all thanks for joining me today. i m alison camp maratha. i ll see you back here tomorrow. and newsroom with jessica dean starts right now. you re, in the. cnn newsroom. hi, everyone. i m jessica lean in washington and we begin today with former president and now convicted felon donald trump boasting a surgeon campaign donations following the verdict in his historic hush money criminal trial the trump campaign says it is raised nearly 53 million since he was found guilty by a manhattan jury of falsifying business records in order to influence the 2016 election. the judge has set trump s sentencing date for july 11. that s just days before the republican national convention, where trump is expected to be time tapped as the party s nominee trump, of course, planning to appeal and yesterday he gave a glimpse of how we intends to forge ahead with his campaign falsely calling the trial rigged and claiming political persecution this is a case where if they can do this to me, they
playing on his mind in the sense that even if you can get this deal through the knesset, if his far-right ministers withdrawal from a governing coalition, his government were collapsed. there would be fresh elections and opinion polls suggest those would be elections netanyahu would lose jessica elliott gucken. thanks so much. joining us now, former editor in chief of the jerusalem post, avi mar it s so nice to have you here with us as elliott is speaking just now, it just strikes me that benjamin netanyahu finds himself in an interesting moment because he is holding both what is potentially best for his country and best for his people and what might be better or best? us for him personally in his political future we ll just to get that s exactly right. and i think eliot describe the tensions and dilemma that netanyahu faces very aptly on the one hand, of course, there are others protesters. you re seeing in the background are calling for a hostage deal, seemingly at any cost bring t