to prison? president biden has said he will not pardon his only living son. today he said nothing publicly about the verdict but issued a statement saying he accepts the outcome. we have fox team conch for you this evening. george washington university law professor jonathan turley breaks down the decision and what it means. gillian turner at the white house with the scheduled press briefing was abruptly canceled today and we begin with correspondent david spunt. is he in wilmington, delaware tonight. hello, david. >> john, hello, after three hours of deliberations, jurors found hunter biden guilty on those three felony counts. is he now a convicted felon and he has more legal troubles down the road hunter biden stared straight ahead showed no emotion as the word guilty sounded three times in the courtroom. the president's son convicted over this purchase of the colt caliber revolver in 2018. the jury found hunter made a false claim about his drug addiction when he filled out a federal firearm registration form, that he lied to a federally licensed gun dealer, and he illegally possessed that weapon for 11 days. afterwards in the courtroom, the president's son hugged his attorneys and offered a weary smile. unnamed juror, 68-year-old male told fox news the case was, quote, heart wrenching but added -- >> -- nobody is above the law you know. no matter who you are that play nod factor in my decision. politics played no part in this whatsoever. >> verdict came quickly. jill biden arrived at the courthouse after hunter was convicted a stoick hunter left the courthouse with wife, mother. david weiss, who faced criticism from republicans and democrats over his handling of the prosecution said -- >> this case was about the illegal choices the defendant made while in the throws of addiction. it was these choices and the combination of guns and drugs that made his conduct dangerous. he was later seen leaving wilmington hotel. made a comment. i'm more grateful today for the love and support i experienced this last week from alissa, my family, my friends and my community than i am disappointed by the outcome. >> a sentencing date has not yet been set, john. hunter could face up to 25 years behind bars. we expect that to extend past the election. that sentencing, if these appeals come into play, which are expected by his legal team. hunters' legal problems not over yet. is he facing trial for federal tax charges in california there is expected to go to trial unless there is a plea deal october 5th. >> john: that could be a big one. david spunt in wilmington. thank you. a stroke of irony president biden made an appearance today at an event about gun control. the president did not address his son's felony drug conviction. the white house canceled the media briefing. gillian turner is doing white house duty she is at 1600 pennsylvania tonight. good evening, gillian. >> president biden spoke publicly this afternoon a few hours after his son's conviction. while he didn't address the elephant in the room he did add vacate for stricter gun control measures. including the ones his son is now convicted of breaking. >> it is time we establish universal background checks. [cheers and applause] >> and require the safe storage of firearms. >> gillian: president biden released a statement within minutes of the jury's verdict that reads in part as i said last week i am the president but i am also a dad. jill and i love our son and so proud of the man is he today. we will continue to respect the judicial process as hunter considers an appeal. the white house canceled after spend the east coast in wilmington. leaving behind criticism of his family woes and, yet, more anti-israel protesters. >> genocide. >> possible breakthrough on the 11--day-old cease-fire may silence critics as hamas says it is ready to deal positively to arrive at a verdict. leaving hope of the five remaining hostages recommendation. >> we are in receipt of this reply that hamas delivered to qatar and to egypt. we are evaluating it right now. >> there is not a lot of hope for the white house on one of their signature issues. three in 10 voters now say they approve of how biden has handled student loan debt while 4 in 10 disapprove. this according to new polling from the university of chicago and associated press. the outlook among student debt holders themselves who biden has tried to help wasn't much brighter. just 36% of them approve of his policies while 34% disapprove ♪ nobody but you. >> adding to voter concerns surrounding the president's mental and physical fitness, biden appeared to freeze up during a juneteenth holiday concert last night while dancing among the crowd of 1700 guests including the vice president and second gentleman. >> well, tonight, president biden is at home in wilmington, delaware tomorrow morning. he will depart for italy where is he going to represent the u.s. at the g-7 leader summit. while hunter biden often accompanies his father on official overseas trips like this one. he will not be with him this time as the first son is not legally allowed to leave the country prior to his sentencing. john? >> john: busy day, busy week ahead for the president maybe not the son but the president. matthew colangelo have agreed to testify publicly before the house judiciary committee next month. >> the session is expected to take place july the 12th. that is one day after the scheduled sentencing hearing for former president trump who was found guilty on all counts of falsifying business records in the first degree. >> there have been two overarching themes emphasized by the prosecution during trial. this defendant's