federal forms and owned a gun for 11 days while he was abusing illegal drugs. or they could not decide that. we ll find out. i m harris faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. hunter biden arrived for what very well could be his last day before the jury reaches that verdict and he later left the courthouse. he had gone in and then he left because the judge sent the jurors back into deliberations. unlike we saw with former president trump in new york, hunter biden doesn t have to stay in the courtroom for questions or anything going on with the jury. so he can leave. he have has to be able to return on a moment s notice, though. both sides, both prosecution and defense gave their closing arguments yesterday. this has moved at a fast clip. the prosecution quoted president biden himself during the final messaging, no one is above the law. the huge amount of hunter s family members in the courtroom served as a striking visual. government lawyer weiss pointed to the long row
2018. he has pleaded not guilty on all counts. joining us now, justice and intelligence correspondent, ken dilanian, and a defense attorney that represented three employees in an administration. reporter: the jury has had the case today for about two hours. they had it yesterday just for about an hour, so three hours total of deliberations. obviously we don t know anything about what is going on inside the jury room. it s secret. we know the jury forewoman had a sister with issues with a drug problem and watched the evening news. that s all we know about it. the prosecution strongly made the case they established beyond a reasonable doubt that hunter biden was a drug user when he purchased that gun and owned it for 11 days. the defense trying to poke holes in the story and suggest that there s doubt about whether he was using drugs during the period on or around that period when he bought and owned that gun. that s where it stands, josé. over the last course of the trial
right now outfront. next, breaking news, president biden hunter. biden was found guilty today in a federal gun case. tonight, a member of the jury who helped convict biden speaks out you ll hear plus more breaking news this our federal agents arresting eight people from tajikistan with two suspected ties. i m sorry to isis after they entered the us through the southern border, tonight, we re going to take you to one of the deadliest stretches of that border and martha and alitos secretly recorded threatening to put up more flags to counter the quote, pride flag. that s going up nearby. her neighbor, who s at the center of the controversy over alitos flags is outfront tonight. let s go out front and good evening. i m erin burnett outfront tonight. the breaking news. president biden rushing to his son sayyed tonight. hunter biden greeting his father from the tarmac delaware air national guard base just hours after hunter biden was found guilty on all counts of lying
room. i ll see you tomorrow morning 11:00 a.m. eastern for cnn newsroom back 6:00 p.m. eastern minister for the situation room until then, once again, thanks very much for watching erin burnett outfront starts right now affect his sentence, as well as who was in that room. plus a secret new recording tonight of supreme court justice samuel alito. this is the former republican governor christie todd whitman breaks her silence about the man that she had publicly supported an introduced to the united states senate. does she now regret backing alito? and it s the hottest stock of a planet. a little known company forcing apple today to play catch up we have a special report. let s go out front and good evening i m erin burnett outfront tonight. the breaking news, former president trump, just wrapping up an interview with a probation officer. this is a first, never an american history has a former president had to sit down with a probation officer because the former preside
l tough call. who are you if you look at the latest data? you re probably going to need a, lot of, those purple sprinkles. how this guy really knows his stuff cnn, breaking news and good morning. you were alive in the cnn newsroom. i m sure costa in washington, breaking this morning, hunter biden s defense attorney indicates that the president s son will not testify in his own defense. that means closing arguments could soon get underway in his federal gun trial. cnn senior justice correspondent evan perez joins us from outside the court. evan, how big of a risk would it have been for hunter biden to take that stand it s a big risk jam. i think that s the reason why you had the defense spent the weekend weighing the pros and cons of this one of the things that they wanted to do if he took the stand was to argue that and to tell the jury that hunter biden has been sober since 2019, and so that would perhaps in their view, at least go a little bit of a way of reversing so