president and the former president, one stage moderated by jake tapper and dana bash good morning. you relied on cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington right now in delaware. hunter biden s fate is in the hands of a jury. the president s son arrived in court this morning as jurors resume deliberations in his federal gun trial and just about a half hour later, he left the courthouse in wilmington. hunter biden is accused of lying about his illegal drug use when he bought a handgun back in 2018, if convicted of all three charges, he could face 25 years in prison. cnn s evan perez drawing this is from outside the courthouse in delaware. evan wasn t expected that hunter biden would only make a short visit there as the jury deliberates, what s the latest no, jim, i think we didn t anticipate that he would be able to leave during the time that the jury is deliberating. typically defendants have to sit here like the rest of us as we wait for the jury to complete its work
says that congressman devin nunes altered it before actually sending it to the white house and after their committee voted along party lines to reveal it publicly. congressman adam schiff tweeted wednesday, quote, discovered late tonight that chairman nunes made material changes to the memo he sent to the white house, changes not approved by the committee. white house therefore reviewing a document the committee has not approved for release. chairman nunes calls the complaint strange saying the changes were, quote, minor edits including grasmaticcal fixes and to edits requested by the fbi and by the minority themselves. okay. let s just dive in. i have with me chris eliza and shawn turner. and gentlemen, chris, first to you, from what evan perez just told us, are we potentially
that is what they do not want to have happen. as this is scheduled to be or likely to be released in the next day or so, anything on this could happen, brooke. here we are in this post-comey world where, let s remind everyone, chris wray is someone who president trump picked to head up the fbi. these fbi directors, evan, have this ten year to keep them i don t know in their own sort of bubble away from politics and day-to-day pressures from the president, which i suppose got thrown out the window once jim comey got fired. right. exactly. i think you re pointing to exactly what the frustration here is. chris wray was brought in to help, again, turn the page at the fbi, the complaints from republicans and from the president was that james comey and the leadership there had turned the agency, the bureau, into something that it wasn t supposed to be.
in his mind and damn the torpedos. that s always been his approach. i think it would be stunning, remember, james comey was the fbi director he inherited. chris wray is the fbi director he picked. he picked? whatever you thinking of the firing of james comey and the circumstances surrounding it, a chris wray resignation based on his the fbi s desire not to have this memo released, i don t know how you spin that one if you re donald trump. you can understand, though, shawn, the frustrations i can t begin to imagine on behalf of the fbi, they released this public statement, grave concerns over the memo s accuracies, evan making the point misleading information despite any kind of redactions that they agree upon, if you re chris wray and you re ahead of the fbi and the president goes ahead and says, sorry, i m releasing it, how do you not resign? that s a good question. if it is the case that the information in this memo is so
credentials has said through an official statement that the fbi has grave concerns about the memo s accuracy. the memo alleges that the fbi abused his surveillance power. let s go straight to the man breaking the news here evan perez. evan, beginning with you, tell me everything you know. reporter: brook, i think what is happening is that the white house folks are getting a sense of the frustration from chris wray the fbi director. he certainly made that abundantly clear in his meetings with white house officials and certainly with the justice department because he believes that he obviously was picked by the president and yet his advice to the president to not release this memo certainly not in the version that devin nunes has prepared shouldn t be done and he believes that that is that his advice is being disregarded. in fact, the republicans are sort of casting this as some kind of partisan fight including sort of tarring the reputation of christopher wray.