get connected on the day of your move with the xfinity app. can i sleep over at your new place? can katie sleep over tonight? sure, honey! this generation is so dramatic! move with xfinity. katy tur. and this hour we re going to be exploring the political and the practical consequences of thursday s momentous decision. we ll dig deeper into how donald trump s sentencing will play out when he s back in that new york city courthouse 41 days from now . it is just a handful of days before the republican national convention, but we re going to start right there on the political side, on the ledger with the republican party seeming to relish what would have once been the unthinkable, backing a convicted felon as their presidential nominee. that decision won t officially come until the rnc convention mid-july. again, just days after donald trump s sentencing, but it seems all but assured based on the party s near total embrace of the former president since his guilty verdict cam
plagued the president in lots of different ways. we re going to see what happens next here. there was a delegation of diplomats set to meet with the national security adviser today, this afternoon, to talk about the hostages that are from their countries. we also know that there was a delegation slated to go to the middle east next week as well to engage in some more talks and conversations around a deal coming together, and so the administration still has this very robust presence in trying to make this happen, and we ll be looking to see whether there s a response to any degree from hamas in the days to come. aaron gilchrist, thank you for that. claire mccaskill, i want to go to you. i want to talk about the president s statements, they were forceful but brief on donald trump s trial and conviction. you spent many years in the senate. if i m remembering correctly, you were on the armed services committee, homeland security committee. this is an area of the world that yo