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that came up in the voir dire with the jury selection, that so many potential jurors, including some who were apparently chosen, were familiar with drug addiction from their own families, from friends. it shows you how widespread this is in our society, fentanyl and other drugs. it is. i think just about everyone in america has some sort of relationship with someone in their family, friend, co-worker who has dealt with this. certainly, that is at play here in how credible and sympathetic not just hunter biden if he chooses to take the stand, but others around him, that testimony, that will have an impact. it s also important to remember here that the burden is on the prosecution to prove not just that this form that hunter biden filled out exists, but as you pointed out, that he intentionally misled, made a
responsible for some of the cocaine residue discovered as police took control of that weapon. another interesting moment is happening through that testimony from the fbi special agent. there s a question about whether hunter may be called by the defense to testify in his own defense. that s an open question at this point. the prosecutors are actually introducing hunter biden s voice in the form of the audio book of his recent memoir in which he details his drug use over the years, especially during the depth of his addiction, around and before the time of this incident in october of 2018. the jurors are hearing from hunter biden, just not from him on the stand at this point. it sounds so dramatic. kim, you are an attorney as well as a journalist. this is a trial on a federal gun charge. much is going to be said about his struggles with addiction.
reporter: these opening statements were so critical, in part, especially what we were going to hear from the defense attorney, because this was a case that was supposed to be pled out. there was an agreement with the government for hunter bide ton plead guilty to the charges. how are they going to present their potential defense today? after the prosecution, the state laid out their argument saying they were prepared to present evidence that would link hunter biden to the purchase of illegal guns of illegal drugs around the time he purchased this gun. abby lowell testified while hunter has been forthright about his battles with substance abuse and was abusing alcohol at the time of the purchase of the handgun, that he was not not using drugs at that moment. when he filled out that form, he believed that he was answering the form accurately. we should note the degree to which you say as you say halle bide season brought in. abby said that she was
false statement on that document. hunter biden doesn t have to prove he wasn t prove the negative, he wasn t taking drugs. it s the prosecution that has to prove that he was. i think that s going to be the most the trickiest part of this case for the prosecution to put out. probably one reason why, the prosecution signed off on a plea deal long ago before a judge threw it out. so we will have to see how they present that proving a positive at that moment moving forward. kim, i know you are also following we have been carrying it live and it s been streamed the judiciary committee questioning the attorney general for the prosecutions of donald trump. coming up with all kinds of conspiracy theories. he has been firing back. talk to me about what s been going on in that congressional hearing. yeah.
the prosecution and defense delivered their opening statements and completed them this morning. the first witness is on the stand. the president s charge is charged with three felony counts making false statements to buy a handgun in 2018 when he filled out a form saying he was not using illegal drugs at the time and later acknowledged he was. jill biden is back in court today as she was yesterday as well as hunter biden s wife and his sister. they have been hearing the prosecution in the opening statements say beau biden s widow will testify they used crack cocaine with hunter. mike memoli is with us and kimberly atkins stohr. this is an fbi witness, unless she s off the stand since we last talked. tell me what s happened and what was notable in the opening statements.