coming to you from msnbc world headquarters in new york city. welcome to alex witt reports . we begin with new fallout and w also the reaction to this historic verdict in donald trump s hush money trial. donald trump s attorney, acknowledging there is a chance the former president of the united states may be sentenced to jail time following his conviction on 34 felony counts. blanche telling the ap the defense will argue strenuously for a non-incarcerated tory sentence. and a short time ago new reaction from republican house speaker mike johnson s comments on saying trump s verdict will be overturned. here s what clark brewster, the attorney representing stormy daniels told me here on msnbc. the idea that they were some part of some conspiracy is nonsense and these 12 people that spent all the time in that courtroom, weeks listen to the evidence and according to the oath return a verdict is a true and honest verdict based upon the facts and evidence and i ct witnessed a cou
good evening from washingtone four cent-mac type mac o international outrage after israel admits dozens of civilians were killed in an airstrike in rafah.fa plusll we take you to a remote jungle in columbia for our whatever happens segment on pablo escobar s infamous cocaine hippos. bu digt a bear with a memorial y special, dipping into efforts to solve some of america s mysteries. locating and inviting servicemembers who remain missing in action. we begin first with a democracy 24 report,da president biden spo his day honoring servicemembers who died in the line of duty, tonight we are learning he siden planning to break his silence on former president trumps colonel trier, closing arguments in manhattan begin tomorrow.s overth the weekend, robert f. c kennedy junior addressed the libertarian party s convention hoping for a chance to swaydo third-party voters.de right notaw we have the details from the north lawn it tonight, hello peter soo and gooder evening, even to the
washington. i m gillian turner in for bret baier. tonight, international outrage after israel admits dozens of civilians were killed in in wrath fall. columbia for whatever happened to segment on pablo escobar infamous cocaine hippos. bret baier with a memorial day special. he digs into efforts to solve some of america s most enduring mysteries locating and identifying service members who remain missing in action. gillian: we begin first with a democracy 24 report. president biden spent his day honoring service members who died in the lining of duty. and tonight we are learning plan to break his silence on former president trump s criminal trial once a verdict is reached. closing arguments in manhattan begin tomorrow. over the weekend, former president trump and robert f. kennedy jr. address the libertarian pottery s convention. hoping for a chance to sway third party voters. white house correspondent peter doocy has the details from the north lawn tonight. hi, peter. p
jury won t be fair. the judge won t be fair. but now he has a larger problem, which is that the verdict was guilty on all counts. so i think a lot of what he s doing is design for his political audience. the fundamental problem he has is its being squeezed does the political solution makes a legal problem worse is his basic problem. a lot of what he is saying i was struck by most of what he said at that postverdict announcement. it s bad for his sentencing. david i want to talk about and appeals here and it and appeals process, i should say. and specifically for someone i want to play for you todd blanche responding to the possibility and/or how likely it will happen in appeal. your confident on appeal what is your number one issue quick don t give me a legal brief that you haven t written
the facts. how is it now when you have those conversations and how do you convince people to trust the votes who already don t think the election won t be fair. again, a lot of it is still the same. a lot of people believe in their gut that it was stolen and there s no evidence that you re ever going to give them that says it wasn t. most people are of the opinion, if you really think they re going to cheat, show up and vote to make it harder. what we re seeing in georgia, we re going back to our normal form which is voting in person. everybody seems to have a lot more faith in. we ll have over 90% of our ballots cast in person, but earlier on election day. we have an outward bound of 284,000 requests have been made for absentee ballots. we anticipate seeing 4.3, 4.4 million votes cast. that s what a lot of the conspiracy theories were lying in and we think that will go down because it s fewer georgians use that because they like voting in person. gabe sterling, thanks so much.