i m i very innocent man and we ll fight for our constitution. dana: defiant in defeat. former president trump vowing to fight his conviction for falsifying business records. that begins at 11:00 a.m. eastern when he holds a news conference on trump tower. bill is off today, good morning, brett. bret: good morning, i m bret baier. this is america s newsroom. dana, yesterday in the afternoon we thought judge merchan was going to dismiss the jury, wrap up for the day. suddenly it all came down that they had the verdict and what we have seen over the past few hours, the reaction to that and then now this news conference is going to be something as we go forward. dana: we were getting ready for the five and all of a sudden it changed and it felt you could feel a shift change really in the country and in the election. bret: really is. we don t know the entire fallout yet. unprecedented conviction. further complicating the former president s schedule. sentencing is set
what is acceptable from a political candidate in one of america s two political parties when it comes to inciting threats of violence. an urgent plea today from manhattan district attorney alvin bragg to keep in place the gag order against trump. prosecutors asking judge juan merchan to extend much of the gag order imposed on the ex-president in that hush money election interference case. bragg s team argues that merchan no longer needs to enforce the ban on statements about trial witnesses, but they do ask that the gag order remain in place when it comes to jurors, prosecutors, court staff, and their families. they note that trump s request to lift the gag order is filled with what we on this program might describe as nonsense. quote, the people note that defendant s motion once again includes a number of categorically false accusations. for example, the defendant claims that the d.a. is acting in concert with the defendant s electoral opponent and unspecified cast of associ