is bigger than my presidency. i find it absolutely insane. any person running for office that we would go after them in order to silence them? that's a scary place to be. this is all done by biden and his people. may be his people more portly i don't know if biden knows too much about it. >> i think it's a complete failure of our justice system. it's a complete joe biden kamala harris hit job. >> it will catch up to him. >> i think it's the right verdict. etiquette shows our system of justice works if you are rich or poor. >> i'm shocked he keeps going. >> i'm willing to do whatever i have to do to save our country and to save our constitution. >> sandra: that was moments ago live in new york city and now a lab look at the white house screen left where we are about to hear from president biden. a big question is whether or not he will comment on former president trump's historic guilty verdict. the president we are told will be making those remarks shortly. they are expected to be on the middle east, but as is always the case, he could get questions. hello and welcome i am sandra smith in new york, john gray to be with you. >> john: i'm john roberts in washington this is "america reports" great to be with you, sandra. what is the first question out of everyone's mouth which is mr. president, what you think about the verdict? former president donald trump out to fight back against the unprecedented 34 count felony conviction during his remarks just a short time ago. he wasted no time laying into judge merchan calling him "highly conflicted." >> sandra: now we know the next big date on the calendar is july 11th. that is the day we are told the former president will be sentenced just days before republicans are formally set to nominate him for president. >> john: fox team coverage now mccarthy and carrie urban, how this is impacting the trump campaign. >> sandra: loving this jam-packed 2 minutes and first we go to peter doocy live at the white house as we anticipate the president will be speaking soon. anything you are hearing on that front, peter, what do we know? >> we know it will be about the middle east so he'll probably say something like israel needs to be more careful and gaza protecting civilian life but we will see maybe there will be a shouted question, maybe there won't be. so far all we've got of the president today is some video of him quietly returning from the beach to the white house or a planned celebration later on this afternoon of the kansas city chiefs super bowl win. he still has not said anything about trump's conviction, but he has these remarks later so if he takes a shouted question that would probably be his first reaction. other than this post trying to capitalize on the conviction he wrote "there's only one way to keep donald trump out of the oval office at the ballot box, donate to our campaign today" and a campaign officials has convicted felon or not trump will be the republican nominee for president. if president biden chooses to address trump's felony convictions we expected to be in line with his position since the transition that he does not put his finger on the scales of justice. remember this from how he rolled out merrick garland. >> i want to be clear to those who lead this department we will serve. you won't work for me. you are not the president or the vice president's lawyer. your loyalty is not to me. it's to the law. the constitution. the people of this nation to guarantee justice. speak about forecasting or president biden might say about this is a little more complicated than it seems. he is kind of in a pickle because he cannot come out and say executors always get it right because that would mean he is endorsing a system that is prosecuting his son on monday and that a couple of months ago wrote a report that said he has a bad memory, sandra? >> sandra: we expect this event will be under way anytime soon sometime soon and we will certainly bring that to our viewers live when that happens peter, thank you i will see you shortly. >> john: so much going on. former president donald trump's conviction is rocking the presidential race but not in the way many democrats expected. instead it seems to be energizing supporters and creating a windfall for trump's campaign. mark meredith is here live now with more. it is stunning how much money they have raised off of this. >> and johnson quickly the money keeps coming in. not just the trump campaign that is benefiting. good afternoon. while the former president faces possible jail time legal development's are not scaring off his donors. the campaign says it has seen a huge spike in donations over the last several hours. campaign raising more than $34 million since last night. the campaign is not shying away from the conviction news either now labeling trump a political prisoner. the national republican senatorial committee says it too is seeing record fund-raising and an influx of donations. today at the manhattan skyscraper trump's nearly 40 minute long speak was more like rally remarks touching on different topics and vowing to make the trial a point of pride. >> what they're doing right now they're winning at the courts because they can't win at the ballot box so we are going to show them we are going to fight. >> a poll by marist and mpr taken this month shows 67% of people do not think a criminal conviction is going to have an impact on their boat. the trump campaign says it expects the same. they have a polling numbers this week in which they wrote voters in our key target states have made up their minds on this trial. most voters especially our supporters believe the case is politically motivated and a conviction would be the result of a bias show trial. the biden campaign as peter mentioned is not avoiding the issue either, it's urging voters to donate to keep trump out of the oval office and almost all are sticking by trump we heard from one republican