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Courthouse for us in wilmington. i also want to bring in former assistant d.a. for the manhattan district attorney s office catherine christian and msnbc legal analyst. so ken, the court just entered a lunch break, get us up to speed on what s happened today. reporter: chris, the testimony from naomi biden, hunter biden s oldest child, was really impactful and interesting. she s a lawyer in washington, d.c. she came into court today as a defense witness. hunter biden s attorney abbe lowell got her to testify that her dad, in her view, was doing as well as he had been in the summer of 2018 before he bought that gun. you know, she knew he had been using drugs since his brother beau died of cancer, and she knew that he was an addict, but she said she had seen him in rehab and that he seemed to be doing well. this obviously is a point for the defense because they re trying to argue that he wasn t using drugs when he bought that gun. but then on cross examination, prosecutor leo wise did ....
Didn t let merrick garland get away saying i had nothing to do with this or wasn t my call. but when he got to the issue of federal versus state prosecutions, the merrick garland didn t do so well. he said even though colangelo went from assistant deputy attorney general down to an assistant d.a. in a local d.a. s office he basically said he was only involved in a case that involved new york state crime. new york state penal law. that s not accurate. the high ranking justice department official ends up prosecuting in a lower manhattan trial involving a low d.a. involved federal law. the three options that that jury had involved federal election campaign act, it involved the federal tax act. as the law that would these ....
[suspenseful music] trains. [whoosh] trains that use the power of dell ai and intel. clearing the way, [rumble] [whoosh] so you arrive exactly where you belong. with about five weeks for many until july 11th and the sentencing for former president trump, he remains under judge merchan s restrict gag order, but he s continuing to push its limits, referring to key witnesses and former trump attorney michael cohen as a sleazebag. joining me is former manhattan assistant d.a. catherine christian. catherine, thank you for being with us. we know judge merchan s gag order won t be lifted until after the trial is finished, meaning after sentencing. ....
Martha stewart, robert menendez. also former assistant d.a. manhattan district attorney, msnbc legal analyst, catherine christian. it s great to pull back the curtain. let me start with basics. most of what we know comes from movies and television. this is obviously the real world. so are you in realtime touch minute to minute with the lawyers as they re having to make these decisions about who to keep or maybe who to challenge? if i m actually involved in the jury selection, i sit at counsel table with the attorneys, and chat with them as the potential jurors respond to the questions they re asked. i try to offer advice, take notes. i have been involved in the design of the questions asked to potential jurors, and there s typically a profile of preferred responses that attorneys on both sides are listening for. ....
The moscow pullman highway in the early morning hours of november 13th, and thus could not be the vehicle captured on video along the moscow pullman highway. the judge entered a plea of not guilty on kohberger s behalf, but the case is stalled in unresolved pretrial motions. caylee goncalves family say they are frustrated. the line of communication between the prosecution and the victims family, at least for the goncalves family is very limited. i have never seen it before in my career. let me bring back nbc legal analyst, catherine christian, a former manhattan assistant d.a. that s technical evidence, right, they say that cell phone tower evidence shows he did not travel east, this could not be his vehicle. how strong might that evidence ....