Speaking out for the first time. Why . This is not a normal election in any way. Certainly not one defined by policy debate. In one fell swoop, Donald Trump laid the groundwork to dispute the 2024 election just as did he in 2020. He threatened mass arrests of election officials, political opponents and critics and it landed like a Thunder Clap in the Saturday Night truth social post. It read in part, quote, when i win, those people that cheated will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Which will include longterm Prison Sentences so that this depravity of justice does not happen again. Please beware that this legal exposure extends to lawyers, political operatives, donors, illegal voters and corrupt election officials. Those involved in Inscrupulous Behavior will be sought out and caught and prosecuted at levels unfortunately never seen before in our country. And now you should know it includes a lot of nonsensical caps. A couple of long words that make me wonder who wrote i
Number of inflammatory statements and there is this argument that because hes made so many of these statements in the past, that perhaps the public has become somewhat numb to it. So these recordings might not end up having the same impact it would with any regular person simply because of the person whos saying it, which is pretty amazing. And i remember when who was at comey he said, lord, i hope theyre tapes because trumps always saying theres tapes when there arent tapes, but its gonna take them more than tapes, right . Which will take more than two, which is seconds are so much tape. Yeah. Wow. All right all right. Jason carroll. Thank you very much. And thanks very much to all of you for joining us as always, well see you back here tomorrow night. Same time. Ac30, 60 Anderson Cooper starts right now good evening. We are following two big stories tonight. One, the enormous tension right now over what happens next in gaza after de, this all celebrations over hamas saying they accep
thank you. i am trace gallagher and for martha maccallum. house republicans railing and his response over the pandemic. it is called the scandal of the pandemic. first, hunter biden in court today for the first of his 2 federal trials this 1 on untried gun charges a delaware. he pleaded not guilty in both cases after a plea deal with the feds fell apart last year. he is now facing a total of more than 100 more than 40 years in prison. the first lady in the courtroom today. the president is not there but put out a statement saying he loves and respects his son. fox news legal editor carrie bob is standing by. burst to the justice correspondent davis is at the courthouse in wilmington. good afternoon. reporter: good afternoon trace. president biden is about 15 minutes from here at the biden s wilmington home getting updates from aid and staying in close contact with the trace: first lady and others. he will speak with hunter several times a day for updates. they are s
republicans and right-wing media are raging over trump s verdict, vowing vengeance and lyrical retribution, and another state department official resigns in protest of president biden s gaza policy. stacy gilbert joins us. let s do this. donald trump s guilty verdict on all 34 felony carts of falsifying business records comes five months and four days before the most divisive presidential election of our time, and as a jampacked calendar in the final stretch to november. starting with the debate between trump and biden, set for this month, june 27th. two weeks after that on july 11, trump will be back in court for sentencing in his hush money case, trump s charge of falsifying business records, a felony, is punishable by up to four years in prison but legal expert say there s no guarantee that he will get present time, given that this is his first criminal conviction. and for a nonviolent crime. the republican national convention will convene in milwaukee to formally don
convicted ex-president s latest bid to lift the gag order in the hush money interference case. what does it mean? right now donald trump is prohibited from attacking witnesses, prosecutors, jurors, court staff, and their family members. judge juan merchan has found donald trump to be in violation of the gag order ten times and the 11th could land him in jail as the judge has warned publicly. new york court refusing to hear trump s appeal, quote, upon the grounds that no substantial constitutional question is directly involved. or asa friend joyce vance put it, donald trump s first amendment rights are not violated by the order. it is a rebuke, of course, to team trump which has argued it had constitutional questions of the highest importance. it was part of a political appreciate to getting the gag order lifted and there is an important reason for that. there is nothing, the only presidential candidate running as a convicted felon wants to do more than delegitimize this proce