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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 da ....
continued special coverage of today s unanimous guilty on all counts verdict in the new york criminal trial of former president donald trump. i am rachel maddow joined by nicole wallace and joy reid and katie phang and chris hayes. also lawrence o donnell is with us. we re about to be joined by the star witness for the prosecution in this trial. michael cohen is going to speak with us exclusively giving us his first reaction to this verdict tonight. michael cohen will be joining us here in just one moment. he ll be with us live here on set. the jury sent a note to judge juan merchan, it said, quote, we, the jury, have reached a verdict. 45 minutes later at 5:05 p.m. the jury was back in the courtroom and seated. defendant donald trump was there and seated as well. judge merchan then addressed the foreperson of the jury. it went like this. the judge, mr. foreperson, without telling me the verdict, has the jury, in fact, reached a verdict. juror number one, yes, they have ....
don t know. i mean, it s a good question. i think understanding why a jury reaches a verdict is something that every single trial lawyer in the country would love to be able to answer honestly look, a lot goes into a jury verdict that doesn t even include what happened at the trial. the decisions that are made before the trial, the decisions that the court makes, and that the parties decide about witnesses a call, what evidence to put in i think that at the end of the day it remains true that if the word of michael cohen was not accepted at all, then you could not have convicted president trump. and the jury convicted. so at the end of the day they they looked past what we thought were were fatal flaws and mr. cohen s story and his past and they ve reached a guilty verdict right. but it wasn t just the word of michael cohen. i mean, there was other evidence in this case, the documents they wanted to rehear, david pecker s testimony. i mean, they took all of that into ....
that 12 ordinary manhattanites believed and convicted him on. the other thing i am really thinking about tonight s go ahead, nicole, i m sorry. i m sorry, lisa. we had a switcheroo involving a lot of audiovisual conduits and i appreciate you going with us on it like it was a flume ride. lisa rubin, thank you very much at the courthouse in lower manhattan. thank you. it is just after 8:00 p.m. eastern time and here we are. hello and welcome to our continued special coverage of today s unanimous, guilty on all counts verdict in the new york criminal trial of former president trump. i am rachel maddow. i am joined by my colleagues nicolle wallace and joy reid and katie phang and chris hayes. also lawrence o donnell is with us. we are about to be joined by the star witness for the prosecution in this trial. michael cohen is going to speak with us exclusively, giving us his first reaction. michael cohen will be joining us in one moment, live onset. it was 4:20 p.m. easte ....
45th president of the united states, as a convicted felon, and donald trump s lead attorney, todd blanche well, join me live. i m kaitlin collins, and this is the source it s one of those where were you kind of moments in american history when the verdict came down on donald trump today. gil we ll t guilty, guilty reverberating 34 times over as the former president s that stone-faced and that new york courtroom about are how you feel about this case or about donald trump, the man. it s an extraordinary stain on the office of the presidency and on donald trump s already tarnished legacy he ll be back in that very same courtroom for sentencing in this case on july 11. that happens just days before he takes the stage for the republican national convention accepting his party s nomination for president but this time as a convicted felon, we saw donald trump earlier raising his fist and defiance it s to the crowd that had gathered outside trump tower like this eveni ....