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Say shows hunter biden using drugs and around drugs at roughly the same time time that he bought that gun in october 2018? thats of course the heart of this case. its against federal law for a drug user or a drug addict to buy or possess a firearm. >> but of course, john, is this true in any trial, there are two sides to this story and the defense will also get a bite at the apple. >> theyll get their opportunity to to make opening arguments to the jury. the judge, i will be honest in the last f...

Hundred biden did not think he was an addict at the time of filling out the form with regard to that question? >> they cannot call that witness if thats now the reality that theyre facing to the defensive need to shift strategy is very quickly or yes. >> so what happens, kate is not really, ill tell you why. now i think that certainly they should have been permitted to call an expert to give a deeper dive with respect to addiction. what is the impacts? what does it do? how does a person feel? ho...

This is going to turn out that this jury, several sources close to 100 providing say they believe its favorable for them, but well see john good to have you there. paula reid, keep us posted. thank you very much. >> and joining us right now to talk about where things are headed today. cnn legal analyst and criminal defense pence, attorney joey jackson, and also criminal defense attorney bill brennan. thanks for being here, guys. joy, what are you expecting from openings or what needs to happen i...

Other drug case there are lawful users of those controlled substances. there are no lawful users of cocaine base. his best defense is i really wasnt an addict. i may have told people i was but i dont meet the medical definition or really his best defense is one of jury nullification. think about how many gop second amendment tootists there are. they dont think there ought to be any gun laws. addict, convicted felon. you will hear a little bit of a jury nullification argument over the next couple...

They say he illegally possessed the gun for a week and a half. prosecutors have signaled they may call hunters ex-wife and hallie biden, the widow of beau biden, hunters brother. a judge indicated the trial could go at least a couple of weeks. it could go into a third week when you factor in jury deliberations. >> bill: trey gowdy joins us now. good morning to you. lets talk about the facts, right? hunter was just out of rehab. he put in the application. the application asks whether or not you o...

Not hunter biden saw himself as an addict at that time? he had just finished an 11 day rehabilitation program graham, he had been living with a sober partner for a certain period of time. theyre going to look into his mind and say, was he an addict? so thats one of the primary defenses. thats going to be raised and were likely to hear about in an opening statements, the other arguments that the defense is going to raise was that form tampered with theres a form from 2018 thats on file that is th...

That hes going to give an appeals court if theres a conviction there and look, ive been an equal opportunity critic of both the trump case and this case. so im not im not weigh about, but this is not the kind of case it federal prosecutors make there make their bread and butter all. >> lets see. do you agree because obviously we dont want illegal drug users to have guns. and so do you agree that it would not never have been brought against someone else? >> im not sure it would never have been br...

Is not a case that a federal prosecutor would relish to bring them in and theyre having to allow what a book, that he wrote to say that he was using drugs. >> but also michael witnesses. i mean, theres also his own memories he was using drugs i mean. well, right. but to say, what did he were has been one appellate court a circuit thats already basically said this is an unconstitutional statute. and so now were bringing this case to say westgate. well, at some point he may have been an addict. he...

Narcotics, and the defense seems to be going for sort of a two-fold approach to defending hunter biden. one, trying to chip away at the evidence saying things like, well, the gun shop sales person, the gentleman named gordon cleveland, viewed himself, his words, as a whale hunter, trying to really push sales on the customers, not surprising, and thats what salespeople do. but then theres some indications that they may have violated their own protocol when they were going through the form that hu...

Mr. lowell spent a good deal of time saying hunter biden accepts his addiction and has been using alcohol since he was a teenager and drugs as an adult and he would use the alcohol and drugs to, quote, numb his trauma. in our common experience, most of us have some experience with folks, friends, family, who have addiction problems. i think they may try and win some sympathy for hunter biden and at the end of the day, they may suggest even if the evidence indicates that he may have, you know, im...