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treasury is coming down, at 449 right now. that should inspire some investors, get below 4.5%, the price of oil $77 a barrel and bitcoin last time we checked was 68. still $68,000 a coin. now this. you may dislike donald trump, you may oppose his policies, you may think his behavior obnoxious but to bring him to a criminal trial for falsifying business expenses many years ago shows the depths to which new york's legal system has sunk. this was an entirely political trial organized by the biden administration. it was the deliberate use of the courts to hamstring a political opponent, with 34 guilty verdicts, they think they have won. have they won anything by trashing our legal system. trump hatred is at the heart of it, doesn't the liver a fair

trial and when trials are seen to be unfair, we the people lose faith in the system. they sacrificed our judicial system to the demands of biden's political campaign. we know with these verdicts america has last. i don't think somebody democrats realize what they've done, they think branding trump a convicted felon ensures a biden when in november, that remains to be seen. we have to go through the sentencing a few days before the republican convention. how will peel people feel about that. if a biden's cognitive ability wants to slide, he can't think straight but is trying to put his opponent in jail. verdicts have fired up the republican base, they are furious and there are going to be a lot of independents who will lean republican because they don't care to see america brought so low. as for the trump haters they will still hate but they have to live with what their hatred has done.

second hour of varney just getting started. tammy bruce on friday morning. can get much better? hold on a second. we got this coming at is, the trump campaign says they hauled $34 million in digital fundraising after the verdict, between 6:00 pm through midnight yesterday. i this -- think this convention will drive voters off the fence, that the my opinion. >> we've seen it, we are not guessing like a democrat billionaire announced i hate him, never voted for him and announced $300,000 for trump's campaign and a commitment to trump. democrats know what it is, they love what they have done which makes us understand why they are fine with what's happening to the country in general at the border, the economy and

inflation. when it comes to 34, a sweep of guilty verdicts coming salem, massachusetts they had a sweeping guilty verdicts of all the witches, hard not to find everyone guilty. in the old world, kangaroo courts and star chambers they had a sweep of guilty verdicts, everyone was guilty, this is why this nation was founded. it's against the nature and values of americans, against our dna, when you see this kind of unfairness but it is important, be careful, stay focused because the fact is it's one thing to talk about corruption, another thing to show it and this has shown it. that's why you see that movement because it's like wait a minute, there's rhetoric, everyone is overreacting, no we are not and this is what is important and thank goodness the tone of the trump campaign has been good, donald trump's tone has been good, assuring everyone we are continuing, it is not the end of the fight,

the real verdict is on november 5th, channels energy into how the founders wanted the energy channeled into elections. stuart: listen to harry litman, he says the trump conviction is because for celebration. >> we have been holding our breath as a country for a long time waiting for the cavalry to arrive in the form of rule of law and it did arrive today and it is a majestic day, donald trump is a different person now. is a convict, he's not innocent until presumed guilty, he is guilty. he will get bail, it's true but he is on a whole different status in society in the legal system, in the rule of law, that's not only fitting but are kind of -- miracle is too strong a word but a day for celebration. stuart: a miracle.

lauren: liz: it harkens back to the vietnam excuse to destroy the village to save it. this is, i am sure that the conversation he has at cocktail parties and friends but that's the disconnection with the average american going on with the lives of americans, blue cities having parties over this and the rest of the country thinking why can't i put groceries in the refrigerator, why can't i give my child some chicken. why can't i have enough gas to get to work, why do i have to work two jobs? that's what americans are thinking and seeing the man who changed the economy to the best economy in human history, energy independence, no wars, dead enemies and that is the guy that is convicted of felonies. with one trump wins in november because of this and because of the issues on which biden -- >> as long as there's a focus and there will be, donald trump's strength, focus on what

impacts americans on the issues, americans see this now courtesy of the democrats, we don't have to tell them that there is corruption, there will be more problems in this country because of the corruption and incompetence of the biden administration at the democrats, people will see this glee that comes from these people. at least biden they knew maybe we shouldn't say something from the white house, they suddenly realized maybe just like from mar-a-lago raid was supposed to reject trump from normal life, they should have learned at that point americans said no you don't and are saying it now again. this didn't sing -- i would suggest to people be prepared for a jail sentence, everyone saying it can't to be just be just like this trial, can't be, it can be. why would they stop at that when they have done everything already like this, it's existential for the. they know it is over if trump wins.

