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
implicitly and explicitly go at the stirrers and say it was never fair and he never had a chance, your lawyer chose them, spoke to them personally. this was not the judge. at the end of the day, you picked the jurors, you did not object, and we got the outcome that we have. thank you both, that is all in for this week. alex wagner tonight starts now. you are not going to have kokomo played well for the weekend? how good was that clip? i got to say, i was laughing. maybe that s what needs to happen. shout out to our beloved and arranged senior producer who watches that show every morning. listen, i would take the beach boys kokomo live at fox square, whatever that was, over tearing down the rule of law. bring the beach boys back. whatever you got to do. thank you, my friend, have a great weekend. so, it really happened. donald trump is been convicted on 34 felony counts in the state of new york. and there is been a lot of reaction to that news, including and espe
you as a defense attorney, i have felt this tension the entire time in this. because i felt like it has been remarkable to watch the law function in this way. he is in there like any other criminal defendant. at the same time, the american criminal justice system is a brutal beast. that s a whole other show. but they are together in some ways. in some ways it seems to me like this is the apotheosis of what we want. good tourneys, blah blah blah. and this outcome represents the system at its apex. i agree with that holy, and what i would like to say is you have a lot of commentators who are formal federal prosecutors who have come in spoken about this particular trial. i want to give one nuance with respect to new york state practice. the jury selection process is not done by the judge. the jurors are questioned by the attorneys. when you start to have trump out here now starting to
neil: you just made more than immaterial changes, right? you re structurally changing, delaying key provisions for a year, you re changing working requirements. you re more than tinkering. it s not all right. maybe not tinkering, but what happens is when the law becomes is executed, certain provisions weren t necessarily working out the way it was neil: this i kind of i think from a procedural standpoint there s nothing wrong with laws being amended when the purpose of the amendment is to make the law function better. we want the law to be in as good a shape as possible. neil: a big difference between amending something and completely changing it. if agree. the bigger problem are these delays. it shows the federal government really is not in a position to pass a law and then have the law work as soon as it s on the books. neil: beginning october 1st , all these