good morning, it is 11:00 a.m. eastern, 8:00 a.m. pacific. i m josé diaz-balart, and we begin this busy hour with hunter biden s felony gun trial. the defense rested without calling hunter biden to the stand. moments ago the prosecution called an fbi agent back to the stand for a rebuttal. joining us now, nbc news justice and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian outside the courthouse. also with us, david henderson, a civil rights attorney and former prosecutor. ken, what s the latest from the courtroom, and what can we be expecting today? reporter: good morning, jose. the prosecution has now rested, but not before that fbi agent provided devastating testimony about evidence of hunter biden s drug use the day before and the day after he purchased that handgun on october 12th, 2018. some of this evidence had already been in, but then there was some new evidence where she talked about geo locating his phone to a 7-eleven in wilmington, delaware, and also introduced eviden
it. like stewart, i hope springs eternal but based on what i ve seen so far, i don t think it s going to happen. stewart, it struck me today today was a perfect example of the sort of transformation of the republican party or the full trumpfication of it. anthony kennedy which is a man who is nothing if not toweringly morally vain who would almost certainly be almost certainly be like a never trumper writing his jeff flakesque speeches i don t liking this rhetoric and that rhetoric. what he did today was say that guy over threw calling immigrants vermin, that s the one i want replacing me. it is in some ways a united party, the gop. it is a united movement and caucus at this moment. well, you know, i think it will be striking to compare whoever the next nominee is with one who is a pointed by the conservative giant of our time, president reagan. and i think that contrast will
going to happen. stewart, it struck me today today was a perfect example of the sort of transformation of the republican party or the full trumpfication of it. anthony kennedy which is a man who is nothing if not toweringly morally vain who would almost certainly be almost certainly be like a never trumper writing his jeff flakesque speeches i don t liking this rhetoric and that rhetoric. what he did today was say that guy over threw calling immigrants vermin, that s the one i want replacing me. it is in some ways a united party, the gop. it is a united movement and caucus at this moment. well, you know, i think it will be striking to compare whoever the next nominee is with one who is a pointed by the conservative giant of our time, president reagan. and i think that contrast will be very interesting. look, i think in these moments where you have a lot of lack of civility and a lot of process