be prepared. it doesn't mean it is over but this is the national trajectory. only trump can survive it and then we can survive it. stuart: see you soon. financial investors coming to trump's defense after his guilty verdict, he just got a big donation. neil: sean maguire voted for hillary clinton. >> he said he hates trump and his on board now. stuart: $300,000. >> right after the guilty verdict. i donated 300 k to donald trump, the timing isn't a coincidence. he is silicon valley, so is david sacks, the guy reportedly hosting the big fundraiser for trump next month, calling this a sham trial designed for one purpose, to brand trump is a felon, watch democrat in the mainstream media endlessly repeat that word. i watched cnn at 5 a.m. this one, waking up to donald

trump being a convicted felon. that was the point of this and this is what the biden campaign says, trump is selling out america to pay his legal bills and put himself in power, billionaires like elon musk, all they see as a sucker, they know if they cut him campaign checks he will cut their taxes while he cut social security and other benefits. one thelen musk is not cut a single check. he has not endorsed trump, he's not fundraiser for him at least not yet but he is hosting dinners. >> not going to bode well for the democrats which everything has been a mistake, this continues to be a mistake, the country is being harmed in the process. our job is to make sure that doesn't go further. stuart: thanks very much. check those markets please. we are up 30 points on the dow, 20 points down on the nasdaq,

mike lee joins us this morning, you say we may see a small pool back on the markets, does that mean you buy in -- you buy it despite the verdict and the rest of it? >> i think this verdict, it is a said day for this country, you've seen this sort of communist third world puppet dictator stuff kind of popping up for a while now and now you have to believe mike lee, the emperor has no clothes, though shot a star on the hill this country was is no longer but from investment standpoint the financial community doesn't like dictators, they don't like communism so i think this is going to bode in trump's favor even though it is a horrific event for the us in the long run however from a day trading standpoint of the close below $52.50 on the s&p 500 i can see

as much is a 5% pullback, that is temporary given the fact that the fed is likely to pause or cut, almost 0 chance of a rate hike and the economy is not collapsing into recession and this has been a very good earnings season. neil: quick question on nvidia. i believe you are expecting a pullback and if we do get a pullback on nvidia you would be buying again, would you? >> absolutely and part of what we see with dell and bottom loans in salesforce is a lot of the buy side not necessarily the sell side, banks would come up with these estimates even though a lot of these firms are meeting or exceeding them, what the mutual funds and hedge funds are not getting what they want out of a lot of these tech companies because they expect this nvidia type growth to translate to a lot of other companies out there and it just hasn't so i could see nvidia

with a little bit of a pullback about i again would use that as an opportunity to enter start, i think it is 10% to 15% undervalued at the moment, growth estimates from nvidia out 6 months, 18 months far too low. look at this ai trend, just beginning, hasn't translated to other names other than microsoft, google and nvidia but it will in the future. stuart: mike lee back to super bowl status, have a great weekend, see you next week, looking at those stocks which are moving significantly. i call one printing% decline in amazon a significant move. lauren: self driving car unit may pose crash risks says the national highway traffic safety administration. they are seeking more information. unexpected and rapid breaking is confusing other drivers, stocks down 2%. we one last time we checked, i

saw the scaler straight up. we to cloud security firm increased spending from clients on cybersecurity but not lifting all cybersecurity firms, the competitors down 8%. %. stuart: the best-performing airline has been united. lauren: united can take deliveries of new airplanes to meet demand. the agency's increasing oversight of the carrier because of all these safety concerns. stuart: united hitting $52 a share. speaker johnson said it was, quote, a shameful day in american history when trump was found guilty but democrats were quick to celebrate. hillary vaughan has reaction from both sides of the aisle. the biden campaign trying to court black voters but how do black voters feel about trump's verdict. wesley hunt on that. we've got a shot at the podium

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stuart: republicans slammed trump's guilty verdict, democrats quick to celebrate. tell as the reaction from both sides. >> reporter: some democrats are literally dancing in response to donald trump's guilty verdict.

