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
included in the promise of the country today. i still believe that. i m still optimistic, but i need you. so my question for you is simple, a simple one. are you with me? talk to your family. that was president biden receiving chants of four more years from a crowd in philadelphia yesterday where he and the vice president made a pitch to black voters. we ll have more from their campaign stop in just a moment. meanwhile, the former president was stuck in a courthouse holding room as a jury deliberated his fate in the criminal hush money case. we ll recap everything and bring you expert legal analysis. also ahead we ll go through new reporting on senator rick scott s latest bid to replace mitch mcconnell as the next republican leader in the upper chamber. all right, good morning and welcome to way too early on this thursday, may 30th. still may. i m sam stein in for jonathan lemire. we are on a verdict watch this morning. in just hours the jury in the donald trump hus
the 11th hour with stephanie ruhle starts now. tonight s closing arguments in donald trump s new york criminal trial. the defense targets michael cohen as the prosecution point to a mountain of evidence against the former president. then the biden campaign brings star power outside the courthouse. robert de niro s blunt message about trump. plus, how aggressive will president biden get on the campaign trail once the trial is over? as the 11th hour gets underway on this tuesday night. good evening once again. i am stephanie ruhle. we are now 161 days away from the election and we are likely 13 hours away from the first case against a former president going to the jury. closing arguments in the case began this morning, lasted all day long, and wrapped up a few hours ago. both sides made their final pleas to the jury of 12 ordinary new yorkers who are taking on an extraordinary task. here is my colleague laura jarrett with more. reporter: tonight the first trial of an americ
ukraine s military funds. [ yelling and chanting ] fighting for president biden s request, tieing funds for israel and humanitarian aid into gaza to ukraine, taiwan and securing the southern border. many are again making the bet that we are too divided, too distracted at home to stay the course. that s what s at stake with president biden s national security funding request. both israel and ukraine democrats are fighting ruthless foes who are out to annihilate them. we will not let hamas or putin win. this as speaker mike johnson right out of the gate challenges the white house supporting military aid to israel but not to ukraine and paying for it by cutting money already approved for the president s irs crackdown on the super rich. the defense secretary responding to more attacks against u.s. troops in syria and iraq. now numbering 25 attacks since the israel/hamas war began. the president has been clear and i have been clear, vice chair, that if that if this d
jesse watters a lot of katie pavlich, kevin walling, kayleigh mcenany, and greg gutfeld. it s 5:00 in new york city and this is the five. cheap fake alert. we just got another one of those unedited videos of the president acting like himself that drives the white house insane. joe biden seen shoveling at the speed of a elderly man with poor memory as he gingerly makes his way across the carmack to camp david. right now he has holed up for the next several days of nothing else on his schedule except a crime like crazy for the cnn presidential debate. a lot is riding on the big guy because as the way the liberal media puts it, if biden loses, democracy is dead forever. press laying out their sky high expectations for his perfo performance, like not freezing. he absolutely cannot have a senior moment at this debate. that is what i heard from, i was in wisconsin and michigan two weeks ago for a lot of focus groups, and what i heard from voters, democrats who support biden