his day job, as hunter biden awaits his sentencing. and another trial in a separate case. plus, house republicans barrelling toward a vote to hold attorney general merrick garland in contempt of congress, do they have the votes? then the secretary of state in the middle east, what he just revealed about the new demands from hamas. and a high speed bus hijacking during atlanta's rush hour, the wild scene caught on camera. ♪♪ good morning, thank you so much for joining us. it is 10:00 eastern. i'm ana cabrera reporting from new york, and we begin with an unprecedented moment for a sitting president responding to the guilty verdict of his child. president biden making a last-minute trip to wilmington, delaware, last night to support his son hunter before traveling overseas this morning on another high stakes diplomatic visit. the president says he will respect the legal process, as hunter biden now braces for his sentence in this case and prepares to return to court on separate tax charges in september. let's bring in nbc's mike memoli, also with us national correspondent for "politico," betsy woodruff swan, former federal prosecutor, temidayo williams, and danny cevallos. mike, what can you tell us about how hunter's legal trouble is affecting him and where this could go from here? >> reporter: president biden may not have been the everyday presence in the courtroom that the first lady, that other members of the biden family were during this trial, but he was in touch with his son on a daily, if not regular basis over the course of the trial through phone messages, phone calls, text messages and the like, but i was told it was critical for president biden to have this opportunity to see his son in person. you see those powerful images as he greeted not just his son, his grandson and his daughter-in-law on the tarmac there here in wilmington before the president went to -- on his way to the g-7 summit. think about the meetings he's going to have this week not just with our close allies, but also pope francis. president biden and the pontiff have developed a close relationship since francis was elected in 2013. that's going to be a personal and important meeting on a leadership level later this week. yesterday we also saw the president as the verdict was just hours old still in washington giving at times an emotional address to a gun safety conference. he talked about how those in the audience who had lost loved ones to gun violence had turned their pain into purpose by advocating for stronger laws. that has been a watch word for the biden family throughout their career. we have seen biden touched by tragedy in the past. that's been how he has focused on the work ahead and people close to the family have said they are defiant at this moment. they're very proud of their public service. as one put it, nothing is going to stop them. the president will be returning from italy and the g-7 summit traveling to los angeles for that fundraiser with president obama, with george clooney. it also happens to be father's day weekend and hunter will be at his home in malibu. >> i'm sure it will be a meaningful father's day weekend as they all are, after something so impactful to a family, thank you, mike memoli. so several jurors have already spoken anonymously about what led to their verdict, guys, the female juror telling usa today that she did not want to find hunter biden guilty because, quote, he needed help but the evidence led to this guilty verdict. juror 10 telling our own katy tur that he doesn't think hunter deserves jail time. take a listen. >> i do not think jail is what's the right thing for hunter. if he's sober, staying sober, that should be his main focus. as far as what other punishments you could give him, i don't know. maybe house arrest. i don't know. but however the judge decides will be her decision. >> danny, what are you expecting with sentencing? >> in the last 18 or so hours, i'm starting to think perhaps hunter biden should prepare for incarceration. before that i was thinking, look, i calculated his guidelines at 15 to 21 months. someone else may disagree. the parties often disagree on the sentencing guidelines. assuming for the moment he's in the 15 to 21 month category, the judge can go below that sentencing guideline range. the guidelines are not mandatory, and there are -- hunter biden should get something like home confinement or straight probation, which would be a stretch. but overnight i started thinking about some of the factors that the judge may consider. number one, this was not a white collar case. this was a firearm case, and it was a firearm case where someone really could have gotten hurt. the gun was disposed in a place where someone could have found it. someone did find it. that person happened to not be a child who set it off accidentally. it happened to be an adult, and there was no catastrophe that happened but it could have happened. hunter biden is a tragic figure, but he may not be a sympathetic figure. in this district of delaware, i practiced law close to but not in this particular district, there is a huge problem with guns and drugs and many of the people this judge probably sees are people who are disadvantaged, who are using guns and involved with drugs. hunter biden is someone who had a lot of opportunities. he had a