ROELGT NOW ON THIS TODAY. >> OUR TOP STORY A BEAT SPECIAL REPORT ABOUT TRUMP'S CRIMINAL ENTERPRISES, HOW WE GOT HERE AND WHY IT MATTERS. TO PUT IT SIMPLY THERE'S A KEY LINK BETWEEN THIS NEW CONVICTION OF TRUMP, THE PERSON, AND THE LEGAL ACCOUNTABILITY FOR TRUMP'S ORGANIZATIONS, WHICH HAVE LONG BEEN FOUND CRIMINAL IN OUR LEGAL SYSTEM. SO LET'S BEGIN WITH THESE TWO REALITIES. FIRST LAST WEEK'S NEWS AND THEN THE NEWS THAT HAS DOGGED TRUMP'S ORGANIZATIONS FOR YEARS. >> THERE ARE GUILTY VERDICTS. >> WE ARE LOOKING AT COUNT ONE GUILTY, COUNT TWO GUILTY. COUNT THREE GUILTY. >> WE'RE HEARING GUILTY ON ONE THROUGH FIVE. >> STARTING ON COUNT SIX. >> COUNT SIX GUILTY. COUNT SEVEN GUILTY. COUNT EIGHT GUILTY. >> COUNT 27 GUILTY, COUNT 34, GUILTY. >> THE UNANIMOUS JURY VERDICT UNANIMOUS ON ALL COUNTS. >> THAT IS TRUMP'S GUILT. THEN THERE'S HIS TOP AIDES ACROSS MANY YEARS. >> ROGER STONE GUILTY ON ALL COUNTS. >> FLYNN PLED GUILTY TO REPEATEDLY LYING TO THE FBI. >> MICHAEL COHEN, GUILTY. >> FORMER TRUMP CAMPAIGN ADVISOR RICK GAETZ PLEADED GUILTY. >> ALLEN WEISSELBERG JUST LEARNED HIS FATE AFTER BEING CONVICTED FOR LYING UNDER OATH. >> THE JURY HAS REACHED THE UNANIMOUS DECISION PAUL MANAFORT IS GUILTY. >> TRUMP'S NEW CONVICTION FOR A CRIME AT THE INTERSECTION OF HIS CAMPAIGN AND BUSINESS ACTIVITIES COMES AFTER ALL THESE CONVICTIONS OF CAMPAIGN AND BUSINESS AIDES. SO AFTER YEARS WHERE PEOPLE DID FAIRLY KNOW THAT TRUMP HIMSELF HAD NOT BEEN CONVICTED AND WAS LEGALLY PRESUMED IN THE IN MANY OPEN CASES, WE ARE NOW IN THIS NEW TERRAIN. AND THERE'S BEEN SO MUCH CRIMING AND MISCONDUCT IT WOULD BE EASY TO LOSE SIGHT OF THAT IMPORTANT CONTEXT. THE LEGAL SYSTEM HAS SHOWED THIS ISN'T WHERE A LAWYER HAD BAD JUDGMENT IT COULD BE A CEO IN THE '60s AND HAD AN EMPLOYEE CONVICTED OF CRIMES AND YET THE I.E. DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT THEM. HERE'S THE DIFFERENCE NOW. THE COURTS HAS DETERMINED THIS IS NOT LIKE THAT. THIS FOLLOWS THE CONVICTIONS OF KEY LEADERS AND OPERATORS IN BOTH TRUMP'S CAMPAIGNS AND BUSINESSES. SO TAKEN TOGETHER WE HAVE THE PICTURE NOW EMERGE THROUGH THE LEGAL FACT FINDING PROCESS OF A SPRAWLING WEB OF CRIMINALITY. TRUMP IS THE RINGLEADER. AND YOU CAN COUNT IT OUT DIFFERENT WAYS. OUR REPORTING AND LEGAL ANALYSIS FOR YOU NEW TONIGHT SHOWS THREE ENTERPRISES IN LEGAL TROUBLE AND LED BY TRUMP. THE 2016 CAMPAIGN, TRUMP CONVICTED IN NEW YORK, HIS 2020 CAMPAIGN, TRUMP AIDES CONVICTED AND TRUMP INDICTED