the criminal accountability that governs his fellow citizens. let but those legal losses have not corrupt his legal team s efforts to escape, or at least postpone his prosecutions, at a hearing on friday his lawyers went as far as to argue that a trial in the fulton county georgia case this year would constitute election interference. can you imagine the notion of for president, not being able to campaign for the presidency because he is, in some form or fashion, incapable of defending himself? that would be the most effective election interference in the history of the united states . we re gonna let the fulton county judge make the argument on that. but those are reminders that there are still a number of complex issues to resolve as america, for the first-time, consider the prosecution of a former president who is also running to return to the white house. it has been looming large over the republican presidential primary since the very beginning, and these recent rul
and healthy night. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late. i will see you at the end of tomorrow. thank you at-home for joining us this hour. so, there are minimalist candy bars, and there are maximalist candy bars. minimalist are the ones like, you know, a classic hershey s bar, just chocolate, or a heath bark, which is coffee in the middle and then chocolate. my favorite is a payday bar, i don t know what that is, it s basically like peanuts and grew. i don t know. but a picnic bar on the other hand is not one of those a minimalist once. it is a maximalist candy bar. it is like if you combine all the things in a snickers bar and a milky way and a crackle bar, it s got like caramel, peanuts, new get, cookie, and a whole bunch of other stuff in there. it is like the jumble area of candy bars. and they are delicious. they are not a big thing in the united states for whatever reason, although i think you can get them
and this is america s late news, fox news @ night . breaking tonight, the city of san francisco flu the appeal to have been flagged for 60 years, calling it a tribute to america. the wife of supreme court justice flu there s a very same flag and it was called a symbol of hate. commonsense has thoughts on that. meantime president biden now on day four 471. not a number of days in office, it s the number of joe biden s vacation days as he heads back to the beach but not before slamming donald trump s response to his guilty verdict. it s reckless, it s dangerous, irresponsible for anyone to say this was rigged just because they don t like the verdict. trace: brand-new tonight, peter do see following up on that. when trump says you are trying to bruise him, what do you say? politically he thinks you are pulling the strings behind the scenes doing all this to help yourself. i did not know i was that powerful. trace: meantime the trump campaign that raised almost $34
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. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening and welcome. guilty on all counts. donald j. trump, the 45th president of the united states, was found guilty late today in a new york courthouse on all 34 counts of falsifying business records to conceal payments to a porn star just before the 2016 election. the stunning verdict was delivered by a manhattan jury of seven men and five women, who deliberated for two days, making mr. trump the first former american president to be convicted of a crime. he remains the presumptive republican nominee in the close race for preside
included in the promise of the country today. i still believe that. i m still optimistic, but i need you. so my question for you is simple, a simple one. are you with me? talk to your family. that was president biden receiving chants of four more years from a crowd in philadelphia yesterday where he and the vice president made a pitch to black voters. we ll have more from their campaign stop in just a moment. meanwhile, the former president was stuck in a courthouse holding room as a jury deliberated his fate in the criminal hush money case. we ll recap everything and bring you expert legal analysis. also ahead we ll go through new reporting on senator rick scott s latest bid to replace mitch mcconnell as the next republican leader in the upper chamber. all right, good morning and welcome to way too early on this thursday, may 30th. still may. i m sam stein in for jonathan lemire. we are on a verdict watch this morning. in just hours the jury in the donald trump hus