moments ago the first lady, jill biden, just arrived to court as her son is about to face trial, a historic first there and jury selection has started. this one good morning. also, dr. anthony fauci is now retired from government, but he will be back on capitol hill for what s expected to be a combative and contentious hearing as republican chins grill him over the origins of covid and history being made in mexico. the nation has elected its first female president. i m kate bolduan with john berman. sarah is out today. this is cnn news central happening now. jury selection is underway in the federal gun trial of president biden s son, hunter biden. hunter biden did arrive according in wilmington, delaware, just a short time ago, just minutes later first lady, jill biden, also walked into the courthouse. hunter biden s trial marks the first time and you this history that a child is sitting president is on trial and at the center of it all is a revolver. biden is charged with
coming in. president biden has just put out a statement about his son hunters trial as it is getting underway right now. cnn s arlette saenz is at the white house to bring us more on this arlette, what does the president saying? okay, president biden is trying to show support for his only living son, hunter biden, as those trial into those federal gun charges get under gets underway in wilmington, delaware today. now the president says he s approaching this from the perspective of a father and not commenting on the legal matters at hand. but in this lengthy statement, the president said, quote, i am the president, but i am also a dad, jill and i love our sun, but we are so proud of the man. he is today hunters resilience in the face of adversity and the strength is brought to his recovery are inspiring to us. a lot of families have loved ones who have overcome addiction and know what we mean as the president don t and won t comment on pending federal cases. but as a dad, i have b
in the government s case, trying to argue that he didn t know necessarily that he was addicted to drugs when he when he when he signed those forms not allowed him to buy that gun back in 2018. again, this proceeding is just now underway. we expect that jury selection is going to take probably today into tomorrow john in every just a little bit more about how biden intends to defend himself and whether there s any discussion of a possible plea deal. still, even at this late stage well, i mean, there is always a chance of a plea deal right up until the right during the trial. that happened. that does happen from time the time from all our conversations with lawyers involved, that does not seem likely you ll remember, of course, that during this investigation back in 2020 23, there was a plea deal that was reached and then it fell apart spectacularly inside this very courthouse. they judge, asked some questions about some of
moments ago the first lady, jill biden, just arrived to court as her son is about to face trial, a historic first there and jury selection has started. this one good morning. also, dr. anthony fauci is now retired from government, but he will be back on capitol hill for what s expected to be a combative and contentious hearing as republican chins grill him over the origins of covid and history being made in mexico. the nation has elected its first female president. i m kate bolduan with john berman. sarah is out today. this is cnn news central happening now. jury selection is underway in the federal gun trial of president biden s son, hunter biden. hunter biden did arrive according in wilmington, delaware, just a short time ago, just minutes later first lady, jill biden, also walked into the courthouse. hunter biden s trial marks the first time and you this history that
traveling to swing states. you already have been how much do you intend to talk about the guilty verdict in new york on the campaign trail not much to be to be very candid and honest luge. i haven t followed that trial at all. i mean, i obviously am following the january 6 hearings and what s happening at the supreme court. i have more personal stake in that, so to speak. and that s my lived experience. what i went with me and my coworkers went through on january 6. so i ve been following that one a little more closer. so i ll probably have a lot more to say once that decision is rendered by the supreme court but to be very candid, i haven t been following the hush money payments trial to very much. got it a lot of democrats are focused on the issue of democracy being in parallel. and there are question is to what extent that we ll have political residents? you ran for congress. you did not want win the democratic primary that you ran. and does that show some kind of limitation about