lot of privilege. the judge may not take too kindly to that that someone like hunter biden with all his opportunities still ended up in front of this judge. so it's a possibility hunter biden may be looking at prison. >> and do you agree with that? do you think a prison sentence is likely, temidayo? >> i think it's -- i don't think it's likely. i mean, everything danny said is accurate, but i think looking more broadly at the history and characteristics of this defendant, which are in what we call the 35, 53 a factors. so the judge is looking at who is hunter biden. that means here he's a first-time offender in this offense here. it was a matter of 11 days. it's inescapable that this is not the kind of crime that the doj charges by itself. it's not the kind of crime that any individuals in any district are facing real criminal penalties for. he was in my opinion treated differently, and whether or not that's explicit in the guidelines, i think the judge is going to be considering that more broadly, i think that's leaning towards more leniency. at least in my opinion. this offense happened years ago. when you're looking at sentencing, one argument you typically will make is what is the purpose now of a prison sentence? he is as far as we can tell, he's clean, he's not on drugs. he's leading a productive life. he's back with his family and others a productive member of society. >> signal to reporters who cover this case from wilmington, myself included that he's not going to ask the judge to throw the book at biden. what he said in remarks after the conviction was handed down was on the one hand, no one including hunter biden is above the law. at the same time, he said hunter biden should not be held more accountable than anybody else would for the crime that he's been convicted of. that seems like a pretty clear sign that weiss is very much opening to recommending a sentence that could be at the lower end of the guidelines or even below what the guidelines suggest. however, there's also a piece of bad news for hunter biden. the judge recently sentenced a man who pleaded guilty to lying about his address when he bought nearly 20 guns in delaware. now, this man appeared to be part of a gun trafficking scheme, and he cooperated with prosecutors as they have been investigating other people involved. as a result of that, the justice department asked the judge to only sentence him to six months in prison. again, a crime that's similar to what hunter was convicted of, lying about his address. nor rye ka gave this defendant 12 months in prison. she gave him twice as much prison time as prosecutors recommended. as they gear up for a sentencing hearing which is expected for october. >> then of course there's still this other case facing hunter that's the tax charges in california being brought by the same special counsel david weiss. let me play part of what he said yesterday about attorney general merrick garland. >> i want to thank attorney general garland for providing the support necessary to fulfill our mission ensuring that we have the independence to appropriately pursue our investigations and prosecutions. >> betsy, that was a keyword there, independence. how significant is it that he said he had this independence? >> yeah, that's right. that's just weiss reminding listeners that the national and international audience he knew he had in that moment, that garland was not involved in his bringing this case. of course that stands in stark contrast to some of the claims that we've seen on the right that garland was somehow trying to work with weiss to distract the public from the other alleged biden crime family crimes, this is very much weiss himself saying i got this. this is my decision, there was not involvement from people who are political appointees of the biden administration. going into september into this tax trial in california, there's no question that it's even much more legally risky for hunter than this gun case was, and those jurors comments without a doubt will really concern biden's legal team. what those jurors made clear is that they were really, really sympathetic to hunter biden. they're from his home state. they found him to be sympathetic. they worried about his drug addiction. they didn't even think he should go to prison and they still convicted him unanimously. california's going to be different. it's a crime involving more than a million dollars. he doesn't have that home field benefit. this is a concerning day for biden and his lawyers. >> given what she just laid out there related to this tax case, do you see hunter biden and his attorneys maybe switching strategies and going for a plea deal now? >> they might, but the time to consider a plea deal was before this trial, and yes, i know they explored that and it fell apart last year, but that was a good deal that fell apart. i'm not calling it a sweetheart deal. i don't want to imply there was coziness, but it was a fantastic deal. i'll tell you how fantastic it is, and it doesn't reflect well on me -- it was an offer of diversion. i candidly wasn't even aware it existed in the federal system. in the state system it exists all the time. people always plead out to diversionary programs. they should have considered an ongoing dialogue or maybe even pleading straight up to the indictment, which