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
coming to you from msnbc world headquarters in new york city. welcome to alex witt reports . we begin with new fallout and w also the reaction to this historic verdict in donald trump s hush money trial. donald trump s attorney, acknowledging there is a chance the former president of the united states may be sentenced to jail time following his conviction on 34 felony counts. blanche telling the ap the defense will argue strenuously for a non-incarcerated tory sentence. and a short time ago new reaction from republican house speaker mike johnson s comments on saying trump s verdict will be overturned. here s what clark brewster, the attorney representing stormy daniels told me here on msnbc. the idea that they were some part of some conspiracy is nonsense and these 12 people that spent all the time in that courtroom, weeks listen to the evidence and according to the oath return a verdict is a true and honest verdict based upon the facts and evidence and i ct witnessed a cou
mar breaking news. the idaho man convicted in the doomsday trouble murders has been sentenced to death. on thursday chad daybell is found guilty in the 2019 killings of his first wife and his second wife s two youngest children the children papa s mother, lori vallow, was convicted last year and sentenced to life without parole. also breaking, today s lift off of the starliner spacecraft was scrapped just minutes before its launch in florida. officials say the computer ground launch sequence did not load correctly. the teams are working to understand the cause the next launch attempt is rescheduled for tomorrow at noon. and today marks the official start of the atlantic hurricane season. a live look here at hollywood, florida. fema officials born it could be one of the busiest ever. experts predicting above normal activity with anywhere between 17 and 25 named storms. let s hope they are wrong.