american people see it with their own eyes but you get the sense what a dire situation it is when you have merrick garland yesterday going to congress and saying we aren t going to release the audio version of the interview with special counsel hur because obviously because it apparently sounds so bad it would be a political problem for the white house. i have a lot of trouble with that decision but whatever you think of that decision, it underscores just how concerned they are about it and how bad they recognize the president looks in front of to people who are watching. bill: charlie, gregory meeks was the congressman from new york, the democrat. has been in congress. they said i should give you a call back in quotes, too. attributed to him. some have run to his defense already. give this a listen right here. if this was basically house
hunter s car for drugs when she would lend the car to her daughter s, she wanted to make sure they were not driving with the drugs. asking to confirm she was checking his car for drugs in 2018, she said yes. you re taken what we heard today? judge jeanine: i think what we re seeing here is a myriad of circumstantial evidence in addition to direct evidence from a defendant s own mouth in terms of what the journey jury is hearing from the audio version of this book. it simply cooperates each and every element of the indictment in this case. this is not a difficult case to prove, avenue identity, people in my office have done it. the question is whether or not, and this is what i think is so interesting, whether or not the presence of jill biden, even for the jury selection which is very unusual, family members usually come in for the trial. but here is jury selection angela biden is there every day and we just started she s
cooperating. those are up in the air. david noriega, thank you. just now, the first witness in hunter biden s drug charges trial is, came back on the stand. ken dilanian is outside for us. we talked about the drama in the opening statements. talk about the first witness for the prosecution. what we ve heard so far. prosecutors like to put on the investigating fbi agent to provide jurors the meat and the potatoes of the case. the context, the key facts and dates and times. she is taking the jury through, for example, hunter biden s atm withdrawals, to show where he was during the time of this gun purchase. and subsequently, they started playing excerpts of hunter biden s book, the audio version, that he himself narrated. beautiful things, in which he talked about pursuing
fbi agent, she s not necessarily testifying about her experience in the case. she is helping to authenticate evidence to bring it into this trial. and really the first witness we heard from was hunter biden himself because for nearly an hour, we heard from the audio version of his memoir that he actually narrates and they specifically played the portion where he talked about being addicted to crack, the lengths he went to to obtain it and what that did to his life it was fascinating today thing to watch him. he and his lawyers very attentive listening to him describe this and of course, the first lady was in the first row in the courtroom also listening to this doctor still biden in attendance. again today, showing support for her stepson. but as of now, there s only been one witness called and she s expected to be on the stand for quite awhile as she helps process heaters, kickoff their case by bringing in all the really key evidence all right. and palm before we let you go, i also
evidence from hunter biden s various electronic devices, including that infamous laptop, the kinds of evidence they re showing the jury include those photos of drugs, including in crack that he was addicted to at the time, also text messages with someone who is buying drugs from the also introduced a bank records that show that around the time he purchased this firearm under biden was withdrawing hundreds and sometimes thousands of dollars a day. now, in the course of today s presentation by prosecutors and they haven t fbi agent on the stand and she s helping them introduce this evidence. but it was interesting. the first witness we really heard from was hunter biden himself because the first piece of evidence they introduced was a large portion of the audio version of his memoir, which he personally narrates. they played while i was in court, they played out over an hour worth of clips from that book and hunter biden sat there attentively the listening to himself tell the story of ho