all thanks for joining me today. i m alison camp maratha. i ll see you back here tomorrow. and newsroom with jessica dean starts right now. you re, in the. cnn newsroom. hi, everyone. i m jessica lean in washington and we begin today with former president and now convicted felon donald trump boasting a surgeon campaign donations following the verdict in his historic hush money criminal trial the trump campaign says it is raised nearly 53 million since he was found guilty by a manhattan jury of falsifying business records in order to influence the 2016 election. the judge has set trump s sentencing date for july 11. that s just days before the republican national convention, where trump is expected to be time tapped as the party s nominee trump, of course, planning to appeal and yesterday he gave a glimpse of how we intends to forge ahead with his campaign falsely calling the trial rigged and claiming political persecution this is a case where if they can do this to me, they
close captioning brought to you by meso book.com our firm, only represents mesothelial hello again and welcome. it s time fault today, we re asking donald trump is a convicted felon should the former president get jail top, then joe biden s predicament give any is struggling in the polls, should biden, focus on trump s conviction and heads up the new airplane seating plan that may have you looking over your shoulder a lot the panel is here and ready to go. so sit back, relax, and let s talk about up first, the fallout from donald trump s conviction from the moment jurors found trump guilty on 34 felony counts. the former president as allies have gone on offense, looking to turn his historic legal loss into a political win this is a scam. there s a rig trial. donald trump vowing to fight back. i m willing to do whatever i have to do to save our country. his allies and potential running mate s also quick to attack the verdict. this is the weaponization of the justice sy
scott, donald trump, all the way down to susan collins, who voted to impeach trump for january 6, kind of thing from the same song sheet. i think that says a lot about where the republican party writ large feels truly about this thing. it s great to see you guys. thank you so much. take care the next hour i ve seen a new central starts right now we are. standing by to hear from donald trump, the former president turned convicted felon, holds a news conference shortly. we ll his wife belongs one a b width and she skipped the entire trial. but she is here in new york and very shortly we get a new key reading on inflation. what will the data say? about where prices are heading and a new spelling bee champion has been crowned i before e, except after c. how important was that time honored advice and spelling 29 words you have never heard before? sara sayyed out today. i m john berman with kate bolduan and this is cnn news central donald trump is waking up today facing a v
conviction and two very different messages today, president biden just speaking out for the first time i ve for trump was found guilty of all 34 charges in his hush money trial, biden making it clear that the jury s decision reaffirm the american principle that no one is above the law they found donald trump guilty i m all 34 felony counts now it d be given the opportunity as he should to appeal that decision just like everyone else has that opportunity. that s how the american system of justice works and it s reckless. is dangerous, it s irresponsible for anyone to say this was rigged. just because they don t like the verdict now that statement coming just hours after former president trump lashed out after his criminal conviction, he railed against the verdict against judge juan merchan, against the district attorney, alvin bragg, and one of the prosecution s key witnesses, michael cohen, at one point, trump all the us a fascist state. cnn s kara scannell is joining us no
don t know. i mean, it s a good question. i think understanding why a jury reaches a verdict is something that every single trial lawyer in the country would love to be able to answer honestly look, a lot goes into a jury verdict that doesn t even include what happened at the trial. the decisions that are made before the trial, the decisions that the court makes, and that the parties decide about witnesses a call, what evidence to put in i think that at the end of the day it remains true that if the word of michael cohen was not accepted at all, then you could not have convicted president trump. and the jury convicted. so at the end of the day they they looked past what we thought were were fatal flaws and mr. cohen s story and his past and they ve reached a guilty verdict right. but it wasn t just the word of michael cohen. i mean, there was other evidence in this case, the documents they wanted to rehear, david pecker s testimony. i mean, they took all of that into consid