i think he should get an award for that and loved the lead with jake tapper starts right now james, trump debating whether they should try to push his july 11 sentencing, elite starts right hand the question of the moment for the trump campaign. should they try to move the former president's sentencing date or keep it as it is. the republican convention begins july 15 in milwaukee, sentencing july 11. ahead, what sources are telling you know, about this dilemma plus dr. anthony fauci back on capitol hill facing questions and some attacks about the coronavirus pandemic you, the american people deserve to be abused like that. >> mr. fauci, because you're not dr. your mr. fauci and my few minutes is this what we have become is this what congress has become? >> and that flagrant foul on wnba superstar caitlin clark, was it? all just part of the game or intended to be a lot more personal welcome to oled on jake tapper and we start today with our law and justice lead and brand new cnn reporting on the politics at the heart of donald trump's current legal issues. >> trump's attorneys are currently debating whether they're going to try to push his july 11 sentencing date in the hush money case given that that date is just four days before the start of the republican national convention in milwaukee bots, a source familiar with those deliberations tells cnn's paula reid that the decision is not going to be ultimately up to the lawyers instead, trump and his political nicole advisers will make the call as they weigh whether or not they can successfully frame the former president is something of a martyr. being unfairly pursued by biden's politicized justice department to voters. and as far as that sentencing goes, trump says he would be okay with house arrest or even with prison it's a supporters who wouldn't the world, not just south. >> i don't know that the public would stand it i don't i'm not sure the public would stand four with a house arrest for i think i think it would be tough for the public to take a certain point. there's a breaking point here in washington, congress returned to work today with the verdict front of mind for lawmakers on both sides of the aisle, democrats seem divided on how much they should campaign on trump's legal troubles, while the pro trump republican response sounds pretty consistent and a lot like this. we are in a serious country anymore. we're literally a banana republic. so what does it matter of finding the government, the american people don't give a cnn's kristen holmes joins us now a christian, let's start with the trump team's legal strategy here. what do you hearing from your sources about the sentencing scheduling july 11, well, there are two schools of thought, so just a reminder before we actually landed on july 11, or the judge did todd blanche trump's attorney, had asked for the end of july to be the sentencing which would have been after the convention. and i will tell you that they had been concerned about the convention and this case running up against it for quite some time, even when they were doing their delay tactics they were worried at a certain point that if they were to successful, that he could actually be in court while that convention was supposed to be going on. >> so this has been an ongoing issue for them. so now the political team is assessing whether or not this actually helps him or doesn't help him politically. part of the reason that it could potentially help them is because what we've seen, these outrage i just fund raising numbers. the fact that you've seen these republicans rallying around him, does it energize republicans going into the convention or as time goes on, is it something that would turn republicans off or even potentially independent or conservative leaning independent voters off right ahead of the convention. so a lot to wait here for the trump team and we should not republicans have touted some tangible wins including fundraising numbers. you just mentioned in a new bay abc news poll shows americans views of trump are largely unchanged even after his conviction on 34 felony charges, 31% of voters you him favorably 29% in march. that's pretty much the same thing, if not a tick up. what is the trump campaign strategy moving forward to try to boost those rather dismal approval ratings. although we should note that his opponent is in a similar situation, yeah, it's similarly dismal donald from seem right now is waiting to see how this actually plays out in these polls. >> those are very, very new there fresh on this conviction just happened. they are waiting to see what this actually looks like long term, because what they believe is that they want to make this election all about the economy particularly inflation and immigration, crime rates as well. that might not, be possible given the fact that he was just a convicted of a felony or felony charges but what they're trying to do now is really tried to continue to boost his popularity among republicans while they searched for low propensity voters, people who don't often vote, trying to bring them into the fold, which they have been successful at doing a lot in 2016, stick with me, kristen, let's go to capitol hill now, seen as manu raju has been speaking to republicans and democrats today about the verdict, manu, let's