occupy part of columbia university lawn this week during the annual alumni reunion. they re- pitch tarps and intends to amend the school divest from companies with ties to israel. just one month go columbia ago columbiacalled nypd to cleay grounds after demonstrators refused to leave. also this weekend police say they took 34 protesters into custody after a group tried to occupy a museum and brooklyn. nypd also said it is adding more security for tomorrow's annual israeli day parade in manhattan. meanwhile former president trump going into a battle in a courtroom to the battle in the octagon. he scheduled to attend a ufc fight in new jersey tonight. this, just two days after his new york trial ended with convictions on all 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. he is due to be sentenced next month he is filing to appeal. hello everyone welcome to fox news like i have arthel neville. look who is here bill melugin in for eric. bill: happy saturday. eric shone out on assignment to date the historic conviction marks a victory for manhattan d.a. alvin bragg. at least for now. the republican-controlled house judiciary committee once bragged to testify on the case and how it played out chairman jim jordan said the trail is an example of partisan prosecution weaponize in the justice system. so far bragg has not said if he will comply. bill: . arthel: cp cotton is live at trump tower with more on the latest. >> former president donald trump a set before the start of the republican national convention in milwaukee. after his sentencing defense team will have 30 days to file a notice of appeal with new york's appellate division. speaking here at trump tower yesterday the former president mentioned the appeals process as he continued to it like in the trial to something out of a totalitarian state. while also attacking the presiding judge. cooks you saw it happen to some of the witnesses that were on our side. they were literally crucified by this man. who looks like an angel but he is really a double. we are going to be appealing this scam. we're going to appealing it on many different things. he would not allow us to have witnesses. he would not allow us to talk. he would not allow us to do anything. the judge was a tyrant too. >> at trump's lawyers have indicated some bulls try to seek an appeal including their perception of judge merchan buys advised he judged me a $35 donation to democrats in 2020 and his daughter is a democratic political consultants. trump's lawyers may also revisit key rulings during the trial like when merchan denied to mr. out motions from the defense after salacious testimony from stormy daniels. the judge said quote i agree it would have been better if some of these things have been left on said." ultimately he denied both requests and saves part to blame for not objecting enough. challenge the credibility of her one time lawyer michael cohen or the trial publicity and how that may have impacted fairness. another issue trump brought up at trump tower yesterday was lack of testimony former fcc commissioner brad smith. the defense team decided not to call smith to the sand after merchan ruled he would not allow testimony explaining his ruling it would be him to explain the lot to jurors. back to you. >> there in front of trump tower but the m3 buses right behind you would know where you are, see beat cotton thank you very much. by the way it former advisor to house speaker jon weiner, glaspie joins us on how trump's conviction could affect the 2024 race. >> with donald trump's trial now over the trial of president biden's son, hunter, is just about to begin jury selection set for monday and hunter's grunt gun trial in delaware one of two federal cases ac is not r sudden coming months what is this all mean and the race for the white house? with more on that will check in with madeleine rivera joins us live in d.c. today. >> hunter body will spend the next two or three weeks cooped up in a courthouse in wilmington, delaware bay today he is with family seen this one on a bike ride with his father president biden of course in rehoboth beach at the call he might be before's historical trial. the first for the child i'm sitting president begins. i could reveal a highly personal and embarrassing details, photos and video of the first son. the evidence special counsel david weiss a team plan to introduce including hunter's infamous laptop at hunter's team has argued its contents may have been manipulated but federal prosecutors are adamant it is real and holds a proof of hunter skills but some of the witnesses could be called on include hunters a form at romantic partners one of them potentially wife who is the subject of an axial's report today. axial's reporting hunter has been caught up in a years long legal battle involving unpaid alimony. hit remains to see how this trot will affect the present biden politically it will most certainly come with some degree of personal pain for the president. >> the president and the first lady, they love their son. they are proud of how their son has been able to get back on his feet and continue his progress. they will continue to support him. >> at hearing last week hunter's team appeared to hint at a portion of their defense strategy. they are suggesting the owners of a store or hunter about his gun may have changed the form that lies at the heart of this case. hunter is also battling federal charges in cal for the trial for that is set for september. >> at trump last week, hunter next week back to back big time trials thank you. >> thank you of the house the he subcommittee on the coronavirus pandemic is getting ready to question dr. anthony fauci sheet next week will be his first public testimony since he retired in december of 2022 as director of the national institute of allergy and infectious diseases. it comes after one of his top aides admitted to that panel last week he hid or deleted key e-mails on the origins of covid-19 pandemic part let's bring it near congresswoman nicole is a member of that subcommittee. first of all dr. fauci testified before it closed doors again and generate what would you like to ask dr. fauci that he did not answer in january? >> i think a lot of our questioning is going to