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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 or family who have struggled with drug and alcohol addiction. again, unanimous guilty verdict. joining us now, nbc justice and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian. we just got a statement from president biden. fill us in. reporter: that s right. president biden has reiterated some of what he said during the trial. i want to read the statement. as i said last week, i am the president, bu ....
Wanting to maybe jump into the race, i hope they have that kind of look-within moment because, again, as we ve all talked about many times, back in 2016, the reason trump won the primary was because the field was so big. i do believe if somebody like ron desantis gets in, it s early yet, so these polls i know they do have trump ahead, but i do believe if somebody really gets in and is willing to take him on, i think there s a fighting chance there. but i m definitely worried. i m definitely concerned about, you know, how strong he is still after everything that people have seen over and over. olivia, stephanie mentioned ron desantis. what do you think? do you think he could potentially knock trump out of this spot that he s in right now, which really he s the front-runner right now. he s the man to beat. i know there s a long way to go, but i mean many people consider the florida governor the strongest opponent trump could face for the nomination. but do you think he could knock hi ....
Everybody else, you. so there has to be some answer coming from the fbi especially from fbi director wray. sean: are the house of cards going to blow down? i think so. and it is a shame, there are so many lawyers that do not have a political ax to grind that robert mueller could have selected. it was deliberate and by design, instead he sacked stacked it with people with egregious political biases. people who in one case defending the hillary clinton foundation. in another defending her top i.t. aid. these are people who should be nowhere near this investigation of clinton s opponent trump. sean: knowing what you know and how bad it is coming, how bad is this good for mueller? there is a question that has not been focused on for peter strzok. he was an encounter intelligence position on two of the most important investigations over or ....
True what she said, it is not a democrat. but he did bring a lot of people into the fray. and into the the process, which is good. but he also i think gave the ability to not vote for a democrat and not support here. and when you have the general election opponent which was at this opponent trump or we know at this point that hes with going to be the nominee, he was quoting bernie sanders. he was quoting bernie using his words against hillary. in front of the so he absolutely has a point that he did cause lasting damage. but she got a general election opponent who was some what stylistically like bernie sanders. and in the sense that he s a populous nationalist if she was running against maco rubio it might have been different. she would have won. she could have gotten bernie behind her and a typical they want to take away social ....
End up on welfare or in the penal system. until we begin to address these issues, we re not going to get anywhere. and as an overall society, we need to address the fact that we only have 330 million people. china has over a billion. india has over a we have to compete with them on a global scale. we can t afford to be losing our people. reporter: dr. carson, a line of respect on another topic. i know you say you don t want to get into a battle with your opponent trump. but he s levelled serious charges regarding your faith and authenticity of your faith. he has said you weren t always a big man of faith and it happened all of a sudden implying this is something that happened for political expediency. he said you were heavy in the goal of abortion. ....