to tap into an authority that former president donald trump tried to use when he was president at something democrats decried and eventually it was struck down in the courts. but certainly this comes as biden in this trial trying to show he is doing more when it comes to border security at a time when republicans have tried to paint him as weak on the issue. okay. arlette saenz. thank you for the reporting from the white house thank you all for joining us this morning. i m alison camera radha, our next our of newsroom with wolf blitzer starts now you are in the cnn newsroom. i, wolf blitzer in washington. we re following the breaking news up on capitol hill right now, house republicans have been grilling the attorney general of the united states merrick garland. that s about to continue. merrick garland is being asked about supposedly spreading baseless let s conspiracy theories that have been going on. and the justice department is using alleged lawfare. this is what repub
Addiction when purchasing a firearm, and prosecutors also had to address the larger issue of addiction, the majority of potential jurors all said yesterday, during jury selection that they had some sort of experience great. so with the loved one or themselves dealing with addiction and prosecutors said luck, addiction is not a choice, but it is a choice to a legally buy a firearm and he s opening statements from prosecutors. it was a multimedia presentation. they showed guns, got pictures of the gun. they use audio clips from hunter biden s memoir, which he personally narrated no one was the defense s turn to get out. they emphasized a hunter biden state of vine. the fact that prosecutors need to prove he did this knowingly they also tried to put some of the responsibility on the individual who worked at the gunshots saying that this individual lead hundred to the gun, that he eventually ended up purchasing and this is going to be again, this is going to go from about anywhere from thr