moments ago the first lady, jill biden, just arrived to court as her son is about to face trial, a historic first there and jury selection has started. this one good morning. also, dr. anthony fauci is now retired from government, but he will be back on capitol hill for what s expected to be a combative and contentious hearing as republican chins grill him over the origins of covid and history being made in mexico. the nation has elected its first female president. i m kate bolduan with john berman. sarah is out today. this is cnn news central happening now. jury selection is underway in the federal gun trial of president biden s son, hunter biden. hunter biden did arrive according in wilmington, delaware, just a short time ago, just minutes later first lady, jill biden, also walked into the courthouse. hunter biden s trial marks the first time and you this history that a child is sitting president is on trial and at the center of it all is a revolver. biden is charged with
coming in. president biden has just put out a statement about his son hunters trial as it is getting underway right now. cnn s arlette saenz is at the white house to bring us more on this arlette, what does the president saying? okay, president biden is trying to show support for his only living son, hunter biden, as those trial into those federal gun charges get under gets underway in wilmington, delaware today. now the president says he s approaching this from the perspective of a father and not commenting on the legal matters at hand. but in this lengthy statement, the president said, quote, i am the president, but i am also a dad, jill and i love our sun, but we are so proud of the man. he is today hunters resilience in the face of adversity and the strength is brought to his recovery are inspiring to us. a lot of families have loved ones who have overcome addiction and know what we mean as the president don t and won t comment on pending federal cases. but as a dad, i have b
intervening years, we saw we ve seen a lot of information come out of this, including, of course, his laptop, which prosecutors are going to use some of that evidence from his lab to try to show that he was drug addicted when he bought this firearm, this gun back in 2018, he owned this gone for about 11 days back in 2018 before his then woman, the woman who he was dating with, threw it away. and so that s where this case enters. we know john that at the end of this, of course, hunter biden places very, very long odds. there is no doubt that on this gun, there is no doubt that he was struggling with drug addiction there is also no doubt that he talked about it. he s admitted to some of this a publicly in his memoir in some of those text messages that the government is going to use against him hunter biden s pleaded not guilty, but he is also going to try to poke polls
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