underway in his federal gun case. it is the first time ever the son of a sitting president will stand trial. we ve had a lot of first time evers, america. hunter is accused of lying about his illegal drug use on a gun buy form in 2018. first want to get to this because on the hill today he was the public face of the government s response to all the covid pandemic matter. now a house panel set to question dr. anthony fauci one hour from now amid allegations of misconduct. app apparently there is a lot there. hope you had a grand weekend. i m bill hemmer. dana: i m glad to be back with you. i m dana perino and this is america s newsroom. we move from one trial to another trial. we have somebody else kind of on trial today anthony fauci. nearly two years since he testified publicly. this hearing could get contentious fast. republicans have a lot of questions. democrats are speaking ahead of the hearing. some of them are preemotion actively defending dr. fauci. today s appear
trial about two to three times more than usual. the judge began jury selection at 8:46 a.m. audio went out. we have been hearing they ve been working on it. also instructing the jury potential jurors not to search this case on the internet. have to take their phones out of the courtroom. there are around 250 potential jurors. the court will narrow them down to 12 plus the alternates. also face questions about what they ve heard about this trial. their thoughts on the president and the bidens. prosecutors maintain hunter biden falsely swore on a federal form that he was not a drug user when he bought a gun in 2018. hunter s attorneys moved to introduce a second gun form into evidence which had additional information on it. defense wanted to use it to show the gun shop owner filled out the form inaccurately. the judge barred the form from the trial. unclear which witnesses the defense may call. prosecution signaled they may