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Let the clock rueyn. all right. we only got about 30 seconds. miranda, youve been in the courtroon: we ha n inm. t this is home turf for hunter cop biden. abby is a goodies attorney. what do you foresee coming? they apparently will ruswhat yhe their case maybe as early as tomorroed tomorw. thats just the prosecution. and then abby law will get onk creating the sob storyg th about hunter biden and his drug addiction and his family tragedies. look, i think it could wordictik with the jury. they on...

, washe not >> hsuffering. hes not being charged with addict, hes beingakin charged with making the choice to lie to get a gun. the department of justice in 2022 pushed for an increase in the penalties from 10-15 yearse for people who lie to get a gun. so lets n not make like thist isnt something thatso they are just prosecuting because its m.th they are not. >> okay. im proud of that lock. im going to stay the rest ofre the show. ahead, dst of o the left -- dide left attempt to throw president ...

Calling your actual client to the stand because theres so much exposure, so much risk, and criminal defense attorneys are really risk averse creatures. >> lastly, two-pointer do you think the prosecution has made its case to get a conviction, and if there is a conviction what sort of sentence might hunter biden face? >> these charges are rarely brought, and almost thev brought as the lead charge. theyre usually an add onto the fbi found a cashe of guns and drugs. youch a unique situation here, s...

Was an addict or using drugs or can they create some sort of distraction in the defense in very biden-friendly delaware to cause the jury to forgive him for that? maybe i wasnt an addict that day or using drugs that day. >> gillian: real quick we have heard from karine jean-pierre from the podium speaking on behalf of the president saying he would not pardon his son. we heard it from the president himself talking to abc. take a listen. >> as we sit here in normandy, your son, hunter, is on trial...

Trial ive been not only was i a federal prosecutor been ive been a criminal defense attorney for many years. i never showed my car, so the prosecutors. i suggest them in a call many different witnesses and what their goal was here was to put on a witness who is going to essentially tell a story that would that would generate potential reasonable doubt without having to put their client on the stand and i think the commotion was they feel like theyve done that with no naomi biden they they they p...

Through this because often times addicts do not say that they are an addict. and the worst moments of their lives in the of addiction, they are not well enough to say that they are one. so, this is a tough one for both sides. >> kennedy this is a sad story. i am personally uninterested in the pictures of hunter biden and the details of his addiction, i really do hope he is better, for him and his family. 70% of americans have an addiction, so they can relate to this but this is not a story of th...

Front of him, he checked "no" on the question that asked if you are addicted to wear a user of illicit drugs. but if he puts himself on the stand, he leaves the tail for the jury that may just satisfy what jonathan truly believes is the defense prime strategy, and tha. what do you think? >> yeah, i dont like it. 99% of the time, in the 30 plus years ive been trying cases, i dont put my clients on the stand because it shouldnt have to come down to that. i cant control how my client is going to do...

Testified that she believed she saw hunter high on drugs in october of 2018, but admitted that she never saw him doing drugs around that time, but he purchased the gun. thats at the heart of this case. before the prosecution rested its case this morning, it called a forensic chemist to the stand. we testified that the powder found on the pouch with hunter bidens gun in it tested positive for cocaine. cnn chief legal affairs correspondent paula reid has been following the testimony from inside th...

Treatment facility in los angeles, that she felt good about the direction that he was headed. and that there at least would be a reasonable expectation or at least reasonable doubt for this jury to believe that when he checked the box on the form to buy the gun, he believed he was no longer an addict. i have to tell you, the prosecution did a pretty good job of throwing the narrative off. they asked naomi biden questions about the interactions she had with her father during that period of time, ...

Angling for. >> trace: i know the defence will start the case next week whats the big strategy do you think for the defence going forward? >> sympathy. the defence should call it quits should sit down with the jury do its going to do. the defence was trying to carve at this moment in time this hairsplitting defence that maybe it was an addict monday but tuesday he wasnt. thats when he applied. wednesday he is an addict. you can find him guilty. that doesnt work that way. thats not the definition...