politics i am the president, but i am also a dad joe biden, in the complicated pander and chief candidates for reelection and concern father as his son sits inside of delaware courtroom facing criminal charges brought by it biden, justice department plus file and error. donald trump's conviction on criminal charges rallies republicans to his side while democrats are divided on this question, is branding trump with a convicted felon label, help or hurt their chances at stopping has returned to the white house and capitol hill flash at this hour, republicans are grilling dr. anthony fauci on his tough and controversial decisions during the covid pandemic. >> i'm dana bash so let's go behind the headlines and inside politics we start right now. we are going to go right up to capitol hill and we're going to get into that hearing. marjorie taylor greene is questioning dr. anthony. >> good okay. we'll we'll take that as a you don't know what you represent. this as director of the nih, you did sign off on these so-called scientific experiments. and as a dog lover, i want to tell you this is disgusting and evil. what you signed off on, and these experiments that happened to be goals, paid for by the american taxpayer. and i want you to know americans don't pay their taxes for animals to be tortured like this. so the type of science that you are representing mr. fauci is important and it needs to stop mr. fauci, you also represent the type of science that you where you confess that you made up the covid rules, including which six feet social distancing and masking of children. >> i never said i made anything else. you admitted that you made up you might say, well, i made it up. >> there. were you saying was fake news, mr. now, let's say i made anything up. >> what did you say? i said that it is not based in science and adjust appeared, but this is science what is dogs have to do with anything that we're talking about today is your scientific experiments. >> this is what she signed off on, but you also told the american people they had to distance by six feet. they had to wear mask but let's also talk a little bit further about the type of science that you represent nih scientists made $710 million in royalties from jug, drug makers. >> a fact that been hidden. >> let's talk about the fact about is it right for scientists and doctors getting paid by the american people government taxpayer paychecks to get patents where they're paid millions and hundreds of millions of dollars and royalty fees especially when the nih and these government agencies must powerful agencies he's in our country are recommending medical suggestions and advice and making up guidelines like six feet, distancing and masking of children. do you think that's appropriate to the american people deserve to be abused like that, mr. fauci, because you're not doctor, your mr. fauci and my few minutes no, i don't need your answer. i want to talk about this right here mr. chairman. >> objection objection. >> i reclaim my time. i reclaim my time. >> mr. rafah, lady wearing the border end mr. chairman of order, just in terms of the rules of decorum, are we allowed to deny that a doctor is a doctor just because we don't want him to be a doctor yes because in my time that man does not deserve to have a license is a matter of fact, it should be revoked and he belongs in suspend the gentlelady should recognize the doctor as a doctor okay. >> we're going to come out and talk for a minute with our panel here specifically with manu raju. and we have a lot to fact-check. we're gonna get to that in a second. >> manu. >> this is something that republicans who are in charge of the house this is sort of one of their top issue. >> and he is one of, if not the top bogeyman separate and apart from the president of the united states. and now they have the gavel. and even though anthony fauci is retired, they do have the ability to call him before congress, which is what is happening. i should say, the dog picture and some of the other things that she was pointing to we will look into, but what are your thoughts? you talk to these republicans all the time of dr. are on the way in and she said a lot of this is very similar things and she went on to call him a mass murderer or even going going as far and as extreme that kind of rhetoric, blaming him for the pandemic and every, all the millions of deaths and people who are ill throughout the course of it. of course, the question is, how much of that is actually true? a lot of it is republicans running with very little and trying to cast anthony fauci blaming him for everything that essentially went wrong. you're right. he is essentially been the boogie man all along. these hearings are essentially what they are, is the address right against a member of congress, a chance to rail about whatever subject they want a real about. not really give the witness a chance to respond. they're calling him mr. not calling a doctor, not giving fauci any opportunity to respond. we'll see how much more he does as the democrats come. there'll be an opportunity for the democrats to robot. what marjorie taylor greene has to say i'm going to just away. >> yes. and we're going to we're going to come to that as soon as that happens every is that happening now, ben okay okay. and as