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As naomi testified in a subdued voice, her father appeared to be fighting back tears, watching her. now a 30-year-old lawyer, naomi told jurors that when she saw her father while he was in rehab in california in august 2018, a few weeks before he purchased the gun, he seemed like the clearest that i had seen him since my uncle died, referring to beau biden, who died in 2015. and when she saw him a week after he bought the gun, her dad seemed great, he seemed hopeful. that bolsters the defense case that when he bought the gun, hunter biden was not abusing drugs. but a starkly different picture emerged on cross-examination, as prosecutor leo wise confronted naomi biden with desperate text messages she sent her dad six days after he bought that gun. i m really sorry, dad, i can t take this. i just miss you so much, i just want to hang out with you. hunter texting back, i m sorry i ve been so unreachable, it s not fair to you. ....
Case, is to call the defendant himself to testify. margaret: plus, hunter biden s daughter takes the stand. what she said that made her father emotion all. the evening news starts now. good evening, and thank you for being with us. i m margaret brennan in for norah o donnell. the prosecution rested in the federal gun trial of hunter biden. his eldest daughter took the stand today to testify in his defense. naomi biden told the jury about visiting her father while he was in rehab, just weeks before the gun purchase at the center of the case. she said, he seems like the clearest i had seen him since my uncle died. and then i told him i was so proud of him. an emotional moment that came after prosecutors wrapped their case with testimony from law enforcement officials, who spoke about drug residue and ....
Bed. you ve seen all of these text messages where he s talking about buying drugs and so to have his daughter come in and try to limit or at least undo some of the damage done by hallie biden, who was beau biden s widow? oh, and who he dated back in this period in 2018, was a really important thing for the defense to try to do. she said that in 2018 18 when he was going to some rehab, she said, i was hopeful and she thought that he looked a lot better than he had looked at in the past. the prosecution in in cross-examination got her to acknowledge that she didn t see any of this paraphernalia. and so she has no idea where it might have ended up in the truck on october 23rd when hallie biden found the gun in his truck and panicked and decided that she needed to get rid of it, which is why hunter biden is now on trial. there were 11 days where he owned ....
Do your rehab and just get away from it, it was really refreshing because i feel like the worst thing you can be is injured and mentally burnt out as well. so, you know, i was really glad i got the opportunity to come back and and rehab away from everything. what about the prospect of success in a world cup here in the caribbean, for you personally? how would that feel? it feels amazing. and this is probably going to be the first time that, you know, i could have the majority of my friends and family play at a cricket ground. it s great in the uk, but you know, it can only get four or five maximum in that one time. obviously travel and whatnot. but you know the thought that, you know, you can have so much support and everyone behind you and you don t even have to go anywhere for it, you know, it should hopefully keep me the women s tour of britain got under way yesterday but it has already been a rollercoaster for one of the teams. 14 bikes were stolen ....
Putting any of the monde and this is a real turn in this trial yeah. paula and that detail about yelling in the defense room during lunch that could be significant tourists about naomi biden s testimony because as you said, it didn t go the way the defense perhaps anticipated oversaw. let s think about naomi bad in her situation. she is an adult who is a married woman. she s graduated law school, but this is an incredibly uncomfortable situation for anyone to be in accord just talking about her father s addiction and what she observed on at least two instances where she met with him in 2018. anyone who knows, someone whose parent is an addict, anyone who is the child of an addict, you can imagine how painful this is. an eid the jury was so attentive watching her every word as she testified about seeing her father and september 2018 she said gensim in awhile and he had been in rehab and reached out and said, look, i ll arrange a trip if you ll come out and she went out there with her, ....