who has taken a different stance and is getting notice which is maryland republican senate candidate larry hogan who posted yesterday regardless of the result i urge americans to respect the verdict and the legal process. the trump campaign fired back pretty quickly saying hogan has no chance to win in november although, john, as you know hogan is a trump stomach outspoken trump critic but it is interesting that one comment right there created that bad blood between them between them. >> john: i got a mailing from hogan's campaign saying they are putting together a coalition of democrats to win this race. >> whatever it takes to win. >> john: winning isn't the most important thing it's the only thing in politics. market thank you. >> sandra: let's bring our legal panel andy mccarthy and carry urban a fox news legal editor. awesome to have you both onset. it's been a big couple of days but it's actually been a long six or seven weeks now. you had a lot of time to think about this, and he since this came out in afternoon or the consequences of this for the country what are your thoughts? >> it's devastating and it transcends trump so much. the history of every legal system that has ever existed that has been a precedent system is that once one is set it gets exploited and expanded. the most important thing for people like and i who grew up in the justice system and have a sort of appreciation for why it needs to be fair and why it needs to dispense justice without fear or favor what i see is if this is a partisan tool, then you go from a constitution republic to a banana republic very quickly. >> sandra: carry question marks big i don't think there's anything coming back for this. it's a dark day for the justice system is and he said it transcends trump it's much bigger than him. i think the average person looks at this and says and says that this is the runner of the free world with limitless resources at his disposal and they can bring a sham case like this against him, manipulative the statute of limitations, not allow witnesses who provide relevant context and truth to testify and then present him with oh, by the way, these are the crimes they let the jurors pick from without cashing any of that out in testimony and evidence what shot does anyone have? speech of this is the cover of "the new york post" i'm sure you all got to see it since you are in new york but for our viewers in justice this is the headline nyc jury makes donald trump first fell in president after political hit job it reads the feds did not think it was a crime nor did his predecessor, andy, but progressive d.a. gave them what they want and convicting donald trump ending hush money case. >> in some cases bragg knew it was a garbage case he shut the investigation down in 2022. he reopened it for reasons out of nothing to do with the rule of law is clearly political. tish james scott big kudos from the progressive new york-based when she took the evidence that bragg would not take and prosecute criminally and whipped it into a civil case and around the same time is that trump announced he was running for president which is why the case are brought. >> sandra: is amazing coming in this morning flying along the hudson river over the hudson river was a plane and it was pulling a banner "trump did nothing wrong" it's no surprise we are seeing the fund-raising that we are after this happened that money -- it's obviously sending a message. this is the former president earlier today saying, kerri i wanted to ask you, that he would not have testified. listen. >> i would've testified to come i wanted to testify. the theory is you never testify because as soon as you testify anybody if it were george washington, don't testify because he will get you on something you said slightly wrong and they sue you for perjury. but i didn't care about that, i wanted to. >> sandra: i was wondering what you thought when he heard that. >> i understand the urge you want to defend yourself when you have been unjustly accused that's a natural human reaction but he is right and what he said that it's not worth it because it would have opened all kinds of doors and avenues for them to pursue that probably would've made things worse. and given how much the prosecution was determined to make this work irrespective of rules and law, it would not of made a difference. >> sandra: you think of the ongoing trauma cases this is not the only one. i think our team pulled together a montage of jameson smith willis all announcing charges against the former president listen. >> we are filing a lawsuit against donald trump. for violating the law. >> charting donald j. trump with felony violations over national security laws as well as participating in a conspiracy to obstruct justice. >> charting donald j. trump for conspiring to defraud the united states. conspiring to disenfranchise voters and conspiring and attempting to obstruct an official proceeding. >> the indictment brings felony charges against donald john. >> sandra: considering that, andy, "the wall street journal" editorial board writing a piece this morning answering the same question i ask you about the consequences for the country. it reads "the convictions of the president abusing the legal cases no matter how sketchy to try to knock out political opponents including former presidents'. trump has artie vowed to return the favor if democrats felt like cheering thursday when the guilty verdict was read they should think again. mr. bragg may have opened a new destabilizing era of american politics. no one can see how it will end." >> i think will be more destabilizing quickly because nothing is static, right? everything is dynamic. consequences flow from this. i think one consequence that will flow is that jack smith of the supreme court if they give them the green light depending how the immunity case goes out, jack smith will try to push whatever remains of that trial to trial prior to the election and i think judge will help him if she can. speech quick final, kerri? >> i can't imagine becoming a convicted felon, getting my verdict sheet, and looking for what the underlying crime was and it not being there. everyone is talking about this convicted felon this and that when you look to the verdict sheet it listed falsifying business records, he still does not know what the underlying crime was that elevated to a felony in the first place. >> sandra: you've been awesome throughout they give everything you've done for our coverage and we will see you both again very soon. >> thank you. >> sandra: johnny cash mark >> john: live look at the white house, sender, any minute now president biden said to deliver remarks on the middle east. will he comment on the drum guilty verdict? 