courthouse today. hunter biden s attorney, abbe lowell told the judge they decided not to cause him after all, nor any forensic effort and they re going to wait to decide on monday whether to call a final witness, which we understand to be hunter biden. the trial will resume at 8:15 on monday. it s not clear what prompted this change of strategy, but i will say that the consensus of our team here at nbc news is that the naomi biden testimony, the testimony of hunter biden s oldest daughter did not go well on balance, for the defense. she did humanize hunter biden, she teared up and told the jury she thought he was doing well in terms of his drug addiction during the period where he owned the gun. on cross-examination, prosecutors confronted her with some very disturbing text messages and evidence that he was in communication potentially with drug dealers and we can presume that they would do the same thing with james biden.
biden campaign launching an ad, played before the first game of the nba finals, and i want to listen to part of that. joe biden has made defending our basic freedoms the cause of his presidency, and he s running for reelection to finish the job. to protect the freedom for women to make their own health care decisions, the freedom for our children to be safe from gun violence, the freedom to vote and have your vote counted. under joe biden, the sun will not set on this flag. american democracy will not break. i think it s fair to say, i m going to go out on a limb, but there are plenty of people who might be more inclined to a watch a basketball game than a presidential debate, let s say, that s upcoming. but can i ask you about that outreach? i think there are probably a lot of low information, low propensity voters, right, that may be part of that audience. how do you do that outreach? it s only five months, and five months may seem like a long time. it s such a small sliver of th
these giant blasting guns that were pointing out over the english channel, and by their valor at point du hoc it allows so many americans not to get slaughtered at omaha and utah beach. i m here in simi valley. yesterday i was with peggy noonan and all the people that were part of great stage crafting by mike deeber, that incredible spot in normandy by the white crosses and the stars of david, and it s become a place to go to talk about democracy and the cost of freedom, and so i think biden connecting it to ukraine, talking about putin being the new authoritarian threat like hitler was, you know, back in world war ii was apropos. peter baker wrote about this in the new york times, i m going to quote from him. like mr. reagan, mr. biden wants to use the inspiring story of the rangers at point du hoc for the case of americans at the