president and the former president, one stage moderated by jake tapper and dana bash good morning. >> you relied on cnn newsroom. i'm jim acosta in washington right now in delaware. >> hunter biden's fate is in the hands of a jury. the president's son arrived in court this morning as jurors resume deliberations in his federal gun trial and just about a half hour later, he left the courthouse in wilmington. >> hunter biden is accused of lying about his illegal drug use when he bought a handgun back in 2018, if convicted of all three charges, he could face 25 years in prison. cnn's evan perez drawing this is from outside the courthouse in delaware. evan wasn't expected that hunter biden would only make a short visit there as the jury deliberates, what's the latest no, jim, i think we didn't anticipate that he would be able to leave during the time that the jury is deliberating. >> typically defendants have to sit here like the rest of us as we wait for the jury to complete its work. >> but look, i'm not every defendant has a secret service detail and a whole security operation in order to get him an out of inside and outside of the courtroom. >> and we know that the biden family has a little base of operations at a hotel nearby. we expect that once they know there's a jury, of course, 100 by biden will come back perhaps the first lady will also be here. she's been here supporting him throughout this entire trial and the jury has now been inside for just they've been deliberating for just over for two hours. they did a little bit yesterday and then they'd been back today. >> and the last thing they heard was obviously the closings from both sides prosecutors had some really tough words to push back on the prosecution, which is really doesn't have a lot to work with. >> right. there's overwhelming evidence. the 100 biden bought the firearm in october of 2018. we know from all the text messages from videos, from photos that they've shown in court, and from his own words and his own in his own memoir, that he was using crack cocaine around the time of this incident. so what abbe lowell his defense attorney, focused on was that the problem? that's the question, didn't have direct evidence that hunter biden was using drugs in october of 2018 and that he said to the jurors was reason for there to be reasonable doubt that he knew he was lying on that form when he filled it out to get the background check. and by that firearm in response to that, we heard from derek hines the prostate, one of the prosecutors who said luck there's no doubt that anyone who puts a crackpipe to their mouth every 50 minutes knows he's an addict. and so he pushed back on some of the accusations from the, from the prosecute from the defense and that's the last thing that the jurors heard before they retired to the jury room to start to deliberations all right. i'm perez. thank you very much. keep us posted. we appreciate it. let's continue this discussion, joining me now cnn, political commentator, republican strategist, or michael singleton, cnn legal commentator and former attorney for donald trump, tim parlatore and cnn special correspondent jamie gan, girl. tim, let me start with you first i mean, obviously we can't predict what the jury is going to do here. but what do you think? do you think the prosecution has made the case or might there be? >> a chance here that hunter biden might be acquitted. so i think that they they did a fair job up until the rebuttal case the rebuttal case to me was really the prosecution's greatest evidence of all. and i read through the jury instructions specifically on the issue of addiction and use, and they do you have to show that it's during the time period that ago the gun and a lot of what they had was before it was after and they didn't really target in on the specific time period until the rebuttal case which you would have hoped they would have done in their case, chief, but once you've got those text messages from the de of the purchase i think that that really strengthened the prosecutors case. it's your mind. i mean, just going off of what evan perez was highlighting from the closing arguments. i mean, it sounds as though the prosecution is really hammering hunter biden over his abusing drugs. might that backfire because a lot of folks out, you know, people have family only members, friends who battled addiction. it's something that we all can relate to somebody that we know in our life. could that backfire because the jury might, one of the jurors might say, hey, wait a minute, they named this guy just like me, maybe sympathetics may have a family member who's also dealing with addiction. millions of american families are i will say to be transparent, i own firearms company. i want to be transparent for audits. so this is an arena i spent a lot of time in the brewing verse new york case really does change the dynamic. i would argue tim in favor of hunter biden, even if he's found guilty, i would argue he would be successful on appeal because the fifth circuit last year stated that you cannot ban someone who a use an illegal substance from being able to possess a firearm. i think that's certainly benefits the second amendment. absolutely so what's fascinating about this, ty cobb who jim is that conservatives who've made despised president