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
everyone come i am laura ingraham and this isnight. the ingraham angle reportingin from texas. thank you for joining us tonight. this is a fox news alert, a historic moment president trump filling guilty all 34 counts. we will go live in just a moment but first. i guess we all need what, toat i shop at banana republic from now on because that is what it feels like, yeah, sa ba banana repubc and i wish there was something n to laugh about but there is not. this is disgraceful day that america may never recover from here the jury convicted trump oe all 34 counts of falsifying business records in order to6 interfere with 2016 presidential election. we will break that all down for our you but from the beginning this case should have never been brought. this judge should never be allowed to sit on the case. these charges should never have been dismissed when the first motion filed by the defense. t the jury instructions were fatally flawed to come flawed, farcical. you don t hav
good to be with you. i m katy tur. all eyes are on lower manhattan where five women and seven men are in their eighth hour of deliberations, tasked with deciding whether donald trump is guilty of a cover up to interfere with the 2016 election. this morning, the jurors asked the court for a second hearing of key testimony. the descriptions from both michael cohen and david pecker about the 2015 trump tower meeting where the three men agreed to work together to promote and protect donald trump in the press. from pecker, quote, at that meeting, donald trump and michael, they asked me what i can do and what my magazine could do to help the campaign. i said what i would do is i would run or publish positive stories about mr. trump, and i would publish negative stories about his opponents. i said i would be your eyes and ears. if i hear anything negative or hear anything about women selling stories, i would notify michael cohen. this from michael cohen s testimony, quote, what he,
the trump foundation for a 15-year tax fraud. now he has this one. that is a big deal. and i think we should recognize the skill, the talent, and the drive that undergirds everything that happened here. i am, however, also looking at the way trump allies, wanna be trump allies and the republican party writ large is reacting to this. i agree with you, joy. the specter of a republican front-runner being crowned the nominee four days after the sentencing, becoming a felon, is something we never thought he would see in americans history. the reality is the trump team, the rnc. republicans across the country think this is a gift to them. eric trump saying today, may 30th, 2024, might be remembered as the day donald j. trump was re-elected. and that is not to say that s necessarily what s going to happen, but it points to this incredible schism in american culture and politics where one, i think earth one, as rachel maddow likes to call it, understands what happened here as a tes
of an appearance before the verdict is read, but of course that means they haven t ruled it in either. right? and there s not much time? no likely. all right. thank carol. thank you. and thanks so much to all of you, anderson starts now don t trump s fate is in the hands of 12 manhattan jurors, and they have questions. good evening. thanks for joining us day one, a jury deliberations in the first ever trial of a former president began with the judge reading 55 pages of instructions on what to consider as the jurors way 34 we re felony charges. now, the day ended with the buzzer, which signals the jury wants to communicate going off once then again, the first time to say they wanted four pieces of testimony read back to them. the second to ask the judge to reread them his instructions unclear so far whether that means the whole thing or selected portions of it. the testimony they wanted it s from david pecker, the former national enquirer publisher and former trump lawyer