asked to re-hear the jury instructions that the judge had read to them this morning. judge marchan released the jurors after more than four hours of deliberations and told them to return tomorrow morning, at which point the testimonies will be read back to them. then they will continue their deliberations over whether they believe trump is guilty or not guilty of the 34 counts of falsifying business records in connection to the hush money payments made to adult film star stormy daniels near the end of the 2016 presidential campaign. before the deliberations began, the judge carefully and in detail walked the jury through the charges, making it clear what trump was being charged with and what was required to prove beyond a reasonable doubt for a conviction. some of those instructions could be seen as helpful to the defense, including the judge telling jurors that when weighing a witness' testimony, they could consider whether the witness had a motive to lie and an interest in th

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they also wanted the details of that meeting in 2015 that took place at trump tower between david pecker, michael cohen, and donald trump. >> that was the original meeting to kind of talk about being the eyes and ears of the campaign. >> those are phrased to david pecker had used by his testimony in that meeting it was a meeting we'd learned during the trial called by trump and michael cohen in order to reach out to david pecker to find out what he could do for his campaign to become president yeah. >> and clearly, after the jury really looked at all of that evidence, they came to the conclusion that trump was guilty on all counts. now i am told that trump live id. now, we were told by senior advisers, but people around them, allies and who's calling them late at night at trump tower, that he was saying that he thought it was likely that you would be convicted blaming the fact that the jury was based in manhattan saying that most men out and i taught a left or liberal leaning tint. so he thought that might happen. but when it comes down to actually happen the name donald trump has tended

she testified that she thought that she saw stormy daniels at trump tower on the 27th floor. now you have stormy daniels herself saying that she was invited by donald trump to come meet with him to talk about a potential arrangement of being on the "celebrity apprentice." you look at how the prosecution is presenting the case, they laid down the foundation for stormy daniels and her story and the ramifications it could have had on the election. you also now have her simply confirming stories and meetings that others have already testified to. >> andrew weissmann, jump in here. a lot of this is very detailed and salacious and very specific. what is the point of the prosecution in putting her on the stand? she's obviously a star witness, if not the star witness in this whole case. what is the legal significance? how does a jury react to something this explicit? >> that's a great question, because i think as joyce and i would tell you, it is really not necessary for the jury to find legally that there was a tryst or affair, whatever you want -- or sexual relationship or an encoun

have live pictures or to pull them up again because i was looking at some of those hats on outside trump tower right now or trump just finished? this is the crowd. they've got their 45 and 47 to signal that he was the 45th president. and a hope will be the 47th president it it's interesting to think about this john just in the context of where it is. look, i just fifth avenue, midtown manhattan across the street are right up the block from cardiac. i'd love to know if this is 20 people are 200 though. >> it's hard to tell from this kalman, view because this is on fifth avenue, is like the crowd that attracts me very much j. well. okay. >> it could be jammed up against the building. and so that cars can still go down to your happening, which i presume they can, although we'll see if our photo journalist there can give us a little bit more information. >> there's one of the things that actually has been interesting about this case so far in the six weeks in all of you were down there at different points was there was huge mops. know on either side of demonstrators, on either side here this went

[indiscernible shouting] ■phost: that's the scene outside of trump tower in new york city where the formerresident acknowledged the events of this afternoon at the federal courthouse. we are taking your calls on today's guilty verdict if you want to let us know your response. democrats line -- i'm sorry, on our line for those who suppd. caller: yes, i am kind of happy they found him guilty. i hope everybody who is calling in talking about no votes, i

in true new york fashion, the former president caught in rush hour traffic before returning to trump toweriance. manhattan d.a. alvin bragg, who brought the 34 charges against trump, speaking out after the dishistoric verdict. >> the 12 everyday jurors vowed to make a decision based on the evidence and the law. and the evidence and the law alone. and 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 to the courtroom doors. by following the facts and the law and doing so without fear or favor. >> juju: trump's republican defenders repeatedly called this a political persecution. >> the president's actions in this matter were previously reviewed, and no charges were filed. why is that? because there's no crime here. it's painfully obvious that we are now six months out from an election day, and that's the reason. it's all about politics, and everybody can scene. >> juju: the trial lasting seven weeks. 22 witnesses taking the stand, including the woman at the center o

