marquardt. new hope for more than two dozen premature babies evacuated from a decimated hospital in gaza as israel tries to make the case that the medical facility was a hamas command center. plus, tech madness. openai now in turmoil after a chaotic 72 hours seeing its ceo fired and quickly hired over at microsoft. hundreds of workers at openai threatening to follow him. a heated courtroom showdown right now. donald trump fighting his gag order in the federal 2020 election subversion case. trump says it s about the first amendment and free speech. special counsel says trump is trying to intimidate witnesses. following these major developing stories and many more coming in right here to cnn news central. we begin this hour with more fighting at gaza s hospitals. israel s military says its troops target add group of militants after they opened fire from inside the indonesian hospital overnight. the head of the world health organization says he is appalled by the attack,
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
hi there, everyone. it s 4:00 in new york. the trump davidians, that is how trump ally steve bannon sums up a movement that has swallowed whole one of our nation s two major political parties. a movement led by an ex-president currently facing 91 felony counts and on a third run for the white house on a platform of damaging democracy. that quote is from jonathan carl s brand-new book tired of winning: donald trump and the end of the grand old party. it reveals this dramatic collision of efforts to hold the ex-president accountable for his alleged crimes and misdeeds and a candidate who has no hesstation stoking the fires of right-wing extremism and sees winning the presidency as the only way out of his legal troubles. in an essay in the atlantic that is adapted from his book, john karl writes this about the decision by the trump campaign to hold its very first rally in waco, texas. the site of a standoff between far-right extremists and the fbi that ended in dozens of dea
that 12 ordinary manhattanites believed and convicted him on. the other thing i am really thinking about tonight s go ahead, nicole, i m sorry. i m sorry, lisa. we had a switcheroo involving a lot of audiovisual conduits and i appreciate you going with us on it like it was a flume ride. lisa rubin, thank you very much at the courthouse in lower manhattan. thank you. it is just after 8:00 p.m. eastern time and here we are. hello and welcome to our continued special coverage of today s unanimous, guilty on all counts verdict in the new york criminal trial of former president trump. i am rachel maddow. i am joined by my colleagues nicolle wallace and joy reid and katie phang and chris hayes. also lawrence o donnell is with us. we are 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. michael cohen will be joining us in one moment, live onset. it was 4:20 p.m. eastern tim
good day. i m chris jansing live at msnbc headquarters in new york city, and i m just back from spending the morning in court with the jurors. you must set aside any personal opinions or bias. with those words, judge juan merchan sent a jury of 12 citizens to make one of the biggest decisions of their lives and determine the legal fate of former president donald trump. we will dig into the enormous task now before them with our team of legal experts and analysts. defendant trump proclaiming his innocence and comparing himself to a saint. the former president, real estate mogul and tv star now confined to a bleak waiting room. so what happens if he actually got convicted? and miles away from that room where donald trump is right now, president biden and vice president harris are hitting the campaign trail together today. we begin inside that had new york city courthouse where the moment of truth for donald trump could be either hours or day away. the jury in the hush money