tears in court as his daughter, naomi, took the stand. naomi appearing very uncomfortable, trembling, also tearing up as she testified, telling the jury about visiting her dad in rehab and a late night text that he sent her around the time that he bought his gun saying in quote, i can t take this. i miss you so much and i just want to hang out naomi also testifying, quote, things got bad for hunter biden following the death of her uncle, beau biden, and that she did not see her father used drugs at any point in 2018. i want to go straight to evan perez. he is outside the courtroom and done hello. air right now and evan, a hunter biden s first real display of emotion during these proceedings, you were in that room, how powerful was naomi is testimony today it was the most powerful testimony that we ve seen in this trial. look, you ve seen a lot of low points for hunter biden displayed before this jury so you ve seen pictures of him with drug paraphernalia on behind him, passed out on
several motions. these pretrial disputes that are still lingering that will have to be resolved before any trial date is even put on the calendar. and the isolation of her courthouse. it s 60 miles north of west palm beach the fact that she s the only judge there, it has made it a lot more difficult for her to learn on the job. she has no other judges around to really regularly bounced problems off of and our team. talk to a senior judge, paul huck. he describes judge cannon as very smart, very personal, but he did agree that at her post can be very isolating and of course, judge cannon has come under extreme criticism for her delayed scheduling of hearings and then most recently this decision that will allow several outside parties to have time at a upcoming argument a little bit later in june about the validity of special counsel jack smith s appointment payment. the other attorneys that our team has talked to, they note that judge cannon, as we ve seen, she s been tough in this
questions, whether his lawyer there about his family history his education is criminal background his employment history, and he substance abuse medical condition financial status it s interesting because he s not going to be like many of their clients, except for criminal background where he says, i m the subject of three other open criminal indictments at this point and awaiting trial but his financial background is family background his employment history has medical substance abuse. he he doesn t two drugs and he doesn t drink but what they re trying to find out, wolf is is he got enough support in his life? and the answer is clearly yes. to thrive in the community corrections environment, meaning not in a prison, not in a jail. will they recommend probation in a pre-sentencing report to the judge very interesting, i m john miller. thank you. very much. i want to discuss this in more with cnn senior law enforcement
bed. you ve seen all of these text messages where he s talking about buying drugs and so to have his daughter come in and try to limit or at least undo some of the damage done by hallie biden, who was beau biden s widow? oh, and who he dated back in this period in 2018, was a really important thing for the defense to try to do. she said that in 2018 18 when he was going to some rehab, she said, i was hopeful and she thought that he looked a lot better than he had looked at in the past. the prosecution in in cross-examination got her to acknowledge that she didn t see any of this paraphernalia. and so she has no idea where it might have ended up in the truck on october 23rd when hallie biden found the gun in his truck and panicked and decided that she needed to get rid of it, which is why hunter biden is now on trial. there were 11 days where he owned
thickness. now, that s what i call the udl carousel nighttime patches we ve got you covered. erin burnett outfront next on cnn breaking news this hour on incriminating new testimony against us senator bob menendez in his federal corruption trial. cnn s jason carroll is outside the courthouse, new york city for us. that s where the new jersey democrat is on trial. jason, give us the details on this new testimony well won t fit potentially damaging details comes from a man by the name of jose uribe. he s already pleaded guilty to bribery and other charges and two de when he took the stand, he pointed the finger directly at senator menendez just moments after he began his testimony, prosecutor lara pomerantz, asieh him. have you ever committed federal crimes? answer. yes, i have. does that include bribery of a public official? yes, i did. who was that public official? senator robert menendez. and then he pointed at him, seated right there in the courtroom. you rebase said