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Be released on his own recognizance pending appeal. i suspect anything is possible with the judge, will he tried to put him in jail, have him miss his own republican convention? is he going to have home confinement as part of this? how far does he go? >> well before i said in that courtroom, i would have said that all of these options were almost fanciful. i was really surprised when i saw in that courtroom, of what the judge was dead wrong on a number of his decisions. he ruled very heavily tow...

Theyve done and they come to sentencing and their apologetic. on the contrary here not only do we have a person who has pointed out multiple times has been found to be in contempt of court with respect to the gag order 10 times but has a number of other violations of the gag order that we as the press corps witnessed and the da never brought to the judges attention. count on those to factor into sentencing from the das perspective. they want to go to the judge and say this is a person who deserv...

You may be right, to your point the question becomes, does it grow the voter base in the six states, the independence? i would argue the republicans is supported, -- a subordinate daily, is that group enthused? im sure there will be pulling out of this in the coming days, if you think about it is politically from the electoral standpoint, that is a bigger issue. i will give the president of the benefit of the doubt, and no act criticize -- get criticized for giving people the benefit of the dell...

State just passed a bill that would apply to suspects in cases of aggravated sex crimes against children if an offender refuses the procedure, they could face additional prison time. the measure now heads to the governors desk right now, india is counting the votes its from an unprecedented general election. its the worlds largest democratic exercise with over 642 million voters prime minister modi is seeking a rare third consecutive term in office right time now for whether more than 30 million...

Who have overcome addiction and know what we mean. prosecutors have also signaled they may call hunters ex-wife kathleen buel and hallie biden who is beau bidenens widow. unclear which witnesses the defense may call. the prosecution revealed last evening it would open its case by calling fbi special agent erika jensen to the witness stand. the gun charges carry a maximum sentence of 25 years and $750,000 fine. though, if convicted hunter would be a nonviolent first offender. this case is separat...

Sentence of 25 years. hunter would be nonviolent first offender. the judge signalled this could take two weeks and possibly a third week. >> steve: i know kevin morris, his friend from los angeles, was in attendance yesterday. who is paying for this? hunter does not have any money and abbe lowell is couple hundred bucks an hour. >> brian: got to pay for lunch. >> ainsley: travel. >> a lot of expenses, witness expenses. kevin morris is a filmmaker and hes paid millions for the legal defense and i...

Could trump go to prison and deciding the sentence the judge may away the underlying seriousness of the charges due to their ties to the 2016 lection as well as the decision to go to trial or accept responsibility by pleading guilty. jonathan, you and i spent a lot of time at this courthouse watching this whole thing play out with anything surprise you from a judge merchan? >> and noel. after watching him in court the very concept of jail for something like this would be otherworldly and ridicul...

He would have been prosecuted? putin if you were someone else? >> think thats a great question. i think that the fact that this investigation took so long to get to a point that is a three-count indictment of a not a type of case that maybe for a first-time offender would not reach this stage of trial is unusual its a fairly straightforward three count indictment, and it shouldnt have taken a five-year investigation to get there. so we think the fact that there was a special counsel obviously as...

Condemning the same comments and rants, increasing the art -- odds prosecutors ask for prison time and that odds that judge merchan would send him to prison for a period of time. i dont want to say more likely than not but this is not helping him. >> let me have you read more tea leaves, judge merchan put cfo allen weisselberg behind bars despite him being a first- time offender and in the 70s, does that signal anything to you about the trump potential sentence? >> it does, it suggests to me the...

From people outside the court. the next big date is going to be likelyjuly11, the sentencing date for donald trump. i know you have been looking at some of the options on the table, and there are many, ranging from prison time to fines. what do you think will happen onjuly11? its somewhat complicated, because a normal nonviolent offender, first time, like donald trump, probably wouldnt get a sentence of prison time. but theres so much swirling around him, that i think will be brought to bear, es...