and we helped him escape russia. that was how the film star that. and then as we followed his fete, destiny yeah. then one of the victims of the poisoning with novichok went back to russia and the rest. that was what the mere karamazov, who has been in jail since since the worst arlette. and we focused on him as well. and then suddenly in the middle of filming these these destinies something happened that showed us that i'm also a victim and then the director of pivoted to meet, you. >> well, it is an incredible film. i hope everyone will watch it. it premieres this week. >> and thanks so much to all of you for joining us tonight. >> ac30 60 starts now tonight on 360 republican lawmakers attack a criminal justice system. one friends to defund the government over the former president's criminal conviction, even as trump issues that thinly veiled warning about civil unrest, and he get jail time for keeping them honest tonight also, de hunter biden's federal trial. the jury has been selected. we look ahead to opening statements tomorrow, and later, dr. anthony fauci, the grilling house republicans gave him over the covid pandemic. and what he gave them back in all right good evening. thanks for joining us. we begin tonight, keeping them honest with what looks to be the shape of things to come. as the leader of the republican party, the self-proclaimed rule of law party faces a july sentencing date for 34 felony convictions increasingly, that means republicans are attacking a criminal justice system. they've longed, claimed to support threatening to investigate and defunded, even threatening to defund the entire federal government. all because the jury of 12 americans did what juries are entrusted to do, listened to evidence, and reach a verdict we are in a serious country anymore. we're literally a banana republic. so what does it matter, finding the government, the american people don't give a let's georgia republican congresswoman marjorie taylor greene talking to cnn's manu raju separately in a new letter scene and obtain today house judiciary chairman jim jordan is proposing to defund federal fulton state prosecutions targeting what he called quote, political opponents. and as we reported last week, some the former president's senate allies are vowing to bottle up any legislation at all in response to the new york verdict. now let's remember this was a state trial, not a federal one. and there's no evidence the federal justice department had any role whatsoever in it. >> let alone the attorney general, let alone president biden. >> yet from the beginning, the former president has an almost literal sense, tried to make a federal case out of it. a notion his supporters now fully embrace house speaker mike johnson for one last week, he said the supreme court should get involved. now he's saying congress should, with all its got listen, we are the rule of law party. chaos is not a conservative value and we have to fight back and we will, with everything in our arsenal, but we do that within the confines of the rule of law. so what we'll do with our tools that we have in congress in the house is we'll use our oversight, responsibility and we're going to look at special counsel jack smith, who we believe is abusing his authority as well. we have the funding streams, we have mechanisms to try to get control of that jack smith for the record, has managed to persuade a duly appointed judge to sign off on a search warrant that is yielded troves of highly classified documents with the former president squirrel away at mar-a-lago attempted according to prosecutors, to move those documents around to avoid detection. >> smith has persuaded grand juries to indict trump for that and also bring charges connected with january 6. all while being legitimately opposed in the court's up to and including the supreme court by the former president's legal team none of that suggests a lack of due process, let alone evidence of wrongful prosecution to the contrary yet here is what republican governor and vice presidential hopeful doug burgum is now saying well, i think what's sad for america as the whole weaponization of the system and what we're going to see more of this he provided no evidence nor didn't another man desperately volume to become vice presidents and her tim scott there's no doubt that this verdict has actually rotc uniform unifying our party without any question what we've seen is never choppers calling me and saying tim, i'm on the bandwagon now. i've seen this two tier justice system working against the president united states. it can work against me to he so provided no evidence of that. >> and as for the system being weaponized against republicans, not sure what democratic senator bob menendez fields about that or for that matter, a hunter biden, the president's son, they're arriving today at a federal courthouse in delaware for day one of his trial on gang real gun-related charges here's democratic congressman jamie raskin today democrats were not out there saying that hunter biden's trial is a far sits of fraud. >> it's rig we're not attacking the justice system. they do that because extraordinary cognitive dissonance that a party which claims to be representing religious piety has wrapped itself around in an adjudicated sexual assailant