now. zero have been selected, but the jury pool is up to 32. the judge remarked they now have enough for the jury pool, they are moving to select alternates, that put that magic number at 36 as the judge has been mentioning that he was trying to reach, and he said this before, taking the lunch break, remarking that all were very hungry in the courtroom, john. john: i read something, that ashley biden was there in the courtroom and apparently smiled and nodded when a couple of the jurors mentioned that they had been with the secret service. perhaps looking for, i guess, sympathetic jurors to hunter biden s cause. but when you take a look at it, it s pretty cut and dried, he had made claims he was an addict at the time that he bought that weapon, and then signed on the form that he was not in any way involved in illegal drug use, so we ll see where this goes from here. sandra: and some of the notes on the jury selection,
the reason and we are confident based on our intelligence work with the intelligence community and through our source network at the state department that the wuhan institute was engaged in highly dangerous gain-of-function research involving synthetic biology to make this into a super virus. and they said they were doing it so they could create some sort of super vaccine. well, that didn t work. the guy in charge of the vaccine, also funded by fauci, and major general in the people s liberation army, apparently either jumped or was thrown off the top of the wuhan institute in may of 2020 because there is some theory that his vaccine actually helped spread the virus. john: real quick we don t know for certain, but we do know there was a lot of suspicion and a lot of intelligence pointing to the wuhan institute s involvement in not just normal research, but we are talking about research related to biological weapons capabilities, and that money was mostly coming from the chinese
liabilities, this is an effort to try and maybe get one of those, the border liability, off the table heading into the election. john: in terms of reception on capitol hill, here is what the speaker of the house told shannon bream yesterday. it s too little, too late. he s trying to show the american people somehow he wants to address the issue that he himself created. now he wants to issue some sort of executive order, i guess to show that no, he does really care about the issue. the only reason he s doing that is because the polls say it s the biggest issue in america. every state is a border state. john: one of the big questions i have, how does he propose to enforce this when the 4,999 person comes across the border? do they close the gates and say no one else is coming in? that is not a picture that biden wants to have. no, and we don t really have that capacity. there are reports of entry into united states where thousands of people pass legally back and forth every day.
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john: dr. david asher, we always appreciate getting your thoughts on things. you know an awful lot about this. thanks for joining us, we appreciate it. sandra? sandra: from one breaking news item to another, fox news alert. a live look outside the district court in wilmington where jury selection is underway in the federal gun case against hunter biden. it s the first time the child of a sitting president has been on trial. if convicted, he faces up to 25 years in prison. rich edson is reporting live outside that courthouse right now in wilmington, delaware. rich, some brand-new information coming out of the court right now. as of 12:45 p.m. eastern time, about half an hour ago, the 250 jurors prospects, 25 have been moved to the jury pool. 15 have been dismissed. we are told things have been going quickly. 36 is the magic number for the jury pool and we are getting indications that we could get to opening statements today, rich? that s right, sandra. we ve got here is things are