reporter: back now to the death of former secretary of state henry kissinger at the age of 100. msnbc nightly news anchor lester holt reports on the life and legacy of the controversial figure who played a major role in american diplomacy for decades. thank you. nice to see you all. reporter: he was brilliant, ambitious, controversial, and one of the most influential secretaries of state in american history. i think we made for the progress. reporter: henry kissinger served richard nixon, gerald ford, and was consulted by presidents of both parties on international issues throughout his life. henry kissinger has been a friend of mine. reporter: nixon made him a national figure, and together, they reimagined u.s. foreign policy. détente with the soviet union, relations with china, shuttle diplomacy in the middle east. kissinger helped to shape nixon s policy in vietnam and negotiated in the end to the war. famously declaring success prematurely just days before
house. let me tell you, dream of people. butler s, the housekeepers, they would all stop by and they would grandma s room was like the confessional marion robinson was 86-years-old thanks for joining us ac30 60 with anderson starts now tonight are 360. the former president on loads and the verdict that made him a convicted felon and republicans join him and attacking the criminal justice says stem, what s ahead in his case in new polling on the political impact also tonight, someone who knows what it s like to get inside his head or to the deal goes right. are tony schwartz and how his former subject may have they ll the days ahead and breaking news, the details of president biden s new ceasefire proposal for gaza, the timing of it, and the reception. it s getting good evening. thanks for joining us. we begin tonight. i with what comes next legally politically and otherwise now the donald trump is a convicted felon. both he and president biden weight in today, the presi
be looked at in the fishbowl, they are human beings who also have athleticism and talent. but the idea of having them not be comprehensive full people would be something that would be selfish and wrong. and we see that more and more every single day. jerry brewer. thank you so much for joining us this evening. and hey, everyone out there. thank you so much for watching anderson cooper 360 is next tonight are 360, the former president on loads and the verdict that made him a convicted felon and republicans joined him and attacking the criminal justice system what s ahead and his case in new polling on the political impact also tonight, someone who knows what it s like to get inside his head, order, the deal goes, right, or tony schwartz and how his former subject may handle the days ahead and breaking news. the details of president biden s new ceasefire proposal for gaza, the timing of it, and the reception. it s getting. good evening. thanks for joining us. we begin wha
now, donald trump on the attack after jurors found him guilty of 34 criminal counts. key witness, michael cohen, among trump s top targets, calling his former fixer a sleazebags without saying his name, did the former president at turned convicted felon violate his gag order? again? that s something for judge juan merchan to consider just ahead of trump s sentencing on july 11, we re breaking down the potential punishments were drunk from jail time to public service. also, this our president biden says, israel has offered a new roadmap for a gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal, even as disrupt confirms its expanding its offensive in rafah, moving into the center of the city welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m will flits here in the situation room tonight. donald trump is plotting, is next legal and political moves. as he season s over is historic criminal conviction and lashes out at just about everyone. he blames for the verdict s
don t know. i mean, it s a good question. i think understanding why a jury reaches a verdict is something that every single trial lawyer in the country would love to be able to answer honestly look, a lot goes into a jury verdict that doesn t even include what happened at the trial. the decisions that are made before the trial, the decisions that the court makes, and that the parties decide about witnesses a call, what evidence to put in i think that at the end of the day it remains true that if the word of michael cohen was not accepted at all, then you could not have convicted president trump. and the jury convicted. so at the end of the day they they looked past what we thought were were fatal flaws and mr. cohen s story and his past and they ve reached a guilty verdict right. but it wasn t just the word of michael cohen. i mean, there was other evidence in this case, the documents they wanted to rehear, david pecker s testimony. i mean, they took all of that into consid