we start with the fox news alert, travel advisory for new york city. conservative or republican or trump supporter beware and the weather nizam biden criminal justice system, political differences are now considered especially heinous. and if new york s powerful democrats your politics a prison cell might be in your future or some kind of conviction. something that they make up. without a second thought, these democrats so make up a crime conductor show trial and rigour conviction with a hand-picked bite and donating judge, regardless of the evidence if they can explain it. and hours ago the former president of the united states now running for a second term, donald trump convicted in all 34 sent only counts and will be sentenced a few days before the republican convention. how convenient. most americans including people in that very courtroom cannot even identify the felonies. that is because this is a conviction without a crime against joe biden s chief political rival in t
hi there, everyone. it s 4:00 in new york. the ex-president turned criminal defendant and his lawyers, the prosecutors who brought the first ever criminal case against an american ex-president and indeed the entire country waiting for word from the jury in the trump election interference hush money criminal trial. in court right now, the jury is currently on its 10th hour of deliberations. the judge has said that the jury will not work past 6:00 p.m. today no matter what. if anything happens in court, we ll let you know as soon as we know. the jury spent most of their morning listening to things they have already heard before read back to them. they asked to rehear the judge s instructions regarding what inferences they can make from the evidence shown at trial. they also reviewed the testimony of michael cohen and david pecker regarding their august 2015 trump tower meeting, as well as testimony from david pecker regarding a call from donald trump at his decision to not buy
that is what this entailed trial is about. nada tawfik has been following all the twists and turns. i think we can go to her now. just bring us up to date. absolutely, we have heard thejudge has announced he will call the jury in. we were called in for the jury reading out whether they have found donald trump guilty or not guilty on the 34 donald trump guilty or not guilty on the 3a counts of comp to falsifying it as is. then the otherjurors will have to agree. if donald trump is found guilty onjust have to agree. if donald trump is found guilty on just one of those. he will be a convicted felon. a lot at stake clearly for it on from here. he is clearly hoping that this swift decision not too swift, 11 hours, but that this decision coming on the second day of deliberations will be one that is favourable to him. but we are hearing a lot of tense atmosphere at the defence table right now. donald trump, who was just table right now. donald trump, who wasjustjoking table right
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
donald trump convicted on 34 counts of falsifying business records after a manhattan jury deliberated for 9 1/2 hours. will the former president face prison time or just probation for the low-level felonies in the hush money case? and how will the judicial system handle the unprecedented case of a former president with secret service protection? the political fallout. how will this impact donald trump s campaign for the presidency. the real verdict is going to be november 5th. mr. trump, the presumptive republican nominee defiant tonight, proclaiming his innocence, calling the process rigged, and accusing president biden of backing a political persecution, as he addressed cameras outside the courtroom. the biden campaign saying, quote, we saw that no one is above the law. and how will a nation driven by political division react? our complete historic coverage, coming up. this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening and welcome, everyone. guilty on all cou