hold it against the defendant for not testifying in his own defense the judge, though, has push back on the defense s efforts to add more language to the jury instructions that would be more favorable to 100, for instance, the idea that he would he didn t knowingly violate the law, which is something that defense is really all about. and they also wanted to they also want to make the argument that hunter biden did not think he was addicted to drugs when he bought that gun? in october of 2018? that s the reason why we re here and why hunter is facing these three federal charges that could send him to prison if he is convicted, but it s you pointed out, we could very much have this case in hands of the jury today if a hunter biden does not testify and john, i mean, the fact that we re here we had about ten witnesses. i think i was to ten witnesses or four-and-a-half days of testimony on the part of the by the prosecution s this case really is what the jury is going to be co
meetings, i billion with a b. we ve got this. honor, got this. i m kevin lived ttac at the white house and this is cnn hello again, everyone. thank you so much for joining me on fredricka whitfield, new today, emotional moments in israel as four hostages are rescued and reunited with their families after eight months of being held by hamas, the israeli military launching a dramatic raid into gaza to run turn those hostages home. but that operation also left a trail of devastation for several, for central gaza, there were reports of more than 200 killed and the salt and hundreds more wounded also knew today a potential shakeup in israel s emergency government prime minister netanyahu. now asking war cabinet member benny gantz to stay after reports that he and his national unity party would withdraw from the government. gans postpone that news conference set for today after the rescue of the four israeli hostages. cnn s paula hancocks. and priscilla alvarez have been tr