Velshi starts now.

Good morning. It's Saturday, June 1st. There have been many attempts to hold Donald Trump accountable in recent years, and this week the country took an extraordinary and historic step it has never taken before. After 23 days in court,

spread out over seven weeks and more than 80 hours of testimony from a total of 22 witnesses,

Trump's first criminal trial is complete. In the end, it only took about nine and a half hours

for 12 jurors to deliberate and find him guilty on all 34 counts for which he was

charged. On Thursday, Trump, already the first president to be impeached twice and criminally

indicted multiple times became the first former American president to be convicted of a crime.

The United States is hardly the first country to prosecute a

former leader. Dozens of other nations have preceded us in that respect in just the last two

decades. But this has never happened in this country before, and let alone at such an urgent time.

There's a pivotal election, just five months and four days away. And on election day,

one of the leading candidates in the race will be a convicted felon.

At this point, nobody really knows how or if this is going to change the dynamics of the race.

Many voters have already made up their minds about both of the top main presidential candidates,

both of whom have been in the public eye for decades.

But the guilty verdict comes just as the race is about to enter a busy and important stretch.

Later this month, Trump will face President Biden in the first presidential debate of this election season.

On July 11th, Trump is scheduled to be back in court for his sentencing hearing,

where he could be penalized with a fine, with probation, and or prison time. Then on July 18th, barring any

unforeseen circumstances, Trump will be formally named the GOP's presidential nominee on the

final night of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee.

In between those dates, he'll be campaigning, fundraising, and at some point this summer,

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