to that area into and thanks the news continues right here on cnn i've brought next breaking news, a jury has been selected for hunter biden's trial. so who are the people, the men and women who will decide the fate of the president? son, and who are the witnesses that will be called. >> plus breaking news, trump's appeal to have fulton county's da removed from his case has a date and this date means everything for whether this case happens before the election. >> and ukraine claiming get use western weapons to strike inside russia. >> so will retaliate investigative journalist christo grozev, who is on russia's wanted list is my guest tonight. >> hey, let's go out front and good evening. >> i'm erin burnett outfront tonight. we begin with the breaking news. biden has a jury, the 12 jurors who will decide hunter biden's fete have all been sworn in. they have been given their instructions, and we are now just hours away from opening statements and biden's federal gun case where he's accused of lying about being on drugs when he bought a gun. the judge wasting no time saying her courtroom operates five days a week. opening statements are scheduled for tomorrow morning, and tonight. we do have new details about the jury. it consists of six men and six women. evan perez is going to give you a lot more details because who they are matters hugely. meanwhile, in the courtroom biden was engaged, leaning forward, looking at the jurors and the judge, first lady, jill biden, sat one row behind her stepson and was their old de the significance of this moment actually can't be understated. think about last week, right days after a jury ruled that the first former president in american history is a convicted felon on 34 counts a jury is now hearing the case of the child of a sitting presidents, and that is the first time that any president's child has been on trial. these, of course, our precedence. nobody wants to see set, but yet here we are. this case could have major implications for the election biden's family, personal laundry is about to be thrust into the spotlight. prosecutors are expected to go into detail into the salacious sayyed of hunter biden's past. potential witnesses will include a number of hunter biden's x's. we are told among them, beau biden, his brother his widow, hallie, whom hunter dated or biden's own ex-wife and multiple ex girlfriends who will testify to his drug use it's important to emphasize that this case is being brought by president biden's department of justice, which chose not to charge trump and his stormy daniels hush money case but as for president biden himself, he was silent today. obviously he was not there. he released a statement that reads in part, as a president, i don't and won't comment on pending federal cases. but as a dad, i have boundless love from my son, confidence in him, and respect for his strength so let's begin now with evan perez because he is outfront live outside of that courthouse in wilmington, delaware. and evan, i mentioned that jury we know six men, six women, but you know, a lot more about them. tell us that's right. >> aaron, the majority of the jury is african african-america n. >> there's a woman who said that she had lost a number of friends to drug addiction. there were a number of gun owners which is unimportant. part of this case, obviously including 11 who said that smoking weed it should not disqualify you from being able to own a gun. so this is a cross-section of the people of delaware. there were dozens of citizens of delaware who were in this courthouse today. and they they went through a number of questions. really trying to figure out whether they could find people who good fairly judge this case given the fact that the bidens looms so large in this state politically of course, politics came up in the jury collection, as well as the issue of recovery and addiction and gun ownership. there was one person who was questioned who said that he believed there, was a god-given right to own guns. another person who said that she believed all guns should be should be banned. and so at the end, the jury was selected much quicker than anyway, then some of the lawyers were anticipating, we expect the first arguments to begin in the morning and the first witness from the prosecution is an fbi jen, who worked on this case so evan 80 is we're seeing pictures of hunter biden and his current wife who was there with him. >> i know that the first lady was there as well. lot of family were there and you were there too. so what did you observe about those interactions? seven what really look, one of the things that that happened today was we were quite surprised that jill biden arrived and she came in. >> she went into the courtroom. she hugged her son. you could tell that that made a huge difference. he's to have her there, ashley biden's a hunter biden sister was also there as well as his son-in-law big family presence, obviously show some support given the fact that a hundreds father could not be here he issued that statement as you pointed out saying that he was going to make sure he didn't interfere fear in what the justice department was doing, but really showing the support of the family in that statement that was issued by the president united states, as you pointed out historic day here in wilmington history being made in both of the cases that we've been following in these recent weeks and not not history that anybody really wants to see. but yet here we are, evan. thank you very much. and our panel is here. let me start with martha merit tonight. so mark the jury that evans going through, right. >> this is crucial. this jury at the face of it, we know six minutes and six women. the majority of them are african american as evan just laid out, you've got a woman who said she's lost many friends to drug addiction on the jury gun owners on the jury, one who believes people who smoke pot should be allowed to own firearms and obviously, a hunter biden purchasing a gun while under the influence of drugs is at the center for this case. so when you look at this jury, mark, what do you see good jury for the defense. >> one de mostly democratic we know that african african-americans or blacks, are generally democratic on, but they're also delaware into that's the right term, which means they are from the state that no, the bidens but the violence and violence have done a lot for delaware. so in that sense, this is a good place for biden to try the case. and this is a good juror to try and in front of ryan. that is true. i mean, i lived in delaware for years and it is biden country. i mean, there's no one there who doesn't have some sort of a link or a tie, it's an incredibly small state as well. does that just mean any jury here is by nature going to be in some sense pro biden. >> i think that's right. it has to tilt pro biden in a certain way, especially because he looms large in the state and over there was many years that he served in congress. he's bringing back public goods to that very states. so he's popular there. he didn't exactly face challengers when he is running. so that's what looms over this and i do think that that means it's very difficult for the prosecutors. but if in fact they do get a guilty verdict, then that's super important because it shows that even a jury of that nature has in fact decided that beyond a reasonable doubt, he's guilty and i want to talk about that. the case itself, where