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
their relationship and all that attention that it s getting. i m probably going to get some hate online for making any comment about that. thank you so much for joining us this afternoon around. always a pleasure. the lever jake tapper starts right now 34 convictions. but what happens next? the leader starts right now donald trump takes to the mic, airing familiar grievances and railing against the historic guilty verdict in the hush money case. what the trump team s plan we re going to talk tell you moving forward. potential trump vice presidential pick senator tim scott will be here and i ll also talk with republican senator rick scott of florida, who s running a replace mitch mcconnell plus senate republican leader plus one of trump s targets today as former fixer, michael cohen. how does he feel now that his former boss is a convicted felon, michael cohen s lawyer joins me, lie and president biden announces a new proposal for a ceasefire in gaza. it will bring hostages
hi there, everyone. it s 4:00 in new york. the ex-president turned criminal defendant and his lawyers, the prosecutors who brought the first ever criminal case against an american ex-president and indeed the entire country waiting for word from the jury in the trump election interference hush money criminal trial. in court right now, the jury is currently on its 10th hour of deliberations. the judge has said that the jury will not work past 6:00 p.m. today no matter what. if anything happens in court, we ll let you know as soon as we know. the jury spent most of their morning listening to things they have already heard before read back to them. they asked to rehear the judge s instructions regarding what inferences they can make from the evidence shown at trial. they also reviewed the testimony of michael cohen and david pecker regarding their august 2015 trump tower meeting, as well as testimony from david pecker regarding a call from donald trump at his decision to not buy
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
send you a free book to answer questions you may have call now and we ll come to you 808 to 14000 welcome to inside politics. i m dana bash, a manhattan courtroom it s again, setting the agenda for the 2024 campaign, right now. or jury is deliberating, weighing, and measuring the facts presented by the prosecutors and whether they ve made a convincing singh enough case to convict donald trump. the 12 jurors spent the morning listening to a court reporter read pivotal excerpts from testimony of michael cohen when and former tabloid publisher david pecker, donald trump is inside the courthouse. he s not allowed to leave the building until there is a verdict or the jury breaks for the day. so what s going through his mind? well, you might call it the freddie mercury strategy. he s convinced that nothing really matters and he actually believes that he will likely be found guilty. now, this is all reporting from our very own, kristen holmes, who starts us off outside the c