tonight on all in. breaking news has come in that we are reading across the newswires, guilty. count one. guilty verdict, count two. guilty verdict, count four. so three and four. donald j trump still guilty on 34 felony counts. no one ever says that about me. i would like them to say we are to have a little sorrow for this man. in the republican standardbearer reveals that his conviction is an honor. in a way i am honored. salacious. by the way. and nothing ever happened. if it were george washington, was he a bad boy here, was he a bad boy there? tonight, major questions about the sentencing of donald trump. how is that going to affect the rnc? does he have confinement? if he goes to prison, what does that look like? plus, the trump campaign threats to those who won t back a felon. and why dreams of a hung jury should give us all a little hope. the 12 everyday jurors about it to make a decision based on the evidence and the law. all in starts right now. go
we need the electorate to be informed, to have access to accurate information, and this was an attempt to defraud the voters. so when you have that same language mirroring in a sentence of someone who is, i think admittedly, less culpable than the person he was doing this at the direction of, it is hard to see how the prosecutors would not ask here. i would just add in, another thing the judge looks at is comparisons. other sentences that like defendants have received, not just in this case, michael cohen, as you say, but other defendants who have been convicted. defrauding business records. correct. i looked at this, i co-authored a paper for the brookings institution and we looked at hundreds of other sentencings coming out of new york for the exact same crime, and always with a bump up to a felony, in this case. and people get prison terms. not just, even first-time offenders.