they're going to david pecker, and they're asking for his testimony about his trump tower meeting where the prosecution has said that's where the conspiracy was borne. the other thing that he said in his closing was he wanted the jury to think about that call between donald trump and david pecker. no michael cohen in that call, just between the two of them about keeping karen mcdougal's story from being published. and he said they weren't talking about jump starting mcdougal's career. this was about protecting the campaign. if you go back to that call he said it's easy to lose sight of the significance of this call with all the documents in this case. so he made a real point in his closing about how important this call was to showing that this transaction is an unlawful corporate contribution from ami to trump's campaign. look here, and it's the first thing they're asking for. so, again, i think the state has to be happy that they have clearly listened to the closing, and they are at least looking at

election and although these different requests seemed to really focus on that aspect of this case, the trump tower meeting, where that conspiracy was allegedly born, and then also this phone call that trump had with david in june in 2016, about one aspect of that conspiracy related to the hush money payments to karen mcdougall in closing arguments last night, joshua stein glass argued to the jurors that it is that phone call with david knowledge of the hush money payments to care and mcdougall ahead of time, that it was that phone calling which he indicated to david packard that he could work with michael cohen as an intermediary on trump's behalf. >> so please clearly, the prosecution thought this was a very important phone call. the jurors are very focused on it and finally, it's also important what is not included in this request, which is any request about the credibility of michael cohen, the defense case has rested on attacking michael cohen's credibility and you might i'd expect that if the jurors had questions about that at this point, they might be requesting testimony related to the atta

they also reviewed the testimony of michael cohen and david pecker regarding their august 2015 trump tower meeting, as well as testimony from david pecker regarding a call from donald trump at his decision to not buy playbook play mite life's rights. regarding the trump tower meeting read back to the jury in court today, "the new york times" reports this. quote, ichael cohen's testimony matches david pecker's account fairly closely. pecker testified that he had said he would be be trump's eyes and ears and would watch out for negative stories. michael cohen recalls him saying he would keep an eye out for anything negative. nbc news reports this on all the factors that could have led the jury to ask about these specific pieces of testimony, reporting, quote, not a word of this is about the 34 counts of falsifying business records, which is notable. if the documents aren't false records, the jury doesn't even need to reach the question of whether the state has proven the other crime that bumps the charges up to the felonies. pecker was also the first witness who testified weeks ago now at th

this meeting at trump tower, this was the opposite. this was subversion, steinglass says, in reality, this agreement at trump tower was the exact opposite, subversion of the election that assumes the voting public has access to information, and the meeting was to deny the voters. to pull the wool over their eyes in a coordinated fashion. pecker and ami stopped engaging in legitimate press activities the moment they agreed to become a covert arm of the defendant's campaign. they are telling a story. >> yeah. >> this is a narrative. i didn't hear, except for small portions, todd blanche tell a story today. >> he goes on to say when they serve an unlawful purpose, including unlawful campaign contributions in the past, pecker had declined to publish negative stories about trump. that was fundamentally different than seeking out and buying those stories to make sure they would never be told. >> what josh steinglass just did was describe the conspiracy to promote donald trump's campaign by unlawful means and he talked about the campaign fina

they also want to review michael cohen's testimony about that very same trump tower meeting. we know that cohen confirmed the meeting. and then in this instance, his testimony would appear to line up with pecker and that other corroboration. and he said pecker would keep an eye out for anything negative about trump and he'd be able to help us, know in advance what was coming out, and try to stop it from coming out. that last part is crucial. that's where the d.a. says the

deliberations wednesday, jurors asked to rehear key pieces of testimony, specifically about the 2 2015 trump towerting with trump former "national enquirer" publisher david pecker, and michael cohen. that is where they hatched a so-called catch and kill scheme that could spike stories in trump's presidential run. asked if the purpose of the deal was to benefit the campaign. that is right, pecker testified in april. the defense tried to portray cohen as untrustworthy, trump's lead attorney calling him the mvp of liars and closing arguments. >> norah: and robert costa is back with us, and robert, i know you have been talking to sources close to the former president. what do they tell you about his mood and what is next? >> reporter: sources close to former president trump tell me tonight that he is furious and that this campaign will now become a summer of grievance. he will rail against this case and the prosecution as he tries to keep republicans rallying around him head of the republican national convention. on the legal front, the appeals process already beginning. >> norah: robert costa, thank

