Welcome to the beat. I am Ari Melber and we begin tonight here ending what has been

quite a busy week with United States confronting the aftermath of this conviction.

It was actually just a week ago yesterday that we all followed it.

This former president, now presidential candidate,

convicted of a felony. But that brings to us a different and

unprecedented reality now because he is the presumptive nominee of his party. We

have not heard in the days since then a great reckoning about dropping him from the ticket, which in a different arrow or a different party you might hear about.

So instead we have what you see here, Trump holding his first campaign rally since becoming a convicted felon.

He went to Arizona, one of the battleground states.

That was coming into last night.

MAGA fans are reminded Donald Trump's a convicted felon on the way to the venue here.

That's a DNC ad trying to get everyone focused on this reality.

They say he's unhinged and unfit.

Republican officials are also having to face up to not only this reality

but as we've been covering across the week some of their own contradictions.

The Vermont Republican Party's bylaws, for example, banned it from backing candidates who are convicted felons.

They might change the bylaws now, but that kind of defeats the purpose of having these

requirements and rules for a party.

Non-partisan journalists have pointed out that Trump's status means he is also banned from

carrying a gun.

That's just a reality.

So on the one hand, he will not into the laws of New York be able to have the guns he used to have access to because that's not something convicted felons are allowed to have but if he wins the electoral college even without a majority of the country's public support he could be in

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