be a risk for airplanes. scientists say there s no way to know happening now, breaking news rural trial. i m gun charges with opening statements, knowledge the expected tomorrow morning. we re breaking down the legal issues and the political stakes in this unprecedented prosecution of a sitting president s child also tonight, new evidence of the trump campaign profiting off of the former president s historic criminal trial and can the trump camp reported get raised a combined total of 141 million along with the republican national committee last month, in a huge boost in fundraising and chaos erupts as a republican-led house panel grills, dr. anthony fauci about his role in the us response to covid with gop flames if thrower marjorie taylor greene going on the attack and refusing to address fauci as dr welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer, a urine the situation room the skis, cnn, breaking news. let s get right to the breakin
but for how long sparks flying and hunter biden s trump and make it from the waist down crashes his car into the lobby of a local jail and any moment now a new verdict in the amanda knox case for lawyers looking to overturn a 16-year-old conviction all right 6:00 a.m. here in washington. a live look at the white house on this wednesday morning. good morning, everyone. i m kasie hunt. it s wonderful to have you with us. the message from the white house this morning, the border is closed right now, most asylum seekers crossing illegally from mexico into the us are supposed to be turned back after president biden took executive action simple truth is, there is a worldwide migrant. chuck crushes. and if the united states doesn t secure our border, there s no limit to the number of people may try to come here. so today i m moving past republican obstruction and using the executive authorities available to me as president to do what i can on my own to address the border the
news continues now right here on cnn happening now, breaking news, a jury was just selected and hunter biden it is federal trial, i m gun charges with opening statements now expected tomorrow morning. we re breaking down the legal issues and the political stakes in this precedented prosecution of the sitting president s child. also tonight, new evidence of the trump campaign profiting off of the former president s historic criminal trial and the trump camp reporting, it raised a combined total of 141 million along with the republican picking national committee last month in a huge boost in fundraising. and chaos erupts as a republican-led house panel grills, dr. anthony fauci about his role in the us response to covid with gop flame thrower, marjorie taylor greene going on the attack and refusing to address fauci as dr. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer, a urine the situation room the skis cnn breaking news. let s get righ
words. quite frankly, we can play a little bit more of that actually, because this comes from his audio book. the book was written in 2019. obviously, these events are in at 20:18. and here s how hunter himself describes the timeline. if i could find some new treatments, some new approach, some new lifeline i thought i could still call my way back out during the nearly four years, of active addiction that preceded district of california, which included a half dozen rehab attempts that s what i told myself after each failure. so that of course is something the prosecution wanted out there. the defense is basically saying, well, this happened right after one of those stints in rehab and he thought he was clean. how does that work? the prosecution s only challenge here really is not going too far and not appearing to vilify or demonize someone who is addicted to or using drugs because as far as prosecution s go, these possession statutes and i prosecuted them to not for drug
forward when you talk about firearms possession cases based on a prohibition, what you have here is did the individual possess a firearm and were they addicted to or using drugs at the time as far as prosecution s go, that s very straightforward. there s two elements of it. you have to prove that the that the firearm was possessed and then you have to prove the addiction either before or after on account of things that hunter biden has written in the public record and acknowledged his use and frankly, his struggled polls with addiction. in addition to the possession that s really not that hard to prove if you re a prosecutor. now on also the purchase, same thing that s largely based on so look hard to say, everything depends on what the jury believes, how credible they find the witnesses. and the testimony and the evidence that they get. but this is as straightforward and proud probably easy as a prosecutor written about it. yeah. yeah yeah. a lot of evidence. norm eisen, what you he