fight ahead. another hour of velshi starts now. good morning. there have been many attempts to hold donald trump accountable for his actions over the years. he has been criminally indicted multiple times since leaving the white house in just the e past couple of years he has been found liable for sexually abusing and prodding writer e. jean carroll. now, he is the first former american president to be convicted of a felony. he will be sentenced on july 11th, just two weeks after his first presidential debate against joe biden and one week before the gop officially makes him its presidential nominee at the republican national convention in milwaukee. and his sentencing, he faces the possibility of being penalized with a fine, probation, or prison time. but none of the efforts to hold trump accountable so far have succeeded in humbling the present or changing his behavior or curbing his attacks on the rule of law. he is the same polarizing and boorish politician we have alw
and the jurors have been sent to begin deliberations. the jury finally has the case. a former president now awaiting his fate in a criminal trial. tonight, the testimony the jury wants to hear from david pecker and michael cohen. why even getting to this point is a positive sign for the rule of law. it will be talked about in the history books. then, justice samuel alito warms up the bus. as soon as i saw the upside down american flag i asked my wife to take it down, but for several days she refused. congressman daniel goldman on the response to calls for recusal. chief justice roberts must step in and make sure that he does not have any role in deciding these cases. when all in starts now. good evening from new york, i am chris hayes. the criminal trial of donald trump was turned over to the jury today. 12 of trumps fellow new yorkers, i say that somewhat tongue-in-cheek, deliberated for four hours today before being dismissed for the day shortly befo
from texas? he was the white house doctor. a swing and a miss. at the very moment that he was questioning president biden s mental acuity, donald trump forgets his own former doctor s name. it s jackson. not johnson, donald. just the latest example of the proverbial cheese sliding off trump s cognitive cracker. plus, president biden s stark warning about trump s ability to alter the courts for decades. if he s allowed back into the white house. but we begin tonight with manufacturing consent. a concept introduced by edward s. herman and nome chomsky in their 1988 book on the political economy of the mass media. here s a clip from the 1992 documentary of the same name. but when the state loses the bludgeon, when you can t control people by force, and when the voice of the people can be heard, you have this problem. it may make people so curious and so arrogant that they don t have the humility to submit to a civil rule, and therefore, you have to control what people th
of communications under president trump and lord kim darroch, former british ambassador to the us. first, the latest headlines. joe biden and volodymyr zelensky have signed a landmark us ukraine security deal, with the us president warning russia that kyiv s allies are not backing down . mr biden said the bilateral agreement, plus a g7 deal for a $50 billion loan for ukraine using frozen russian funds, collectively showed mr putin that he cannot wait us out. hezbollah has fired a fresh barrage of rockets and drones from lebanon into israel in retaliation for the killing of a senior commander on tuesday. israel said a number of projectiles were intercepted by air defences, although some hit open areas, igniting fires. russian prosecutors say the american journalist, evan gershkovich, will go on trial for espionage at a court in the urals, but no date has been given. mr gershkovich was reporting for the wall streetjournal when he was accused of spying. he denies the charge