Now. Off the job and on the picket line. Thousands of Union Auto Workers take part in a coordinated strike against the Big Three Automakers simultaneously. The first time this has ever happened. Well take you to where talks stand at this hour. Plus, donald trump denies he ever asked a maralago staffer to delete surveillance video, potential evidence in his classified documents case. And the former president says he is willing to testify under oath. But will his attorneys let him . And what trump is saying about the secret documents he took from the white house. Utter destruction. Thats how a cnn reporter is describing scenes in libya after catastrophic flooding there. 5,000 lives confirmed lost. Making matters worse, the u. N. Says most of the deaths could have been avoided. We are following these major developing stories and many more, all coming in right here to cnn news central. It is an American Labor strike unlike anything the nation has ever seen. Right now, thousands of auto wor
tonight on all in. breaking news has come in that we are reading across the newswires, guilty. count one. guilty verdict, count two. guilty verdict, count four. so three and four. donald j trump still guilty on 34 felony counts. no one ever says that about me. i would like them to say we are to have a little sorrow for this man. in the republican standardbearer reveals that his conviction is an honor. in a way i am honored. salacious. by the way. and nothing ever happened. if it were george washington, was he a bad boy here, was he a bad boy there? tonight, major questions about the sentencing of donald trump. how is that going to affect the rnc? does he have confinement? if he goes to prison, what does that look like? plus, the trump campaign threats to those who won t back a felon. and why dreams of a hung jury should give us all a little hope. the 12 everyday jurors about it to make a decision based on the evidence and the law. all in starts right now. go
a very important friday. we will reconvene the courthouse gang for this hour to go over what we have all been through and, alex, just a word about a banana republic. i despise the term and have despised it for so long now because it carries the assumption that countries that grow bananas, and we know where they are, somehow inherently have inferior governments to ours. which we have proven many times before is not true and nothing proves that better than the trump years and, oh, by the way, we grow bananas in hawaii. agriculturally and ethically, great points, lawrence, as always. thanks, alex. have a great show. thanks. well, it was a one word sentence that changed donald trump s life. he wasn t expecting to hear that word yesterday. at 4:15 p.m., judge merchan told defendant donald trump and his lawyers, the prosecutors in the courtroom, quote, i m going to excuse the jury about 4:30. we will give them a few more minutes and then we will excuse them. donald trum
the president of the united states breaks his silence on the historic guilty verdict against his predecessor. good evening. i m norah o donnell, and thank you for being with us. president biden said no one is above the law, a day after former president trump was convicted on state charges in new york. 34 counts of falsifying business records to cover up his relationship with an adult film star. it s a sharp contrast with donald trump s angry and rambling, off-the-cuff remarks today, where he called the system rigged, the trial a scam, and the judge a devil. well, tonight, trump is leaving new york for his country club in bedminster, new jersey, but the fallout from the monumental verdict in a manhattan courtroom is just starting to be felt. cbs s chief election and campaign correspondent robert costa shows us how both the president and the former president are reacting. it s reckless. it s dangerous. and it s irresponsible for anyone to say this was rigged just because
president biden urging hamas to accept a new israeli peace proposal saying, it s time for the war to end. why there is new optimism tonight. just in, the sentence for michelle troconis, convicted of helping her boyfriend plot to kill his estranged wife. o.j. prices are at record highs. what s driving them up? and the long shot baseball team chasing extra innings after their college closed for good. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening, and welcome. donald trump today unrepentant, defiant, and casting himself as the aggrieved one as newspapers across the country proclaim the new york jury s finding of guilt against the former president in his falsified documents trial. today at trump tower, the very place the crimes at the heart of the case took place, mr. trump stood before gathered reporters and some supporters in what appeared to be an unscripted monologue. he railed against the judge calling the trial, unfair and rigged, and withou