news night. laura coates live starts right now tonight. drugs, a gun, a document, and an alleged lie, another their historic trial. this time the president s son. so just who are the 12 jurors who will decide? hunter biden s state plus president biden tries at a new tougher message against trump, but not the public. what he just told a group of donors. and it was the foul seen round the world, but it has now become something now a little bit more hasn t been the new twist and the caitlin clark story tonight. i m laura coates, live alright, stop me if you ve heard any of these statements before, the cases, an unusual prosecution that quote, would not have been filed gantz anyone else? is the result of prosecutors have in quote, bowed to political pressure and the entire thing is quote, unquote, politically motivated can you guess which case i m talking about? no, it s not donald trump s conviction in manhattan though all of those things hadn t thought about that case
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mostly what you heard from jurors was just how dramatic the drug issue, the addiction issue has been in many of their own lives that was interesting point is looking through some of the people we re talking about. i mean, they have six men. they have six women some were gun owners, at least six who ve had some family or personal connection to drug or alcohol addiction that as a jury composition, it could very well go either way. no one guarantees anything from any juror, but what it out to you about the composition so i think one is reminder that wilmington is a small place, a number of plate were called talked about their personal connections with the biden family. those people weren t chosen for the jury obviously, what one? again, the addiction issue. one man talks about his brother who has addiction problem with heroin, and another talks about how their childhood best friend died of an overdose. so i think this panel has some understanding
joey, i don t think much of it. and here s what i mean by that. i think that listen, what courts have to be about our equity, you seek equitable results in court and prosecutors have a great deal of discretion russian, were in different times, kate were in bizarro times, political retribution times. we re talking about a case with someone who was addicted. there are many people in this world who are addicted. that s a problem. i mean, it s a real problem. people can relate to a person who had a gun for a period of 11 days, a person who had a lot going on in his life, losing his brother bo in 2015, right. leading to this addiction problem and the things that stem from it, losing his mom s a child, losing his sister as a child. why am i saying all this? but an artist spoke to a very critical issue of mitigation that s what us defense attorneys all about. it s about giving information that lessens the case and when you have a plea deal last year where there was a diversion program status
but, you are a member of the house oversight committee. i would like to switch gears here, and ask how much of the committee s work you expect when congress resumes. to be consumed with investigating president biden, and president biden s family? well, it seems to be a fetish of the republican majority. but i can tell you, we are now almost at september. we are well into the first year of this session of congress. and, they have found nothing. in fact, their witnesses have been pitiful. frequently the evidence that have proven produced contradicts the assertions that are made. there s been zero evidence of anything linking president biden himself. there s been evidence about a man and his son hunter, with an addiction problem and the mast of life. that he is trying to get behind him. and a loving father who protected him. that s pretty much what was