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
jury by the election. it shouldn t matter if sometimes there are some delays, the election doesn t matter when the crimes in question involved a coup to overthrow the government, rico charge for a related crime to overthrow the election, and in this case, which at one point wasn t clear whether it would go first or not or go it all, a crime for the original electoral college election of donald trump, which is not classified as part of a campaign conspiracy. return to the presidential historian and the vanity fair we can t always do justice to history but we can slow down a bit and feel something has happened. how do you take this? i was at the university of delaware and jordan klepper was there, a comedian, he came on stage and people were sitting there and everyone had advanced notice. but it was like
trump is campaigning so close to alabama and encouraging their supporters to show up here. we spotted a handful of alabama voters and roy moore supporters. there s hundreds from all around the south. we talked to people from mississippi, georgia who showed up here today. we talked to them about president trump s endorsement of roy moore. here s their thoughts. those are false charges against him for the most part. he may have flirted years ago with some young ladies. i don t believe most of the charges. i think they re politically motivated, timed to conveniently come out to sabotage his campaign. you know, if all this was true, why wasn t it brought up before when he was running for judge? it s a charge. doesn t mean your guilty. in this country, it s innocent until proven guilty. allegations are only allegations. this is a fraud. in other words, it was hard to find anyone in line that drove for hundreds of miles and
ways. i guess they re giving it the effort. yeah. anybody that believes that in 50 or whatever minutes the president speaks he doesn t mentioned the name roy moore, i would like to take that action. highly unlikely he will fail to mention roy moore in his speech tonight. understandably. look, i can understand that. on the one hand, you want to support him. on the other hand you don t want the picture with him. if he s elected and comes to washington, they ll have plenty pictures together. shepard: there s republicans that are concerned about this endorsement. oh, yeah. the president at one point wasn t endorsing him and saying if the allegations were true, he should step aside. the rnc, the republican national committee, pulled their support for roy moore. at a certain point, the president said look, i d rather have roy moore in there with all of his problems than a liberal and democratic vote with doug
showed up hours before who wasn t on the same page as the president and didn t support his decision to go all in for moore. but again, the line is getting longer and those are the people we talked to. shepard: hillary vaughn in pensacola. we ll be back and tuck about when president roosevelt gave a speech that changed the course of world war ii. it happened on this day in history. you owned your car for four years. you named it brad. you loved brad. and then you totaled him. you two had been through everything together. two boyfriends, three jobs. you re like nothing can replace brad. then liberty mutual calls. and you break into your happy dance. if you sign up for better car replacement™, we ll pay for a car that s a model year newer with 15,000 fewer miles than your old one. liberty stands with you™. liberty mutual insurance.