AND PLOTS THAT HAVE BEEN INDICTED IN THREE OR MORE STATES NOW AND TRUMP PZ BUSINESS FOR A CFO HAS BEEN CONVICTED AND ANOTHER IN JAIL RIGHT NOW. WHAT WE'RE STARTING HERE WITH IS EMPTY WITH TRUMP CONVICTED ON TOP BUT WE'RE FILLING IT OUT TONIGHT. IT DOES TAKE SOME TIME. TRUMP'S PERSONAL CONVICTION CASTS A TRAIL ACROSS MULTIPLE PROBES THAT JUST UP TOP I'M GOING TO REMIND YOU LED TO THE CONVICTION OF HIS LONGEST SERVING ADVISORY, HIS DEPUTY CAMPAIGN CHAIR, HIS CAMPAIGN CHAIR, TOP PERSONAL LAWYER, SEVERAL OTHER KEY LAWYERS HE PERSONALLY MET WITH, TWO WHITE HOUSE AIDES AND THE CFO OF A COMPANY NOW FOUND LIABLE FOR A SEPARATE MASSIVE FRAUD PLUS HIS OWN CRIMINALLY CONVICTED BUSINESS FRAUD. SO WHILE LAST WEEK'S NEWS IS DONALD TRUMP'S FIRST CONVICTION, IT FITS WITH THE WIDER CRIMES PLAGUING HIS 2016 CAMPAIGN OPERATION. REMEMBER THE TOP TWO PEOPLE RUNNING IT CONVICTED, MANAFORT AND GAETZ. A POLITICAL ADVISOR WHO BROUGHT IN MANAFORT CONVICTED PLUS OTHER FIGURES YOU SEE HERE, FLYNN, PAPADOPOULOS. WHAT YOU SEE IS YOU HAVE 2016 AIDES ALL CONVICTED AROUND THAT CAMPAIGN. BECAUSE TRUMP WON OUR LEGAL SYSTEM DIDN'T HAVE ANYTHING TO ADJUDICATE WHAT HE MIGHT HAVE DONE THROUGH '16 WHILE IN OFFICE. AND THEN YOU HAVE MICHAEL COHEN CONVICTED OF CAMPAIGN CRIME AND THEN OF COURSE A WITNESS THAT ENDED IN TRUMP'S CONVICTION LAST WEEK. HE WAS CONVICTED IN THIS TRIAL THAT LET'S REMEMBER NOW THAT WE SEE IT ALL TOGETHER FEATURES WITNESSES WHO LITERALLY DETAILED THEIR ROLE IN 2016 CRIMES. THE TABLOID BOSS PECKER HAD FEDERAL IMMUNITY, COHEN HAD ALREADY GONE TO PRISON, AND MANAFORT AND STONE THEY WEREN'T INVOLVED NECESSARILY IN A BIG WAY IN THIS TRIAL. THEIR NAMES CAME UP AT TIMES HERE AND THERE. BANNON'S NAME CAME UP AS WELL, BUT THEY WERE CONVICTED FOR OTHER THINGS AFTER 2016. THAT'S A CAMPAIGN APPARATUS. THAT'S THE CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE NOW YOU SEE THE GUY AT THE TOP AND SO MANY PEOPLE NEAR THE TOP CONVICTED. ALL OF THIS MAKES THESE PAST CONVICTIONS ALL THE MORE IMPORTANT NOW THAT TRUMP'S ROLE HAS BEEN FORMALLY FOUND BY A JURY AND THROUGH OUR LEGAL PROCESS AS THE FELON AT THE TOP. >> TRUMP ALLY ROGER STONE FOUND GUILTY TODAY ON ALL SEVEN COUNTS INCLUDING LYING TO GRASS AND OBSTRUCTING ITS INVESTIGATION INTO RUSSIA. >> FORMER TRUMP CAMPAIGN ADVISOR RICK GAETZ PLEADED GUILTY FRIDAY TO CONSPIRING AGAINST THE UNITED STATES AND MAKING FALSE STATEMENTS TO THE SPECIAL COUNSEL. >> PAUL MANAFORT, GUILTY. CONVICTED