biden may look to hunter biden, who may bring this all the up to the supreme court to have further changes to the second amendment a lot of 2a advocates have been advocating for, for two or three decades now and jamie, thanks for being with us. >> well, i i wonder what the impact will be on the jury is seeing the biden family throughout all of this. the first lady being there what's your sense of them luck jurors are human beings. >> we talked about this a lot in the trump trial, and there is no question that those jurors know who joe biden is, that it's the first lady having a family there. i'm guessing the lawyers here would say that having family members is always good. in a courtroom for a defendant but generally, this is the first lady. >> i mean, correct. career has basically been hunter biden's mom correct? >> i think it has an impact. >> the jury was told to ignore the prosecution said, don't pay attention attention to that. >> maybe that makes you pay attention to it a little bit more i don't know. but at the end of the day, i think what's very important is what you're michael was saying about americans being aware of people with addiction i believe that from the volodymyr, we know that some of these jurors have family members i think that what will happen here is, look, did he have an addiction problem? absolutely. do we hear it in his own words when they played the audio recording of his book. absolutely is there this vague period of time when he buys the gun that may be cast a little doubt on it yes the question and i don't know the answer is what is reasonable doubt? >> what is beyond a reasonable doubt in the case like this? >> yeah. in tim, i mean to that 0.1 of the questions that i have is i might the jury just essentially say, okay, you know, hunter biden, you get a pass on this one i just wonder. are they going to say, okay, there's enough here to convict? what do you think? i think they could? i mean, the jury the jury instructions are very lengthy, but i really focused in on the judge's definition of use and addict and the definition of addict is quite frankly, in my opinion, terrible because it says an attic to somebody who's addiction is such that they can't control their impulses with respect to the addiction. and so this is a crime. there isn't prosecutor elie honig was on yesterday. curious, said and other programs just isn't this isn't prosecuted that much might be aware of that and it's very rare as a stand-alone. yeah. yeah if you have a crime of violence and then you add onto it, how did they get the gun? that's something that they do. >> it can be an add-on but as a standalone to share michael's point, this is such an interesting case because it takes the parties and and a flip-flop some because think about every time there's a mass shooting event and the one side is saying we need stronger gun laws. >> the other side is saying, why don't we enforce the gun laws we have if we enforce the gun laws, we have this person never would have bought it. and the first-person doj decides to actually try and enforce said width is hunter biden yeah. >> all right. it's very weird circumstance really quickly here when you go to purchase a firearm, when you can, please four and 44, 73, which is a document for the first two charges, it's ran do the next system. >> the next system is a national database that would tell and nfl if you've committed a crime, if this were not hunter biden, if it were not for the document or the laptop, there will be no clue if he would have utilized drugs or not. so he would've been able to lawfully hold that gun without anyone knowing. so this is a focus case to me. i have my differences with his father, but in terms of being firearms owner and someone who owns a firearms company, you don't want individuals who may have an addiction problem to not be able to defend themselves particularly when it's a son of a president who knows how many threats he's getting basis and jamie, it also, i mean, just to go to thames water out, everything being flipped on its head. i mean, we've had all these discussions about a trump's complaints about a two-tier justice system and then weaponized against him. and so on. >> so let's family's been put through the wringer on this case for sure. >> let's talk about what has not happened in this case. >> first of all, 100 is not a candidate for president. so that's number one but we have not heard hunter biden come out and have a press conference every day and say the judges corrupt the system is rigged. that this is a witch hunt i mean, they, the biden family and his father is present in the united states. this is according to donald trump, his justice department this is the opposite they are very painfully and i'm sure they're all wish this wasn't happening. but there is nothing attacking the rule of law and the justice to work all right, very good. sure. michael, tim, jamie, thank you very much. appreciate the conversation this morning thank you very much. i still communist our private conversations caught on tape i want sacred heart of jesus glad because i had to look cross the lagoon at the pride flag for the next month justice samuel alito's wife, talking about a new flag and secret recordings just made public. >> we'll talk about that just a little bit, and we're falling