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 trail. trump becomes the first former u.s. president in american history to be convicted of a crime. the verdict was read just around 5:00 p.m. in a new york city courtroom after the 12 jurors deliberated for roughly 9 1/2 hours over two days. each of the 34 felony counts is associated with a falsified business record pertaining to trump s reimbursement of his former attorney and fixer, michael cohen, for a hush money payment to adult film actress stormy daniels during the 2016 presidential campaign, to keep her quiet about a sexual encounter she says she had with trump back in 2006. trump has denied her claim. sentencing is set for july 11th, just four days before the republican national convention begins
situation room much more fallout of donald trump s convictions among wolf s guess, trump s niece, mary trump, appeared weekend happening now, donald trump is raging after his historic criminal conviction condemning it as a scam and promising an appeal and rambling remarks filled with grievances and a flurry of false claims. we re looking at the road ahead for the former president and his campaign to return to the white house. also tonight, top republicans are rushing to trump s defense with house speaker mike johnson, taking it to a whole new level. the us supreme court should step in. all of this as the gop standard bearers facing new restrictions as a convicted felon will take a closer look. what trump can and can t do in the days, weeks, and possibly even years ahead welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer a year in this situation room our top story tonight, donald trump defined, as he begins to fall hi, this felony con
it s noon eastern. i m ana cabrera in for andrea mitchell. breaking news from the hunter biden trial. the jury in the hunter biden felony gun trial has reached a guilty verdict on all three counts after nearly three hours of deliberations. this is the first trial of a child of a sitting president in u.s. history. president biden s son now facing potential jail time. he has no prior criminal history. he did not commit a crime with a gun, which prosecutors say he purchased illegally when he allegedly lied about not being an addict. notably, four members of the jury have close friends or family who have struggled with drug and alcohol addiction. again, unanimous guilty verdict. joining us now, nbc justice and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian. we just got a statement from president biden. fill us in. reporter: that s right. president biden has reiterated some of what he said during the trial. i want to read the statement. as i said last week, i am the president, but also
victims, visitors, tourists have that cars smashed and don t forget people have actually died that have been paroled people who have gone out and gotten in trouble again. they ve gotten drunk, high, they steal cars, they kill innocent people here on the street and this is all because bodine has come up with this non - this non-incarceration, decarceration, let s not hold them accountable at all. dana: let me mention this from the same hoover piece. there are now more drug users in the city than high school students and the permissiveness that people are allowed to do drugs there and that leads then to the homelessness, the mental illness and the crime. that is a problem that is not being dealt with, ritchie. of course.