we wait for that to change, we're also hoping to get lauren fox, who's a reporter covering this up there you hear a lot. kristin from the trump campaign and from republicans in general about dr. anthony fauci he was in charge of the covid response when donald trump was president, donald trump put him there. i mean, mike pence was the was in charge of the task force, but he listened to anthony fauci particularly at the beginning. yeah. i mean, i think by the end it was clear that there was a rift between them, but donald trump is continue to blame everything that went wrong with the pandemic response on anthony fauci. >> he has become a villain, as you said, and four indictments and a conviction ago before all of this, donald trump was planning on running really with fauci being the boogie man because they were more concerned about the covid response, particularly during the republic i can primary when desantis was saying he kept the state open and donald trump closed it we know that donald trump is still asked about this all the time. he was asked about an interview with meghan kelly. do you regret listening to anthony fauci? do you regret giving him an award, a metal he said, i don't know who gave him that. what was the presidential medal? so he really came from the white house. i'm gonna go up to capitol hill now, lauren fox is with us. lauren, you have been listening to the whole hearing so far? and there has been a lot of back-and-forth about a lot of different things separate and apart from what we just heard briefly from marjorie taylor greene give us a more fulsome some sense of what is happening in that hearing room. >> yeah. >> i mean, the room is really tense. i was in and out of that hearing room over the course of the last several hours. and obviously the test steam one, you just heard from marjorie taylor greene really gets at that tension in the room, but it's not just her who's questioning doctor found cheese time at nih has legacy at nih. his time and management of the pandemic specifically getting the vaccine from the beginning to the end we could get shots and arms just within about a year's time, almost every single democrat who talks to dr. fauci before they begin their questioning. thanks him for his time and whose service meanwhile, you have republicans really questioning every decision he was making during what we should point out was a very chaotic and uncertain time when the pandemic no began and that is everything for masking guidelines to distancing guidelines. and you heard dr. fauci outlining it was not ultimately his decision to decide that six feet was the proper distance. he said that that was a decision that was made by the cdc republicans questioning why he wasn't publicly questioning decisions from the cdc. and i think it is just important and democrats have been pointing this out as well to lay out the fact that at the time in 2020, there was a lot that was unknown about the coronavirus pandemic. there still is some questions about the origins of this pandemic, and that is another area where republicans are going after dr fauci. meanwhile, democrats arguing that it is irresponsible to say that dr. fauci isn't any way responsible for the origins of this virus and this pandemic all right, and i'm just getting a text from somebody who was working on these issues inside the administration, the trump administration reminding me that it was dr. burke's deborah burks, who was in charge the doctors like anthony fauci were under her leadership life for everybody. covid is kind of kind of a blur, but incredibly important. lauren, thank you. please keep us up to speed on what's happening in that hearing room. we do now want to go up to delaware where it is a historic day. president biden's son, hunter, is in a federal courthouse, joined by the woman he is called moms since he was a little boy, the first lady of the united states, jill biden today, jury selection is beginning setting in motion a courtroom drama that will captivate republicans and make life harder for democrats. hunter biden is facing gun charges, charges brought by his father's justice department the president is not there, but he did release a statement. mine does straddle the line between his oath of office and promised to stay out of justice department business and his duty as a father. he said, quote, i am the president by him, but i am also a dad. he wrote jill and i love our sun and we are so proud of the man he is today. hunters zillions in the face of adversity and the strength he has brought to his recovery or inspiring to us as the president, i don't and won't comment on pending federal cases. but as a dad, i have boundless love for my son, confidence in him and respect for his strength when you get right to cnn's evan perez, who is outside the court where jury selection is underway. evan, what can you tell us well, then i worry about three-and-a-half hours into this jury selection some processor about 250 prospective jurors who are in the building and we already seeing a lot of the themes that will be at the center of this trial already showing in the questions that jurors are facing and in some of their answers, the issues of addiction and recovery that you just mentioned, and of course, gun rights there was a moment, a short while ago