await a verdict in a federal case alleging president biden's son lied about his drug use when he bought a handgun in 2018. welcome to a new hour of "america's newsroom," i'm dana perino. that hour went by quick. >> bill: it sure did. good morning, dana. i'm bill hemmer. good morning at home. hunter biden is no longer in court. he will have to be there for a verdict. prosecutors say hunter biden knew he was addicted to drugs and the evidence shows that. the defense suggesting to the jury the evidence is circumstantial insisting the government has failed to prove its case against hunter biden beyond a reasonable doubt. >> dana: judge jeanine pirro joins us in a moment. first rich edson is live at the courthouse in wilmington. we're deliberating now? >> they are, dana. they started at 9:06 this morning when the judge called them back into the courtroom. she talked to them and asked them whether they had any conversations or read anything about the case overnight. they indicated they had not. they went back into the deliberation room and deliberated yesterday for an hour and ten minutes and that process is ongoing. hunter arrived here at 8:five in the morning. went to the courtroom and departed back again at 9:20 in the morning. most of the time during these deliberations we could possibly hear the jury asking questions, maybe getting some more testimony read back to them, looking to look at some type of exhibit, all of that. that will be communicated through a bailiff to the judge while that process is ongoing. hunter is not going to need to be back here at the courthouse until there is some type of decision. then they will probably once the jury indicates they've reached a verdict we'll have 15 to 30 minutes before hunter has to come back here and read it in his presence. there was some discussion going into yesterday as to whether he would actually take the stand. it was indicated by the defense they were going to consider over the weekend possibly calling hunter biden to the stand. that never happened. they decided against it and so the jury is deliberating without the benefit from hearing from the defendant himself. it's ongoing here. we'll keep you updated as we get updates. >> bill: painting on a broad brush, 25 years is the maximum sentence. three different charges and take you through each one. count one, false statement in the purchase of a firearm. that has been disputed by his attorneys. that's count one. count number two, another false statement to a licensed firearms dealer. he signed the form at the count. count three possession of a firearm by an unlawful users of a controlled substance. this is really the heart of the defense's case. they are arguing that you cannot prove that he was an addict at the time when he got the gun. take it over here and talk to the judge and get expert analysis with you ladies now. >> dana: great to have you here, judge. last night on "the five" when we left you thought there would be a verdict today before noon. do you still feel that way today? >> yes, i do. it's a straight forward case, the evidence is clear. what abbe lowell is proffering to the jury to try to get the defense to buy into their version you don't have any real pictures, you don't have this or that. we don't know he was using at the time. we didn't see any cocaine on the counter when he was filling out the form to get a gun. but the truth is that it's rare that you hear a defendant's voice belloing out in a courtroom talking how he is addicted to crack cocaine. the evidence is overwhelming it is pathetic the defense is arguing what it is arguing. it all comes to the issue of nullification. and the issue is whether or not the biden family sitting there staring down this jury from the start from jury deliberations is going to make that jury uncomfortable. i don't know if there is such a sympathy component to this. ashley has been running out in tears, one of the bidens, but at the same time when the jury looks at this in the deliberation room, they've got a guy who is addicted to crack cocaine based upon his book, the text messages, his girlfriend, his ex-wife, and the zoe car sten as well as his voice and that's the issue. do you want someone addicted to crack cocaine running around with a firearm? the answer is no. who brought up alcohol addiction? i haven't heard evidence of that. he wants you to buy into that. >> he says the lack of photos can speak more loudly than what was spoken by her under a grant of immunity. talking about the former girlfriend on the stand weiss said people sitting in the gallery are not evidence pointing to them. biden family members, you may recognize them from the news but none of that matters. what did you think of that strategy? >> it was brilliant and it was necessary and an experienced prosecutor. the family is the elephant in the room. you have got people in this small town of delaware, everybody knows the bidens. you have the first lady of the united states. you have secret service all over the place. you have all these identifiable players dressed to the nines, all lined up in a unified front when in reality it's a dysfunctional family and the jury is thinking he is okay now. we'll take care of him or over it now. no, he is not over it. he wrote a book and has a laptop. the laptop that same family wanted you to believe was a lie is a central piece in a federal case before a federal jury. so let's get rid of all of the smoke and mirrors here. here is a guy who is a crack addict who went to buy a gun and got the gun. his girlfriend, his