Judge Juan Merchan sentenced Trump on Friday to no jail time, probation, or fines after he was convicted by a jury of falsifying business records.

Dave Aronberg, Chuck Rosenberg and Charles Coleman join Morning Joe to discuss the sentencing of President-elect Donald Trump in the New York hush money case. Yasmin Vossoughian reports from outside of the courthouse.

The judge has said he doesn’t intend to order a prison term for the president-elect.

President-elect Donald Trump is set to be sentenced Friday after being convicted of falsifying business records to cover up hush money to a porn star.

President-elect Donald Trump will enter the White House this month as a felon, but will serve no jail time under a sentence handed down this morning in New York for his criminal conviction in a hush-money trial that angered him and his supporters but didn’t prevent him from reclaiming the presidency.

Out of options, Donald Trump faced the one thing he desperately tries to avoid: accountability for wrongdoing.

With Trump 10 days from inauguration, Judge Juan M. Merchan has indicated he plans a no-penalty sentence called an unconditional discharge, and prosecutors aren't opposing it. That would mean no jail time, no probation and no fines would be imposed, but nothing is final until Friday's proceeding is done.

President-elect Trump was sentenced Friday after being found guilty on charges of falsifying business records stemming from Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s years-long investigation.

President-elect Donald Trump faces sentencing in New York Friday for his conviction on 34 counts of falsifying business records.

President-elect Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court on Wednesday to block a New York judge from sentencing him Friday over his felony conviction in a hush money case. The justices "should order an immediate stay of criminal proceedings against President Trump in the New York trial court,