on many different things. he would not allow us to have witnesses or talk, would not allow us to do anything. the judge was a tyrant. >> it is dangerous, irresponsible. for anyone to say this was rigged just because they don't like the verdict. >> americans should feel somewhat reassured, our democracy worked. justice was done. [ chanting ] go to jail. >> the democratic party on the left so different desperate to stop that they will risk the destruction of our entire legal system to do it. >> it is the first time that i am seeing him face any sort of consequences. >> he is showing he wants to fight for us no matter what they try to do to him. >> after the verdict the fallout. former president donald trump vowing to appeal conviction on the 34 felonies as president biden says no 1 is above the law and that it would be reckless to criticize the verdict. we are also keeping a very close eye on the financial fallout as the biden and trump campaigns try to fund raise heavily off of all of this. what to make of that. first fox team coverage with brian ennis at trump tower on what the former president is saying and nate foy outside the courthouse on the latest legal maneuvering. welcome. glad to have you neil cavuto. let's get right to it with brian. hey brian. >> reporter: former president trump spoke at trump tower for 35 minutes in what was deemed a news conference though he took 0 questions from the press. instead of lamenting the fact that he was still under gag order expected to continue through his sentencing date on july 11th. mr trump spoke alone today at this news conference. he had no family there or lawyers. he was flanked by a trump organization staff. he said the trial was very unfair and called judge juan merchan a tyrant and pivoted his message to the voters and basically said the real verdict will be on election day november 5th. trump perching himself as a political martyr of sorts. even said quote he was honored to take on what he called the fascist state as he vows to appeal this verdict. >> this is a case where they can do this to me they can do this to anyone. and i don't mind being out there because i'm doing something for this country and i am doing something for our constitution. it's very important. far beyond me. and this can be allowed to happen to other presidents. it's never be allowed to happen in the future. there are hundreds of trump supporters and protesters outside of trump tower today. the big question though is how independent and swing state voters are going to react to this verdict minutes of the verdict the trump campaign began fundraising off of this verdict. the homepage for the trump website saying quote breaking news i am a political prisoner, asking people to donate. the campaign says they received more than 485,000 donations totaling some $35 million, doubling the last record for a single day of donations. this as republicans are coalescing around the former president. 8 republican senators including marco rubio marsha blackburn, jdi vance vowing to no longer cooperate with democrats, signing a letter that said the white house has made a mockery of the rule of law. senator mike lee writing on! strongly worded statements are not enough. those who turned our judicial system into a political fragile must be held accountable. we are no longer cooperating with any democratic legislative priorities or nominations, and we invite all concerned senators to join our stand. and it's not just then. you have the house speaker mike johnson saying he thinks this should be appealed to the supreme court and you have the house judiciary committee led by jim jordan saying they are now demanding the testimony of da alvin bragg and prosecutor michael klein angelo. >> neil: thank you very much. brian alanis outside trump tower. no nate foy outside new york state supreme court. nate has been enjoying so much. he's not leaving but tell us the fallout for this because obviously donald trump has to return there but there's the issue of the sentencing. there's a lot going on. >> former president donald trump said today he will appeal his conviction that we saw play out yesterday and he will have 30 days to do that after his sentencing hearing here. command on july 11. given mind that's 4 days before the republican national convention in milwaukee. so take a look at this timeline. here's what we have ahead. comes lawyers and prosecutors can file any posttrial motions until june 13th. those will be issues they would like to bring to judge juan merchan. then after the sentences trump on july 11th trump has until august 10th to appeal his conviction. trump lawyers have signals some of their possible grounds for appeal including their prospectus and of judge by us. the judge donated to president joe biden's 2020 campaign. his daughter also works for democratic political campaign firm. comes lawyers could also revisit key rulings during the trial like the denial of a mistrial motion after salacious testimony from stormy daniels. trump's lawyers argued it was prejudicial testimony. trump also plans to challenge the trial's fairness given publicity and of course his status as a celebrity and former president. the credibility of his one-time lawyer michael cohen's testimony could also be questioned. another key issue that trump brought up today at trump tower was the fact that they did not bring to the witness stand former fec commissioner brad smith. comes lawyers wanted to question him about campaign finance law but judgment sean said it's his responsibility to explain the law to jurors and he didn't want to confuse jurors so trump's lawyers ended