brother's widow he is having an affair with throws out the gun because she knows he shouldn't have one. the biden administration is the administration added years to anyone who files a false application to get a gun from 15 to 20 years. that's joe biden who did that. that's the biden white house that did that. and now all of a sudden hunter shouldn't be held accountable like everyone else? he is not above the law. >> dana: plus the white house the president participating in a gun safety event later today. >> of course. >> dana: if the shoe were on the other foot you can imagine what they would be saying. >> yes, you can. there is no mercy when it comes to, you know, donald trump and but the reality is that this is clearly a case where i haven't seen evidence like this in a case, i really haven't. this is so solid it is ridiculous. you have the defendant's voice in the room belloing out that i was addicted to crack cocaine. you have the girlfriend, you have the ex-wife, you've got the widow. i mean, it's crazy. >> dana: it's crazy. what's not crazy "the five." it's a little crazy. >> we're a little crazy. have you been in new jersey lately, dana? >> dana: the verdict could come down today and you are here for everybody and you will get to hear her thoughts when that is ready. [shouting] >> regardless of your purpose in remaining you will be in violation. >> bill: last hour we showed you the chaos in the stays of new york city. in california, too. los angeles, ucla. police making multiple arrests after anti-israel protestors marched through campus, set up new tents. officers cleared the grounds already. william la jeunesse is in l.a. with the fallout. looks like we'll have a summer filled with this. good morning. >> in this case, bill, ucla did not want to let it spin out of control as before so police moved in last night after protestors set up tents, died it fountain read and vandalized buildings and threatened to set fire to a building forcing students in the middle of finals to evacuate. 25 arrested all were told to stay off campus for 14 days. those students cannot take class in person or graduate, which is friday. what we're seeing is a new strategy. stanford last week immediately called police when protestors sprayed graffiti and took over the president's office because he refused to di vest from israel. >> finally we demand amnesty for all student protestors on stanford's campus. if these demands are met we'll leave your office. >> what about those 3,000 protestors nationwide arrested? they were suspended or expelled from school. well, what about criminal charges? misdemeanor or felonies? every university is different. harvard denied degrees to 13 students. two at princeton. yale allowed a student to graduate arrested twice. u.c. schools are withholding transcripts until arrested students pass a code of conduct and brown university of texas, stanford support pressing criminal charges. johns hopkins withdrew all disciplinary measures provided students don't disrupt graduation. the top five universities. columbia, ucla, texas, northern western and ucla chancellor told congress he should have acted sooner. >> the benefit of hindsight we should have been prepared to remove the encampment when our community's safety was put at risk. >> universities saying peaceful protests or if you disrupt class, take a building it's over. the dilemma is discipline. do they suspend or punish students or do they press charges or give a warning or as some are demanding amnesty like the faculty and many student groups? back to you. >> bill: more to come unfortunately. william la jeunesse in california. want to share with you now some heart pounding images of this daring idf hostage rescue. the video made public runs 40 seconds in length. here is a big part of that now and we'll watch it together. [gunfire] [shouting] [shouting in foreign language] [more gunfire] >> bill: there is a lot of that in arabic, some in hebrew. we're working on translations so we can tell you what is exchanged in these conversations and obviously the moment is just as dramatic as it gets. >> dana: often these kinds of operations do not happen in broad daylight. >> bill: so they went into two different buildings at the same time and the daylight portion of that is kind of what took those in gaza by surprise. they went after two buildings at the same time and the reason they did that is they were worried if they went into one and not oh other they would tip off the others and some hostages would be killed. in the end they rescued four. extraordinary story. >> dana: the hostage takers and keepers tried to shoot on the hostages as they were being rescued. >> bill ackman is an american, big supporter of israel. made a lot of money no private equity. he is as outspoken as anyone. compare and contrast the tenacity israel employs to get its hostages. eight american hostages are being held by hamas, five living, three dead. what are we doing to get them home? that is something that escapes a lot of our coverage. >> dana: god bless them there. >> bill: so we will get more fallout and maybe we get more rescues. >> dana: political earthquake rocking europe. voters taking a sharp turn to the right. is that a sign of things to come even here in november? do you remember this? >> the truth is, people are dying today in nursing homes in republican states. just that democratic states had the disease worse and earlier. >> bill: what a time. october of 2020. fast forward to today, 2024. andrew cuomo is back in the hot seat. congressional