plagued the president in lots of different ways. we re going to see what happens next here. there was a delegation of diplomats set to meet with the national security adviser today, this afternoon, to talk about the hostages that are from their countries. we also know that there was a delegation slated to go to the middle east next week as well to engage in some more talks and conversations around a deal coming together, and so the administration still has this very robust presence in trying to make this happen, and we ll be looking to see whether there s a response to any degree from hamas in the days to come. aaron gilchrist, thank you for that. claire mccaskill, i want to go to you. i want to talk about the president s statements, they were forceful but brief on donald trump s trial and conviction. you spent many years in the senate. if i m remembering correctly, you were on the armed services committee, homeland security committee. this is an area of the world that yo
continued special coverage of today s unanimous guilty on all counts verdict in the new york criminal trial of former president donald trump. i am rachel maddow joined by nicole wallace and joy reid and katie phang and chris hayes. also lawrence o donnell is with us. we re about to be joined by the star witness for the prosecution in this trial. michael cohen is going to speak with us exclusively giving us his first reaction to this verdict tonight. michael cohen will be joining us here in just one moment. he ll be with us live here on set. the jury sent a note to judge juan merchan, it said, quote, we, the jury, have reached a verdict. 45 minutes later at 5:05 p.m. the jury was back in the courtroom and seated. defendant donald trump was there and seated as well. judge merchan then addressed the foreperson of the jury. it went like this. the judge, mr. foreperson, without telling me the verdict, has the jury, in fact, reached a verdict. juror number one, yes, they have. the
for those of you just joining us today for the first time in american history a former president of the united states has been criminally convicted in a court of law. just hours ago, a jury of 12 ordinary americans found donald trump guilty on all 34 felony counts he faced in the state of new york. those charges of falsifying business records stem from trump s cover-up of an alleged extramarital affair with adult film star stormy daniels and his effort to keep that information from the voters. the story first broke back in 2018 when the wall street journal dropped a bombshell report at the time too about the hush money payment to daniels to prevent her from going public. now, it took years the justice system can work slowly at time, that s how sometimes it works, but it took years for prosecutors to bring a case forward so. long, in fact thargs it was dubbed a zombie case. that is until alvin bragg took the extraordinary step of indicting a former president. he was the fi
the defense counsel, todd blanche did an interview on another cable network. i will guess which one but every decision in the case in every substantive decision is what he made together with jumbled trump. and if you see his fingerprints on those decisions? absolutely. it is a donald trump fourth grade playground, bully type of tactic. do you have an acronym for todd blanche? the stupidest lawyer of all time. sloat. you cannot listen to your client when you re trying to create a defense that is as
wrong thing to do, you do not allow your client to dictate to you the terms of your defense, especially when you re talking about something as important as this case. u-turn and you let them create the defense. you can participate as a client, you do not dictate the terms of the defense. it is, again, stupid which is why i call him a sloat . there is a paper trail, there are documents here that cooperate and held up everything that you said, it was not just you, there was david pecker and hope hicks what is your sense why did they not come for david pecker the way that they came for you or the way they came for stormy daniels, why were they not critical of hope hicks? hope hicks is sort of the