up not calling smith to the stand. that's another thing to keep in eye for as possible grounds for appeal. will send it back to you. >> neil: appreciate that. in the meantime want to get our legal eagles to weigh in on what's at stake for donald trump and indeed the nation. the former federal prosecutor johnny back with us former deputy assistant attorney general criminal offense attorney lawyers all. during good ones. i begin with you. your take on this july event it's getting a lot of scrutiny because at that hearing the sentencing will go down. a lot of people have been saying given the bad blood between judge mark schaan in the former president there could be some surprises. could you see among those surprises the judge insisting he spent some time in jail? is that unlikely? >> new york law and the standards in new york demand he not go to jail. that said there's some discretion that is given to a judge in a situation like this. this is a first-time a fence. it wasn't a violent a fence. judge mark schaan could though say the past issues with the gag order violations as well as some of the things that he complained about donald trump doing throughout the course of the trial including potentially even his own defense counsel closing argument where he made a comment about the jury if they found him guilty that that might see him go to prison. all of that could motivate the judge to give some sort of jail sentence, maybe even short, a number of days. keep him away from the republican convention or number of weeks or months catch a of the election. so there's no saying but i will say confidently that in the state of new york the rules and the standards are that he should not see jail time. >> does that have anything to do with the inevitable appeal that if you are an appeal process such a sentence if there was 1 is put off? >> usually in a case like this again as andrew just said nonviolent felony no criminal background i wouldn't expect that a judge would deny mr trump the right to be free during the dependency of the appeal and in that case i think that trump lawyers should press hard to get the appealed on quickly, not even wait for the deadlines. they have a lot of good issues 2 appeal not just really factual issues which appellate courts usually defer to trial judges but legal issues, the most important of which is how is the da here allowed to try to enforce federal election law which is only under the constitution given to the federal government? i think that issue alone would allow president trump to win if you can get to the us supreme court. >> that might be a tall order to your point but mercedes i want to bring up something former president brought up earlier today when he was supposed to be at press conference but ended up being not quite press conference but him going on for better part of half an hour about not only this case but his case to be elected president. having said that he did bring up this issue of not testifying." into respond donald trump earlier today. >> testified 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 they'll get you on something that you said slightly wrong and they sue you for perjury. but i didn't care about that. i wanted to. >> i have this image of george washington that courthouse. she i testify or not. what do you make of that? >> certainly that is the key issue in any defense case like this. will you put your client on a stand? president trump is right. this is very difficult when you look at a situation like this. do you want to put your client in the thick of a cross examination that could have brought up anything regarding not just the case but any inconsistent statements. so former president trump not taking a stand, he was completely in his right to do so not to choose to do so, obviously he did it in consulting with his defense team. and frankly the defense team really did give him the right council. don't take the stand. you're going to put yourself in the thick of this cross-examination that could really be very problematic for them. >> andrew stepping back and looking at the enormity of this case unprecedented nature of it. for now donald trump is a convicted felon and convicted felons cannot vote. i don't know on this case if that applies because it will go through pills but what are the rules? >> the consequences of a conviction start at the point of conviction so there's a number of different things that this despise him from. it bars him from not only voting but bars them from owning a firearm and other consequences that happen from state to state. donald trump is going through something many people across america go through when they are convicted of a crime. even if you don't go to jail there's many consequences. in fact, he has to report in to do a preliminary report i believe next week before the sentencing hearing and they're going to ask him questions like do you currently have a job? are you applying for any jobs. so 1 of the things that i've heard joked about today is he will have to check that he's applying for the president of the united states. >> i didn't know that. obviously this is not any normal citizen. this is a guy running for the highest office in the land at and as andrew pointed out. so allowances are taken creek even entertaining the possibility of probation or jail which again i understand highly unlikely. but he has secret service protection. there's a lot involved with this 1 human being. >> that's the problem here i think is that the constitution concentrates all of the executive power included in the power of law enforcement and the president. so here you have