breaking developments from israel were prime minister benjamin netanyahu appears poised to sign up on president biden's ceasefire plan. we'll talk about that in just a few moments back in a moment the most anticipated moment of this election and the stakes couldn't be higher. the 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president biden laid out ten days ago, this three-part plan to try and bring to close this war. now, notably, there are some parts of this statement that don't exactly reflect the plan that president biden laid out, but the fact that the prime minister's office is coming out with this statement and saying this now is it's noteworthy, it comes just after the secretary of state met with prime minister benjamin netanyahu just last night in israel. and the secretory told us traveling with him. we're now in jordan, but we were in israel this morning. he said that the prime minister very cool clearly to him said that he would be on board for this proposal if hamas agrees to it, indicating that there is an ironclad commitment on behalf of israel to push forward a ceasefire or hostage release deal. and then of course, move towards what could potentially be a more permanent, lasting ceasefire. but but the questions they're over permanent ceasefire or a specific amount of time for a ceasefire still remain, but we should also note, jim, that this comes as the secretary of state has been pushing all parties in the region to try and continue putting pressure on hamas to accept the deal on the table that the israelis put fourth for them. and he also came out this morning speaking with reporters partially in response to the wall street journal's new reporting today on messages that the political, excuse me, the military leader of hamas, who is believed to be somewhere hiding in the tunnels underneath gaza, has been sending to the political part political folks of hamas in doha. and these are incredibly detailed messages indicating that sinwar, yahya sinwar, who is that military leader? believes that hamas has an edge up on israel right now. and what the secretary of state says is it's very clear to the united states that when it comes to decision-making on behalf of hamas, it is sinwar who's going to be making those decisions. listen to what he said to reporters earlier today it is a hopeful sign just as statements of a issued after the president made his proposal ten days ago, was hopeful, but it's not dispositive what it what is dispositive? at least? >> what so far been this positive one way or another is the word coming from, from gaza and from the hamas leadership in gaza that's what counts, and that's what we don't have yet. >> i don't think anyone other than the hamas leadership in gaza actually are the ones who can make make decisions now in one, of these alleged messages as being reported by the wall street journal, sinwar says that the desk of the palestinians are quote necessary sacrifice is just giving you an indication, jim, of the person that the united states and of course israelis are dealing with in these credibly tough and ongoing negotiations all right, i very important development, kylie atwood in amman, jordan four is kylie. thank you very much. let's bring in cnn global affairs analyst kim dozer and cnn military analysts. major general james spider marks kim. >> let me go to you first. you're in the studio with me just to react to what kylie it was just saying a few moments ago, israel appearing to be poised to formally agreed to biden ceasefire plan. i mean, that's still sounds a little squishy, but it sounds as though from what the secretary of state was saying a few moments ago, they're waiting on hamas it's putting the pressure on hamas. it's also putting the pressure on the various countries and communication with hamas to get to a yes, we've had some indications from the terrorist group through public statements, but not a formal endorsement. but we could be on the precipice of seeing another exchange of hostages now, the problem is, it's a phased deal and it can break down along the way, but it could mean great news for the hostage families that they could get some of their loved ones back in, general. >> your sense of this this is fascinating that the israeli government would say this how do you, what do you make of all this? well, i think kim indicated this is great news. if if there could be some exchange of some of the hostages and start making progress in that regard. the challenge truly is if it is a phased withdrawal and there is a period and interregnum between. here's the start and here's the next phase. and what are the conditions that must be met? the idf is going to continue to conduct operations during that period, even if there's an initial return of some of those hostages. look in their mind, the job is not done. there is still infrastructure that needs to be reduced. there are still key personnel that need to be killed or captured. and we saw the raid that took place just three or four days ago. this was an incredibly precise operation, but it turned into a massive gunfight, which means hamas has immense capacity not only to engage, but also to sacrifice greatly so you could see where the idf might say are israel might say, yeah, we're good with this ceasefire but there's a period where we want to