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correspondent david spunt is in wilmington, delaware tonight awaiting a verdict. david, good evening. david: trace, good evening. jurors will be back tomorrow for day two of deliberations. they deliberated about an hour today before going home. over the past week we saw salacious text messages, pictures in the courtroom. even high profile people sitting in the audience. but, in the end, it s all about this one gun form, hunter biden filled out in october 2018. hunter biden s attorney abbe lowell offered no reason for his client deciding not to testify in his own defense .38 caliber revolver. such a move would have been strategically risky. opening the president s son to likely intense cross-examination. in closing arguments. prosecutor pointed to more than a dozen msnbc of the biden family in the audience saying they don t matter. only the evidence does. which he called, quote: ugly and overwhelming. another prosecutor added no one is above the law. including the pr ....
simply unthinkable! norah: plus, we hear from the greatest generation. what were you fighting for? freedom. norah: the cbs evening news starts now. 80 years later, the world remembers the soldiers, sailors, and airmen of the allied expeditionary force. good evening. i m norah o donnell, and thank you being with us. the sun rose over normandy s cliffs this morning, just as it did on june 6, 1944, as the liberation of western europe began with the largest amphibious invasion in history. president biden joined other world leaders to honor the bravery and sacrifice of the d-day heroes. he drew a straight line from the fight for freedom in world war ii to the fight against russia s aggression now, saying, freedom is worth it. democracy is worth it. the world is worth it. cbs mornings anchor tony dokoupil is at the american cemetery in normandy. good evening, tony. reporter: good evening, norah. you know, with all world war ii veterans now in their upper 9 ....
Exactly right. if so alex acosta has been consistently disappointing some of the conservatives in the administration, particularly people like the domestic policy council, mick mulvaney, the new white house chief of staff, people who want them to be much more aggressive on regulation. you now have a lot of vulnerability on the substance and then you have this issue emerging where you do have, you know, yes, true, not many were republicans on the hill, but it provides an opportunity for some of the people who want him out anyway to use that as a lever to get him out. bret: you did a big piece of vetting, or lack thereof. he was one of them. no. we got leaked a huge amount of the vetting documents internal. alex acosta s was not one of them. i m told that when the president decided, there really wasn t substantial vetting done on him, which is not a surprise to me, because that was the case with a lot of people and you may remember the first person that they selected for labor secret ....
It betrays our principles. so why would you persist in it? to me, that s always been the real scandal. the fact that, you know, it was flagged to him that petraeus disagreed with him and he still met with him, fine. that s actually it s going to meet with the people you disagree with. but what it never seemed to do is make him think, wait, david petraeus knows a hell of a lot more about this subject than i do. maybe i should rethink my position. he still to this day has never renounced that view that the united states military should engage in torture. just think about that, in violation of geneva convention. we have a president who actively asserts and endorses that view. let s talk about more vetting documents here because chris ka ....