continued special coverage of today s unanimous guilty on all counts verdict in the new york criminal trial of former president donald trump. i am rachel maddow joined by nicole wallace and joy reid and katie phang and chris hayes. also lawrence o donnell is with us. we re about to be joined by the star witness for the prosecution in this trial. michael cohen is going to speak with us exclusively giving us his first reaction to this verdict tonight. michael cohen will be joining us here in just one moment. he ll be with us live here on set. 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
for those of you just joining us today for the first time in american history a former president of the united states has been criminally convicted in a court of law. just hours ago, a jury of 12 ordinary americans found donald trump guilty on all 34 felony counts he faced in the state of new york. those charges of falsifying business records stem from trump s cover-up of an alleged extramarital affair with adult film star stormy daniels and his effort to keep that information from the voters. the story first broke back in 2018 when the wall street journal dropped a bombshell report at the time too about the hush money payment to daniels to prevent her from going public. now, it took years the justice system can work slowly at time, that s how sometimes it works, but it took years for prosecutors to bring a case forward so. long, in fact thargs it was dubbed a zombie case. that is until alvin bragg took the extraordinary step of indicting a former president. he was the fi
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