that s our show for tonight. a special edition of prosecuting 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 didn t get to see trump s eyes close and his mouth go slack while he sat slumped at the defense table. they didn t get to hear stormy daniels salacious testimony first harnd. they didn t get to watch the judge clear the courtroom, seemingly in anger, as he butted heads with one particularly truculent ewitness. instead, americans had to rely on word from the few reporters who were actually in the room making note, writing down, committing to memory the things we saw and experienced. things that a transcript cannot capture. take a look. that was something to behold. i could hear gasps all around me. i
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
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 didn t get to see trumps eyes close and his mouth go slack as he sat slumped at the defense table. they didn t get to hear stormy daniels salacious testimony, firsthand. i didn t get to watch the judge clear the courtroom, seemingly in anger, as he butted heads with one particularly truculent witness. instead, americans have to rely on word from the few reporters who were actually in the room, making notes, writing down, committing to memory the things we saw and experienced. things that a transcript cannot capture. take a look. that was something to behold. i could hear gasps all around me . i wasn t sure we are going to get to a place where we had any guilty verdict against donald trump, let alone all 34 count
Day in and day out, waking up at the crack of dawn to wait in line to get one of the few seats available to the public and press at 100 center street here in manhattan, so tonight i am joined by a very special legal panel who also spent many hours in the manhattan criminal courthouse. please welcome nbc senior legal correspondent and attorney, laura jarrett. msnbc host, legal contributor and former criminal trial attorney, katie fang, and msnbc legal correspondent and former big law litigator, lisa rubin. they are here with us for the whole hour along with msnbc host giving us their impressions from inside the courthouse. lisa, obviously some of these witnesses got a ton of attention. they may not have been the most important witnesses but stormy daniels, michael cohen and maybe the most surprising witness, which was the defendants last witness, bob costello. i thought that was a huge bomb. but what was your impression of how they did that people might not get from just reading
Law litigator, lisa rubin. they are here with us for the whole hour along with nbc hosts giving us their impression from inside the courthouse. lisa, obviously some of these witnesses got a ton of attention. they may not have been the most important witness, but stormy daniels, michael cohen, and maybe maybe the most surprising witness, which was the defendant s last witness, the last witness anyone heard, bob costello, spoiler alert, i thought that was a huge bob. but big picture, what was your impression of how they did that people might not get from just reading accounts and hearing from us, you know, about what was technically said? what was the sort of demeanor and tone that people might get? i think most important part about the witness that you can t get from reading the transcripts or sometimes even watching our coverage is the entrance and the exit, because all of the witnesses were brought in through a side door to the courtroom instead of the traditional back door where