congressman jamaal bowman celebrating trump's conviction. other democrats taking a victory lap too. >> we should have faith on the system. it was an impartial jury of 12, donald trump and his acolytes and his supporters may not like it, but that is what makes this country special. >> justice has come back to haunt him. >> do you think he should go to jail? >> to me, it is irrelevant. >> reporter: it is not irrelevant to voters in the 2024 election if the leading gop candidate is in jail and taken off the campaign trail. republicans say that is what this has been all about. >> because donald trump is crushing joe biden in the polls they see the democrat party and the left so desperate to stop him that they will risk the destruction of our entire legal

system to do it. >> the judge is going to do sentencing on july 11th four days before the republican national convention in milwaukee. you got it right here. >> other presidential candidates calling this a joke, not justice, rfk junior, running against president biden, says this is going to backfire. >> this conviction is going to backfire. the democrats feel like it has a candidate that cannot win fair and square in the polls and they have to win. by clearing the deck and getting their opponents out of the race. >> reporter: if that happens, if donald trump ends up serving time in jail that will not deter some from voting for him. congressman darrell iser is happy to vote for trump even if he is in prison at the time. stuart: can't imagine it coming

to that but thanks very much, texas congressman wesley hunt, democrats are celebrating his conviction. if i may offer an opinion i think this is an embarrassing day for the country. >> what happened to the former president of the united states, a despicable human being. after donald trump got convicted of 34 counts, he walked out of the courtroom and the first thing he said to the american public was it is going to be okay. he is a family man. he is a father, he is a grandfather and he knows he is going to be the president of this country in november and he has got to have the steady hand. i fought for something, we celebrated memorial day. i fought for justice to be blind and we are living in these crazy times. one thing that's interesting is this investigation was started in 2017 and why are they

bringing it up now? why are we going to have this conviction four days before the are in see, we are living in peculiar times the american public is paying attention to, swing states and independents. jackie: stuart: biden's trouble with black voters setting up alarm bells. what do black voters think of the guilty verdict. >> you are talking about president biden. and the president biden, that eulogized a grand wizard in the kkk. black people are aware what is going on in the pandering his begun.

and if donald trump gets 25 to 30% of the black vote which is on pace to get democrats cannot win. and the only way to stop donald trump is by trying to put him in prison. he deserves respect. he has awakened the sleeping giant. >> the podium on which trump will appear for his press conference. give me 30 seconds what you would like trump to say. >> exactly what i think we are going to hear, a steady hand. the voice of a father and grandfather, the voice of a future president of this country telling us it is going to be okay.

donald trump is a fighter. he's not going to give up. mostly underestimating his resolve and i can assure you we have a measured response and going to know who the true leader and future president of this country is going to be. stuart: republican from the state of texas, thanks for joining us, see you again soon. our campaign, the biden campaign went after msnbc and cnn for their coverage of trump. biden went after two principal supporters. lauren: very odd. you would think the biden campaign would want the media to focus on bad news for donald trump. instead the campaign senior advisor wrote the president just spoke to approximately 1000 mostly black notice in philly about massive stakes in this election. msnbc and cnn and others to not show it. instead, more coverage of a trial that impact one person,

trump. why isn't your message getting out? a couple things. the campaign thinks they have the mainstream media in their pocket and now they are frustrated that could not possibly be the case and their message is not getting out. and people show up at his events. that's an odd reaction from the biden campaign. stuart: jamaal bowman targeted by a black amnesty group who say he's too progressive to represent black voters. good morning to you. what do they do about this? ashley: the national black empowerment action fund plans to spend half $1 million that includes directly interacting with black voters, actually one of several groups including the american israel public affairs

committee targeting bowman who is facing primary challenger george latimer, westchester county executive who has gained support including the union support, the action fund says african-americans, and and hold them more accountable rather, by soaring rhetoric. stuart: donald trump and his legal team vowed to appeal the guilty verdict. eric shawn has the next steps in the process. we will hear from him after this. ♪

stuart: not much movement except the nasdaq which is down 120 points with lauren is looking at the movers. trump media. lauren: the company as a proxy for donald trump. the unprecedented has happened publicly, judicially and is bleeding onto wall street, trombones 2 thirds of this company. does, conviction affect his holdings? the sec has a bad actor

disqualification but that is mostly for executive officers. nonetheless, is trump's ownership going to be complicated by what happened in court yesterday? stocks down. it is a volatile stock but something to think about. stuart: a significant move in meta, down 2%. the story? lauren: spain says two proposed upcoming products from facebook and instagram may violate data protection laws and order their suspension. stuart: how about pen entertainment. lauren: almost 12%. and activist investor fired off a letter to the board of directors, make changes because your stock is worth double what you are currently trading at. they are critical of spending billions on gaming deals and on major compensation package for the ceo despite the stock underperforming.

