also front and center on the hill. earlier speaker pelosi visited the gun violence memorial on the national mall with former congresswoman gabby giffords who is a survivor of gun violence. we re getting more clues on where senate negotiations on new gun legislation stand at this hour. democratic senator chris murphy who is negotiating with republicans says he s hopeful for an agreement by the end of this week. he s laying down a marker saying he will not support anything that doesn t save lives. in moments i ll speak with democratic congresswoman shawn tall brown who will hearing from survivors at a hearing tomorrow. i ll ask her what s the minimum she s willing to accept on any new gun legislation. new details we just learned about who will be testifying during thursday s public hearing from the january 6th committee. ahead, we ll play what one of the witnesses told me about what she experienced on january 6th. will any of these issues matter in the midterm election? more
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
and then ukraine liberated are still incredibly fierce. russia is fighting to take those back. ukrainian troops are holding that front line, trying to keep rush away from kharkiv. in sef donetsk is where the fighting has been going on. people are changing their minds, he said to stay in the city is to play with destiny. there are 10,000 to 11,000 people who stayed in the city. they are old, they are sick, they couldn t get out, couldn t evacuate when there were safe evacuations. he said humanitarian aid got into the city. that s the first time in the last week we have heard that. the mayor also gave an update on the street fighting. he says the street fights are taking place. he also said, and this is interesting, we have heard that people in the russian held eastern part of that city have been deported to russian-held
from the war. you see the sign here that encourages them to head to a tent around the corner to get some warm food. but as we step inside here and, you know, keeping in mind that this is a transit area, this is a very busy bus station. what you see over here to my left, this is a line to purchase bus tickets internationally. and as you walk down the line, as you go through this bus station, we are hearing stories from ukrainians who want to go home, even as the fighting gets worse and they say that they have had enough. i want to give you a sense of the overall picture, the numbers. take a look at this graphic. from february 24th the day that russia invaded ukraine to today, the polish border patrol tells us 2.68 million ukrainians people have crossed from ukraine into poland. in that very same time period, nearly 600,000 people have crossed from poland into ukraine. now, we don t know exactly the
motivations for all of these people, but who are some of these people who are returning? well, we ve walked around, talked to people, we have done this a couple of times over the last couple of weeks. and we met a woman, elena. she is a grandmother. she brought her daughter and her granddaughter here to poland. and she tells us today she needs to go home because she wants to be with her mother. she lives in an area that is 90 minutes away from fighting. her town is home to three military bases. this trip is not without risk. it s a 14-hour bus ride. but she says at some point you just got to go home. this is increasingly, brianna, about separated families. some who were able to stay here in poland in safety. others who are staying in ukraine. and it is just a heart break when you talk to these people about what is happening inside each of these nuclear families.