have to do with the e-mails, the communications he had with the top advisors. why they were being done on personal e-mails versus the official government e-mail addresses. why they deleted them seems clear and doctor moran's a number of his e-mail said they were using the private gmail they wanted to evade freedom of information laws. we want to know what exactly were the communications that involved dr. fauci? it also talked about a secret back channel he had to communicate with dr. fauci as it relates to the eagle health alliance which we now nih had funded. and then a lot of that money and it at the wu hanna lab to do work which we believe his gain of function research. there's lot of questions relating to that. we also want to know about his role, dr. fauci, and the actual approval of these grants. he is the person who signed off on these grants but yet on a lot of these questions we asked behind closed doors he claims he was not familiar part he did not recall or is not directly involved. on one hand is using it as a defense to say he was not involved. on the other hand he was a person who signed off on those. we are trying to reconcile that. arthel: your questioning his personal e-mail and cell phone records as he is been investigated for having done something underhanded to deliberately deceive the country? >> it seems clear a lot of the top officials at the nih recent personal e-mail to avoid freedom of information laws they did not want to have that transparency. they did not want to have the accountability particular in this how the subcommittee and other government officials, senators and members of congress have been filing freedom of information lot request significantly shifted the other thing dr. fauci had said to us he no longer believe the lab leak theory was a conspiracy theory. see if it congresswoman i have that part of the testimony want to get to later. right now what i would like to do, we will get to that part yesterday subcommittee released a transcript of dr. fauci's closed-door testimony from january want to go here first. this is the one on social distancing. it says about you, you know i do not recall it sort it just happen. happened. it appeared i do not recall a discussion or whether it should be five or six or what ever. his six-foot question did you see any studies that supported ? fauci is not aware of studies just a decision not based on data or even data that could be accomplished. i do not recall like a discussion of it's going to be it sort of just appeared 6 feet is going to be the distance. now let's take a look on masking children, do you recall reviewing any studies or data supporting masking for children? fauci, i might have but i do not recall specifically that i did. i might have been so coso congresswomandoes the commo consideration this was a novel coronavirus novel as in newport we had not seen the likes of it not to mention there's not even a vaccine at the time for those who wanted to be protected. so it was a bit of a working trial is that taken into consideration? >> it is taken into consideration. the entire time they're saying those decisions are based on actual science and here you have testimony there arbitrary decisions basically pulled these numbers out of the air 6 feet or how young or even when there is scientific evidence to show otherwise the masks weren't damaging to young children they kept those mandates in place. look, i don't know that is something -- what we do about it iithink we learn from this experience make sure going forward we do not make the same mistakes. a lot of the things they now say are arbitrary decisions and guidelines that a tremendous impact on the economy, people's livelihood, and children's education on people's mental health. we have to be much more cautious going forward as novel as a pandemic was we should they should not have been basing these a mandates that were very restrictive pulling them out of thin air opposed to scientific evidence and guidance as they're saying otherwise this is on the leak theory. you think the possibility or the hypothesis the coronavirus emerge from a laboratory accident is a conspiracy theory? fauci it is a possibility people have conspiracy aspects from i think you have to separate the two when you keep an open mind it could be a elaborate leak or could be a natural occurrence i believe the evidence always in my opinion towards one which is a natural occurrence. i still leave an open mind. i know you said you want to use this as a learning opportunity but are you also looking to hold dr. fauci accountable for the covid pandemic and charged him with negligence or something? >> certainly want to get to the bottom of what happened here. american tax dollars into it and lap they did gain a function research the bottom line is we need to know was it man-made or did it come from natural occurrence? so far our intelligence community whether it's a department of energy or fbi, they have indicated as other officials that have come before us including the former cdc director doctor redfield came before us and set everything they have seen shows it emerge from a lab. dr. fauci did go out of his way to suppress the lab leak theory early on. they were scientists that i got together on a conference call said they thought it was eight a lableak dr. fauci suppress tht theory and the site to pick paper emerged it was a natural occurrence so what happened there within three days everyone change their mind? we want to know what is going on that is the bottom line for the american people deserve to know how the virus is started. we are truly going to print the next pandemic we need to know the origins. >> could this end up in charges against dr. fauci? >> it could. i'm not prejudging anyone i am simply singly to follow the facts to where they lead if ththere's something that was doe that hid from the american people use tax dollars inappropriately then yes, potentially could be criminal charges certainly a perjury we have seen a number of officials say it one thing in closed-door testimony and say another thing that we are at a public hearing and it is not reconciled. there has been perjury that is been committed before this committee that in itself is a crime. deleting government files is a crime. so there's a number of things depending on if the d.o.j. or they investigate impress those charges and enforce the law, certain of the could be criminal charges here among some officials within the nih. >> ask lots of questions. we will have you back after you have had a chance to have this a public testimony. we will review then. new york congressman nicole malliotakis. i'm calling you nicole i could know you personally, i did not mean to do that. [laughter] cooks aren't congresswoman, thank you, take care. bill: arthel, ongoing migrant crisis is making every city in the country a border city it is putting all sorts of pressure on k-12 public schools across america. that is going to be the focus of a hearing on capitol hill next tuesday. the man leading that hearing florida congressman will be talking to me next. stay with us. 25 vitamins and minerals. and a new fiber blend with a prebiotic. 