from that wall street journal reports claiming president biden is slipping. the white house and democrats pushing back hard and boeing s starliner successfully lifting off. now headed to the the international space station. we re following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here the cnn news central some dramatic testimony in court today as former romantic partners of hunter biden take the stand in his federal gun trial. hunters former girlfriend so casten just finished testifying about hunters heavy drug use, including, she says, just weeks before he bought the gun that s at the center of this case? she also described hunters efforts to get sober, including how we moved to california to work on his recovery, but then ultimately relapsed. and this morning, hunter biden s ex-wife, kathleen buhle, told jurors about finding drugs and paraphernalia in his car on multiple occasions. including in 2018, when he bought the gun, cnn s paula reid is outs
we should mention. and one of the stories reporters spoke to us list our the white house position has been that if only you could see the president behind closed doors, if only you could see what we see. he s absolutely sharp as attack and so this aims to find out what is the president like behind closed doors. we focused on three meetings in particular all over the court for some of the past year and there were things like mumbling, speaking in such a low voice that people could only here every other word or couldn t understand what he was saying. this over-reliance on note cards using note cards to make what we re very obvious points and using them in ways that are affected the spontaneity of the conversation cnn s mj lee is live at the white house for us. mj biden s camp is firing back. tell us about this they are firing back, but first of all, as you noted, the wall street journal reporter said that they spoke with some