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the jury is black and today's juries selection process really highlighted in many ways, america's drug addiction epidemic has many potential jurors talked about how people close to them have struggled with addiction, at least two of those folks made it onto the jury. they have tested, are talked about in court how people close to them have struggled with addiction and various ways. there's also several gun owners on the jury, including one juror who says, even if you've smoked marijuana, you still have the right get to a firearm. >> alright. paula reid. thanks very much. perspective now i'm someone close to the biden white house and families. cnn political commentator kate benningfield, who recently served as white house communications director. and with me here, bestselling author and former federal prosecutor, jeffrey tube and so on. the legal merits, what does this case look like? >> it's a very unusual case. i mean, when you see this this charge of unlawful purchase of a weapon, it's almost always in connection with the case where the gun is used in some crime. a standalone case based on just being a dread drug
to choose a jury in one day. >> are you ready? chilreadand bbc news reports onr is childhood best friend died from a heroin overdose. another juror has an alcoholic brother-in-law. no called it a disease. brother-in-law is now dead. one jurors, dad was shot dead and his brother was arrested for narcotics possession. another juror pled. guilty to a dui. another juror had an older brother addicted to pcp and heroin, but doesn't think people should own guns if they're addicted to drugs. although gun another juror says weed's no big deal and youjut shouldit's be able to buy a gun on it. >> and another juror worked for the secret service. her husband still in the secret service. >> ashley biden reportedly smiling when she heard that. oh, and there's an obama donor as an alternate. >> so six men, six women, majority african american.an
jury, mark, what do you see? >> good jury for the defense. one de mostly democratic. we know that african americans are blacks are generally democratic, but they're also delaware into bestor rhetoric, which means they are from the state that node, the bidens loved the bindings and the violence have done a lot for delaware. so in that sense, this is a good place for biden to try a case. and this is a good juror to try on in front. >> and ryan, that is true. i mean, i lived in delaware for years and it is biden country. i mean, there's no one there who doesn't have some sort of a link or a tie, it's an incredibly small state as well. so does that just mean any jury here is by nature going to be in some since pro biden, i think that's right. >> it has to tilt pro biden in a certain way, especially because he looms large in the state and over those many years that he served in congress, he's bringing back public goods to that very states. so he's popular there. he didn't exactly face challengers when
years, i'm not an addict or not addicted, and i presume that's going to be the strength of their case because even though that atf form is supposed to be very specific, and we all know what addiction is it know what it means? >> but if the form doesn't tell you what it is, doesn't define attic. >> it leaves it open to your interpretation and unfortunately that's a sliver of hope through which the defense is going to try and put their case to say he really didn't know the problem as aaron, you just mentioned, his own words are going to convict him if they do the text messages, the family members i'm going to say no, he was detected and he knew he was quite and this case here, it could move very quickly and i wasn't being snarky at the top when i said the judge says she that's gonna be five de core but there was a message in that, right? in other words, or just a wednesday's off, there's no we're giving off every friday because a juror has a flight. this is going to be beginning, middle end, possibly very quickly. it will go quickly. she does indicate at the beginning, as you said, that she's ready to work five days a week, nine to five, maybe even longer. and
attacks? >> i don't know what obscure websites of going to >> i hope every juror is stephanie ruhle -- doxxed may god strike them dead. we will and they will pay. >> again, i will always say that violence has no place for politics. i don't know what obscure account you found a social media. >> it wasn't a trick question i think from peter to condemn violence or threats against jurors. i am trying to wrap my head around, what does it tell you that a sitting senator is hesitant to condemn these calls for violence? >> i don't know. i cannot put myself in the mind of a u.s. senator and that particular senator. if someone has an aspiration to be vice president or cabinet member remember the supreme court all of which are not on viable prospects for someone like him and others, you don't
on capitol hill. >> hunter biden should be arrested right here right now and go straight to jail thank you mr. chairman add excuse me. hunter, apparently you're afraid of my words. >> his second criminal trial on tax charges is scheduled to begin in september in los angeles falerii johnson's out. so what do we know about the makeup of the jury so we've learned that the jury is comprised of six men and six women. >> the majority of the jury is black. and today's jury selection process really highlighted in many ways america's drug addiction epidemic has many potential jurors talked about how people close to them have struggled with addiction, at least two of those folks made it onto the jury. they have tested, are talked about in court how people close to them have struggled with addiction and various phase there's also several gun owners on the jury, including one juror who says, even if you've smoked marijuana, you still have the right to a firearm all right. >> all right. thanks very much. perspective now from someone
good jury for the defense. >> one de mostly democratic we know that african african-americans or blacks, are generally democratic on, but they're also delaware into that's the right term, which means they are from the state that no, the bidens but the violence and violence have done a lot for delaware. so in that sense, this is a good place for biden to try the case. and this is a good juror to try and in front of ryan. that is true. i mean, i lived in delaware for years and it is biden country. i mean, there's no one there who doesn't have some sort of a link or a tie, it's an incredibly small state as well. does that just mean any jury here is by nature going to be in some sense pro biden. >> i think that's right. it has to tilt pro biden in a certain way, especially because he looms large in the state and over there was many years that he served in congress. he's bringing back public goods to that very states. so he's popular there. he didn't exactly face challengers when he is running. so that's what
that's gonna be the strength of their case because even though that atf form it's supposed to be very specific and we all know what addiction is it know what it means. but if the form doesn't tell you what it is, doesn't define adduct. it leaves it open to your interpretation. and unfortunately that's a sliver of hope through which the defense is going to try and put their case to say he really didn't know the problem as aaron just mentioned, his own words are going to convict him if they do the text messages. if family members are going to say they know he was detected and he knew what he was quite. >> and this case here, it could move very quickly. and i wasn't being snarky at the top. and as i said, the judge says she that's going to be five-day core, but there was a message gen. that, right. in other words, there's a wednesday's off, there's no we're giving off every friday because a juror has a flight. this is going to be beginning middle end, possibly very quickly. it will go quickly. she does indicate at the beginning, as you said, that she's ready to work five days a week, nine to five, maybe even longer. and depending on what the jury will do, and i think that's good. i don't
selection like? what was it like to see a hunter biden in that courtroom? >> yeah. there are a few really striking things. one is the contrast with just a year ago. >> now in the same courtroom, it's where the plea deal that almost resolve this all a year ago took place and back then, hunter came solo. essentially, this time he was surrounded by family and friends. you obviously had the first lady you had his son-in-law, heater, neil, you add his sister, ashley, you add his wife, melissa. you had friends including even a documentary filmmaker that's been following him around the last, the last two years. the other thing with jury selection, the thing that really stood out to me that you just mentioned before is the sheer number of people that mentioned that they had a loved one or friend, a family member, who had suffered from addiction in some cases, people had personally had problems to alcohol. i haven't done the exact numbers, but i believe almost every single juror had said yes to that potential
corporations in america are headquartered there. it is a town of 70,000 people. one juror said today, it is a small town. everybody knows the bidens. dr. jill biden in the front row today, conspicuous in bright purple jump suit. >> president biden issued a rare statement saying, i'm president but i'm a proud dad. jill and i love our son and are so proud of the man he is today. hunter's resilience and strength he's brought to recovery means a lot to us. jill and i will continue to be there for hunter with our family and love and support. hunter is facing felony charges for lying about his drug use