>> today closing arguments underway in hunter biden's federal gun trial i'll after we learned that the president's son will not testify in the case, why did the defense decide not to put him on the stand? >> a verdict could come as soon as today, plus former president trump does yet another thing. no former president has done before meet with a probation officer it's a standard part of the process ahead of his sentencing. next it's month we'll talk about what comes next and happening now, a high-stakes meeting in israel, the us secretary of state's sitting down with israel's prime minister pushing for a ceasefire after idf forces rescue four hostages in gaza. >> an array that reportedly killed hundreds of palestinians were following these major development i've been stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news central we start with breaking news, closing arguments are now underway in the hunter biden trial after calling three witnesses to testify on friday, the defense chose not to call any more today. hey, instead, abruptly resting their case without the president's son taking the stand remember a hunter biden has pleaded not guilty to three charges related to illegally buying and owning a gun while either abusing or addicted to drugs. cnn's paula reid is standing by outside of the courthouse in wilmington, delaware, and paula, we heard the courtroom is packed with hunter biden's relatives. what's happening right now? >> yeah, it was in court for a few hours this morning and i can tell you that the defense side of the courtroom was packed. the first row, the poor secret service agent helping the first lady should have bear. he can barely fit on the bench because it was not tight in that front row. the first lady had on one side of her hunter biden's wife on the other side, we're daughter ashley biden, and then the entire row was filled with close family. the first three rows? absolutely packed with close family and friends and that's notable because that is exactly where prosecutor started their closing arguments. they actually pointed to the gallery and said these people, they don't matter suggesting that they do not want the jury to be swayed by the fact that the first lady of the united states has been sitting in the front row for most of this case and said they were he did a theme of this case which is quote, no one is above the law. then they started to focus on one of the most difficult things that they have to prove here. and that is this idea of knowingly doing something that hunter biden knowingly purchased this guy. and when he knew that he was using or addicted to crack cocaine, and they said, quote, he knew he used crack at the time he bought the gun and in question. >> now, they also said that things that defense attorney because i tried to bring in, like, for example, the fact that they didn't collect the exact type of id that they need for this federal form. >> that is the store did not do that. he said, look, that's irrelevant. other evidence that has come in irrelevant, they say he knew that he had a problem with crack cocaine and they said, look, maybe if you didn't go to rehab, we could argue that he had no idea that he was an addict, but that is not the case. now, he's closing arguments are still underway and will be for a while, but they're telling the jury for the evidence they have presented over the past six days was personal, ugly, and overwhelming from my time inside the court over the last week, i can tell you the evidence has been ugly. it has been personal, but it is ultimately up to this jury as to whether this was overwhelming and proved you want a reasonable doubt. >> and paula, prosecutors revisited particularly to text messages from october of 2018, tell us why so the text messages that hunter biden was sending in the month of october, they are critical evidence because there's no direct evidence, nobody who can testify that they saw hunter biden doing are you? >> using crack cocaine during that month? they have witnesses who can testify to that at other times in 2018. but during the time that he owned the gun, there is no such evidence but he did some text messages for example, to his sister-in-law. and onetime girlfriend, hallie biden re suggests that he was either doing drugs or about to buy drugs. prosecutors have really focused on these specific defense attorneys they have they have said that look, he wasn't necessarily doing drugs. he was trying to avoid seeing hallie. and so he just made these up and there's no proof that he really was, for example, on top of a car doing crack or meeting someone they mickey to buy drugs. so this timeline is significant and today, prosecutors introduced a new evidence that would place him out of 711 that he mentioned in some of these text messages. so this is more circumstantial evidence to bolster the prosecutor's argument that hunter biden was indeed he'd using drugs during the time he owned this god and knew luck. we'll see, we'll see what the jury thinks of it. it is possible, though not probable, we could get a verdict today. >> possible but not probable, are at paula reid, we will be watching and boris, the clock is really taking here is this moves into its final phase. >> yeah, absolutely. it has been a stunning case. we want to break down the details now with senior and senior legal analyst and former federal prosecutor elie honig, le let's take a step back and talk about the key players here and the charges that the president's son is facing yeah. bars. so this case is being prosecuted by the united states department of justice through the special counsel guy named david weiss. few important things to know about him. first of all, he was a longtime federal prosecutor served under doj's of both administrations in 2019, he was nominated to be the us attorney for delaware by donald trump. and important to know he had the support of both of delaware as democratic us senators. he was confirmed unanimously by the us senate. and then in 2023, he was named special counsel by the us attorney general, merrick garland. now let's talk about the charges in this case. he's one of the charges is quite simply