the criminal trial of former president donald trump. i m rachel maddow. i m here with my colleagues stephanie ruhle and jen psaki and alex wagner and chris hayes. in a courtroom in downtown manhattan just after 5:00 eastern time this evening the foreperson of the jury rose and delivered the jury s unanimous verdict, donald trump guilty on all 34 counts of falsifying business records in order to conceal a scheme to corrupt the 2016 election. it s a scheme that was described by the prosecution in their summation as something that may very well have been the reason that donald trump won the 2016 election. as of tonight it is officially a criminal scheme. he has been convicted on 34 counts. with those convictions we enter uncharted territory as a country. for the first time a president has been criminally convicted, and for the first time one of our two main political parties is about to nominate that same man for president after he has been convicted of 34 felonies. that is wher
kevin, in princeton, indiana, good morning. mr. steltzer is the biggest minister of misinformation i have ever heard and i m a news junky. he made the statement just a few minutes ago that he is the stories are always evolving. yeah, his stories, absolutely evolved. brian seltzer. thank you for the feedback. i appreciate it. savannah, georgia, rick, good morning. you are next. yes. i was just wondering if you still feel like michael avenatti is the greatest thing in the world and should run for president of the united states? my suggestion is whatever cnn says, do the opposite and you will be fine. aurora, indiana, this is robert. good morning, you are on with brian stelter. you know, cnn is just something that s a joke. it s a joke. this guy tells more lies and fox
for me that is really whatev it is. sometimes you get your eyes off the real prize and it s easy to be distracted in this world. tucker: yeah. it certainly is. but you have remained faithful to who you are. you have been with the same man, who is a friend of mine, and a wonderful man for all these years. the one kind of hard pivot in your life, though, you go from law to television. um-huh. tucker: why did you do that? you know what? i have always been a news junky. i love what we get to do. you meet the most interesting people. you travel around the world. you see history. i have always been into that. when i was in college, my dad, who has passed away now. he was a marine and undercover cop he was a tough guy. he said, you are going to law school or med school, you pick one, and that s it. i knew he wanted me to have a good financial foundation but he didn t think ofe journalism as a real job. he thought it was more like entertainment tonight or something. he was like, be a
significance, your relationship, your faith, whatever that maybe. for me that is really what it is. sometimes you get your eyes off the real prize and easy to be distracted in this world. tucker: yeah. it certainly is. but you have remained faithful to who you are. you have been with the same man who is a friend of mine and a wonderful man for all these years. the one kind of hard pivot in your life though, you go from law to television. shannon: um-huh. tucker: why did you do that? shannon: you know what? i have always been a news junky. i love what we get to do. you meet the most interesting people. you travel around the world. you see history. i have always been into that. when i was in college, my dad, who is passed away now. he was a marine and undercover cop he was a tough guy. he said you are going to law schoolor med school you pick one and that s it. i knew he wanted me to have a good financial foundation but he didn t think of journalism as a real job. he thought it w
have to be defending and checking the facts and calling out the truth versus an opinion. . the soviet invasion of afghanistan in 1979. let s look at some of the headlines of the president s promotion of soviet propaganda. the wall street journal says we cannot recall a more absurd misstatement of history by a president. the nightly news casts didn t even talk about this. fox didn t even talk about this. i fear there is so much bs slipping through that unless you are a news junky. i disagree with that. every particular story is not