and frost or who just got convicted by a jury of his peers for paying $130,000 in hush money to a porn star right after his fifth child was born. that's where their party is well, wherever the republican party may be and we'll talk about shortly, the leader of it is now gaslighting the public is dying. >> his own very public, very early, very loud foray into politicizing and yes, weaponizing the criminal justice system he famously said regarding hillary clinton, lock her up, you declined to do that as president, i beat her. >> it's easier when you in and they also luck. and i felt and i could have done it. but i felt it would have been a terrible thing. and then this happened to me and so i may feel differently about i can tell you i can i'm not sure i can answer the question hillary glenn, i didn't say lock her up, but the people don't say lock her up, lock her up, but okay he said he didn't say that the people said it will keep them honest. >> he said a lot there. >> what for what she's done, they should lock her up. she's it's disgraceful honestly it's disgraceful. >> lock her up is right. >> you should lock them up lock up the block pillar so of course he's dying. he said all that he ran on that and in the same interview, he issued another veiled threat about what might happen if he's sentenced to jail time or home confinement for the 34 felonies the jury convicted him of i don't know that the public would stand it. i don't i'm not sure the public would stand for with a house arrest for i think i think it would be tough for the public to take, you know, at a certain point, there's a breaking point joining us now is former arkansas governor, former republican presidential candidate, is a hutchinson governor. appreciate you being with us what does it say as far as the republican party is concerned, being a convicted felon is no longer considered a disqualification for the presidency and you are former prosecutor yourself. >> do you believe the federal government has weaponized against the gop why have a high regard for the justice system in america, it is a hallmark of our democracy and the strength of america. >> i don't like to see it undermine by anyone and wherever you look at the republican party right now, they're in a bind. and the bind is that i take presumptive nominee. that's going to get the nomination of the party that's going into the fall election. and he's been convicted of 34 felonies that's a problem for the republican party. and their answer to it is to say they're bogus that the charges and the convictions are not legitimate that's a hard case to make to the american public even though they might see the start of that case in new york as partisan they have confidence in what the jury determined and that's varies by party, of course, but the polls show that slim majority of americans have confidence in what the jury found. and so they're going to sort this through we've had mistakes and prosecution's before our system has made the corrections that are needed, either through the jury system or through the appeal system. so let it work. let's don't undermine what is so great about america in this justice system. but the republicans are in a bind because we have a nominee that is facing felony convictions and an unknown future with a sentencing that's coming up. >> you know what happened when former maryland governor and the current gop senate candidate, larry hogan, he tweeted last week in response to this, he said i urge all americans to respect the verdict and the lead legal process that was basically blasphemy according to trump's campaign strategist, who said that hogan ended his campaign with that remark and lara trump, who was installed by father-in-law to run the rnc said hogan doesn't deserve the respect of anybody in america. i mean as a rational republican like yourself, vet's gotta be i mean, just sad well, as someone who is trained as an officer of the court to respect the decision of the jury what larry hogan is saying is bright we should respect it. >> and these jurors 12 of them citizens, not one of them found a donald trump innocent. in fact, donald trump is batting zero and 20 24 with jurors lately in the sexual abuse case, it was 12 to zip that he committed that whenever you look at the criminal case is 12 to zero. so, jury speak loudly they should have respect. >> and the most important thing is that larry hogan is necessary for the republicans to win the majority of the united states senate. >> we need larry hogan, donald trump, if he's elected president will need larry hogan in the senate and so it's very short-sighted to attack him. it just illustrates that they're trying to use the discipline that they have the whip to keep people in line and not to counter what the message donald trump has given. >> tim scott was on. we played a clip of him earlier saying that it claiming he's been getting calls from what he described as never trump hers. who said they could be coming from me next time. now, voting for trump do you think that this verdict does bring new voters to trump or do you think it just i mean, it's certainly angers supporters of many supporters of the former president. >> but do you think it adds voters to his roles? >> well, i mean, it varies, but what you've got to look at is it's