34 felony counts. this is the first time an e fi american presidentrs has everprs been convicted of a crime. but the only thing trump is guiltyid convicte th of is beatg hillary and leading joe biden. >> the former president was expressionless as the verdict was read. sionless, he walked to the cameras and reacted. >> this was a disgrace. this was a rigged trial by a conflicted judge who is corrupt. there's a rigged trial, a disgrace. on an. ery innocent ma and it's okay. i'm fighting for our country. i'm fighting for our constitution. our country is being rigged right down. we'll keep fighting. we'll fight till the end. wee ouell win becaus our country's gone to . we don't have the same country anymorwe don'te. we have a divided mess. we're a nation in decline, a serious decline. millions and millions of people pouring into our country of peop right now from prisons and from mental institutions, terrorists. and they're taking over our countrinstit y. s in we have a country that's in big trouble. but this was a riggetroubld decn right from day one with a conflicted judge who should have never been allowed to try this case. never. lowed toand we will fight fortun our constitution. >> this is more dream. and this jesse is long from oveo >> trump will be sentencedov on july 11ther t, a week beforey the republican national convention. give 11th,n his clean backgrounr and presidential status. it's highlouy unlikely he'll be sentenced to prison, although this judge is capable h of anything. he's a biden donor and donates to a groupything.r an called stp republicans, and he spentek the last six weeks stopping the nation's strongest republican from campaignin he natiog and sometimes even talking. trump will appea talkingl and wy almost certainly win on appeal o but not until after the election. not that it matters to democratsr thenot that. the biden campaign salivating at the opportunity to call their opponent a convicted felon. this was never about thel r law. tr alvin brag ran on fighting trump, not crime. and everybody, when they walk around he new york, knows he didk know his job. >> i did my jos b. was our job is to follow the facts f and the law without fear or favor. and that's exactly what we did here. i dithat's did here.d my job.i i we did our job. many voices out there. o the only voice that matternlsd h is the voice of the jury. >> and the jury has spoken. the number three guy in biden'sy justice department left to helph bragg resurrect a dead case from eight years ago. and twis from eit an nda with a into 34 felonies and a biased jury bought it. if jury bo silencing eruptions e felony, then let's lock uplony bill carville w and stephanopoulos, who had their own war room fighting stormi'shor room r. >> and justice has been the theme since 2016. dossiers, hoaxes, cia and fbi plots, fauci's pandemic cover up. pland after the last election, u trump's been surrounded with dangemps beenr. his house was raided. his family's privacy violated. e the feds given the authority to use deadly forcds aute. he's been fingerprinted, mug shot, gagged, censored . ed, cens a white substance is sent to his kids homewhite s and nowo unfairly convicted of a made up crimf made-up e in a soviet stye show trial orchestrated by democrats in their bluest venue. >> hatred and fear dominate the democrat ruling class. they hate trump more than they love the country and fear that you'll put him back in power. in that way, they hate all you because power is all they love and they're willingng to do anything to cling to it. >> they're willing to destroy the ruleitre wy th of law. the republic has been wounded by weak lawyers and talentlesspi political bloodhoundtis. in con >> but remain confident that the american people's amere of fairness and justice will prevail and that these evil men and women will be vanquished. and the injustice rectifie dn on and the stain on our democracy washed away. remain steady and calm and focused on the goal. juries don't decide our election. you do. so do what's right. we can't take this anymore. trump attorney todd blanche is here now. diodd your client get a fair trial? >> i mean, no, i don't think'vee so. i mean, we've been saying foreny a year that we couldn't get a fair trial in manhattan. we couldn't get a fair triale with the judge. and it played ou t in lots of ways exactly as we expected. >> was this judge fair? >> did he follow the rule of law? it's a look, i'm not i'm noto ct going to criticize the judge right now. i think that there were a loictn of decisions that he made leading up to the trias ngl, whh really hurt us at trial that we very much disagree with. they're part of the public ver record. everything from from he him not recusing had himself to the decisions he made during the omnibus motion process. the motionduring to eliminate pl and what happens in a trial is you show up for trialthos and all those decisions that have been madsione in theao weeks and months leading up to