start with the republicans how much are other republicans on the same page as congresswoman marjorie taylor greene, who said that america is a banana republic and voters don't care about even funding the government, given how awful the united states is. >> now. >> well, that view has not yet picked up steam yet among house republican leaders, but a fight is brewing over funding. the federal so government in the fall, just weeks before the november elections. in fact, just moments ago, the judiciary committee, chairman in the house, jim jordan, issued a letter calling for the defunding singer or to cut federal funding for certain prosecutions that he says, guard going after quote, a political opponents. also the same time, some of donald trump's closest allies in the united states senate are vowing to bottle up any legislation at all, any moves to confirm president biden's nominees in retaliation over the verdict in new york's you're seeing some of this play out here on capitol hill, jake, but undoubtedly some republicans will be uneasy about those tactics. >> but when it comes to democrats, there seemed to be some divisions on exactly how much they should be talking about. trump's conviction from from the house races all the way to president biden's campaign, right? >> yeah, that's right. in some say, your nation embrace it. in fact, bang the drum and say that they are running against a convicted felon. other democrats are telling me that in fact that joe biden should not be talking about this. let his surrogates do the talking about the convictions and said talk about economic issues, bread and butter issues. and i caught up with also joe manchin, who just became an independent after being coming due as a democrat for pretty much his entire political career. and i am as tim about the impact that he believes this vertical have on voters bolden trump, i think it did. >> i think in bolding and basically it basically shored up is support and his base and he's got a lot of new people coming on board, but he's a convicted felon now, i know it makes it very difficult. i don't know how in the world you get the past that when you go to the polling both, but there's a raised question about its character again? well, i think we already know that that's been thrown out the window. >> he is a convicted felon and a con man. i think it's important for all of us to remind the public of that think the president should stay on focus on his issues and on delivering for the american people were talking about a twice-impeached convicted felon told america to inject itself with bleach during covid-19. and i think people have a strong sense of who he is and jake as a senate return from its memorial day recess, the majority leader of the senate, chuck schumer, opened the floor of the chamber to talk about the trump verdict and saying, quote, former president donald trump is now a convicted felon. >> jake. all right, manu raju. thanks so much. cnn's kristen holmes still here along with cnn political director david challenging and cnn national politics correspondent, even again, eva, you are out on the campaign trail talking to voters all the time. how much do you get the sense that a there, they're closely following trump's legal troubles and b, it plays a role in their votes. >> so voters are not following every incremental legal development. but what i can tell you when you are at forums with a large concentration of conservative voters. so i think about the faith and freedom events i went to, you often hear these voters tell you they feel more inclined to support him as these indictments king down, and we're seeing that same sort of defiance in the wake of the conviction they trump has effectively messaged to a significant amount of conservative voters that they have some sort of shared struggle. and you hear that, but i also attended a lot of nikki haley rallies and i would hear time and time again from conservative voters that they were exhausted of trump, that they were tired of the chaos this alleged criminality. and i don't see how this conviction does anything for trump trump in terms of bringing those voters into his camp, david, we just heard trump say that he's not sure if quote, the public would stand for it. if he was sentenced to house arrest or prison this is how democratic congressman and senate candidate adam schiff of california responded on cnn's state of the union this is clearly donald trump once again inciting violence potential violence, when he is sentenced what do you make that comment as well as the split in the democratic party that manu discussed. well democrats are seizing on that comment. this is classic trump sort of rhetoric here, right? he, he tossed is something out there that's dangling out there that could be interpreted his opponents get enraged by it and we see his supporters get fortified around it. the split that mountain was talking about. we see that split almost on a daily basis, even inside the biden campaign. and i don't mean a split strategically, jake though, but like today, the biden campaign put out a press release with a comment from their spokesperson, adding this comment that trump made about his the public may not be able to say four it into a litany of things that they say this is somebody who is once