that will do it for me on this addition of alex witt reports, who is enjoying some well- deserved time off . thank you for watching. we will see you again tomorrow at 1:00 p.m. eastern. next, the beat: weekend peer hello, i m ari melber covering the first conviction of a former president in american history. thursday, may 30, 2024 , is now etched in all of our collective experiences. the day a jury found donald trump guilty. the date a man who spent his life outrunning lawsuits from fellow citizens, civil cases from government officials, regulatory probes, federal probes, congressional inquiries, a record-breaking two impeachments and one presidential term, historic rico charge in an unprecedented two federal indictments, the defendant outran or punted accountability and all of those cases over many years which involved all kinds of evidence of wrongdoing found he could not outrun a jury of his peers. after two days and nine hours of deliberation as they unanimously found h
good evening, donald trump was convicted on 34 felony counts. our special coverage of this unprecedented verdict continues. i m ari melber here with my colleagues. may third, 2024 is now a day etched in history. it was 4:30 p.m. when the jury in new york versus trump reached its verdict. the jury told the court triggering a process which unfolded over a roughly 36 minutes as the defendant, lawyers, and reporters returned to the courtroom. around the nation, people received alerts. a verdict was in. on msnbc as you can see, nicole wallace reported this verdict was imminent. and that this jury, which was tested in unusual ways and heard over 20 days of testimony and deliberated over nine hours, this jury s work was done. it had not been delayed. and, jury s work and its findings were not deadlocked. they reached a unanimous decision filling out the legal forms tabulating each felony count signed by the anonymous foreperson who read out the verdict to the court. with no cameras
let s have echo alternate universe in which the civil penalty didn t happen. and these criminal convictions did not happen. from your sense of how he movese through the world and how he deals with humiliation and failure, what do you think he has left to do that he can do in response to this that we should be prepared for? he is going to blame everybody other than himself. judge merchan is corrupt. judge engoron is corrupt. michael cohen is a liar, a felon. a rat and everything else he has been calling me for over six years. he will blame everybody else other than himself. he does not understand the concept of accountability. somewhere along the line, i guess, his parents didn t teach him that there are consequences for actions. on the consequences question. it struck me, i was in the courtroom one of the days you were testifying. there was this line of people who had come to support donald trump orientation and to be vice president or something. they want to be what you
the day a man who spent his life outrunning lawsuits from fellow citizens, civil cases from government officials, regulatory probes, federal probes, congressional inquiries, a record-breaking two impeachments in one presidential term, a historic rico charge and unprecedented two federal indictments, the defendant who outran, delayed accountability on all of those cases over many years, which involved all kinds of evidence of wrongdoing, found he could not outrun a jury of his peers. after two days and more than nine hours of deliberations, they unanimously found him guilty on all counts, as you know by now. a former president convicted of felony crimes for the first time in our nation s history. the news broke, we will be revisiting that tonight and going forward with some very special guests and new information. but this is a time, if there ever were a time, to slow down in our fast-paced lives, in our media, television, rushes forward to the next thing and the next iteratio
she did it and where the party goes from here. plus, we re reaching the beginning of the end for trump s criminal trial in new york. we re here for a deep dive into the closing arguments we ll hear this week. also today judge juan merchan s jury instructions are going to be crucial for the 12 jurors who are going to deliver the verdict. we ll look at what to watch for. later, nbc s favorite son luke russert and why john boehner told him to get the heck out of washington. okay, stop me if you ve heard this one before. republicans speak the truth about donald trump, donald trump smears, attacks, and belittles them. republicans falls in line rather than faces excommunications from the party. how many times have we seen this movie? of course, we saw it over and over again during the republican primary race in 2016. marco rubio called him a con artist and now he s begging to be his running mate. ted cruz called him a pathological liar and immoral after trump attacked his wif