securing peace amid two major current international conflicts were following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here. cnn news central right now, the jury and hunter biden s federal gun trial continues to hear testimony from a key witness. prosecutors just called the police officer who it s responded to a report that hunter biden s gun had been thrown away in a grocery store dumpster in 2018 before that, hallie biden, who was bo biden s widow, who then dated hunter biden after beau s death testified for hours describing how she found and got rid of the gun. she also went into detail about her own drug use while she was dating hunter biden, cnn s paula reid is outside of the federal courthouse in delaware paul catches up what s the latest here it s been quite a day here in wilmington. hallie biden just got off the witness stand and she has been by far the most significant witness for the prosecution because she was able to share her observat
conservative and a trump supporter. so this is a very friendly environment for him to be. now i do want to note a couple of things. one is that jd vance, who we have reported is on the shortlist to become donald trump s vice president. he is being currently vetted, is traveling with him today. doug burgum, another potential the vp candidate is going to meet him for this west coast swing because after this event in arizona, he is going to california for a series of big dollar fundraisers across that state and in las vegas before another rally on sunday. now, again, the one thing i will point out is that while donald trump has been known own and especially recently to go off and to focus on his case. his team has stressing that they are shifting now into the political sphere and that he is time for him to be campaigning for president. and why phoenix kristin phoenix is look, we re in a battleground state. he actually hasn t been to
arizona at all this year. he had to perhaps 31 of them, they said was never scheduled, but we had it on our schedule events to arizona that were later canceled. and this is a state that he desperately needs. there s also another reason for it, turning point is based in phoenix, arizona turning point is a big part of donald trump s ground game campaign. they earn outside group because of the recent ruling. the fec lifting up the communications, allowing the campaign to coordinate with outside groups. turning point is expected to spend over $100 million in an attempt to get donald trump elected, brought back to the white house. and a lot of that focus is going to be here in arizona certainly is kristin. thank you so much life for us from arizona. and jeff, how does the trump campaign think that he s a convicted felon is going to play when it comes to his support with voters at least in the short term over the last several days, it s helped in terms of raising money. they ve raised an ext