negotiations between israel and hamas and what we re hearing from the families of hostages about this potential deal. great to be with you. it s 10:00 eastern. i m ana cabrera reporting from new york. breaking news in wilmington, delaware, this morning where for the first time the son of a sitting president is standing trial not far from his father s election headquarters. hunter biden s federal gun case beginning this morning with jury selection. he faces three counts tied to possession of a gun while using narcotics. he has pleaded not guilty. this trial coming just days after another historic first, donald trump s guilty verdict on all 34 counts in his new york hush money case. nbc news justice and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian is outside the courthouse. nbc news white house correspondent monica alba and criminal defense attorney, danny cevallos. court has been in session for about an hour and a half. what can you tell us, ken, about what s happening so far?
was a few weeks ago to pick a jury in new york for a former president. this will be anti as difficult as it was in the new york state criminal trial of donald trump. in new york state lawyers are much more involved in the jury selection process. when you re in federal court, it really is the judge s show. this is not a place where you re going to see a lot of attorney involvement and direct attorney interaction with the jurors. when you re in federal court, the judge handles the questioning, the judge handles the voir dire. the attorneys are present for everything, whether it be at sidebar talking to a potential juror. but this is going to be the judge s show. yes, the attorneys have had input up until now about the questions that are going to be asked, but expect this to move probably a lot faster than maybe we just saw with the last major trial which was last week of the former president, donald trump. you can t ignore the timing, right? right after the verdict in that trial. how d
version until i know it s going to pass in the senate. they re up for re-election and may have a tough district, tough re-election next year. they re asking leadership, before you put this on the house floor, we need to know it s in sync with the senate. we need leader mcconnell s input. that s a job for our president, r speaker, leader mcconnell, to comeup with what the senate will accept. that s the vote we should have in the house. ultimately it will be conferenced anyway and come back to the house. we might as well get it right on the front end. if people don t like what we have now or if the senate says it s doa, and i m not part of the senate, they need to give us the input up. don t like what we re doing. it s not perfect. we accept you might want some changes. what are your changes? we need 50 votes. we need 50 out of 52 votes in the senate. we can put that back through the house, through our rules committee and put a similar bill