clearly strengthened his position with republican base they're standing with hail they see this is unfair and so you do have that element but you've got to look at the six key swing states. and how's this going to impact independent voters? and the ones that you have to get on the margin and so this over the long term can't be healthy for donald trump. to me, he's demonstrating that he's a fragile candidacy with these felony convictions with more court proceedings. and the question is, can joe biden take advantage of that and his weakness is difficult for the people to make a choice if they see joe biden as a week president, wants the choice you have a convicted felon or some by they see as weak and we don't know how that's going to play out between now november, but that is the challenge that the voters face. look governor hutchinson, i appreciate it. >> your time tonight. thank you thank you. >> good to be with you, anderson. we just learned that president biden tonight, we'll have some especially blunt talk about as president for had assessors conviction has prepared remarks for a private fundraiser tonight, including words like unhinged as well as the president's assessment that his opponent is making a quote, all out assault and the american justice system, prison, we understand is also expected to say, quote, my god, what kind of man is this? >> joining us now is democratic strategists, james carville. so james pertinently, these prepared remarks released by the biden campaign, the president is going to say tonight, folks, the campaign in entered unchartered territory last week for the first time in american history, a former president that is a convicted felon is now seeking the office of the presidency do um, this is something behind closed doors is not going to be televised. do you see him making this a regular part of his stump speech? do you see him running with this out front? as a shield or is that not a wise idea i hope he doesn't i mean, 100% of the people noted trump was convicted. >> they do their story is right. i'm being sets up, make more to be on rack since i've met the fundraiser relationships for walks that's fine. but he has a pretty clear, open field now to talk about what are you most so doing a second term, which i think just poll by been pretty devoid of any of the campaign so far. so i think he has a big advantage here. and anybody that has any respect for the jury system of which i think most people do. i know. i do. i'm always been taught that juries were the integral part ball criminal justice system. so i'm i'm not too big on president biden i mean, certainly you can say something he wants to say trump met a fundraiser allude to it every now and then, but everybody knows about this. we're going to know about to sentencing or know about all of the appeals and all the stuff coming up at this story has gotten a lot of de, on its own that's my view. >> it does seem to your point, if he's talking issues of actually what he wants to do, pocketbook issues you don't really hear that from the former president. i mean, he's talking about grievances. he's talking about himself. he's talking about i mean, all the stuff he just normally talks about where he's talking about getting back at people. and i think president biden can talk about trying to get people ahead the thing she's built, high wants to build on his record the things that he wants to do tip to help families going forward. i think he's got a golden opportunity and he's not trying to get back at anybody. he's just trying to get american families, american people back ahead a minute. the speech rights itself because it is not rocket science here. you've got a big o opening. just drive through it, man just go, no one gets us kinda opportunity in politics that he's gotten now anthony scaramucci was on the program a couple of days ago saying in his iis expressed publicly and others who've republicans who are, don't like trump or have expressed concern that the biden kept mean hasn't really done an outreach. >> two anti-trump republicans that a mistake i think i think anthony is right, but they couldn't do outreach and i think there's a lot of loosely aligned people who traditionally vote republican or not comfortable voting democratic without ever outreach. >> maybe some of them will vote for biden some will stay at home but i see this unfold vicki hill there's getting 22% in closed primaries and states like nebraska, indiana that's a lot of death, a lot of people and your own party that are coming out to vote against you for somebody's not even running anymore and i think he's right. i and, you know, president biden, we can do a lot of publications out, dad and a very uncomfortable with this. and we need to seize the moment and what by when election. we went in 2022, a lottie specials. we want and as much or more would independent illusory line voters if we went animal to democratic base, i mean, hopefully we get a better numbers among under 30 and black. but right now, we're doing much better. what older, 65 over 65 and lucy aligned voters and we're going to need these people to win. and i think he makes a good point. i really do thank you. >> good psaki always always thank you. can we have next more 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