he even scowled during his arraignment. his aide and co-defendant walt nauta appeared with him in court. nauta not entering a plea to the six counts he faces because he did not have a local attorney. let s go now to cnn anchor and chief correspondent kaitlan collins who s in miami. trump is calling this one of the saddest days in the history of the country. it is a sad day, though, i m not sure in the same way he means it. give us your take. reporter: yeah, jake, and i think what you re seeing with that comment that trump posted as he was on his way here to this courthouse for that arraignment and the many others that he has posted online also shows, you know, not just what we ve been talking about here today which is the legal strategy and what that s going to look like, but the political strategy that you were seeing the president use when it comes to this visit and how they are going to be fund-raising off of it and using it as, of course, he tries to make his way throug
health care there. then the doctor that performed the procedure got in trouble, or at least didn t really get in trouble, didn t do one thing wrong but the attorney general starts looking into her. when you hear stories like that, voters hear it, regular people hear it. and i think that s what was resonating with them. they want to be able to make their own decisions on reproductive health care. and i don t think we could put in their minds what they thought of restrictions or not. i just think that the views that we re seeing is what they voted on, right? we ve got people including actually senator mcconnell who ve said they want to put a ban into law, a ban, outright ban. we have governors in states like texas who have talked about putting even more restrictions in place. states like missouri where someone proposed criminalizing it, where people have proposed suing people when they cross lines or not allowing them to get their own health care in other states. all these thin
taiwan in six different locations opening fire. so what is the cost/benefit analysis of this trip here? live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster. it is thursday, august 4, 9:00 a.m. here in london, 4:00 a.m. in washington and 11:00 a.m. in moscow where closing arguments are expected in just a few hours in the trial of u.s. back star brittney griner. it is the second hearing so far this week for griner who was arrested at a moscow airport back this february. she is being held on drug charges after being caught with cannabis oil in her luggage. griner pleaded guilty to the charges against her in hopes of securing a lighter sentence. the u.s. has attempted to broker a prisoner swap with moscow, but so far no agreement. fred pleitgen isle following the developments for us from moscow. and this could be the final day, we could get the result. reporter: we could indeed. certainly something that is not set in stone and isn t necessarily on the official agenda.
sherwin? sure. hold on one sec, we are having an issue with your microphone, let me go to you elie, not your fault, michael. what do you think, elie, how likely is this? i pulled out the old federal sentencing guidelines and i arrived at the same number mr. sloman did. if you run the numbers here, it s not going to be a 400 year case. forget about the maximums, it comes out to 8 to 12 years depending on some of the wrinkles. now, the federal sentencing guide lines are not mandatory, so the judge has to consult with them, they re quite influential, and i think it s likely that a judge would go down from that number, but i don t see any universe where if this case results in a conviction of donald trump where a judge sentences him to something short of prison. it s possible, but i think even if a judge gives him a break, you re still looking at prison. really, you think he d go to prison? i do. and i think it s a huge difference between this and the manhattan case. in manhattan,
sides, like rand paul rick perry, working in the senate and in their home states to remedy that problem, which is now a wonderfully bipartisan issue. by reducing sentences to put them out on the streets are you basically legalizing the drugs ambassador. no. that is part of the point. the entire effort to reduce sentences and release people is based on ignoring history. i was at the justice department in the reagan administration had we worked to put sentencing guide lines in place and congress approved them and the reason was up until then had federal judges who were social engineering. get a defendant in front of them. be convicted or plead guilty and judge would give him a lenient sentence because they felt sorry for them or would help rehabilitate them. in fact the sentencing guidelines were intended to correct the problem of excess sieve judicial discretion t was right in the 1980s and right today. one reason crime had been going down people were in prison. that is where they d