Welcome to the news hour. The verdict is in. Former President Donald Trump is

found guilty on all 34 criminal charges against him in a New York courtroom.

An historic moment as he becomes the first former president charged and now convicted of a felony.

The case down from Mr. Trump falsifying business records to cover up hush money payments

to adult film actress Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 presidential

election.

Mr. Trump reacted after the verdict and said this case is long from over.

This was a disgrace.

This was a rigged trial by a conflicted judge who was corrupt.

It's a rigged trial, a disgrace.

They wouldn't give us a venue change. We were at 5% or 6% in this

district in this area. This was a rigged disgraceful trial that the real verdict is going to be

November 5th by the people and they know what happened here and everybody knows what happened here.

The judge has scheduled sentencing for July 11th.

That's just four days before the start of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee.

William Bringham spent a day in the courtroom and joins us now.

So William, you are our eyes and ears in the courtroom.

Tell us what you saw when the verdict came in and what the mood was there.

Well, Jeff, this whole afternoon suddenly capsized like the Titanic. I mean, it was, we were all expecting that we were going to go home for the day.

The judge had just been in the courtroom saying the jury asked to be done for the day.

They were going to go at 4.30 and be dismissed.

And then minutes later he came back in and said actually the jury has just passed me a note saying they have received a verdict.

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