deliberations about to resume in donald trump s criminal trial. what the jury is asking to hear for a second time will be revealed in a matter of moments. stay tuned for that. good morning. could be quite a day. we ll see. i m bill hemmer in new york city. dana: i woke up ready to go. i m dana perino and this is america s newsroom. we have a lot to get to. former president trump heading downtown for day two of deliberations. trump and his team must remain at the courthouse as the jury decides whether to convict him of 34 counts of falsifying business records. bill: the former president s fate in the hands of 12 new yorkers. they deliberated 4 1/2 hours day one and ended the day with a few requests from the judge. dana: they want to rehear testimony from david pecker and michael cohen and then they also asked the judge to repeat his instructions. those things are expected to happen when court resumes less than 30 minutes from now. bill: our legal team is ready to go.
november 5th by the people and they know what happened here and everybody knows what happened here. bret: former president trump just moments ago. good evening. i m bret baier. historic day in the united states of america. donald trump is the first former president to be convicted of felony crimes after a new york jury found him guilty on all 34 counts of falsifying business records in what prosecutors called a scheme to influence the 2016 election through payments to adult film actress. that verdict exposes the president to prison time. not likely as a first offender. as a republican presidential nominee seeks to return to the white house. the judgment presents voters of another test willingness to accept the former president. he said the ultimate vote here will be the american people on november 5th moments ago after all 34 counts were read and agreed to by the jury members. correspondent nate foy is outside the new york supreme court with the latest in what has been a ve
Indepth interviews with leading newsmakers, plus discussions with Americas preeminent political minds. Indepth interviews with leading newsmakers, plus discussions with Americas preeminent political minds. Indepth interviews with leading newsmakers, plus discussions with Americas preeminent political minds. Havent read the Washington Post story, part of that is that donald trump has become enamored of the new Talking Point from his tv lawyer Rudy Giuliani that collusion is not a crime so they have gone from no collusion, no collusion, no collusion to collusion isnt a crime and give us more about whats reported about his mood and raging. He privately has been raging about whats happening vrnl hes upset about the News Coverage, about why isnt he getting more credit for what he views as the good works hes done and as the post reported on friday on the front page, 4,229 lies in the first six month of the this year alone. The reason hes not getting the favorable News Coverage is because the
which maggie miller, maybe they should get flowers from mueller s grand jury. they are tieing in cooperating witness rick gates. they re admitting the trump tower meeting was what they thought it was, it wasn t what donald trump dictated. this is a gift to the prosecution. no? it is a novel legal strategy. a novel public relations strategy. you often hear lawyers say argue the facts and the facts are on your side if the facts are on your side, argue the law. they tried to argue the facts. they came out and said this wasn t about assistance from the russians. it was about adoption. it turned out they were trying to seek assistance from the russians. now you see them retreating and the president retreating personally and arguing about the law. well, we did it but it wasn t illegal. but there s one interesting tell in his tweet this morning. that s the final statement, but i didn t know about it. right. fefgs so convinced that there wasn t anything wrong about this meeting why
slandered and maligned and she has a right to defend herself. this woman is brilliant. anybody who anybody who anybody who underestimates her does so at their own peril. she ll make a wonderful first lady. will that lawsuit continue when she s first lady. i don t know where it is in the process right now. but she has a right to defend herself. this is a novel legal strategy. he s the one who pioneered it, he invented it. and he succeeded at it. with this lawyer. and it made a journalistic enterprise disappear. they made themselves disappear by not settling and by being arrogant going forward. that s how the legal system work. he accomplished what he set out to do. the man s an amazing success story. with the gawker thing, he set out to make gawker disappear and it worked. is the trump family now embracing that strategy? not at all.