and of course, gb news will be there for you live and direct from trump tower . d at around 3:25, i'll be joined by former white house adviser to president trump, sebby's corner gorka . you won't sebby's corner gorka. you won't want to miss that. also yesterday, five bulgarians were jailed after fleecing british taxpayers of over £50 million in benefits fraud . we'll have benefits fraud. we'll have staggering pictures of a town built in bulgaria, entirely paid for by embezzled benefits, handouts, and that's all coming between now on 6 pm. welcome to the show. and we'll also have the show. and we'll also have the latest on a truly shocking story from germany, where prominent anti—islam activists michael sternberger was brutally attacked in a mass stabbing earlier today that also saw a policeman stabbed in the neck. we'll also have some lighter stuff as well, as we cruise into the weekend. what a mickey mouse week. it's been for rishi sunak. they're talking about mickey mouse degrees. of course, this will also feature ed davey. he's been on a paddle board. he's been

the one involving the doorman at trump tower, karen mcdougal, the former playboy model, and stormy daniels, saying that michael cohen was involved in all these steps, but they don't the jury doesn't have to rely on cohen alone. we also pointing to the phone the recording that cohen made with his phone of him speaking with donald trump about the karen mcdougal repayment, trying to direct the jury in different directions of where they could look at some of this evidence that isn't michael cohen and that's because trump's team spent a good portion of their two-and-a-half hours focusing on michael cohen saying that he is the gloat the greatest liar of all time, pointing out different ways that they say that he has lied of the prosecutors saying that the reason why michael cohen was of such use to donald trump is because he was willing to live for him. so really a battle both over michael cohen in this

there are hundreds of trump supporters and protesters outside of trump tower today. big question though is how independent and swing state voters are going to react to this verdict minutes of the verdict the trump campaign began fundraising off of this verdict. the homepage for the trump website saying quote breaking news i am a political prisoner, asking people to donate. the campaign says they received more than 485,000 donations totaling some $35 million, doubling the last record for a single day of donations. this as republicans are coalescing around the former president. 8 republican senators including marco rubio marsha blackburn, jdi vance vowing to no longer cooperate with democrats, signing a letter that said the white house has made a mockery of the rule of law. senator mike lee writing on! strongly worded statements are not enough. those who turned our judicial system into a political fragile must be held accountable. we are no longer cooperating with any democratic legislative priorities or nominations, and we invite all concerned senators to join our stan

question, he said he believed this occurred at trump tower some days before mr. trump actually left for washington is that right? correct. did mr. weisselberg have with him this document people's exhibit 35? he did. did he show it to mr. trump, yes. michael cohen testified today for the first time that just before leaving to be inaugurated as president of the united states donald trump reviewed the smoking gun document that laid out the crime. he then talked in detail about the crime with his cfo and with michael cohen and he said do it. quote, he approved it. so, if there's anything in this case that isn't just plainly black letter proven by the documents and records, if there's anything else we have been waiting for in testimony from witnesses this is probably it, right? it certainly wasn't all, there's a lot to say about what happened today. let's start there. lawrence o'donnell, you were there. >> one other bit we got that is sequential here an important is donald trump, at the time in october of 2016, the final days of the presidential campaign directing mich

lydia hu is at trump tower. what happens next?ll, stuart, i'm standing in the lobby of trump tower right now where we are awaiting those remarks from the former president, donald trump, expected to kick off around a 1 1:00 today just on the heels of that guilty verdict. the former president has already told fox news digital that he will fight this guilty verdict with an appeal from this trial. his attorney, todd blanche, also told fox that they believe the former president did not get a fair trial in this case. but, stuart, important to note here that that whatever the former president, donald trump, i says today here at trump the tower, he still remains under the gag order at the moment from judge with juan merchan which prohibits his comments on witnesses and and jurors in this case. that gag order, stuart, remains in place unless and until the judge lifts it. the defense attorneys can ask is ask for that 40 to happen, ask and we're checking this morning, and there are no signs of any movement on that front just yet. as a we are

cnn's kristen holmes and brynn gingras are live inside and inside and outside trump tower, i think is what is the guess is what i'm looking at kristinn, take us inside first. donald trump says he's holding a press conference. what are you hearing? we could be he could say okay, i wouldn't expect to hear anything different from what he has been saying that this case was election interference, that it should have never been rod, it was political persecution and probably trying to link this without any evidence to president joe biden. >> the reason why he has competed company continued to repeat this rhetoric is because his team thinks that this helps him. in november, that it riles up the base than it really helps rally republicans around the former president. now i will well, note that there are several advisers and allies of the former president who will acknowledge that they are in uncharted territory. they don't know what is going to happen. they are feeling good at forgetting lot of fund raising numbers. they haven't given them to us yet, but they say that they really took in a lot