morning, everyone. you re live in judiciary committee will begin girl and is expected to push back against gop attacks on the justice department. and gop claims i am that the doj is weaponized against donald trump. also, opening statements are underway in the trial of the president s son, hunter biden, on three felony gun charges, but there are already some developments in sayyed that courtroom will bring you and president biden is about to announce an executive order on illegal immigration, cracking down on the flow of migrants or false the southern border. the move is controversial. it s drawing fire from republicans, no surprise, but even from border patrol agents will find out why. but first let s go to paul reaches outside the courthouse in delaware where hunter biden s trial is starting. paul, you ve got some breaking news about the jury, what just happened that s right. even before opening statements got underway this morning, we already lost a juror now, this ju
matthew matthew potential became the assistant attorney general at the very beginning of the biden administration. without having been senate confirmed, goes and gets the senior role at the doj and then after i believe it s gupta replaces colangelo s glandular, makes this remarkable downstream career journey from the us department of justice in washington, dc, and then pops up and alvin bragg s office to go get trump and you re saying that s just a that s just a career choice that was made. that has nothing to do with the lawfare coordinated by saying it s false. i did not dispatch mr. colangelo s anywhere well, how do you know how he ended up there? i assume he spoke, applied for a job there and got the job, but you know what tell you, i had nothing to do with well, you might not have had anything to do with it, but we ve got this contemporaneous evidence and mr. pomeranz is book so pomerantz writes this book, which i m sure you re aware of where he says, we put together the legal
Pomeranz did because thats bad stuff. And when are they going to look at all the Lies Cohen did in the last trial. He got caught lying in the last trial. Pure lying. And when are they going to look at that . Well go to another subject because just a few blocks away, they had a trial on 175 million, letica james. Its all coming out of the White House by the way. Thats confirmed judge angoran. He didnt know about collateral, security. Well continue to listen to Donald Trump after the first day in court but i think youre getting a sense of probably some of the notes that he passed to members of his Defense Team and also some of the things he might be whispering. But we should do a number of fact checks. First of all, this is not a case about 130,000 payoff. Again. It is not illegal to pay hush money. That is not what this case is about. This case is about the
subconscious bias against him and also was we learned two, they were looking into people s past social media posts to try to see if there was something in someone s past and they were successful in getting thank to jurors, excluded yesterday, tuesday, because they found some problematic posts going back years and their pasts. and yet the judge cautioned the idea that every time you want to ask a juror in an isolated the question that you have a separate meeting with them. the judge is not want that to take place. they want the overall 30 minutes why dare to be used to actually identify any social media posts. but there s also one juror today who was very forthcoming about just how much but she knows about the allegations in this case. she s a lawyer. she s somebody who has read i think the pomeranz book who was one of the members of the da team, who outraged that alvin bragg did not initially want to go four with this case. she s still there well there s still going through the quest
and perhaps more important, polluting the jury pool, and not just polluting the jury pool, but kind of intimidating the jury pool that will ultimately decide his fate. yeah. interesting. and you re kind of reminding us, there s more than one way that these kind of statements can play out. as for the hearing itself that s coming up, mr. pomeranz has been louder than the d.a., that s for sure. they initially tried to find some way to avoid this, but because he s i guess a former government official that proved harder and he ll testify in a closed door setting. what can he do if he wants to maintain privacy or privilege where warranted in this setting? and do you expect any of it to leak out given that the republicans seem to want to make something of this on the committee? second question is the easier one. there s no closed hearing where things don t leak out. i ve done many congressional hearings with all sorts of assurances that no, no,