about the bosley guarantee. cnn this morning with kasie hunt next it s, wednesday, july 19, right now on cnn this morning and then he said, well, jd, i have to ask, do you accept and i said, yes, sir. absolutely. jd vance taking the main stage, how he plans to try to appeal to republicans across the country as donald trump s running mate plus president biden back on the campaign trail criticizing donald trump for the first time since his attempted assassination. and this donald trump has my straw hung endorsement pairing donald trump back to the white house once donald trump s rivals, now they re changing their tune on the rnc see stat e 4:00 a.m. here in milwaukee, wisconsin as we gear up for day three of the republican national well convention, you re looking at the outside of the fiserv forum where of course we re going to hear from the republican vice presidential nominee. jd vance later tonight good morning, everyone. i m kasie hunt. it s wonderful to have you with
harris, our country will be badly worse off. for the sake of our nation we have to go with donald trump. donald trump has been demonized. he s been sued, he s been prosecuted, and he nearly lost his life. we cannot let him down, and we cannot let america down. donald trump s former rivals for the republican nomination showing loyalty to him last night at the republican national convention. we ll have more of their speeches and a live report from milwaukee straight ahead. plus we ll have a look at president biden s pitch to a key voting block he needs this november to hold onto the white house. and we ll bring you the fallout from democratic senator bob menendez s corruption conviction as high profile members of his own party call on him to resign. good morning and welcome to way too early on this wednesday, july 17th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. and we ll begin this morning with day two of the republican national convention where a pair
menendez and his co defendants were found guilty across the board in all of these charges that will be waiting for this senator to leave the courtroom. he usually walks out on his own, even without his attorneys and often speaks to the cameras behind me, waiting for the senator to make his way out. it will be a few things left that the judge will do, including sentencing, set a sentencing date, but we ll be standing by to hear what the senator have to say every has been found guilty on all these charges, charges, dana okay. kara? absolutely. extraordinary that we have this united states senator senior senator who has a lot has had a lot of power. now, being found guilty, as you said, on 18 counts of corruption using that position that he has elected by the people of new jersey according to this jury, to sell his office to foreign powers and also to corrupt business people. really remarkable. brianna keeler is going to pick up our coverage now stay with us cnn breaking n
sandra: fox news alert the verdict has been reached senator bob menendez has been found guilty on multiple counts we are still getting the details at this hour hello, welcome i am sandra smith john to be good do stomach, good to be with you. john: i m john roberts in washington this is america reports. i mics not on. speed to get your mic on. john: it s right here on the chair beside me. i m john roberts in washington this is america reports if you didn t hear me the first time. eric shawn is live outside the courthouse. seeming on all of these counts guilty they ve agreed on all of it. john, guilty on all counts 18 counts of bribery, extortion, obstruction of justice, wire fraud conspiracy for honest theft of services, robert menendez a new jersey democratic power senior senator from the garden state former chairman of the relations committee a jury hear moments ago deciding that yes, he did sell his office. he sold the power of the senate that he had in washingt
he says that senator robert menendez s attorney is patting him on the back. but again, for the senator who s been in public office since the late 1980s as our colleague steve kornacki has just been talking about, he s been a member of the united states congress since the early 1990s. the 70-year-old senior senator from new jersey, the former chair of the powerful senate relations committee charged with acting on behalf of a foreign government, not the government he s supposed to represent and he s been found guilty on that. just like every other count that he s faced. katy, andrea? just really quickly, tom winter, and this involved egypt and qatar, both of those countries. just very briefly, what are the potential penalties? we don t know what range he might be obviously he s going to appeal. but what is involved in 18 guilty convictions? on all of these. the potential for decades in prison. but of course those are the statutory maximums. and as you well know, andrea, t