In civil law, when one party has destroyed or refuses to produce evidence that s within its possession, a jury is allowed to draw an adverse inference that the information destroyed or not produced was unfavorable. therefore, until we get a full accounting of all of the communications among the leadership, it is reasonable for us to assume that missing information would mirror the private doubts expressed by so many virologists and other scientists related to your public position. while telling the public, the media and congress that covid-19 almost certainly emerged from nature, experts you convened as a team privately worried a research-related incident was a possible, if not the probable origin of the virus. dr. christian anderson said in february of 2020 quote, i think the main thing still in my mind is that the lab escape version
Family reasons, others for their political views. how many say they knew somebody of their family or friends suffering from addiction as well. sarah, what about the evidence at this trial? what s likely to come up once they select a jury and the arguments get underway? reporter: so i think we re going to see kind of three different types of evidence. we re going to see people close to hunter biden, members of his family, his ex-wife, a former romantic partner. they re going to be called to the stand by prosecutors to testify about their contemporaneous text messages, calls, and other communications with hunter biden during the october 2018 time frame that is kind of at the center of this case. those communications we ve seen some hints of them in pretrial hearings. prosecutors are going to use the communications to argue that hunter biden was an active drug addict when he filled out the federal form, which would be
To 10 million people now cross the border of the united states illegally in just three years. in just three and a half years. laura: senator a scale of 1 to 10. 10 being the most important. how important is it for republicans to win control of the senate just on this issue alone? it s extraordinarily important. because, number one, all of those nominations that go through the senate, i mean. so senate, mayorkas and others are complicit in this act. that s number one. i think number two, it gives us the leverage over the administration. it would be great to have both the house and the senate. right now we don t have the senate and it limits our ability to do things. we can t even call hearings to investigate this because obviously democrat chairs are not. laura: kind of obvious. it s stop all funding of the administration until we get control of our country. i mean, we got to stop funding their pet projects. i think it would be great to subpoena some of the internal communications and have those produce sod we can actually see how they there was collusion involved in making this happen. they knew what they were doing. this is by design.
That s the stomach punch right there. -and columbia, houston, we see your tire-pressure messages , and we did not copy your last. -roger. -i remember that clipped call that rick had , knowing you can have communications that drop out or are intermittent at that point. -we lost comm with the crew, but that s actually common. i mean, you don t have communications all the way through entry . so that didn t initially get my attention. -good morning to you. i m miles o brien. it is now 9:00 a.m. on the east coast, 6:00 a.m. out west. take a look outside. you should see
-there s this big countdown clock. i just remember staring at that clock, like, watching every second go down, like, is it now? is it now? -i don t know what i expected when i saw that clock like, for them to just magically arrive when it reached zero. -iain was very excited. -mom s coming home, and, you know, he s gonna get mom hugs, great meals. you know, life will be back to normal. -somebody from nasa said, you ll see the big kind of parachute that pops out of the back. and i think that s probably what i was most excited about [laughs] was watching the parachute come out. -there was something not right. i remember our capcom, charlie hobaugh, trying to re-establish communications. and he said, over and over again, columbia, houston, comm check.
I was live on morning tv at that point, so dialled into nasa on a cellphone i had. there was a secret phone number you could dial into and hear the mission audio. the people in the control room were going, are you hearing this? i m, like, nodding. -no further communications with the spacecraft about 8:00 a.m. central time. -hang on. let s listen in. -and no further tracking data from the spacecraft was gained from c band tracking radar at the merritt island tracking station in florida. -my team was in the control room, and they were like, this is serious. we need to get miles off that couch. and as i was making my way across the newsroom to this other set, i literally started heaving. -the console that i was at, we had an off-duty flight director who called our console and said, hey. i m watching the landing on tv, and they re showing this debris in the sky.
-columbia, houston, comm check. -and i had not lost hope that we would re-establish communications to the crew. -no c band yet. -copy. -c band s a radar that sits on the ground. and literally, it sends out a signal, and it bounces it off of the spacecraft to tell us where it is. but we were getting nothing. you know, the room was just silent. -alright. miles, back over to you. -alright. we ve got a little problem on the space shuttle columbia. it has been out of communication now for the past 12 minutes. let s take a look at a live picture of mission control in houston.
Independent, powerful countries, china is an instrument in the hands of putin. putin zelensky was the man of the moment amidst a sea of security dilemmas in the indo pacific. it s the latest diplomatic push for a leader who has become accustomed to begging the world for help. now he returns home to the war and a peace conference he hopes can break the deadlock on his terms. china has slanted an unmanned spacecraft on the far side of the moon for the second time and this mission is difficult because this region of the moon permanently faces away from the earth which makes medications difficult and it is expected to use a mechanical arm to collect rock and soil and hopefully transport them back to earth. makes communications difficult. this week marks the 80th anniversary of the d day landings,
Communications. and that the president is still focused on the work at hand. nelson. okay. if are still alvarez. thank you very much. let s discuss more with former federal prosecutor, nima reihan, nima, thanks so much for being here. so how serious are these charges? allison? they re very serious. we re talking about federal gun charges and lying on those atf forms. now, of course, we know that he s facing a potential 25 year sentence in federal prison, but no one gets near the statutory max, but there is a real possibility of prison time. judged, nor rica is a no nonsense but she hasn t been on the bench that long. but judging by her previous criminal sentences, there s that real possibility that if and when hunter biden is convicted, there is some prison time even though logistically that would be a nightmare because of course, she s entitled to secret service protection section are you maybe just heard our reporter, marshall cohen, outline some of the evidence that the prosecution plans to use. and
Far in this trial. that s taking place in manhattan. so just down the street from where donald trump is on trial this democratic senator and his wife is one of the subjects of the trial. she is set to be tried later on, but her ability and interest that is documented and and communications with him trying to connect him to egyptians is something that is being put on display for that jury. so again, these personal connections are really part of these trials of political figures. some really interesting court proceedings for sure, when in cases that involve does so many documents there s a lot of humanity and all of this too. all right katelyn polantz. thanks so much cnn is exploring the shadowy world of deception and s being alleged that existed between the us and russia during the cold war. when tensions between the countries reached dangerous heights. next, we re going to talk with presidential