a historic day in america. a former president of the united states now a convicted felon. good evening. i m norah o donnell, and thank you for being with us on this important night. donald trump seethed as he left a manhattan court room today as a convicted criminal. and then here he is come arriving back trump tower, waving at crowds. today, a jury of 12 new yorkers found him guilty 34 times over of creating false business records, including these checks with his signature, tied to hush money payments made to adult film star for stormy daniels. the jurors unanimously agreed with the prosecution that these payments are part of a scheme to conceal crimes that hid damaging information from the voting public during the 2016 presidential election. we have team coverage as we answer some of the major remaining questions. how will this affect the presidential election? is this the only criminal trial trump will face in the months ahead? and will trump face prison time? cbs s robert
norah: the cbs evening news starts now. tonight, a new york jury just hours from getting the historic case of the state of new york versus donald j. trump. good evening. i am norah o donnell, and thank you for being with us. lawyers just wrapped up closing arguments summarizing the six-week trial after more than 20 witnesses and hundreds of pieces of evidence. prosecutors are trying to prove two things beyond a reasonable doubt. that trump falsified business records tied to payments of stormy daniels, and that those payments were made to cover up another crime conspiracy to violate state election laws. now donald trump s lawyers had their turn earlier attacking the evidence and witnesses especially former trump s fixer michael cohen telling the jury that he is the mvp of liars. cbs s robert costa was inside the courthouse for all the day s highlights. reporter: allies say donald trump arrived confident in court this morning. this is a very dangerous day for americ
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there s no way to stop their agenda. they want to add four more democrats to the senate to the district of columbia of puerto rico so the republicans can never win a majority in the senate. wow, that democracy. they want to nationalize state election laws, turn the whole country into california so you only have super majorities of democrats in the house into the senate of course always in the presidency. they oppose voter identification. they claim it s racist. meanwhile their monitoring all the best, they want us to registrar guns. they want to destroy the voting system or claiming to defend it. the voter harvesting, whose ever heard of counting ballots after an election and they have other tools and tricks that they have used in most of all immigration. i barely had touched on this, immigration. patriotic traditional immigration i support 100% and so to every american virtually in this country. but we do not support open