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Trial i ve been not only was i a federal prosecutor been i ve been a criminal defense attorney for many years. i never showed my car, so the prosecutors. i suggest them in a call many different witnesses and what their goal was here was to put on a witness who is going to essentially tell a story that would that would generate potential reasonable doubt without having to put their client on the stand and i think the commotion was they feel like they ve done that with no naomi biden they they they presumably think that she was crowded double are sympathetic they feel like they have a juror or two who is on their sayyed or at least that s what their belief is that they got this story out there, which was that even though he had been an addict, many other times during this very brief period when he came out of rehab he was clean and therefore, he had a reason for not to check or to check before to indicate that he was not ....
That. such a difficult thing to do. so she was there to testify about two instances where she met up with her father in 2018, the first was in late summer 2018 he d been in rehab and he reached out to her to arrange a meeting. she said she went with her then boyfriend, now husband, and she said at that time her how her father was as clean and as clear as she had seen him since the death of his brother, her uncle, beau biden. she said she was really proud of him. she also testified that she saw him again in october on october 19th that s key because that is during the time when he owned the gun at the center of this case, should at that time, he was again, as clean as she had seen him in california, which had gone out to visit him in rehab and said she was really quite hopeful but at both naomi and defense attorneys appear to be a little caught off guard when prosecutors on cross-examinatio n presented her with text messages showing exchanges she had with her dad during that new york tr ....
Suddenly appeared a little nervous stan. she walked in with her husband and immediately the first lady who was seated in the front row turned around and motion to her husband to come sit right next to her. the biden family and some of the friends are taking up the first two rows of court right now and she testified on direct examination by defense attorney abbe lowell about two instances where she saw her fall father and 2018, the force was around august or september 2018 after he had gotten out of rehab, he reached down to her and asked her to come to california. he would arrange to the trip you wanted to see her? she said that she brought her boyfriend and she met with her father and his sober coaston but she hadn t seen him in a long time. but you said when she saw him, he was as clean and as clear as he had been since her uncle beau biden, hunters brother had died, she said she was so proud of him. she s so proud to introduce her boyfriend, who is now her husband, to her father. sh ....
Tears in court as his daughter, naomi, took the stand. naomi appearing very uncomfortable, trembling, also tearing up as she testified, telling the jury about visiting her dad in rehab and a late night text that he sent her around the time that he bought his gun saying in quote, i can t take this. i miss you so much and i just want to hang out naomi also testifying, quote, things got bad for hunter biden following the death of her uncle, beau biden, and that she did not see her father used drugs at any point in 2018. i want to go straight to evan perez. he is outside the courtroom and done hello. air right now and evan, a hunter biden s first real display of emotion during these proceedings, you were in that room, how powerful was naomi is testimony today it was the most powerful testimony that we ve seen in this trial. look, you ve seen a lot of low points for hunter biden displayed before this jury so you ve seen pictures of him with drug paraphernalia on behind him, passed out on ....
Notable, given that james biden was already in the courthouse ready to testify, hunters defense team says they have not decided if hunter himself will testify, and the judge has given them until monday to make the decision. cnn s paula reid has been inside of court following all the action every day of the trial. paula, do we know why the defense change strategies here it s not clear exactly what prompted this shift in strategy. they ll no longer call james biden or some other witnesses that they intended to call, but now they have a long weekend to strategize and figure out if there we re going to put the defendant, hunter biden on the stand. but this decision came after an appearance by his daughter, naomi biden. she took the stand to testify for the defense and during your testimony, she talked about two instances where she saw her father in 2018, now, the first was late summer 2018. she said he reached out to her while he was in rehab, saying that he would arrange a trip for hear ....