again going to invite violence here and calling him a victim felon and all that. yet, joe biden himself when he speaks, doesn't quite use that kind of language. and so even within the realm of the biden campaign, the candidate and the staff are planning in both of those notes because i don't think they see it as an either or kind of position. i think they believe both end can be part of it sort of above the fray for the candidate and then getting in the mud with it from his spokespeople. >> is there any risk for the biden campaign four, to act as though every single thing donald trump says can be interpreted in the worst possible way. i mean, is there a boy the cries wolf kind of idea that or is the audience for that so narrow cast, i think it's i think you answered the question. the ladder offer their of the option. i do think this is such a narrow cast. these are about dialed in voters who are watching cable news and that kind of, i don't know how much harm it is to the actual voters that they need to court, which are those that are disengaged and largely not paying attention to this right now, kristen, a allowed of the republican potential trump vp picks appeared on sunday shows. >> how how much, how closely are the trump is trump watching these auditions and how close are they to a decision? well, when it comes to a decision, i think no one knows, but donald trump himself and he was at dinner as all week last week floating different names just on thursday the night that he was convicted, he had a dinner with donors where he was talking about tim god nikki haley was mentioned. we know that just in the last two weeks, tom cotton has appeared as a potential pick that came from a number of allies and donors who have seen an opening there and decided that they were going to strike because they like tom cotton. >> that also just being said, shows you just how far he is from this decision that mentioning tom cotton how makes donald trump mentioned him in dinners over and over again and all of a sudden, tom cotton has emerged. >> so in terms of when the decision is going to be made, only one person knows and that's donald trump himself. now, whether or not they're watching people, of course they are, they want the most and particularly donald trump. he watches all of the cable news shows. you watch this clips. he's provided by sf some of them, the candidates themselves or their allies that show them all over donald trump supporting him, talking about how he is a political prisoner, et cetera of course, donald trump is watching that, and of course, anyone who wants to be a potential vice president for donald trump knows that donald trump is watching that and making sure sure that he's seeing every single clip that they do on media. >> somebody who's not on the last on the shortlist is former maryland republican governor larry hogan, who's running for sanity's the republican senate nominee in the moments before the trump verdict was read, he posted on x quote regardless of the results, i urge all americans to respect the verdict and the legal process it went on from there, but it was basically just a call for calm. >> this is how republican national committee co-chair lara trump, donald trump's daughter-in-law responded on state of the union hey, i'll tell you one thing. >> i don't support what he just said there. i think it's ridiculous. he doesn't deserve respect of anyone in the republican party at this point. and quite frankly, anybody in america, if that's the way you feel that's very upsetting to hear that i, mean, regardless of whether or not governor hogan feels that way, and i think that's probably reflective his feelings. he's running for the senate in a blue state, deep blue state. he has a chance of winning. but if he does it, he has to appeal to democrats. yeah. >> i mean, she just not care. well, it would be a vote for mitch mcconnell would be vote for trump if he wins, it'd be vote for his legislation. i mean, for all those reasons, by the way, that's why it's such an uphill battle for even a former popular republican governor, larry hogan in deep blue maryland in the context of a senate race. >> so let's just, that's an uphill battle to begin with, even though he may make more competitive than other republicans now of course, lehrer, trump or trump world going after larry hogan could have some appeal to independents are democrats and hogan trying to woo because enemy of my enemy could be your friend, kind of a thing. but clearly, he also would need every single republican in maryland basically do be with him in this effort. and that is a potential hello on that side of the equation that he needs. i don't think senate control or how many votes they have. we're probably playing into her thinking there because what is so critical for trump world is the total unified force, all singing from the same page on this, any crack in that is just simply intolerable. >> she can also say what she wants to say. >> we'll appease him in that format. that really has nothing to do with the behind the scenes strategy in order to get hogan to win that competitive senate seat, we know that the republican establishment views him even running as a huge victory all right, one and all thanks for being 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