Discuss, there you know, i m not sure it will have that much power with the jury because it s seems fairly evident from the evidence that we already heard today that he was often on right. addicted relapsing addicted relapsing. it s a very sad story, but i don t think it s terribly compelling to say, well, for these particular week, when he d just gotten out of rehab, maybe thought he was clean and that s going to make it all go away as you know, prosecutor signal that hunter biden s ex-wife could testify next in this case what will you be watching for it? well, look, i think the prosecutors have set up not just a hunter biden s ex-wife, but some of his other sort of romantic partners to testify about his difficulties with alcohol and drugs that seems to be the main purpose of calling these people. some of them were immunized hi is to give them their own interactions and dealings with some of the underlying drugs here that prosecutors disclosed today. and again, this is a situation with prosecutors are really turning his closest of friends and family against him. it s very difficult to get out from
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
The openings were a tale of two trips to the drug to the gun store. explain yeah. so it really was it s like who was in there and what were they doing, right? prosecutors say it s a simple case. he s using drugs, he s an addict. he goes with the gun store, he buys a gun, he lies on the forum case it s closed. defenses like wait a minute, you have to prove that he knowingly made those false statements. he had just been in rehab. they don t explain what it means to be an addict or a user uses are often in denial about what they re doing. he may not have had the requisite mental intent. and by the way, they say that the gun store employee actually, he goes in there for something else and the guy takes him over, shows him a gun doesn t say he talks him into it, but that s the suggestion. so really different takes on what happened. they re all designed to say if you re the defense, what are we doing here? lets you all on the jury know about addiction and so on. this man has a disease. he made a mistake. no one was hurt let s just leave it alone. let s talk about that last one because when prosecutors play parts from a hunter biden himself from his memoir
Their text messages. that has what has become part of the case now. the text messages are you should go and get rehab. she is living with somebody she doesn t trust so much that she is rummaging through his truck and that was the person who biden visited just a few days ago, hallie biden, went to her home. what do you make of all of it? the actual washington post article does a great job of laying out a lot of the timeline and a lot of the salacious and scandalous details around that time. interestingly when hallie biden first discovered the gun in the car and threw it in the trash container and the police got involved, she was looked at as a suspect for stealing the gun and ultimately turned into hunter biden insisting he wasn t going to press charges against her before all this came out that he was buying it and having the gun while using drugs. that timeline of the biden family existence is something that i think this country needs to know a lot about.
This is erika jenson, f.b.i. special agent, prosecutors brought up text messages that seemed to indicate that hunter was buying drugs in the days around the time he bought that gun. the defense team asks if there are mentions in those text messages of ounce, party favor, graham, baby powder or any photos or videos of drugs. jenson responds no. the prosecution introduced hunter s banking activity withdrawing tens of thousands of dollars. defense maintains hunter had large expenses like rehab and school admission for his daughter. abbe lowell said hunter was not in possession of the lab top but at a computer store. lowell asked the f.b.i. agent if she knew what was going on when the computer was in that store. she replied she was not there to observe it. any evidence of tampering with
Veterans affairs to pay a veteran s caregiver even if that person is a family member, how crucial pam is that? that was extremely important because it allowed me to not have to continue to work full time into focus. a lot of my attention on jason and what he needed at home it s been what, nearly 19 years since jason suffered this horrific injuries is the government from your perspective, doing enough to help they they have provided a lot of help with jason to the vha they want to do the right thing. they have done wonderful things with his health care particularly early on were a little bit challenged, though farther away get out from it because they don t necessarily have the resources to continue all of his rehab through the va. and so we ve had to turn
Tells her, tell me now, this is not a game. eight seconds later, tell me now. and she says, please don t run away, check yourself into local rehab and i have to go, the police are arriving. from the washington post, i apologize, but all of that coddling and enabling, can we say the word conspiracy outlet. emily: perfect segue to garland who said they wanted to aggressively pursue those who have lied on federal grant application, people who have been incarcerated to almost 10-year mandatory sentence, so there s a lot going on behind the scenes. but what have we seen from the administration throughout this? tammy: i want to address a moment that played out, and macbook 13 was walked across the courtroom, wrapped in plastic. the prosecutor showed it to a federal agent, they looked at
He was angry when using drugs and he was not himself, she said that she would check the cars before allowing her daughters to use them so they were not driving around with drugs. the prosecution and defense also questioned the fbi special agent erica jensen who was assigned the case last year, and they focus on the laptop. the defense pointed out that hunter biden was not in process possession of the computer, but they countered by asking if she saw any evidence of tampering and they responded no. the prosecution also reminded the court that during the premonth. meh a hundred and $51,000 was wm hunter biden s account. the attorneys maintained that it was used to pay for rehab and tuition for his daughter, but the prosecution asked if drug dealers accept credit cards and they said not that she knew of. the first lady was also here with her stepson but she did
Would recommend whole body deodorant, which gives you 72 hour odor protection from your pits to your- (sfx: deoderant being sprayed) secret whole body deodorant. three witnesses have already taken the stand today in hunter biden s federal gun charges trial. it can be hard to separate what is legally important from the salacious, tales of drug use, searching cars, stints in rehab, a broken marriage, all of it with hunter biden s mother, first lady jill biden, watching. his ex-wife kathleen buhle, the mother of three of president biden s grandchildren was there under subpoena, and she took the stand for less than 15 minutes, but in that time she painted an intimate picture of addiction, how it entered their marriage and their home, but in the cross examination by the defense, she said she never actually saw hunter biden use drugs. nbc s mike memoli reports from outsides courthouse in
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