good day. i m chris jansing live at msnbc headquarters in new york city. the humanitarian crisis on the border. it is the challenge that americans say they want solved more than any other problem. and now president biden is making his most dramatic move yet to deal with illegal immigration. will today s executive action come too late to reverse the political damage that has been years in the making? plus details about the president s son, including claims he was smoking crack every 15 minutes emerging on day one of the federal trial. the defense is using the opening statement to argue that hunter biden was in deep denial and may not have considered himself a drug addict. outside the courtroom, a dramatic altercation between hunter biden s wife and a former trump white house aide. a group of senate republicans refusing to do their jobs and using baseless conspiracy theories around donald trump s conviction as an excuse. how could that impact what has been one of the least pr
romantically involved with hunter biden. when abbe lowell, the defense attorney had his chance to deliver his opening statements, he tried to lay out the chain of custody for the gun that hunter biden purchased. he tried to over the course of explaining that timeline prove that at least create some reasonable doubt about whether or not hunter was addicted to drugs, using drugs at the time. so he noted that there had been some cocaine residue that was found on the weapon after it was discovered, and mr. lowell suggested based on the fact that it was in a locked box in the car, that hunter biden had been using, that hallie, when she recovered the gun, may have been responsible for the cocaine residue being put on it. this is something that will be litigated over the course of the coming weeks here. and it speaks to why the family is so concerned about this moment. the president, the first lady are looking at this as parents, but also as grandparents and, of course, hallie biden was wit