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>> we should note, those opening statements have now concluded and both sides delivered their messages. we anticipate witness testimony to begin shortly. glenn, part of the prosecutions opening message is that while drug addiction may not be a choice, lying and possessing a gun is a choice. they also added no matter who you are, no one is above the law. how effective could that be with the jury? >> it will be effective, and the question is, how will the defense go about defending hunter biden? i...

London roberts, she could be a witness as well which is the mother of the little girl that the biden family does not acknowledge. so, the first lady was in court yesterday, and it will be interesting to see if she is in court on the day that london roberts takes the stand if that takes place. >> emily: much has been made by the mainstream media especially those unmasked at the back advocates of the biden about the addiction and everything is colored under that landscape that anyone who deems or ...

Committees for months and months who talked about smoke but no fire yet. were still waiting for the fire on that. theyre trying to tie hunter biden to joe biden, but as john points out, the american public outside of a very specific sliver of it just doesnt seem to be that interested. >> yeah. look, hunter biden struggled with addiction. we are a country that has been riddled with addiction. a percentage of this population has struggled with fentanyl and all sorts of opioids. you know, addiction...

Addict? >> sandra: thats obviously a question put to the jurors and a question most jurors said they have immediate experience with that and their families and that was really important when we heard that part. >> its huge. look, jurors had no idea what ndas were in the trump trial. they did not know how bookkeeping should be done. they have to be educated. here everyone knows an addict or had experience with that. they have their own definitions. is it someone who ever had an addiction and you ...

They are using drugs. the question says, are you addicted to drugs? and if hunter biden himself did not believe that he was at that moment addicted to drugs because he was in recovery, or his substance of choice at the moment was alcohol, and he truthfully answered no, then the prosecution will fail to meet their burden of proof beyond a reasonable doubt. all of these things are interesting. hearing hunter bidens voice himself narrating his own book about his addiction is certainly going to be p...

Breaking news at the white house. criminal defense attorneys now, as we watch this we are breaking news out of delaware as we continue to watch this trial for president bidens son, where do you see this going as they are watching the first lady department a moment ago? >> it was asked early road the defense called the person who sold the gun? at some of the prosecutors are going to do. the defense wants him to likely say listen, you dont sell to people who look like they are under the influence,...

Just making the public more sympathetic to hunter bideen? >> reporter: i think at this point it depends, katy, if youre having a legal conversation or a political conversation. and right now the only people that hunter biden cares about right now are those 12 jurors who had to listen in great and painful detail as basically hunter biden became a star witness for the prosecution while reading his audio book. and youre right, at times it was painful, it was difficult to listen to. the first lady j...

What the defense has argued is that the only thing that matters is that narrow window of time when he was alleged to have checked this box in order to purchase a firearm and at that particular moment in time he believed himself to not be an addict. so the jurys going to have to decide which of these two versions of this story that they believe. now, from the politics end of it, you know, katy, i think that the biden campaign in particular believes that this is a separate issue that is completely...

This defendants last name were not biden. i used to do these kinds of cases. i did lots of them. added convicted felons that i did fugitives from justice. at admin who had domestic violence restraining orders. theres a lot of people who cannot possess firearms. i never once did an unlawful user of controlled substances which includes prescribed drugs or an addict. so in this case there are no lawful users of cocaine base. this is not valium, this is not they are the plan, its not martin howell. ...

Of support, while prosecutor derek hines laid out the governments case, telling the jury, "no one is above the law. it doesnt matter who you are or what your name is." the presidents son, hines said, "bought a gun and lied during a background check" in 2018, knowing "he was a drug user and a drug addict" when he filled out the federal form for gun purchases. and the prosecutor painted a vivid portrait of hunter biden the crack addict, including evidence from his laptop and text messages admittin...