good day. i m chris jansing live at msnbc in new york city. another new first for this country. the first trial of a sitting president s son getting under way in delaware just days after the end of donald trump s historic trial. what will the impact be both personally for the president and politically for his re-election. we ll go live to the courthouse where jury selection has been going on since 8:30. plus, the man who became the face of the covid response, dr. anthony fauci coming face-to-face with his congressional critics for the first time since leaving his post. the demand by one democrat for an apology, and what provoked an emotional response. the latest drama from capitol hill coming up. potentially devastating news for the families of israeli hostages. prime minister netanyahu saying today that president biden got it wrong on the details of a potential peace deal. and in his words, the claim that israel has agreed to a cease-fire without its conditions bein
Expect from a president. hunter biden is on trial today. there s another case later this year in september, two separate cases targeting his son. i think that fact alone really undermines and reveals the false talking points that we ve seen from literally everybody save larry hogan and the republican party. mike memoli, is the biden campaign worried about any potential downside here? reporter: well, i think as you talk to people close to the president, their concern is less about the impact on voters, frankly, than it is about the impact on the president. i ve covered the president for a long time, including when he was vice president, we saw the toll that the death of his son beau took on him and his family. in fact, you draw a direct line from beau s death to the charges and the environment under which hunter biden s addiction deepened to drugs and alcohol. so i think the concern here is that, as a father, will he be distracted? will he be concerned about the
Potential peace deal. and in his words, the claim that israel has agreed to a cease-fire without its conditions being met is not true. will a pressure campaign from the u.s. and hostage families get him to change his mind? a lot to get to on this monday. we start in delaware where for the second time in less than a week legal wranglings inside a courtroom have the potential to sway voters in what is already an unpredictable, unorthodox and volatile president election. hunter biden s charges linked to a gun purchase in 2018 and the trump hush money trial are very different legally. of course, only one involves a candidate. but politically they are fodder for arguments on both sides over ethics and fuel for the deeply divisive debate over the integrity of our criminal justice system. while trump is wearing his 34 criminal convictions as a badge of honor and raising millions of dollars, the new york times is
i didn t sap lock her up. remind us what actually happened. not quite true. quickly to tim s point, i m just a journalist out there watching and listening and trying to talking to voters. talking to voters. i don t know if this will be good for him or not. watching their strategy right now, they are very much leaning into this idea of him as a political prisoner, as a victim of this system they clearly think can gain some sort of advantage. in the context of talking about trump and jail time he was asked about hillary clinton. he absolutely said lock her up. let s just go back to the tape. lock her up. lock her up. lock her up. for what she s done, they should lock her up. it s disgraceful. so crooked hillary wait. you should lock her up, i ll
Boost to her campaign. it would have been a preposterous thing to say. color me skeptical. i think there is some fund-raising benefit. outside of that, i m still skeptical there s a political benefit. let s talk about early polls. a lot can happen between now and when people get their ballots. 52% of independents believe the jury reached the right verdict and think it should end his campaign. those double haters, the folks that don t like trump or biden, 65% say the verdict was correct. 67% say it should end trump s bid for the white house. tell us how you read that poll. those are the crucial voters, the double haters. they come in all shapes and sizes. there are some that are liberal and unhappy with biden and inflation or gaza. and some that are former republican-type voters. so i think the fact that there is such an overwhelming response among that group, two-thirds