is infuriating the white house. heat records to shatter across the country today, millions of americans will see temperatures in the triple digits record setting, temperatures that are potentially life-threatening. sara is out today. i m john berman with kate bolduan and this is cnn new sec this our first witness in hunter biden s federal trial will return to the stand that witness, an fbi agent will be facing cross-examination hunter biden arrived at court last hour. we re showing you there an after that, fbi agents testimony, it is looking to be a very emotional day ahead. that s because the prosecution s next witness. he s expected to be a hunter biden s ex-wife prosecutors say she ll be able to testify to find him drugs and drug paraphernalia, numerous times. his public struggled with drug addiction it is part of the prosecution s case as they try to prove that biden illegally purchased a gun. because while battling addiction to do that, they re also using his own w
being deeply uncomfortable for hunter biden as witnesses, his former wife, the widow of his brother, bo biden, with whom hunter also had a relationship. another romantic partner will also ultimately take the stand. we believe as well. what is the prosecution want to get from them? clearly, e bees, people who were loaded and i m not using that word pejoratively, but they come with a lot of connections. de hunter biden, what does the prosecution want from that? well, these are people who have two your point, have a relationship with hunter biden, whether they have an ax to grind or they ve gotten over that. but there s a compassion and the love here, but they re going to say, nonetheless this is a man who had a significant and serious drug issue and how he went on binges and how he had access to drugs and maybe discuss some of the money issues as well. so they re going to fortify mean in the prosecution get these witnesses hunter biden is an addict and he knew he was an addict and
days he was using it even if not today in particular. so now you re that offense. how much of a challenge is a challenge is it for defense lawyers to do cross on witnesses like this? how careful do you need to be? well, you have to drive home. the point that very simply at its core you can t say on that day or the day before whenever it may be at last time, he that he was using drugs or how much he was using drugs, they can say he had a habit and he was doing this often and he was on calls and he has these audio recordings and books so they can all corroborate that it was a drug user but to the point of low-low famine, aa, am i always an addict even if i haven t used in ten years, if i m not using at that moment. so all this just fortifies the prosecution and it s a heavy lift for the defense, but that s how they re going to poke. we just got through a trial where the defense every time they cross it or not every time, but when they cross examine some key witnesses, they were t