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>> evan perez, really appreciate you bringing that down for when i want to talk more about this joining us now is cnn legal analyst and criminal defense attorney joey jackson. so listening to evans reporting the prosecution says they're going to rest today. how would you assess that they've done so far? >> so i i'm one that believes omar good to see you that the cation i've been brought, right? this is a case that i would argue if i'm on the defense team is about a public humiliation and shaming of a problem that is shared by so many people. and so to the issues in terms of the simplicity of the case, did you lie on a form? there's an open question as to that. i would argue, did he know that is hunter biden that he was addicted at the time? was he deceiving himself? did he have the mental state? did actually deceive, right? that's where you would start if you were defending without question, that's where i would start the prosecution saying, hey, we're not shaming addiction were saying that it's improper to lie. you can't lie on a form. you can't lie to a federal license dealer. and of course you can't possess an illegal