continues next on cnn tonight on 360 republican lawmakers attack the criminal justice system. one threatens to defund the government over the former president s criminal conviction, even as trump issues that thinly veiled warning about civil unrest, and he gets jail time or keeping them honest tonight also, de hunter biden s federal trial. the jury has been selected. we look ahead to opening statements tomorrow, and later, dr. anthony fauci, the grilling house republicans gave him over the covid pandemic. and what he gave them back in return. good evening. thanks for joining us. we begin tonight, keeping them honest with what looks to be the shape of things to come as the leader of the republican party self-proclaimed rule of law party faces a july sentencing date for 34 felony convictions increasingly, that means republicans are attacking and criminal justice system. they ve longed, claimed to support, threatening to investigate and defunded, even threatening to defund the
the civil rights act. we can imagine that today did the sort of apocalyptic worldview or pronouncements from the president, the threats of potential civil unrest does that work? i mean, a gins up, a lot of fear, a gins up supporters that brings people to the barricades, i guess if that s what you want them to be, does it work to get elected? i don t know. i mean, we re going to see what happens. it seems to me that the more extreme that the former president becomes in terms of ginning up his people to say, we are now a fascist country. this is not america anymore. this is not a country, this is a banana republic. i don t think the ordinary person feels that way about our country and never in our country s history really has somebody who talks so pessimistically about this country, won an election. i mean, think about what happened in hoover versus fdr hoover is saying that the government can t really help the depression and don t worry, it s getting a little bit better. fdr comes alo