receives also tie attorney general garland under oath, facing republican allegations of weaponizing the justice system of those inflammatory claims stand up against the actual facts. and as the president takes executive action on god documented migrants. a story you ll only see here how one man has taken the issue into his own hands. what he encounters in his knights on the border good evening. thanks for joining us. begin with breaking news request late today from the former president s legal team to lift the gag order. now that a jury has found him guilty on all 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to keep word of its hush money payment to stormy daniels from reaching voters in the 2016 election? as you know, gag order or not, he s already said plenty about the judge. the judge s daughter, and witnesses in the case. now his lawyers are seeking free rein. cnn s kara canal is here with the tails also join his best-selling author and former federal prosecutors, je
in court again today, paula reid has more in their opening, prosecutors told the jury, we re here because of the defendants lives and choices. no one is above the law. it doesn t matter who you are or what your name is. prosecutors also had to address the sensitive and ubiquitous topic of addiction, an issue central to this case. and one that the majority of potential jurors said they had experience with either directly or with a loved one addiction may not be a choice, but buying a gun is defense attorneys tried to shift the focus to hunter state of mind. they have to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that hunter knowingly violated the law inferring that a hunter was going through periods of sobriety amid his addiction? it could be reasonable for him, did not know he was breaking the law by indicating on a federal real gun buying form that he was not using or addicted to drugs. his defense
report undercutting the gop s criticism is the fact that two sitting democratic congressman and the president s own son, hunter, are facing three separate criminal indictments. so you ve prosecuted democrats as we speak, a hunter biden who is a son of the president, is under trial in delaware. you haven t weaponized the justice department in terms of hiding and protecting democrats. menendez cuellar hunter biden, the justice department follows the facts and the law now, merrick garland also faced questions from three gop hardliner today about the treatment of january 6, prisoners 3d he s three congressman roy biggs, a massive right in a letter to garland in part what they say is, in addition, other investigations have pointed to the fbi s possible involvement in facilitating the events of january 6, they cite as evidenced in this letter, a new york post columnist peas from last year about this topic.
says he s got a hurry along because he s going to then continue on to an immigration official to start the process for for asylum. brian says life and ecuador was becoming unbearable instability, which we ve seen firsthand driving him northward. he and the others join several dozen more migrants lined up and following instructions from cbp agents they fill the van which drives off. as more migrants march in david have you seen signs that people are changing plans to get across the border before the law goes into place. it was something i asked each migrant interesting that we came across. they said, with this executive order, did it make you want to get here quicker? what if been impacted have have most everyone looked at me and said, what executive order they just don t follow it that closely and it s something i saw about a year ago with the lifting of title 42, were folks would say, look, us policy