colleagues who have been covering the trial from the beginning. msnbc s legal analyst lisa rubin, new york times investigative reporter susanne craig, and former federal prosecutor and former sdny criminal division deputy chief, kristy greenberg. katy, let s set the stage for what s going on at trump tower where we anticipate him speaking in about an hour, right? the assembled press is here. this is the first time i believe everyone has been back in this lobby since the donald trump transition. donald trump is going to come town his golden elevators behind me as a man running for president again, as a former president, yes, but also as a man who has now been convicted on 34 felony counts. the first former president to ever be convicted of a crime and certainly the first one, former president to be running again now that they are convicted on all of those felony counts. and he s doing it, guys, at the literal scene of the crime here in trump tower. this is where david pe
34 felony counts. this is the first time an e fi american presidentrs has everprs been convicted of a crime. but the only thing trump is guiltyid convicte th of is beatg hillary and leading joe biden. the former president was expressionless as the verdict was read. sionless, he walked to the cameras and reacted. this was a disgrace. this was a rigged trial by a conflicted judge who is corrupt. there s a rigged trial, a disgrace. on an. ery innocent ma and it s okay. i m fighting for our country. i m fighting for our constitution. our country is being rigged right down. we ll keep fighting. we ll fight till the end. wee ouell win becaus our country s gone to . we don t have the same country anymorwe don te. we have a divided mess. we re a nation in decline, a serious decline. millions and millions of people pouring into our country of peop right now from prisons and from mental institutions, terrorists. and they re taking over our countrinstit y. s in we have a country tha
tonight on the reidout this is a scam. it s a rigged trial. it shouldn t have been in that venue. we shouldn t have had that judge. it s reckless. it s dangerous. it s irresponsible. for anyone to say this was rigged, just because they don t like the verdict. a stark split screen today as donald trump lashed out about his 34 felony convictions, while president joe biden defended the american justice system. plus, the unhinged republican response. they want to tear the whole system down and punish everyone involved. because that s what authoritarians do. but we begin tonight with the man nicknamed teflon don, and no, i m not talking about the mafia boss of the gambino crime family. i m speaking about donald trump. but like gotti, trump has a history of not only skirting the law but always finding a way to evade any serious accountability for his actions, despite being constantly under legal scrutiny. trump used his wealth and fame to make his own rules. it was that
you have to game in the game republicans. republican d.a. starting every investigation right now. tonight, new reporting on a magazine very public payback campaign. is a terrible, terrible path that they are leaving us to. and it is very possible that it is going to have to happen to them. donald trump is openly signaling russia to help himself get elected again. russia, if you re listening. the president of russia will do that for me. and i don t believe he will do it for anyone else. judge aileen cannon wild move to help disrupt the documents trial. another installment of our special series, are you better off than you were four years ago? president trump posing for pictures, holding a bible without explanation. all in start right now. good evening, from new york. i m chris hayes. tonight tops store, including speaker of the house of representatives, dozens of senators and congressmen have been revealed to be working hand in glove with convicted criminals in
most places, we can t even ban the body, so that people who have a record can actually get an interview for an hourly job so no, you re not being treated like us. it is a two tier justice system and unfortunately, you have been treated so much more favorably than you should have ever. the fact that we are debating whether or not he is going to jail doesn t make sense either. when you hear your colleagues talk about ronny jackson, he is a colleague of yours in the same. thank you for reminding me. he is in the state delegation, as you are. a sickly saying, look, explicitly, there are two ways to interpret this. this is what an old coach of mind would call down the block tough. after someone walks away. yeah, there is like a little bit of that. and there s a lot of, jd vance is the most down the block down person i ve seen in my public life. there is a lot of that. but there is also, listen to what they are saying, which of those two do you sort of find yourself pulled towards?