it seems that you go terry, first of all, though this this issue of delaware, one woman said i think the short did not get put on, but i'm not sure but i live in delaware. >> you can't swing a cat without hearing something the colloquialism of the area but just think about it. texas is 134 times bigger. >> man hattan, which is where trump's jury was selected from is 1.6 times bigger than the entire state of delaware how does this jury compare to the jury we just saw last week, give a verdict in the trump trial. >> well, you know, in most criminal cases, the venue is where the county is for the c, so it's wilmington if it were just that little group that was pro biden, that's one thing, but the entire state is provided. so you have to imagine that most of the people on that jury regardless of race regardless of background, they are probably going to be people who are leaning towards biden. so i agree with ryan. if in fact there is a conviction, it means they fall the facts of the case, the evidence that was put in, and they followed the law and they all said they could do that. and that's how come they were selected at this, the evidence that we have thus far though, the way it's been presented, and it maybe there's more complexity. i'm missing, but he bought a gun while under the influence while he was addicted to drugs and the reason that this is sort of a fact is because he said so in his book, he wrote about it so it's sort of seems in that sense that basic part here is already established. very much. >> and the other layer of evidence on top of it is the government has his text messages to his girlfriend at the time, including on the day that he purchased the gun and then two days his later in which he's actually talking to her about using drugs, meeting a drug dealer and then around the same time this is october 2018, november 2018. he's even saying i'm an addict that's the charge. >> the charges if you are addicted to drugs or using drugs and you purchased the weapon, you need to say it's shown and you can get the weapon but that's not what happened two years. i think that's a mountain of evidence. he's stacked up against it. >> and so marc, that you're also going to hear from his his ex-wife, his brothers ex-wife, who hunter biden also dated after his brother passed away other ex girlfriends what does all of this ad i mean, what ryan's laying out here is pretty simple it really is because it the question is, and i think biden's own words, they're going to convict him if he gets convicted, and that is where you addicted when you bought the gun and you should the term addiction, which is go up the defense is going to focus on is okay if you did not believe you're an addict at the time because you just finished an outpatient treatment. >> inpatient treatment program, you're living sober. you actually can say to yourself for the first time in a few years, i'm not an addict or not addicted. and i presume that's gonna be the strength of their case because even though that atf form it's supposed to be very specific and we all know what addiction is it know what it means. but if the form doesn't tell you what it is, doesn't define adduct. it leaves it open to your interpretation. and unfortunately that's a sliver of hope through which the defense is going to try and put their case to say he really didn't know the problem as aaron just mentioned, his own words are going to convict him if they do the text messages. if family members are going to say they know he was detected and he knew what he was quite. >> and this case here, it could move very quickly. and i wasn't being snarky at the top. and as i said, the judge says she that's going to be five-day core, but there was a message gen. that, right. in other words, there's a wednesday's off, there's no we're giving off every friday because a juror has a flight. this is going to be beginning middle end, possibly very quickly. it will go quickly. she does indicate at the beginning, as you said, that she's ready to work five days a week, nine to five, maybe even longer. and depending on what the jury will do, and i think that's good. i don't think the jury needs to sit there through a ton of evidence. it's not that complicated a case. he filled out the form. they are not going to actually have evidenced from when that form might have been altered, which i think should be in the case because that's the case. did he fill out the form correctly or did one of the employees alter it? we know that the judge that that's not coming in and we know that the judge did a lot of pretrial rulings as to what's going to come in and what's not. so she probably can do it very quickly ryan, there was a lot of family around him, right. and his wife. right? his sister, ashley, was their first lady, jill biden was there. so all these people who are there to support him terrion, i were just going through for the show, began right when did the de or trump came in the first de tara and i were both in the courtroom. that was the eighth day of testimony when keith davidson was there. and after days before that of jury selection. right. so it took a long time for family to come in for trump and for anyone really to come and he was a lonely place for him what's the significance? of the family presence thing, jury, i think it sends a strong signal to the jury of sympathy for the defendant, and especially a defendant had went through drug addiction so to have the family around him there in support, i think is a strong sign because that's in some ways what they're going for. they want the jury to look at the evidence in the light most favorable to him and that's what we'll get them. some of that distance at marc, you've also got other cases, though, september los angeles, another case for hunter biden, right? that's tax evasion, false tax returns, and that gets you even closer to the election on the potential impact if there is one of hunter biden verdicts on his father's case. >> which trial do you think is a bigger threat to hunter? >> biden though the tax evasion one false tax forms in california or this gun charge in delaware i think the tax evasion case is much more significant for numerous reasons. >> people do not like people don't pay their taxes and the always going to use in that case is addiction or the throes of addiction as is reason or excuse but if i remember correctly, the outstanding balance was somewhere north of a million in more taxes and most people pay maybe in your lifetime. so my thought is in a call. and again, the sentencing on those cases is increased by the amount of loss. so i think that's much more significant if i was to defense team, they can do away with one over the the other 200 california try this case because even if he is convicted probably not going to jail. but on the other case hearing definitely going to jail. >> and the other one if convicted rhyme i think so yeah. >> i think is in a very tough situation that most people think he should have pleaded. >> and it's going to be fascinating to see because obviously the timing of that is going to put it right up against the election. the impact on the election itself. and of course also on his father. thank you all very much. i appreciate it. and next breaking news, trump's appeal to remove fani willis from the georgia case gets a date and this date is crucial because it will answer the question as to 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