we are awaiting a white house briefing moments from now, it s the biden administration s first in-person news conference since former president trump s landslide victory in the iowa caucuses and the first since lloyd austin s release from the hospital. sandra: and so many questions also swirling own hunter biden after a major development in one of the criminal cases against the president s son. for all of those reasons, we are going to be watching for the white house press briefing. when it begins, we will bring you the news from it. now this. 2023 was the biggest year for illegal border crossings, resources stretched, fentanyl in the country, do you think it s a crisis? we want solutions. solutions are at hand but frankly we are at an election year and the folks who want to return donald trump to the white house prefer to focus on the broken immigration system than the solutions at hand. petty politics at play on this issue as much as anything. john: vice president h
have that gun. everyone must be accountable for their actions. john: special counsel david weiss speaking last hour after hunter biden s conviction in his federal gun case. now we wait to hear from the president and a gun safety event here in washington, d.c. welcome back to america reports as we roll into our number two come a lot ahead in the next 60 minutes. i m john roberts in washington. sandra: i think i said this twice you just can t make this up i m sandra smith in new york, the judge did not set a sentencing date yet, john, but here s a look at the punishment the president s son could face. the three felony counts carry up to 25 years in prison and fines up to $750,000. although legal experts say present time is not likely because the president s son is a first-time offender. juror number ten from hunter s trial spoke to fox news a short time ago about blocking out the biden name when it came to reaching a verdict in this case. you just have to turn away and
like jack sleeping z, knowing your finances are in order, go to facet.com to get your free score today like, it s hard good morning, everyone. you are alive and cnn newsroom on allison camera, radha in today for jim acosta, we are following several breaking stories of this our hunter biden is back in court and the, first witness in his federal gun trial is on the stand plus the new wall street journal article on president biden s fitness for office how the white house is responding and you are looking at live pictures from nasa. in this hour, boeing will make its third attempt to launch two astronauts aboard its first-ever starliner rocket to the international space station. we will bring you the launch live but first witness testimony is underway on de three of hunter biden s federal gun trial yesterday, prosecutors used biden s own words against him. they played portions of an audio book of his 2021 memoir i possessed a new superpower the ability to find crack in any to
decline in biden s america. a pregnant woman brutally beaten by a mob. another lady came to me and dragged me through my hair. i start screaming. she starts pepper spraying me right in the face. laura: dumb criminals caught on camera. this is really, really dumb robbers right here. look holding the wall. it s mind boggling that just fire hydrant will be stolen. like out of all the things to steal. laura: plus, disney back with latest woke release. this is i would say arguably the gayest star wars. [laughter] considerable margin. [laughter] are you excited about that? but. laura: but, first biden declines, america declines that s the focus of tonight s angle. joe biden is in france tonight for the 80th anniversary of d-day and whenever is he overseas, we, as americans, collectively admit it, hold our breath hoping that when he gives his speech on democracy, he doesn t embarrass by speaking like he does back home. fall, that fall he decided to look,
from abbe lowell s the drug, the defense attorneys point, the prosecution has not proved their case, and so we expect that kathleen bill gonna be the next witness. she will talk a lot about that drug evidence that that is part of this case. allison, it will be interesting to hear from her, certainly, evan perez. thank you very much. joining me now, is cnn legal analyst and criminal defense attorney, joey jackson joy, great to see you. so do prosecutors have to prove the hunter was using drugs on the day that he filled out that federal gun forum simple answer. good. good morning. alison is no. right? it s about addiction and we ve just seen the form and what the form represents big picture before the small picture. as a practitioner in federal and state court on the defense, sayyed and we look, there are you an unlawful user of or addicted to marijuana or any depressant stimulant, narcotic drug, or any other controlled substance. it does not reference al-zeitoun, the specific day at