presumptive republican nominee, defiant tonight, proclaiming his innocence, calling the process rigged, and accusing president biden of backing a political persecution as he addressed cameras outside the courtroom. the biden campaign saying, quote, we saw that no one is above the law. and how will a nation driven by political division react? our complete historic coverage, coming up. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening and welcome. guilty on all counts. donald j. trump, the 45th president of the united states, was found guilty late today in a new york courthouse on all 34 counts of falsifying business records to conceal payments to a porn star just before the 2016 election. the stunning verdict was delivered by a manhattan jury of seven men and five women, who deliberated for two days, making mr. trump the first former american president to be convicted of a crime. he remains the presumptive republican nominee in the close race for preside
donald trump convicted on 34 counts of falsifying business records after a manhattan jury deliberated for 9 1/2 hours. will the former president face prison time or just probation for the low-level felonies in the hush money case? and how will the judicial system handle the unprecedented case of a former president with secret service protection? the political fallout. how will this impact donald trump s campaign for the presidency. the real verdict is going to be november 5th. mr. trump, the presumptive republican nominee defiant tonight, proclaiming his innocence, calling the process rigged, and accusing president biden of backing a political persecution, as he addressed cameras outside the courtroom. the biden campaign saying, quote, we saw that no one is above the law. and how will a nation driven by political division react? our complete historic coverage, coming up. this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening and welcome, everyone. guilty on all cou
Florida now. Reporter perhaps the biggest challenge for congressman meadows is taking what he knows about the distance of capitol hill and bringing that into the oval office. The president seems confident he can certainly do that and leave the white house scene. Meadows is making his way over his Mick Mulvaney steps up it is mentioned meadows in the president have a particularly close relationship and in fact they speak almost every day by phone and sources tell me sometimes twice a day in the french at the president leaves will translate well into leaving the white house team. Meadow said this in a statement. As president and his administration have a long list of incredible victories they have delivered to the country during his first term with the best yet to come and i look forward to helping build on that success and staying in the fight for the forgotten men and women of america. Mulvaneys departure has been refers sometime but despite rumors to the contrary he had not fallen out
West palm beach, florida, near President Trumps maralago resort where the president is set to meet with brazils president this evening. Tell us more, kevin. Reporter well get to that in a moment. Its a political match made in heaven for the president. He has an admiration for mark meadows, his fighting spirit on capitol hill. He will come over as you pointed out after leaving the hill. He is retiring and so it would seem the fighting spirit was what did the trick, apparently for the president. The two men by the way, arthel, ive been told by sources speak virtually every day, sometimes twice a day by phone and the president or so the thinking goes should make him an effective white house chief of staff, which is no small task, given the boss predisposition to go politically rogue. Leaving the post is a man who has worn many hats for the administration, mick mulvaney. He served at acting director of the cfpb, acting white house chief of staff. His next role, special envoy to northern ir
Country. One state trooper showing us what one driver could be in for. A new year means a lot of new laws including a big change to help protect your privacy online. Im molly line in new york, fox news reporting begins now. [explosion] molly we begin with breaking news. Chants of death to america as militia men and protesters tried to storm the u. S. Embassy in iraq. President trump accusing iran of orchestrating the attack. A state Department Spokesperson says the Embassy Staff is safe. There are no plans to evacuate. And the ambassador was not there at the time. [shouting] cell phone video shows demonstrators battering their way through a window with Security Forces on the other side. The glass the only Thing Holding back the crowd. Fox news has confirmed a special Crisis Response task force of marines has arrived at the embassy to help protect it from any further attacks. This is video of the unit deploying on this mission from kuwait. The violence breaking out just days after the u