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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...

Participating in counseling. i think he feels that part of ee the exam. and they will also ask how he feels about the charges brought against him and whether or not he accepts the jury verdict. as you said, he doesn't have to answer but the problem here is it's not difficult to look at statements he's made publicly about both and it's impossible for judge merchan to ignore those and it's impossible to ignore the fact that judge merchan appears to be someone who cares about fairness and it's almost impossible not to compare trump with michael cohen. michael cohen was an imperfect trial n.witnes...

States in jail for violation of a gag order and not just because it would slow the process of the trial down at the time, which seems like it was now 10 months ago despite the fact it was only a couple weeks ago at this point but because he is the former president of the united states and the message that was sent to the general public. do you think we can draw from that commentary from the judge as to where he will land when it comes to the sentencing? >> you know, that's a great point. i think we can draw from it. i think what merchan said in that moment is don't make me do it . and i think ...

Regard it's important to hold him accountable to what you would hold anyone else accountable in this circumstance. i would look at judge merchan ul and i would say i understand he is a former president but at the same time we both know anyone who is behaved the way he has up to this point would be facing jail time in response to his conduct because ultimately the question is this -- is this someone we can work with on probation or is this someone we need to put behind bars? one of the considerations in the analysis is whether or not this person maintains company with disreputable people, and h...

Reason to get into any details whatsoever about exactly what happened. once the prosecution establishes what her role was before the colors a witness you can say, judge, we stipulated and established what happens with stormy daniels. no need for her to come to the stand except to sensationalize the trial. instead they got up an opening statement and said she was a lyle and during direct examination they did not object with certain details that came up and that's important because when they moved for a mistrial in light of some of the detail she got into, judge merchan said, look, when this cam...