while he sat slumped at the defense table. they didn t get to hear stormy daniels testimony and they didn t get to watch the judge clear the courtroom in anger as he butted heads with a truculent witness. instead americans had to rely on the words of reporters who were in the room making notes and writing down things we saw and experienced. things that a transcript cannot capture. that was something to behold. i could hear people gasping. i was not sure we were going to get a place where we had any guilty verdicts let alone all 34 accounts. todd blanche said he was writing checks from the white house. this was as professional a jury as you could get. what you ve heard about it being the courtroom israel. his eyes have been closed most of the morning and i cannot say what s happening behind those islets. guilty repeated over and over. tonight we welcome you to this special msnbc event. prosecuting donald trump. witness to history. andrew weissmann and i will e
after 22 witnesses and 16 days of testimony, donald trump has become the first ever american president to be convicted of a crime. this trial will go down in history. but without cameras in the courtroom, americans did not get to see the evidence for themselves. they did not see his eyes closed while he sat slumped at the defense table. they didn t get to hear stormy daniels testimony and they didn t get to watch the judge clear the courtroom in anger as he butted heads with a truculent witness. instead, americans had to rely on the words of reporters who were in the room making notes and writing down things we saw and experienced. things that a transcript cannot capture. that was something to behold. i could hear people gasping. i was not sure we were going to get a place where we had any guilty verdicts let alone all 34 accounts. todd blanche said he was writing checks from the white house. this was as professional a jury as you could get. what you ve heard about i
characters look the way you remember them in 2016. and that is as true of michael cohen as it is for stormy daniels. she came in in a jumpsuit with her hair piled on top of her head wearing glasses and not looking at all like the adult film star that we remembered. i ve since come to learn, because her lawyer said this that she was wearing a bulletproof vest. and that accounted for her appearance. she was wearing an outfit that accommodated a bulletproof vest because she felt her life was at risk in coming to court and testifying. and the reaction of people in maga world who are loyal to trump about her testimony, i can tell you this by my twitter feed, reinforced why she felt she was in danger. there were no trump reactions to stormy daniels saying that you could see. but there is trump, known to millions of people as the orange
and the reaction of people in maga world who are loyal to trump about her testimony, i can tell you this by my twitter feed, reinforced why she felt she was in danger. there were no trump reactions to stormy daniels saying that you could see. but there is trump, known to millions of people as the orange turd and listen to himself being called that and the personis his defense lawyer thinking who is doing thatit harms stormy daniels that she refers to him as the orange turd. there is not a juror there who cares. they are not offended by it. these are new yorkers and they ve heard worse in every trip on the subway. we leave the courtroom and we walk out and everybody lines