illegal choices, and the rule of law; however, hunter biden should be no more accountable than any other citizen convicted of this same conduct. >> john: all right. let's dig a little deeper into the verdict today and what lies ahead. bring in george washington university law professor jonathan turley and you, of course, a fox news contributor. so that was david weiss who, a year ago, was doing this sneaky plea deal that was going to give hunter biden lifetime immunity now saying we got him. he lied on this. and this -- i mean, what do you make of the change? >> it's uberous. >> john: last year to today? >> it's uberous. the jury is in on hunter. the jury is still out on weiss. we still don't know what is the possible reason you would allow major felony crimes to expire on a statute of limitations that you had the ability to extend. had you an agreement on the table to extend. he hasn't explained that to his own team let alone to the public. so there is a lot of questions that will remain. but his office, i have got hand it to weiss, did an outstanding job in this case. those prosecutors were on their game. this was tight and disciplined. and they demolished the defenses raised by abbe lowell for his client. he made a series of offerings to the jury of things that they would establish and the prosecutors blew them out of the water. >> john: once they made a decision to prosecute, they really brought it. >> they did. >> john: hunter biden after the plea deal fell apart could have pleaded guilty again and a new plea deal he said i want a jury trial. is this a case be careful what you wish for because you might get it? >> it certainly is these defenses were so implausible they were obviously place holders. this was a nullification defense. they were hoping that frankly they wouldn't convict the son of the president in what is biden town. that's what this town is. this is where they live. well, they were wrong. and i think they may have overplayed their hand here. there is a lot of sympathy in that room for hunter biden. and, quite frankly. of us are sympathetic. i'm sympathetic for the president. this is a dad day for his family. no one should take joy out of this. they went forward on this trial. and it may come back to haunt them because they lost a great advantage to avoid jail. the judge may be looking at this as a defendant in an overwhelming case against him who put forward an nullification defense and lost. >> john: wow. in terms of where they go from here, president biden said this earlier today in his statement, quote: as i said last week, i'm the president but i'm also a dad. jill and i love our son and so proud of the man is he today. i will accept the outcome of this case and will continue to respect the judicial process as hunter considers an appeal. now, as far as i know, hunter's team hasn't announced that they are going to appeal this case. maybe they are. did you see anything that would give them compelling grounds for reversal? unlike the manhattan case she down the middle. ruled for the defense and the prosecutor. fair trial in the federal court. i don't see any reversible errors here. they tried the ultimate hail mary, they ripped a page out of the briefing book of the nra and you have hunter arguing against the law that the president today was calling to be actually strengthened. is he arguing that his a second amendment rights trumped that law. >> john: right. >> that has not worked for him. i don't expect it will work in the future. >> john: real quick. got a few seconds left. put up on the screen the potential penalties involved in this. two of the counts carry 10 years in jail. one of the counts carries five years in jail. you could -- i mean, even if you were given the max you could probably run it concurrently. what do you think is he going to get in terms of the penalty here. >> the odds favor no jail time. there is a big but here. that is this was the judge that watched that sweetheart deal fall apart in her courtroom. she knew they were trying to cut sweetheart deal and watched nullification defense pass in the courtroom. she may not be in a generous mood. >> john: do you think that she thinks they were trying to hoodwink her on that deal? >> it certainly fell apart with spectacular fashion in front of her she may feel a little jail time is. we'll have so see. ♪ >> john: breaking tonight, we have another example of the illegal immigration crisis spreading across the entire country. the "new york post" first reported that several foreign nationals suspected of having ties to the isis terror group have been arrested in three major american cities. correspondent bill melugin has got the details. he is in los angeles tonight. bill, what have you got? >> david: john a federal source with knowledge of this 8 nationals of tajikistan with suspected tees to isis were all arrested by ice and joint terrorism task force in recent days in new york, philadelphia, and right here in los angeles. now, that zeke stan is 7,000 miles away from the southern border. and fox is told that all eight of these nationals crossed illegally into the u.s. and received full vetting by dhs during which time, we're told, no derogatory information on them was flagged. we're told potential ties to terrorism and national security concerns flagged later on, after they were apparently released into the u.s. confirmed to as the fbi and dhs have recently described in public and partner bulletins, the u.s. has been in a heightened threat environment. the fbi and dhs will continue working around the clock with our partners to identify, investigate, and disrupt potential threats to