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>> they are still trying to drill down on this end. this was an automated scrub it was called by the computer that is essentially in charge of running the systems on board that rockets that star leinart was sitting on top of the atlas five rockets. in the minutes before launch. right now engineers are pouring over the data to determine exactly what it was that spooked that computer. that caused it to trigger the hold. a big part of the test flight was to dock at starlight of the international space station because the iss is a moving target you have to launch a very specific times to reach the proper trajectory. the next launch opportunity would be tomorrow at 12:03 p.m. eastern time for that is contingent upon engineers being able to resolve the cause of today's scrub. astronauts at busch wilmore and sunny williams both experience astronauts forming aviators are used to scrubs at a previous briefing sunny was philosophical about delays at saint we expect to find things that will help us make the spacecraft better to flight and launch vehicle. these are launch dates are not magical they are an opportunity for us to do our jobs. the astronauts are returning to their crew quarters but they will remain under quarantine until they get word on their next launch attempt. whether it is tomorrow where there are two later opt launch opportunities later this week wednesday and thursday. bill: certainly better to be safe than sorry if it will help for a safe launch tomorrow if it is in the cards, and jonathan thank you. >> the man accused of killing georgia nursing student lakin riley pleads not guilty to murder they can smother cry during yesterday's arraignment more than three months after she was found dead in a wooded area near the university of georgia. the suspect, an illegal immigrant from venezuela, prosecutors say they will not seek the death penalty. madison's artists carpino is live in atlanta. >> hello. devastating day for friends and family 26-year-old josé pleaded not guilty to her murder. her mother and sister were sobbing when he walked into the courtroom. heat remained pretty emotionless throughout the hearing he pled not guilty to a long list of charges. including a malice murder and kidnapping. yesterday's hearing comes three months after the body was found in a wooded area on campus. in the 30s that he entered the u.s. illegally from venezuela and 2022 was arrested the next day. it details from the indictment are graphic, we want to warn you priests accused of attempting to rape a riley and bashing her head with iraq. he's also accused of stopping riley from calling 911. release the death ramped up a national debate on immigration pretty specially since isaac confirmed he was previously arrested in new york and 2023. there is now a bill with bipartisan support. the lake and ran the act would allow dhs to retain any undocumented for crimes. introduce the bill in the house and riley's family wants to stop this from happening to someone else. >> let's get a good piece of legislation. not just for this but other families so they want to go through this. cooksville overwhelmingly passed in the house. lacking support from senate democrats. some democrats believe that bill is not specific enough wit disproportionately target people of color. he is expected to be back in court for a status hearing in august. the judge expects the trial to start in the fall. but as you mentioned, arthel, we are learning the prosecution will not be seeking the death penalty for their seeking life in prison without parole. back to you. arthel: why was even here? madison thank you. cooks a lot of our kids that are getting our migrant students are fleeing venezuela i believe. they have had to interrupt their schooling rep never gone to school. and in kindergarten i'm getting students who never held a pencil, do not know how to write from left to right. really struggling to handle the massive surge and migrant children arriving over the last few years. running out of room resources are being switched to online classes. our next guest is going to be leading a house hearing on tuesday to take a look at the consequences of the border crisis on our k-12 schools. republican florida congressman serves on the workforce conveys kind enough to join us this afternoon but we thank you for coming on. >> it is great to be with you, my friends. you've been to the board so many times. i've watched your stories it is out of control. it is absolutely wreaking havoc, wreaking havoc on k-12 schools across the nation were going to hear about on tuesday. >> is look at the latest numbers this morning they are a jaw dropper presents present by the first took office we are looking upwards of almost half a million unaccompanied children across our southern border illegally. take a look at some the numbers right here. this is a fiscal year 2023 over 140,000 kids came across with the average cost per student of over 16 grand each with 2 billion for the year cost to tax payers congressman that's a tough pill for those taxpayers to swallow. cooks it is a jagged little pill for all the school districts to swallow. those here would never fund our school districts are enough. they are being eaten alive by illegals. your numbers are the same #have. but in re