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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 w...

Courtroom telling us what it looks like? >> so, you're going to have the prosecutors get up and ask for the sentence they want. i will tell you just in the brass tacks of this that i think it's a relatively -- it's a safer path for them to ask for some sort of incarceration sentence even if that's weekends or house arrest, which obviously some people would view as not being an actual sentence. is the easier path for prosecutors to push for that and given everything that trump is done, i think they can make a lot of good arguments for why they think that it's the case and then you will have the...

Speak before his sentence and that is really where i think he could do tremendous damage to his chances of getting out of that room clean, so to speak. you know, i don't want to predict the future. i don't think anybody can but i think we can make a guess as to what sorts of things trump might say in that situation? >> there's there's a possibility merchan could be in the pension have in mind what he's going to do . donald trump could speak and he could change it? >> it's always possible. i think most judges go into a sentencing, especially because they are presentence reports with a strong id...

Country that those are the kinds of things that basically dara judge to give him some kind of punishment, and carson tory sentence. that is a dangerous game of playing with fire. and will have to see how these two things, the political and legal world, come to had with each other. >> i'm sure that merchan understands trump would speak out after the sentencing. there is no expectation that donald trump would not be donald trump or that he was not going to really be anybody who had just been found guilty on 34 counts in the falsification of business records he was in the public eye so how much h...

Jury has found him guilty that gives merchan eminence to say that i was balancing therewith this minute for the limits his ability to appeal based on conduct? payment what do you suspect when it comes to post sentencing? were looking at july 11 for sentencing. we don't have any idea what the sentence will look like but he is the presumptive republican nominee for president a couple days later and he will accept the nomination and make his way towards november. i'll be looking at a sentence that is delayed based upon appeal and then what if he wins the white house? >> look. all of these things ...