diaz-balart. right now inside a delaware courtroom, jury selection is underway in the high stakes criminal trial of president biden s son hunter. hunter biden is facing three counts tied to allegations that he lied about his illegal drug use when he purchased a firearm back in 2018. he has pleaded not guilty. this case focuses on a time of personal turmoil for the president s only surviing son who has been open about his addiction to drugs and alcohol particularly in the wake of the death of his brother beau. it s another trial at the center of the political universe coming days after his father s opponent and presumptive republican nominee donald trump was found guilty in his first criminal trial. mike memoli is outside the courthouse for us. joining us dave aronberg, state attorney for palm beach county, florida, and michael zeldin, former special counsel to robert mueller. mike memoli, take us inside that courtroom. how is jury selection going so
in an israeli air strike in beirut. it comes as moments from now, the israeli cabinet is expected to meet to discuss what their plans are for gaza if they complete their goal of wiping out the terrorist group. for the civilians inside gaza, the prospect of this war lasting throughout 2024 is devastating. one family surviing in a tent city said they sleep in fear. for palestinians across the territory, the u.n. is sounding the alarm over a lack of access to food, saying more than 90% of people there have regularly gone without food for an entire day. one mother of four shared with the new york times how desperately hard it is to find food for her kids and that, quote, in a fleeting moment of internet access she once caught the children huddled around her phone to watch a youtube video of someone eating french fries. that s a painful concept. nbc s josh lederman reports from tel aviv from us. also with us, nbc news white
we re back with new developments in the legal battle surroundings grisly murder of four university of idaho college students. one of the surviing roommates has agreed to speak to attorneys for the defense. nbc news correspondent erin mclaughlin has more. that s right, bryan kohberger has been charged in the murders of those four students. he has yet to enter a plea ahead of a preliminary hearing in june, his legal team issued a subpoena for one of the two roommates who survived the attack arguing she has information that may help clear kohberger s name. that roommate, bethany funke had fought the subpoena but is now agreeing to be interviewed two roommates survived the stabbing attack inside this house last november. it left four other students dead. bethany funk was one of the survivors, and now she s agreeing to be interviewed by
accused of insurance fraud. that is related to that roadside shooting he and his attorneys claimed was a botched attempt to take his own life so his son buster murdaugh could collect a $10 million life insurance policy. on top of that, there are questions about other deaths surrounding, near the murdaugh family orbit, if you will. there is one particular case as it relates to their former housekeeper, gloria satterfield. one of her sons testified in this trial because alex murdaugh admitted to stealing some $4 million that was supposed to go to her surviing family members after she fell is what the initial report was, fell and died on their property. there have been questions about the circumstances surrounding her death. law enforcement has said they are reinvestigating and going back and looking at some of that
right now on this holliday weekend get away day you have senators stuck in a traffic jum of sorts. they come back into session as we speak. they re trying to get to a vote on that january 6th commission. first they have to finish up this whole other debate on a totally separate and unrelated bill. throwing up overnight and early morning roadblocks. we have the latest on timing as republicans get the first part of the phil buster. and we have new reaction on the breaking news from overnight. breaking news at it again. just weeks before president biden s face to face meeting with vladimir putin. you have microsoft sounding the alarm warning of a new wave of attacks. just ahead what the produce and the prem lin are saying and perhaps more importantly not