it s noon eastern. i m ana cabrera in for andrea mitchell. breaking news from the hunter biden trial. the jury in the hunter biden felony gun trial has reached a guilty verdict on all three counts after nearly three hours of deliberations. this is the first trial of a child of a sitting president in u.s. history. president biden s son now facing potential jail time. he has no prior criminal history. he did not commit a crime with a gun, which prosecutors say he purchased illegally when he allegedly lied about not being an addict. notably, four members of the jury have close friends or family who have struggled with drug and alcohol addiction. again, unanimous guilty verdict. joining us now, nbc justice and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian. we just got a statement from president biden. fill us in. reporter: that s right. president biden has reiterated some of what he said during the trial. i want to read the statement. as i said last week, i am the president, but also
the news today is that the jury in the hunter biden gun trial getting dismissed for the day as deliberations wrapped up with no verdict. they will be back at it tomorrow morning at 9:00 a.m. as they decide whether the first son gets up to 25 years in prison. hunter s defense as the president s son did not to knowingly lie about his drug use from purchasing a handgun in 2018. but federal prosecutors arguing hunter had lost the power of self-control when he bought it. and that the evidence backs that up. they showed off text messages, hunter biden sense, it drug dealer whom he had tried to meet up with a day before. he lied on the gun form. meanwhile the biden family is out in full force, first lady jill biden, the president s sister and brother were among the several family members present in court today to support hunter. president biden was not there, and the media and democrats are giving him credit for that. speak of the president of the united states has removed himself f
correspondent david spunt is in wilmington, delaware tonight awaiting a verdict. david, good evening. david: trace, good evening. jurors will be back tomorrow for day two of deliberations. they deliberated about an hour today before going home. over the past week we saw salacious text messages, pictures in the courtroom. even high profile people sitting in the audience. but, in the end, it s all about this one gun form, hunter biden filled out in october 2018. hunter biden s attorney abbe lowell offered no reason for his client deciding not to testify in his own defense .38 caliber revolver. such a move would have been strategically risky. opening the president s son to likely intense cross-examination. in closing arguments. prosecutor pointed to more than a dozen msnbc of the biden family in the audience saying they don t matter. only the evidence does. which he called, quote: ugly and overwhelming. another prosecutor added no one is above the law. including the presiden
we ll have a live report from wilmington in moments. also former president donald trump sits for a virtual probation hearing following his felony conviction in new york. just a day after telling a rally that he supports violent criminal offenders from january 6. there has never been people treated more horrifically than j-6 hostages. those j-6 warriors, they were warriors but they were more than anything else, they re victims of what happened. and a return of four israeli hostages held for eight months by hamas. a key ally in netanyahu s war cabinet resigns. what benny gantz said about the primary s execution of war as the u.s. considers unilateral talks with hamas to bring american hostages home. something andrea asked secretary blinken about today. my top priority always is to bring americans home, the most effective way to do that, to achieve them is through the proposal on the table. so, let s see if we get an answer from hamas. good to be with you. i m kat