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
store you are watching our live continuing special coverage of today s unanimous guilty on all counts verdict. in the criminal trial of former president donald trump. i am rachel maddow, i m here with my colleague, 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, a foreperson of the journey rose and delivered the jury unanimous , guilty on all 34 counts of falsifying business records in order to conceal the scheme to correct the 2016 election. the 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 official 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 criminally convicted and for the first time for one of our two main political parties is about to
Trail. it s unaushlened i think cop tony blair to doing what he was elected to do govern, not keep running. kayleigh, what do you say? president obama started his 2012 campaign in april of 2011. let s be honest, this is extremely early to do anything like this. when obama did that, trump at the time was tweeting our country is blowing up and barack obama is out campaigning. another tweet, barack obama always campaigning or on vacation. isn t he being hypocritical? doing it years earlier. i don t think so. he s got a great jobs report, delivering on his promises. he was critical of president obama because president obama wasn t delivering on his promises to the people. i m happy he s paying out of the re-election fund, not the people s fund, the treasury. i was at his melbourne rally. he speaks directly to the people. it s a face-to-face chat where he reports to the people, breaks through the media because the media, we talk a lot about
Would now pass to his deputy to over see investigations. senator schumer wants a special prosecutor or an outside investigator named to head up this investigation even saying yesterday that while perhaps we should resurrect the office of the independent counsel. shep, you ll remember that was the office that gave rise to the ken starr investigation. indeed. my understanding one of the meetings with the russian ambassador, a quick meeting at the republican convention. we have more on his travels. we. the wall street journal said that sessions paid for that out of political funds. how could he be acting as a senator and a member of the armed services committee. he paid for it out of his re-election fund. he was still a senator. gives him broad latitude while
Being overly involved. welcome to early start. i m christine romans. i m john berman. it is tuesday, january 17th. 4:00 a.m. in the east. new trouble for the nominee. a cnn report has democrats calling for an ethics investigation of congress member tom price. the president-elect pick for health and human services. did he use influence for personal profit. price bought as much as $15,000 of a stock in a hip and knee implantmaker. days later, he introduced legislation that would benefitted the company. the hip act would have delayed the change in medicare and medicaid reimbursements to hurt the company and not long after price fired the bill, the political action committee for the company donated $1,000 to price s re-election fund. follow the bouncing ball.