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kathleen buhle, hunter biden's ex-wife. she is important for the government's case as they try to continue to establish the fact pattern for the most important detail in this case. was hunter biden still actively abusing drugs when he purchased a firearm in mid-october of 2018. we have seen the prosecution lay out a mountain of evidence in the form of data from his laptop, text messages, photos, even his own voice from his audio book in describing the addiction to try to demonstrate he was in fact abusing drugs when he purchased that gun, which is against the law. we also saw this morning the defendant -- the defense attorney abbe lowell trying to do everything he can to insert some reasonable doubt. he was cross-examiing the fbi special agent, asking her to specify the exact dates of various pieces of evidence most of which were well before the october 8th, 2018 purchase date. that's critical because they're trying to show that he may have been abusing drugs prior to that
that's always the defense lawyer's job. we talked about that a lot, looking at manhattan and the trial of donald trump. and defense lawyers are looking very often for one or two jurors who will hang up the jury, who will refuse to convict. so, this issue of whether or not hunter biden was an active user, active addict when he purchased the firearm is very important. it will interplay into the mens rea, the state of mind he had to have when he bought the gun, knowing at that moment in time that he was an addict. but the government has as mike says a mountain of evidence on either end of that transaction. prior months, subsequent months, and they'll try to use the testimony of his ex-wife to establish that he was addicted when he purchased the gun. we already have seen abbe lowell, hunter biden's lawyer, trying to push back a little bit, focusing on the point in time where they separated. so, all of this plays out as a very delicate dance in the courtroom. >> and, joyce, the prosecution
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40 past the hour. now to the latest inside a delaware courtroom where hunter biden's ex-wife kathleen buhle has taken the stand. joining us now, nbc's mike memoli and joyce vance, former u.s. attorney and professor at the university of alabama school of law, msnbc legal analyst. mike, what's going on inside right now? >> reporter: well, jose, we have arrived what the say very significant but also very sensitive moment for the hunter biden trial here as the lead prosecutor for the government has called to the witness stand in the last five minutes
it's in the press. there is a mountain of quotes from kevin mccarthy and people around kevin mccarthy saying that biden is sharp. he is mentally sharp privately. i mean, yeah. so go ahead and talk about what i talked about and talking to world leaders. but, again, it's just not complicated. >> no, it's not. >> they went to a guy who has admitted that he lies in public and that privately biden is very sharp. >> joe, two republican speakers is up to recall in the recent past. kevin mccarthy and mike johnson. democrats saved mike johnson with their croats. they refuse to save kevin mccarthy when he was up and he is out. why? because it was universal. even from republicans and democrats. kevin mccarthy is a liar. that is why he didn't get the support. >> also really odd the story comes out now. think about the last week.
they talked to 45 lawmakers on each side of the issue along with members of the biden administration. so i know it hit and hurt but it wasn't designed as a non-factual hit piece as you put it. that would not be the case. all right, gentlemen, thank you. i will bring you back on a different day. we have breaking news. update out of hunter biden's federal gun trial. the prosecutor is questioning hunter's ex-wife and testified she found a crack pipe in hunter's car in 2015. hunter admitted to her he had been smoking crack. kathleen buell said she was suspicious long before that that hunter biden had been discharged from the navy for cocaine use. all of this testimony so important because hunter's drug use and the timing of it goes to whether he lied on a federal handgun purchase application and acquired a weapon he should not have had. thank you for watching. breaking news, too. "outnumbered" next.
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