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>> it's interest income abbe lowell ended on "last week that hunter may not have even checked no in the box on the federal firearm form that is keyed to the entire case. hunter biden was seen here getting on air force one earlier today on his way to d.c. from delaware. he was charged with three felony counts of lying on a federal gun form in 2181 claiming he was not a drug user. hunter's attorney previewed the theory that hunter did not check note to being a drug user he says it needs to be examined whether other people may have tampered with the former kind of a chain of custody issue. special counsel is sure it is hunter that check the box. pumped my part of the hunter biden laptop evidence we don't know yet which parts. this is the same laptop 51 former intelligence officials have touted as having the earmarks of a russian information observation. it was not in "the defendants laptop is real it will be introduced as a trial exhibit and it contains significant evidence of the defendant's guilt. moreover the evidence on his laptop is corroborated by independent sources." judge maryellen jet rolled against it saying the special counsel cannot mention the indictment and pending tax case in california. judge mary kay is the same judge that tour of the plea deal last summer that would've had him plead guilty to two misdemeanors and avoid prison on the felony gun charges. center and john it's possible and 11th hour plea deal could be cut at some point over the next three days but it seems both sides are ready for jury selection to begin on monday. of course we will watch if there's any potential deal we expect this to go two weeks possibly into a third week. sander? >> sandra: david, thank you. >> john: sandra joining us now as legal analysis and reaction to everything going on today the former attorney general matt whitaker. good to see you, talk about hunter biden in a moment but first of all here is part of what form of president trump said this morning at trump tower about the guilty verdict listen here. >> i don't mind being out there because i'm doing something for this country and i'm doing something for our constitution. it's very important. far beyond me. this cannot be allowed to happen to other presidents. this is bigger than trump, this is bigger than me, it's bigger than my presidency. >> john: okay so he says is the beginning of a potential slippery slope i think we are to read into that do believe it is? >> i do and here's why. if you think about comparing and contrasting this hunter biden case we will talk about in the trump case, and the trump case no state prosecutors ever brought a federal election claim as a predicate offense or a direct violation ever. >> john: first time. >> in the hunter biden case no one had gotten that sweet heart deal that was proposed in front of judge noriega out with a slap on misdemeanor for the tax violations in a deferred prosecution agreement for the gun charges. so in each case of unprecedented means being used it's unfortunately against president trump as they seem to be very aggressive. >> sandra: the former president said they will appeal this case. i'm sure todd blanche and the team are already working on it but they don't even really know what the underlying crime is. was it an fec violation? was it falsifying other documents violation? with it attacks tax violation? if you don't know what it is, how do you form an appeal or is that the basis for the appeal? >> the right to know the charges against you and defend yourself are foundational to our system of justice. this is really inexcusable from a prosecutor standpoint. and that is i think what offends a lot of people. i think i see a lot of prosecutors that it's not a matter of winning cases. it's about doing justice. i think there is a distinction and a difference that in this case alvin bragg and matthew and that team very clearly were trying to win this case and they were trying to do these jury instructions so they could have this buffet of legal options to convict the president and bring these charges that have never been brought in state court and not allow and fight vigorously to keep an fec expert off the stand. each turn with the help of the judge who his conflicts have been laid out pretty clear, it's been inconsistent with really the principal doing justice, at least as i learned them in the department of justice. >> john: a lot of people say they are inextricably entwined here's what the president said. >> the real verdict will be november 5th by the people and they know what happened here and everybody knows what happened here. the d.a. and the whole thing we didn't do a thing wrong. speak of the president is already fund-raising off the verdict he has the sub on his website saying he is a political prisoner, please donate to him. i have talked to some folks who say they never made a political donation in their lives until yesterday. for him. >> i likely had a bunch of people reaching out to me wondering how they can participate, donate, whatever. it's been really st