Above seder plate, Defense Attorneys with why is this trial not like any other exactly. But for any number of reasons, number one, the defendant has multiple attorneys who can handle the hearing. Number two, the judge has made an accommodation by cutting court a little bit earlier that day look, theres many reasons why theyre going to have bases to appeal later on down the road. Passover is not gonna be one. No, i got it 99 problems, but passover one as has been said by no one let me just do while were waiting for mr. Trump to come out and were told that he is hes on his way just a little thing about juror number ten, who we havent discussed, elliott, he works for for retailer, says he doesnt really follow the news again, tofu, he does in your words, he does, however, listened to podcasts on behavioral psychology its my little hobby there. He said during Jury Selection, he was born and raised in ohio, is unmarried, lives with another Adult Roommate he loves to spend less Time Outdoors
presumptive republican nominee, defiant tonight, proclaiming his innocence, calling the process rigged, and accusing president biden of backing a political persecution as he addressed cameras outside the courtroom. the biden campaign saying, quote, we saw that no one is above the law. and how will a nation driven by political division react? our complete historic coverage, coming up. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening and welcome. guilty on all counts. donald j. trump, the 45th president of the united states, was found guilty late today in a new york courthouse on all 34 counts of falsifying business records to conceal payments to a porn star just before the 2016 election. the stunning verdict was delivered by a manhattan jury of seven men and five women, who deliberated for two days, making mr. trump the first former american president to be convicted of a crime. he remains the presumptive republican nominee in the close race for preside
we d suddenly gotten to the point where we seated this jury and the jury is made up of a bunch of professionals in manhattan. there is a speech therapist, someone who owns their own business. a couple of people who work in finance, uh, security engineer the foreman is still the iyer, the man from ireland who works in sales but now this initial jury of 12 is set. they will hear the evidence in this case. the judges expecting that opening statements could begin on monday that they will be happy today because of passover holiday, but we will now get into this trial with jury selection. i m sorry, jury selection nearly complete opening statements coming monday and at the end of the heel during today, there was a suggestion that we could even get to the first witnesses in this case on monday, the trump s team had asked for the identities of those the prosecution said they were not going to turn those names over because of the tweeting that trump has made and the social media posts he s made
public and another one who prosecutors said, a person with a similar name. the only thing we know is a person by the with a similar name had an arrest record and so that person was questioned and in the end was excused. we don t know exactly why they were excused. then, as you pointed out in as half-hour, we now have a jury of 12 and one alternate. the 12 who had been seated the 12 jurors, seven men and five women, and is a cross-section of new yorkers who are now going to be sitting in this courthouse behind me for the next few weeks to hear this case on donald trump i ll tell you just a little bit about a few of these people one of them, the four men, the foreman to the jury, is someone who who s originally from ireland. he works in sales. we have an investment banker, we have a couple of lawyers who are on this jury and some of the things that you hear the form president complaining about what he thinks is the unfairness of this jury. you
justice department s work, the grand jury s work, is the indictment itself and that it s signed off by the foreman of the grand jury, a jury one of the juries that can happen in something like this. court is really unpredictable and grand juries, since they take place in secret, can be quite unpredictable as well. it will be a long day. kaitlan, it s often disappointing when i come to you thinking i know something new and you make very clear you have known all of these things for a very long time, which is why this is a valuable question for my purposes. what don t we know? what needs to be sorted out? phil, there is a really tantalizing thing in the letter that donald trump received on sunday, this target letter. we know that the justice department indicated what they are looking at charging him with, but the meat of the case is such a huge kwoegs question. we don t know what will be in the indictment, how many counts