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Stand is to try and go after that intense mens rea of the offence whether he affirmatively knew he was an addict or consider himself an addict? the problem is hunters on text messages essentially foreclose that defence. he calls himself an addict and uses that word in the days after the purchase. the defences tried to poke holes of reasonable doubt into the meaning of the text messages. i am criminal defence attorney so i know very well sometimes you have text messages and you can argue maybe it...

Misty, that congress not kidding i want to start where paul left off, which is hunter biden testifying what youve seen from the case up to this point, the prosecutions case, theyve now rested where the defense is at this point. do you see value in hi spot on? it is a risk versus reward analysis. so heres the value. the defense came out the gate and the opening statements instead, hunter biden with not using drugs at this time. hundred biden looked at the form and didnt identify as an addict what...

Putting any of the monde and this is a real turn in this trial yeah. paula and that detail about yelling in the defense room during lunch that could be significant tourists about naomi bidens testimony because as you said, it didnt go the way the defense perhaps anticipated oversaw. >> lets think about naomi bad in her situation. she is an adult who is a married woman. shes graduated law school, but this is an incredibly uncomfortable situation for anyone to be in accord just talking about her f...

Did on the hill when he was testifying up there, a lot hi, folks. there have been focused on him attacking him and he held up pretty well under questioning up on the hill. they also believe he could add additional important context here, for example prosecutors to focus on text messages that he sent to hallie biden during this critical period in october where he was saying that he was meeting with someone they mci insinuating that he was buying drugs he was on crack and he would likely testify t...

Courthouse for us in wilmington. i also want to bring in former assistant d.a. for the manhattan district attorneys office catherine christian and msnbc legal analyst. so ken, the court just entered a lunch break, get us up to speed on whats happened today. >> reporter: chris, the testimony from naomi biden, hunter bidens oldest child, was really impactful and interesting. shes a lawyer in washington, d.c. she came into court today as a defense witness. hunter bidens attorney abbe lowell got her...

Heart of the case, but under cross-examination, she said she had no idea what hunter was doing between september and november covers the month hunter bought the firearm, gordon cleveland, the gunshot employee who sold hunter biden the gun, took the stand next and testified how hunter came into the store looking for firearm. he testified that he told hunter to read the atf background form carefully and saw him check? no. next to the question about whether he was an addict are used illegal drugs, ...

That spend weeks and hunt -- with hunter in various hotels including la high-end château marmont in 2018, same year he allegedly lied on a federal gun form saying he was on a user or addicted to illegal drugs. she testified under immunity saying from their first meeting at the strip glow he was a crack cocaine user using roughly every 20 minutes at times, she said he did want to get clean though he did not under her watch when she was hanging out with him. she said hunter gave her a coated cont...

Crack. he was super charming. everybody loved him. she testified that she saw hunter doing drugs as late as mid september 2018, several weeks before he bought the gun at the heart of the case, but under cross-examination, she said she had no idea what hunter was doing, which means september and november, which covers the month hunter both the firearm, gordon cleveland, the gunshot employee who sold hunter biden the gun, took the stand next and testified how hunter came into the store looking for...

Filling out this form maybe on a particular de on which he filed that he wasnt actually on drugs, might have only been an alcoholic, really trying to thread the proverbial needle? yes. >> could that succeed? >> it could succeed for a couple of the charges because the ideas that hes not knowingly making a false statement because he thinks the form is asking him right at this moment, are you using drugs? so maybe hes thinking, oh, they want to know, amount of sound mind that i can sign this form. ...

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