stuart: you should be pleased at stock payments. for the first time, a former president has been convicted in a criminal case, trump has vowed to appeal the guilty verdict. eric shawn outside in new york, what happens next? >> it ain't over as you said, donald trump has said he will appeal the verdict to that was reached yesterday afternoon. his defense attorneys believe they have a variety of issues to challenge, they say pretrial publicity made a fair trial impossible. and some of the judge's rulings were too restrictive. as for stormy daniels's salacious testimony, his defense attorneys say that should never have been allowed. they.out that judge mechon has a conflict of interest. he donated $15,000 to president

biden's campaign. his daughter works for a democratic political campaign firm. the state of judicial ethics will the judge had no conflict but did reportedly give him a warning. district attorney alvin bragg said the jury only relied on the evidence and the law. >> deliberations lead them to a unanimous conclusion beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant, donald trump, is guilty of 34 counts of falsifying business records to conceal a scheme to corrupt the 2016 election. >> reporter: the convictions came after testimony for david packer and michael cohen. both said trump had a meeting with a map trump tower, put the illegal scheme into motion. the jury saw the trump financial documents the reimbursed cohen for paying

stormy daniels and the checks trump signed to repay cohen falsely claiming they were for cohen's legal work and despite his good ability issues, the jury did seem to believe michael cohen. after the raid, cohen told fox news today is an important day for accountability and rule of law. it has been is of occult journey for me and my family, the truth always matters. it turns out in 2018, the president did tweet that he did reimburse michael cohen for the nondisclosure agreement with stormy daniels and included that information to reimburse michael cohen to reimburse the financial disclosure forms. for attorneys to raise during the appeal and the appeal has to be filed in the next 30 days. stuart: former manhattan da

prosecutor joins me now. jonathan turley, law professor, george washington university says, turley says he's convinced the decision will be reversed. do you agree with that? what's the point? when might it be reversed? >> a lot of appellate issues. an appeal would not be likely for at least a year before the intermediate up how that politics should not play a role in these things but we have to be cognizant that every appellate judge in new york, intermediate court and high court is a democratic appointee. stuart: if trump is in the election and loses but then after the election his conviction on felony counts is reversed, then what? >> there is no recourse. lauren: no-confidence. stuart: that sinks my

confidence in the judicial system. >> appeal rarely in less then a year and a voluminous transcript, makes it even longer potentially. stuart: does it have to be all 34 counts reversed? >> most likely the same issues would impact all of the counts. my suspicion if there was a reversal it would affect all 34 equally. stuart: if he is sentenced to jail on july 11th before the republican convention, will he actually go to jail? >> he shouldn't be sentenced to jail because it's the lowest level felony, he doesn't have a criminal record. it would be the exception rather than the rule to sentence him to jail but they would move for a stay of sentence ending appeal, if you have a short jail term you would be deprived of the benefit of the appeal if you serve the full term for the rebuke. stuart: i think i am following this. what kind of precedent to these

guilty verdicts create? >> we have been having federal elections in the confines of new york state since it was founded 230 years ago. no one has ever been charged with the business reference violation arising from federal election ever before in those 230 years. stuart: what precedent does that set for elections in the future? >> makes you worry about the weaponization of the committal justice system and everyone should put the shoe on the other foot test. stuart: this is the weaponization of the judicial system? >> if his neighbor not donald trump this would not go to state court. stuart: do you think the new york judicial system, this is difficult for you to answer because you are a lawyer in new york but do you think our legal system in new york city is in good standing in this country? >> a nonpartisan prosecutor would not have bought these charges so that raises concerns about how this precedent could be followed by prosecutors of any political stripe.

stuart: you are a lawyer but also a diplomat. anytime you want to come on come on back. ashley, come in please. i am curious, what are voters saying about trump's conviction? ashley: the convention was met with a variety of reactions from outrage to indifference to as we see glee. here are some examples from fox news digital. >> i find it insane. >> blows my mind. can you say banana republic? >> it's the right verdict. the system of justice works whether you are rich or poor. it is a jury of his peers and a great result for new york and for america. >> it is a failure of the justice system, it complete joe biden kamala harris hit job. >> it scares me, you go after a democrat or republican or independent, any person running

for office that we would go after them to silence them is a scary place to be. >> it is probably not going to to influence a lot of people who already decided to vote for trump and a lot of people who already decided to vote for. ashley: scary banana republic and as i said before as you have shown some people gleeful. stuart: thank you very much. we are getting this coming at us. longtime democrat senator joe manchin is switching parties and registering as an independent. he said national politics are broken and neither party is willing to compromise to find common ground, he is registering as an independent with no party affiliation to stay true to himself.

