that will do it for me on this addition of alex witt reports, who is enjoying some well- deserved time off . thank you for watching. we will see you again tomorrow at 1:00 p.m. eastern. next, the beat: weekend peer hello, i m ari melber covering the first conviction of a former president in american history. thursday, may 30, 2024 , is now etched in all of our collective experiences. the day a jury found donald trump guilty. the date a man who spent his life outrunning lawsuits from fellow citizens, civil cases from government officials, regulatory probes, federal probes, congressional inquiries, a record-breaking two impeachments and one presidential term, historic rico charge in an unprecedented two federal indictments, the defendant outran or punted accountability and all of those cases over many years which involved all kinds of evidence of wrongdoing found he could not outrun a jury of his peers. after two days and nine hours of deliberation as they unanimously found h
the day a man who spent his life outrunning lawsuits from fellow citizens, civil cases from government officials, regulatory probes, federal probes, congressional inquiries, a record-breaking two impeachments in one presidential term, a historic rico charge and unprecedented two federal indictments, the defendant who outran, delayed accountability on all of those cases over many years, which involved all kinds of evidence of wrongdoing, found he could not outrun a jury of his peers. after two days and more than nine hours of deliberations, they unanimously found him guilty on all counts, as you know by now. a former president convicted of felony crimes for the first time in our nation s history. the news broke, we will be revisiting that tonight and going forward with some very special guests and new information. but this is a time, if there ever were a time, to slow down in our fast-paced lives, in our media, television, rushes forward to the next thing and the next iteratio
hello, i am re: millbrook covering the first conviction of a former president in american history. thursday, may 30th, 2024 is now etched in all of our collective experiences, the day a jury found donald trump guilty. the day a man who spent his life outrunning lawsuits from citizens, symbols cases, federal probes, congressional inquiries, a record-breaking two impeachments in one presidential term, a historic rico charge and unprecedented to federal indictments, the president who delayed accountability on all those cases over many years which involved all kinds of evidence of wrongdoing found, he could not outrun a jury of his peers. after nine hours of deliberations, they unanimously found him guilty on all counts, as you know by now. a former president convicted of felony crimes for the first time in our nations history. the news broke. we will be revisiting that tonight and going forward with special guests and new information. this is a time if there ever were a time t
you know, trump is a guy remember trump university? to suddenly put him as a public virtue, or he is the face of integrity and he is being mistreated by the justice systems absurd. he has been pushing and pushing for this moment to happen over and over. the strange part people are going to wonder is how did he get away with it so long? he didn t get away with this. that s why, at the end of the day, we are talking about whether they request jail and how he deals with that and that hangs over him and he has to think about that, and anything that comes up close to the convention, he tried to delay every case as much as possible. he brought it colliding with
to keep thinking about that. anything that got close to the convention come he s try to delay every case as much as possible so he is the one that brought it colliding with a campaign season, as much as anyone else pick so it really is a time as you mentioned, and you mentioned mccarthyism, autocratic challenges, other challenges we ve had. ask anyone from a marginalized community and ask minorities and women about how the legal system works and how it is to up date itself with mores in modern equality so it s not the first time we ve seen this but it is beating back his effort to exempt himself. douglas and molly, thank you for kicking us off on a special. i want to tell folks what s coming up. as you may have seen on your screen, bob woodward is a special guest tonight. he is not done many interviews recently. he s not one to speak out much during open new story or trial but he is our special guest here tonight. the watergate icon and he will talk about the first president