underway in his federal gun case. it is the first time ever the son of a sitting president will stand trial. we ve had a lot of first time evers, america. hunter is accused of lying about his illegal drug use on a gun buy form in 2018. first want to get to this because on the hill today he was the public face of the government s response to all the covid pandemic matter. now a house panel set to question dr. anthony fauci one hour from now amid allegations of misconduct. app apparently there is a lot there. hope you had a grand weekend. i m bill hemmer. dana: i m glad to be back with you. i m dana perino and this is america s newsroom. we move from one trial to another trial. we have somebody else kind of on trial today anthony fauci. nearly two years since he testified publicly. this hearing could get contentious fast. republicans have a lot of questions. democrats are speaking ahead of the hearing. some of them are preemotion actively defending dr. fauci. today s appear
to washington. i m rich edson in for bred baier. the defense is presenting its case in hunter biden s felony gun charges trial. the prosecution rested this morning. the big question this evening will the defendant take the stand when court resumes on monday. there is a new development in the criminal case against former president trump it. resulted in his conviction last week of 34 felony counts. it involves a social media post that may have foreshadowed that outcome. correspondent david spunt is in wilmington, delaware tonight with the details. hello, david. david: rich, good evening. this is an interesting development. the verdict in donald trump s manhattan case came out on may 30th, a day before may 29th, the judge announced today to both parties that someone posted on social media they are a cousin of one of the jurors and they said the juror told them that donald trump would be convicted. essentially foreshadowing that conviction a day later on may 30th. fox news reac
think some of the adversaries potentially, let s say china russia, other nations. how do you think they will view and understand what the president united states? we re saying today what i think firstly, allies will be incredibly grateful because he recommitted america. that s the only remaining superpower. and the leader of the nato alliance to committing to protect that alliance. and europe, this is, this is crucial and it s a incredibly differentiating point between him and the way donald trump talks about nato and the commitment to the alliance so it s very differentiating, of course, allies are incredibly worried about what might happen on november 5th or whenever the election is, they re very concerned about what happens in terms of the survival of the alliance and the, and the survival of europe frankie, when they face right now with a great threat to the survival of europe in putin s invasion of ukraine. so i think that s, that s on that part. and then on the other
four-and-a-half days of testimony really a lot has been settled, a lot of testimony has been heard by this jury over the last four-and-a-half days over really, not very much. i mean, there is not much in dispute in this case. the fact that a hunter biden bought a gun on october 12th and 2018, that s not in dispute. the fact that he was struggling with drug abuse drug addiction during that period is also not in dispute. what really is come down to is whether the defense and they re their case, which is just now getting started whether they can focus a jury on the fact that the prosecution has not provided any evidence hunter biden used or was using drugs in october around the time exactly. around the time when the gun was was bought. again, october 12. and tibur 23rd, when hallie biden testified that she found the gun in his truck panicked, tried to make sure that her kids couldn t find it disposal have it in front of a
apartment in new york city days after the gun purchase and argued she saw no evidence of drugs in the vehicle. hunter biden s overall dealer at the time he seemed great that contrasted with testimony from the day before from her aunt who was in a romantic relationship with hunter at the time. hallie biden says she found what she believed to be crack along with drug paraphernalia and the gun itself in that truck. only days after naomi gave the truck back to her dad. hunter biden dabbed his eyes with a tissue as his daughter recounted a relationship. he said it was his brother s beau passing that triggered a depressive spiral. after my uncle died things got bad. when naomi left the courtroom she was in tears and hugged her dad. the first lady flew in from france to sit in the front row once again to support hunter. is he charged with lying on a federal gun form about whether he was still using drugs when he bought the gun on october 12th, 2018. his lawyer, abbe lowell, telling the court