correspondent david spunt is in wilmington, delaware tonight awaiting a verdict. david, good evening. david: trace, good evening. jurors will be back tomorrow for day two of deliberations. they deliberated about an hour today before going home. over the past week we saw salacious text messages, pictures in the courtroom. even high profile people sitting in the audience. but, in the end, it s all about this one gun form, hunter biden filled out in october 2018. hunter biden s attorney abbe lowell offered no reason for his client deciding not to testify in his own defense .38 caliber revolver. such a move would have been strategically risky. opening the president s son to likely intense cross-examination. in closing arguments. prosecutor pointed to more than a dozen msnbc of the biden family in the audience saying they don t matter. only the evidence does. which he called, quote: ugly and overwhelming. another prosecutor added no one is above the law. including the presiden
immunity deal associated with his foreign business dealings, and in this kind of testimony comes out, it s probably going to cause her to focus even more on it. arab. aishah: she did send both sides to work up something new, perhaps a new plea deal that fits the constitutionality that she was raising. do you think they can do that? do you think they can come back with a new deal, or is this thing, in your opinion, going to trial? well, i have to say that if you re hunter biden s lawyers, you re very concerned about what just happened because you thought you were going to be able to celebrate, you were going to do a great job for your client and put this behind him. now it s opened up a pandora s box of all sorts of other things. just to give you an example, aishah, the handgun that was associated with the plea deal was a .38 caliber revolver, but now we know from photographs, of course, that he possessed other hand bubs in the relevant time period including semiautomatic
armed criminal action that could earn him about 3 to 15 years behind bars is also the more serious charge of first degree felony assault that could see andrew lester spent the rest of his life behind bars in prison. now this whole incident unfolded effectively on the porch of that home. behind me, was on april 13th that ralph ural showed up here he was in tending to pick up his younger siblings. but he had made a mistake. when he rang the doorbell of that home behind me, he was actually supposed to be 115th terrorists. this kate and 15th street now, according to court documents, andrew lester told police that he had just laid down in bed that evening. he was going to go to sleep. he heard the doorbell ring. he said he picked up a 32 caribou caliber revolver. he went to the front door to check who it was. he didn t recognize the teenager at the door. he described this as a stranger who was six ft. tall, pulling at the storm door. he told the police that somebody he thought somebody was
laws passed in more than 20 states allowing people to carry a loaded weapon in public without a permit. and later this month, supreme court will decide on a case that could strike down restrictions against conceal carry. another big issue is closing the so-called gun show loophole on background checks, a policy supported by 70% of republicans and 92% of democrats just last year. and called for by president biden in his speech to the nation last night. well, reagan was an og supporter of background checks in the form of the brady bill, named after his former press secretary who was paralyzed in the assassination attempt against reagan in 1981. that s when a mentally ill young man, john hinckley jr., fired off several rounds from a .22 caliber revolver. after the attack, brady and his wife dedicated themselves to the passage of a bill that would require a waiting period while a background check was done. since many handguns are acquired in the heat of passion, reagan wrote, in times of d
call up here all the time. and want to speak to her. this is going back months now. months. months. months. and on one particular occasion, she says, you know, i m kind of in fear of my life. i m scared. i don t know what he might do to me. he s shown up at my house and he has a gun with him at all times. shannon s co-worker was concerned and wanted to help. it gets to the point that he offered to sell her a gun, which he did. he named the exact model. and tells me that he gave her bullets to accompany the gun and offered to teach her how to use it. what kind of gun? it was a.38 caliber revolver. the same type of gun detectives thought denita s killer might have used. you know, wait a minute. i just finished an interview with her five minutes ago and she told me i never owned a gun. and in that same interview, i asked her do you think that jermeir is capable of murder? and she said no. not at all. just like that. no, not at all. but you re telling a co-worker