honoring the heroes of the past. but they call to arms for the future president biden talks about the sacrifices at normandy and parallels to ukraine s fight against russia, as he promises president zelenskyy, we re not going to walk away from you and defying the united states a new cia assessment suggests is israeli prime minister for benjamin netanyahu may ignore pressure from washington to set a post-war plan for gaza, even as his own grip on power may be in jeopardy. plus liquidating an empire built on lies, right? bring conspiracy theorist alex jones may be forced to sell info wars in order to pay off that one-and-a-half billion plus dollars he owes to sandy hook families we re following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here cnn news central we begin this hour with a high-stakes speech from president biden in france as he makes the case for freedom and the future of democracy, making that case at pointe-du-hoc in normandy were 225 us a
testified that she believed she saw hunter high on drugs in october of 2018, but admitted that she never saw him doing drugs around that time, but he purchased the gun. that s at the heart of this case. before the prosecution rested its case this morning, it called a forensic chemist to the stand. we testified that the powder found on the pouch with hunter biden s gun in it tested positive for cocaine. cnn chief legal affairs correspondent paula reid has been following the testimony from inside the courtroom she joins us now, live polo what else did we hear from naomi biden during her testimony oh, by boris, anyone who is it s. been familiar with someone who is the child of an addict or is the child of an addict themselves, how it would have an enormous amount of empathy for naomi biden being on the stand in front of her father in front of a many family members made meet friends of the family to testify about this, even though she is a graduate of columbia law school, she
interesting in one notable fact in this is as we know that many of the jurors themselves have either struggled with addiction or have close family members who have struggled with addiction. so i think for those jurors, they can t help put themselves in the shoes of naomi biden, hallie biden, and us others as they watch a family member go through one of the darkest periods that a human being can go through. you can see it cutting either way. you could see them having more sympathy for this case. but on the other hand, you could also see them maybe appreciating the prosecutor s point that we have these laws for a reason that people who are abusing cocaine shouldn t be purchasing five firearms. these jurors understand the harms that addiction can cause and the dangers that it would pose if people who are using cocaine were walking around with firearms. so again, i think it s a bit of a double-edged sword, but there s no question that these jurors, many of them are going to be bringing the
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stressful situation for anyone. she did briefly greet her father and she stepped up the stand. she gave him a brief hog a brief kiss on the cheek and then exited the courtroom, but it s unclear if this achieved what the defense was hoping yeah, we ll have to wait and see how the jury absorbed everything that was going on. paula reid. thanks so much for the update. briana. let s talk more about this with former deputy is just an attorney general, tom do pre tom naomi biden talking about how clear headed her father was when she visited him at an la rehab facility in late summer of 2018 of course, it was october 2018 when this gun was purchased. she talked about i m grady seemed when she saw him in late october 2018 how do you think the jury s going to square that with what they heard from hallie biden, who didn t see hunter biden do drugs, but really detailed indicators that he very likely may have been doing them yes. in my view, i think naomi biden is testimony today is