first tonight, hunter biden s gun trial begins. the first trial of a child of a sitting president. the first lady there in that courtroom. also developing, president biden preparing a new executive order, a crackdown on the mexico border. it would shut down the border immediately to asylum seekers if daily migrant numbers hit 2,500. and what we re learning about this. in new york city tonight, those two nypd officers shot and wounded. chasing a robbery suspect. one shot in the chest, saved by his bullet proof vest. what shorts have now revealed about the suspect. this major heat wave already building tonight. temperatures well into the triple digits across several states. and the wildfire burning in california. the swimmer attacked by a shark off the coast. bitten on the chest, arm, and hand. witnesses on how the swimmer survived. israel s war with hamas. tonight, the israeli military now confirming the deaths of four more hostages in gaza. here in the u.s. tonigh
but are voters listening to a message the president has said is at the heart of the 2024 election? we ll take you to normandy, and i ll talk to mitch landrieu, co-chair of the biden re-election campaign. plus, new details about the drugs and the gun at the heart of the hunter biden trial coming from his late brother s widow. it s the stuff of sensational headlines and family turmoil, but what does it mean for the legal case itself? and donald trump adding new fuel to calls for retribution against his political enemies insisting he d have, quote, every right to do it. he also said the country doesn t want it, but would that stop him. but we begin against the backdrop against the beaches of normandy, that powerful evocative symbol of the fight for freedom. today it s where president biden on the 80th anniversary commemoration of d-day warned that in his words democracy is more at risk today than at any time since world war ii. the ceremonies were a moving mix of messaging
first tonight, hunter biden s gun trial begins. the first trial of a child of a sitting president. the first lady there in that courtroom. also developing, president biden preparing a new executive order, a crackdown on the mexico border. it would shut down the border immediately to asylum seekers if daily migrant numbers hit 2,500. and what we re learning about this. in new york city tonight, those two nypd officers shot and wounded. chasing a robbery suspect. one shot in the chest, saved by his bulletproof vest. what authorities have now revealed about the suspect. this major heat wave already building tonight. temperatures well into the triple digits across several states. and the wildfire burning in california. the swimmer attacked by a shark off the coast. bitten on the chest, arm, and hand. witnesses on how the swimmer survived. israel s war with hamas. tonight, the israeli military now confirming the deaths of four more hostages in gaza. here in the u.s. to
an addict while purchasing that gun. hallie biden takes the prosecution for the first time into that october time frame, and they were able to during the course of her testimony introduce a text message exchange between her and hunter biden where she was inquiring about his whereabouts, and at one response hunter responded to her on october 14th, i was sleeping on a car smoking crack on 4th street and rodney. the day before he indicated that he was behind a minor league baseball stadium waiting for mookie a drug dealer. to the prosecution this is clear evidence that he was still using drugs within days of purchasing that gun. we just as we broke before lunch heard from abbe lowell, the defense attorney doing cross examination which he established from time to time hunter would text her things that weren t true. he would lie about wherehe was when she was asking. he might have been lying about using drugs because she often was asking was he with another
they allege that he lied about his drug abuse on this federal form back in october 2018, when he bought a colt cobra .38 special. for years, the president s son has been open about his fight with drug addiction. i have made mistakes in my life and wasted opportunities and privileges i was afforded. for that, i m responsible. reporter: now prosecutors plan to use his words against him in court, including excerpts from his 2021 memoir beautiful things, where he came clean about his addiction, and his text messages. this one allegedly sent just two days after buying that firearm, i was sleeping on a car smoking crack on 4th street and rodney. hunter biden s lawyers have argued in court documents that that form is confusing, and so their client did not knowingly lie. last year, a plea deal in this case fell apart under tough questioning by the same judge who will now preside at trial. the jury selected today, six men