ON EIGHT COUNTS INCLUDING FALSE TAX RETURNS, FAILING TO FILE FOREIGN BANK REPORTS, AND TWO COUNTS OF BANK FRAUD. >> MICHAEL COHEN'S GUILTY PLEA. FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP'S NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR ADMITTING HE LIED TODAY THE FBI. >> THAT'S SOME OF THE RECKONING FOR TRUMP'S FIRST CAMPAIGN. WHILE HIS BUSINESS HAS BEEN BUSTED AS A CIVIL FRAUD RUN BY THIS FELLOW FELON, ALLAN WEISSELBERG, WHO'S DOING HIS SECOND RIKERS JAIL STINT RIGHT NOW. HE OPERATED AS THE STAND IN DECISION MAKER WHEN CONVICTED FELON DONALD TRUMP COULDN'T BE THERE JUST AS MICHAEL COHEN WAS A TOP TRUMP ORG EXECUTIVE USING THAT ROLE TO CONVICT A CAMPAIGN CRIME FOR TRUMP THAT WAS TIED INTO LAST WEEK'S CONVICTION. >> ALLAN WEISSELBERG, THE FORMER CFO OF THE TRUMP ORGANIZATION, JUST LEARNED HIS FATE AFTER BEING CONVIKTDED FOR LYING UNDER OATH IN THE FORM PRESIDENT'S CIVIL FRAUD TRIAL. >> TO JAIL CELL AT RIKERS ISLAND WHERE A NEW YORK JUDGE SENTENCED ALLAN WEISSELBERG. >> TODAY'S PLEA CAME FROM THE PRESIDENT'S DISGRACED FORMER LAWYER, MICHAEL COHEN. >> DONALD TRUMP'S PERSONAL LAWYER WAS IN FEDERAL COURT IN MANHATTAN AGAIN TODAY PLEADING GUILTY TO CRIME AGAIN TODAY, FEDERAL CRIMES HE SAID INVOLVED THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. >> COHEN'S TESTIMONY IN THIS TRIAL WAS LEGALLY LIMITED TO TRUMP'S ACTIONS THERE IN 2016 AND IN '17 RELATED TO WHAT HAPPENED IN THIS CASE. BUT THERE'S THE WIDER RANGING ENTERPRISE HERE, AND YOU HAVE TO LOOK AT THIS. IT IS CRIMINAL WHEN YOU HAVE THE CFO GOING TO PRISON, CIVIL FRAUD REGARDING THE WHOLE COMPANY. IT'S CRIMINAL WHEN IT COMES TO TRUMP FALSIFYING RECORDS RUN THROUGH THE TRUMP ORG TO COVER UP ANOTHER CRIME, AND THAT'S THE MAN AT THE TOP. SO NOW WE'RE THROUGH TWO OUT OF THESE THREE. ALL OF THAT COVERS TRUMP'S CRIME, CONVICTED AIDES, BUT THAT'S ALL THE PERIOD BEFORE HE LOST THE 2020 ELECTION. IN OTHER WORDS, YOU DON'T EVEN NEED TO REACH JANUARY 6th AND TRUMP'S PENDING CASES IN D.C. IN GEORGIA TO SEE HOW THE NOW CONVICTED FELON WAS ALREADY IN CHARGE OF WHAT YOU SEE ON YOUR SCREEN, TWO ORGANIZATIONS BUSTED FOR CRIMES AT THE TOP AND BY THE PEOPLE AT THE TOP. AND YOU CAN SEE WHY THAT'S BAD. BUT I WOULD ARGUE WHEN YOU TAKE IT ALL TOGETHER NOW, WHAT YOU SEE ON YOUR SCREEN AND THAT HISTORY HELPS EXPLAIN EXACTLY HOW TRUMP'S TEAM AND ALLY SO QUICKLY SPRUNG INTO ACTION INTO THOSE PLOTS IN JUST A COUPLE WEEKS WE'VE SHOWN YOU HATCHING THESE PLOTS