panel gearing up to ask him about the deaths during the pandemic. >> dana: senate primary day in november. the balance of power perhaps hinging on that state's pivotal seat. >> i'm a grassroot candidate and clearly president trump sees that same fire, that same grit in me as well and that's why i'm proud to have his endorsement. life, diabetes, there's no slowing down. each day is a unique blend of people to see and things to do. that's why you choose glucerna to help manage blood sugar response. uniquely designed with carbsteady. glucerna. bring on the day. sara federico: at st. jude, we don't care who cures cancer. we just need to advance the cure. it's a bold initiative to try and bump cure rates all around the world, but we should. it is our commitment. we need to do this. ♪ my back got injured very bad. i was off work for about a year. i heard about relief factor from my wife... i took it every day, three times a day, for three weeks. ...look at her and i said, "the pain is gone." and she said, "i'm glad it helped." i said, "no, you don't understand. it's gone." you, too, can feel better every day with relief factor, a daily supplement that fights pain naturally. call or go online now and get 35% off your first order. in this crazy world how do you protect and grow your investment portfolio and your retirement money? the smart investor has their money in a guaranteed product that goes up with the market. their gains lock in, and when the market goes down, they don't lose money. forward with their money, never backward. and we do it for our clients every day. if you have at least $100,000 to invest, get your investor's guide and see if it's right for you. 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europe's he leitz have watched with horror trends in america. it's their own people they have most to fear, smaller countries saw huge advances by parties of the right that oppose mass immigration, reject extreme climate measures, and resist the continuing disillusion of civilization into a multi-cultural mush as only baker can right. broker immigration and the push on green energy at home resonates most but how do you see this and is this a foreshadowing? >> very much so. it is 2016 all over again, isn't it? my first year at fox. i remember very clearly having these kinds of conversations with you and dana and others. i was involved in the brexit campaign in 2016 a few months before our election here and the question was wow, that was a shock, could it happen with donald trump? could you see the same populist revolution? we did and i think there is so much there. you have slightly different issues in different countries and germany where the greens had a big part in the government. a massive push toward green energy putting up prices, people are sick of that. the big rejection of the greens in germany. france more the immigration issue where there is a sense that the culture is being undermined by uncontrolled immigration. sitting above it all just as here in america, actually it is the economy, stupid. right across europe you have this economic malaise where you have seen inflation just as we have here and you have seen a sluggish response and the establishment really sticking to their globalist ideology and not really responding to the day-to-day concerns of the people. that can return trump in november here just as it did in 2016. >> bill: a couple of the headlines and this goes back to march. a.p. news says england is limiting gender transitions. u.s. legislators are watching. march groundbreaking study undermines gender activists suicide narrative. u.s. news in july of last year, europeans restrict trans healthcare for minors. what do we learn, if anything, when they are going through a lot of this as well, steve? >> it's incredibly important. these developments just in the last few weeks actually have been a body blow to this extremist ideology that we have seen rampant throughout america over the last few years. and remember the starting point for all of the ideology around what they call gender affirming care was a small study in europe. a dutch study. handful of people in the late 90s i believe. that was the only scientific basis. you could barely call it science such a small study that justified what we've seen in terms of this extremism in relation to parents and their children and what's going on. now you have real science coming to give the real answers which is actually the same as what regular people through their own common sense have been saying for years. the u.k. study in particular is incredibly important. the former head of the society of pediatricians in the u.k. is the national health service. remember the national health service socialized medicine. they revere that. they are saying that these treatments given to kids should be stopped. no more. there is no scientific basis for it. it is a massive, massive rejection of this extremist ideology and i hope as we have already seen with the american college of pediatricians here in our country have responded to this. we need to see the whole medical establishment take notice of what's going on in europe. >> bill: thank you so much. taking notice today we shall. thank you, steve hilton. good to talk to you in california. thank you. >> they were giving every indication to the public they were shutting down this program. i worked there and did surgery there and i knew it was untrue. >> dana: a texas surgeon is facing charges after speaking out against gender affirming care for under age patients. courtene