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most urgent issue facing the economy. president biden is trying to convince voters his economic plan is working, while former president trump is trying to convince voters his plan would be better for the country. we turn to dominic chu. good to see you, dom. what is the trump plan proposing? >> sure. we don't have a lot of details about the former president's economic agenda. what we do have a good chunk of the broader strokes, the bigger picture. we adopt have time to go through all of them, but key focal points are like tariffs. that was a big part of his agenda, and continue to this day with the current biden administration. so american voters will have to come to some decision about the balance of cost and benefit. putting higher taxes on imported goods, it will raise prices for consumers and be inflationary,
your house solomon in new york this cnn as a convicted felon, donald trump now awaits sentencing after a jury found him guilty on all 34 felony counts in his criminal hush money trial. his fate, which could include potentially prison, is now in the hands of judge juan merchan, whom he attacked throughout the proceedings. but there's still a chance, trump, but potentially may not serve any prison sentence his legal team is moving to appeal the verdict in the new york appellate division, and if a five-judge panel on that court upholds the decision, the state's highest court will then weigh in let's discuss this with criminal defense attorney former trump impeachment attorney michael vendor, been michael, thanks for joining us. the appeals process. as you know, better than i do, is likely to drag on potentially for many months could trump avoid a prison sentence by delaying the process through the election
stanley manu raju on capitol hill. >> this is sienna this morning, jury selection is underway and hunter biden's felony gun trial in delaware. this is the first time the adult child of a sitting president of the united states has gone on trial. hunter biden is accused of illegally purchasing and possessing a gun back in 28 18 while abusing drugs. he's pleaded not guilty joining us now, former assistant special watergate prosecutor, nick ackerman, and former federal prosecutor, renato mariotti. renato what are the main things you'll be watching as this trial begins? >> well, one thing i'm going to be interested in is what is the defense's narrative here it's very challenging to convince the jury in this circumstance. he didn't purchase a gun or that you weren't abusing drugs at that time? >> i i think that they're going
party's presidential nominee. when you talk about what joe biden's department of justice has done, joe biden's department of justice is also right now prosecuting cases against democrats, robert menendez of new jersey, henry cuellar, the representative from texas, and hunter biden on the gun charges against him. let me ask you about what we heard from former president trump. the first official event of this re-election campaign, donald trump proclaimed, "i am your retribution." he talks about seeking revenge against his political enemies and says he'll appoint a special prosecutor to, in his words, go after joe biden and his family. if it's so objectionable for the justice system to be, as you say, weaponized against donald trump, why is it acceptable for donald trump to campaign on weaponizing the doj against joe biden? >> well, of course, there is no answer to that. by the way, you could go back to 2020, two weeks before the election. i keep bringing this up.
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this war to end. remarks that apparently blind sided the israeli government and triggered a furious outcry among the far right members of netanyahu's coalition. joining me now, admiral james stavridis, former allied commander at nato, and chief international analyst. i want to ask you about the news that just broke. and that is a confirmation that four more hostages have died. three of them are elderly. one is 83 years old. and nbc had done an interview with her issue -- hersh goldberg, part of what his dad said was this. what we have not accomplished militarily in 241 days i don't know that another week or two or five is incrementally going to really matter. i don't think these politicians have the right to continue to say we're just going to ignore
in california. this is really a part of the strategy to get in front of these voters and say president biden has supported the respect for marriage act. this is something that elevated and tries to shore up equality as it relates to marriage in this country. he's also hired and appointed hundreds of people to his administration to work in his administration, and they're going to work to contrast what president has done with what former president trump has said in terms of during has administration making sure that transgender people were not able to be parts of the military and having said that they believe, the campaign, the biden campaign believes that former president trump would work to limit freedoms and equalities for the lgbtq community. we expect that messaging to be throughout the month, and the month will wrap up after the presidential debate on june 27th. dr. biden and president biden will hold a fundraiser in new york city to benefit the biden victory fund.
three months into covid telling them they shouldn't worry about masks, because they don't work. what this is about at this point is, is this all kangaroo stuff? is this banana republic stuff or something going to happen to anthony fauci? >> sandra: which is it? >> unfortunately i think it is probably the former. it should be the latter. if we don't deal with people who forced us to be injected -- i'm not vaccinated. they were two years where i couldn't even come here because i'm unvaccinated. to this very building. people had to make all sorts of unbelievably horrific choices, to not go to their grandparents funerals, kids out of school than i had learning delays. the laundry list of things, and it is almost exclusively -- not exclusively, but almost exclusively because of that man. and he seems to have no remorse and basically blames pod casters. i don't know if he saw that portion, he blamed pod casters. so i guess it's me and rogan. >> sandra: it was her markable hearing, as we let our show today, i think the american public is left with more
to cope does this get overturned on appeal? >> i think it absolutely does. the supreme court will have serious concerns about what the judge did and his decisions. >> trace: matt whitaker thank you, sir, we appreciated. voters sound off from former president trump's conviction and what it means for their vote in november. that's next >> i feel bad for america and i feel bad our country is crumbling and more people are now seeing in and waking up because this -- i am a democrat and i don't support this. now that i love america and i love my country and my freedom i want to fight to protect them and to keep them. i stand with trump because that's what he is doing.
>> ♪ ♪ >> neil: after the verdict a plan now to appeal that verdict even if it involves going only to the united states supreme court. eric shewell has more from trump power in new york city. >> former president trump. [applause] lawyers say they will appeal the conviction from thursday and they say they will win the defendant -- >> mr. trump: everyone tells me this is the easiest case legal smirk know the only problem they have is that so far my opponent -- will numbers have gone up. >> former president trump and -- is ultimately what is trump of winning an appeal. 's lawyer todd blanche has cited a variety of legal issues that he says could ultimately overturn thursday. [applause] verdict. blanche vows to -- stretching of the statute of -- imitations. -- election and,/in that but