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welcome to our continued coverage. the new york criminal trial of former president donald trump. i m rachel maddow joined by my colleagues. also, lawrence o donnell is with us pick we are going to be joined by the star witness for the prosecution in this trial, michael cohen. he will speak to us exclusively. his first reaction to this verdict tonight. michael cohen will be joining us in one moment live. 4:20 p.m. p.m. and it is we, the jury have reached a verdict. 45 minutes later at 5:05 p.m. the jury was back in the courtroom and is seated. the defendant donald trump was seated as well. the judge addressed the four people. and the judge. without telling me the verdict, how s the jury? and yes, they have reached a verdict. take the verdict, please. with the foreperson please rise to the members of the jury agreed upon a verdict? yes. and how say you to the first count of the indictment, charging donald j trump with the crime of falsifying business records in the first ....
let s have echo alternate universe in which the civil penalty didn t happen. and these criminal convictions did not happen. from your sense of how he movese through the world and how he deals with humiliation and failure, what do you think he has left to do that he can do in response to this that we should be prepared for? he is going to blame everybody other than himself. judge merchan is corrupt. judge engoron is corrupt. michael cohen is a liar, a felon. a rat and everything else he has been calling me for over six years. he will blame everybody else other than himself. he does not understand the concept of accountability. somewhere along the line, i guess, his parents didn t teach him that there are consequences for actions. on the consequences question. it struck me, i was in the courtroom one of the days you were testifying. there was this line of people who had come to support donald trump orientation and to be vice president or something. they want to be wha ....
Seated as well. the judge addressed the four people. and the judge. without telling me the verdict, how s the jury? and yes, they have reached a verdict. take the verdict, please. with the foreperson please rise to the members of the jury agreed upon a verdict? yes. and how say you to the first count of the indictment, charging donald j trump with the crime of falsifying business records in the first degree, guilty or not guilty? jury number one. guilty. and how say you to count two? guilty. and to three? guilty. and how say you to count for? guilty. and so on, and so on. the clerk proceeded the same question, guilty or not guilty for each of the 34 felony counts. each time, the person replied ....
I retired. i was 39. i m not a rags to riches story thanks to donald. i was a riches to rags story thanks to donald. you ask a great question. what s it going to take? 51 days of solitary confinement as well as having the president of the united states weaponize the department of justice by using a willing and complicit attorney general to violate the constitutional rights, to create a counterfeit document, a fraudulent document, demand you sign it and if you don t, think take that fraudulent document, remand you back to prison after putting you in a freezer a few hours and ultimately shipping you back up for more solitary confinement. that s what it s going to take. can i ask you one more question, michael? it s not about you specifically. i did listen to your extended conversation with stormy daniels on your podcast. she hasn t done a lot of talking outside of court, but she was treated the same way ....
Bring him in. andrew, you are allowed to ask michael cohen a question. hi, michael. i had a question for you about the actual last witness in the case on the defense case, bob costello, and we all got to read a series of emails, some of which you were on and some of which were happening behind your back which i think the jurors were led to believe, i think probably concluded, that this was this huge effort that was undertaken by him, by rudy giuliani and by defendant trump to keep you from cooperating so that you would not flip. i was wondering if you could take us back to that time as to what was it within you that knew to ....