trial, they matter. the evidence that can come in, the evidence that cannot come in. wed up up at trial, that's where we really felt that we weren't gettin werg a fair. shake. >> you believe the judge should have recused? looke the, it's we filed two separate motions saying that the judge should recusefile himself. he didn't. it's something that will. we wwe went to the first departr to appeal it before the trial started. i expect that will be onia e o of the things that we appeal. >> so you believe thislieve judge was biased because of his donationthdge was and because os family financial interests the of this case? >> look, our system of justice requires not only the actual that a judge that is actually biased recuse himself, but that a judge that evee himseln hase a the appearance of bias to recuse himself. and our papersthpearance are pu we felt very strongly that there was an actual bia shad an that this judge had, and even if not an actual bias, that there was certainlyf no a perception of bias. he disagreed. he's a judge ition of n our system.our sy he gets to make that decision. and it's something that we that we get tos to appeal.t >> but we certainly felt pretty strongly about our position. you believstronglye donald trums constitutional rights were violatedu be in many ways. yes. how so? welld? , if you look at, for example, the gag order that that was put in place puter and you had a situation where president trump, who'sum on the campaign trail and is trying to compet ande with voics that are saying things every day, that he cannot respondd wh to without the risk of being fined, which he was, or going to prison for violating it, that that affects notump, t only president trump, that affects every voter, whether they're going to vote for president trumhaertep or agt president trump. that affects every single voter in this country becaushim.ffecte they don't get to hear from the candidate. we very much disagree with thart order we have. we appeal that that as well. there was a lo we appeell.t abot happened over the past year that, you know, i sit here tonight, the verdict just came down today.ere's but really, there's a lot that's happened over the past year thaappenehe pt i think that americans should look very hard at, just that the whole way this case was charged. the district attorney says that thidistrict thas type of cs of bread and butter, that they do these cases all the time. . that is not true. i it's just not true. thiss a ca is a case that the rs of president trump's personal records, his personal checkbook from 2017, from 2017, is what fr he was on trial for.that that does not happen all the time. it doesn't dll the happen all tm in manhattan. that doesn't have to happen all the time in any injurisdiction in this country. and that's fine. that's fine. int somebodyod indic and go after somebody for a conducftt that happened in 2017. i t i think where it becomes problematic fothr me as a lawyee is don't look me in the eye and says, this is bread and butter. we do this all the time that we're treating president trump like we treat anybody else. >> that's not true. that's not true. here was alvin bragg just an hour ago. i asked mr. spineless. >> many people said the prosecution was masterful,ld and it's more or less just want to know how you feeli want at ts moment. >> all right. i'll let you then. >> how do you feel, mr. stein? glass? ou >> i think some of you probably saw him speak for a little bit the other day. >> so he's done his job. >> so the sense of what people are getting is this is a question from a reporter praising the prosecution a report. and then they're laughing. todd they're laughing. how does that make you feel?hey listen, they wanwot to know they won the day and they're having their their their celebration, i'm sure,. right now. and i suppose they're entitled to do that. i enti guess the way i would sy about how it makes me feel is it kind of confirms the point in many ways, right. that we've been this saying that this is not fair. this is noisr,t what what this country should be doing to its political leaders past and present. and then when you see it happen and when you see it celebrated and you hear laughter from the reporters at somebody who'ts just been convicted of 34 felonies, you know, and i'veco i said this in the trial, but it's true. president trump is an amazing mae trl bu n. he is president. he's running for president. and he has a public person's ru he's also a husband and father, a grandfathe hr and a friend toa lot of people. and so when you se loe that happen s to him and i was standing right next to him todatanexty and it's it's heartbreaking because it's you're laughingy, laughing at a man and an, father and a husband and a grandfather. and as somebody who's running for president and and looks like will wilooks lin, it's thas something that people should be trouble d with, no matter who you're going to vote for. >> after this came down, you guys