Welcome to the beat. I'm Ari Melborough and we are reporting on the story riveting the

nation and much of the world, the unprecedented conviction of a former

president. For the first time in American history.

We really do need a new word for unprecedented.

Former President Trump vows to appeal his historic guilty conviction.

A presidential candidate found guilty on 34 counts is clearly unlike anything we've ever

seen. Trump's conviction is a first to clean sweep guilty in all 34

counts and especially strong vindication of the New York DA's case and it is

one that all news viewers and citizens and people around the world are actually

hearing and absorbing as one fact. People can have different reactions to this legal fact, but unlike so many

other civic and political feuds that devolved into competing claims almost from the start,

there's only one legal outcome here, an outcome that is

sinking in no matter what one's views of the defendant are and no matter where

you get your information from your phone or the internet or newspapers or TV news,

where May 30th, 2024 played out with the same big verdict news no matter which station you watch.

To that end as we begin this new week,

tonight we're going to do something a little different.

We're going to air how this news broke across different channels.

And I'll tell you up front front the focus here is not to promote

other channels or just reair our own but rather with an attempted independent

mindset to just see together for a few moments how this broke for the many

millions of Americans watching across the different channels. So right now

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