diaz-balart. right now inside a delaware courtroom, jury selection is underway in the high stakes criminal trial of president biden s son hunter. hunter biden is facing three counts tied to allegations that he lied about his illegal drug use when he purchased a firearm back in 2018. he has pleaded not guilty. this case focuses on a time of personal turmoil for the president s only surviing son who has been open about his addiction to drugs and alcohol particularly in the wake of the death of his brother beau. it s another trial at the center of the political universe coming days after his father s opponent and presumptive republican nominee donald trump was found guilty in his first criminal trial. mike memoli is outside the courthouse for us. joining us dave aronberg, state attorney for palm beach county, florida, and michael zeldin, former special counsel to robert mueller. mike memoli, take us inside that courtroom. how is jury selection going so far? reporter: well, ana
gasoline prices going up and also the cost of energy. let s hear from sheinbaum last night when she spoke to her supporters. reporter: sheinbaum speaking to all mexicans but also sending a message to all women in mexico. we know that today the news of her being elected is going around the world, the first female president in mexico in the country s 200-year history.
friendship that reflects the enduring bonds between our two countries. let s get to guad venegas live in mexico city. and standing by nbc news homeland security correspondent julia ainsley. guad, tell us more, who is claudia sheinbaum, and why did voters choose her as their next president? reporter: ana, i should start off by saying that president biden will be able to have conversations with her in english, something he could not do with current president manuel lopez obrador. sheinbaum is fluent in english. she lived in the u.s. for some time while taking classes at berkeley and stanford. as you mentioned, she s an academic. she has a ph.d. in energy engineering, which gives a lot of hope to mexicans that will place a lot of focus on climate change here, and on issues with energy, the cost of power, the cost of gasoline, so we expect her to focus more attention on how mexico can move forward with the issues, sometimes with
them over trades and tariffs, just like the trump administration did, and not using some of that really charged rhetoric that trump did about mexico when he was president and even currently. so this is a good this is welcome news for the biden administration to be able to keep really a very similar administration in mexico going from lopez obrador to the sheinbaum administration because they are so closely connected. the biden administration would like to continue to do that work. the criminal gangs, the drug cartels, guad, obviously top of mind for a lot of mexicans as they went to the polls. this election cycle has been riddled with violence from september to may, 34 political candidates or aspiring candidates were killed including three mayoral candidates just last month. what s going on there, and why are these political candidates being targeted? reporter: ana, when you look at that report with the 34, that