national security, end quote. former acting ice director tom homan explained what he is hearing about this case from his ice contacts. >> my sources say that only one was arrested on the west coast. almost all of them were arrested in new york area, which is very concerning for new york. new york has been a target before. and the came and going to keep digging into their files to find out when they cross the country. >> bill: john, the fbi and dhs and our sources haven't said when and where the tajikistan forces crossed the border. our sources did confirm they did cross legally they were not visa overstays. send it back to you. >> john: something you will keep digging into. stock the dow lost, the nasdaq gained 151. both of those are new record closes. coming up, anti-israel protests break out in new york city and they get violent. and, one of the key figures in the coronavirus pandemic faces harsh questioning about his actions that some say led to thousands of deaths. first, here's what some of our fox affiliates around the country are covering tonight. fox 61 in hartford, connecticut as pamela smart accepts full responsibility for the death of her husband for the first time. the former high school media coordinator is serving life in prison for plotting with a student to kill him. the statement is part of her latest attempt to have her sentence reduced. wsvn in miami with the arrest of a suspect in connection with to a shooting and causing a fire at a downtown miami four story apartment building that burned for several hours yesterday. police say 73-year-old juan francisco figaro shot a man early monday morning at the apartment complex. the victim is said to be in critical condition following surgery. and this is a live look at st. louis from fox 2. one of the big stories there tonight absolutely 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is on capitol hill tonight. >> news today. >> during the height of the pandemic, andrew cuomo seemed as omnipresent as the virus itself. after years of laying low, the former new york governor made a rare public appearance. >> new york performed very well given the circumstances. >> as he faced tough questions about his march 2020 order that required nursing homes to accept patients with covid. a decision he reversed six weeks later. >> why did you mandate this? >> cms and cdc did very extensive and instructive guidance. the cdc said new york followed the federal guidance. >> anybody who looks at it sees that the language was different and it was very clear that you could not reject covid positive patients. >> house republicans grilled cuomo about a state attorney general report that found his staff misled the public by underreporting the number of patients killed in nursing homes by almost 50%. and if that was connected to cuomo's $5 million book deal. democrats on the other hand blamed former president trump's administration for a lack of testing. grilled cuomo about preferential testing about family and friends as they say they will keep following the facts. >> you are w walking away with e impression that he did the best that he could. >> that's what i'm walking away with, right now. >> today's interview, a huge win for new yorkers like vivian who lost her 78-year-old mother ona martinez to covid inside a nursing home. >> my mother was incredibly hard-working. all we want right now is not an apology but answers and accountability. >> john, the covid committee does plan to release today's transcript of this interview. also, they don't know exactly when. probably at least after a couple of days. republicans also want cuomo to come back and testify publicly here on the hill. but, again, announcement made about that. just yet. john? >> john: all right. we will look forward to the release of that transcript. aishah hasnie for us on capitol hill. thank you. up next, we look at a big senate primary in a state republicans hope to flip this november. first, beyond our borders tonight, chinese police detained a suspect at a stabbing attack on four instructors from iowa's cornell college. the teachers were working at a school in northeastern china. police say a 55-year-old man stabbed the four along with a chinese person who tried to intervene. their injuries are not thought to be life-threatening. russia and its ally belarus launch a second drills use of tactical nuclear weapons. part of the efforts to discourage the west for ramping up support for ukraine. late today we learned the u.s. is sending another patriot missile system to ukraine. and this is a live look at london. one of the big stories there tonight, animal rights activists target the first official portrait of britain's king charles since he became monarch. protesters pasted a large image of the well-known enemy character wallace over his face. they are demonstrating against what 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john: two men connected to a toddler's fatal overdose new york city day care have pleaded guilty to drug charges and causing bodily harm. prosecutors say the men admitted to storing fentanyl in the floor boards of a bronx day care playroom. a 22-month-old child died. three others survived after medics administered the drug narcan. the men face a minimum sentence of 20 years in prison protesters against israel ramping up demonstrations. a major event in new york city streets and subways. correspondent bryan llenas has the latest tonight from the big appear well. [shouting] >> anti-israel protesters clashed with officers monday night in downtown manhattan setting off flares and smoke bombs in what organizers called a day of rage. terrorist sympath