appointed us attorney, david weiss, who was held are kept on in office by joe biden when he became president the judge asked some very key questions during that hearing. last july, wolf, where she was asking questions about some of the terms, the details of that plea agreement, and in the end, it collapsed. so that s the reason why now we have 100 biden on trial here for these three gun charges. and we expect him to be on trial again as soon as september on those attacks related charges in los angeles yeah lot s going on. heart, evan. thank you very much. i don t president wilmington, delaware for us and we ll be right back with more news came on. how many should i decorated have ran half blue that s a really tough call. who are you if you look at the latest data? you re probably going to need a lot of those purple sprinkles how this guy really knows his stuff the
again, here s a former wilmington police officer who is one of the 250 people called to the courthouse today to serve potentially on this jury, we expect that this process is going to continue through the day today. perhaps into tomorrow will put they re going through. these people very, very quickly. i ll tell you another about another potential jurors being asked very so questions about a drug addiction, both personally and also in their families. one potential jurors said that her parents struggled with alcoholism and she believes that that would make it easier for her to adjudicate a case like this. we ve also saw a man whose voice broke when he talked about family hey, members who have struggled with addiction again this case is going to be a lot about the personal activities of hunter biden, who has struggled with addiction the reason why he s on trial is because he was allegedly addicted to drugs,
all that bad. he pretty much followed line and judge juan merchan has seen a lot more active defendants in his criminal courts over the years. then what we ve seen here with respect to the criminal contempt findings. i don t think they re going to weigh in to the decision of the sentence eight because he s already been punished for the criminal contempt finding. he was fined $1,000 per vial relation that the court found him guilty of. after hearing, it wouldn t be appropriate, nor do i think judge merchan would be allowed to consider that in giving a sentence, there are specific factors to be considered during sentencing, and that isn t one of them. you re not going to double punish them for it. if you were still his lawyer, would you advise him to at least show some remorse as he awaits sentencing i really wouldn t mind my advice to him and would be very clearly
hill he s facing a grilling from republican about the origins of covid-19. also today for the first time in history, the son of the sitting president of the united states is on trial. jury hey, selection now underway in hunter biden s federal gun case and history is being made. mexico elected its first female president claudia sheinbaum. we ll have a live report. hello, i m wolf blitzer in washington and urine the cnn newsroom happening. now up, i m capitol hill republican lawmakers are turning up the heat on the man who led the us government s response to the covid pandemic dr. anthony fauci faces more questions on that response and the origins of the virus that killed nearly 1.2 million americans. dr. fauci will also face questions about email exchanges involving one of his top advisers a
stanley manu raju on capitol hill. this is sienna this morning, jury selection is underway and hunter biden s felony gun trial in delaware. this is the first time the adult child of a sitting president of the united states has gone on trial. hunter biden is accused of illegally purchasing and possessing a gun back in 28 18 while abusing drugs. he s pleaded not guilty joining us now, former assistant special watergate prosecutor, nick ackerman, and former federal prosecutor, renato mariotti. renato what are the main things you ll be watching as this trial begins? well, one thing i m going to be interested in is what is the defense s narrative here it s very challenging to convince the jury in this circumstance. he didn t purchase a gun or that you weren t abusing drugs at that time? i i think that they re going