sometimes there are reasons for doing that but just because a really, really good deal fell through, i am curious why they didn't continue to explore something that wasn't as good as the original deal but something that would have avoided this trial because now they've gone to trial. they lose the bonus points they would have gotten for pleading and that's going to -- once he gets sentenced, he has a criminal history that will launch him into another category if he gets convicted in the tax case in california. he's going to have a criminal history and the sentencing guidelines jumps up to a different level your entire sentencing framework. >> what about an appeal, temidayo, do you see avenues hunter biden's attorneys might take? >> i think that's unlikely. one big issue he has is acceptance of responsibility. if he does appeal on talks of the probation department about what he's done, he's not going to be able to admit to this conduct because he might want to preserve issues on appeal. when he goes to sentencing, the judge is going to be looking at that. there's a bit of tension there. >> thank you all very much. it is a busy news morning. the terrifying images out of atlanta of a bus hijacking and a rush hour police chase that turned deadly. plus, the house gop pushed to hold attorney general merrick garland in contempt. the critical vote we could see today, but do republicans have the votes? and later, primary battles across the country, does trumpes endorsement still carry weight? we'll break down the results and what it signals about the race for the white house. we're back in 90 seconds. for the white house. we're back in 90 seconds ean ultra foamy magic eraser? it's more magic than ever. with the scrubbing power of magic eraser and the cleaning power of dawn. watch it make soap scum here... disappear... and watch how sprays can leave grime like that with up to 10 times the cleaning power, foamy melts it on contact. magic. it makes this ring a thing of the past. it makes you forgetti about baked on spaghetti. new ultra foamy magic eraser. clean with more magic [introspective music] recipes. recipes that are more than their ingredients. ♪ [smoke alarm] recipes written by hand and lost to time... can now be analyzed and restored using the power of dell ai. preserving memories and helping to write new ones. ♪ let's get started. bill, where's your mask? 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>> reporter: that is the question that we're asking here, ana, because they can afford at this point to lose two republicans in this vote based on where the margins are right now in the house. that's seemingly large for a house that usually hinges on one-vote margins, but here we are once again waiting to see how some key republican moderates are ultimately going to vote on something that could be politically problematic. there's a reason that house republican leadership have held off on this vote for several weeks now. you'll remember this passed out of two key committees several weeks ago. the house oversight and house judiciary committee. those members wanted urgency behind this full house floor to hold full house floor vote to hold the attorney general in contempt. you see the speaker of the house there on your screen speaking about this vote. what they have to do first, though, and the reason we're saying it's expected to happen this afternoon is there is one procedural hurdle they have to clear in the next 15 or 20 minutes or so that would allow them to vote on the rule and then later this afternoon they would be able to vote on the actual contempt referral itself. again, we don't know what that margin or that tally is going to look like. you've got to imagine if republicans are bringing this, they want good enough. >> this comes before president trump is set to meet with house and senate republicans on the hill tomorrow, mitch mcconnell among them, and he and trump haven't even talked since 2020, the day after the electoral college declared biden the winner. ali, this isn't going to be awkward at all. >> reporter: not at all, and as usual, look, to be a fly on the wall in these meetings because of some of those dynamics, right, ana? the fact that mitch mcconnell is going to be in a room with the former president for the first time since that president lost his re-election in 2020. that of course is critical. but there's also some republican senators who are saying that they won't be able to be there. for example, senator lisa murkowski of alaska, certainly no fan of donald trump, who told me that she doesn't see herself being able to vote for him. that was back during the primary when murkowski endorsed nikki haley. murkowski says she's got a scheduling conflict. she won't be able to there with senate republicans and prior to that house republicans. but by and large, this is going to be a meeting where trump is well-received by the majority of both the senate and house conferences because he is the presumed standard bearer of their party once again despite those convictions. >> ali vitali, thank you so much for being on top of all things on the hill. we have our eyes on america's top diplomat in qatar this morning as hamas responds to the u.s.-backed cease fire proposal. ahead, where these delicate negotiations stand. and then still the king maker? 