is infuriating the white house. heat records to shatter across the country today, millions of americans will see temperatures in the triple digits record setting, temperatures that are potentially life-threatening. sara is out today. i m john berman with kate bolduan and this is cnn new sec this our first witness in hunter biden s federal trial will return to the stand that witness, an fbi agent will be facing cross-examination hunter biden arrived at court last hour. we re showing you there an after that, fbi agents testimony, it is looking to be a very emotional day ahead. that s because the prosecution s next witness. he s expected to be a hunter biden s ex-wife prosecutors say she ll be able to testify to find him drugs and drug paraphernalia, numerous times. his public struggled with drug addiction it is part of the prosecution s case as they try to prove that biden illegally purchased a gun. because while battling addiction to do that, they re also using his own w
hunter biden s own pictures displaying drugs. cnn s marshall cohen is outside court, been following this for us from wilmington, delaware. marshall, what s expected to happen today? take good morning later today, we are expecting testimony from hunter biden s ex-wife, kathleen buhle. she here s one of three x s that prosecutors have lined up to testify against hunter biden in this case why is she relevant? well, according to the special counsel, ms buhl can tell the jury that even though they were divorced in 2017, she did check hunters car in 2018 and occasionally found drugs or drug paraphernalia. that s important because the prosecutors are trying to connect hunters drug use in 2018 to the gun that he bought that year. if they can make that connection as they could probably get a conviction. but before they get to ms dual they need to crap up the testimony of a special agent from the fbi who is on the stand yesterday and we ll be back on the scan
feels like he s putting out fires. yeah. and by the way, the isis cave and he said that we as a country are at risk of an attack like russia saw that, that horrible theater attack by isis k, where dozens were killed, taking over the theater, which we haven t heard of, a threat like in this country for some time, i do get the sense that i mean, overwhelmed, maybe too strong a word the fbi has enormous the sources. but whenever he talks about threats, they come from so many different directions. so you ve got terrorist threat domestic, internationally inspired he s extremely worried about interference in the election. multiple foreign actors, china, russia, and iran, north korea and he s also very upfront about the cyber risk in this country. he always makes the point. china and russia to, they ve already planted the tools in this country in critical infrastructure to turn them on in effect, in the event of a broader conflict to the point where they could turn the lights out new york t
some of those text messages to get her to knowledge that a lot of the text messages that the prosecution has are for months before and after the purchase of the gun, meaning that on the day that he went to the to buy that gun in 2018, prosecution doesn t really have any evidence to show that he was on drugs that deck and that s the key part of the defense argument today. we re going to hear from hunter biden s ex-wife, catherine bill. we expect her to make her first appearance i later this morning, jon and i think that s one of the three x s that we re going to hear from again, driving home, the point about his struggle with addiction alright, this will be something to see today. evan perez. thank you so much for that. were forced and joining us now, a cnn legal analyst and former federal prosecutor, jennifer rodgers, jen i i liked how you framed it as yesterday, wrapped in terms of the opening statements, you say it s an
that prosecutors are trying to make that he knowingly broke the law when he went into on that gun application but talked about the it s very clear that the defense approach is also trying to endure and engender sympathy from the jurors logical smarts necessary, risky which are all of the above all of the above a little bit, but not too risky to be honest. i mean, yes, you re asking for jury nullification you shouldn t in a way you re saying to the jurors, why are we here? here s a man who s sick, right? he has a disease. you want to put him in jail for owning a gun for 11 days. no one was hurt, no one was threatened. what is the point? the real question to me is how far did they try to suggest the political process? to peace and less, they are not supposed to do it. so if they do, it ll have to be subtle. but that s another way to say to the jury, why do you think we re here? what is the purpose of all of this? let the guy go great to see you, jennifer. thank you so much. thank y