federal gun charge by end of this month, that is what david weiss team said yesterday. this is a month after the first son s sweetheart deal fell apart. he would have served time for buying a gun in 2018 and that charge could land him 10 years behind bars. house republicans are demanding hunter s legal team hand over all information on the collapsed plea deal and failure to present the documents could call for hunter to testify before congress. alejandro mayorkas and merrick garland are accused of helping to of coer for hunter biden. listen. we know merrick garland has told the national archive not to cooperate with us. we know just this week there were secret service agents working with us to identify the people who tipped off the legal team that the irs was about to knock on the door and our sources at secret service said mayorkas called them. mayorkas and merrick garland are part of the cover-up. these are the two highest ranking people in the biden administration. bro
andrea mitchell picks up our coverage next. right now on andrea mitchell reports, president biden signing an executive action to seal the southern border. he criticized the trump administration for a similar crackdown. he slams his predecessor as a convicted felon. opening statements at the president s son hunter. merrick garland fights back as house republicans question him. did you have a family member profit off of the notoriety of any case you sat on? yes or no? you are asking me to comment on a case it se seems you are connecti the dots. israel ramping up strikes in gaza as president biden is asked if prime minister netanyahu is prolonging the war for his own political self-preservation. mr. biden s blunt response coming up. plus, the families of american israeli hostages meeting with the national security advisor today. they will join me here to talk about their hopes for a cease-fire so their loved ones can finally come home. good day, everyone
responsible for some of the cocaine residue discovered as police took control of that weapon. another interesting moment is happening through that testimony from the fbi special agent. there s a question about whether hunter may be called by the defense to testify in his own defense. that s an open question at this point. the prosecutors are actually introducing hunter biden s voice in the form of the audio book of his recent memoir in which he details his drug use over the years, especially during the depth of his addiction, around and before the time of this incident in october of 2018. the jurors are hearing from hunter biden, just not from him on the stand at this point. it sounds so dramatic. kim, you are an attorney as well as a journalist. this is a trial on a federal gun charge. much is going to be said about his struggles with addiction.