from that wall street journal reports claiming president biden is slipping. the white house and democrats pushing back hard and boeing s starliner successfully lifting off. now headed to the the international space station. we re following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here the cnn news central some dramatic testimony in court today as former romantic partners of hunter biden take the stand in his federal gun trial. hunters former girlfriend so casten just finished testifying about hunters heavy drug use, including, she says, just weeks before he bought the gun that s at the center of this case? she also described hunters efforts to get sober, including how we moved to california to work on his recovery, but then ultimately relapsed. and this morning, hunter biden s ex-wife, kathleen buhle, told jurors about finding drugs and paraphernalia in his car on multiple occasions. including in 2018, when he bought the gun, cnn s paula reid is outs
fancy dinners they were enjoying, and some pretty salacious photos other time together that were also shared with the jury so apollo, who is the prosecution calling de the stand next now we re going to call the man who sold hunter biden this gun. that s not actually who were expecting. we re actually expecting hallie biden to be the next witness, but instead, this is another really key witness because the defense has tried to shift some of the blame on it to the salesmen arguing that he was kind of pushy, that he led hunter biden to the gun when he was actually trying to browse for other items so this is going to be a kid critical witness for the jurors to hear from were on a break right now, but that testimony should get underway any minute paula reid live outside the courthouse in wilmington, delaware thank you so much let s discuss now with defense attorney and former federal prosecutor, shan wu shang. thanks so much for being with us. you ve written that for prosecutors this ca