negotiations between israel and hamas and what we re hearing from the families of hostages about this potential deal. great to be with you. it s 10:00 eastern. i m ana cabrera reporting from new york. breaking news in wilmington, delaware, this morning where for the first time the son of a sitting president is standing trial not far from his father s election headquarters. hunter biden s federal gun case beginning this morning with jury selection. he faces three counts tied to possession of a gun while using narcotics. he has pleaded not guilty. this trial coming just days after another historic first, donald trump s guilty verdict on all 34 counts in his new york hush money case. nbc news justice and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian is outside the courthouse. nbc news white house correspondent monica alba and criminal defense attorney, danny cevallos. court has been in session for about an hour and a half. what can you tell us, ken, about what s happening so far?
trump s conduct that is including this period of time now. mark, you have a lot of experience when it comes to this appeals court. you say there aren t the typical red flags for reversal in this particular case. as you look at it, explain what you see and why you feel trump doesn t have a strong case for appeal. sure. no one wants to be a criminal defendant. if you re going to be a defendant, new york is the place to be. it s probably the fairest jurisdiction in the country. he received a scrupulously fair trial from the moment of jury selection, as danny cevallos said, which allowed his lawyers to very thoroughly vet the people who were going to be serving on the jury, right through the trial which was conservatively conducted through the time of the verdict. the judge took a conservative course. he allowed every opportunity for the defense to make legitimate objections. he read straight and narrow the accepted jury charges, and he didn t stray from it, didn t engage in some of th
the biden administration th sog toheir cases are so weak. they need that coordination. they need the soros backing to get it done. gewell, alan, do you thinkf ju the system no longer worksat the of these types of jury charges that the judge handed? that was quite broad, quite lengthy, took an hour and read 40 minutes to read to the jury, but they they tookto jury. enoua of what michael cohen said as gospel to infegospel cr upon your client with the novel application of a law. it s never been used in this way before in any jurisdictionjd . diction in the united states. ke yes, i do. i think we re broken right now. i think our judicialroken ri isr supposed to be intervened by political ambitionsve. i think that when that happens, when you have a a judge who s a trump hatinga tr j judge, fra. who happens to get steve bannon s case, happens to getppens to allen weisselber, my former client s case, gets it again, puts him back in jaijl and then gets donald trump s case. i think we got a p
seen and the language you may have heard. this is one of the realities of a live trial. joining me now is nbc s cal perry live from the courthouse in brunswick, georgia, and paul butler, a georgetown law school professor, former federal prosecutor and msnbc legal analyst. cal, what s the schedule for today? we hear there s a ten-minute break. what are we expecting? reporter: ten-minute recess now and then we re going to have, as the judge says, the jury charges. those are really the jury instructions. so much of what you re going to hear in those jury instructions is what we heard from the prosecution, from the state in their rebuttal this morning, specifically a lot of talk about this citizen s arrest law. now, the defense team interrupted, in fact, the prosecution s rebuttal, closing argument, at least one time, for about 15 minutes to have this ongoing discussion. it was really what we saw on friday. how will the jury be charged with this law? the law, as it reads, and the prosecu
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