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As naomi testified in a subdued voice, her father appeared to be fighting back tears, watching her. now a 30-year-old lawyer, naomi told jurors that when she saw her father while he was in rehab in california in august 2018, a few weeks before he purchased the gun, he "seemed like the clearest that i had seen him since my uncle died," referring to beau biden, who died in 2015. and when she saw him a week after he bought the gun, her dad "seemed great, he seemed hopeful." that bolsters the defense case that when he bought the gun, hunter biden was not abusing drugs. but a starkly different pict...

He bought the gun. i don't think that's really in any question. the question really is whether he, in his mind, believed at the time he was filling out that form that he was, in fact, using illegal drugs and addicted to using illegal drugs. difficult to refute the facts of what happened here. the acts. but i think what is in someone's mind is difficult to prove. we can't read other people's minds. it is often the area that the defense tries to rebut in their defense case. >> amy, first lady as we heard from ken flew back from france to be in court today in a show of support. the president was ...

Who said that she believes gun laws in the us should be more strict. and she cited school shootings and her view there was a greater need for mental health evaluations of gun owners that to me is a nightmare juror for the defense because they've already gone through juror number, the alternate juror number one. >> exactly. the next step. >> so if they lose another juror and this person ends up on the jury, i would be i would von the defense. i want to end this. i want to move on. maybe they truncate or even jettison their entire defense case. >> oh, well, whatsapp closely and see how they're w...

Heard his voice talking about a tremendously painful and raw experiences in his life. >> i have to say listening to it. felt a little bit like a public flogging on some level hearing him talk about this in his own words and played back in a criminal case against him but that stuff is potent. there's a reason why prosecutors emphasize that sort of evidence when it's coming from the defendant's own mouth, it's hard to run away from good point. >> the fbi agent on the stand said today and you heard this that there may have been some periods of time between 2015 and 2019 when a hunter biden was no...

The end of the day, we should have a full jury that means the trial could actually begin. monday. yeah. le once the jury is seated, how does the trial proceed? >> give us specifics. >> let me give you a preview of our next four to six weeks or so. the jury selection should conclude on to bite tomorrow on monday, we should here opening statements, the prosecution is going to go first, they barrel the burden of proving their case beyond a reasonable doubt, and then the defense will give its opening we then will move into the prosecution case. that's gonna be the heart of the case. we're going to...