i want to go straight to nbc s garrett haake outside the d.a. s office what s the latest? reporter: 50 some-odd charges, we know they deal with document fraud and we probably won t see them until they re unsealed on tuesday. we expect the former president to be arraigned in the courthouse over my shoulder. he ll go through a process like any defendant in new york city he ll be finger printed, he ll have his mug shot and a dna sample taken the difference, he ll do all of it under the protection of his secret service detail. we just had a chance to walk through the courthouse a little while ago, the courtroom on the 15th floor where mr. trump is expected to be arraigned, closed off from the public, will be until next week. that s part of the security precautions being put in place downtown theorhere and across t city in advance of the possibility of protests. as of now, there s nothing that s been specifically organized, no specific threats on the city s radar. i think pivoti
life-threatening cold. we re tracking it all. also tonight, the january 6th committee s final report recommending donald trump be barred from holding office ever again. how the former president is responding. the new numbers from the cdc. will the holidays lead to another spike? the crash caught on camera. a plane slamming into the beach in santa monica. the warning from fedex and u.p.s. for last-minute shoppers. will your holiday packages arrive on time? and celebrating christmas in wartime. st. nick bringing holiday cheer to children in ukraine. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. and a good friday evening to you. i m craig melvin in for lester. for many tonight, mother nature has decided to be quite the grinch. this is going to be the coldest, wettest, snowiest holiday in recent memory thanks to a once in a generation massive winter storm that s disrupting plans for millions. for some it s the really strong wind gusts already knocking out
Prosecution witness former president s hush money trial, Michael Cohen, a onetime fixer attorney. And according to his memoir, Designated Thug for the former president. Hes now a convicted felon and self admitted per juror. But despite that resume, he took the stand today as the single individual who can show the jury believe him, do what no other witness can testify to multiple direct combat frustrations with the former president about then candidates not allege knowledge and even authorization of every critical step of the alleged hush money crime that forms the basis of 34 Felony Charges against him, plus cohen can testify to the prosecutions allegation that the socalled catch and kill scheme was a political move designed to win an election cohen today quoted trump telling me want to Stormy Daniels allegation under wraps until after the election, quote, if i win and has no relevance, i will be president and if i lose, i dont even care. Prosecutor use tax call logs and emails whereve
now that s you re going to see the impact that has over the next five months historic verdict is in donald j. trump, the 45th president of the united states. has been found guilty by a jury of his peers on all 34 new york state felony counts of falsifying business records, tides of the alleged stormy daniels hush money cover-up, i guess we can remove the word alleged from that. the is now a convicted felon, even as he is running to return turn to the white house. mr. trump left the courthouse a short while ago. he will be sentenced on july 11, literally just days before the republican national convention convenience of course, donald trump and his lawyers will appeal this conviction but as of now and they cannot appeal until after sentencing july 11, and as of now, 12 jurors for a manhattan 12 12 of the president s peers have made a monumental decision finding the former president of the united states, donald trump, guilty on all counts. we are standing by for a news conferen
jury selection to cameras in the court. now, he is familiar with donald trump, recently presiding over the successful tax fraud prosecution of the trump organization and its former cfo, allen weisselberg. joining me now, former manhattan district attorney, daniel horowitz, and criminal defense attorney and msnbc legal analyst danny cevallos in studio with me daniel, you know this judge personally, what are your expectations for how he will handle the case? he s a very very experienced judge. he s been on the bench for a long time. he sat in manhattan and in manhattan, you encounter defendants of every stripe he s very experienced, and he had a bit of a preview about what he might be in store for during the weisselberg, the trump organization trial last year so he s there, he s even handed. he is generally mild tempered, but he s somebody who is going to rule the courtroom with an