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chris jansing reports. at this hour, republicans take their battle against the justice department to the next level. will they vote to hold the attorney general in contempt for refusing to give them audio tapes of president biden s interview with the special counsel. we re tracking the action. also, terrifying moments in georgia after a man hijacks a bus full of passengers. how the high speed chase came to a deadly end. the ice sting across the u.s., eight men with suspected ties to isis arrested in three major cities after crossing the southern border. how did they escape detection for so long. plus, breaking news, the fed out with its latest decision on interest rates after u.s. consumers got some promising news on inflation. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments, but we begin on capitol hill with nbc s julie tsirkin where speaker mike johnson is expressing confidence the contempt vote against attorney general merrick garland will ....
outside the courthouse in wilmington, delaware, and haven t used spoke with juror number ten. tell us what he told you that s right. jake, juror number ten, who we spoke to with without showing his face. he was concerned about his safety. one of the things he told us was that very quickly, very, very very early in the case. he had a pretty good idea of where this case was going, but he said he wasn t 100% sure on tv, heard all of the evidence, listen to what he said was with the crucial part of the prosecution s case when you look at the form, are are you a drug addict? are you an unlawful user of drugs and he said no clearly he lie jake? there was five days of prosecution evidence, mountains of evidence, overwhelming these jurors trying, to drive home the point that he was addicted to drugs and the defense really tried to focus on the days around when he bought this gun in october 20, 2008 ten and it s clearly that did not really make an impact for these jurors. ....
could we see a verdict and could jill biden inside the courtroom be a deciding factor in this case? are illegal eagles moments from the. welcome everybody, i m neil cavuto and to david spunt in wellington for the latest. this is moving as quickly as you said it would. what s next? it really is. we could get over to cure any time the. court has typically been working at 4:30 pm eastern time every day however if jurors may be closed over there is always a possibility they could signal to the judge, hey, listen we would like to stay a little bit later tonight. we got no such indications at this time but, neil, while there s a lot of big names inside, salacious text messages, also a lot other information inside, it s really about just a simple gun form that hunter biden filled out. you see them working there in october 2018. you give him his right to testify, declining to set up tell his side of the story but as i said he had a big showing of his family inside, includ ....
l 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 really knows his stuff cnn, breaking news and good morning. you were alive in the cnn newsroom. i m sure costa in washington, breaking this morning, hunter biden s defense attorney indicates that the president s son will not testify in his own defense. that means closing arguments could soon get underway in his federal gun trial. cnn senior justice correspondent evan perez joins us from outside the court. evan, how big of a risk would it have been for hunter biden to take that stand it s a big risk jam. i think that s the reason why you had the defense spent the weekend weighing the pros and cons of this one of the things that they wanted to do if he took the stand was to argue that and to tell the jury that hunter biden has been sober since 2019, and so that would perhaps in their view, at least go a little bit of a way of revers ....
hold it against the defendant for not testifying in his own defense the judge, though, has push back on the defense s efforts to add more language to the jury instructions that would be more favorable to 100, for instance, the idea that he would he didn t knowingly violate the law, which is something that defense is really all about. and they also wanted to they also want to make the argument that hunter biden did not think he was addicted to drugs when he bought that gun? in october of 2018? that s the reason why we re here and why hunter is facing these three federal charges that could send him to prison if he is convicted, but it s you pointed out, we could very much have this case in hands of the jury today if a hunter biden does not testify and john, i mean, the fact that we re here we had about ten witnesses. i think i was to ten witnesses or four-and-a-half days of testimony on the part of the by the prosecution s this case really is what the jury is going to ....