THAT TURNED CRIMINAL TO TRY TO STEAL THE ELECTION, TRY TO STOP PRESIDENT-ELECT BIDEN FROM TAKING OFFICE. TRUMP HAD YEARS OF EXPERIENCE QUITE LITERALLY PULLING AIDES INTO THESE PLOTS. WHAT YOU SEE HERE MANY OF THEM CONVICTED, THESE ARE THE PLOTS THAT BUILT ON TWO LONG RUNNING CRIMINAL ENTERPRISES. TRUMP'S 2018 INFAMOUSLY LED TO A SLEW OF INDICTMENTS AND CONVICTED CRIMES. AND THAT RANGES FROM WHITE HOUSE VETERANS WHO WERE SPECIFICALLY DEFYING THE INVESTIGATIONS INTO THOSE PLOTS. REMEMBER IN THE OLD DAYS IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT PARTY YOU'RE IN IF YOU WORK IN THE GOVERNMENT AND WHITE HOUSE AND THE FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT APPARATUS AND CONGRESS ARE LOOKING INTO SOMETHING WHATEVER IT MAY 9/11 OR A CRIMINAL CASE YOU COOPERATE. THEY DIDN'T. NOW STEVE BANNON APPEARING FOR CONVICTION, PETER NAVARRO CURRENTLY IN FEDERAL PRISON SHOW HOW FAR THE STONE WALLING WENT. YOU HAVE CLARK, EASTMAN, GIULIANI, SOME OF THESE PEOPLE FACING SANCTIONS, SOME AWAITING TRIAL. SOME AS I'LL REMIND YOU CONVICTED, AND THESE ARE ALL JUST ON THE 2020 FRONT. IN GEORGIA THREE TRUMP LAWYERS, THEY WENT THE WAY OF MICHAEL COHEN JUST LIKE I SHOWED YOU ON THOSE CHARTS, PULLED INTO THE CRIME BUT THEN DECIDING TO CONFESS THEIR CRIMES. >> THE JURY HAS FOUND FORMER WHITE HOUSE STRATEGIST STEVE BANNON GUILTY ON CHARGES OF CONTEMPT OF CONGRESS. >> THE FOURTH DEFENDANT NOW IN THE GEORGIA ELECTION INTERFERENCE CASE THAT CHANGED THEIR PLEA TO GUILTY. >> GUILTY. >> GUILTY. >> GUILTY. >> IF I KNEW THEN WHAT I KNOW NOW I WOULD HAVE DECLINED TO REPRESENT DONALD TRUMP IN THESE POST ELECTION CHALLENGES. I LOOK BACK ON THIS WHOLE EXPERIENCE WITH DEEP REMORSE. >> FORMER TRUMP ADVISOR PETER NAVARRO WAS SENTENCED TO FOUR MONTHS IN FEDERAL PRISON FOR CONTEMPT OF CONGRESS. >> ALL OF THAT IS JUST THE 2020 CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE AS I'M CALLING IT. IT'S A WHOPPING NUMBER OF INDICTMENTS AND CONVICTIONS FOR THAT PERIOD OF JUST A FEW MONTHS ESPECIALLY INVOLVING THINGS THAT WERE OFTEN SPILLING OUT INTO PUBLIC. IT WAS RAMPANT, IT WAS A CRIME SPREE. IF YOU FILL IT AND SEE CONVICTIONS FOR CRIMES TO STOP TRUMP'S LOSS THERE THE 2020 CAMPAIGN AND AS THOSE CASES GRIND ON I WANT TO SHOW YOU ON THE RIGHT THERE, THOSE ARE JUST CONVICTIONS. WE WOULD NOT HAVE ROOM ON THIS SCREEN TO LIST ALL THE INDIVIDUALS INDICTED, BUT WE WOULD HAVE MANY, MANY MORE FACES. SO TOGETHER YOU SEE THIS AS A CRIMINAL