Now cnn Breaking News yann, welcome to the lean. Im ticked tapper. Were following Breaking News out of new york where Donald Trumps hush money coverup trial its currently underway right now. Attorney Keith Davidson is on the stand. He is the lawyer who represented both 1998 Playboy Playmate of the year, Karen Mcdougal, who alleged an affair with down from and horn actress and director Stormy Daniels, who alleged to a Brief Dalliance with trump. Trump denies both. This afternoon, davidson and as testified about his negotiations with National Enquirer editorinchief, dylan howard to sell the womens stories to that august to publication and how interest in buying Stormy Daniels accounts spiked after the access Hollywood Tape was released in early october 2016, before todays testimony gotten underway, judge juan merchan ruled that donald trump had violated the gag order against attacking members of the jury and witnesses with nine distinct posts on his truth social page, as well as his webs
d-day, why we still fight for democracy on an all new episode of the whole story. that s this sunday at 8:00 p.m. eastern only right here on cnn. and thank you so much for watching news night. laura coates live starts right now. have a great weekend well tonight, donald trump turns his conviction into a cornerstone of his and pain. but will it work? plus american airlines soon after eight black men say they were kicked off a flight because someone complained about body one of them will be my guest tonight and laura coates live so. we actually have no idea what sentence judge messiah is going to actually hand down to donald j. trump next month, but we do know one thing for sure. donald trump is not leaving his political future up to this judge between now and november, donald trump is going to use that 34 count conviction to try to get to 47, the number 47 that is. and today, a furious trump railed against the verdict during a speech in trump tower. you know, trump tower
left the courthouse back to trump tower, arriving there, that s what you re looking at on the screen supporters read it him there cheering others were there, channing, quote lock him up obviously, an echo of what he had said about hillary clinton just moments ago, the new york district attorney speaking out for the first time celebrating his victory but most importantly today, we have the most important voice of all. and as the voice of the jurors they have spoken donald j. trump has been convicted of 34 counts of falsifying business records. thank you. said from now on, we re going to hear from them in court documents as a sentencing is coming next. meanwhile, and angry trump rattled off the long list of complaints about this process here he is this was a rigged trial by unconflicted judge who was corrupt so rig trial and disgrace it wouldn t give us a venue change. we were at 5% or 6% and this district in this area, this was a rigged, disgraceful trial. you have a sou
as far as the services concerned, they re the hardest part for them will be in preparation because obviously they ve never john anything like this before but if he s given some sort of confinement sentence, whether that s home confinement or into some sort of an institution once he s there and they have that setup, it ll be pretty easy for them because of being in a controlled space in terms of the hits security though, i mean, secret service in the courtroom. he had like two secret service agents with him. it was court officers right. in a prison setting, i guess he would i mean, it would be the prison officers, but also a few secret service or i find it almost impossible to believe that he ll ever be in a traditional prison sentence or a traditional prison environment. he may be sentenced some sort of a state controlled facility that doesn t have other prisoners in it. no matter where he ends up. if it s in a state facility, there ll be some combination of prison offi
reflects the competency of the lawyers who who presented in court cyrus fans junior. thank you so much. appreciate it. wolf, let s get back to you soon. thank you very much. and dana, a lot of folks were bracing were bracing for a decision. but but this came very, very quickly. it came very quickly, and i have to say that as we kick it back to erin burnett, that this is a moment where we are all still digesting the implications and the impact and we re not going to know the real impact for a long time. it s gonna be a while. we ll see what happens on july 11th as well. truly historic moment for the nation today, the conviction a former president and presumptive republican presidential nominee, donald j. trump, stay with cnn for much bore on this major breaking story. erin burnett picks up our coverage right now these cnn s breaking news. i m good evening. i m erin burnett outfront and night breaking news. donald trump convicted the former president of phelan, a ju