Evasion. well, what do you expect to hear and the prosecution s opening statements tomorrow morning? i would say keep it simple. walk through what the defendant is charged with he is charged with possessing and purchasing a firearm unlawfully under federal law set aside your beliefs. ladies and gentlemen, whatever do you think about anything else and what we are what we are assessing here is whether this person committed these acts. so for instance, we saw and jessica report that one of the jurors believes that people who use marijuana should be allowed to possess firearms which actually violates federal law. you d say set aside anything you believe and just focus on the facts and the law. and like i said, a little bit earlier, it s a relatively straightforward charge and prosecution, setting aside some of the constitutional questions that norm has raised here i prosecuted felon and felon in possession of firearms cases. it s the same pork provision in the law, and it s really easy as far as prosecution s go norm, where do you expect to
Are doing willing to work at the justice department are doing their jobs, essentially telling republicans and his own way it s measured way to leave his employees is alone. jessica and the attorney general, lauren, also was getting some questions from republicans about the january 6 defendants that the doj hey, his prosecuted yeah, that s exactly right. i mean, this has been an issue, right? that has been ongoing for republicans for years now. this has been a pet issue for thomas massie, marjorie taylor greene, and others. they ve held several press conferences about this, but it s also just important to know jessica that this hearing today is really an opportunity for every republican member, every democratic member two, to lay out the issues that they want to talk about. if it has any anytime to the justice department at all? and it s really what you re seeing in this hearing hearing today. it s kind of a potpourri or grab bag of issues that republicans can use this moment to grandstand and talk about. that s, that s what you you
Tell briana back to you. yeah, we can certainly expect that maybe the case rosa thank you for that report from the border. jessica right now, hunter biden s federal gun trial is on a break for lunch, but before court adjourned and fbi special agent took the stand as the prosecution s first witness. prosecutors are using eric jensen to introduce digital evidence, including highly personal messages and images from hunter biden s laptop to show a timeline of his drug abuse. the prosecution finished its opening statement today by saying, quote, addiction may not be a choice, but lying and buying a gun is our team inside the courtroom says, one juror appeared to get emotional during the defense s opening statement scene and senior justice correspondent evan perez is joining us now from outside court. and evan, i do want to ask you about the moment that that juror seem to get emotional when the defense was given it s opening statement, what more do you know about that yeah. look, jessica, this is about 35 minutes into abbe lowell
That bob menendez and henry qualia are also facing charges? here was adam schiff for why republicans, were going after garland today there are about to none nominate a convicted felon and they don t know how to cope with that. they don t know how to cope with the justice system. that in fact treats donald trump the same as it would any other citizen. and so they have to push these conspiracy theories that they know are patently false they care more about this convicted felon and they do the country i have to say i m i m pleased and a bit surprised to see that the flag in this committee is still flying right-side up because they want to turn it upside down, even as they want to turn our justice system upside down and jessica shift of course, referring there to flying a flag upside down, which assigned that the country is in distress. he also laid out in his testimony today, merrick garland did that the people who
Saw there, jessica, for sure. all right. lauren fox on capitol hill for us. thanks so much the family of israeli american hostages being held by hamas meet with white house officials. this as the world waits to see if the two sides will accept a new ceasefire proposal. we re going to speak with a family member of one of those hostages who was at today s meeting, plus the number of women in the us who died during pregnancy, labor, or postpartum is double even triple that the other countries, when i m reporting on why that is ahead on cnn news central hey, mom, how many should i decorate? a half ran have blue. that s a really tough call. who are you if you look at the latest data you re probably going to need a lot of those purple sprinkles. how this guy we know some stuff and our family, there was a passion for glass making. that s passed down through the generations we stood on some pretty broad show holders