where hunter biden's lawyers, abby, abby low and stickler, signaled that he wanted to strike a juror move a juror from the pool from consideration because he said that he believes donald trump, but not democrats or victims political prosecution. >> he is a retired wilmington police officer. he brought up donald trump's new york trial. he brought up the trump russia investing the asian and said he believes that prosecutors, as a result of this, he believes prosecutors pursue some cases for political reasons. we also heard from a member of potential juror who told the judge about her parents suffering, struggling with alcoholism and trying to get clean and she said she believed it would be easier for her to adjudicate a case like this because she understands those issued. another man whose voice broke because he talked about family members struggling with this issue down evan, thank you so much. really appreciate your reporting and my panel is here with me, including kevin lip tech, who covers the white house for us and kevin, i just want to read for our viewers part of the story that you wrote this morning, you wrote for the president, the legal problems facing his son had been reason to pull him close rather than push him away. joe biden has paid a little mind to some of his allies who questioned the approach instead, his concern for his son's well-being surpasses any potential political fallout. >> adviser said in some cases, you could look at that and say, oh, that's spin. >> in this case, it is it seems to be by all accounts exactly what is happening. yeah. and i think the reason for that is this case centers so much on such a painful moment in the biden family we history. it was around the time that beau biden has passed away. it tells with the darkest issues of addiction that we're really grappling that family was grappling with at the moment. and what you've seen, the biden family do really over the last several days that we've notice very specifically is hold hunter biden very closely, for example, they were at church together over the weekend president biden and his son went on a bike ride in rehoboth. really, there is no attempt to put any distance between themselves and, you know, when you talk to people president biden is sort of consumed by this. he has been consumed by this over the last several years, really with a concern for his son's well-being. they talk almost every day either on the phone or by text. this is a very, very close relationship, and i think for president biden certainly he is going to continue his job as president, for example, he's going overseas end of this week. but as a father, this is something he's paying very close attention to. heat, isn't wilmington today? he's spending the day there and certainly i think as a family there watching this very close and just as or maybe state the obvious when you say hold i'm close and other members are holding him close he he's an addict and he's he's recovered. >> he is recovering but this is something that is quite typical if you know, anybody who has people who are in recovery and their family making sure that you are in close contact with them, particularly under timess times of stress is really key and i should remind, our viewers that this is a trial that wasn't supposed to happen because there was a plea deal. and the deal fell apart for lots of reasons. now, you see him in the court there in wilmington at the beginning of a long process. >> yeah. and normally a trial like this with people were not charged necessarily with this and this in cases like this, unless they use the gun in a crime or things of that nature. >> so this is also unusual in that case and that there are some who would say that if hunter biden was not the son of a president, he would not be going to trial right now but, you know, i think that over these past couple of weeks we have seen that no one is above the law with this state law or federal law. and even though this is a political show, i do think this is really, it is something we're going to talk about is worthy of being discussed, but it seems like by all accounts, biden, this is his son and so regardless of the political implications, he seems to be thinking of this. this is my son. this is who i love, and i'm going to stand beside them and not really think about the political implications of it. >> and then i talked to a bunch of democrats this morning about whether they've concerned about the prospects of a conviction, whether have an impact on joe biden and they are making the case that this is hunter biden. he's not running for president desert. jamie raskin told me he said hundred button is not running for president donald trump is running for president. he said that they're trying to make a distinction that they respect the judicial process, they respect the judicial system. it does come down to an conviction and they're not going to necessarily real on the judge, real and everything the way that we have seen donald trump and republicans do on that side. so we'll see how much voters actually give them credit or non-credit for, and how they handle this. >> yeah. all right. everybody standby up next the aftermath, the political world is still taking stock of donald trump's felony 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