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way. erica, the judge started by saying no one is above the law regardless of your name, and a defendant is on trial because of the choices that the defendant made. and he said that we are also here because of choices and also here because the defendant decided to lie. and he also said that he was not using drugs when he went to buy that cold reand hope to single out hunter biden who is a well known defendant well known here in the state of delaware and he is looking for for face of the
in possession of drugs or anything that the federal government considered a controlled substance and the proof, the circumstance of proof is that he possessed it at the time that he is in violation of the form. but if they have no evidence of that and he can present enough evidence to create a reasonable doubt that he thought he was in remission and that he was no longer addicted to then he will succeed in that defense because remember, it s the government s burden to prove him guilty, not his burden to prove himself innocent. good point. elliott, does you know the biden family as long long history in the state of delaware. everybody knows that biden is from delaware, was senator from delaware, was a congressman from delaware. and jill biden was there in attendance during the testimony today. she s been there showing her support for steps you think this is going to have an impact on the jury, should it know,
cevallos. court has been in session for about an hour and a half. what can you tell us, ken, about what s happening so far? reporter: good morning, ana. jury selection is under way. the judge brought in 250 prospective jurors, questioning 50 at a time per session in her courtroom. so far we ve seen questions to three prospective jurors. the first person was disqualified after he said he couldn t be objective because he believes that owning a firearm is a good-gifrn right. a second juror was a donor and volunteer to the hillary clinton campaign in 2008. she s qualified, not yet seated, but qualified. they ll go through this process all day and perhaps into tomorrow as they try whittle down a jury. here in the state of delaware where joe biden has been a major political figure for 52 years. first elected to the senate in 1972. so hunter biden is in the courtroom. we saw dr. jill biden, the first
to try to have a strategy potentially putting the prosecution on trial arguing for something like nullification. so i m very interested in what the defense opening statement looks like in the hours to come nick guy, as you know, the biden family clearly has an extensive history in the state of delaware. could this impact potentially jury selection? there oh sure, but again, i think that s gonna be all vetted during jury selection to the extent that people have a prejudice one way or the other. i think that will come out for sure. but you re right at the end of the day. i think the bidens have a lot of connections to delaware. delaware is the small one of the smallest states in the union and everybody probably knows somebody that knows the bidens so it could have an impact. i mean, i really think that the only defense that hunter biden has is is at the time at the time
let there be no doubt weiss works for the department of justice that works for joe biden. listen, prosecutors have a different ethical burden than regular defense lawyers. they have an obligation to do justice, whatever that means. it means objectively following facts and evidence to wherever it may lead without any kind of bias or prejudice. and that also means that if you have a conflict of interest or even the appearance of a conflict of interest, you might need to think about recusing yourself. this should have been done by a truly outside lawyer. harris: i have to tell you the road is so windy and connected tissue is so thick between this special counsel and the biden family. how surprised were you to learn that as the u.s. attorney, the acting u.s. attorney for the state of delaware, the president of the united states home and his former now deceased son beau, a state s attorney at the time, they were working