a president who's been prosecuted and convicted. this is going to create terrible incentives for future presidents who always had to be worrying now when they make difficult decisions for their country, he my going to be prosecuted by my successor someday? also trump is not just the president. he's also the major opposition candidate for president who happens to be leading in the polls. this is even in my mind more important than the fact that he's a former president and he has secret service protection because it creates the possibility that in the future you're going to have incumbent presidents launching criminal investigations against their main rivals. things that happen banana republic's. actually like banana republic. i shop there but don't want to live in banana republic. >> how likely is that? and others been raised in concerns this could spread and all of that but how likely is that? >> in terms of having a former president trump actually go to jail? there's a possibility. >> future presidents her future, you know, gunning for those and actions that many years in their case prior to when they were president in the first place that this could open up a hornets nest. >> i think anybody there are laws established in this country. anybody is subject to follow the laws, and those who don't there might be a jury of their peers who believe they violated the laws. it's that simple. is always come to be an overriding concern in the future someone hold public office the highest office in the country will be subject to greater scrutiny and heightened sense of they have to complete themselves differently than the ordinary citizens, probably so. there will be a heightened scrutiny especially if you are the president of the united states. but in terms of if you're a law-abiding citizen you presumably don't have to be concerned about how the laws are applied. they'll be applied universally honorably and done so under the constitution. >> thank you all very much. we'll be looking at the political fallout from this as well and the money this is raising for donald trump off the chart numbers. joe biden hopes to get the same with money he hopes to raise but different issues having nothing to do with this propelling the doubt with best performance of the year and all the major ad venues closing of the month of may which can oftentimes be a dicey month. with some very good numbers. the best may we have seen for a couple of these averages and the better part of 2 years. with the dow advancing a little bit more than 2%, s&p 500 almost at 5% and the nasdaq at 6.7%. almost 7% were nolet said, so very good month for technology. will pick it apart tomorrow on our weekend show. and say how these 2 relate because there's a possibility the longer this drags on and some of the legal questions around donald trump it might have an impact. so far 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now. taylor swift not spotted boarding the charter by tmz's photographers. she's not expected to take a break from her european tour to be here but harrison butker the kicker is. about 2 weeks after delivering a commencement address that criticize president biden's policies on abortion for being in conflict with his catholic beliefs. >> you said everyone on the team is obviously invited. the chiefs kicker harrison butker welcome after. >> after obviously, what i can say is we invite the entire team and we do that always. i don't have anything beyond that. >> nobody singled out, it if there is any kind of bad blood we should know in the next few minutes. they should start any time now. >> so turned around and looked at the reporter, did he have an answer? just didn't say anything. didn't look like he said anything. >> i'm sure he has an answer and also before he went out there so many told him we would put anything we need in the prepared remarks. but his glance back there is potentially a problem because there are lots of people who paid attention just yesterday when story was coming up and they heard donald trump saying joe biden did this to me intentionally. he is l'affaire to bruise a political opponent. president biden could have when he stopped very clearly her the question said that's crazy or no i didn't do that because that was kind of the idea of his prepared remarks. but he didn't do it, so the chance for a clear rebuttal off the script the kind of thing that people will see on tv right now are on social media over the weekend was missed. >> opportunity gone. peter thank you very much peter doocy at the white house. in the meantime the verdict is in and the fundraising is on. but man when i say all this really odd. after this. there are many ways to do things. at old dominion freight line, we do them this way. this way has people who start early. people who care and inspire each other to do things the way they should be done. this way uses 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that's exactly what happened. so i think the money will keep going. people that can give last night are up and running and giving today. so that number will grow. >> think about that. in a span of i think less than 6 hours i don't know if this breaks any records, it must. trump campaign raised 34.8 million dollars. that's not a bad haul but that was in response to donald trump getting charged guilty on all 34 counts, and there was a rally around donald trump and now a lot of people are saying will discontinue, with some of the donor excitement how lambert was talking about. he's a big money raiser and big donor. ron desantis back in donald trump. there's a lot more money were that c