huddled up your team and there was some discussionrmp with the former president before you went and spoke to the press. what was his demeanoreyo r likespen in those moments? >> look, i've spent every almost every day with him for six weeks. he's so impressive when it comes to somebody who's who's being on trial as a defendant. i don't know what it's like, but i've been around a lot of people who are on trial. it's hard. it's hard every day. and he was resolute, strong. we were all more upset than he was. we're all we're all sitting there. and he said, all right, let's go. what do i need to tell h let's . what what do i nee d to tell the american people right now? and we told them, you know, youw whatever, whatever's on your heart, whatever you want to say. and he said, i got it. i got it. s so we were all huddling in to give him counsel, and the man needed no counsel. and and that's what he's been like, by the way. he's facing three more indictments. three more indictments. right. so you're talking about a man that's been indicted four times in onetime yea year in 44 diffet jurisdictions, four different jurisdictions running for president and winning and still able to justl able stand therefs and look at his staff, his team. a lot of great tea, great men ad women that are around him every day, his lawyers d ev and just say, you know what, i got this. let's go. you know, and that's what he was like todayat's wha l, for sh was a tough day. but that's what he was like ever he y single day. every him an, there was a lot.bo everybody saw him every day. you know that wasn't that wasn't a prop, right? s who he is. day and he went into court every day and he sat there and he and he had questions and he helped us. and he was committed to his defense and fightinghe helped uy single day, which is what he has done for the past eight years. and so he gave me confidence today. you know, everybody texted me, my friends and colleagues, how are you doing? how are you doing? es, m i'm doing fine. you know, i am i'm doing great. and we're going to fight. wake up tomorrow and fight nextw week. my team and i are going to florida because week myd ee o have another case that we have to fight in florida. and that's what we're going to do when i go there, in florigoing i'm going to go into a scif and we're going to fight that case, too. and that'sin ennd we're doing that because he gives us the the energy and we're doing it to to hopefully, you know, to help him. >> how involved was donald trump in his own defense? >> i mean, what do you think? i mean, very involved. >> and he's a he's he's a smart guy. he knows what he's doing. he jokingly said to us a lot someone he wanted to be the litigator. you know, he wanted to be the one that was actually arguing becausewant tos a smart guy and he knows w what he's doing. we made every decision togethert . we did. and there were things that he was frustrated with. you know, the judgogr. were thi e several months ago, there was a we wanted to be able to argue reliance of counsel that we did ,to some extent, presidential, was relying on his lawyer. and the judge didn't allowin us to do that and things like that, where he would really push us an thad and say, well, e can't we do this? why can't we do that? it was it was a an honor for me to spend the last six weeks with him defending him. it didn't work out. i mean, we got a bad result today. deot a bad resulit's -- it's nol >> you know, it's not over at all. but it was it was great. t waswere you satisfied with juy selection and was the former president involved in that in any way? >> i mean, verd they much invol. he was right there with with with the whole team talking about the potential jurors. look, was i satisfied we put a motionrors in because we saidl could not get a fair jury in manhattan. and that'st not a i'm notbeing being disparaging to the jurors. i mean, they were great. they showed up on timediaging te day. they were committed. they paid attention. every werebut we're in a situation whe we are we do a very limited o number of people we could strike. people we e folks,lk overwhelming number of folks had a very strong opinion of presidents ha trump and it wasn't positive. and so imaginetive. you going imagine you just going to trial, facing 34 felony counts and 100 people walk in the room and thk ine judge s, basically, if you have a strong view of jesse waters, you caneae go ahead and leave. >> half the room leave s. half the room just walks out. okay. so that's what we were dealing with. and look, that's not a reflection of the of the jury pool. that's not even a reflectiont ri th the j of the judge. >> that's just the reality of new york city. and that's the venuelity ow yor >> and that's the big problem about this. another big problem was that biden's numbet this.m was y at justice leaves. justice goes and works for alvin bragg, and all of a sudden this case is resuscitateo ,voted out of the blue. >> how do you process