Stay updated with breaking news from Didn t he wasn. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
these the deals on before there shot with jury selection is underway in the first trial against the son of a sitting president. we are live outside the courthouse in delaware where hunter biden is facing we ve felonies for allegedly buying a gun while using illegal drugs. how his father, the president, is reacting and fighting words on capitol hill is dr. anthony found she testifies to lawmakers about the origins of covid-19 and the us response to the pandemic and brace yourself the thermostat please, in your house can be pretty busy this summer. i ll look at how much it will cost you to stay cool and how that number has risen over the past five years. we re following these developing stories and many more we re all coming in right here to see it a nuisance just days after former president trump was convicted of 34 felonies and his hush money case. another unprecedented and in criminal trial with major political implications is getting underway. hunter biden now fac ....
Up. also the issue of addiction and recovery. we heard from both sides who were trying to say that they re going to dismiss critic of donald trump who was in the jury pool here and who said that they the day support banning all guns she said that after donald trump s election in 2016, scene, she joined what you call the resistance group to oppose the what s now the former president. we ve also heard abbe lowell say that he he was going to use one of his strikes to remove a potential juror who is a retired police officer from from wilmington, who said that he believed donald trump and particularly the new york city trial that just concluded against the former president, that that s an indication that that prosecutors sometimes bring political cases, cases for political reasons. he said that to his knowledge or he didn t he wasn t aware ....
He would have been prosecuted? putin if you were someone else? think that s a great question. i think that the fact that this investigation took so long to get to a point that is a three-count indictment of a not a type of case that maybe for a first-time offender would not reach this stage of trial is unusual it s a fairly straightforward three count indictment, and it shouldn t have taken a five-year investigation to get there. so we think the fact that there was a special counsel obviously as a unique situation particular to an individual who has political relevance and the fact that this wasn t just a standard case handled by the us attorney s office. and i do as i mentioned earlier, i think the fact that the judge throughout the plea agreement what s unusual in this case, and to looking ahead to the defense s case here how do they go about building a case that i would assume they re going to try to prove here. you didn t know either. he wasn t ....
Is really going to be looking at is they re going to focus on these issues at the prosecutors have to prove as far as what hunter biden knew at the time. so it s really really it s only a three count indictment and the fact that he had a weapon doesn t seem to be a disputed fact. so the questions here are really going to pertain to did he know that he wasn t supposed to have it at the time and that gets into the issues of what the nature of his addiction was or wasn t at that time if he knew he was addicted, i guess. right? if he knew because there s two pieces, there s a falsification of a form that is being alleged, and then there s whether he knew he was possessing a weapon when he is what s called a prohibited person when he wasn t supposed to. and so his knowledge and his understanding of what he was doing at that time is really irrelevant, both for the prosecutors to prove and for the defense to launch its case. are you surprised? we re at this point? do you think that ....