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
we have to make a decision in this country. not that moderates suddenly come to some sense of reason. but finally, to discover the diversity that s at the heart of the country. i hope we can do it. i pray we can do it. we need to. thank you so much for your wisdom, your perspective during these challenging times for america. that s going to wrap up the hour for us. thank you for the privilege of your time. andrea mitchell, chris jansing and katy tur pick up our coverage next. good day, everyone. i m andrea mitchell in new york. with my colleague chris jansing for a landmark moment in our nation s history. our teammate katy tur will join us in a moment from inside trump tower where donald trump has just talked about the prosecutor and judge who presided over his case and said he would have loved to testify. this is a scam. this is a rigged trial. it shouldn t haven t been in that venue. we shouldn t have had that judge. he should have allowed us to have an election
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
praises donald trump s mideast peace plan a day ahead of his son veiling but the palestinians reject it also this hour the u.s. military says it s investigating after a plane with u.s. markings crashes in afghanistan s ghastly projects i m barbara starr in london with the top stories from europe including 75 years after al schmitz was liberated survivor isn t sure the horrors of the holocaust are never forgotten. and on peter similar the school stalls from the basketball world and beyond remember kobe bryant s off to the n.b.a. store and he s going to die of along with 7 of those in a helicopter crash in telephone. donald trump s legal team is set to begin a 2nd day of augments in defense of the president at his impeachment trial in the senate the republican majority is under renewed pressure to allow witnesses and more documents following revelations surrounding former national security adviser john bolton in a league strapped of his book bolton reportedly claims the preside
Very careful calculations, we hear at the Rachel Maddow show have determined that we, us, our collective humanity, we have arrived finally at the Halfway Point of 2020. You guys, technically, as of today, we are halfway threre. Its a leap year there arent 365 days this year. There are 366. At least there will be by the time we get to the end of it there will be 366 days by the end of this year. Divide by two to find the Halfway Point. Thats 183 days. Count up all the days we had so far. Yesterday was day 183. That means at midnight we hit day 184. Which means we have made it through the whole first half of this year that we all wish would stop already. Honestly, 2020 would have been a catastrophic year in the news if it had stopped three months ago. But we have made it halfway through. They cannot make us do that again. And it is astonishing that this first half of this year alone, more than 128,000 of our fellow americans did not make it to see this point because of the coronavirus. A