that? well, i'm not really allowedcomn to comment on that because we're still under a gag order. but i will say w that the timins of of this most recentan grand jury meeting, the 2023 grand jury that ultimately decideind president trump kicked into action less thanider two months after president trump announced he's running for reelection. and there are coincidencp annoue stories and then there's coincidences. and i don't think that that's justthere's coinincidenc somethn the witnesses in this caseg testified about meetingtors with prosecutors since year of our lord sine year, 2019, 2018,o they're meeting again in 2023, gointingg into the grand jury to talk about a records case that's that that has to do with 2017. i mean, i don't have to make much an argument there about what the situation is as it kind of writes itself. >> yeah, you put on a case, wen couldn't see it. there were no cameras in the courtroo inm. could you tell us tonight, the audience, what you said in closing? >> well, look, our closing was was the same thing that we've been saying in our writing to the court and saying to the world fodr the past year, which is that that you cannot convictd the former president of the united states of crime srim suppose the crimes that happened in 2015, 2016,sups 2017. when you're relying on the word of somebod7 wiy who it's not only that he is a you know, someone who has lied under oath in the past, but is his life mission is to destroy president trump. there is nothing wrong with that, by the way. the y.n, thisw is america. but it's not enough that he is dedicated destroying president trump. there was a witness at trial and that really bothered me. as a former prosecutor. it bothers me as a as anformer y attorney, as a as a as somebody who's part of the judicial thstem for the passt 20 years. there's people that really shouldn't be witnesses at trial. and i've said i'm not saying they didn't say in court and not saying that and sa iy, you know, in filings. and so that that's what we said to the jury. and, you know, they convicted today and their verdict is their verdict. >> and we're going to we're going to fight. would you have don are goie anything don differently? is there a witness you said, oh, maybe i should have calledhf that witness. >> maybe i should have done this. i don't know. >> i about tha about that. we had a team. you know, my team is amazing. you know team,, the folks that t with us were brilliant and then the president has a team and they're brilliant, and we all did the besta team the that. and i wouldn't change anything that we did. of course, i'm surng that e thet going to be folks that are a a on your show that take a different viewnd and maybe i will, too, at some point. but no, we did the best we could. t t we call right. >> well, todd, thank you very much. it was a historic case and youid were a part of that. it didn't work out the way itn' should have, outt but that's lie and things will get better. thank you. than k you. jesse >> thank you very much.: all right. thank you. fox news contributor and george washington law professor jonathan turley joins me nowto. >> is there anything you want to say to react to todd blanchue ? >> no, i a lot of what i, todd said resonates particularly with some of us who watched the trial from in the courtrooms. the factd from is that this migh have been an impossible task giveatn the instructions that te court ultimately issued. ued.i mean, there was an effecte shortening of the football field for the prosecutionield that may have made this inevitable. i wrote a column yesterdayfor td in the hill that said that it had the feel of a canned hunt where people are allowedgame i to shoot game in a cage or o a small space because the judget created that small space. i disagreeheha with the judge. to this moment, i don't know what the president was e thatehi of in the sens that the jury verdict form just says they were unanimous as that some secondary crime was the basiwas of these falsified document violations. so the judge said you can just pick anything on the menu. you know, there are three crimes here, a federal election violation, falsification of documents, a tax violation, go with any or all of them . so we don't even know ifey they were unanimous on what actually happened. in s craome ways, the formha created by the court may ultimately help donald trump. thermae is a unanimity u requirement, and it's not clear that the courtnass will accept this as unanimity, bed have hadcoulun a four, four, four jury. you could have a jury that had vastly different ideas of what this uncharged conspiracy wast. all about. but there are layers of reversible error here.want and i don't want to add to the anger. there's anger hereo ad and thers unhinged celebration. i think that people can look at this verdict and disagree with it or support i t without hating each other. we have a system that's e t isdesigned to deal with thee types of cases. i think thises cas