SET OF ENTERPRISES WITH DONALD TRUMP CONVICTED AT THE TOP. TRUMP'S ROLE ATOP THESE THREE ORGANIZATIONS THAT ARE RIFE WITH CONVICTIONS OVER THE LAST SEVEN YEARS IS REVEALING. IT ADDS A LEGAL FINDING TO WHAT WAS HONESTLY ONCE A MORE CIRCUMSTANTIAL TAKE. PEOPLE WOULD SAY, WELL, HE BENEFITTED FROM THESE OTHER CRIMES SURE. HE'S GOT THESE TYPES OF PEOPLE AROUND HIM AND HE SEEMED INVOLVED, AND YEAH HE WAS SOMEHOW LINKED. THAT'S WHAT WE USED TO HEAR, AND SOME OF THAT MIGHT HAVE SOUNDED LIKE OVERLY FRIENDLY SPIN. SOME OF IT MIGHT SOUND LIKE WHAT YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO SAY PARTICULARLY IF YOUR WORK IN FIELDS THAT INVOLVE FACT CHECKING, LAW OR JOURNALISM. YOU CAN'T JUST SAY SOMETHING LOOKS LIKE IT'S GOING IN ONE DIRECTION, IT WAS CONFIRMED. IT MEANS SOMETHING WHEN WE SAY PRESUMED INNOCENT BECAUSE IT HADN'T BEEN LEGALLY TRIED. AND IT MEANS SOMETHING QUITE DIFFERENT WHEN YOU SAY AS YOU SEE ATOP THE CHART AS A PENN OR ORGANIZATION THAT HAD SO MANY CONVICTIONS ALREADY HE'S CONVICTED, SO THE LINE GOES UP AND DOWN THESE CRIME SPREES. AND THAT'S NOT ALL OF THEM. THIS LEGAL CHART WE PREPARED FOR YOU DOESN'T ACTUALLY EVEN MENTION SOME OTHER RELATED ISSUES LIKE TRUMP'S DOCUMENTED ROLE IN SHAKING DOWN UKRAINE AND THE ATTEMPTED FRONT AGAINST THE BIDENS, A PLOT THAT FAILED BUT TECHNICALLY MIGHT NOT HAVE BEEN ILLEGAL. THE ESPIONAGE CASE THAT HAS AIDES AND LAWYERS ON THE HOOK FOR TRUMP'S CONDUCT, WHICH HAS BEEN DOCUMENTED BY THE DOCUMENTS THEY HAD TO TAKE BACK BECAUSE THEY WERE ILLEGALLY ON HIS PROPERTY. I DIDN'T MENTION TRUMP'S PERSONAL LEGAL LOSSES AS A CIVIL DEFENDANT IN OTHER VERY SERIOUS CASES LIKE THE CARROLL CASE. NOW THOSE CASES MATTER AND WE'VE COVERED THEM IN MANY WAYS BUT INVOLVES LESS OF THE ISSUE OF THE CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE, THE ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE UNDER SCRUTINY. THIS EVIDENCE, OVERWHELMING EVIDENCE IS IMPORTANT. IT IS A NEW LENS WITH LONG EXISTING FACTS AND LONG RUNNING CRIME SPREES ACROSS TWO CAMPAIGNS AND HIS BUSINESS AND HOW HIS BUSINESS A JURY HAS FOUND WAS PULLED INTO, OF COURSE, COVERING UP A CAMPAIGN CRIME. ALL OF THIS MATTERS, AND SOME OF IT SO VARIED AND KIND OF OVERWHELMING AND ACROSS DIFFERENT PERIODS OF TIME PEOPLE WOULD UNDERSTANDABLY FORGET OR BE FATIGUED OR MOVE ON. IT'S PART WHF OUT THEY WANT. ONE OF THE LAST RESPONSES FROM TRUMP ALLIES OR PEOPLE WHO FEEL POLITICALLY AND PERSONALLY THEY FEEL THEY