Under oath. Cohen is the last prosecution witness and the question that remains this morning, what, if anything defense will trumps legal team mount . Nbcs Yasmin Vossoughian is outside that courthouse. I also want to bring in our legal panel, former u. S. Attorney and former senior fbi official Chuck Rosenberg, new York Law School professor and director of the schools criminal defense clinic. Ana coe min ski and criminal Defense Attorney and former federal prosecutor duncan levins. There was a little bit of uncertainty this morning in court, a long Bench Meeting before the Cross Examination got underway. Bring us up to speed on all of it. Reporter the last day week five of this trial, a 19minute Bench Meeting at the start of court before the jury was brought in. We dont know what they talked about. Once we get the partial transcript out this morning, were going to figure that out and let you know. A couple of things that have come out so far even just in the last 30 minutes or so, the
while this defendant may be unlike any other in american history, we arrived at this trial and ultimately, today, at this verdict in the same manner as every other case that comes through the court room doors. by following the facts and the law, and doing so without fear or favor. many voices out there, the only voice that matters is the voice of the jury and the jury has spoken. manhattan district attorney alvin bragg speaking yesterday following the historic conviction of former president donald trump on all 34 counts in the criminal hush money trial. trump becomes the first former u.s. president in american history to be convicted of a crime. the verdict was read around 5:00 p.m. in a new york city courtroom after the 12 jurors deliberated for roughly 9.5 hours, two days. each of the 34 felony counts associated with a falsified business records pertaining to trump s reimbursement of his former attorney and fixer, michael cohen, for a hush money payment to adult film ac
many voices out there, the only voice that matters is the voice of the jury, and the jury has spoken. manhattan district attorney alvin bragg speaking yesterday following the historic conviction of former president donald trump on all 34 counts in the criminal hush money trail. trump becomes the first former u.s. president in american history to be convicted of a crime. the verdict was read just around 5:00 p.m. in a new york city courtroom after the 12 jurors deliberated for roughly 9 1/2 hours over two days. each of the 34 felony counts is associated with a falsified business record pertaining to trump s reimbursement of his former attorney and fixer, michael cohen, for a hush money payment to adult film actress stormy daniels during the 2016 presidential campaign, to keep her quiet about a sexual encounter she says she had with trump back in 2006. trump has denied her claim. sentencing is set for july 11th, just four days before the republican national convention begins
then the sides will submit their sentencing memorandum. the trump side will unquestionably ask for probation only sentence. the real question for me and what i m curious about is what the d.a.s office asks for. will they say, this is a political decision is asked for probation only. we won and let s call it a victory. will he ask for incarceration? i believe they will ask for an incarceration sentence in this case. the question is what judge merchan will do. there plenty of arguments to be made for probation-only sentence. this is a 71 plus-year-old offender. a nonviolence offense and first-time offender. no guns or drugs or violence involved. and i would make an additional argument and reasonable minds can disagree here but i would say that loss, in the great chuck rosenberg what are you and fraud systems, the single biggest driver of a sentence is the dollar amount of loss and loss is measured in different ways. as a defense attorney i would argue the loss in this case is