Well hello and welcome. Im Becky Anderson coming to you live from abu dhabi, whether time is 7 00 a. M. The world anxiously watching the middle east right now waiting to see how israel will respond to irans unprecedented, aerial assault, Sassy Bombardment ended on sunday and all our diplomatic push began aiming to avoid any further escalation in the region. Will g7 nations met virtually and regional leaders spoke with their counterparts Around The World in an Emergency Session of the United Nations Security Council, the Secretary General called for restraint the middle is, is on the brink the people of the region are confronting a real dangers of a devastating fullscale conflict. Now is the time to diffuse and the escalates now is the time for maximum restraint israel now says about 300 drones, missiles, and rockets well fired from iran, iraq, yemen, and by hezbollah in lebanon carrying some 60 tons of explosives nearly all were intercepted by israel with help from the us, the uk franc
underway in his federal gun case. it is the first time ever the son of a sitting president will stand trial. we ve had a lot of first time evers, america. hunter is accused of lying about his illegal drug use on a gun buy form in 2018. first want to get to this because on the hill today he was the public face of the government s response to all the covid pandemic matter. now a house panel set to question dr. anthony fauci one hour from now amid allegations of misconduct. app apparently there is a lot there. hope you had a grand weekend. i m bill hemmer. dana: i m glad to be back with you. i m dana perino and this is america s newsroom. we move from one trial to another trial. we have somebody else kind of on trial today anthony fauci. nearly two years since he testified publicly. this hearing could get contentious fast. republicans have a lot of questions. democrats are speaking ahead of the hearing. some of them are preemotion actively defending dr. fauci. today s appear
i m paul gigot. a manhattan jury found donald trump guilty this week on all 34 counts of false iffying business records, the first time in history that a former u.s. president has been convicted of a felony. thursday afternoon s verdict marked a dramatic end to the almost 6-week trial, but trump vowed that the legal fight is not over. this was a rigged decision right from day one. with a conflicted judge who should have never been allowed to try this case, never. and we will fight for our constitution. this is far from over. paul: let s bring in jim trusty, a former federal prosecutor and former donald trump attorney. welcome, jim. good to see you again. so what do you make of this verdict? well, it s not a shock, unfortunately. i mean, this is the lawfare. it s really at a its worst with. you had a politicized prosecutor who had a picked through the trash of a case that the southern district of new york specifically rejected doing that his predecessor rejected doing, but
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left the courthouse back to trump tower, arriving there, that s what you re looking at on the screen supporters read it him there cheering others were there, channing, quote lock him up obviously, an echo of what he had said about hillary clinton just moments ago, the new york district attorney speaking out for the first time celebrating his victory but most importantly today, we have the most important voice of all. and as the voice of the jurors they have spoken donald j. trump has been convicted of 34 counts of falsifying business records. thank you. said from now on, we re going to hear from them in court documents as a sentencing is coming next. meanwhile, and angry trump rattled off the long list of complaints about this process here he is this was a rigged trial by unconflicted judge who was corrupt so rig trial and disgrace it wouldn t give us a venue change. we were at 5% or 6% and this district in this area, this was a rigged, disgraceful trial. you have a sou