beach, florida. today is the official start of the atlantic hurricane season. it could be one of the busiest ever, expert predicting above normal activity with 17 and 25 names storms. how donald trump might plan to overturn his conviction, was how judge juan or sean did a few things that might make it much harder for chuck to appeal. good to see you buy from world headquarters here in new york city. welcome to alex witt reports. i am yasmin vossoughian in for my friend alex. we will begin with new follow- up from the verdict in donald trump s hush money trial. todd blanche telling the associated press there is a chance trump might be sentenced to jail time adding that it will be of very contentious sentencing and sang the defense will obviously argue strenuously for a non-and khosrow tory sentence. trump has said he plans to appeal. here s part of a report from reporter: the former president speaking for more than 30 minutes at trump tower, with eye-catching kill sc
suzanne craig and daniel is back with me to talk more about all of this. i want to pick up a little bit on where i left off in the last segment. how we judge, suzanne, the merit and strength of this case early on. did we do a disservice to the manhattan d.a. by saying this was the four of the weakest, at times, case when they conferred a conviction. we look at the d.c. election interference and said that is the strongest. reporter: i never thought about in terms i have heard that debate. i looked at it in terms of severe and consequential. i also still think the election interference part of it, i know people are calling a hush money payment and payment to a star, so it was minimized. it had to do with election interference. it seems cinematic to me when you look at the fact that there is also the january 6th case, the rights and threat to democracy right at the heart of
reporter: i start out listening to that sound, it is not a sure thing this goes to the supreme court because most state convictions stay in state appellate court systems. and then i started hearing about speaking to the judges, supposedly. and then i was jarred out of my reverie and realized, supreme court justices are not supposed to be talking about cases. the first thing had me thrown and then the second theme for me off the first thing. one, no guarantee biscuits to the united states supreme court. two, the fact that justices they have been talking about it had to be a huge problem. i would not go by his statement alone. it certainly perks a lot of folks ears up to hear back. mech suzanne, you want to weigh in on this? reporter: i thought that was political rhetoric. what are they going today. they will not say this is a great case and the supreme court will not hear but i think