that hunter biden possess a firearm while an unlawful user of or addicted to any controlled substance fairly straightforward, rarely, not never, but rarely charged federal crime. that's one of the charges. and then related to that, there's two additional charges that allege hunter biden lied on the federal firearms forums specifically, there's a question that asks, are you an unlawful user of or addicted to marijuana or any other controlled substance and you can see hunter biden circled, know on that form. so those are the three charges facing hunter biden in this case. >> so we're about to watch or at least get reporting from the courtroom because we don't have cameras in there. the closing arguments. what should we anticipate from both sides? so the prosecution closes first and the federal system, then the defense closes, then the prosecution actually gets the last bite at the apple. >> they get to go again in what we call a rebuttal. here's what i think the prosecution is going to stress and the evidence, first of all, a lot of the evidence comes from hunter biden's own words in his memoir, he admits to having the gun. he admits to being an addict. we also heard during the case, the prosecutors called hunter biden's ex-wife, hallie biden, and she testified about finding the gun in his car. she testified that he wasn't drug addict sort of throughout this period. and finally, when the gun was recovered, it was in a pouch and there were traces of crack cocaine or cocaine residue alone phone with the guns. so prosecutors are going to say this is a straightforward case, open and shut, but the defense is going to have its say two and crucial to the defense is the timing, what the defense team for hunter biden has argued is that the prosecution has to show you beyond a reasonable doubt that he wasn't added from the day he bought this gun, october 12, 2018, he only had it for 11 days until the 23rd, so they're going to say prosecution has to prove that he was an addict during that time and that he knew it. that's one of the key pieces of the defense. and also the defense called as a witness. hunter biden's daughter, naomi biden, who testified he had just finished rehab a couple of months before this. she saw him in october 2018, did not directly witness him using drugs. he seemed better. she said, but she was also confronted with some text messages from hunter biden that seem to suggest he was back to using drugs during that time. and that's why the question of hunter biden's mind state in that window is so important. yes. so once the closing arguments wrap up, yep. what comes next? >> so now we are in the stretch run here when the closings are done should be today, the jury will begin to deliberate. we never know how long a jury is going to take the delivery. you and i have been through this oh, yeah. it can be quick. it can come out of nowhere. they may send notes while they deliberate, which would be asking for further legal instructions. they may want to see certain pieces of evidence. they may just have some logistical issues and eventually they will send a note saying, we've reached a verdict at which time they'll come out and announced their verdict. now that could be by the end of the show today, boris possibly, or it could be 23 days for now, juries will take whatever time they're going to take and i do think it's important to keep in mind hunter biden actually has two federal charges pending against him. this is the firearm case. federal court in delaware yeah. >> separately, he has tax fraud invasion cases in california. that case is scheduled for trial in september. so this is only the first of two federal charges against hunter biden elie, as we remember from another high profile case that was concluded fairly recently? yes. >> jury instructions are part of that process. >> the end of the case or is there anything here? here in the jury instruction process that this judge will deliver to the jury that would stand out to you that that could tilt the scale, so to speak, for the jury, the defense wants to jerry to focus on the word knowingly. that's been the key of their argument all along that he has to have known and there has to be proved that he knew he was an addict on those crucial dates. it'll be up to the jury. the gun i'm part of this case, by the way, is conceded by the defense. they are admitting he had a gun. they're focusing all on the knowingly an addict part of this case honig, thanks so much for today, former president trump takes a significant step ahead of his sentencing and his criminal hush money case. >> he'll meet with the new york city probation official, free the pre-sentencing interview. the interview will be virtual trump conferencing in from mar-a-lago, trump attorney todd blanche will also be present, and it will be trump's first meeting. with a probation officials since a jury convicted him of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records, seeing a national correspondent, brynn grass is with us now on this story. brynn, what will happen? at trump's probation interview today yeah. >> well, let's first to point out the fact that this is a little unusual, that this is happening virtually briana after a defendant has either pleaded guilty themselves or been convicted of the crimes, this procedure happens all the time. this interview. it happens almost immediately. i mean, this trial just ended a couple of weeks ago but usually the defendant goes actually to the same courthouse where trump had his trial and has the interview face. but as you just pointed out, this is virtual and his defense attorney, todd blanche, will be present, which is also an exception that judge juan roshan has made in this case, but during that interview, this is the chance for the probation officer to get a sense about this person. then the defendant. and essentially write a report that's going to be handed to the judge ahead of the sentencing. and so there's a number of questions that are asked during this interview. questions like the background of that person, the criminal history, du the abused drugs, or alcohol? 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