The 12 everyday jurors vowed to make a decision based on the evidence and the law and the evidence and the law alone.

Their deliberations led them to a unanimous conclusion beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant Donald J Trump is guilty of 34

counts of falsifying business records in the first degree to conceal a scheme to corrupt the 2016 election.

And while this defendant may be unlike any other in American history,

we arrived at this trial and ultimately today at this verdict. in this

in the trial and ultimately today at this verdict in the same manner as every other case that comes to the courtroom doors

by following the facts and the law in doing so without fear or favor.

That was the voice of district attorney Alvin Bragg

in the Manhattan District Attorney's Office here in New York City.

Welcome to prosecuting Donald Trump. I'm here with Mary McCord, This is Andrew Weisman. Hi Mary.

Good morning Andrew.

So I may sound a little subdued that's because of a lack of sleep and also I think the gravity of what happened.

And so in that sense it will be a special addition

of prosecuting Donald Trump

where we're going to talk about what happened yesterday,

our big picture thoughts about it,

but then also talk about why you're all here,

which is really legally what's next,

what will happen in terms of this sentence, what will happen in terms of the sentence what will happen on appeal what will

happen in terms of the gag order that the judge issued so we're going to try and

get into those details but Mary what your thoughts, big picture before we delve into those intricacies?

Well, I probably won't come as a huge surprise that I see this as a real instance of justice prevailing. I mean we you in many cases were in the

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