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>> look, this only underscores and cements the fact that this continues to be donald trump's party. the presidential primary results bared that out. sam brown was somebody donald trump was in nevada for a rally on sunday and he didn't endorse formally sam brown until literally he was on the plane ride back to mar-a-lago after that campaign event, but sam brown won handily. he was a purple heart recipient, was injured serving in the army in 2008 from a roadside bomb in afghanistan. this is going to be a big general election senate race. democrats have consistently won the senate races in nevada. if you recall in 2022, incumbent democratic senator only won by 7,000 votes here. republicans see this as a pickup opportunity, and for sam brown having that endorsement and that head nod from donald trump is significant in the general election. then you also look at nancy mace, right? in the republican primary there were questions, there were many republican voters who were skeptical of her just two years ago when she narrowly won the general election to maintain her seat. after the january 6th capitol attack she came out against donald trump saying there needed to be a new direction of the republican party. suddenly she realized that the republican base of support likes donald trump so she quickly ran back and has become a close ally of his. the results yesterday handily winning. >> and of course that wasn't the only thing on the ballot. there were these other types of amendments or initiatives. north dakota did something unusual that could set an upper age limit for candidates this. >> this is a first. this could be challenged constitutionally. the voters by 60 to 40% determined that if you are running for the u.s. senate or the u.s. congress seat in north dakota, you cannot turn 81 years old while your term is ongoing, and the question here is, of course, the u.s. constitution has some very specific guidelines when it comes to ages, but it has to do with how old you must be. you've got to be 25 to run for the u.s. house and 30 to run for the u.s. senate. and the question here is whether there will be a challenge because the u.s. supreme court has maintained in the past in a decision in the '90s that states are not able to add on qualifications to serve in the u.s. congress, but of course this is a new u.s. supreme court, and this really would be an untested first kind of challenge to set an age maximum for somebody running to serve in the u.s. congress, ana. >> very interesting, vaughn hillyard, thank you. now from the ballot box to the jury box, questions remain about just how much hunter biden's felony conviction could sway voters who were convinced the doj has been weaponized against republicans. some trump loyalists say hunter's guilty verdict says nothing. matt gaetz calling the gun conviction kind of dumb. while democrats say it is proof positive politics have nothing to do with doj investigations and prosecutions. let's turn to our political analyst, democratic strategist basil smikle and republican strategist susan del percio. thank you so much for coming on here. we're hearing a lot of different reactions from republicans specifically, susan, from that kind of dumb comment, to some calling this accountability, to others saying it's a distraction. why not a unified voice? >> because the republican party actually is never that unified on something that has so many nonsensical parts to it, and that's what's so hard here is that you have some republicans, there are a few who still say we believe in ourjudicial system, law and order, we believe in the jury process. great. then there are those who are trying to process and somehow turn it around as it's part of biden's cabal against trump and somehow -- i can't even follow the train of craziness there. then you have those -- and ironically i can't believe i'm going to say this, congressman matt gaetz is kind of right on this. >> he's usually on the extreme side. >> and i won't say it's dumb. what i think it's more in line with are what some members of congress like lindsey graham have said is that if not for his last name being hunter, these charges would not have been pursued, which fair enough, you can say the same thing about donald trump. >> politicians haven't said that, but a lot of legal experts have said just that, that he was maybe treated more poorly by the judicial system than other people would in his same situation if his last name weren't the president's last name. >> here's where part of the confusion is with the republican response, we all know -- i shouldn't say we all know -- republicans and a lot of folks out there know that this won't have any play on the election. i mean, we're going to have a debate in less than -- 15 days from now. i promise you we're going to say hunter who? >> we'll see if we get there because it's not the only case that hunter is facing obviously. before you respond, bbasil, let me play some of what we are hearing from democrats. >> apparently when a republican is convicted, it's weaponization, but when a democracy is convicted the the president's son no less, that's justice? the divide here is stunning, and it's a great reminder that one political party remains committed to the rule of law and the other