the criminal trial of former president donald trump. i m rachel maddow. i m here with my colleagues stephanie ruhle and jen psaki and alex wagner and chris hayes. in a courtroom in downtown manhattan just after 5:00 eastern time this evening the foreperson of the jury rose and delivered the jury s unanimous verdict, donald trump guilty on all 34 counts of falsifying business records in order to conceal a scheme to corrupt the 2016 election. it s a scheme that was described by the prosecution in their summation as something that may very well have been the reason that donald trump won the 2016 election. as of tonight it is officially a criminal scheme. he has been convicted on 34 counts. with those convictions we enter uncharted territory as a country. for the first time a president has been criminally convicted, and for the first time one of our two main political parties is about to nominate that same man for president after he has been convicted of 34 felonies. that is wher
store you are watching our live continuing special coverage of today s unanimous guilty on all counts verdict. in the criminal trial of former president donald trump. i am rachel maddow, i m here with my colleague, stephanie ruhle and jen psaki and alex wagner and chris hayes, in a courtroom in downtown manhattan, just after 5:00 eastern time this evening, a foreperson of the journey rose and delivered the jury unanimous , guilty on all 34 counts of falsifying business records in order to conceal the scheme to correct the 2016 election. the scheme that was described by the prosecution in their summation as something that may very well have been the reason that donald trump won the 2016 election. as of tonight, it is official a criminal scheme, he has been convicted on 34 counts. with those convictions, we enter uncharted territory as a country, for the first time, a president has criminally convicted and for the first time for one of our two main political parties is about to
they ll pack they ll get on every single slice. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we re expecting a vote in the house of representatives. the house oversight committee at any moment now on whether to hold the attorney general of the united states, eric holder, in contempt of congress. at issue, his refusal to turn over documents about the botched gun-running sting operation called fast and furious. the republican-led panel going forward even after president obama today invoked executive privilege claiming the release of the documents would have in his words, significant damaging consequences. the attorney general has refused to cooperate offering to provide subpoenaed documents only if the committee agrees in advance to close the investigation. no investigator would ever agree to that. the likes of the committee chairman. he will call the role call momentarily. want to know if senior justice officials knew if the fast and furious program was flawed. fe
and snail mail? about to get even slower. time to play reporter roulette. kate bolduan on capitol hill, democrats have taken another shot, extending the payroll tax cut before it expires at the end of the year. here s my if to you. if congress doesn t get it done, they can t compromise, your paycheck could be a lot lighter next year. what s the difference in this version of the plan today? reporter: in this version of the plan, this is now the kind of newest proposal to come forward, this coming from senate democrats, this keep what this proposal does is extend the payroll tax cut for employees and actually expand it so employees would be having to pay even less in the payroll tax. so it would go from 4.2% tax to 3.1% tax. a big change, though, is this proposal does not include it has dropped the payroll are tax cut employers. democrats say that was done in an effort to bring down the overall cost of the package. it s now about a third of what democrats had originally
then you clearly were mott hit in the head by any falling space debris. congratulations. nasa s satellite came crashing down overnight and nasa doesn t know exactly where it crashed. it did says it re-entered the atmosphere somewhere over the pacific ocean. don t know where it is. if it landed in your yard, you think it s somewhere around, we d love to hear about it. let me show you the video of it coming down. this comes to us from our affiliate in san antonio, texas. you see that dot. yes, we ve been building up for the past week to this satellite crashing to bring you a dot. that s supposedly a piece of the space debris there or it could be somebody playing with a flashlight in a tree in the distance. we didn t know where, from the u.s., hawaii, philippines, new zealand, everybody claims to have seen this come down. dots can be compelling. it is true. i was compelled and i m compelled to show you video that might be more spectacular, this from the great state of hawaii.