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>> they all knew, they all knew they were involved in a criminal undertaking. your thoughts to the meadows news today. >> once again, mark meadows is really at the center of all of this, but your point is exactly right, that they knew in real time that this was -- that what they were doing was a violation of the law. you know, can i just go back to your previous question why everybody is doing all of this? because one of the main reasons that they're all falling in line and saying what donald trump is demanding they say is that they do not want to become liz cheney. they fear becoming liz cheney. now, liz cheney, i think, is an honorable, decent woman of integrity who will be remembered well by history. that's not what they want. they want to be part of this. they want the jobs, the power, the access, the continued relevance. i think as we go through this split screen of 2024, and we'll spend a lot of time having a split screen, keep in mind all of the republicans who have had
boyfriend. now husband. and she said that when she met him in late summer 2018, he was as clean and as clear as she had seen him since his brother, beau biden had died, and she testified that she was proud of him and she was proud to introduce do's him to her boyfriend. she also testified that she saw him again in october specifically on october 19th, and that's key because of course the allegations here focus on the time period between october 12 october 23rd. that is the time between when he purchased the gun at the center of this case? two, when it was a discarded when she said on the 19th, she saw him, she was returning a car that she had borrowed to help move. and she said that she was hopeful that he was as clear as clean as he was when she had seen him in california. but on cross-examination prosecutors did present some text messages that she exchanged with her father when he was visiting new york that show they did have some difficulty meeting up. he would go dark for periods of time, was texting her at 2:00 a.m. but you're repeatedly testified she never saw any evidence drugs, drug
next to her in the front row with approximately a dozen other biden family members. once naomi was on the stand, defense attorney abbe lowell asked her about the two times she saw her father in 2018. he seemed like the clearest that i had seen him since my uncle died and he just seemed really great. she testified that she had not seen her father for a long time when she and her then boyfriend now husband, met him at a coffee shop along with hunter's sober coach. i told him that i was so proud of him and i was so proud to introduce peter to him. she then testified she saw her father again in new york city toolbar of 2018 during the time her father owned the gun at the center of this case, she said she met him to give back his car. she had borrowed for a move, and she testified the car was in good shape and had no evidence of drugs, adding that he seemed hopeful, but on cross-examination, naomi and defense attorneys seemed caught off guard when prosecutors presented texts between her and her father during that trip,
to the stand, f.b.i. forensic chemist who testified he found cocaine residue inside that pouch that had the handgun that hunter biden's sister-in-law and lover hallie biden tossed in the trash began 11 days after hunter bought it. whether hunter was on drugs when he bought the weapon is the crux of the argument. according to the prosecution he was on drugs. d.e.a. witnessed the prosecution called earlier combed through hunter's text messages with drug dealers as proof he was hooked on drugs. this afternoon the defense plans to call two witnesses. both are from the gun store where hunter bought the gun. jason turner ran the background checks at the store. the owner of the gun shop. defense plans to raise doubts about the form that hunter filled out which is at the center of this case, of course. the defense is going to try to poke holes in that.
probably going to need a lot of those purple sprinkles how this guy really knows his stuff tonight we're digging into new financial disclosure forms filed by us supreme court justices. >> and we're finding a treasure trove of information and high priced items from a bali vacation to bianna, a tickets provide i did by the superstar herself. cnn's bryan todd is working the story for us. brian, take us through these disclosures and what they reveal will some of these gifts or neither illegal nor unethical, but they do reveal privilege and raise more questions about whether more checks and balances are needed for the supreme court conservative supreme court justice clarence thomas finally disclosed his, one of his controversial trips. a 2019 trip to bali indonesia, paid for by republican megadonor harlan crow. that vacation was at the center of controversy surrounding travel by thomas and his wife, ginni, the investigative news outlet propublica reported last year that thomas and his wife
two in the morning details about a car pickup. while she didn't see or observe observe him doing drugs it undercut the picture that she had painted. the other thing is that she had testified when she borrowed his car that there was no drug evidence of drug use, drug paraphernalia, and the prosecutors pointed to the fact that okay. if an october 19 you didn't see any residue of drugs, you didn't see any drug paraphernalia. >> they point to the fact that an october 23, her aunt it found the gun at the center of this case in that same car, but also said she found drug residue and drug paraphernalia to prosecutors pointed out. >> okay. >> if you didn't see it on october 19th, it must have been put on in their thereafter, which was not a great point for the defense because it suggests that perhaps he was using drugs for us. >> it was a defense witness that was why i naomi was on the stand to help her father. it's not clear if that is what was achieved during her time on the stand and likely accounts for why they're totally switching up now yes. >> soon after that, apparently discord inside the defense room during lunch and immediately
want to keep on the jury. it really was the way it works. i do think, ultimately, this polling on how it's received might be even more important, but i also think that more transparency and having cameras in the courtroom might have actually helped more. like, the more people can see these criminal cases, the more they can see how they work, that's really important. also, i think this hunter biden case, even though, you know, the idea that they're charging him because he said he was an addict in the text message, i mean, that stuff is pretty convoluted, but, you know, it does make the case that the law is the law for everyone. these charges are pretty unusual, and they're doing it. there really is a sign that they're just going after everyone left, right, center. >> follow-up on the hunter biden case, you make a good point here. the president did not interfere with the investigation. in fact, he said yesterday in an interview he would not pardon his son, even if hunter were to
found at the center of this case. she said she drove it earlier up to new york where she hoped to meet up with her father. she said there were no drugs in that truck at the time. the text messages were read aloud in the courtroom where naomi was attempting to reach her father in new york and the prosecutor asked her if she knew where her father was. the prosecutor said he was with a drug dealer at the time and the prosecutor made the case that those drugs were put in the car later by hunter. another family member in court today, the first lady, jill biden. no indication she would testify. she did fly from france aboard the u.s. air force aircraft to be here today and plans to return to new york tonight for a state dinner tomorrow in paris. earlier today the defense called the gun store owner who said he had never met or talked to hunter biden in the showroom where he purchased that 38 caliber colt culver revolver, as you see here, a six shooter. an fbi forensic expert said he found cocaine residue in the pouch where it was found in the
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case, is to call the defendant himself to testify. >> margaret: plus, hunter biden's daughter takes the stand. what she said that made her father emotion all. the evening news starts now. ♪ ♪ good evening, and thank you for being with us. i'm margaret brennan in for norah o'donnell. the prosecution rested in the federal gun trial of hunter biden. his eldest daughter took the stand today to testify in his defense. naomi biden told the jury about visiting her father while he was in rehab, just weeks before the gun purchase at the center of the case. she said, "he seems like the clearest i had seen him since my uncle died." and then i told him i was so proud of him. an emotional moment that came after prosecutors wrapped their case with testimony from law enforcement officials, who spoke about drug residue and