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americans dominating the competition. the bees first indian american champion who now leads an organization dedicated to getting students in that community to the top of that contest is with us. like if word of that all right. have a great show, victor. thank you very much. let s start right now well, first of all, you can cannot credibly campaign on law and order and claim the justice system is rigged because you don t agree with the jury s verdict. but ahead of his felony sentencing on july 11, former president donald trump is doing just that if they can do this to me, they can do this to anyone these are bad people these are in many cases, i believe sick people where trump and his supporters wrongfully see persecution here. other see accountability. but my first guest today sees karma. raymond santana, along with korey wise and try and mccrae kevin richardson, and yusef salaam were teenagers when they were charged, tried, and convicted, or beating and raping a
pain. learn more. it s still go dark good morning. good morning. welcome to see it in this boarding. it is saturday, june 1st. brand new month we wind through 2024. good to have you with us. i m victor blackwell and i m amara walker. here s what we re working on for you. this morning. it was a rigged trial reckless dangerous consider responsible for anyone to say this was brig just because they don t like the verdict two very different takes on former president donald trump s historic conviction. he says a hush money trial was rigged while president biden says is reckless for him to claim that. now the big question will serve jail time. we ll talk for a legal and political analysts ahead. resonant block biden laid out a three phase proposal for peace in the israel-hamas war as israeli forces push deeper into rafah i am blasting into history for the first time humans will fly aboard boeing s starliner spacecraft. but we ll let finally the all systems go after some pr
don t know. i mean, it s a good question. i think understanding why a jury reaches a verdict is something that every single trial lawyer in the country would love to be able to answer honestly look, a lot goes into a jury verdict that doesn t even include what happened at the trial. the decisions that are made before the trial, the decisions that the court makes, and that the parties decide about witnesses a call, what evidence to put in i think that at the end of the day it remains true that if the word of michael cohen was not accepted at all, then you could not have convicted president trump. and the jury convicted. so at the end of the day they they looked past what we thought were were fatal flaws and mr. cohen s story and his past and they ve reached a guilty verdict right. but it wasn t just the word of michael cohen. i mean, there was other evidence in this case, the documents they wanted to rehear, david pecker s testimony. i mean, they took all of that into consid
the courthouse would be york for us, qarrah, give us the very latest well well, if donald trump has just left the courthouse at the end of this day, that was just after his lawyers and prosecutors finished negotiating what portions of the transcripts, some from the testimony of david pecker her and michael cohen. they agreed would be read back to the jury when the jury resumes tomorrow. this came after there was the sound of a buzzer going up twice inside the courtroom indicating that there were notes from those juries. but at the end of this first day of deliberations, there s not a verdict the historic first criminal trial of a former president and presumptive republican nominee is now in the hands of a jury, erasing condemned i mean, there s charges for we ll say, we ll see how we do 12 manhattan residents, seven men and five women deliberating. if donald trump is guilty of 34 felony charges of falsifying business records in an attempt to influence the 2016 election thes