and shared this quote, this is what i get for telling my son guide to smile at the camera. for his little brother, i have to say that s the most storable thing i ve seen in awhile. we could all use it in terms of how we think about our politics. thanks to the panel, thanks to you for joining us some kasie hunt, cnn news central starts president biden now calling donald trump, a convicted felon, the first time he called them out that way. and what that now signals for this new phase of the presidential election in breaking overnight, i will not be intimidated. attorney general merrick garland near outrage after attacks by republicans were learning new details about what he plans to save before them. this morning. and it is light he virtual strip club tiktok facing you accusations that it enables the sexual exploitation of children zaraa is out today i m john berman with kate bolduan. this is cnn new sim and on. him, president biden laying out a new line of attack again
Smart republican strategist also saying no matter the dollar amount both men are going to have enough to run through the tape and run in finished this election with plenty of campaign cash with that in mind, how important are these numbers right now? not that important because i am actually not that impressed by this figure. i thought it would be higher really. yeah, because this monday was already sitting out there in the ether. it was just waiting to be active beta by this conviction, these are people who had already planned to give. these are people who are motive by fear and anger. and this was a bump that comes from, again, a sensational headline. and this is what donald trump needs to survive where s this money going to go though? that s the question let s not forget three more cases sit on deck. legal fees are exorbitant we also know that the rnc has been transparent these days talking about how they will pay for trump s legal fees. it was already done during ronna mcdanie
Mega fantastic point. i remember in years past and you remember number we ve been doing politics for a long time, that by now there would be so many victory offices. there would be field operations by trumping company on the dem side, there s so much more activated again of field operations. i m seeing none of that on the gop. sayyed scary, but we are seeing compare it to campaigns in the past that the trump campaign is far more organized than we have seen in terms of donald trump s campaign. campaigns in the past this, we ve seen a shift from president biden, julie at this fundraiser. hizon fundraising event. it s behind closed doors. pool reports come out. he s in connecticut and he s now calling donald trump, a convicted felon for the first time. here s exactly what how he put it. he also saying this, but as disturbing as that is being a convicted felon more damaging is the all out assault donald trump is making on the american system of justice. so he s making this. do you like
Morning highlighting the difference of approach. now post-conviction between vulnerable, vulnerable republicans running in new york, vulnerable republicans running in california, republican representatives might garcia, michelle steel, david validate you. these are in california of stayed mom in the days since the verdict despite multiple requests to their campaigns for comment, yet mike lawler out of new york, who has kept an arm s distance from trump in some, in some respects for sure, saying this after the conviction, our elections should be decided at the ballot box, not by partisan prosecutors. what do you make of the different approaches? and maybe most importantly now how how hard is it for republicans to navigate that aren t named trump? well, let me give you an example from california with michelle steel who you just named. she s had an incredible grassroots ground game for years. her coming to congress was the result of many years of establishing goodwill in her district sh
The monthly total cnn s alayna treene has much more on this later, this is significantly more than we ve seen in the past. what are they saying about it? it is and when you talked to trump advisers, kate it s clear that they re trying to capitalize on this historic and unprecedented conviction as much as possible. and that means both politically and financially. and i do just want to break down some of these numbers for you. and what i find really interesting now is that 140 million that s roughly double what the trump campaign raised in. it last month, but it s also, it would be combined what the biden campaign raised, both in march and april. so as you said, significantly more than they have raised in the past and they re attributing this. most of this to the verdict now, if you look at what the trump campaign is saying, they say that roughly $70 million was raised alone after the verdict was delivered by the jury. when i find really interesting as well about these numbers is that