i m ana cabrera reporting from new york. andrea mitchell picks up our coverage right now. right now on andrea mitchell reports family matters, the first lady shows up in court as the jury selection begins for hunter biden s trial, a trial that the prosecution says will include testimony from his late wife and laid brother s widow. the white house is pushing back on bibi netanyahu s saying that he did make the proposal. former president trump railing against his conviction and raising a ton of money and supporters since his verdict. next up, his meeting with propace officer and sentencing next month, just days before the republican convention. i m okay with it. i think at a certain point there s a breaking point. good day, everyone. jury selection has begun in wilmington, delaware, for the first criminal trial of a sitting president s son. first lady jill bide is not in the courtroom along with hunter s wife, his sister ashley and her husband, the president s son
How do they plan to handle this very personal case in the middle of a presidential campaign? reporter: well, they re doing this by closing ranks around hunter biden. we as reporters are looking at the former president donald trump s conviction last week, the start of this trial to look at whether either of these legal proceedings might move that very unhikable electorate so far in an election. those close to the president are look may affect the president, of course, the candidate in this race. the reason for that is they know how concerned president biden is for his son at this point. you can draw a direct line from the death of beau biden nine years ago to the struggle that hunter has gone through since then, the deepest of addiction came during the time period that had by magnified during this trial. the first lady of the united states, on her birthday no less,
Separate counts in this case for a total of 25 years in prison with a conviction. frankly the evidence seems strong. i know in my former office, we typically brought these kinds of cases only if we believed the defendant was in in sway a danger to public. nonetheless,i clear if you re addicted to drugs, you can t have a gun. according to the indictment, hunter biden said he was not addicted to drugs, which i think the prosecution will aim to show was false. it seems that the etched is strong. now, whether ultimately he will receive any prison time for this i think is a much closer question. mark, one of the things that s very clear is this family is rallying around him. it wasn t necessary to be at the state dinner last week, but they re showing a real show of
First of all, this gun case was supposed to be resolved. remember, a year ago we were all waiting for the plea deal to be accepted, and then the judge rejected it, saying that all sides didn t have a full understanding of what was involved. i don t know about the lawyering involved, but boy, that really blew up in their face. now he s got a tax case in california now scheduled for september right before the election. yeah, it really did. i think the judge who was asked the right questions, which is specifically whether there would be any fir investigation into other crimes, like fara, and she revealed to the parties they had not reached an agreement on that. the prosecution thought it was still fair game, the defense
Thought it was a wrapup of everything globally, and then they both backed away from the deal. that leaves us back to square zero, and i americanly find the tax case to be a bit more serious. they re not always brought. it depends on the tax loss, but it also brought more frequently if there s also an effort to conceal other illegal behavior. that appears to be the allegations in the hunter biden tax case. mark, there any evidence at all of political interference by the justice department or by the president in what the justice department is doing here, as republicans are claiming? you know, despite those claims, they have not been able to point to or proud any interference whatsoever in the independent counsel s investigation. the type of case we re showing here is a difficult thing to be used as an example. against, the evidence is fairly