doesn't. >> basil, what do you see as the impact perhaps on the 2024 election? >> you know, i don't know that it has any significant impact on the election. democrats will go to support joe biden and continue to support joe biden. i think actually independents have found a way and will find a way to separate what the president -- you know, the president and his governing -- his ability to govern in the united states versus what his son has done, which the president himself has created that clear line. so i do think independents will kind of bring those two things together. they'll clearly separate them. republicans will continue to use it as a rallying cry for their supporters. to susan's point, what you're seeing is them finding a way to try and reconcile what they feel versus the reaction from donald trump and how they're going to have to navigate that. it's them trying to contort themselves into some kind of language that walks a line and because they can't do it well, it looks very clumsy. that's i think what you're seeing. but the reality is that democrats are saying the right things here, that this was -- this was his son. you can see that the father, joe biden as a father is clearly upset. he's clearly grieving, and we'll give you -- you know, we'll give you that sort of -- to be able to be the father but we understand that he's still doing his job as president of the united states. >> which just to follow up on that, that is one place where republicans can really overplay their hands and it could affect the election is if they go too far. i know it's shocking to hear that republicans may push an issue too far, but this is one place where i think it would turn off independent swing voters, if donald trump in the general election goes after biden, especially on his son and using the legal system as a way to prove himself being a victim, i don't think that will sit well with independent voters. >> there's also this other major difference between hunter's case and trump's case and that is hunter is not a candidate. his father is, but donald trump is the candidate, and of course hunter's cases deal with some gun paperwork, some tax crimes. but donald trump's convicted for what is connected to an election interference scheme and then he's charged with, you know, interfering in the 2020 election. do you think voters understand or recognize or care about that distinction, basil? >> i do think they care and they recognize it. 34 guilty verdicts makes a very big difference and creates an extraordinary contrast against what we're talking about with respect to hunter biden. donald trump tried to change the outcome of an election and engaged a larger sort of conspiracy to do it. this hush money case is just one cog in that large wheel, and i think a lot of voters are quite aware of that and are looking forward to hearing more about how that spills out in the public -- in sort of public discourse. very quickly, the one thing that republicans are weaponizing and our colleague talked about this, is hunter biden's addiction, and that to me going to your point about overplaying i think will have stronger ripple effects because the ways in which they've talked about hunter biden's addiction i think resonates with a lot of people, a lot of families who have to deal with members who are engaged in the same kinds of troubles trying to fight that. when they look at republicans with this sort of strong arm of someone who's clearly suffering from a disease that could backfire. one of the things that susan discussed. >> thank you both so much. susan del percio and basil smikle, good to have you. up next on "ana cabrera reports," a one-two punch to the economy, a brand new inflation report and a critical fed meeting today, what it means for your summer budget. t it means fr your summer budget if advanced lung cancer has you searching for possibilities, discover a different first treatment. immunotherapies work with your immune system to attack cancer. but opdivo plus yervoy is the first combination of 2 immunotherapies for adults newly diagnosed with non-small cell lung cancer that has spread, tests positive for pd-l1, and does not have an abnormal egfr or alk gene. opdivo plus yervoy is not chemotherapy, it works differently. it helps your immune system fight cancer in 2 different ways. opdivo and yervoy can cause your immune system to harm healthy parts of your body during and after treatment. these problems can be severe and lead to death. see your doctor right away if you have a cough; chest pain; shortness of breath; irregular heartbeat; diarrhea; constipation; severe stomach pain; severe nausea or vomiting; dizziness; fainting; eye problems; extreme tiredness; changes in appetite, thirst or urine; rash; itching; confusion; memory problems; muscle pain or weakness; joint pain; flushing; or fever. these are not all the possible side effects. problems can occur together and more often when opdivo is used with yervoy. tell your doctor about all medical conditions including immune or nervous system problems, if you've had or plan to have an organ or stem cell transplant, or received chest radiation. your search for 2 immunotherapies starts here. ask your doctor about opdivo plus yervoy. a chance to live longer. what is cirkul? 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