HAVE TO DEFEND ANYTHING HE DOES, THEY JUST HAVE TO SAY WORDS THEY MAY NOT EVEN PERSONALLY BELIEVE. ONE OF THE RESPONSES WE'VE HEARD FROM CONSERVATIVES WHO USED TO TALK OF POLICE AND LAW AND ORDER AND COMPLYING WITH POLICE AND HONORING JURIES, ONE OF THE THINGS WE'VE HEARD FROM THEM IS TRUMP IS SOMEHOW UNIQUELY TARGETED, THAT ANYONE COULD BECOME A FELON NOW, THIS WAS ONLY ABOUT TARGETING ONE PERSON, DONALD TRUMP. NOW THAT LAST GASP FROM PEOPLE WHO ARE ON RECORD CONTRADICTING THAT KIND OF EFFORT TO UNDERMINE OUR SYSTEM, POLICE DO THE ARRESTING AND THE JURIES DO THE FACT FINDING, THAT LAST GASP IS WEAK ONE. IT WON'T TAKE US LONG TO DEAL WITH EMPIREICALLY, SO THOSE ARE FACKICAL CLAIMS. AND THINK ABOUT HOW THEY ARE CONTRADICTED BY EVERYTHING WE JUST SAW IN THE LAST 13 MINUTES OR SO, THEY'RE NOT TRUE. THEY DON'T MAKE SENSE. TRUMP LAST WEEK WAS CONVICTED AFTER YEARS OF DUCKING OR DODGING OTHER CASES AND ONLY AFTER AT LEAST DEPENDING ON HOW YOU COUNT AND CALCULATE, AT LEAST 20 OTHER AIDES WERE INDICTED ACROSS DIFFERENT PLACES 12 OF THEM NOW CONVICTED, SOME BY THEIR OWN CONFESSIONS IN GEORGIA AND NEW YORK, OTHERS BY JURY OF THEIR PEERS LIKE MANAFORT IN GEORGIA AND NEW YORK AND OTHERS. THERE'S NO DEBATE OVER THE TRUMP AIDES WHO PLED GUILTY. THEY CONFESSED TO THEIR CRIMES FOR TRUMP. AS M&M PUT IT SO SO SIMPLY THEY TOLD PROSECUTORS I AM WHAT YOU SAY I AM, GUILTY. IF I WASN'T, THEN WHY WOULD YOU SAY I AM. IT DOESN'T GET ANY SIMPLER THAN THAT. >> GUILTY. >> GUILTY. >> GUILTY. >> GUILTY. THEY'RE GUILTY LEGALLY. THIS IS NOT AN OBSERVATION, THIS IS NOT AN OPINION. THIS IS THEIR WORDS UNDER THE PRESSURE OF THEIR EVIDENCE AND THEIR VIEW THAT CONFESSING TO THEIR GUILT EARLIER WOULD BE BETTER THAN HAVING IT PROVEN IN A SYSTEM LATER. GUILTY LIKE THEIR BOSS. A SERIES OF CRIMES COMMITTED ACROSS THREE ORGANIZATIONS AND SEVERAL STATES FOR MANY, MANY YEARS CONVICTED ACROSS DIFFERENT JURISDICTIONS WITH DIFFERENT INDIVIDUALS WHO WENT THROUGH THEIR ENTIRE CAREERS AND DIFFERENT PROSECUTORS AND DIFFERENT INDEPENDENT WITNESSES SWORN UNDER OATH AND DIFFERENT INDEPENDENT JUDGES APPOINTED BY BOTH PARTIES AND DIFFERENT JURIES SCREENED AND VETTED BY BOTH SIDES WITH THE RIGHTS OF THE DEFENDANT PROTECTED. ALL OF THAT TOGETHER, THE FORMER PRESIDENT NOW A CONVICTED FELON JUST LIKE THE PEOPLE HE HAND PICKED TO RUN THAT BUSINESS AND THESE CAMPAIGNS SURROUNDED BY SO MANY CONVICTED CRIMES. WHAT'S DIFFERENT NOW IS THAT IT HAS BEEN COMPLETELY EXPOSED AND
