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how it plays with swing voters. all right. well, thank you both very much and thanks to all of you for being with us for this special coverage on this historic day here in new york are breaking news. coverage continues now with ac30, 60 cnn breaking news donald trump is a convicted felon, 34 times over. and good evening from outside the courthouse in lower manhattan, where it all happened just about three hours course ago, there simply is no overstating what happened in the entire history of this country and of the american presidency, not one president or former president has ever been tried we re convicted of anything, let alone multiple felonies. today, a jury of 12 new yorkers supply that dubious distinction. this is their verdict sheet, guilty on all 34 counts a falsifying business records to cover up a hush money payment to an adult film star made right before the 2016 election convicted with the 2024 election faster approaching the 45th president of the unite ....
Interesting about this document that we learned when we were reporting on it is that lynch didn t know about it at the time. instead, comey had his deputy go to the senior most career person at the justice department and talk to them about this, but that lynch and the political folks that were running the justice department didn t know what was going on here. my sense is there s probably some other stuff here that went on that we don t know about, and there were some interactions between comey and the justice department that we don t know about on this, but, as it stands right now, this doesn t really help comey s argument for why he did what he did. also this morning, the new york times reports american spies collected information last summer that senior russian intelligence and political officials were discussing how to exert influence over high-level advisers inside donald trump s campaign. the officials they discussed influencing, general michael flynn and paul manafort, both o ....