If donald trump is found guilty after closing arguments, he will not only be the first criminally indicted former president. Hell be the first Felony Convict to have held the presidency and who is trying to hold it again. If so, what will it change about the race. We have polls that suggest it will matter, and polls that suggest it will not. We just wont know until we know. Which is why the Biden Campaign is trying to put the onus of beating donald trump firmly on the voters. For one person familiar with bidens plans for a more aggressive posture, Donald Trumps legal troubles are not going to keep him out of the white house. Only one thing will do that. Voting this november for joe biden. President biden and his team have barely mentioned the indictments and the trials, instead, trying to focus voters on trump as a threat to democracy, and a threat to women. But is that enough . In a survey after survey, most voters say their Biggest Issue above democracy, above abortion is the economy
See you soon. Welcome to the beat. I am ari melber. A lot going on. We begin reporting on two major Breaking News stories. Hamas is releasing two american hostages. They are safely back inside israel. Also, Breaking News from the trump coup rico case. A key architect of the trump coup plot Pleading Guilty in a georgia courtroom. This is the second trump lawyer in as many days to be convicted. We have joyce vance standing by as we follow this story, and we also have a reporter coming up from the mideast region on the major breakthrough on those hostages. First, we begin with what were learning in the United States in one of the biggest cases to ever come down the pike in any court, state or federal, accusing a former president and aided by his lawyers of a coup. So a Top Trump Lawyer who is linked to that coup for the first time today Pleading Guilty. We had begun our jury Selection Process this morning, but ive been informed there is a change of plea. How do you plea to count 15, consp
and huge data point or argument for more time for joe biden inor the white house. yes, probably. thank you, my friend. president biden was in normandy today commemorating the 80th anniversary of d-day, and while he was there he was asked about something totally unrelated, whether he would issue a pardon for his son hunter if the federal jury in delawarefe convicts the youngerf felony gun possession. here s how president biden responded. as ween sit here in normandy your son hunter is on trial, and i know that you cannot speak about an ongoing federal prosecution, but let me ask you will you accept the jury s outcome, their verdict no matter what itdi is? yes. and have you ruled out a pardon for yourself? yes. pretty clear answer there, but again this is a yes or no question, and to be honest shouldn t be that hard to answer. joe biden as president with the power to pardon anyone he wants at the federal level will let his son go to prison if he is found guilt
ethos of donald trump, which is that the law doesn t apply to me, i am above the law, only i am above the law, and i will take down our democracy in order to savein myself. i absolutely hear what you re saying. there s an ecosystem of authoritarian if not fascist tendencies that surround this criminality, right, george, but that hadn t cut through in the same way that potentially the felony convict does. and i m going to quote sarah wong who s been doing some focus groups indicative of where the voters are going toswi on this. the double haters that don t hate trump or don t hate biden are united over trusting the judicial system over trump at least for now. these voters don t speak for the majority, as swing voters are marginal, but the margins will decide this race. thehi copviction confirmed what many of them already knew, that trump is unfit for office.