mr trump has since repeated his claims, without evidence, that the prosecution was politically orchestrated and the trial was rigged. let s look at how we got to thursday s verdict. the trial officially began on april 15, after a lengthy jury selection process. over the next six weeks, jurors heard testimony from his former business partners including long time lawyer michael cohen and ms daniels herself. the jury of seven men and five women deliberated for two days, eventually finding him guilty of all 3a felony charges. mr trump is expected back in the courtroom onjuly 11 to be sentenced he faces up to four years in prison and a $5,000 fine for each of those counts. mr trump says he will appeal the verdict, as our north america correspondent reports. this is where it all began ten years ago, and today, donald trump returned here to begin his fightback. scrapping the teleprompter with its scripted remarks, he spent a0 minutes ad libbing and railing against his opponents, h
since repeated his claims, without evidence, that the prosecution was politically orchestrated and the trial was rigged. let s look at how we got to thursday s verdict. the trial officially began on april 15, after a lengthyjury 15, after a lengthy jury selection 15, after a lengthyjury selection process. 0ver 15, after a lengthyjury selection process. over the next six weeks, jurors heard testimony from his former business partners including long time lawyer michael cohen and stormy daniels herself. the jury and stormy daniels herself. the jury of seven men and five women debated for two days, eventually finding him guilty of all 34 felony charges. mr trump is expected back in the courtroom onjuly 11 to be sentenced, he faces up to four years in prison and a $5,000 fine for each of those counts. mr trump says he will appeal the verdict, as are north america correspondent reports. this is where it all began ten years ago, and today, donald trump returned here to begin his fig
appreciate it. and thank you so much for joining us this afternoon. a lot to monitor with the trump hush money in case and the jury s hands as we speak, make it a decision any moment. the lead with jake tapper starts right now 30 before counts of falsifying records. 12 jurors, three notes to the judge, 11 hours down. the lead starts right down the drop. hush mon fate of the first ever us president to face a criminal trial of former juror from a different high-profile cases here to break down what s actually going on behind that door. plus boeing rolls out as sweeping new plan hoping to convince skeptical flyers that it is safe to travel on their planes, but it s not just a matter of boeing planes that has so many flyers nervous we re learning today about another near miss on the runway in a moment before takeoff, what is really going on at airports and in the skies and cnn s exclusive reporting on the dramatic negotiations between the us government and haitian gang leader
think that that was a very quick, very rapid, and very strong response from the american people. it has gone way too far. the judicial system being weaponized against a political opponent, the american people are set and they spoke out about it. laura, this was a jury of regular americans. do you not trust them donald trump. let s look at the fact that this case was not brought by the fec. they looked at this years ago, they said there s no the case here. it wasn t brought by cy vance, the former district attorney of manhattan. it wasn t even brought by alvi all possible statistics as well. this judge managed to get three anti-trump cases. steve bannon, allen weisselberg, the former cfo of the trump organization, and donald trump. he donated this judge to the biden campaign his daughter raises money for the opposition for death. i asked you about
you launched the investigation when you were the district attorney of manhattan. in the end, you chose not to bring charges against the former president. remind us why that was. we launched our investigation and ultimately we did bring charges against the trump organisation. you have to remember this was at a time when covid was very much affecting new york city and our ability to call witnesses and to have juries. but we did ultimately have to go to the supreme court twice, which donald trump opposed when he was president. and ultimately the supreme court ruled in our favour, affirming the rule that not even a president is immune from investigation for misconduct he may have done when he was a private citizen. the supreme court ordered the production of his tax records, which this president uniquely alone had refused to provide to the public.