while this defendant may be unlike any other in american history, we arrived at this trial and ultimately, today, at this verdict in the same manner as every other case that comes through the court room doors. by following the facts and the law, and doing so without fear or favor. many voices out there, the only voice that matters is the voice of the jury and the jury has spoken. manhattan district attorney alvin bragg speaking yesterday following the historic conviction of former president donald trump on all 34 counts in the criminal hush money trial. trump becomes the first former u.s. president in american history to be convicted of a crime. the verdict was read around 5:00 p.m. in a new york city courtroom after the 12 jurors deliberated for roughly 9.5 hours, two days. each of the 34 felony counts associated with a falsified business records pertaining to trump s reimbursement of his former attorney and fixer, michael cohen, for a hush money payment to adult film ac
Cuts to policing in some areas are putting the public at risk thats the warning from the Police Standards watchdog. It says there are now too few detectives, leaving a third of Police Forces in england and wales in a potentially perilous state, with victims being let down, criminal cases not investigated and suspects not followed up. Our Home Affairs Correspondent Daniel Sandford reports. From Bedfordshire Police, raiding the home of a suspected drug dealer this morning. On a day that inspectors graded the force as inadequate, the worst place in england and wales, a grading the Chief Constable blames on chronic underfunding. This grading is not correct grading for bedfordshire. If you are going to talk about inadequate, talk about inadequate resources and funding, which has been the case in this force for ten yea rs been the case in this force for ten years now. Among the many failings, the inspectors found that anti social behaviour, like this motorbike riding in a park in dunstable,
u.s. special correspondent for bbc news, catty cake, embassy correspondent legal correspondent lisa rubin. former u.s. attorney and msnbc contributor chuck rosenberg, and msnbc legal analyst, danny cevallos are good to have you with us. chuck, i m curious, your first impressions of what happened yesterday and what american should be looking at and what they should be focusing on as we move forward. yeah, is going to be hard, i think, for our very divided country to look at this the way i do. i think it s a relatively simple thing. the government presented a compelling case. they deduced the facts they wanted to produce the call the witnesses they wanted to call and asked the questions they wanted to ask them, and the jury understood the pictures often do. statistically speaking, most juries convict most of the time and that s what happened here.