i m shannon bream in for bret baier, former president trump tries to get classified documents case dismissed. democrats divide exposed in the most expensive house primary race in history how research in space can help athletes here on earth. we begin went to a split screen. ahead of the first debate of the presidential election cycle scheduled for next thursday in atlanta. president biden is hunkering down at camp david for the weekend to prepare. while former president trump will be campaigning in philadelphia, considered a biden strong hold. senior white house correspondent peter doocy starts us off tonight. good evening, peter. good evening, shannon. for the second month in a row, the former president donald trump has outraised the current president joe biden and part of this trump fundraising haul is a single $50 million donation from the billionaire timothy mellon, that is considered one of the biggest political donations ever. mr. president, how is debate prep g
a heavy media focuses on hunter biden trial in the drug addicts tail and even natural suffering his defense was downright awful, so awful that even in delaware where the biden name is golden the federal georgia took three hours to convict him on all three gun felony charges, so awful that nobody was buying it, so awful he had nothing to say afterwards but d.o.j. special counsel david wise did tell the reporters the verdict was not about addiction. s choice to line a government forum when he bought a gun and the choice to possess that gun. it was these choices and accommodation of guns and drugs that made his conduct dangerous. to set up a contest for the press after donald trump a former president become a convicted felon in the hush money case the current president s son became a convicted felon in the illegal gun case two extremely different cases. after demanded the hunter must be held accountable because of his last name many conservatives immediately shifted their
howard: who s hunter biden s own voice played in a delaware courtroom that plumed the depths of his past addiction. the media are giving the trial heavy cover act as they should, but with no one coming out to talk to reporters, it feels very remoteful but it s an undeniably tawdry tale with lurid testimony from the widow of beau biden who became romantically involved with hunter after her husband s death. the argument in this trial boils down to this seemingly semantic question, whether hunter biden was doing drugs when he signed a gun purchase form and said he wasn t or just abusing alcohol at the tile. fortunately for doj special counsel, hunter biden recorded the audio, book of his memoir, so the jury not to hear his firsthand account. crack takes you into the darkest recesses of your soul as well as the darkest corners of every community. i had done it everywhere it had been in the last few months. i could get off a plane in timbuktu and score a bag of crack. i hard
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