donald trump becomes the first american president convicted of a felony after a new york jury found him guilty of 34 counts of falsifying business records. i did my job. we did our job. the only voice that matters is the voice of the jury, and the jury has spoken. it s reckless. it s dangerous. it s irresponsible for anyone to say this was rigged just because they don t like the verdict. how will the historic verdict impact the 2024 race? the real verdict is going to be november 5th by the people. my guests this morning, former manhattan district attorney cyrus vance, tom cotton of arkansas, and hakeem jeffries. joining me for insight and analysis are amy walter, editor in chief of the politico report. leigh ann caldwell of the washington post. former white house press secretary jen psaki, and lahnee chen. welcome to sunday. it s meet the press . from nbc news in washington, the longest-running show in television history, this is meet the press with kristen w
A look at breaking news, politics and reports from around the world. Collusion, wikileaks collaboration, or any other impropriety related to the 2016 election, which i thought was the subject of this probe. I understand she appeared voluntarily. I am highly confident she will testify truthfully if called upon to do so. Davis once ran a highend Prostitution Ring and went to jail in the scandal surrounding then democratic governor eliot spitzer. The remorse i feel will always be with me. Reporter she has worked with stone over the years. And in late 2016, she joined his payroll to help him with clerical tasks. Muellers team has been looking into possible contact between stone and wikileaks founder, Julian Assange, as well as stones contact with russia during the 2016 campaign. Stone admitted to trading direct twitter messages with guccifer 2. 0, which is now known to be an online persona for russian intelligence officers. But stone says the messages were innocuous. I certainly acknowledg
and i m confident that we made the right choice for us at that time in pursuing the financial crimes investigation. as you know, it resulted in convictions. so, cy, if i can, let me ask you. when you were the manhattan d.a., you charged the trump organization, chief financial officer alan wieselburg, but did not pursue charges against donald trump himself. how much was the fact that he was a sitting president, former president weigh into that decision? well, i think, of course, it weighs into the decision because of the significance of a decision to charge a sitting president, but ultimately we did pursue those charges that we felt were appropriate and which were backed up by the evidence and which were significant. in the first indictment, it was systemic tax fraud and double bookkeeping in his company, and that s what we felt the charges
still district attorney. he did not run for re-election. there s a new district attorney starting in december. they spent a lot of resources going to the supreme court twice to get tax records of donald trump. they have already indicted allen weisselberg, the cfo. it s possible they ll indict the coo, who is calamari sr., and i think there s a lot going on. when you look at the case, people have said, oh, it s just a benefits case, fringe benefits that weren t recorded. this isn t that. this is a 15-year fraud. it s a conspiracy, double bookkeeping. they kept fraudulent books. so it s much more than that. and everybody says, including you had barbara rez commenting there, and she has always said nothing happens at trump organizations that donald trump didn t know about. so the chances are he knew what
the day. she will be back on monday. she s expected to take the stand at 1:00. what can you tell what can we tell, shimon, where the prosecution is heading, based on what we ve seen for so far the way they re setting up evidence of double bookkeeping, for example, fudged loan applications, and hidden offshore accounts? right, so, look, it s clear they have a pretty strong case. they have e-mails from paul manafort to this accountant, to other people. there are notes, there are conversations, that they know all about. it s a tight case, it seems. it seems like they have a lot of information. and really, what they re doing is, each witness is kind of supporting other theories, other witnesses, and in fact, i think what today shows us is this is all a buildup to next week when rick gates is expected to take the stand. shimon, prosecutors also questioned his claims about that apartment that he had in trump tower. what s that about? right. so that has to do with tax issues. he cla