diaz-balart. right now inside a delaware courtroom, jury selection is underway in the high stakes criminal trial of president biden s son hunter. hunter biden is facing three counts tied to allegations that he lied about his illegal drug use when he purchased a firearm back in 2018. he has pleaded not guilty. this case focuses on a time of personal turmoil for the president s only surviing son who has been open about his addiction to drugs and alcohol particularly in the wake of the death of his brother beau. it s another trial at the center of the political universe coming days after his father s opponent and presumptive republican nominee donald trump was found guilty in his first criminal trial. mike memoli is outside the courthouse for us. joining us dave aronberg, state attorney for palm beach county, florida, and michael zeldin, former special counsel to robert mueller. mike memoli, take us inside that courtroom. how is jury selection going so far? reporter: well, ana
You say it as if its a bad thing, hallie jack sson. Msnbc headquarters here in new york. A day after the midterms, still a number of races to decide, enough results for both parties to take a victory lap. President trump will take his this hour, the president scheduled to appear in the eastern room of the white house for a News Conference roughly 30 minutes from now. Today hes already touted himself as the magic man for last nights senate wins. Never mind losing the house, though. President trump also had a message for the Incoming Democratic majority in the house. Investigate me . We investigate you. We also heard from Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell just a few moments ago. The Democrats In The House will have to decide just how much president ial harassment they think is good strategy. Today is more than about democrats and republicans, its about restoring the constitutions checks and balances to the trump
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really be fine with him. politically it s an interesting question, he has obviously used it to galvanize his base, but i think if you asked anyone would the former president prefer not to be about to become a convicted felon, the answer is of course not. nobody wants that. it s not particularly helpful. the one area where it has been helpful is juicing his fund-raising. it s worth noting we have not independently confirmed these numbers yet, but his campaign reported they raised $54 million in the 24 hours after the verdict. and he has been at a real fund-raising disadvantage with president biden. so the one area where it actually helps him or has clearly helped him so far is cloing that gap, which is real and meaningful in an election year. and paul, the former president has said at least in his social media posts just in the last day or so that he wants to take his appeal right to the supreme court. first, can he do that, and what do you see is the likelihood the
molly, there was an interesting piece a few days ago at a.p. that points out if he jumps in, he would be at a fund-raising disadvantage. it talks about the fact he doesn t like raising money. he raised half of what he set as a goal in the 2008 campaign before he dropped out. biden, for his part, has said he would raise a good amount of money in, quote, some major republican folks. any sort of issue if he gets in? hard to imagine with such a big name, but i don t know. you have to think that he has a lot of advantages, right? he s extremely well connected in the democratic establishment. he s just been around a lot longer than hi potential opponents, and he s got a lot of connection to people with money, people with influence, people who have a lot of affect for him. i do think that those things are
it would be inappropriate to subpoena him. that may be very well what happened here. i mean, mueller has gotten in my opinion everything he s an aggressive smart prosecutors. he s gotten everything he can get. and i don t think criticism here is appropriate. cynthia, carol, julia, thank you. we ll catch up with you all soon, i m sure. anticipations growing over the will he or won t me run question for joe biden. apparently according to new reports if he decides to run, biden might find himself at a fund raising disadvantage. plus new polling showing us what iowa voters want. that s next. because you have e trade whose tech makes life easier by automatically adding technical patterns on charts and helping you understand what they mean. don t get mad, get e trade. and i recently had hi, ia heart attack. it changed my life. but i m a survivor.