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convention. rebecca rose woodland, sol wisenberg, the former independent deputy counsel, fox news contributor. sol, interesting couple of piece i've been reading on the prospect of appealing something like this. in new york appellate courts though i understand rarely do they overturn a jury decision without evidence of serious error. so the obvious question to ask you, are there enough serious errors here to make an appeal and make an appeals court go the other way? >> well, i think there are very, very serious errors here, neil. to begin with, the fact that trump's lawyers really weren't given the actual theory, the actual facts about what other crimes. remember, they had to prove that he falsified business records with the intent to cover up or commit other crimes, and they weren't informed of that, the trump defense team, until right before closing arguments.
keeps pounding. lucas tomlinson at the white house on how the biden folks are playing all of this. >> reporter: that's right, neil, good morning. the president also calls donald trump a loser recently. the big question, will this conviction help donald trump in a general election, that's a question our own peter doocy asked the president himself yesterday afternoon. >> reporter: do you think this conviction helps trump in the election? >> no. >> reporter: are you worried this could happen to you someday, somebody comes up with some charges and tries to bring you into court after your term? >> not at all. i didn't do anything wrong. the system still work whos. >> reporter: and when trump says you're just trying to bruise him, what do you say? >> reporter: politically. >> reporter: politically. he thinks your pulling the strings behind the scenes, doing all this to help yourself. >> i didn't know i was that powerful. >> reporter: president biden just wrapped up his time with the kansas city chiefs. here's the reaction from the biden campaign. convicted felon or not, trump will be the republican nominee for president, but there is one
an immediate basis, we have no idea because we've never seen this before. neil: okay. >> we have really no idea with what the process will be because we've never seen this before. neil: i understand that. but you didn't quite answer my question, remember a ca. sol, can he vote in this election? all the points you both eloquently mentioned, this is a first. i believe the first time we have a presidential candidate who can't go ahead and vote for himself. it is the weird to me, but maybe that isn't the case. is it the case? sol? >> i really don't know the answer to your question. and one of the reasons i don't know is i don't know that he has been convicted. conviction is a term of art. for example, in the federal criminal system you aren't convicted until you're sentenced. neil: okay. >> so i also don't know what the new york law is on, you know, whether felons can vote. so i would, i would assume
that's a real due process problem. in my view. also problems with what the prosecution was allowed to argue. basically, they were allowed to, in effect, argue that the guilty plea by michael cohen to election fraud and the non-prosecution agreement by david pecker having to do with election fraud essentially meant that donald trump committed election fraud. now, the judge gave an instruction that said you shouldn't consider that, but he allowed the prosecution to make what i believe are very improper argument as. so the real issue's on appeal. it is true both in the state and federal system that the overwhelming number of prosecutions are affirmed on appeal, but i think he's got some real issues. neil: all right. rebecca, with the sentencing set for july 11th, only days before the republican convention, can judge merchan actually seriously consider putting donald trump in
days before the republican convention. neil? neil: wild stuff. lucas, thank you very much is. lucas tomlinson, beautiful weather there at the white house, here in the northeast and certainly down in florida around cape canaveral where we're waiting to see the starliner or launch. you might recall this is the nasa project it has with boeing. this largely is assigned to do kind of what elon musk's spacex dragon capsule is doing, shuttling astronauts to the international space station. it has ramifications way beyond that. that that's been really the only ticket to ride, starliner hopes to get in on that, but boeing's had a host of problems certainly with jets with which you're well familiar and a number of missions delayed or put off because of leaks, helium leaks, is some of that. that was the case on may if 6th when this was originally supposed to go up, the first crewed mission. there are two astronauts on this. and the fact of the matter is as they wait for this launch planned for about two hours from now, they hope this time it's
days the resources get them all you need them while it's easier to get into not fighting with everybody else for the stuff. neil: very good point that you are bumming us out. all wise words. thank you. he is the best at what he does. in the meantime fox weather is your hurricane headquarters all season long. it will be busy and active. and you can use #hurricane headquarters or hq to join in the conversation. looking at the fellow human beings. after the near miss incident at american airlines this past weekend.
he's throwing his full support behind the former president, originally supported ron desantis. hal, always good to ceo. >> good to see you, neil. neil: those are staggering numbers. this is coming in small sample, $20 at a time, that indicates a lot of enthusiasm around common people. what do you make of that? >> yeah. if you just do the math on it, if you assume an average a contribution of $100, which it's probably lower than that, that's over 000,000 individual -- 500,000 individual contributions. that that's a lot of people out there very upset about this trial and this verdict. in fact, i'm going to be getting on a plane and going to california next week for a fundraiser, and then i'm going to go to las vegas, nevada, for a fundraiser. i'm getting onboard full steam here because this is really outrageous, neil. the man who said in russia show me the man, and i will show you the crime. that's not how we're supposed to operate to. we're supposed to find a crime and then figure out who did the
they'll grant cert. but that takes a long time. the question is, can trump and his team do something to get, to short circuit that and get to the supreme court right away, and i think it's extremely unlikely. now, if judge merchan -- people have suggested if judge merchan were to fashion a sentence or conditions of release that interfere with trump's political campaign, that there might be a hook to take it to the supreme court. that is an extreme long shot. neil: remember saw -- rebecca, for the time being donald trump is a convicted felon. when that sticks, of course, anyone's guess. a convicted felon normally cannot vote. can donald trump? >> well, in this case he hasn't been fully sentenced but, yes, he is a convicted felon. he can run for office. so i think we should focus on the fact that he can run for office, and we are going to
withs on the number of people coming -- brakes on the number of people coming would be very important. right now we've had lower numbers for the first months of this year in large part because the mexicans have stepped up their efforts to manage the migrant flows coming through mexico to the border. neil: and isn't that what's key, ambassador? that mexico has to do its part. it can't just stand aside as these throngs rush in. >> that's right. and it's been mixed over the years. sometimes they've stepped up, and others times they've lessened the pressure. in markets i think, because they just don't have great capacity on hair side, and they have other -- on their side and they have other demands because the same people that manage the migrants are also supposed to be providing security in the cities season and -- and on the highways. right now, however, they're making a very firm effort to turn people around, to manage it, to send them back south, and that has helped immensely, kept
ukrainians requested during the call permission to use us provided weapon systems across the border against russia positions in the region. the president signed off this week and it says confirms the use five russia ballistic missiles of north korea voters of debris from ballistic missiles fired at ukrainian targets including a january 2nd attack were from north korean short-range missiles. ukrainians president zelensky praise president biden's decision is a step forward without more freedom to strike forces at their bases across the border. the more ukrainian cities could fall the generals warned. neil: thank you very much. joining us on the phone retired former centcom commander. general, what you make of the move that only the united states