ccarthy and all standing by and ready too go. we are ready just in case. president biden is in italy while former president trump s is on capitol hill, for a serie from both the house and the senate in to address some of america s most powerful busines leaders making his case for a more prosperous economy if voters decide to send him back to the white house for a second term. welcome to a new hour of america s newsroom i am dana perino. bill: wouldn t it be if he got immunity today. a couple hundred yards away fro where the justice department. you couldn t write it any better. good morning at home while we await from president biden in that joint news conference with the ukraine president where he will answer reporters questions the first time since his son hunter s conviction on federal gun charges. former president trump as we mentioned is meeting the top republican lawmakers at the house side and submit site they re going to talk about national policy in try to map
so brazenly torched to admire his or her work. what is uncommon, though, is the arsonist not just being applauded, by the victims, upon his return to the scene of the crime, but being celebrated. today donald trump played the arsonist in the trump-run republican party showcased a version of this phenomenon. meeting separately with house and senate republicans this afternoon, three blocks from where trump was arraigned last year in connection with his efforts to overturn the 2020 election he lost, trump s trip to washington, d.c. today amounted to equal parts chest thumping, america bashing, and more bizarre incoherent ramblings about dating nancy pelosi and the gop convention host city. the press spin for today was that trump would engage in forward looking discussions of policy, but hannibal lecter kept coming up and his animosity to the department of justice. the immediate aftermath of his 34 felony count in new york and that period trump sought to harness the powers of con
await a verdict in a federal case alleging president biden s son lied about his drug use when he bought a handgun in 2018. welcome to a new hour of america s newsroom, i m dana perino. that hour went by quick. bill: it sure did. good morning, dana. i m bill hemmer. good morning at home. hunter biden is no longer in court. he will have to be there for a verdict. prosecutors say hunter biden knew he was addicted to drugs and the evidence shows that. the defense suggesting to the jury the evidence is circumstantial insisting the government has failed to prove its case against hunter biden beyond a reasonable doubt. dana: judge jeanine pirro joins us in a moment. first rich edson is live at the courthouse in wilmington. we re deliberating now? they are, dana. they started at 9:06 this morning when the judge called them back into the courtroom. she talked to them and asked them whether they had any conversations or read anything about the case overnight. they indicated the
conviction. the cbs evening news starts now. norah: tonight, the president changing his schedule before heading overseas and going to delaware to see hunter biden just hours after his son is convicted. good evening. i m norah o donnell. thank you for being with us. that moment of embraced captured on camera on the national guard airport now named after the president s late son, beau, who died of cancer in 2015. this child publicly aired some of the first family s most moments, with just five months until the presidential election. the president says he will not pardon his son, as hunter faces up to 25 years in prison. and it all started with this: x on a federal firearms application 2018. an unlawful user of or addicted to illegal drugs. the jury decided that was a lie. cbs s weijia jiang is in wilmington and she is going to start us off tonight. reporter: hunter biden left court today holding hands with his wife in the first lady, dr. jill biden, just after hearing
good morning, it is 11:00 a.m. eastern, 8:00 a.m. pacific. i m josé diaz-balart, and we begin this busy hour with hunter biden s felony gun trial. the defense rested without calling hunter biden to the stand. moments ago the prosecution called an fbi agent back to the stand for a rebuttal. joining us now, nbc news justice and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian outside the courthouse. also with us, david henderson, a civil rights attorney and former prosecutor. ken, what s the latest from the courtroom, and what can we be expecting today? reporter: good morning, jose. the prosecution has now rested, but not before that fbi agent provided devastating testimony about evidence of hunter biden s drug use the day before and the day after he purchased that handgun on october 12th, 2018. some of this evidence had already been in, but then there was some new evidence where she talked about geo locating his phone to a 7-eleven in wilmington, delaware, and also introduced eviden