pirro, harold ford jr. shannon bream and gregn ne gutfeld of 5:00 in new york city. and thisy an is the five donald trump going scorched earthscorcd on his guilty verdict and joe y lap oning a victor the left successful lawfare campaign. the president telling millionsfu republicans that they have no right to call the trial riggedo . the american principle that nosb one is above the law was reaffirmed. trump w donald trump was given every opportunity to defend himself. a it was a state case, note a federal case. and it s reckless, it s dangerous and seriousas possible for anyone to say this was rigged just because t they don t like the verdict. likehe big guy then sporting a goofy grin as he ignored questions from reporters. watch this. mr. president, can you tell us, sir, donald trump refersf as to himself as a political prisoner and blames su you directly. what s your response to that, sir r? you do you think that conviction will have an impact on the campaign? thou we d
didn t agreesayingly they di. on the second crime, it was okay. all right. what i m saying here is a judge said if he violated the federal election law judged the federal tax law, or o falsifying business records in the second degree, then if you find anyee, of any of those three, any of those three, that s an element necessar thoy already been proven beyond a reasonable doubt. but the judge saidable doubut t, you don t have to be unanimous. number two, we don t eve bn whih one it was. and number three, and by th all verdicts have to be unanimous. number three, a local d.a., local county judge has no jurisdiction over a felonyso t crime. so they were acting as federalhe prosecutors in a local case.umb that s number one. number two, the jurisdictiononai that non-unanimous the two is the jurisdiction, but thaono t think those are two separate ones, y i think i think you re you re going down a list of prettyd t ones. so what s your third one? so. and the third,herd you mean the thi
their republican dna is all over it because they as a majority voted for it. abosoluteabsolutely, they di. they expected mitt romney to win the election. he didn t. this president is now in office and they ve got to really face down the consequences of signing on to that sequester. they ve got to really come to the table, roll up their sleeves and do the really hard work of reforming taxes, they ve got to do the really hard work of working on the debt ceiling, these other issues. they re trying to back away now and blame this on the president. i don t think it s going to work. and basically with john boehner saying they are not on board with anything the president has to do agenda wise. a minimum wage hike is basically d.o.a. that s probably right. i just don t think that a hike in the minimum wage will pass, you know, the house of representatives today. but at the end of the day, the president was right. they deserve a vote. working families around this country deserve a vote. a