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stuart: on the markets, not much movement except the nasdaq which is down 180 points. democrats calling on the justice department to investigate oil companies. ashley: lawmakers want an investigation into whether big oil colluded, fixed prices with opec, 23 senators led by chuck schumer have written letters to

the justice department, all after the ftc blocked scottish field, former ceo of national resource from exxon forward to. the ftc blocked chef field's appointments citing allegations of collusion with opec to raise oil prices. the american petroleum institute, for a broader investigation of the oil industry saying the us is the largest crude oil producer and has been able to stabilize prices. stuart: thank you. the biden campaign quick to cash in on the trump trial pushing out fundraising messages shortly after the verdict was read. we heard from the biden campaign, what the administration. >> very muted response from president biden to the conviction.

to the president, not heard him speak publicly about this conviction but on his twitter account, and to get donald trump voting out of the office is at the ballot box, donate to his campaign. to distance the building, he says we respect the rule of law and have no additional comment. president biden's campaign latching onto this conviction. michael tyler saying the threat trump poses to our democracy has never been greater, running increasingly unhinged campaign of revenge and retribution pledging to be a dictator on day one and calling for the constitution to be terminated so he can regain and keep power. a second trump term means chaos ripping away american freedoms and political violence at the american people will reject this in november. trump supporters say of a real

threat to democracy is convicting a leading political opponent in an election year. >> all they are about is stopping the republican presidential candidate running for office but he's unstoppable, you can't stop him and that is what they are trying to do. >> president biden has a meeting with the belgian prime minister, closed threats. and >> donald trump will speak on new york city come alive when it happens. more varney after this.

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stuart: this morning we are not seeing any reaction from the guilty verdict handed down yesterday. i see some impact from favorable inflation numbers released early this morning. not much price movement but the nasdaq is down solid. 180 points. time for brian kilmeade to join this.

celebrate in the trump victory. >> don't want to go into the body of litigation. a federal court decision ruling on the legal theories. state court decision on the omnibus motions. and we have the most important voice of all, the voice of the jurors, they have spoken, donald trump has been convicted of 34 counts of falsifying this is records. stuart: a new york city jury. is this conviction the voice of the every day american? >> the every day american cannot stand the scrutiny. anyone have paperwork that might be controversial? would like to put you in jail, cost the city $2 million life six weeks, that number is low but the estimate they gave us. think about what alpine brag said. he's going after trump like i go after any white-collar

criminal. nobody believes that. including those people on the left. the other thing, legal experts, what the second charge was, they still don't know. those jurors have to read back what the rules were, the final instructions and you have a judge that had no business being on their. this looked like something vladimir putin is doing in moscow. makeup of the rules, keep them in prison, what can you do about it, i picked the judge, i picked to the known jury and see what happens. i'm not putting down those 12 jurors but when you've got a judge berating the defense and not the prosecution, a judge who donated to president biden, whose wife worked for letitia james and daughter works for democratic high-profile people, website selling anti-trump paraphernalia, is it stacked against you. stuart: trump will speak at the

top of the hour. there still a gag order in place but what do you want to hear from him? brian: i don't care about this case, didn't care about it when it was happening, only to do a better show. forging ahead, i'm going to scale them. i'm going to have big crowds, not as much time, don't worry about january 11th, look forward to the rnc and prepare for the debate. the border, ukraine, israel, formulating policy and staff, within 7 points in new york, dead heat in blue virginia, dead heat in blue new hampshire. a lot of momentum and now he's getting money. stuart: thanks for being with us. in a couple minutes donald trump will speak to the press, we will bring it to you live, the 11:00 hour, "varney and company" including donald trump's next. ♪

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first, 50 years have worked in television news, i've never seen anything like this. an attack by a sitting president on his opponent donald trump. this was biden strategy. he has won a series of guilty verdicts. now what? the attack is not over trump will be sentenced four days before the republican convention, the timing clearly implies electoral interference. if you sent to jail, god's instruments. haley has the highest house arrest in the white house if he wins the election. almost certainly appealed their convictions and will when the duplex political instability stretching on through the year. for foreign leaders going to think about this? some forget, biden started, it's his strategy and he should take the blame for reducing america to banana republic status.

trump tower right now, lydia hu standing by. trump is going to speak soon, what are we going to hear from him? >> i expect the former president is going to speak to his supporters, his face and use this verdict as an opportunity to energize them and seems like it's probably already happening because we are getting fresh information from the trump campaign about the donations going in a verdict. the six hour since the verdict came in, digital donations the received 34.8 billing dollars. 30% or nearly 30% of the donations are coming from new donors. i had a chance to talk to his attorney todd blanche defense attorney and i confirmed the judge's gag order remains in place so that means over the former president says today here

from the podium he's under the