that is our show for tonight. a special edition of donald trump witness to history starts right now. after 22 witnesses and 16 days of testimony, donald trump has become the first-ever american president to be convicted of a crime. this trial will go down in history, but without cameras in the courtroom, americans never got to see the evidence for themselves. they did not get to see trump s isa close and his mouth go slack while he sat slumped at the defense table. they did not get to hear stormy daniels salacious testimony firsthand. they do not get to watch the judge cleared the courtroom seemingly in anger as he butted heads with a truculent witness. instead, americans had to rely on word from the few reporters who were in the room. reporter: that was something. donald trump was crying from the oval office. even todd lynch said he was writing checks from the white house. in terms of the vibe in the room, what you have heard about it being kind of a courtroom is re
Witnesses. hope hickson david pecker, the person who headed the national enquirer, were devastating witnesses. their subsequent testimony is so damning for donald trump and their cross-examination was kid gloves. nobody s testimony is in some restricts respects more devastating than hope hicks because of her proximity. no one questioned her credibility but if you take a step back and forget about the accident of their respective births, hope hicks coming from very wealthy greenwich connecticut, being raised as the ralph lauren model, the epitome of poise and grace in the trump white house contrasted with stormy daniels, who had, by contrast, a very rough childhood, a mother who abandoned her all of this comes out on her direct examination but the difference in how they were trusted, i think, is really palpable in sort of a toxic brew of class