Deal. This is former trump lawyer jenna ellis in court this hour. Is it your decision to waive these rights and enter a guilty plea because you are in fact guilty . It is. So she is the fourth codefendant and the third in just a week to take a plea deal. Joining us is nbc news Laura Jarrett and katie phang by phone. Laura, this just happened moments ago. What more do you have on it . Unexpected. Another significant plea deal. We see in court, jenna ellis, getting emotional, apologizing to the people of georgia, telling the judge she was led by others down this wrong path and saying she regretted her representation of the former president and all of the things that she did, along with others including Rudy Giuliani, which she is now pleading guilty to essentially making false statements in front of the Georgia Senate, around december of 2020, she goes forward, you might remember, one of those Infamous Press conferences, they were standing before the Georgia Senate talking about dead vot
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
and mark, kraft has denied the allegations through a spokesperson. if true, it s certainly publicly embarrassing. probably a severe penalty from the national football league is in his future. but what sort of legal jeopardy might he be looking at? truly, not very much, to be honest with you. the way our statutory scheme is set up, the first time you do this, it is a second degree misdemeanor. what that means, you can go to jail for 60 days. but that s normally not on the table. you can get a $500 fine. so he s not looking at very much. the second time you do it, and, again, he s being charged with two separate counts, so technically you could argue the second count, is a first degree misdemeanor. you can go to jail for up to a year. realistically, what s going to happen to kraft and most of the other johns who were brought up in this sort of sweep is that they re going to get either a probation offer or more appropriately, they re going to get a pretrial diversion offer, meaning they
blazing. a probation officer was with the judge. it s believed that the probation offer fired the shot but then later it was showed that the judge fired back. the judge says he was definitely armed. with all the nuts running around, i encouraged him to get a weapon. he did. another judge on the bench, i gave him a gun to carry with him because we have nut cases running around the city of stubenville and the country. the attacker, nate richmond, is the father of malik richmond who was convicted of raping a girl in 2012. malik served his time, went to college but the case followed him. he tried to play football at youngstown state but a petition was circulated to ban him from the grid iron. mike? shepard: the judge was overseeing the case involving the shooter? the case from the rape case that judge was from the cincinnati area.