anniversary of the day. the pier shooters, many veterans themselves, leaped from planes used in world war ii. d-day began june 6, 1944 marking what historians call to the beginning of the end of the war. on thursday president biden will join the celebrations as he makes his first state visit to france. he s okay with it, donald trump speaking today about what lies ahead after his conviction. in his hush money case, coming up. good afternoon from msnbc in washington, d.c., welcome to alex wood reports. i m in and for alex. we begin with the latest from the fallout of the guilty verdict against donald trump. stormy daniels speaking out, giving her first postverdict interview to a widely circulated british tabloid telling the sunday mirror she wants trump jail. if she had to she would go back to july, 2006 and would not have attempted, accepted his invitation to dinner in lake tahoe. quote, i definitely regret putting myself in that situation but i m not the one should be
tonight on the reidout this is a scam. it s a rigged trial. it shouldn t have been in that venue. we shouldn t have had that judge. it s reckless. it s dangerous. it s irresponsible. for anyone to say this was rigged, just because they don t like the verdict. a stark split screen today as donald trump lashed out about his 34 felony convictions, while president joe biden defended the american justice system. plus, the unhinged republican response. they want to tear the whole system down and punish everyone involved. because that s what authoritarians do. but we begin tonight with the man nicknamed teflon don, and no, i m not talking about the mafia boss of the gambino crime family. i m speaking about donald trump. but like gotti, trump has a history of not only skirting the law but always finding a way to evade any serious accountability for his actions, despite being constantly under legal scrutiny. trump used his wealth and fame to make his own rules. it was that
2004 campaign. kick us off here, dasha. let s talk voter mindset as we head into this debate. you talked to a group of voters from battleground pennsylvania. what did you hear from them? reporter: yeah, we talked to a very specific slice of voters in that critical battleground state. and in a critical county, erie county, pennsylvania, where we re following voters very closely. we talked to republican voters who went out and voted for nikki haley in the pennsylvania primary. now, that happened months after haley dropped out of the race. so these voters went out, voted for a candidate that was no longer in the race. they did it to send a message, ana. and those haley voters, we went to see what they re thinking ahead of november. some of them are going to come back home, to their republican party and vote for former president trump. some of them are considering voting third party, still persuadable, they don t like either candidate, they don t know what they re going to do.
the real verdict will be election day. new polls find half of americans agree the verdict was correct. to what extent do you believe donald trump will be repurposed thing his conviction into a political asset, to win over voters who are still on the fence quite i do not think being a convicted alan is a political asset. it is not good for any candidate in any situation to have to campaign when they have something like this hanging over their heads. though polls have began to show that. you have a sentencing on july 11th. you know, about a month and a half from now, that is going to remind people of all of this. depending on the nature of the sentencing, there are going to be constant reminders, even if he gets probation, he has to go in and out to meet with his ovation officers while campaigning. so all of this is going to be front of mine for voters and will not help him in his campaign at all. i also think as we know, this
patricia, i want to ask about what donald trump is doing now, which is saying he s okay with house arrest or jail time. if that is part of his sentence. what factors are on the table when judge merchan goes to hold the july 11th sentencing hearing, and can any of his post verdict behavior influence the sentencing, do you think? i think it can. the judge has a lot of leeway under the law. he can string them together and make a maximum of four years. he can give a range. he can impose part-time, maybe six months and home detention. legal experts have said to me, he could fashion something creative. you do nights in jail at rikers island even. but they also said there really it is important for merchan to show that he s not going to treat donald trump differently than any other defendant. we have to remember that merchan presided over allen weisselberg, trump s longtime