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it's noon eastern. i'm ana cabrera in for andrea mitchell. breaking news from the hunter biden trial. the jury in the hunter biden felony gun trial has reached a guilty verdict on all three counts after nearly three hours of deliberations. this is the first trial of a child of a sitting president in u.s. history. president biden's son now facing potential jail time. he has no prior criminal history. he did not commit a crime with a gun, which prosecutors say he purchased illegally when he allegedly lied about not being an addict. notably, four members of the jury have close friends o...

Developing stories including more on russia. A poll showing over half of americans say they do want an independent inquiry of the links between trump and russia. More than 60 say this is concerning for what it actually means for our democracy. Couple that with the former National Security adviser, mike flynn, Offering Testimony in exchange for immunity. Now, today. Vladimir putin spokesman claiming there is actually nothing to uncover. Are you concerned about anything he might say about his contacts with russia . No. We are not. Any blamings that russia could have been interfering in Domestic ...

Span what do you make of that potential reduction from 8 to 6? >> the committee will be educating the public on two parallel traps one will be i think we need to think about the short tough punches, these hearings i suspect that will get an opening, overall overview of where the committee intends to go in that first hearing. then though perhaps use the remaining sessions to focus on particular issues, building timelines, offering testimony and giving evidence. that'll be i think their first line of attack here, also early in the fall, we expect that the committee will produce a lengthy report,...

Ukraine. the fake news driven smear is what giuliani and trump were trying to leverage ukraine to do in exchange for a white house visit and potentially military aid. there is also this email in which george kent aid. there is also this email that yavonovitch had given prosecutors a do not prosecute list. he calls that idea complete, quote, poppycock. it seems lik he was one of those inside the state department barring anybody from ukraine. if he shows up, he will be offering testimony that is expected to be deeply unhelpful to the president and to, increasing increasingly, members of his cabi...

>> yeah. and unfortunately, deservedly so in many cases. look at the republican performance. when michael cohen testified yesterday look at cpac, the conservative conference, it was always a mix of kind of youthful, you know, high jinks and some showmanship. it used to have people actually arguing for conservative ideas and policies and now it's just a combination of grifters and demagogues. i spoke -- i gave a talk at tuesday night to the college republicans, talked with a lost young men and women. and it was both heartening, there are a lot of fine young people, and depressing. one of them s...